Kingpin: Life of Crime

[Anonymous No.5861573]

This game's pretty fun.

As usual with Xatrix, the start of the game is actually the worst part. Gets better after that and once you get the hang of it. Some cool levels and weapons.

I do not know why everyone complains about hitscanners in Build engine games though, that shit is nothing compared to the late 90's early 00's period and games like this one or S.H.O.G.O.

[Anonymous No.5861627]

Fuck, im sure i had a celeron 466 and 2 voodoo 2's in SLI when this came out. You no duck with the jesus.

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[Anonymous No.5861892]

>>5861573
I think Kingpin's early game is its strongest part. Exploring the city, doing minor quests for different characters, visiting the pawn shop and upgrading your weapons. Really immersive stuff before the game devolves into your typical Quake 2-esque shooter with boring enemy and weapon variety.
I still like the game but had they stuck to that System Shock 2 style design it would have been a lot more interesting and memorable.

[Anonymous No.5861937]

>>5861892
Yes it looks like they had ambitions to do more but it got cut due to time. I was disappointed to find no shop in the end, especially considering I had saved tons of money as I only ever bought very little, no mission or no AI helper, which for once in a game, were actually good.

Still the level design is better in the end and makes it enjoyable.

[Anonymous No.5861995]

>>5861573
>hire two Tommy thugs
>never have to fire a single bullet for the level's boss

[Anonymous No.5862037]

Really enjoyed the game despite the enemies being some of the worst hit scanners in amy video game ever.

[Anonymous No.5862078]

>>5861573
Some mixed feelings about this one. I was pretty much done with it, so my little brother (10 at the time) started playing. Two days later he addressed everyone around him as 'motherfuckers' until my dad whopped his ass following an argument at the dinner table.

[Anonymous No.5862101]

>>5861573
>S.H.O.G.O.

[Anonymous No.5862103]

>>5861892
I found the game a little too repetitive with the "hub" area setup.

It was fun right at the beginning but having to do all that again was no fun and felt rather tedious. I think that SiN held up a lot better gameplay-wise.

[Anonymous No.5862106]

One of the most underrated games ever and a personal favorite.

[Anonymous No.5862109]

Can you play with the widescreen patch AND the Rags 2 Riches patch?

And what EXACTLY does Rags 2 Riches do? (And is it a better experience overall, and for what reasons?)

[Anonymous No.5862316]

>>5862109
Looks like garbage. Play the game vanilla anon.

[Anonymous No.5862368]

>>5862101
It's not that bad, you just have to start shooting BEFORE the enemies come into view.

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[Anonymous No.5862536]

>>5862103
Fuck you, piece of shit

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[Anonymous No.5863164]

>>5862532
I knew it

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[Anonymous No.5863636]

>>5862534
What mod is this?

[Anonymous No.5863648]

>>5861573
Fuck are you talking about? Cultists in Blood are Alpha Prime levels of bad, moreover, Alpha Prime didn't have Le Cinematicke inertia to your character.

[Anonymous No.5864129]

>>5861573
loved kingpin

[Anonymous No.5864143]

>>5863648
git gud

[Anonymous No.5864406]

>>5862524
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRrqkBm7CaI reminded me of the Russian version for it

[Anonymous No.5865456]

>>5861573
i really enjoyed this one back in the day. the gloomy atmosphere and the cypress beat loops

[Anonymous No.5867621]

>Xatrix
>the studio was merged into Treyarch
Today I learned something.

[Anonymous No.5867625]

>>5863636
Looks like vanilla to me.

[Anonymous No.5867639]

>>5867621
also Drew Markham passed away a year ago

RIP

[Anonymous No.5867647]

>>5867639
Damn. Only 59 too.

[Anonymous No.5867850]

>>5867625
Ha, I never got that pistol mod. I should replay the game and actually spend my money instead of saving it for the end game... where there is no shop; unless there is a way to get into that Skidrow shop I'm unaware of

[Anonymous No.5868023]

Kingpin was one of the first MP games I got into, back you you had to pay per minute on dialup.
Ping was shit but so was everyone elses, bagman (or whatever it was called) mode was great and being able to customise your characters to wear dark clothing was also great so you could literally lurk in the shadows and have people run right past you, good times.

[Anonymous No.5868035]

>>5862101
Anyone who posts this webm has obviously only seen Civvie play Shogo. It's only marginally harder than Half-Life and the chasecam is even bound to B by default, but nobody ever seems to acknowledge that.

[Anonymous No.5868060]

>>5868035
That vid actually shows an unusually nice AI for SHITGO.

[Anonymous No.5868261]

>>5867647
I just realized he also directed Return to Castle Wolfenstein, probably his most solid game

[Anonymous No.5869813]

>>5864143
Why would I invest time and effort into getting good at a poorly designed game? There are hordes of deadly precise mobile hitscanners with no windup time whatsoever, no ammo to spare on forkstarts, so prefiring is not an option - AND your character just happens to have System Shock levels of inertia to boot. There is nothing to get good at. You just minimize damage tanked by doing SAME things quicker.

[Anonymous No.5870061]

>>5862101
Why didn't you shoot him?

[Anonymous No.5870227]

>>5867850
Non-modded pistol is a piece of shit, anon. Why did you do this to yourself?

[Anonymous No.5870229]

>>5870061
Disregard. Just a youtube man rip.

[Anonymous No.5870270]

>>5870227
I wanted to save money for the late game, and then there was no shop available in the end game. I finished the game with 2200+ $ and only ever bought a tiny bit of ammo and health.

Also I played on Hard on first playthrough; and for the end boss I spent 10 mins wasting all my ammo on the invicible girl before realizing the actual Boss was also in the room.