just finished picrel, breddy gud
recommend me some more mid2000s kino, any genre. i like how games looked around this time
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just finished picrel, breddy gud. recommend me some more mid2000s kino, any genre.
just finished picrel, breddy gud
recommend me some more mid2000s kino, any genre. i like how games looked around this time
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Play Trepang2. Spiritual successor that just released and is very similar.
he said mid 2000s kino not 2020s unrealslop
play riddick
play prey (2006)
What game is that in pic, because man I love this style of graphics? It's clear not overly detail but still allows imagination.
it's riddick..
>not 2020s unrealslop
It's not impossible to make games look like from the early 2000s on modern engines. Go check out the upcoming game Retchid and it almost looks identical to Doom 3.
I'm looking forward to Retchid after playing the demo, but saying it looks almost identical to DOOM 3 is disingenous. it does not.
there is no Trepang1, it's just a joke title they stuck with after the game got popular/known for it's name.
>it looks almost identical to DOOM 3 is disingenous
Meh it looks pretty close to me, I'm sure there's some details i don't understand at the technical level. The only game i really know that looks sort of close to anything early 2000s besides that game is probably that slavjank game called Perilous Warp. But this one looks way better imo, less amateur on animations. Supposedly the people working on Retchid worked in AAA development and I'd believe that because it looks more polished than anything I've seen out of indie.
>it almost looks identical to Doom 3.
No it doesn't it looks like PBR dogshit where everything is made of waxy clay with bad aliasing and TAA covering it up
>where everything is made of waxy clay
You're describing what Doom 3 looks like. The only thing doom 3 did good was lighting, the game looked like utter dogshit if I'm being perfectly honest. Doom 3 did not age gracefully.
Is Trepang2's story a direct continuation of Trepang1? Coz I didnt play the first one.
Chronicles of Riddick
This is good. Not sure why games don't do hard shadows like FEAR 1 or Riddick games. Everything is blend shadows and light with modern games.
I still have an original disc copy of Riddick, but it's the Dark Athena version that has Butcher Bay as a "remaster" included, on PC. Is there any way to activate it still? I heard that the service for activating it was taken down completely. If not, perhaps some... "other way" to get it to play?
Remasters look significantly worse, play originals instead
I want to play the Dark Athena part as well though. Sure it's quite a bit inferior compared to Butcher Bay, but it's still enjoyable enough on its own terms.
the disc copies never came with a Steam key, if you're asking how to activate it on there. if you're just asking how to play Butcher Bay on Dark Athena, you install the game like usual and boot it up. you can also grab it off myabandonware if your disc copy doesn't work/you don't wanna deal with applying a CD crack or something.
nah, Dark Athena looks great actually, you just need to disable the filter if you dislike that addition. otherwise the textures and everything are improved pretty dramatically.
there's info on PCGW on how to do it.
see picrel, it and my first screenshot here
are both Dark Athena with the filter disabled.
Doom 3, stencil shading is very similar to F.E.A.R., just don't get filtered by the shotgun
No one lives forever. Have fun.
f(ourth)pbp
nolfrevival . tk
How did we go from this to the abominations we the these days
Max payne 1-2
Return to Castle Wolfenstein
Half-Life 1-2
Warcraft 3
Silent Hill 1-4
Devil May Cry 1 and 3
Penumbra Overture & Black Plague
Condemned: Criminal Origins
Call of Cthilhu: Dark corners of the Earth
Psychonauts
STALKER: SoC, CS, CoP
Play the expansion packs, EP and PM, as well.
Extraction Point yes.
Perseus Mandate, no.
Perseus Mandate is still better than any of the sequels
That's not saying much.
I dunno I'm stretching this a bit. Just giving you ideas of games
Clive Barker's Undying
Condemned: Criminal Origins
The Suffering, The Suffering Ties that Bind
SWAT 3, SWAT 4
Soldier of Fortune 1 & 2
Serious Sam 2
Enclave
Prey (2006)
Call of Juarez
STALKER games
Dark Messiah of Might and Magic
Gun
Medal of Honor: Airborne
Timeshift
Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse
Cold Fear
Mafia
Freedom Fighters
Necrovision
Destroy all Humans! 1 & 2
Total Overdose
Painkiller, Painkiller Black, Painkiller Overdose etc.
Pneumbra games
Postal 2
The Chronicles of Riddick Escape from Butcher Bay
Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30, earned in blood, hell's highway
Amnesia: The Dark Descent (+ recommended fan mod/total conversion white night)
Mini ninjas
The Saboteur
The Thing
Obscure 1 & 2
Quake 4
Pretty ordinary:
Pariah
Scarface - The World is Yours
>Enclave
>Stubbs
>Road To Hill 30
yeah those games are shit
your opinion = discarded
>yeah those games are shit
frick you, especially on the comment directed at Stubbs. Enclave is a mixed bag on the other hand.
if you think Road to Hill 30 is shit then you have shit taste.
