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Games used to be cool and great before woke turned them all into unreal engine 5 slop (thelemmy.club)
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Life was so much better with unreal engine 3 slop. So many high quality experiences that never dropped a single frame ever

The game is blacksite area 51. My favourite garbage game

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[-] prismatic@ttrpg.network 19 points 4 months ago

I fucking hate Unreal Engine 5 so god damn much.

Defenders come in and say the stuttering is an issue of optimization and lay the blame at developers, but fucking Epic can't even fix it. Fortnite has that shit too.

And god that default UE5 look is so fucking ugly. It's going to be the piss filter of this era.

[-] Snort_Owl@hexbear.net 16 points 4 months ago

The last good unreal engine was 2.5 real gamers know that epic hasn’t made anything of value since unreal tournament 2004

[-] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 6 points 4 months ago

This is the truth and if anyone disputes this we can settle this with instagib shock rifles

[-] invo_rt@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago

BROWN N BLOOM BROWN N BLOOM BROWN N BLOOM hasan-smash

[-] miz@hexbear.net 11 points 4 months ago

I hate seeing the fucking flag. it just stands for slavery

[-] regul@hexbear.net 11 points 4 months ago

stylized visuals gang stays winning

[-] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 8 points 4 months ago

One of the craziest facts about modern gaming is that id Software essentially got started because John Carmack’s brilliant mind set to work on optimizing code until he got “smooth scrolling” in a 2D game that was previously considered impossible with the tech at the time iirc, hence all the games that required a fast refresh rate went from the top down, in the direction of the screen’s refreshing. I’m kind of a dumbass about tech so my lingo is probably all wrong.

But yeah, it was essentially optimization that led to a revolution in gaming, not just this brute force “make a bigger GPU” approach

[-] SuperZutsuki@hexbear.net 4 points 4 months ago

It was specifically that he was the first one to get it working in DOS. He made a homebrew DOS version of the first level of Super Mario Bros. 3 and showed it to Nintendo to try and get Nintendo onboard with id making DOS ports of Nintendo games. They told him to fuck off so id ended up making Commander Keen.

[-] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 3 points 4 months ago

Yes! That’s the story I remember, and I remember their Mario clone was called something like “Indiana Jones and the scary adventure of copywrite infringement” as they tinkered with it

[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 8 points 5 months ago

Oh shit, this is the one where you make a mental connection with a Grey alien and he's voiced by Marilyn Manson right?

[-] Snort_Owl@hexbear.net 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

No thats the previous area 51. This is the lesser known sequel that is honestly so much worse than I remember it being

[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 4 points 4 months ago

Oh, I think I remember this one too

Lots of brown desert areas, fighting weird alien worms and shit

Clunky as all hell from what I remember

[-] tombruzzo@hexbear.net 4 points 4 months ago

If you want a shit game with a premise like that you should play The Bureau: XCOM Declassified. It's the worst tactical shooter you've ever played until it shows its Irrational Games DNA at the end with a somewhat impressive meta twist

[-] Snort_Owl@hexbear.net 3 points 4 months ago

That one is next on my list

[-] tombruzzo@hexbear.net 3 points 4 months ago

I'd say play on whatever difficulty you want to enjoy the story, because the combat isn't great and can get frustrating. And go for long range weapons and use your team mates to draw fire because the NPCs you control can't aim for shit. At its best it feels like a hoard shooter because it has the enemy count for 3 people but you're the only one that does anything.

Too bad it didn't have coop, or at least I don't think it did. And with that formula they could have turned it into an extraction shooter today if it wasn't such a flop.

[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 2 points 4 months ago

I remember playing that one

Yeah, the twist is actually pretty interesting in that one

[-] Orcocracy@hexbear.net 6 points 4 months ago

I hated the brown period when we were in it and I still hate it now.

[-] Grebgreb@hexbear.net 2 points 4 months ago

have you played area 51 from 2005, does this game have anything to do with it? i always wondered that

[-] Snort_Owl@hexbear.net 2 points 4 months ago

Yes i played area 51. Both of these games are made by midway and continue within the same continuity but the only thing that really connects them is the alien virus and thats about it.

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