If you're ever looking for a puzzle game about toy trains (and who isn't, really?) then Conduct Deluxe is pretty dang good. I just got the last gold medal giving me the last achievement (been a while since I finished a game let alone completed one), and it was fun the whole way through.
here's the ending for system shock 2, spoilers obs
It's funny to me how Looking Glass made some of the best game endings ever, and had one of the absolute greatest and most amazingly acted characters in a game (love me some Garrett)...and then there's System Shock 2 =p.
The "nah" gets me every time.
Oh. that's because Ken Levine had some grandiose ending about the player putting complete trust in shodan and being betrayed and murdered at the end, and the rest of the devs fucking hated it, so they snuck that ending in last minute to tell Levine to go piss off.
As I heard it, he claims he was going to offer it as a choice... but now I'm not sure I believe him.
If that was the intended single (forced) ending, I would not have been happy about getting stuck with it.
And if it was a choice, I can pretty much guarantee no one would choose that option except idiots and completists.
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here's the ending for system shock 2, spoilers obs
It's funny to me how Looking Glass made some of the best game endings ever, and had one of the absolute greatest and most amazingly acted characters in a game (love me some Garrett)...and then there's System Shock 2 =p.
The "nah" gets me every time.
Oh. that's because Ken Levine had some grandiose ending about the player putting complete trust in shodan and being betrayed and murdered at the end, and the rest of the devs fucking hated it, so they snuck that ending in last minute to tell Levine to go piss off.
As I heard it, he claims he was going to offer it as a choice... but now I'm not sure I believe him.
If that was the intended single (forced) ending, I would not have been happy about getting stuck with it.
And if it was a choice, I can pretty much guarantee no one would choose that option except idiots and completists.
To hear others tell it, that's a Far Cry Protagonist level stupid action to do.
"Yeah, sure computer program, I totally trust you!"
"Agh! Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!"
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here's the ending for system shock 2, spoilers obs
It's funny to me how Looking Glass made some of the best game endings ever, and had one of the absolute greatest and most amazingly acted characters in a game (love me some Garrett)...and then there's System Shock 2 =p.
The "nah" gets me every time.
Oh. that's because Ken Levine had some grandiose ending about the player putting complete trust in shodan and being betrayed and murdered at the end, and the rest of the devs fucking hated it, so they snuck that ending in last minute to tell Levine to go piss off.
This story just sounds so dumb that it has to be one of those things the Internet makes up about people it doesn't like. Like, rogue developers went behind Levine's back and made an ending cutscene, brought in the voice actress, recorded the audio, finalized the game and sent it to QA, out the door to be pressed and packaged? To spite the president of the company?
I guess this isn't "grove flying to Tau Ceti" unbelievable, but on the face of it it sounds at least "laser attack on Earth from Saturn orbit" ridiculous.
here's the ending for system shock 2, spoilers obs
It's funny to me how Looking Glass made some of the best game endings ever, and had one of the absolute greatest and most amazingly acted characters in a game (love me some Garrett)...and then there's System Shock 2 =p.
The "nah" gets me every time.
Oh. that's because Ken Levine had some grandiose ending about the player putting complete trust in shodan and being betrayed and murdered at the end, and the rest of the devs fucking hated it, so they snuck that ending in last minute to tell Levine to go piss off.
This story just sounds so dumb that it has to be one of those things the Internet makes up about people it doesn't like. Like, rogue developers went behind Levine's back and made an ending cutscene, brought in the voice actress, recorded the audio, finalized the game and sent it to QA, out the door to be pressed and packaged? To spite the president of the company?
I guess this isn't "grove flying to Tau Ceti" unbelievable, but on the face of it it sounds at least "laser attack on Earth from Saturn orbit" ridiculous.
Here's the article where Levine just basically says that's exactly what happened.
and I dont mean that Levine had an ending cutscene already. I mean it was scripted, and the devs hated it so they went behind his back and made the ending cutscene without his approval, not following the script.