All good games, though I haven't played Stubbs since it released, it was a fun rental.
>though I haven't played Stubbs since it released
Yeah figured as much if you think it's a good game
It isn't. It's shit, really really shit.
It is shit, the game has ONE map stretched out for its entire runtime, weapons feel like shit to use, it's just boring and unpleasant to play. And it looks ugly as hell
Alright just pirate it then? i never said it was a masterpiece. You did need to go whining the whole thread about it.
zoomer Black personmutt filtered by hill 30 lmao
I liked Hill 30 a lot but the weapons do feel pretty shit to use sometimes (the Garand especially feels so shitty and weak). It also had some real dogshit levels like Tom and Jerry and Rommel's Asparagus. Definitely better than Earned in Blood though, first half is worse RTH30 and the second half is nonstop CBT. Hell's Highway is better than both and its not even a contest.
Hell's Highway got a major downgrade after the E3 demo. They took away many unique features and just used the Rainbow Six Vegas engine and gameplay mechanics. Very disappointing.
Honestly the animations are the biggest downer in that demo, HH 's big character moments really suffered from the shitty face and gesturing animations. Overall seems like it was closer to the previous two just based on how the weapon looks like it handles. Also devs really should be flayed alive for lying in their demos like this, I'd rather see a pre-rendered cutscene than this fabrication.
where do you even get GUN?
Steam? isn't it listed anymore? port for the game isn't amazing however.
i dont remember seeing it but theres a good chance im moronic
Make sure to pick up Second Sight on that note, that's one i just recently discovered. But it's a similar story with a half arsed port.
Second Sight should be played on console or emulator.
E.Y.E.
Manhunt
Bully
Its on Gog just borrow it from there
>Medal of Honor: Airborne
This had such a neat gimmick. How come no other games tried the 'you pick your start point' in games? this game also got super funny in later levels because you could kick grenades back instantly with the click of a button and enemies would grenades spam you so you would essentially turn into an automatic grenade launcher in bottlenecks. hilarious mental imagery
>Scarface - The World is Yours
been wanting to play this just for the dedicated swear button
make sure to read the PCGW page for the game, it's a bit of work to set up but works well afterward.
Vouching for Painkiller Black Edition.
Oh and the Darkness looks pretty good. But you have to play that one on consoles.
same developers, I didn't care for the sequel as much since they added too many guns
Is Condemned 2 at least better than Fear 2? That game was such a piece of shit, some generic shooter they slapped the Fear name onto.
Condemned 2 is good, yeah. it isn't as big of a departure as F.E.A.R. 2 was to the first game. frick SEGA for never bringing it to PC.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2610/GUN/
yep, there it is. im moronic
The worst I can say about Fear2 is that it's very generic. The fear stuff felt added at the last minute sadly.
If you've run out of actual games to play from early 2000s that's when you start looking into modding. And there's a whole lot there that you need to check out. pic related being one of the most obvious.
Aside from that i could recommend the real obscure stuff, but I'd have a hard time calling a lot of them 'kino'.
Play the Afraid Of Monsters: Director's Cut first.
Underhell is probably one of my favorites, but it will remain unfinished forever. I don't understand why mods like this failed and Hunt down the Freeman was successful enough to be developed into a game.
UH's damn good, and with the chapter 1 being a good, fully fleshed 20h campaign, I wouldn't really make it a big deal that chapter 2's essentially "never ever".
That being said, UH is a 2013 mod, so kinda unrelated to the topic, no matter its clear FEAR x Penumbra vibes. What comes to mods succeeding or not, it's a half gamble, half patience thing.
I think UH was made by a single guy, and he was apparently thinking of doing a Steam release, but that would've required cutting out all the non-licensed assets and replacing them with self made / free ones. Valve also seems to favor stuff related to their own IPs' universes.
TimeSplitters. Man the custom map makers were great.
Timesplitters 2 can at least be played on PC now through buying the game Homefront: The Revolution. It supports modern resolutions and all.
What the frick
You can just get the game directly in archive and avoid downloading a piece of shit game by extention
the expansions are worth playing too if u havent already. personally i think the game is only good for its firefights
fear 2
You might want to try out Project Snowblind. Unsure how it runs on modern OS though.
That game was so fricking mediocre. There was like one or two actually decent levels. It would be less offensive if this wasn't originally meant to be Deus Ex 3. Also it runs fine on my modern machine.
Well what is there to recommend? you've heard everything that is good and it gets brought up for a reason. The only reason why OP would have to ask what games there is to play from the early 2000s is either a) he's too lazy to look at everything that is will received or b) he's asking for shit that he hasn't heard of. I took it as B as being the point of this thread. There's plenty of stuff, but whether it's worth your time is another story.
