Oh boy. I always thought that game was the result of one of the creator's LSD trips gone wrong. Or right.
Digital Foundry Retro Discussion [2016 - 2017]
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I love this game. I beat it twice and I have the sequel in my list. Any opinions on the sequel? Is it up to the first one?
BTW, I remember hearing something about MDK and nurbs before I played it the first time, so when I did, I was looking for those nurbs and didn't find a thing. :-/ Does anyone remember that?
BTW, I remember hearing something about MDK and nurbs before I played it the first time, so when I did, I was looking for those nurbs and didn't find a thing. :-/ Does anyone remember that?
No, but its quite entertaining, plus it runs well on modern pc's
MDK was one of my favorite games on PC. I wish we had more crazy games like this. Shiny Entertainment was bringing out masterpieces back in the day,
Also anyone remembers this?
Again from Shiny and it was one of the most underrated games.
It had an amazing AI and stealth elements that even today's games would be jealous of. The game offered many ways to take out enemies and progress. It was like playing Metal Gear Solid in a Cyberpunk world, only even crazier. It was very fun especially when you possessed enemies and made them commit suicide in creative ways. Sometimes you could turn NPCs against each other too. Any living being in the game could be possessed even hookers, genetically modified humans and mice. It was marvelous.
Great humor too
Also anyone remembers this?
Again from Shiny and it was one of the most underrated games.
It had an amazing AI and stealth elements that even today's games would be jealous of. The game offered many ways to take out enemies and progress. It was like playing Metal Gear Solid in a Cyberpunk world, only even crazier. It was very fun especially when you possessed enemies and made them commit suicide in creative ways. Sometimes you could turn NPCs against each other too. Any living being in the game could be possessed even hookers, genetically modified humans and mice. It was marvelous.
Great humor too
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I believe that was Messiah and not MDK.
MDK & Messiah, I forgot them and i've played many hours on both of their demos
I had a puny pc and no money to buy them !
edit: and I know remember Messiah had some kind of cutting edge LOD
https://dperry.com/2003/03/17/messiah_what_yo/
I had a puny pc and no money to buy them !
edit: and I know remember Messiah had some kind of cutting edge LOD
https://dperry.com/2003/03/17/messiah_what_yo/
I'm pretty sure I read that about MDK... :-/
Now I can't do a search, but I will look into it later.
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I really liked the sequel. It's a very different beast. Soul-crushingly hard, though. No idea whether I'd have the patience for it in this day and age. I played it on the Dreamcast back then.
I'm pretty sure I read that about MDK... :-/
Now I can't do a search, but I will look into it later.
I did a quick search and found nothing... :-/ But I'm sure back then I read something about it. I guess it was only a bad piece of info...
Dreamcast controller eh? That would explain why it was so hard
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It probably made the shooty bits more difficult. The right face buttons were basically used as an analog stick replacement. I cannot remember whether they were used for aiming or movement, though. Still, the brutal platforming passages would have been challenging no matter the input device.
If course they were.
But the fact it was never touched again by another game tells me it was probably considered a dead end back then.
Brightness / contrast / gamma in the representations of the original model 2 version are way off, and make the game look washed out, perhaps due to the arcade using different brightness / contrast gamma parameters for its ~57 hz monitor.
But otherwise, that's an awesome retro DF, and one of my favourite gaming videos in all the time that has passed since I got old.
Young people disappoint me so often and in so many ways. The 30 hz generation don't deserve rolling starts, and never will.
But otherwise, that's an awesome retro DF, and one of my favourite gaming videos in all the time that has passed since I got old.
Young people disappoint me so often and in so many ways. The 30 hz generation don't deserve rolling starts, and never will.
Part of the issue I think is diminishing improvements each generation at that $399 pricepoint, forcing developers to target 30fps in many games to have that visual jump to incentivize gamers to spend $399 on that new system. Particularly this latest generation when they opted to keep material costs below $399 for the man console box which hurt the cpu in particular.
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