Re: Games played last week 2025 May 5 to 11

On 5/14/2025 7:39 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Tue, 13 May 2025 10:57:30 -0600, "rms"
<rsquiresMOO@MOOflashMOO.net> wrote:
 

* Dark Sector (2008 3rd person FPS)

>
   I just watched some of a playthrough video, and it doesn't look bad at
all to my eyes.  Its just old
>

 Visually, it's not bad, but (and again, keep in mind that I'm
remembering my playthrough from fifteen years ago, so feel free to
take everything I say with a grain of salt) I recall that it suffered
from janky and sometimes unresponsive controls and tedious battles.
Your primary weapon was this throwing blade thing (sort of like Xena's
chakram) that wasn't the easiest to control, and I'm pretty sure that
any guns you picked up exploded ten or twenty seconds after you
grabbed them.

The sprint controls are weird.  It kind of locks you into a direction. Of course EDF does that with the ranger, so I'm kind of used to that. It's still annoyint though.
I think the weapon doesn't 'explode' I'm not sure.  I thought it was being absorbed, although there's like a flash when it happens, so maybe it does.  It doesn't do that until you get your glaive.
I'm finding the glaive pretty fun anyway, and you do get to keep your pistol in the left hand and find myself sniping enemies occasionally with that as the glaive isn't really long range.
Visually I didn't like it to begin with as it's almost black and white, but once you get the glaive you can see in color.  You lose your helmet with the goggles, so maybe it's something the goggles are are supposed to be doing that tamps down on the colors?

 It's the sort of thing that's hard to make out when watching somebody
play the game, but the unsatisfying controls just made for a much
poorer experience. That I remember anything positive about the game is
entirely due to the visuals and atmosphere.

The rest of the controls seem to be fine, it's just the sprint that's weird.
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