what was your favourite fps ?

[Onno Kreuzinger]

why play with joypad anyways..? i cant find any good reason to it.. are you one of those who thinks fps at xbox or ps2 is really great?

no comment on that, just think about the comparison i made: one works one not.
and no i use PC for gaming since i fragged my C64, that makes 12 years and about 15 joysticks, 8 mice, 6 keyboards and 4 gamepads. i started with 4 colours and 320x200 pixels and never owned a console or gameboy.

[>BKA< T Wrecks]

Errr... in an attempt to get this thread back to topic :

I just voted for Duke Nukem 3D. I had played Quake before, and although some of the true 3D gfx was quite amazing, all in all it looked too ...yes, brown! You're right, PMB . And I hated this running into buttons and stuff. But then, in Duke3D, you could actually PUSH buttons (*gasp*), look at monitors that showed the view of observation cameras, enabling you to spot some enemies before they could spot you! The whole environment was interactive, you could do so much stuff! (Remember playing pool billard, smashing windows and TV screens, blasting holes through walls, etc ?)
And the humour! There's no way I'll ever forget this "Your face... your ass... what's the difference?" after blasting an alien to pieces with the RPG.
Besides, the atmosphere was great. Whereas Q , Doom and WS showed rather unrealistic, more (Quake) or less (Doom) monotonous dungeons, in Duke3D you walked through video shops, striptease bars, toilets (hey! even the "terrorist sitting on toilet" model is actually a gag stolen from D3D, where in some toilets you'd find an alien trooper sitting on a toilet! And he even flushed the toilet neatly before defending himself... nice manners for an alien).
Then the second episode with that large space station, the meetings with Indiana Jones, Luke Skywalker etc., and last but not least good background music in MIDI format - I've still got my 1992 SB 16 with Roland Sound Canvas Wavetable, which made the MIDIs sound all the better and easily beats 90% of all non-professional soundcards released afterwards when it comes to MIDI sound.
Man, those were times... and then I started building Duke levels and enjoying the simple editor. That also made me realize how much 2D the game actually was and how well they hid that.
As far as I remember, a large and well-designed level took up roundabout 200 kB...
And in Multiplayer, I drove my friends to despair in "Hotel Hell"... hell, yes.

Damn, I'm feeling old. 9_9

[HangFire]

Aaah, Duke3D. Remote ridicule... shrink rays... strippers... byte granular errors.

Damn you T Wrecks, you bring back too many memories...
I sat day and nights playing Duke 3D... Ahhh, I still got in my shelf, worth installing win98 again if I just had proper DOS Sound Drivers.
I loved smashing TV's.
I remember the best, in a strip bar second level.
Well, there is a garage style door, I pulled the enemies close to me and squished them in the door.
The sound you heard, the visuals of the squished enemies and not to mention the text you got in the upper left part of the screen which said "SQUISH!" Made me laugh like hell, man I recall the laughter.

[Pierre-Marie Baty]

I mapped for Duke Nukem... I had made a fortress-like map with dungeons and towers.. it looked not that bad but the FPS was horrible. The fact is that I had discovered that you could make overlapping sectors (provided the 2 sectors don't see each other) and I had made an interior for each building in the castle, including several levels in the towers

too bad I don't know where it's gone...

I had made a lot of improvments to another multiplayer map, it was a big town. I made a cathedral too but it wasn't looking very good. Darn, I was always hitting the 1024 sectors limit

The SOB-bot for Duke3D was a lot of fun too

wanna play Duke3D again in real 3D and OpenGL ?
http://jonof.edgenetwork.org/buildport/duke3d/

Windows native... Pierre, you... Well no cursing here, Back to Duke3D again, back to the old days, back to the old memories.

[>BKA< T Wrecks]

Hmmmm, good to know I'm not the only one who still appreciates this old fps.
Yeah, "squishing" enemies was fun - especially when the door opened again and you could see what was left of your former enemy...
I believe there were even some custom maps with names like "squishy" etc, where there were some buttons that made the ceilings in whole sections of the map come down, squishing several multiplayer enemies at once. People really seemed to love that. Oh, and not to mention zillions of conversions of the first DOOM level fpr Duke3D. I remember the only map I finished halfways was a hidden submarine base, complete with hidden entrance behind a waterfall etc. etc. ... although I'm almost sure it was nothing in comparison with what a maniac like Pierre-Marie seems to be able to do with any game he likes...
I think some of my favourite places and levels were the prison level (which somehow reminded me of Stephen King's "Shawshank Redemption" (remember "behind the babe"?) ), the "Lunar Reactor" level in the 2nd episode and that huge dome on the moon, where a whole flock of those self-destroying drones with their high-pitched whine came in and made you circle the crater running and shooting for your life... IMHO, fps never got better than that. Technically, of course, but not regarding the atmosphere... only Unreal, perhaps.
Oh, and Pierre-Marie: Thank you for the link!!!!! Grrreat news, har, har! 8D "I'm Duke Nukem... and I'm coming to get the rest of you alien bastards!"

[Pierre-Marie Baty]

"Nobody steals our chicks....... and lives!" 8D

"I am not afraid of no quake"

[>BKA< T Wrecks]

...which brings us back to cs_italy! See how visionary Duke3D was? *LOL*

Damn, I was too slow! This was intended as a response to PMB's post...