The Chameleon. You will need the english patch that is easily googled
It's probably not the kind of game you're looking for, but I have a soft spot for Dead Reefs. It's a pretty average adventure game, but something about it charmed me.
mid 2000s had baller adventure games
I'd recommend Dracula trilogy (first 3 games at least) as well as Dracula Origins. Black Mirror hada great atmosphere. Scratches is obligatory is probably the only game Ganker mentions around. Darkess Within 1/2. Dark Corners of the Earth. Nibiru. Sherlock Holmes Nemesis and Awakened. Still Life. A Moment of Silence. The Whispered World and every other Daedelic title. Runaway series. Syberia series.
So many good games worth playing that are comfy with great atmosphere and at least decent stories
>mid 2000s had baller adventure games
Early 2000s had them as well in regards to point adventures. I liked the Syberia series. Also got a console release back in the day on OG xbox. and re-releases on xbox one, ps3 and ps4
There was a third Syberia in 2017 and another one last year by the way.
The Bloodrayne games got remasters back in 2020. I thought they were fun when i played them back at the time but it's been quite a while since I've gone back to them. Keep forgetting to pick them up on sale.
Thanks for this, had no idea. I never got into 1 but I played shitton of 2. I remember my teenage mind particularly being happy with all the outfits you could unlock for Rayne
>Laura Bailey recorded all the voice effects by sucking on her own skin
Bloodrayne is kino
I really liked the first one even if it was bit choppy and frick the head enemies
Didint get into 2nd as much as the first one. Felt odd for me.
Even picked up physical releases.
Also if you want and have place I wouldnt mind giving you 1 and 1 terminal cut GOG files.
just messed around with this a bit and good lord the jiggle physics lmao
Condemned
Vagrant Story
Something Bungie is sure to ruin in the future, nothing is safe.
>its the daily boomer gaming thread
face it its all nostalgy shit
im 21, israelitefrick
>jewfrick
You sound like fricking 15.
Would suck to be you, only able to "enjoy" the modern triple A shit
Your modern "games" are pure and utter dogshit
Pretty sure this one is just hard to get running, which is the most annoying part because it's a decent horror game.
Armed and Dangerous isn't specifically a competent third person shooter or anything to write home about, it's more or less the humor of the game that carries it. So in that regard I'd recommend checking it out and see what you think of it.
This stupid basket weaving joke has stuck with me for years since I played this game. I don't even know why.
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Another game I'd put in the same category as armed and dangerous. But instead of humor it's just the artstyle of Oddword that carries this one. This game is on PC nowadays, originally was console exclusive.
Is 2000s Kino genuinely good or is it just well regarded because nowadays they're almost always either free or 1-5 dollars instead of the 60 dollars we paid for them back then. Games I've played recently like Homefront, Crysis 2, Doom 3, and Mirror's Edge all left a good impression on me (Crysis 2 especially) but I didn't pay a cent for any of them so I'm wondering if my opinion is tainted.
I think its kinda both + rose tinted glasses.
I more or less think that games back in the day were of comparable quality maybe somewhat better to today but because they are so much chaper nowadays it makes them feel like they outclass everything made today
i steal all my games so price is not part of the equation, kino is kino simple as
>Is 2000s Kino genuinely good
by the end of early 2000s most of the good genres died, mainly stealth. So yeah i think there's truth to it. Everything went wrong one gen later.
Some of it is really good, some of it is bad. In general those games dont tend to take control away every two minutes for shitty cutscenes and animations. If you start playing it picks up immediately instead of forcing you through dumbfrick tutorial for 20 minutes. Games itself have an objectively simpler but more fun gameplay loop. Era when not every game had to have a takeoff checklist before it could be published , no shitty crafting everywhere, no shitty filler quests and other trite garbage. Just meat and potatoes.
It blows my mind that younger people cannot play these older games and set graphical fidelity aside long enough to realize this.
>"no shitty crafting everywhere, no shitty filler quests and other trite garbage"
Gamer cattle deserve the death of good games for willingly partaking in the busy work to-do lists trend. Its like they want to be at work 24/7 instead of be in a fun fantasy world during their off hours.
its nostalgy for boomers
This is good but the remaster put out is horrendous. You're going to need to buy off a keyseller to get the original because they eventually removed that.
This game was given away for free on GOG
think I got the copy myself.
Didn't they release a big update to the remake that made it better? Also you can still get the original on GOG. It's on sale right now actually.
I don't know how this one aged, but i remember really liking this one and Second Sight back in the day.
People think sovl is gaming from 96-2000, N64, Dreamcast, PS...
Real SOVL is mid-2000s adventure/shooting games.
