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Rise of the Triad 2013
12 years ago
I had a go at Rise of the Triad 2013!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3H3W.....n1vvc&hd=1
This was a game I had in the early 90s, and a remake came out without me noticing! I downloaded it and gave it a run, and... well, it's a bizarre, unique example of something getting all the little things right but all the big things wrong. Most notably, the performance is mystifyingly appalling - combine that with the way that the movement is so fast and it means the precision platforming bits are nigh-impossible.
But on the other hand, the great soundtrack has been lovingly remade and recreated (and included in plain MIDI style if you prefer that), and the frantic fun "don't ask questions about why there are trampolines in a monestary, just go" style of gameplay and bizarre in-jokey attitude of the game are intact. So I love what they've tried to do with it - it just needs to be... fixed before I can really give it a recommendation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3H3W.....n1vvc&hd=1
This was a game I had in the early 90s, and a remake came out without me noticing! I downloaded it and gave it a run, and... well, it's a bizarre, unique example of something getting all the little things right but all the big things wrong. Most notably, the performance is mystifyingly appalling - combine that with the way that the movement is so fast and it means the precision platforming bits are nigh-impossible.
But on the other hand, the great soundtrack has been lovingly remade and recreated (and included in plain MIDI style if you prefer that), and the frantic fun "don't ask questions about why there are trampolines in a monestary, just go" style of gameplay and bizarre in-jokey attitude of the game are intact. So I love what they've tried to do with it - it just needs to be... fixed before I can really give it a recommendation.
Nitro
~nitro
I was wondering about the super-fast movement too. I've never played the original, so I wasn't sure whether it was ment to be like that or not. Still kinda enjoying it for it's silly 90's-ness though!
DavidN
~davidn
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Yes, first-person protagonists used to be able to run at the speed of a Formula 1 car and we never questioned it! There's a clip of the original at the end of my video... it feels weird transplanting it into a modern FP, but I'd love to see more games like this based on older sensibilities.
