The Civ Posted January 23, 2015 I present to you, Strafe. An oldschool First Person Shooter with "bleeding edge" technology. Here's the official website: http://www.strafe1996.com/news.html This looks promising, very promising. It looks like someone is finally getting the oldschool formula right. Fast speeds, ridiculous gore, and a commercial where the player's head explodes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHbpdKiInn8 What's your opinion on this? In all honesty, I'm more excited for this than Doom 4, by a longshot. 0 Share this post Link to post
RUSH Posted January 23, 2015 Wow, with Final Doom coming out soon as well, this year looks like a very promising one indeed! I wonder how id is doing working on Doom 3? I hope it's good. Oh wait... 0 Share this post Link to post
Da Werecat Posted January 23, 2015 Too exaggerated to "get the oldschool formula right". Not to say it's bad, but still. 0 Share this post Link to post
sheridan Posted January 23, 2015 Great commercial. The website design is a nice touch too. I might actually buy this! 0 Share this post Link to post
AD_79 Posted January 23, 2015 The game takes place on a spaceship called "Icarus" :D 0 Share this post Link to post
Blastfrog Posted January 23, 2015 The levels and color scheme look kinda bland. 0 Share this post Link to post
Mr. Freeze Posted January 23, 2015 A little tryhard, but it looks pretty good. Might donate. 0 Share this post Link to post
Necromancer-AMV Posted January 23, 2015 I guess it'll boil down to how well the game procedurally generates the levels. Some FPS are okay for that, like Ziggurat, others not so much. Also what your starting weapon is and how long you keep it before finding something else. A lot of roguelike FPSes stick you with something boring and/or wait quite a while before giving you an upgrade. 0 Share this post Link to post
The Civ Posted January 23, 2015 Mr. Freeze said:A little tryhard, but it looks pretty good. Might donate. To everyone talking about it being too silly or tryhard, the creator has stated that only the commercial and website are going for the humerous aesthetic, And that with levels of seriousness, the game will be far closer to Doom or Quake, not Duke Nukem, with most humor contained in small pockets of cleverly crafted secrets. 0 Share this post Link to post
Ed Posted January 23, 2015 That commercial is the best fucking thing I've seen in years. 0 Share this post Link to post
Doomkid Posted January 23, 2015 This is absolutely ridiculous. I wanna play it. Also, that website and commercial are golden.. 0 Share this post Link to post
Koko Ricky Posted January 23, 2015 As someone who loves mid-90s shooters...I don't see what the big deal is. Looks okay I suppose. 0 Share this post Link to post
Gez Posted January 23, 2015 Da Werecat said:Too exaggerated Mr. Freeze said:tryhard My impression as well.The Civ said:To everyone talking about it being too silly or tryhard, the creator has stated that only the commercial and website are going for the humerous aesthetic Well yeah maybe it's humerus. But that's a commercial that's not selling the game to me because it makes the game look too tryhard. Which I guess makes it a bad commercial, at least as far as I'm concerned. Memfis said:Spaceship ICARUS?? Oh come on, it's not like it ever was a very original name for fictional ships that are doomed to crash and burn for plot purposes. 0 Share this post Link to post
Touchdown Posted January 23, 2015 I thought it captured the 90s ad vibe pretty well, even if a bit exaggerated (which only makes it better). I'll keep an eye on this but it remains to be seen whether it has more to offer than a nice ad. 0 Share this post Link to post
Maes Posted January 23, 2015 Oculus Rift?! Where's the support for the CyberMaxx?! 0 Share this post Link to post
Waffenak Posted January 23, 2015 Nice commercial but needed more degraded vhs effect 0 Share this post Link to post
printz Posted January 23, 2015 First I misread as Strife, and I thought that its old developers have resurfaced even with their old website. Years seem to be the same too. Second, I thought this was meant to be a parody of Strife, but looks to me more like Quake (at least those goblin-like sprites do; I did not watch the video yet). Third, I think the website design looks more like a fan's site, not like an old company one. Those had practically the same sidebar navigation style as now, just with less dynamism. 0 Share this post Link to post
BaronOfStuff Posted January 23, 2015 Strafe: Quist For The Sogol Trest Ni-ine. 0 Share this post Link to post
Quast Posted January 23, 2015 I don't know, I mean how many minecraft shooters do we really need? 0 Share this post Link to post
Shaviro Posted January 23, 2015 I remember playing Final Doom back in 1996 and having this feeling I couldn't quite put into words. I can now. It was "Yeah, this is definitely over..." At that point Doom clones and even "official" Doom sequels were stale. For me, the novelty had worn off and the genre had gone a different route which probably is more interesting. Certainly was for me. Furthermore, auto-generated levels sounds like a really bad idea. Maybe it's fun for a while. Personally I think the peak of shooters was reached somewhere around the Jedi-Knight/Half-Life time. The former with interesting layouts that encouraged exploration and varied progression. The latter with the very context heavy approach. Ideally the levels don't just support random shooting, but come together to create a sum larger than the elements. 0 Share this post Link to post
Da Werecat Posted January 23, 2015 Shaviro said:I remember playing Final Doom back in 1996 and having this feeling I couldn't quite put into words. I can now. It was "Yeah, this is definitely over..." At that point Doom clones and even "official" Doom sequels were stale. For me, the novelty had worn off and the genre had gone a different route which probably is more interesting. Certainly was for me. It's strange to read something like that on a Doom forum. 0 Share this post Link to post
Shaviro Posted January 23, 2015 Well, I've never been able to decide whether my favorite game is Doom2 or Tie-Fighter so it's not like I in any way dislike Doom today. I love it. With all the time I've spent on the original games and "now" doing stuff for Doom3, I have spent a pretty damn big chunk on my life in this game universe. It's awesome. It's just that at that point in time so many interesting things were going on, just like Doom was a new interesting thing back when it came out. Final Doom (and Episode 4) back then was more of the same and I don't really think I personally would have missed out on anything important had they never existed. 0 Share this post Link to post
snapshot Posted January 23, 2015 Woah,this is very rare .. like Sonic X-Treme will be Released after it's cancelation, The trailer made me thinking this game was released back to 1996,but when i saw the guy playing it i changed my Mind >_< EDIT : What the hell,even it's website ? 0 Share this post Link to post
hardcore_gamer Posted January 23, 2015 When the kid's face melted I rolled in laughter. Let's hope this will be any good. 0 Share this post Link to post
Linguica Posted January 23, 2015 I don't really trust a project that is so heavily leaning on nostalgia / shock value to get attention. You had a guy who literally makes commercials for a living make you a commercial, great I guess. I guess it's true to the spirit of 90s video game magazine ads that were unrelated imagery with maybe a tiny screenshot in the corner, though. 0 Share this post Link to post
Maes Posted January 23, 2015 That's a pretty big CRT screen for a 1996 computer in the "ad"....anything above 14" cost a small fortune, back then. Maybe they were the richest kids on the block or something. So...essentially STRAFE would play like a Quake with much more colorful graphics and speed. If that shit actually existed in that form in 1996, it would be the motherfucking ass. 0 Share this post Link to post
Enjay Posted January 23, 2015 The game? Wait and see. Could be good. Could be bad. It does seem to have that false mid 90s feel - you know, it feels like it could be a 90s game at the most cursory of glances but then you start noticing inconsistency after inconsistency that tells you, actually, it's not really like a mid 90s game at all. That doesn't mean it's bad or that it won't be fun of course. However, that advert in all its cheesy faux-90s OTT-ness was all that and a bag of chips. 0 Share this post Link to post