Doom 3
Wolfenstein 2009
My nostalgia goggles are strapped on as tight as can be but video game magazines were the shit back then. I was a kid with no internet but was able to learn about new vidya through back issues my local pharmacy carried for cheap. One issue had Valkyria Chronicles, Brothers in Arms, Dead Space, World at War, Resistance 2, RE5, and Saints Row 2 all in the same magazine. Glad they're almost all dead because journalists deserve the mines but when I was a naive child they were cool.
>Brothers in Arms
Just played all 3 games back to back this past week. Kino/10 and suprisingly fun
World at War is probably the weakest COD both mechanically and in terms of campaign tbh
United Offensive was worse but I'd basically agree. In terms of campaign it was an important midpoint between COD3's really muddled by endearing campaign that had 10,000 perspectives and Black Op's single perspective well done action movie story but no its own its really weak. Game suffers from it's Pacific campaign having great missions but no developed chars and the Russian campaign having decent chars and awful levels (aside from Vendetta and the last one maybe).
I disagree strongly. United Offensive is peak COD for me, as good as original. The problem I have with WaW is that gameplay got too neutered at that point, guns dont have any recoil anymore, sound is weak too. Pacific theater isn't all that fun (that one is subjective) and all the good chunks in Russian campaign were straight up borrowed from various movies. Also I hated the AI grenade spamming. That was the first COD campaign I didnt beat in a single sitting, I just got bored.
I actually looked up United Offensive and realized I meant to say Finest Hour. Gonna have to give UO a try since I'm a sucker for anything in the Battle of the Bulge. Finest Hour (on emulator at least) can eat shit though, those North Africa bits especially. Peak COD for me is Mayenne Bridge in 3 but thats pure nostalgia since it was the first COD I bought and I had only played the MOH games up to the point tfw no game like airborne ever again.
I found all those PS2 COD games (and MOH with sole exception being Frontline) incredibly dull, lifeless and not fun. And I got my PS2 very late, circa 2010 and I was super exited to finally play all these games I missed out on. So its not like I didnt enjoy them for the lack of enthusiasm. They were just mediocre as shit.
I beaten Finest Hour, Big Red One and also 3 and its all a big mesh of stuff. And same goes for MOH's side, European Assault, Vanguard and Rising Sun are same thing essentially.
Doesn't help that all these games run horribly in terms of framerate. Anyway enjoy UO, it's really really good. Game kicks off with Bastogne parts immediately and there is very little filler. You might need to frick around with ini files to get proper widescreen resolution going on but im sure its all on pcgamingwiki
FEAR is moronic zoomer slop
The Suffering games
The Darkness and Chronicles of Riddick are both VERY good
NOLF games
Chernaya Metka (grab off myabandonware, patch in the comments)
The Chameleon (same as top, english patch mod on moddb)
World War Zero
American McGee’s Alice
based and chameleon-pilled
I'd also add Vietcong and Hidden and Dangerous 2
Iron Storm (WW0) fricking sucked after the first two trench levels but the guns were really cool, wish it had gotten a budget. Alice on the other hand is pure SOVL across both games.
Dark Messiah, No One Lives Forever, Alien versus Predator, vampire Bloodlines, its all what youd like, 2000s and kino
>Stopped playing anything after early 2000s pc/6th gen
>Never worry about hardware requirements, keep discovering new games, series, and whole platforms I never played before
>Romhacks, mods, fan patches, translations are like new game releases
>No MTX, No battle pass, no leftypolslop
Take the given up on moderngamespill, it will revive your love for gaming
Ive tried to play most rescent games but that doesnt click with me, most consoles and games in the 2000s and 1900s are huge enough so youd never get bored
If you get really, really autistic you can get into shit like exodos, exowin, c64dreams, amigavision for old computing platforms.
The commodore 64 alone has 3x more games than every console released through the 6th gen combined. It's an incredibly autistic rabbit hole but yet another absolute mountain of games (and plenty of kusoge/sholveware too).
>amigavision
Oh right, since exception makes the rule, after playing Faith the Unholy Trilogy, thats a good occasion to play old computing games since it was based around that
Kuso games are fair, even half of games from great consoles are shitty
Started doing this back in 2018 and can't endorse it enough. Haven't wasted money upgrading my PC since then and I play pirated old games I missed out on as a kid and emulated stuff I'd have never even considered in the past.
Also brief list of recommendations :
SMT : Persona 1 (the PSP remake)
Penumbra Series
Rule of Rose / Haunting Ground
Obscure
Disaster Report
Yugioh DOTR
Parasite Eve
Ace Combat series
Echo Night Beyond
Wargame : European Escalation
Firefighter FD 18
Shadow of Destiny
those Hamtaro games for GBA are also great, highly recommend them