alanschu

Yes. He is the recipient of a lot of altruism.

Yeah, saw that. It sounds more FPS than RPG, but that isn't a criticism, just a lame categorisation. FPS with RPG elements, as if Gordon Freeman gets a new HGV suit, or the super-jump from the first game when he get's to Xen ... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> HEV HEV Oh the atrocities.

It was funny.

I'm sure I annoy the piss out of some people. Quake 3's purpose was multiplayer, but Quake revolutionized it. It lead to things such as QuakeSpy (precursor to Gamespy, which was THE server list of choice until they went to suck). The Team Fortress mod was also exceptionally popular. The game was also playable on a 56k modem. Quake II seemed to be the mass introduction of mods (yes, mods did exist before this, but wowee was there tons of Quake II). One mod in particular was Action Quake 2, which ultimately evolved into Counterstrike for Half-Life. Half-Life decided that stories were not passe, and coupling that with fantastic mod support, it's not too surprising that Half-Life is probably the best selling FPS of all time. Quake III was out shortly afterwards, focusing solely on multiplayer. I suspect it didn't do as well because Unreal Tournament came out, and offered much more variety in game styles, as well as better bots. The biggest contribution Quake III did was probably it's engine, which was used to create games like Call of Duty and whatnot.

The "drama" of Pearl Harbour was hideous, with a final climax of "You can't die, you're going to be a father" "No...you are" because they both loved the same woman cheesiness. That and the producers felt it wouldn't be prudent to end the movie without an American victory, and felt like dragging the movie out longer by spending an hour preparing for the Dolittle raid.

Of the two, I don't think Shakespeare in Love deserved the title more. Yes, boobs are good, but still. Not that I'm really surprised it won it. Hollywood is not very favorable towards the military or veterans, and it's never been kind to Stephen Spielberg anyway. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> It's funny, because I remember watching some show prior to the Oscars (which is funny, because I didn't watch the Oscars) in 1998, and the consensus of the panel was that the Academy was biased towards epic war movies.

Interesting.

So then you wouldn't have any idea if either of the games were the big catalyst for FPS gaming. You yourself said you weren't playing them at this time. Doom still has way more gameplay than Wolf3D.

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Quake was released via Shareware as well. It's big impact was large scale internet multiplayer.

It is rather like arguing with Magical Volo, now that you mention it.

I actually felt that Shakespeare in Love was an excellent movie as well.

I like complexity too, but not just for the sake of complexity.

I'm not familiar with the Avernum games. Maybe I'll give the demos a try.

Don't be so obtuse. Grow up. Doom > Wolf3D in every aspect, not just graphics.

Stormtroopers = clone troopers...at least at this stage. I wouldn't be surprised if many of the Stormtroopers in ep 4/5/6 were still cloned.

The reduced some shadows for some things. They didn't remove shadows entirely from the game.

I'd suspect you are part of an excruciatingly small minority of people that think the gameplay between the two games are on par. The level design was light years ahead of anything Wolfenstein 3D could do, because of the engine.

Then why cite Resident Evil 0 as an example?

When you put it like that, it sounds so much worse than it actually is.

I happen to agree. A Fallout prequel won't really play in any way like a Fallout game. A resident evil prequel can.

Well....sounds like you already have an idea what the problem is...

You mean we didn't win Pearl Harbour?

I heard they had to change the ending for Japan, as it was a bit too "Go Go America, Boo Boo Japan" or something.

No, I'm one of those "The whole thing is terrifying, actually. Would you mind staying around for a while? Just to keep me company?" "Why would I stay in this dump?" "There's no reason to be rude! You can leave now if you want!" "I'm only kidding, my friend." "Oh, silly me. I should have known you were only teasing. Please, come on upstairs with me." people. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Well, that's not "cut" content hehe.