Kyka
Loser
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Registered: 06-08 |
i finished quake 4 several times. And my conclsuion?. I kinda like the technical challenge of surviving the levels; perseverance is something I have lots of... however it was about as immersive as a cow turd. Think about it. Human marines dropping onto a planet whose only purpose is to turn humans into psychotic robots. Quake 4 never for a moment captured the sense of isolation, the terror, the insanity, the rage, the sense of victory that would have come with such an enterprise.
For example. The mission where you go far behind enemy lines to destroy the big uber nexus thing. If you kill it, it will virtually shut down the entire planet, and destroy the strogg as an effective fighting force in that sector. And what do they send?? 4 pickup trucks and OMFG possibly as many as 8 marines. Tremble in fear, all you strogg. The back story in quake 4 wouldn't fool a 3 month old baboon. The entire game consisted of ridiculous conversations with stupid marines acting like they were (at best) on a training exercise and at worst at a fancy dress ball that happened to have a military theme. Other than that, it was just the usual shoot anything that moves (never mind the fact that a lone marine would last about as long as a geek at a viking convention or the fact that the strogg are kind enough to leave human medikits and human compatible ammo scattered across the ENTIRE F%^&$#%KING PLANET) In order to enjoy this game, I would not only have to suspend my disbelief, I would have to hang it from the nearest tree , beating it black and blue with a large stick while blindfolded. I could feel myself getting stupider just playing my way through it. (which begs the question why did I finish it several times?? Because sadly enough there were no FPS that were any better at the time. And because as I said, I have lots of perseverance.)
To bring it vaguely back to the point, if doom 4 is anything like quake 4, I'm either going to give up on FPS shooters entirely, or take up drinking to allow myself to endure the sheer stupidity of the simplistic and ridiculous universes with which I must interact in order to play supposedly "good" FPS.
Anyway, 'nuff outta me. Sorry for the tirade. Lets all hope that Doom 4 is awesome.
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Last edited by Kyka on 08-06-08 at 20:09
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