The Alien 3 reference made me smile.
To be honest, NR has been one of my favorites from the modern Boomer Shooter craze. Dusk and Amid Evil didn't grab me despite looking good and playing good. Here, it's essentially weapons, enemies and block like levels that get randomly placed together to form a level. There is randomness to it but once you know how the monsters attack, the guns work and the possible effects added to weapons, it becomes a shooter like Dusk but with the added randomisation that stops it from getting boring. It's not a shooter in the traditional sense, more a sandbox where you're given lots of toys to play around with.
Wait, Project Warlock had procedural level design?
I got that one wrong, i was thinking of STRAFE, but my other criticism of it still remains, 90-degree angle stuff really limits what you can do with level design, making it less interesting than sector or brush based level design.
I hated Strafe. Best thing about it was the commercial. The only Roguelike FPS that I liked were Heavy Bullets (that you can buy for $1) and Immortal Redneck (that I would recommend during a sale for $5 or maybe $10).
Chasm was a game that never got a proper release in the USA. I recall reading about it in some magazines, and, "Coming soon" freebie magazines from babbage's or whatever, then, it never turned up.
I'll be one of these fellow challenged intellectuals that don't get the appeal of Postal games at all.
You are not alone, friend. I could never really get into the games, and I remember playing Postal 2 right when it came out, I thought it was "very okay" and I've had some mild chuckles, but that was it. I don't remember finishing the game, maybe I did, but I don't remember.
They were offensive to bible thumpers, but this days the games are about as offensive as the average Rick and Morty episode.
There's only one possible way for that to happen and that's not going to be done by devs by any means.
I dunno so much about being "offensive to bible thumpers", the game mostly came out in that Jack Thompson era and the game thing was less being "offensive" and more being a satire about America at the time. So, think more like South Park in video game form, and that's why everyone liked Postal 2 because it was so over the top and crazy it was. Sure, it wasn't like say GTA games, but it never tried to reach those levels.
Which, I surprised, don't have a thread here. What a shame...
I mean why even make a thread about the guy? Everyone saw he was a hack who clearly had a grudge on video games. Heck, most positive thing you can say when Zoe Quinn and Anita crawled out, he called em out for being shameless grifters and while he still isnt a fan of violent videogames, he couldnt stand those two bimbos.
He's not exactly active these days and he might fall under the "no celebs" clause anyway. Otherwise I'd tentatively agree as the man is a legal laughingstock.
