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thewaether
@thewaether

what's a video game that you like but no-one else does


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SiN (1998), the Quake 2 engine shooter from some former Duke Nukem 3D level designers that was completely annihilated in sales by Half-Life. I always had a soft spot for it but in 2022 I believe that it holds up better than Half-Life 1.

Very ahead of its time. Had one of the first FPS sniper rifles with zoom, and it has some immersive sim elements that were iterated on and refined in Deus Ex: You can turn off automated turrets and unlock doors, among other actual gameplay mechanic things, by using in-world computer terminals.

One of the reasons I feel it holds up better than Half-Life is that Half-Life's idea of what an FPS campaign feels like is still for the most part in-use, so Half-Life in retrospect feels like this rough version of how single player shooters still are. SiN, to me, feels kind of charmingly quaint as this transitional bolt-on of voiced cutscenes and scripted objectives and such things to gun combat that feels like part of the DOS doom clone lineage.


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Gobliiins 4. The entire first half is extremely dire so most people gave up on it, but once you're past that the design starts to shift and it becomes much more like the original MS-DOS Gobliiins games. Which is still kind of objectively dire, but at least it's also weird and interesting.