jdreyer wrote on Mar 9, 2020, 16:00:

Drayth wrote on Mar 8, 2020, 17:19:
What? Are you saying the ratio of people not playing raytraced Minecraft is equivalent to those who played Q2 in software render? I doubt it's anywhere close.

No, I literally knew of no one onlline or off who played Q2 in software mode. Q1, obviously yeah.. but everyone I knew who do Q2 had Voodoo.

Pretty sure that most of us bought Voodoos just to play Quake2.

I can’t remember if I had two 8 meg cards or 12 in splendiferous sli.
What glorious days those were with a 50% overclocked 300a.

Drayth wrote on Mar 8, 2020, 17:19:
What? Are you saying the ratio of people not playing raytraced Minecraft is equivalent to those who played Q2 in software render? I doubt it's anywhere close.

No, I literally knew of no one onlline or off who played Q2 in software mode. Q1, obviously yeah.. but everyone I knew who do Q2 had Voodoo.

Pretty sure that most of us bought Voodoos just to play Quake2.

Slick wrote on Mar 8, 2020, 00:46:
I guess I'm the weird one because I totally remember the blocky models. The trailer does almost nothing to me for nostalgia. We didn't have that lighting, wtf is a "shader" anyways lol.

There are 2 kinds of people in the world: those who played quake 2 on software renderer, and those who played it on openGL. I'm the former. The static lighting baked into every surface, being able to see every texture because shadows didn't really exist, appreciating the blocky almost voxel-like models is what made those early 3D games so memorable.

To me Black Mesa looks like a great remaster, but it's lacking the emotional palette that's drilled into my memory. Still gonna beat it once I get back from this cruise tho.

You're going on a cruise?? You've been reading the news, haven't you?

What? Are you saying the ratio of people not playing raytraced Minecraft is equivalent to those who played Q2 in software render? I doubt it's anywhere close.

No, I literally knew of no one onlline or off who played Q2 in software mode. Q1, obviously yeah.. but everyone I knew who do Q2 had Voodoo.

The success of Minecraft would like to have a word with you.

Raytraced minecraft is essentially Quake 2 openGL.

Slick wrote on Mar 8, 2020, 00:46:
There are 2 kinds of people in the world: those who played quake 2 on software renderer, and those who played it on openGL. I'm the former.

I think it's more accurate to say, ' 2 kinds of people, those who played Quake 2 in OpenGL, and you.'.

I guess I'm the weird one because I totally remember the blocky models. The trailer does almost nothing to me for nostalgia. We didn't have that lighting, wtf is a "shader" anyways lol.

There are 2 kinds of people in the world: those who played quake 2 on software renderer, and those who played it on openGL. I'm the former. The static lighting baked into every surface, being able to see every texture because shadows didn't really exist, appreciating the blocky almost voxel-like models is what made those early 3D games so memorable.

To me Black Mesa looks like a great remaster, but it's lacking the emotional palette that's drilled into my memory. Still gonna beat it once I get back from this cruise tho.

VaranDragon wrote on Mar 7, 2020, 10:48:

Drayth wrote on Mar 6, 2020, 19:03:

Xero wrote on Mar 6, 2020, 18:48:
Just caught the trailer. For anyone that has never played Half Life through should sure be in for a treat! What's mind blowing is that if you never did, imagine, we had this in 1998? WHERE tf where you?

I remember playing the Half-Life: Day One leak (thanks Creative Labs!) the night it hit the net. I was completely glued to my monitor.

When the biggest 3d games you had played up to that point were Quake, System Shock and Sin.. HL was on another level entirely.

Yeah, HL basically set the standard for a FPS narrative driven experience. Probably the best single-player FPS I have ever played. HL2 was pretty good too, but it only sporadically reached the heights of the first one.

The heights that hl3/Alex need to reach will be insurmountable.

Drayth wrote on Mar 6, 2020, 19:03:

Xero wrote on Mar 6, 2020, 18:48:
Just caught the trailer. For anyone that has never played Half Life through should sure be in for a treat! What's mind blowing is that if you never did, imagine, we had this in 1998? WHERE tf where you?

I remember playing the Half-Life: Day One leak (thanks Creative Labs!) the night it hit the net. I was completely glued to my monitor.

When the biggest 3d games you had played up to that point were Quake, System Shock and Sin.. HL was on another level entirely.

Yeah, HL basically set the standard for a FPS narrative driven experience. Probably the best single-player FPS I have ever played. HL2 was pretty good too, but it only sporadically reached the heights of the first one.

Tipsy McStagger wrote on Mar 6, 2020, 22:10:

jdreyer wrote on Mar 6, 2020, 21:38:

Tipsy McStagger wrote on Mar 6, 2020, 18:15:
Is this what a flashback feels like?

It's like this tapped into a part of my brain that was secluded 20 years ago.

The trailer looks like how I remember Half Life looking, not how it looks if I went to play the original today.

Your memory doesn't remember blocky and jagged models. It kind of fills in the rough parts. The scene where you come out of the air vent and see the air strike brought back a flood of memories.

It was so crazy good for 1998...

Memories upgrades take time. The original Fallout is now a VR fps in 4k on 144hz, it only took 20+ years.

Man I finally got past On A Rail, when I first bought it there was a linux bug that meant you had to drop the graphics detail or it would crash on a new loading screen. Then it wouldn't even start for 9 months, and when it got back to working I was playing other games and every time I looked at it the save game didn't work, I think I ran the same bit about 6 times.

You can see its a 16 year old engine though, when I got out in the open it was chugging along but still looked pretty dated.

This is totally the killer app for VR! The killiest killer, appiest app EVAR!

jdreyer wrote on Mar 6, 2020, 21:38:

Tipsy McStagger wrote on Mar 6, 2020, 18:15:
Is this what a flashback feels like?

It's like this tapped into a part of my brain that was secluded 20 years ago.

The trailer looks like how I remember Half Life looking, not how it looks if I went to play the original today.

Your memory doesn't remember blocky and jagged models. It kind of fills in the rough parts. The scene where you come out of the air vent and see the air strike brought back a flood of memories.

It was so crazy good for 1998...

Tipsy McStagger wrote on Mar 6, 2020, 18:15:
Is this what a flashback feels like?

It's like this tapped into a part of my brain that was secluded 20 years ago.

The trailer looks like how I remember Half Life looking, not how it looks if I went to play the original today.

Xero wrote on Mar 6, 2020, 18:48:
Just caught the trailer. For anyone that has never played Half Life through should sure be in for a treat! What's mind blowing is that if you never did, imagine, we had this in 1998? WHERE tf where you?

I remember playing the Half-Life: Day One leak (thanks Creative Labs!) the night it hit the net. I was completely glued to my monitor.

When the biggest 3d games you had played up to that point were Quake, System Shock and Sin.. HL was on another level entirely.

Just caught the trailer. For anyone that has never played Half Life through should sure be in for a treat! What's mind blowing is that if you never did, imagine, we had this in 1998? WHERE tf where you?

Well I know what I'm doing this weekend...

Is this what a flashback feels like?

It's like this tapped into a part of my brain that was secluded 20 years ago.

She's a bloody beauty mate.

phinn wrote on Mar 6, 2020, 16:21:
Graphically it's definitely missing HBAO though, strange omission since I'm sure Source 2 supports it by now.

You can force it through the NV control panel if you game on NVdeeuh.