SilverSpook
Silver joined
Programmer/writer/artist/level designer/etc of Terminus Machina, a Deus Ex total conversion. Used to be into modding over a decade ago. Got back under the hood because I'm tired of playing dumbed down, safe, irrelevant games. Also got tired of ranting and raving on the internet about the state of 'The System' of the game industry, and decided to nut up and do something about it.
Reviews
Jonesing for PC Master Modder Race nostalgia I reinstalled a few different freeware versions of Doom, GzDoom, FreeDoom, Boom, Groom, Schloom, Loom and this thing called Zandorum, and finally got Brutal Doom Version 20 revved up. (Totally thought that was a typo for 2.0 but it REALLY IS VERSION 20!??!11tf?)
Holy ****, the creator was in the gamedev version of godmode when he made this thing, which is a euphamism for unemployed and drip-fed an IV of Monster/espresso, because damn if this isn't the best First Person Shooter I've played in my demon eviscerating, ceiling-painting life. And by paint I don't mean just blood splatters the Phobos station walls with 256 color decals, I'm talking Direct ************ X 10 small intestines hanging like Christmas lights, blood dripping like ultraviolent snowflakes upon the Space Marine's open mouth. There are 10-second cutscene FATALITIES to make Mortal Kombat blush, involving pulling the Cacodemons eye out of its head, which can then be used to BLUDGEON imps to death with. As the posessed, immolated soldiers beg for their life, you can pick up their broken hellish bodies and use them as human shields whilst AKIMBO-PLASMA RIFLING down platoons of barons from hell. (Which makes no sense, but then you realize you're playing a game where Gwar-concert versions of hellspawn are invading a goddamn Martian space station)
And then it takes it up a few more magnitudes. I don't even have the time to elaborate on all the mindblowing improvements and added features here but I didn't even go into the ******* STEALTH SYSTEM. YES A STEALTH SYSTEM IN DOOM THAT FUNCTIONS WTF!?!?!?!??!
Sometimes you wonder, being 32 with a stable 2-kid family, a regular pattern of adulting in jobs and tax returns, unable to understand this touchscreening, fruit ninja-ing and angry bird tossing crap, whether you're just becoming Teh Old and nostalgic, re-installing these games that were invented before resolution high enough to see microbes, "STORYTELLING!" and ******* *computer mice*, let alone fondling one's screen like a virtual kitten.
And then you play a modded game like Brutal Doom and remember, no, you're actually right. It was a Golden Age.
Greatest game of all time. Obviously.
This is a simply superb mod that takes what Deus Ex got right and then augments the hell out of it with an exoskeleton of dazzling, modernized visuals, innovative and unique game design, sing-in-the-car good music, and a tight gem of speculative-fiction story that does justice to the original (and that is some hard justice to do!)
Personally, aside from a full-blown Project Eternity-style, kickstarter initiative afforded the laser-guidance of Warren Spector, heuristically retooled by Harvey Smith himself, and infused with Sheldon Pacotti's sci--fi writing gems, I think Deus Ex: Nihilum is tough to beat for a Deus Ex 1 sequel.
