PHJF wrote on Jan 26, 2022, 16:40:

I kind of look at Hunt as brutalized digital golf which is why there might be so many middle-aged
dudes playing it, lol. You head out with your team in the golf cart, chat it up for a little bit,
line up a shot, good follow through, maybe end up in the sand, get in your cart, make some puts
and sometimes at the end your team is drinking champagne at the clubhouse. It's definitely
become one of my favorite multiplayer games that I've ever played - there's nothing out there
like it!

Funny you say that because I also love to golf!

Yeah I mean a parallel could be made between the different types of gear & guns in Hunt to golf, lol.
Someone could be particularly well versed with their non-name brand crappy driver and really potentiate it's capabilities
and score big against the guys with their Big Bertha's.

PHJF wrote on Jan 26, 2022, 14:42:
Hunt is so good but I could never convince any friends to play it with me...

Yeah, same here! However, the MMR system works pretty well in my opinion for grouping with randoms.
I have made so many middle-aged 3 star Hunt player Steam friends in 2021.The only problem is that I am typically
between a 3 star and a 4 star, so if I have a great game and kill 3-5 people my rating goes up to 4 stars
and then I'm placed with 4-5 star players and matchmatching becomes more difficult. 5 star players leave
the queue and even if you match, it's super "sweaty". Play a few rounds get annihilated and I'm back to
having fun at 3 stars lol!

I kind of look at Hunt as brutalized digital golf which is why there might be so many middle-aged
dudes playing it, lol. You head out with your team in the golf cart, chat it up for a little bit,
line up a shot, good follow through, maybe end up in the sand, get in your cart, make some puts
and sometimes at the end your team is drinking champagne at the clubhouse. It's definitely
become one of my favorite multiplayer games that I've ever played - there's nothing out there
like it!

*whoops

Yeah, remember when Blizzard would take game designs and then polish them up into amazing creations w/ deep mechanics.
That said it'd be awesome if they took something like Deep Rock Galactic a coop-horde type game and made it Starcraft but with way more
immersion - (I kinda hate wave based games) more survival/infinite gameplay loop with awesome sound design & graphics. More RPG elements like instead of going back to your base, you go back to a huge open-world, no load screens, and travel to the next spot. At this point there may as well be a survival MMO pve/pvp type game.
I guess Mortal Online 2 is sort of like that but I had about 0 fun playing that. I have 12 hours in that game and that was literally just walking around in the wilderness
watching my stamina deplete a million times.

It looks awesome but I am not a souls-like fan. It isn't that I don't like difficult games, I love Hunt: Showdown! But, I've found that the combat in these games makes my head explode with frustration lol

phinn wrote on Jan 11, 2022, 17:55:
How could someone possibly feel bad about this? I bought PUBG 4 1/2 years ago when it was HUGE (biggest game ever on Steam) for only $30. I had 100s of hours in it, pretty sure that's an awesome deal for game. Why would I possibly be upset it goes free 4+ years later, sounds great, bring more players back and I'll give it another shot too.

Yeah, exactly - it's like getting mad that someone bought a game on sale for $5 many years later because you bought it for 60 at launch.

The game is a lot different in 2021/2022 than it was in 2018, still stupid toxic but that is just a part of it.

Osc8r wrote on Jan 8, 2022, 15:44:
Congrats! Awesome game, just a shame about the community (think congregation of internet trolls).

Plus the official servers were plagued with hackers, unofficial servers have admins that are just as bad as hackers (if not worse).

Or at least that's how i remember it back in 2018. Maybe their newfound popularity allowed them to fix these issues. I've been meaning to check it out again but it requires a huge time commitment.

Osc8r wrote on Jan 4, 2022, 15:38:

Different types of games, but Rust is a billion times better... as long as you have the time to invest. And when i dont, there's regular FPS games or BR games which offer much more action without all the stuffing around.

I agree with you there - I think Rust is a great game and although I definitely wouldn't say it's a billion times better than Hunt - it's the game closest in comparison that I've played that nails that sort of "tension". I have some fond memories of happening upon on a team that was sneaking onto my property at night time and put some holes in the back of their heads. Then they came back, of course, and being all alone in your base with people walking all over your roof throwing bombs... pretty intense lol! Rust requires a bit of patience as well. Anytime you start out it's a battle of patience to get yourself setup: get killed, run, put down a sleeping bag, get killed, run, put down a sleeping bag, once you get past that the game finally opens up. Hunt requires patience in a different sort of way - waiting and listening for your golden opportunities and then not giving up - you never know how or what is going to play out, both teammates down, that one left standing could very well kill all 3 of the opposing team, or another team could show up providing an opportunity to get everyone covertly res'd. Also, Hunt has a MMR system which pairs you with players of similar skill - so you shouldn't be going against players who are much more skilled than you are. I know every once in a while I make it to 4 stars and the game turns into sweaty sweat fest and it's definitely not as much fun because I am a 3 star player through and through but soon enough I'm back down to 3, lol.

I agree with Skillup on Deathloop and also he has a why you should really play Hunt: Showdown video that is great: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7olAZyoO6cs - I get it, it's hard to learn. The first year I bought Hunt I played it for a total of maybe 50 hours and I barely scratched the surface of how to play the damn game, it really *clicked* after having played it 80+ hours, now I'm sitting at @ 600 hours. The thing is, you will die - possibly in the first 2 minutes lol, Hunt is a game that you play round after round after round. When you get to the point that you and your team kill 9+ hunters and extract with both bounties - you will know what sweet nectar it holds (and still die within the first 2 minutes every once in a while).

My GOTY wholeheartedly goes to Psychonauts 2 across the board. But I played a ton more of Forza 5 about 80 hours before I got bored. This year I became addicted to Hunt: Showdown which I swear the damn game is a fucking masterpiece - the graphics are incredible, the sound is incredible (every game sounds like dogshit after playing some Hunt: Showdown), gunplay/gameplay incredible - it's like, how is this game not more popular? maybe it's just too far ahead of the curve, maybe it's too damn hard to learn or maybe it's just too damn unique? Hunt makes me feel like I'm playing Quake mods for the first time in the late 90's, but Hunt is like a swampy simulation, immersive sim, like Red Dead Redemption meets Counterstrike meets Thief: The Dark Project. I think it's the best multiplayer FPS since Team Fortress 2 or Counterstrike. Get on in der!

You know you're getting old when in your old age you become as fascinated by rice as I am.

It's fascinating that Disco Elysium seems to be making a lot of top 20 best games ever lists.

And for $70 lol

Glad some of the good titles from Playstation are finally coming around to PC so I don't have to buy a Playstation.

In the article, he is trying to say that CP77 is "non-linear". On one hand - Ubi-soft shits out better non-linear open-world games every year and on the other hand - the game was supposed to be an actual non-linear RPG, has he forgotten that?

Buy Hunt and give it to your friends!

I love Kojima games but the part I like least in all of his games are the cutscenes - speaking of Blade Runner / Alien genericness.

Does anyone care about what RPS has to say about a game? I feel like that site has gone from shit to shite in a very short period and now it's like a pay site for crappy articles like how one guy would rather drive a Ford Focus in Forza 5 than a Bugatti. Glad Blue has stuck to his roots and kept going strong.

That game was absolutely incredible when it came out. That's what games are missing these days; that one game that comes along and blows your brains out of your ear, just a little bit.

Yeah, I went right back to Hunt: Showdown with the rest of us 40+ old school FPS players lol.