We Need Influencers Taking Quelfies ?

No, and I hate social media wankers just as much as the next guy, but to be honest when that shite is an integral part to gathering a wide playerbase, I don't think it should come as a surprise when "90s Retro Shovelware Simulator #714" shits all over the custom quake scene in the public awareness department. 

Just to clarify - i'm not suggesting for a single second that custom quake's relative obscurity next to a recent commercial product is a problem in any way, nor am I suggesting any of us should give a toss about it (I certainly don't give a badger's bollock), but again this is just an extended reply to post #273. 

It WILL come as a surprise when "90s Retro Shovelware Simulator #714" shits all over the custom quake scene in actual quality. 

So I understand we need to create a room with old Pentium 90's with CRT running demos in Quake Software and some good lighting for a perfect "Quake Gamefeel Quelfie experience" room and charge a fee for entry.
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and never let them back out of that room. 

Quake's gamma brightness actually looks a lot better on CRT monitors.

Considering how many people uses very bright gamma settings, which makes their maps nearly unplayable on gamma 1.0, CRT monitors would help. Bright gamma looks washed out on modern monitors. 

I'm playing Dusk and I LOVE IT! 

more interesting than most of these shitty retro FPS (so far) -
is there a filter/shader to correct/reproduce more faithfully the tuned on CRT Quake engine Gamma on LCDs ?
Or do some of the ports already do this and I am not noticing ?

CRT is cool and all, I'd love to find a large pro CRT monitor from back then someday but until such a find... 

It looks like the work of a single amateur indie developer done in his spare time (of which I would respect a lot more), but instead it is made by a team of paid people working full-time? I don't get it. Did they all just settle for Sonic-fast movement and call it a day? There is nothing about that game that appeals to me.

Meanwhile Prodeus is looking good (mostly because I like the Doom 3-aesthetics of the levels):

http://www.prodeusgame.com/website/index.php 

Which strikes me as somewhat incredibly pointless. 

...of running Doom 3 at lowest settings while wearing ski goggles. Bizarre.

Looks like they’re rendering enemies in 3d, and then converting them to sprites in real time, which could have been so cool if they attempted more of a “sprite” aesthetic. Like a bit of toon shading, stylised look, some post processing colour work to make them stand out from the background and make them look hand painted and easy to discern from a distance, but at the same time they’d rotate smoothly and you’d be able to do rag dolls, IK, and be affected by environment lighting. Imagine that style with the doom enemies! You could try and get the original sculpts to use as models too. Sadly here they did none of that and it looks like trash. 

It reaches the quality you expect from a AAA experience while adhering to some of the aesthetic technical limits of older hardware.

...but not any combination of "aesthetic technical limits" that make any sense whatsoever.

I had a bit of a whinge earlier about how nonsensical it is to do circa 2005 visuals, and then view them through a pixel mosaic filter.

I wonder if it has 30,000-poly zbrushed monsters with PBR materials but which only animate at 10 frames a second? that would look sweeeeeettt - mix the old with the new baby! 

It reaches the quality you expect from a AAA experience while adhering to some of the aesthetic technical limits of older hardware.

Shame as this could be fun. Uncharted 4 but with tomb raider 2 graphics, Witcher 3 in the Daggerfall engine. That's the sort of thing I think of - not Doom 3 in the Doom 3 engine, but lower resolution. 

Is basically horseshit, straight out of the horse's arse.

It's basically like being a fan of 1920s ballroom music and then making a lo-fidelity stuttering crackle'n'pop lossless FLAC of ballroom music, claiming that what made that era great was not the passion, melody, groove, and integrity of the music, but all the unavoidable shit quality recording of that music due to limits of that time. And then doing a fucking half-arsed job of sort of recreating the music, but putting a lot more effort into recreating the shit quality recording.

Devs, repeat after me until you get it into your stupid thick skulls:

WHAT MADE SOME RETRO GAMES GREAT WERE THE POSITIVE QUALITIES OF THOSE GAMES (directness, simplicitiy, player controls, imagination, themes, atmosphere, action, violence, creativity), NOT UNAVOIDABLE TECHNICAL LIMITS THAT GOT IN THE WAY OF THOSE QUALITIES. 

Give it time and you'll have algorithms that can far surpass anything any human can do creatively. 

Sure there are lots of small devs attempting modern retro shooters who lack the resources to go far beyond the limits of older tech. Totally fair enough. But it's just as important to focus on those positive qualities of older FPSes and do a really good job within that genre and within those limits, rather than using those limits as an excuse to churn out shit "Hey this is old-fashioned and out-dated, that's our USP". Nope, all the nope. 

An artificially low resolution can work as a deliberate art style, IF and I think only if, the underlying graphics are low fidelity and would gain nothing from being seen in a higher resolution.

Take vanilla quake, and start with a modern screen resolution, then try lowering it, and keep lowering it, until you reach a point where the ability to read the scene really suffers if you go any lower.

Take Doom 3, and do the same exercise. You will find you can't go as low as you can with quake.

It seems the people doing this Probeus thing haven't quite grasped this incredibly advanced concept. 

Dusk was made by one person. 

And it is fun (if occasionally eyeball-hurting). 

I'd rather move at a hedgehog's pace in HeXen II. 

Hexen 2 aged poorly because of its obtuse and tedious level design...

Therefore I fully expect one of these "retro fps" games to come out that perfectly mimics this obtuse and tedious level design, just because the developers think that's the sort of thing retro gamers cherish and is something to be celebrated...

:ponkie: 

i started playing dusk yesterday...

and... i'm afraid to say, but...

right now i love more dusk than quake

(i'm feeling like a traitor... please don't block my account) 

 

I'm glad I don't understand Dusk, but it costs money? Apex Legends and Fortnite are free, so is also CS:GO and a few other games now with a lot higher production quality overall. Why pay for an inferior product just because you fell for the hype? Yes, I hate CS:GO and I don't play Fortnite but I can't hate on them for being free to play because at least they are honest about being worthless.

Come on, I just want to read you defend purchasing Dusk so I can feel smug sbout myself for choosing not to waste time and money on it. 

No thanks. 

Quake1 is the ultimest best game EVER, despite its old graphics, period!

I keep playing this gem years after years, since what, 20 years!? All the rest sucks in comparison.