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[WhatNitrous]

Reason for the 10 ARP: https://na.alienwarearena.com/ucf/s...on-topic/ForumPost/april-fools-artifact-fixed

I don't feel like page hopping, gimme the short f'kin hilarious version?

EDIT:

Again, reminds me of New Years...they act like 5 ARP is a damn gift

 

[-v-]

Just turn off the HUD.

And so? You have everything you need on your watch, your lighter, and breath sounds.

 

[ElLoco]

And so? You have everything you need on your watch, your lighter, and breath sounds.

Artificial Difficulty can still be considered difficulty.
Have you played FPS game in which killing enemies actually deduct your point and make you fail your objectives?

 

[Fingolfin]

Lootboy code: Aight8

 

[-v-]

Artificial Difficulty can still be considered difficulty.
Have you played FPS game in which killing enemies actually deduct your point and make you fail your objectives?

I still don't understand what you mean by that. A person asked to recommend a game. So please recommend. I, for example, have not seen anyone ask which game has the most settings that can complicate your experience. Yes, you can do a lot in the settings. But that's what they are settings for, to adjust the game to yourself. By default "out of the box" there are no complications. You can change the language in the settings to one you don't understand, choose Czech or Ukrainian, for example, it will be even more difficult! Cool idea, no? You can, of course, even play games with the monitor off if you want, but what does that have to do with the question and other people? Just write something for the sake of writing?

 

[silent_passenger]

But Metro is not difficult. Not difficult at all. it's one of those games that lets you play it the way you feel comfortable. If you just want to run the game from start to finish, then run yourself. But if you want to leisurely explore the game, then a completely different layer of the game opens. Walk, explore, listen to all dialogues of random characters, collect all items and spare parts. There is even a level where there is a wall-to-wall war between two factions, you can pass without firing a single shot.

Not really connected to the choice of FPS games but more about the memorable experiences from the games. I remember, very early on, just walking through Metro and listening and one line that would always make my heart ache...

 

[-v-]

Not really connected to the choice of FPS games but more about the memorable experiences from the games. I remember, very early on, just walking through Metro and listening and one line that would always make my heart ache...

Yes, I really like this part, I already mentioned it above - if you walk quietly and slowly, the game tells you not one story, but a whole bunch of small ones. And you can hear them everywhere - both from teammates, from NPCs at stations, and in the state of the enemy, if you give them the opportunity to live their lives further, and not go straight with all alarms on

 

[valike13]

Can any of you recommend easier n00b fps games? (remember, contoller only!)

Half-life, Far cry, Stalker, Wolfenstein, Doom, F.E.A.R., Arma, Call of Juarez, Duke Nukem, Mafia...
Serious Sam

 

[RETRO]

Half-life, Far cry, Stalker, Wolfenstein, Doom, F.E.A.R., Arma, Call of Juarez, Duke Nukem, Mafia...
Serious Sam

Serious Sam very much control friendly its like soap bubble you can cheat and have fun
Half life is classic a must play sold millions control is ok but some puzzles inside you might need to watch some youtube videos If you get stuck
Stalker, its 2023 and I know its an old retro masterpiece but not for your ultimate fps and controls will not be so good too. its aged and forget about it unless you get the new one at release date Dec.2023
wolfenstein is fantastic game play best controller layout (easy peasy) and fun but Wolfenstein II The New Colossus or original one. Both are maximum fun.
Arma meh
Call of Juarez aged much and so so controls
Duke nukem good control support and fun game
Mafia you can play for hours but thats not a fps its more like grand theft auto at 1970ies etc

back to family dinner

 

[Rudokhvist]

Half-life, Far cry, Stalker, Wolfenstein, Doom, F.E.A.R., Arma, Call of Juarez, Duke Nukem, Mafia...
Serious Sam

Mafia is more a racing game than fps. And it's not easy.