Plus, the process of game development was a lot smaller and cheaper and less refined back then, so while it probably couldn't happen nowadays, back then it could've been possible.
here's the ending for system shock 2, spoilers obs
It's funny to me how Looking Glass made some of the best game endings ever, and had one of the absolute greatest and most amazingly acted characters in a game (love me some Garrett)...and then there's System Shock 2 =p.
The "nah" gets me every time.
Oh. that's because Ken Levine had some grandiose ending about the player putting complete trust in shodan and being betrayed and murdered at the end, and the rest of the devs fucking hated it, so they snuck that ending in last minute to tell Levine to go piss off.
This story just sounds so dumb that it has to be one of those things the Internet makes up about people it doesn't like. Like, rogue developers went behind Levine's back and made an ending cutscene, brought in the voice actress, recorded the audio, finalized the game and sent it to QA, out the door to be pressed and packaged? To spite the president of the company?
I guess this isn't "grove flying to Tau Ceti" unbelievable, but on the face of it it sounds at least "laser attack on Earth from Saturn orbit" ridiculous.
Here's the article where Levine just basically says that's exactly what happened.
and I dont mean that Levine had an ending cutscene already. I mean it was scripted, and the devs hated it so they went behind his back and made the ending cutscene without his approval, not following the script.
It sounds to me more like they sent scripts to a third party to render the cutscene, than devs working for and being paid by Levine went behind his back. Unless there's a second story from their standpoint?
EDIT:
From the source article, the rest of it sounds pretty different from the account posted here, too.
This article suggests what the other devs didn't like was the SHODAN reveal. It doesn't mention the player getting killed, either, just that SHODAN was going to double-cross you, which is basically her thing. I didn't see anything more detailed than that in a Google search.
Chat was hyping FC3 Blood Dragon last week. I tried on my laptop but when I downloaded from steam and it launch I get an error launching in uplay. Forced to uninstall, then download from uplay. So I try to play in steam but Steam wants it downloaded again. So I let it, and but turns out my crappy old laptop can't handle it.
Any way, tonight I decided to try it on desktop, and am now again at the point of downloading it for uplay after already downloading and uninstalling it for Steam. Because again after downloading it from Steam it won't run. Bummer is, I'm at home on with slow internet, instead of at work on blazing fast. So, not Blood Dragon for me.
I really should not have complained about DMC 1. DMC 2, uh...
DMC2 is infamously bad. Seriously, skip it and go straight for DMC3.
DMC2 is so bad that they intentionally skip past it in the story recap at the start of DMC5.
It really is very not good. Was it made by the B team or something?
The level geometry looks like something straight out of a PS1.
It actually was! They brought Hideaki Itsuno in as Director at the last minute to fix it up, and he was so embarrassed about how bad the end product still was that he resolved to make the next DMC game fucking incredible.
And that's why 3 came out so good.
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This was mentioned in the Castlevania thread, but it's relevant here too. Konami is bringing a bunch of its classic games to various modern platforms, including Steam:
First up is a bunch of arcade games, including Haunted Castle (a bad arcade Castlevania game), Typhoon, Gradius, Gradius II, Life Force, Thunder Cross, Scramble, and TwinBee.
Next is a Castlevania collection, including Castlevania I, III, IV, and the Game Boy Castlevania II. Four more titles will be announced later.
After that, a Contra collection, including what appears to be the arcade versions of Contra and Super Contra, the NES version of Super C, and Contra III: The Alien Wars. And four other games to be announced later.
Obviously I am most interested in the second collection, but it's pretty cool that they're doing this....if they do it right.
The most exciting thing about that news is that if Konami are opening up to releasing collections of their classic games, we might see Metal Gear Solid and Silent Hill collections on Steam eventually.
Chat was hyping FC3 Blood Dragon last week. I tried on my laptop but when I downloaded from steam and it launch I get an error launching in uplay. Forced to uninstall, then download from uplay. So I try to play in steam but Steam wants it downloaded again. So I let it, and but turns out my crappy old laptop can't handle it.
Any way, tonight I decided to try it on desktop, and am now again at the point of downloading it for uplay after already downloading and uninstalling it for Steam. Because again after downloading it from Steam it won't run. Bummer is, I'm at home on with slow internet, instead of at work on blazing fast. So, not Blood Dragon for me.
