Half-Life As A 2D Side-Scroller? 41
Allen Varney writes "Why wait for Half-Life 2 when you can wait instead for Half-Life 2D? 'Codename: Gordon' is a free, fan-produced jump'n'run side-scroller adapted from the original Half-Life. It'll be done in a month, but for now there's screenshots and a two-minute gameplay video."
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And I think some of the better recent games were the 3d/2d type games like Smash Brothers and DNMP.
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A 2D version of a 3D game:.....I guess I haven't seen that before. With
Look like Metal Slug to me (Score:1)
Re:Look like Metal Slug to me (Score:1)
Re:The truth of the Slashdot effect. (Score:5, Informative)
RTFA (Score:1)
2D games (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:2D games (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:2D games (Score:5, Interesting)
I had the opposite feeling about Mario 64 that you did. I thought the extra dimensions took quite a bit away from the game. I bought it right when it came out, and I recall that a lot of people at the time agreed with me.
Your last argument is a straw man. All I said was that the 2D game style has a lot more room for innovation than the 3D. Adding that extra dimension means a lot of design compromises because of the extra freedom that you are allowing the gamer. The only game that I can think of which has overcome it well and created a feeling that harkens back to the old button smashers is Serious Sam. There are others, surely, but not too many.
I guess a lot of it boils down to 'aim and click' style versus 'manuver' style. There are certainly games that can overcome this, but it's hard.
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Although Doom's engine was sorta-2D, the user experience was strictly 3D, as are all FPS games. Calling Doom a 2D game is dishonest. It's just as dishonest as calling Super Smash Bros. a 3D game when it's a 2D game on a 3D engine.
retro.c (Score:4, Funny)
<include "recommendations.h">
if (game_status==AVAILABLE_NOW) {
download();
enjoy();
} else {
recommend("Download NeoRAGE emulator");
recommend("Download Metal Slug NeoGeo ROM");
recommend("Enjoy!");
}
// Those screenshots look great!
mmm, siiidescrollers... (Score:2)
Re:mmm, siiidescrollers... (Score:1)
Re:mmm, siiidescrollers... (Score:3, Informative)
It works on 98/XP just fine. Of course if you hate Microsoft then the source code can also be dug up with a little googling allowing someone to make a linux version.
Re:mmm, siiidescrollers... (Score:2)
And what's a saladpuncher? Is that like a saladshooter, only less violent?
Re:mmm, siiidescrollers... (Score:1)
**Off topic stuff follows**
Saladpuncher came about when I was younger staying up late watching commercials with some friends. We saw the saladshooter and were suprised that something so worthle
Re:mmm, siiidescrollers... (Score:2)
re: saladpuncher
This could also be like a cowpuncher, only for salad. Now, every time I think of that song, I'm going to think saladpuncher, I'm sure. Thanks so much.
Re:mmm, siiidescrollers... (Score:3, Informative)
Actually, most of Abuse was written in other languages. According to SLOCCount, 115799 lines (91.45%) ANSI C, 6792 lines (5.36%) C++, 2066 lines (1.36%) Lisp, and the rest is shell script and assembly. (I just realized I always have the Abuse source tree ready, for some obscure reason... I haven't even read much of the code =)
It had a Lisp interpreter for interpreting creature AI
Re:mmm, siiidescrollers... (Score:1)
Well, in the phrase "tossing the salad" the "salad" is the arsehole. Therefore, the action "punching the salad" should be pretty obvious.
Horror of horrors. (Score:4, Funny)
On the plus side I can run it on my *nix boxie.
2d to 3d (Score:3, Interesting)
Done well, a 3d game is a lot of fun and can look great. But games that handle the 3d camera properly are few and far between. But you miss stuff in a 3d game. I recal watching my friend play half life, missing out on some great scripted sequences because he was looking the wrong way.
2D is just great with no camera hastles, not missing any content, and the gameplay can be just all around fun. Like was mentioned above, the snes zelda was the best. Zelda was awesome for that top down view, moved to n64, and gc, it was ho hum.
Really, they should make more games ala donkey kong, creating the world in 3d, then generating the sprites from the renders. I really enjoy that look to a game.
Anyway, this reminds me of the old duke nukem games which I loved, this should be fun
It's Bionic Commando withouth the Bionic Arm (Score:2, Interesting)
I'll play in a year... (Score:3, Funny)
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skye
Nice, but I was hoping for an actual Half-Life mod (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Nice, but I was hoping for an actual Half-Life (Score:3, Interesting)
How much longer until... (Score:3, Funny)
Yay.. (Score:1)
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Possibly short-lived? (Score:2, Interesting)
Soldat: a 2D multiplayer game (Score:1, Informative)
Soldat is a unique side-view multiplayer action game. It takes the best from games like Liero, Worms, Quake and Counter-Strike and gives you fast action gameplay with tons of blood and flesh. Soldiers fight against each other on 2D battle arenas using a deadly military arsenal.
Home Page [soldat.prv.pl] and the Google-Cache [google.com]
very last post, i suck (Score:1)