 

[-v-]

Half-life, Far cry, Stalker, Wolfenstein, Doom, F.E.A.R., Arma, Call of Juarez, Duke Nukem, Mafia...
Serious Sam

Stalker only keyboard + mouse. If you want to wander around the Chernobyl zone with a gamepad, then it makes sense to pay attention to Chernobylite, but this is not a shooter in the literal sense of the word, here the emphasis is shifted more towards survival, so you have little ammo, and stealth movement around locations is more welcome.
Arma is more of a tactic, there the entry threshold is too high.
Call of Juarez, I think only Gunslinger fits the FPS genre.
Duke Nukem, if it's 3D (there's an Anniversary Edition) because Forever was dead on arrival, it's playable, sure, but it's not a must-have experience.
Mafia is not a shooter. Action, yes, but not a shooter. In the remake of the first part almost the entire racing part was cut out. The story there is definitely worth paying attention to, so if you haven't played it, it's worth remembering for the future.
Far Cry is an interesting idea that can get boring very quickly. If you have an opportunity to try - try. No - don't chase after it.
Also it makes sense to try Bulletstorm, maybe?
Also, I think, almost all Call of Duty will be suitable, is more a blockbusters - everything runs, flies, explodes, shoots, and is created for entertaining content than for any complexity. But Activision traditionally has big problems with price tags for its games.

 

[WhatNitrous]

Racer
Racer
Racer

Go figure, I gave it to Retro

Worth it

 

[WhatNitrous]

I just deleted over 300 activation screenshots, which only means I must have gotten nearly all of them from here.

Gamers Lair, I salute you...I hope my giving back shows I truly mean that.

But still...

 

[PurpleGreenTremors]

Hi all, I recently got an extra key for Fly and Destroy, would someone like it? I'll make a raffle, react with to enter, will choose at random in about 5 hours from now.

 

[WhatNitrous]

Hi all, I recently got an extra key for Fly and Destroy, would someone like it? I'll make a raffle, react with to enter, will choose at random in about 5 hours from now.

I own it already (and don't know how, probably one of those SS)

But thank you for the offer and the GA

 

[ElLoco]

I still don't understand what you mean by that. A person asked to recommend a game. So please recommend. I, for example, have not seen anyone ask which game has the most settings that can complicate your experience. Yes, you can do a lot in the settings. But that's what they are settings for, to adjust the game to yourself. By default "out of the box" there are no complications. You can change the language in the settings to one you don't understand, choose Czech or Ukrainian, for example, it will be even more difficult! Cool idea, no? You can, of course, even play games with the monitor off if you want, but what does that have to do with the question and other people? Just write something for the sake of writing?

The thing is difficulty is subjective. Difficulty is different to each person and their playstyle. For you it is easy but for him it is difficult. Even between games of the same series like CS Source and CS GO.
Also the NO HUD is part of the difficulty setting, just like enemies speak Korean on Hard difficulty in Crysis, or hitboxes in Sniper Elite. Did you even play on Ranger Hardcore? Especially the quick time event parts?
And you haven't taken into account that he only plays with controller so it'll much more difficult than with keyboard and mouse, especially if you're trying to do flick shots.
As for noob FPS game, nothing beat Call Of Duty.

P.s. Stay away from Far Cry 2, it gives people Ebola.

 

[Eldi]

I own it already (and don't know how, probably one of those SS)

Hi WhatNitrous, I'll give you a hint... from the "hot avatar maker".

Greetings.

 

[-v-]

Did you even play on Ranger Hardcore? Especially the quick time event parts?

Oh my god, what a mess. Are you actually trying to prove that playing on the hardest difficulty is hard? Did anyone even ask for it? Is this really the information that you have been trying to convey to someone for a day? Because otherwise why all this? Who in their right mind would begin to try the genre by setting the most difficult level?
What made you decide that I don't take into account the point about the gamepad? Why you conclude that everything I described above was done without experience on a gamepad? Damn, the last time I played a shooter with kbd+mouse was somewhere in 2003 (with the exception of Stalker, in which there is no other option). Again - want to recommend something - just do it. If it was important to you to convey that some games have an option with difficulty levels, well ok, if it was important to you to convey information that you once tried to play something on a difficult level, well again ok, but please, enough, this is a conversation about nothing

 

[klingki]

In the spirit of all the mini-reviews being posted lately, I'll post a few of my own. I was bored over the weekend, so I used What Should I Steam? to pick some random Steam games from my library for me to try. I just tried a little bit of each, but enough to give some thoughts.

