Re: Let's show off our physical PC games!

On Tue, 10 Dec 2024 22:49:52 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:

Mark P. Nelson <markpnelson@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

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On 2024-12-10, rms <rsquiresMOO@MOOflashMOO.net> wrote:

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Nice. Outlaws was fun especially its multiplayer. Too bad this game
didn't get popular. :(

And that soundtrack! It is as if Ennio Morricone clawed his way out of
his grave (wait, is he dead? I just assume he is*) and decided his
magnum opus ought to be the soundtrack for a first-person shooter.

Although when it comes to the gameplay, I'm a bit less sanguine. The
moment-to-moment was outstanding, but some of the level design was
unnecessarily mazelike; a throwback to Doom-era level design that
didn't fit in well with the more realistic theming of the game. Too
often progress was dependent on finding the right secret area, and I
remember a lot of wall-humping trying to figure out what was necessary
to progress.

The TL;DR is that "Outlaws" was definitely a game of its time, caught
between the releases of "Doom" and "Half Life". Developers (and
gamers) still weren't ready for a truly cinematic-style FPS but the
genre was definitely shifting in that direction. It resulted in some
ungainly combinations; the teenage-years of first-person shooters.

Despite this, I still regard it as one of the best Western FPS games,
and definitely one of the highlights of that troubled era of gaming.













* apparently he died in 2020, so if he was in a grave back in '97,
when the game originally came out, he was doing something very strange
in there. Not that I'm grave-shaming. You do you, Ennio ;-)