Re: Quake 4 - and the Arcade segments


"McGrandpa" <McGrandpaNOT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Shawk" <shawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> "McGrandpa" <McGrandpaNOT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>> Sigh. It's the end of an era. Rather, the era ended long ago and I
>>> just accepted it. There were no arcade play sections in Doom3. There
>>> was Super Turbo Turkey Puncher. That was all the arcadiness to Doom3.
>>> Even Quake 3 was no arcade shooter. It appears that the true Quake
>>> dynasty ended with Quake 2.
>>> Far Cry had its cheesiness and somewhat resembled a shooter arcade in
>>> places. Unreal 2 sucked for its arcady gameplay throughout. Halo
>>> campaign sucked for the most part for the same sort of 'fighting
>>> gameplay' that I am calling "arcady" And now I've run into it in
>>> Quake4. I am stunned that id Software allowed their trademarked name
>>> "Quake" to be put on Ravensofts shooter arcade.
>>>
>>> This crap blows chunks. This is the kind of garbage I put a quarter in
>>> a upright box and played in the laundramat in the early 80's. That's
>>> all there was to play back then. The developers don't have enough
>>> imagination and knowledge to give us more than arcade shooting? Oh,
>>> most of the sales are expected to be for consoles? Figures.
>>>
>>> Fifty bucks for a damned arcade game. They raise the bar for graphics,
>>> sound and engine. So what do they do? Make a shitty ass arcade shooter
>>> out of it. Just fuckin brilliant damn minds they got. Well the
>>> cheesedogs playing on the consoles will be just ecstatic then. They got
>>> what THEY can play well.
>>>
>>> *** em.
>>>
>>> McG. <yeah, it's really me, disappointed in the extreme>
>>>
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>> Did ya not like it then McG? :-)
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>> Still enjoying it - just got 'strogged'. Brainless shooter yeah but
>> that's why I bought it. Weakest part so far was the tank. What did you
>> have issues with? (Seeing as you recommended it to me, I'd be interested
>> in why you changed your mind).
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> I don't like the arcade sections. Canyon to start with.
> McG.
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Yeah - I think I know what you mean. If so then I gotta warn you it'll get
worse - what I referred to as the tank (I think the level is called
Aqueduct). Like 3D space invaders. I guess Raven thought 'well everyone
else is doing vehicles so we should'. I'm now in a level called
'Construction Zone' and I'm in a mech. It's not quite as bad as the tank
but I'd rather be on foot. Still enjoying the rest of the game though...


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