/vr/ - Retro Games

>>5452746
I wish I had fast projectile weapons so that I could miss things more reliably at a long distance. Not realistic speeds, but basically nailgun and arcane dimensions shotgun pellet speed.
I wish I had to lead targets...
>>5452758
>>5452729
I think he's saying that the idea of treating something as difficult because it actually is. Compared to something which is difficult in a stylish way.
But, landmines and IEDs are the real life equivalent of fake difficulty. Its not stylish and doesnt carry the bravado of some sniper nailing you from 600 yards, or being ganked by special forces in the middle of the night. Because then the skill means something and you got bested by someone who was really that dangerous.
Doesnt make them any less difficult.

Zombie has shotgun, this deadly implement only has to be pointed at you and fired and you're dead. Thats a very dangerous zombie and you need to be treating it like it is. You need to be setting traps or doing whatever you need to do to avoid that shotgun blast.
Do you get the shotgun afterwards?
Does the person playing the game consider what would happen if their character was shot with the kind of weapons they themselves are destroying zombies with?

Why does doomguy only lose, at most, 15% of his health from a gunshot when similarly armored zombies (sans the helmet) regularly lose over 50% of their health from the same gunshots?
Ignoring the stats issues - sounds like any guns that doomguy is holding are Blessed by christ and it makes them cause a fuckton of damage to demons.
>>5452739
If you're new to Quake 1 just play it, and play it until its been loved thoroughly. It is a unique critter and it should be played all the way through before you start commenting on it.
Also even without a rocket launcher yet in E4M5 you have to grenade jump over a lava pit near the end, before you get the bridge in place, and skip past a Vore to get to the secret level. Either that or bunny hop onto some very thin posts over lava.