..seems like some console cr@ppiness has slipped in,but hell,I'd still hit it.

..and I hope for couple of more things as well:

-classic inventory,health and armor (that mean no friggin' regenerating health-even a IQ 50 console retard should be able to find a medkit when his health reaches red numbers,thank you)
-normal save system (again,even a drooling abomination of an average console player should be fully capable of navigating through a couple of menus and saving the progress,at ANY point he deems fit)
-fully working mouselook (clarification: mouselook does NOT mean just mapping the up/down/left/right buttons from the console controller to the vertical/horizontal mouse axis,if you have played the last wolfenstein you should know what I'm talking about-the clunky mouse has killed this game for me)

add nice graphics,duke style funny stuff,make it bloody,and we are good.

nice find-with some adjustments to player walk/run speed,this game might actually start to be playable.

thanks

I'm not a big fan of respawning myself-but,under certain conditions,sane amount of respawning can be even beneficial,adding that "on the edge" feeling that improves the atmosphere of the game greatly (think system shock,stalker and similar).

the important words here are "sane amount",and "certain games",and I agree that infinite respawning combined with a checkpoint system in a game such as cod is a path to madness and eternal damnation.

as for consoles vs pc,yeah,there are some pretty decent cross-platform games,but generally,they tend to be sh!tty,because of that stuff I (we) have mentioned.

or maybe I'm just getting old (30 in a couple of months),hehe.


aanyway,the new duke is a keeper,bad controls or not-and in the meantime,how 'bout running through the classic game one more time?

uhh..I did not say that,it was sigtau.

RaverX wrote on 12.02.11 at 12:28:33:


You took my comment out of context.  My complaint was really against the check-point method of saving games that is typically used for games developed for consoles (and their PC ports).  I was specifically calling out the more recent Call of Duty games.  Often you have to pass over a very specific point on the map to trigger the save.   When you combine missed checkpoints with wildly inconstant difficulty on a particular level (this is my other complaint), you end up hitting parts of the game where it turns into "mission impossible", even for a hard-core gamer.  Call of Duty: World at War has several "mission impossible" segments like this.   The game is also often referred to as "COD: Grenades at War".  On Veteran difficulty, grenades rain down like confetti, making even the hardcore gamer frustrated during more difficult segments. 

I consider myself a hardcore gamer, which is why I've finished most of my games on the hardest difficulty setting they have (including all of the COD games I was bitching about).  However, I do it almost solely as a mental exercise to test my will power.  As for games being too hard on easy, I don't recall any games recent games that I thought had this problem.  Some older games like Quake 1 or 2 tended to be fairly tough even on the easy or medium difficulty.  Quake 1 on nightmare...now that's for the truly hardcore or criminally insane gamers.