But I'd still rather trust myself to run shit after merging with Helios than the Illuminati not backstabbing me randomly and doing petty bullshit once I'm out the picture. The Tong ending will just cause millions of people to die, so a new corrupt structure can emerge.
same thing for "boomer shooters". who tf invented those stupid names? first person shooter was just fine
This shit is just a modern outcrop of younger gamers not knowing what they talk about. It's essentially "Halo invented FPS" all over again.
It's gay and meme-tier but Allah forgive me if it doesn't at least vaguely sub-categorize the game in a way that I and I think the rest of this thread, understand in a more specific sense than simply saying "FPS". Kinda like how saying metroidvania or souls-like gives some /v/irgins an aneurysm, we all get what that descriptor entails broadly speaking.
I utterly despise those people since for all the ground Halo broke, it foisted upon us checkpoints and two-weapon loadouts. No, fuck you, I'm a cyborg super-soldier. If a random Marine on Mars or a theoretical physicist in New Mexico can carry a small arsenal on him, I should be able to as well.
I thought so as well and it was all I could think of the next day so I left work early, with a shitty excuse, to go buy it. The wrinkle in this story is that it was very seasonal work, my boss was my dad and I stayed at my parents house during that lucrative period.
I think Spector said in an interview that the Deus Ex was built around the idea that every conspiracy theory is true. I always like that idea because to me that means that the more you know about the world, the crazier you get because it makes less and less sense. If someone accidentally discovers 5% of the truth there is no need to disappear him, he will just be an insane conspiracy theorist in the eyes of other people. It's like Lovecraft's indescribable horrors that makes people go mad but easier to imagine.
I think it also introduced regenerating health (technically an energy shield that recharged, but it lay the foundation for that game mechanic) as well as a designated grenade button (iirc), and that became something copied ad nauseum to this day.
But Boomer shooter describes a very specific kind of FPS, FPS kind of is too broad and generic a term.
That's why it would have been cool to see even more conspiracy stuff referenced.
As someone that was a big fan of the Medal of Honor FPS games on the PS1, I think people forget just how much of a revelation Halo's controls were at the time, I mean using one stick for movement and one stick for looking around is the standard for almost every game now, I think people forget it started in a big way with Halo.
IW gets a bad rap, flaws aside the story was all still pretty interesting, especially the endings.
Can't speak for the control scheme, I will give it that, but people pretend like it was the first FPS on console or the first FPS in total and that's just silly.
The scale is what felt like a massive letdown to me when I actually played Halo on PC, it was a painfully generic shooter. By then, the graphics were lackluster and the few unconventional gameplay elements weren't that hot either (like the shield).
Found your problem right there. The PC port was scuffed to hell and you have Gearbox to thank for that. The Xbox version had far more visual fidelity that still stands the test of time, and not many games came close to outperforming the console release.
I'm trying to find a video that compares the graphics. Found one video, but there was barely any difference visible at all tbh...
I don't want to stray too much further off-topic with this tangent, given that this isn't the Halo thread, but any comparison video showcasing older versions of Halo 1 on the MCC versus Xbox versus current versions of MCC are good examples since the MCC version of Halo 1 was using the scuffed Gearbox port until somewhat recently, when they started updating most of the game's visuals to match what was present on the original Xbox.
Also a dedicated melee button and melee actually dealt good damage(insta-kill from behind).
With the many re-releases and remasters of Halo, I frankly didn't really know what to look for, since I found something that was a compairson between the windows version and the Xbox version, but it also mentioned the MCC version and "Xemu" whatever the fuck that is.
They put a lot of thought into their regenerating health, that's for sure. I just never warmed up to this particular game mechanic, since it is way too easy to cheese. It allows faster gameplay in the best case scenario, so I can see the appeal.
You can pretty much chalk it down to what was considered "accessibility" 20 years ago, before the term became a joke. Dedicated grenade/melee buttons, only two weapons so you ALWAYS knew what you were swapping to and the vehicle controls. Everything was made to be intuitive. I really like Halo 1 but it is not the correct formula for every type of shooter, though HL2 coming out in 2004 with grenades and crowbar nestled somewhere in the weapon-tree was fucking bullshit, that felt archaic as fuck to me.
I've yelled this from all ends of the Earth, and now here: The new DX games literally should NOT have been DX games. Literally call them anything else, change the lore totally, and be something original, because looking at them they hold not an inch of worth compared to the OG Deus Ex. The plot is dumb, the mechanics HEAVILY focus on stealth and Adam frankly doesn't have the charisma and charm of JC to hold his story up in it's rougher spots.I am up to Deus Ex: Human Revolution in my replay of the series. Holy fuck none of these games can hold a candle to Deus Ex. They are so much worse and represent significant regressions from the original. I am starting to realize why I never bothered to buy or play Deus Ex: Mankind Divided.
There should have been an ending where JC throws a wrench into each plan, then walks the fuck away and leaves them all to kill each other.