First thing I noticed today was the favicon was updated! Nice work from Chris and Fran, I assume there has only been very few hosted on this site!

I've always looked up to Walter and his 2design work, inspired me and my mates for decades who are now interface designers and devs.

Keep up the great work Blue, I'm here daily like most since the 90s! Words can't describe your continued presence

Looking at the posts right now, it's International Warhammer 40,000 Day today!

Prez wrote on Jul 14, 2024, 14:41:
Zero surprise there. BioShock might have been an unlikely hit but it is the exception for immersive sims. It's patently ludicrous to suggest that they cannot make money. They just can't make a crazy amount of money, which businesses inexplicably need to not layoff hundreds of people every year. That's what passes for being good at business nowadays.

Too true, I think you've perfectly captured the sentiments of many a gamer!

The demo for this was brilliant

Bleh, sad no real C&C

A great game, I completed the main campaign on gamepass and might pick it up and, and play this and the previous DLC.

Amazing, for some reason it feels more than 25 years. I remember as a schoolboy downloading one of the early betas on Fileplanet, it was just like a 70MB or 100MB file. Now it's an entire industry worth millions with massive tournaments that provide a living for pro players, pundits and on screen hosting talent / casters. On top of that, the production values of these tournaments beat most traditional sports that I watch on TV.

It's amazing to have been there at the start, the summer of 1999 and 2000 I just played CS all day, all night with my bro and our friend, singing along with Pavarotti in Italy, having fun on that large rooftop in Assault, camping in Office. Other incredible maps are Train, Siege, Aztec, Nuke, Piranesi and Prodigy. I lived in those places for such a long time; I just looked up the original maps on the CS Fandom Wiki and had a trip down memory lane, great screenshots on there from the original versions!

With all that time and history the gameplay remains the same, just the player base is different than 25 years ago, and how people play today is just more competitive than back then. People navigate the maps differently sort of synthetically i.e. keeping your mouse at a certain level for a headshot, walking about in a way aiming at specific places where you KNOW an enemy would walk. Instead of in a more natural / innocent way that we used to hehe, I guess that's the sort of evolution in play style you'd expect for something that's stayed the same for decades.

I'm glad me and some mates of mine where there at the start of these games, back when it was only a few of us nerds on the internet playing Quake 2, Tribes 1, CS, BF 1942 et al. all the good times all the good gamers \o/

Prez wrote on Mar 19, 2024, 15:15:
I hope they remake Return to Castle Wolfenstein. Which one you ask? Exactly.

Very nice point!

Overon wrote on Mar 4, 2024, 04:50:
Tribes 3 Rivals has less content than Tribes Ascend. ... Long time veterans of Tribes fandom being banned from the Tribes 3 Rivals Discord etc. It happened when tribes veterans said "wtf, this isn't ready for early access, there is not enough content, your basic systems are not implemented, the new player onboarding is horrible, you can't release in Early Access in this state." That's when it got toxic. You had devs replying and banning. The developer ignored tribes veteran feedback for months from the the play tests even though it was calm and constructive. Funny thing is I was shocked at how calm and constructive the tribes veterans were in the months before the early access announcement.

Also many people don't know but these devs has abandoned 2 in production games already

This is all very interesting, I was on that discord as an old Tribes player. I have the same thoughts, they haven't demonstrated that they actually want to make "Tribes", combined arms and warfare as you nicely put it. So this really has the feeling of just being a smaller arena shooter with the Tribes IP.

I liked how it was going, had some fun in the later builds in testing, but so much is missing right now, I can't invest in it as it moves into Early Access. Far too early.

Awesome, I'll give it a try. Such amazing reviews!

phinn wrote on Nov 25, 2023, 13:49:
Tribes, especially with Renegades mod, is one of my favorite FPS of all time. Up there with Battlefield 2 and 3. Really hope they can bring this IP back to life there is simply nothing else like it.

Shazbot!

Overon wrote on Nov 25, 2023, 14:21:
I loved Team Aerial Combat mod (TAC 2) for Tribes 2. You touch the ground and you die. Everything happened in the air.

Honestly, these two mods were amazing. I remember renegades having so much stuff, structures, more deployables. There were so many systems in Tribes and T2 you see a fraction of that in games today.
TAC was one the most fun things ever, the imagination, execution and gameplay back then is just a magical era of gaming for me.

TherMight wrote on Nov 25, 2023, 15:47:
Me too! Very fond memories. I actually have the Tribes soundtrack ripped from redmine cd audio that I play regularly. It was such great techno and atmospheric music from a completely unknown band.
But the multiplayer was so good.
They tried relaunching their f2p version and it just didn't do it for me.

You mean the Tribes 2 music? It was so atmospheric for those maps and was just the best mood setter for some epic multiplayer times.
https://archive.org/details/the-tribes-2-experience-flac-fixed-cover
I can gush about these games for hours, a golden era.

Yes, I'm getting slight Homeworld vibes

jdreyer wrote on Oct 18, 2023, 14:13:
Nightdive Studios wants Microsoft to let them do remasters of Heretic and Hexen

SCHWING!

Exactamundo!

Yes, I'd absolutely love a Black & White remake.

This feels significant

That Homeworld remastered collection, incredible to get that for free!

This looks worth a play, at least the demo.
Music in the trailer is just immense!

Wow IRC, reminds me of my mIRC days way back when. Great stuff

Ha that's quite something, and I love the star wars commentary from Blue

Solidifying the end of an era indeed.