Intralism (Steam Page)
This is a rhythm game. The gimmick of this one is that the "notes" come as four parts of a circle (top, left, right, bottom), and you need to hit the WASD keys for the corresponding circle fragment(s) as they pass through a ring. Sounds simple enough, and at first I liked the idea of only needing to use the WASD keys, but this game was friggin hard. I'm pretty decent at rhythm games, but not at this one. Perhaps with more time and practice I could be, but that probably won't come to pass. I could literally only beat the very first (easiest) song, and that's it. The notes just come too fast, and often times come as multiple circle fragments at the same time, which was hard for me to pull off with just the WASD keys. Especially when you had to hit the top and bottom fragments at the same time. It's just awkward for me to try to simultaneously push the W and S keys (I have much more experience gaming with controllers than with keyboard and mouse). Otherwise though, the game looked the part. The presentation was good, and the songs that I tried/listened to were not bad.

Three Twenty One (Free) (Steam Page)
Game wouldn't start on my computer. I'd get the initial startup window that asked for settings like resolution and stuff, but when I clicked OK, an icon for the game would appear in the taskbar for couple of seconds, then go away and the game would close. So I gave up.

Ninja Kiwi Archive (Free) (Steam Page)
This is basically a launcher containing a compilation of various old Flash games. I was not previously familiar with the Ninja Kiwi site where the games (used to?) reside, but I did recognize a handful of the games in the launcher, such as some of the very old Bloons TD games. In the end, I tried some game with ghosts and zombies (I don't remember the name anymore ). It was a pretty basic turn-based strategy game of trying to have your ghosts defeat the zombies and break their tombstones. It was actually decently fun despite being pretty simple and clearly showing some age. Maybe these games are still available online - I'm not sure - but I'm all for this type of preservation, having these games in a collection on Steam. I even saw somewhere during the startup that if you had an account on their site, you could log in on the Steam version and carry over your account progress. That gets two thumbs up from me!

SYNCH (Free) (Steam Page)
Another turn-based strategy game. A little too rough around the edges for my taste. Admittedly, I probably didn't give it enough time to learn the ins and outs of it, but I found it a tad hard to follow what was going on, and the game didn't really draw me in enough to motivate me to figure it out.

Paintball War (Free) (Steam Page)
Game no longer works. Upon startup, you just get a message to go buy Paintball War 2. That game is not free and I don't own it, so... see ya!

CHKN (Free) (Steam Page)
I think this game just became free fairly recently after previously being a paid game. From my very basic understanding of it, the devs were not confident that they could get it out of early access in a form that lived up to their vision, so they decided to just make it free and probably won't put too much more work into it. I could be wrong though. Anyway, the concept of this game was pretty interesting. It's very much like a Minecraft sort of game, but the extra gimmick is that you can also craft creatures. You can come across various creature body parts, and assemble them into all sorts of weird creations. I didn't get too far into it, so I only ended up crafting the titular chicken (which I of course named CHKN). You can ride your creations around, and they can also help you fight off wild mobs. The game was a bit rough, as you might expect a very indie early access title to be, but I could definitely see some promise in there. Alas, we probably won't get to see it fleshed out a bit more, but I think there could still be some fun to be had exploring this game world and creating some wonderful abominations. But don't expect it to be a totally smooth and intuitive experience.

Overall, I probably would have been better off just playing a more established game from my backlog, but sometimes it's worth a shot to just try some rando games. I'll probably do it again at some point!

 

[DanteFromHell89]

So much opportunities but so little possibilities (out of silver)...and all of those will end in an hour.
Damn you, Resident Evil 4!! T.T