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(697 votes)"Bullet time" (ala Max Payne, Stranglehold)
(220 votes)"Time travelling" (ala Prince of Persia, TimeShift)
(549 votes)"Psychic/Force powers" (ala Jedi Knight, Mass Effect)
(715 votes)"Portal manipulation" (ala Portal, Prey)
(312 votes)"Stealth camo" (ala Metal Gear Solid)
(157 votes)Other (list in comments)
bullet time FTW, there is nothing more classic and sexy then bullet time!
Indeed and Max Payne did it so well.
Its useless to resist
bullet time for PRESIDENT!
the specialists uses it really well
The first time I played a game with decent bullet time, I creamed myself.
However much I enjoy bullet time, I find Max Payne was much too easy because of it. I would simply slow everything down, turn in mid-air mind you, and then everyone would be dead and I would move on.
I voted for "Portal Manipulation" since that is a new aspect to the game industry (correct me if I am wrong here) and I enjoy a good, first person puzzle game - such as Portal.
love the seinfeld reference
Quad Damage. :D
I don't remember portal manipulation in prey. I remember it having portals, but then I only played the game once before putting it on the shelf as a dust collector.
Thought the same! :D
quake lightning gun the water
Indeed, Indeed...
Other: OMIKRON THE NOMAD SOUL + MESSIAH = Ability to turn into Soul form and take over other people's bodies.
Oh and lets not forget SYNDICATE - Mind Manipulation ftw!
Also, the Oddworld series. :)
I'd say special gun abilities. I.e. Duke Nukem Freeze and Shink guns rock. As does Hexen or Heretic (I forget) ability where you can turn people into piglets
The porkalator, and the chicken morph owum.
Whats not to like about them.
Don't forget the "Tome of power" from Heretic and Hexen... you can upgrade the weapons with it
Portals are mind bogglingly fun...
Time rewind is one of the more interesting features, in that it overrides the usual game mechanic of savegames. Instead of the tedium of quicksaves and quickloads, you have inbuilt rewind that allows you to correct your mistakes on the fly and try again (essentially having the same effect as quicksave/quickload but still keeping you in game). What Prey did with their resurrection mechanic is also a new interesting spin on the same old topic.
Bullet time is the coolest video game feature i ever seen.
I don't care how cliché it is, Bullet Time is just plain fun.
ahah hell yeah *highfive*
other: Proper aiming.
******* on enemies like in Postal 2.
ahahahah oh yes who could forget postal :P
"save a tree, burn a book!"
XD
I like being able to pick stuff up and interact with the enviroment more than any of those.
Others: Bio-Mods. Has a huge potential especially if you venture also into less walked-on grounds like genetic modding. That said it depends on what you call "force"... it's a rather vague term which can be anything and nothing.
Gravity manipulation.
Stealth camo. I love games like Thief etc.
Portal is a aspect i cannot think to be reproduced in another game, you just start thinking of Portal the game. Bullet time is classic, however, you start thinking of Max Payne. Bullet time is a more "open" entity than the others. Id have to say
1. Bullet Time
2. Force Powers
3. Portal Manipulation
Physics and Portals.
Keeps me having fun with it for hours :P
Imagine having a portal gun in real life..... The possibilities are endless.
Other. Ever since playing Half-Life2, I think realistic physics is a necessity in games that want to take it to the next level. Its good with making blockades, puzzle solving, getting to cheap access points and pretty much anything dynamic. Even killing is more entertaining with ragdolls, I have a hard time believing models that die without it, they remind me of cardboard cutouts falling over.
i fully agree, there's a whole lot that you can do with correct physics alone.
Let's admit it. Active Camouflage is the hottest feature on earth. You're not totally invisible: You're transparent with awesome distortion effects.
I don't think Prey had portal manipulation. It had portals, but you could not really manipulate them.
Force powers!... You can do Mind Trick confuse the people.
other: kick *** weapons. to many games have pansie weapons now a days. Look at the crap in HL2. Lame! Stalker. Lame! Give me some uber-gun that's worth fighting to get, like the BFG, Shrink Ray, drunk missile launcher.
the difference between a pistol & a high-powered sniper rifle? The distance you use for headshots. Whoop-e-do! Portals? Cool, but unless there's something cool to take out things in the area, they're fancy mirrors (gotta admit though, prey was friggen sweet. Great to shoot baddies through the portals!) Bullet time is nice, but the best part was using the weapons in it because it makes the guns THAT much cooler to use (bullet time wouldn't be cool if you took 5 minutes to throw a punch, for example). Time traveling... what's the difference between "time traveling" & different era's in painkiller? Mental powers can be cool, but most of the time in SP they're gimmicky (i'd say mostly due to tech limitations though. IE moving only a specific item, not anything). In MP people consider them cheap. Stealth is just annoying unless you DON'T loose the level when it's lost.
I saw drunk missle launcher in there. ROTT Godmode ftw!
Hehe... HHG... Holy Hand Grenade ( for those not in the know ;) )
may payayne
isnt bullet time technically time traveling? :S
na its just a really badassed was of over concentrating with the help of a dozen painkillers
Bullet time.I love seeing Max do the strafe-jump-shoot thing.
Portals / Warp Zones are fun - but they're not limited to Portal. Every time I see these sorts of polls, I have to think there are far too many people who do nothing but play the Orange Box.
Personally, the best ability is quite simply wall-walking or unusual gravity manipulation. It's diverse, and unusual, and has yet to see many decent incarnations in gaming.
I like muchs star wars games...
Star wars battlefront 2, star wars rebublic commando, star wars empire at war, CODs, BF, Age of empire 3...............
bullet time in max payne (1) ... one of the coolest features ever.