That's a bummer. Blood Dragon is really good, executes well on its vision, has some great gameplay loops, and doesn't overstay its welcome.
When I tried to play Blood Dragon last week, it offered me two different "versions", one was steam and the other was Uplay. They had the same name
One started the already installed steam version and worked fine, the other (the first on on the list) tried to install on UPlay.
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DMC2 is infamously bad. Seriously, skip it and go straight for DMC3.
NO. I BOUGHT THIS TRILOGY AND IT WILL NOT REMAIN IN MY BACKLOG.
As I heard it, he claims he was going to offer it as a choice... but now I'm not sure I believe him.
If that was the intended single (forced) ending, I would not have been happy about getting stuck with it.
And if it was a choice, I can pretty much guarantee no one would choose that option except idiots and completists.
Except for when they play DMC 2.
To hear others tell it, that's a Far Cry Protagonist level stupid action to do.
"Yeah, sure computer program, I totally trust you!"
"Agh! Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!"
It'll end in tears, I tell you now.
This story just sounds so dumb that it has to be one of those things the Internet makes up about people it doesn't like. Like, rogue developers went behind Levine's back and made an ending cutscene, brought in the voice actress, recorded the audio, finalized the game and sent it to QA, out the door to be pressed and packaged? To spite the president of the company?
I guess this isn't "grove flying to Tau Ceti" unbelievable, but on the face of it it sounds at least "laser attack on Earth from Saturn orbit" ridiculous.
Here's the article where Levine just basically says that's exactly what happened.
and I dont mean that Levine had an ending cutscene already. I mean it was scripted, and the devs hated it so they went behind his back and made the ending cutscene without his approval, not following the script.
It sounds to me more like they sent scripts to a third party to render the cutscene, than devs working for and being paid by Levine went behind his back. Unless there's a second story from their standpoint?
EDIT:
From the source article, the rest of it sounds pretty different from the account posted here, too.
https://irrationalgames.ghoststorygames.com/insider/what-might-have-been/
This article suggests what the other devs didn't like was the SHODAN reveal. It doesn't mention the player getting killed, either, just that SHODAN was going to double-cross you, which is basically her thing. I didn't see anything more detailed than that in a Google search.
Any way, tonight I decided to try it on desktop, and am now again at the point of downloading it for uplay after already downloading and uninstalling it for Steam. Because again after downloading it from Steam it won't run. Bummer is, I'm at home on with slow internet, instead of at work on blazing fast. So, not Blood Dragon for me.
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DMC2 is so bad that they intentionally skip past it in the story recap at the start of DMC5.
It really is very not good. Was it made by the B team or something?
The level geometry looks like something straight out of a PS1.
It actually was! They brought Hideaki Itsuno in as Director at the last minute to fix it up, and he was so embarrassed about how bad the end product still was that he resolved to make the next DMC game fucking incredible.
And that's why 3 came out so good.
First up is a bunch of arcade games, including Haunted Castle (a bad arcade Castlevania game), Typhoon, Gradius, Gradius II, Life Force, Thunder Cross, Scramble, and TwinBee.
Next is a Castlevania collection, including Castlevania I, III, IV, and the Game Boy Castlevania II. Four more titles will be announced later.
After that, a Contra collection, including what appears to be the arcade versions of Contra and Super Contra, the NES version of Super C, and Contra III: The Alien Wars. And four other games to be announced later.
Obviously I am most interested in the second collection, but it's pretty cool that they're doing this....if they do it right.
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That's a bummer. Blood Dragon is really good, executes well on its vision, has some great gameplay loops, and doesn't overstay its welcome.
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One started the already installed steam version and worked fine, the other (the first on on the list) tried to install on UPlay.
Sign of good things to come?
*Looks at modern Disney Star Wars films*
...maybe?
Rogue One was the best Star Wars movie. I will fight over this.
Lucasarts was just as capable of fucking themselves. Now they'll have Disney money to do it more thoroughly.
Or perhaps they'll just subvert our expectations.
R1 was incredible.
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Hopefully this means more than just EA will be making starwars games so at least we'll get something.