Unreal: an old obsession made new

[Stratego]

I don't know if anyone in the forum knows of, or has ever played Unreal (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.), a first person shooter game for PC's that first came out in 1998.

I dug it out a box of old stuff one night last week, installed in on my laptop and I've been playing about three hours a day since. I used to play this all the time when it first came out, and it's the only computer game I have ever finished. I love this game. You would think the look would be dated by this time, but it holds up remarkably well.

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I'm currently on level 8, The Dark Arena. Basically a Roman-style coliseum where I have to battle a gigantic bot known as a Titan, incredibly hard to kill.

Does anyone else remember this game, or have you ever played it?

[Shauru]

I played it briefly. I was a bit younger and I honestly didn't like it all that much. I kind of got bored with how spaced out everything was and it felt just a little slow.

But I do definitely like Unreal Tournament as far as multi player slaying action. Not the new UT:3.

[Webbster]

It was a very revolutionary game game for the time, I remember being amazing at the richness of the graphics compared to the relative drabness of the Quake series.

I still can't believe how good the plants look, they always seem to be one of the crappiest looking objects in older fps.
I haven't played any of the newer entries in the series, I think the last one I played was the original Unreal tournament.

Are you playing with a trackpad, or a mouse? (I was Deus Ex a couple weeks ago and found it terribly hard with the trackpad.)

[rahdam]

The original unreal tournament was a fucking revolution.
The Morpheus level with instagib mod was ... orgasmic.
And the sniper rifle was just sick

[Samoan Corleone]

Yeah, I used to play Unreal Tournament 2003. It was grand!

I oughta replay some old games too.

[firebee]

The Morpheus level with instagib mod was ... orgasmic.

Back in undergrad, I used to kill time by loading up Morpheus with instagib and bots who were just good enough to be interesting but not good enough to be annoying, named "a busload of nuns", "a cute kitten", and things like "a quazit", "a hobgoblin" and "an emu".


And the sniper rifle was just sick

"Unbalanced", I think you want to say. I had a tendency to use it as a regular combat weapon in order to bring the joys of instagib to the non-instagib mode. There were much tears when they replaced it with the lightning gun with the significantly longer cycle time. Of course, it must be said that I suck ass as a sniper.

[admittedheretic]

I remember playing Unreal Tournament on my first computer. 166mhz overclocked to 200mhz, 32mb ram, 2mb integrated video card, and a 28k modem. At 320x240 I got about 20fps if I also disabled onboard sound haha.

I'm a sniper whore in every game I play because it is the best weapon and I'm too good with it. Instagib is one of my favorite game types and I easily win upward of 90% of the rounds I play in various different games and mods. I remember moprheus, but it was hard to compete with 250 ping. By the time UT2k4 rolled around I had a DSL connection and it has been on ever since. I still play a little Quake, but that is about it.

[Rohsiph]

Interesting. I remember when Unreal shoved the wedge between iD loyalists and folks who didn't quite know they wanted something new, but until then didn't have another choice.

Then UT hit the wedge with a sledge-hammer and completely split the camps. I followed Epic. UT defined my junior-high years, particularly Instagib Last Man Standing.

Then UT2k3 mussed things up, but UT2k4 more or less salvaged the franchise--but by then the deathmatch community was already so terribly fragmented from too many choices.

And now there's UT3 (which conveniently ignores UT2k3) that largely misses the point.

Tangent: any other 20-somethings feel like maybe they'd enjoy being a "video game historian" in a decade or two? :)

[jcb]

i played Unreal a decent amount, however UT became my most enduring obsession this side of WoW.