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Can you imagine how cool something like this could be, if done right,
with AAA audio-visuals?... not with a douchey woke story that tries
to force the player into adopting the designer's politics and makes
people care about whether the character reminds them of someone they
like or not... fuck that... That can be cared about in real life for
those who choose, while gaming should be about escapism.

Instead, try to imagine an immersive, done-right game by a group of
people who know how to make a great game and have the wherewithall to
do it. I'd pay for that. Probably not this, but who knows maybe it
will lead to others thinking about the potential for innovation out
there. There's enough that could be done with this, that it could be
its own genre. Innovation is a good thing.

Oh and by the way if something like this, even with far worse visuals
but enough investment in immersion and intensity, had come out in the
90s the impact on the industry would have have been on the order of
Doom, Civilization, Donkey Kong, Wolfenstein, Sim City etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHYVjPYc8oI

When I saw this it reminded me of the tornado level in NOLF2:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODeEuPokFRk

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Rin Stowleigh <rstowleigh@x-nospam-x.com> wrote:
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Oh and by the way if something like this, even with far worse visuals
but enough investment in immersion and intensity, had come out in the
90s the impact on the industry would have have been on the order of
Doom, Civilization, Donkey Kong, Wolfenstein, Sim City etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHYVjPYc8oI

Twister movie (and a sequel coming). ;)

When I saw this it reminded me of the tornado level in NOLF2:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODeEuPokFRk

Oh yeah, NOLF rocked. I miss Cate Archer! That franchise needs to come back!
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On Fri, 10 Nov 2023 01:13:00 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:

Rin Stowleigh <rstowleigh@x-nospam-x.com> wrote:
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Oh and by the way if something like this, even with far worse visuals
but enough investment in immersion and intensity, had come out in the
90s the impact on the industry would have have been on the order of
Doom, Civilization, Donkey Kong, Wolfenstein, Sim City etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHYVjPYc8oI

Twister movie (and a sequel coming). ;)

In 2024, marketing douchebags have probably intervened and it's going
to involve some sort of political message involving Hamas terrorists
being launched via chemically engineered tornados into small towns in
the US or something.. Sort of like Sharknado except carrying halal
stamp of approval. Drive an SUV through protestors standing in the
road and other unsavory things like that.

When I saw this it reminded me of the tornado level in NOLF2:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODeEuPokFRk

Oh yeah, NOLF rocked. I miss Cate Archer! That franchise needs to come back!

It is proof there are only two fundamental elements needed for any
great game. Tornados and trailers! All the action anyone will need
:)

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On Fri, 10 Nov 2023 01:13:00 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:

Oh yeah, NOLF rocked. I miss Cate Archer! That franchise needs to come back!

The IP owners can't even come to enough of an agreement to re-release
the old games. It's unlikely that we will /EVER/ see a sequel.

But as impressive and beloved as NOLF was, it was a terribly flawed
game too. Its humor was too often 'hidden' behind its stealth
mechanic; the best bits of dialog were from the NPCs, and if they saw
you they'd stop talking and start shooting. And it was far, far too
easy to aggro the monsters. (Don't even get me started on the instant-fail-when-detected mechanics). The gunplay wasn't especially captivating (despite the imaginative weapons), and some of the
missions just went on for far too long. Plus, a lot of the excitement
about NOLF was how it did a lot of things we now take for granted:
vehicle levels, gadgets, interaction with NPCs large and realistic
maps, etc. Those features, while in no way unique to the NOLF games,
were still fairly novel to the genre, and the combination was
impressive to gamers of the year 2000.

TL;DR: the NOLF games were /very/ rough around the edges, and don't
hold up well to being played again by people accustomed to modern
games.


But yeah, the tornado sequence was pretty impressive.

(There's a similar sequence in "Wolfenstein: New Colossus" that,
though lacking any cyclones, reminded me a lot of the tornado sequence
in NOLF2)

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Rin Stowleigh wrote:

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All I can think of is adding them into a game like Cities: Skylines.
Taking into account tornado proofing house designs, and proper emergency response.

I loved the Twister film, but I'm not sure about how they fit in a game
as I have no experience with that kind of environmental phenomenon, but
since we are talking forces of nature...

Has anybody here played the Disaster Report games? I have been itching
for years to finally play the first one on PS2, maybe with Retroarch and
a nice resolution bumb. That game is set after a massive earthquake and
can be crazy when the scenario begins changing.

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