Hexen: Beyond Heretic

Wren

goddamn kids don't know hip lingo. 8 tracks. pff, if youre a square maybe

Darmak

Fucking Hexen and Hexen 2. Hexen 2 was the first game I ever played online and it was awesome. I convinced a bunch of guys at a lan party a few months back to install and play it and we had a blast going through the campaign then switching over the plain deathmatch.

Heretic is also really good, though I never played Heretic 2.

Keith

Xehalus wrote:

Hexen was the best use of the Doom engine if I can recall.

I think there was a Star Wars game that wasn't too bad.

TrippyJing

Back when games came on 3.5 inch disks.

Solar Winds.

Tonkka

When I first started playing Skyrim I was getting some pretty heavy Hexen 2 flashbacks.

chiasaur11

So, is fondly remembering Marathon going to make me a Heretic here?

Because those are good games. For free now. No dollars.

Dual shotguns. Double barreled. One level just hands you a pair and infinitely spawning ammo. Good times

SabreMau

Aneurhythmia

Protip: Cleric for single player, Mage for deathmatch.

chiasaur11

You can play the first bit in browser, if one is so inclined, here.

Just kinda neat.

Iloveslimes

I remember the first time in Rise of the Triad when enemies played dead, it just blew my mind.

Knob

whoa dang that was a large disk

LuvTheMonkey

Keith wrote:

Xehalus wrote:

Hexen was the best use of the Doom engine if I can recall.

I think there was a Star Wars game that wasn't too bad.

Holy shit I forgot about this.

freakish light

chiasaur11 wrote:

You can play the first bit in browser, if one is so inclined, here.

Just kinda neat.

fixed that for you

Yukira

Melding wrote:

TrippyJing wrote:

I have never played these.

Antimatter wrote:

never heard of these games before.

God damn kids these days!

I haven't heard of this game until now, either.

stimtokolos

I liked Hexen.

Did anyone else give that RPG on the doom engine a whirl?
I think it was made relatively recently and you talked to people around a castle but I can't remember much else.

Also:

Melding

TrippyJing wrote:

It was the shareware days and I was a cheapskate!

That means they were free upt to a point! never beating them is fine, i never did either, but never played them? damn it trippy, i expected better of you.

chiasaur11

Yukira wrote:

Melding wrote:

TrippyJing wrote:

I have never played these.

Antimatter wrote:

never heard of these games before.

God damn kids these days!

I haven't heard of this game until now, either.

I have.

I feel old. Of course, I think older, due to a family that owned incredibly old and crappy computers. When Doom came out, our box could only play Starflight.

Melding

Yukira wrote:

Melding wrote:

TrippyJing wrote:

I have never played these.

Antimatter wrote:

never heard of these games before.

God damn kids these days!

I haven't heard of this game until now, either.

you sir, have no excuse.

Fearghaill

This thread inspired me to dig out my personal favourite forgotten classic:




Betrayal at Krondor, bitches.

stimtokolos

Knob wrote:

Xehalus wrote:

Hexen was the best use of the Doom engine if I can recall.

I think there was a Star Wars game that wasn't too bad.

the dark forces series was awesome, but it used an original engine

If it was a 2001 release it could be the total conversion mod here: http://doomnexus.drdteam.org/oldstuff1.html

"The Darkest Hour"
I have not played it though. But that uses DarkForces assets anyway.

Keith

SabreMau

Artreus

I played commander keen for the first time a couple years ago and I did not like it at all.

In unrelated news, anybody here ever play a game for mac called Power Pete forever ago?

SabreMau

Which Commander Keen? 1, 4, or 6?

Yukira

Melding wrote:

Yukira wrote:

Melding wrote:

TrippyJing wrote:

I have never played these.

Antimatter wrote:

never heard of these games before.

God damn kids these days!

I haven't heard of this game until now, either.

you sir, have no excuse.

I, madam, have every excuse. The first time I had a PC that could play a game was about 2001.

Keith

stimtokolos

Warcraft 1 is awesome, it makes me sad that it isn't really playable except on a LAN.

stimtokolos

SabreMau wrote:

Which Commander Keen? 1, 4, or 6?

Keen Dreams was terrible.
I can't remember which vegetable it was, but the one that ran really fast back and forth can fuck right off.

SabreMau

Fearghaill

OMF 2097 is the only other game in my dosbox folder besides Betrayal At Krondor (X-Com uses Dosbox too, but that's through steam).

I tried playing it a little while ago. I am so so bad at it now.

Tonkka

Those games so mega and epic!

Melding

Yukira wrote:

Melding wrote:

Yukira wrote:

Melding wrote:

TrippyJing wrote:

I have never played these.

Antimatter wrote:

never heard of these games before.

God damn kids these days!

I haven't heard of this game until now, either.

you sir, have no excuse.

I, madam, have every excuse. The first time I had a PC that could play a game was about 2001.

When was the first time you had an N64 that could play games?

Yukira

You mean the Mario Kart 64 and later Smash Bros box?

Aneurhythmia

Keith wrote:

I still have the CDs for this.

Melding

Yukira wrote:

You mean the Mario Kart 64 and later Smash Bros box?

Melding

Wren wrote:

remakes of the originals need to make sure to remove looking up and down and have your shots automatically target things higher or lower than you. also need to walk at about 60 km/h

You can totally look up in down in all the heretic and hexen games.

also the remake isn't very good. their goals outreach their talent.

Zyrelax

Keith wrote:

oh my gosh ZZT. My brother and I spent so many hours making games with the level editor. We made a four part series for one of our friends where he had to escape increasingly terrible (in both senses of the word) puzzles and dungeons. I even learned the faux-basic language parts of it were coded in to make more elaborate things.

Melding

Guys, we're getting away from the point of this thread.

Setting up some co-op to play this game.

guar

Heretic DM/co-op was pretty much just virtual chicken wrangling.

chiasaur11

Melding wrote:

Guys, we're getting away from the point of this thread.

Setting up some co-op to play this game.

You're not the boss of me!