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On 26/07/2024 18:19, Justisaur wrote:
>> It's was certainly somewhat unpolished, to say the least, although the 
>> compliant about the AI kinda passed by my at the time as I wasn't, and 
>> still aren't, really into following games news. If I had to pick one 
>> thing that was the most negative it would be the 'aggressive' 
>> re-spawns. I still have nightmares over the rail yard acting as a 
>> transition point between areas. Did no one think is it really a good 
>> idea to make the player fight a hard battle every single time.
>>
> 
> I don't remember anything about the AI either.  I liked the rail yard. I 
> thought it was genius so you really had to think about if you wanted to 
> go back or not.  (All assuming I'm remembering correctly, it's been 
> awhile.)
> 

The rail yard is one that just stuck in my mind. The first time through 
I very much enjoyed it but after that it just felt like the game was 
punishing you for no good reason. Generally I'm not a fan of enemy 
respawns as they quickly become a chore to me. Far Cry 2 and Borderlands 
2 come to mind.

>> Overall though, I very much enjoyed it with the combat being more than 
>> just run in guns blazing and how it captured a feeling of exploring a 
>> desolate, almost alien, wasteland with an RPG like feel to the whole 
>> experience.
> 
>> So I'll definitely take a look at 2 but a lot of that will be 
>> dependent on reviews and also a bit of a dabble with let's play videos 
>> just to try and confirm it's a game for me. Alternatively, I may just 
>> buy it and rely on Steams two hour rule!
> 
> I probably won't buy it.  I was never really into FPSs (though I liked 
> it better than most) and what I heard about the following 
> games/dlcs/remasters or whatever they were never struck me as anything 
> warrenting a play enough to a actually do so, though I thought I would 
> at some point it's been a long time and I think the time has passed.
> 
> If somehow it turns out to be an amazing highly rated game I may try it.

I'll certainly take a look at it as I very much enjoyed the original. 
Whether the game is still to my tastes I'm not sure. FPSes where one of 
my favourite genres but I can't think of the last one I bought. Part of 
that I think is because they seemed to have moved towards open world, 
grind infested, MTX laden games - can't I just shoot some things! I did 
have a quick shimmy through my Steam library and I think the last one I 
bought was either Crysis Warhead or Prey both quite a few years ago.