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Liero – Sling'n'shoot Worms Game

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Re: Liero – Sling'n'shoot Worms Game

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Post by continuational »

rzzzt wrote: post #34
codetrotter wrote: post #28

Anyone remember Soldat? https://www.soldat.pl/en/ > It takes the best from games like Liero, Worms, Quake and Counter-Strike and gives you fast action gameplay with tons of blood and flesh. Little ragdoll soldiers fight against each other on 2D battle arenas using a deadly military arsenal.

I found Soldat while searching for another, top-down perspective game from the genre, which I found on a demo disc once. That was Tremor Gold: https://www.tigsource.com/2008/02/20/multiplayer-on-one-keyb... Jump'n'Bump, anyone?

Jump'n'Bumb is such a blast! I even made a clone of it in JS with a friend. Gotta try Tremor. Looks a bit like Cyberdogs!

Re: Liero – Sling'n'shoot Worms Game

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Post by albertzeyer »

codetrotter wrote: post #28

Anyone remember Soldat? https://www.soldat.pl/en/ > It takes the best from games like Liero, Worms, Quake and Counter-Strike and gives you fast action gameplay with tons of blood and flesh. Little ragdoll soldiers fight against each other on 2D battle arenas using a deadly military arsenal.

Soldat is open source now: https://github.com/soldat/soldat https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26058312

Re: Liero – Sling'n'shoot Worms Game

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Post by c2h5oh »

aidos wrote: post #9
rixrax wrote: post #6

Loved playing Worms as a kid, not so much Liero. But before Worms, it was really Scorched Earth[0] that got me introduced to the genre. And with which I must have spent untold hours. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorched_Earth_(video_game)

I loved Scorched Earth! Don’t know anyone else who ever played it.

It's still easily in my top5 most played games of all time

Re: Liero – Sling'n'shoot Worms Game

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Post by therein »

morbicer wrote: post #40

One of the best PC hot seats classics. Endangered my high school graduation :) I wanted to recover some of the custom maps we created and played but sadly they are in the silicon heaven already. It's fun how everyone's youth is the best time ever, but I bet i find many fellow connoisseurs here: Liero, windows 2000, electronic music of the early noughts, the internet before Facebook, Matrix, Futurama, Lebowski. A Gen…

I used to play Liero with my cousin for hours. It just barely would not fit a 1.44MB floppy. We downloaded it so many times over 14.4k dialup, go out to grab dinner with the family, come back to a dropped connection.

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Post by morbicer »

therein wrote: post #44
morbicer wrote: post #40

One of the best PC hot seats classics. Endangered my high school graduation :) I wanted to recover some of the custom maps we created and played but sadly they are in the silicon heaven already. It's fun how everyone's youth is the best time ever, but I bet i find many fellow connoisseurs here: Liero, windows 2000, electronic music of the early noughts, the internet before Facebook, Matrix, Futurama, Lebowski. A Gen…

I used to play Liero with my cousin for hours. It just barely would not fit a 1.44MB floppy. We downloaded it so many times over 14.4k dialup, go out to grab dinner with the family, come back to a dropped connection.

I imagine that's the stories I will tell my grandkids but it probably won't be that interesting. Hopefully we can see it well... maybe the rave stories will fare better. I store my old DnD stuff for the odd chance it will have vintage value to the generations far away.

Re: Liero – Sling'n'shoot Worms Game

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Post by solardev »

Sharlin wrote: post #23
solardev wrote: post #3

Is this an open source clone of the Worms games by Team17? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worms_%28series%29?wprov=sfla1

Worms itself is just a Scorched Earth clone.

I mean, yes, but Liero means "worm" in Finnish, according to the wiki.

Just trying to understand how these games evolved from each other (or not) for the sake of video game history :) I loved Worms when I was a kid, and wish I had discovered Liero back then!

Re: Liero – Sling'n'shoot Worms Game

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Post by morbicer »

dang wrote: post #39

Related: Liero can be played in browser now, for those who remember - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22980676 - April 2020 (86 comments) Show HN: A browser-based multiplayer clone of the DOS game Liero using WebRTC - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20668273 - Aug 2019 (7 comments)

I assume our hero dang has some automation in place but sometimes I dream about him rembering all posts and carefully linking the beloved topics with past occurrences.

Re: Liero – Sling'n'shoot Worms Game

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Post by solardev »

trenchgun wrote: post #20
solardev wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting! It looks like Worms 1 came out in 95, then MoleZ a few years later, then Liero. It definitely seems like the same genre of game... the ninja rope definitely brings back some nostalgia :) The real-time is a cool twist though.

It is the same theme, but a different genre.

Fair enough

Re: Liero – Sling'n'shoot Worms Game

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Post by askonomm »

kimmk wrote: post #26

Liero is part of the Finnish shareware game scene that lasted from early 90s to mid 00s [1]. These games are super nostalgic for me and a lot of other tech minded Finns of my age! [1] https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luettelo_suomalaisista_sharewa...

Not just Finland, Liero was big in Estonia, too! I remember I got Liero on a floppy disk from a friend early 00's and ran it on my Win98. Good ol' days. Terep2 was another great game.
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