/vr/ - Retro Games

>mfw playing olde1 for Quake II

I don't know if it's my aversion towards religiously defending Quake II from people saying it plays badly, that the weapons suck shit, that the enemies are terribly unbalanced, that the layouts are boring, whatever, but.

man.

this sucks SHIT.

I have had no prior experience with custom q2 mapsets mind you, but having played both mission packs for it, I can safely say I have no fucking idea how I managed to stomach this game for so fucking long. It has to have the most horrid gameplay in any retro FPS ever.

>player moves around like a retarded slug with overweight, bunnyhop is even more retardedly effective here than it was in Q1 for some reason, no air control whatsoever
>enemies are either hitscan/fast projectile pieces of shit with unreasonably high HP that nibble away at your health faster than you can say 'master ejaculator' or useless laughable blobs of shit that do jackshit but sprint towards you at long range, and deal retarded amounts of damage+knockback/visual recoil at close range with their melee attacks
>blaster can go fuck itself
>shotgun is a slow (and I mean SLOW) weak piece of garbage
>super shotgun's spread and slow fire rate renders it unusable at long ranges, which is unwise most of the times since most enemies can easily get the drop on you from far away and deal even more damage when you try and get closer to them, or either flinch back and hit you anyways as you reload it, the fact that it's pump action is incredibly unsatisfying and makes it feel as if I were shooting a watergun
>machinegun is balls out stupid with that retarded vertical recoil and sounds/feels like shite, also stupidly inaccurate
>grenades are for when you want to not hit anything and obstruct your view with that chair-rocking retarded animation, also travel like 1.5 feet from you and deal fuckall damage
>also slow weapon switching because fuck you, hope you like breaking gameplay flow

this is Wrath of Cronos all over again. Goddamn it.