/vr/ - Retro Games

>>9391601
They're survivable the first time you meet them, but they can definitely kill you quick if you don't think and act fast.

I think the Lopers are excellently designed enemies. Look at this mean cyborg monster freak, look at his evil and twisted mug, befitting of being such a threatening and vile foe.

>>7303046
It's a *little* bit like Half-Life, only with even fewer (and even shorter) mandatory speaking segments and no tram-ride at the start, also map instances are sort of divided up levels and episodes, and they do score you at the end. It has a good level design with fun exploration, while having a largely realistic aesthetic to it, and the gunplay is pretty fast and intense. The gunplay is actually kind of better than Half-Life's, now that I think about it.
It has some stealth to it, which is kind of so-so, but it tends to work ok in the levels designed for it.

I really think it's about the best possible way you could have taken Wolfenstein from 1992 to 2001. Oh yeah, it has an alright plot to it as well, it's there, but it's not oppressive and largely serves to direct the gameplay (find X item, locate and/or eliminate Z douche, kill your way through this, quietly or loudly, and you'll achieve it), it kind of just rounds out the progression of the levels/episodes. Music is also very well suited, and is excellent at building atmosphere, the undead levels are just a wonderful kind of comfy-spooky, and the action themes are like old war movies, intense and triumphant.

https://youtu.be/2a2I0RBri5g
https://youtu.be/o-sH4ewNioM
https://youtu.be/Eoo8EyNH3GM
https://youtu.be/Zly9d5_8zpI
https://youtu.be/WtsNwQIhhno

At least some of the boss encounters are also hard cunts to defeat, if you're playing Medium or higher, and the monster design is cool. Most importantly, there's gold bars and gilded goblets to collect, and you can eat chicken dinners and cold cuts to restore your health.

>>4881404
No. Did Raven work on RTCW? I must have forgotten that, no, but RTCW was a fucking masterpiece and my favorite entry in the series, it's one of my childhood favorites.
It's core Wolfenstein, IMO.

I mean the 2009 game, which, I didn't hate, but it had some serious flaws to it, and I can see why fans of classic Wolf3D as well as RTCW wouldn't perhaps love it.

>>4881402
I have heard it's mediocre across the board and that it comes off as rushed, I haven't played it yet, but I quite loved New Order, so if that's true, then I'd be pretty disappointed.
The extremely unsubtle politics shoved into it (which says something, considering the subject matter), I hear is supposed to be the sewage icing on the mediocrity cake.

I'm planning to play it myself, to form my own opinion, but I'm a bit intimidated by what I've heard.