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I guess this is cool. Not a big fan of "port everything to the browser" though. I really don't want gaming to go any more in the direction of SaaS than it already is. There is already too much rent-seeking.
This is great. Does anyone remember quakelive? Around 2010 it was playable in the browser via a browser plugin. Loved playing it on my macbook. I don't recall if the plugin was flash or a java applet but when support stopped for those quakelive moved to steam as a desktop app. Edit: Per wikipedia it used NAPI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quake_Live
Then I got some serious nightmares from it (well, yeah, I was 8) and had to delete it. (by deleting the icon from my desktop... I was so innocent back then)
The fact that this can now be run in a browser on a laptop rather than a high end gaming rig is indeed amazing.
is it ? quake 3 is a 1999 game. It's closer in time to MS-DOS 6.22 (1993) than to Windows 10 (2015)... and it's not even reaching 60fps on my 1080...
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https://openarena.live/ Here's a link to the open source version of Quake called Open Arena, compiled to WASM and using WebRTC for matchmaking.
The use of https://kosmi.io/ here is what I found more interesting. I've never heard of this service before but it's a great idea. Reminds me of some much less...polished chat services I've used in the past to group-watch videos. It's nice to see the concept fleshed out more with a public lobby and a Discord-like client.
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Of course, agree to disagree. But in particular, having to constantly perform glory kills and chainsaw attacks to get more than 5 bullets or having to snipe coordinates XY on enemy Z with alternate firing mode N to weaken him and only then succeed in taking them down is, in my opinion, not that "Doomy". But I get what you're saying, they can't just make the same game again of course. Also, these days expectations fro…
I don't think that's a fair assessment. You don't have to constantly perform glory kills or chainsaw attacks and there's not a single instance in the game where you have to kill an enemy with an alternate firing mode to a specific region. I think you're exaggerating for effect, and that's fine, but I don't feel like you'd need to do that if your argument had any meat to it. You're right that it's not the same game (b…
Not in a bad way (well, mostly. I still loathe the weapon/armor/character upgrade part of the game). There's no real mowing or herding like in the more intense levels of Doom and Doom II, but instead we get really intense fights that are cool in a different sense.
This reminds me of my port of Quake 1 to Rockbox (for MP3 players): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22162834
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I don't think that's a fair assessment. You don't have to constantly perform glory kills or chainsaw attacks and there's not a single instance in the game where you have to kill an enemy with an alternate firing mode to a specific region. I think you're exaggerating for effect, and that's fine, but I don't feel like you'd need to do that if your argument had any meat to it. You're right that it's not the same game (b…
Sure, you don't have to do any of those things, but you'll be seriously disadvantaged if you don't because the games are designed around these mechanics. Maybe it's exaggerated, but on the other hand, as a fan of both Doom and Doom 2016 it seems your response downplays the difference these mechanics and using them to your advantage makes, and I agree with GP that these are substantial differences that fundamentally m…
That's not the case, though. You might be somewhat disadvantaged, but not seriously.
On my first playthrough on normal difficulty I essentially only used the Super Shotgun. I can't remember using the Chainsaw for ammo, but I did use the BFG a handful of times.
The developers have even said that a goal of theirs was to make this "playstyle" (using only the SS) less viable in Doom Eternal, because it was too simple and powerful. It might have been on a NoClip podcast, I can't remember OTOH.
I've not played Eternal yet, I'm waiting for updated nvidia drivers to hit my distributions repositories.
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I don't think that's a fair assessment. You don't have to constantly perform glory kills or chainsaw attacks and there's not a single instance in the game where you have to kill an enemy with an alternate firing mode to a specific region. I think you're exaggerating for effect, and that's fine, but I don't feel like you'd need to do that if your argument had any meat to it. You're right that it's not the same game (b…
Ok, I was exaggerating a bit but as far as I remember, the game specifically breaks the flow to pause and show you a little instructional clip [0] [1] on how to better kill each enemy, so there's that. But hey, your point is made, I was just throwing my opinion out there, I don't think we need to continue nitpicking since tastes are tastes. 0 - https://youtu.be/5Zp_RMO19aM?t=633 1 - https://youtu.be/x9pL9X9V4iU?t=153…
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Sure, you don't have to do any of those things, but you'll be seriously disadvantaged if you don't because the games are designed around these mechanics. Maybe it's exaggerated, but on the other hand, as a fan of both Doom and Doom 2016 it seems your response downplays the difference these mechanics and using them to your advantage makes, and I agree with GP that these are substantial differences that fundamentally m…
> Sure, you don't have to do any of those things, but you'll be seriously disadvantaged if you don't because the games are designed around these mechanics. That's not the case, though. You might be somewhat disadvantaged, but not seriously. On my first playthrough on normal difficulty I essentially only used the Super Shotgun. I can't remember using the Chainsaw for ammo, but I did use the BFG a handful of times. The…
Well, that's not my experience. I initially hated the concept of glory kills, and especially the blinking effect on staggered monsters. Even just turning the blinking effect off made the game much harder in my experience. I had to learn how to appreciate the mechanic instead. Maybe you are just a much better player than I am and could cope better with the disadvantage.