Evening Reading: FPS Fever!

by Brian Leahy, Apr 14, 2010 5:00pm PDT

This morning, Take-Two announced that 2K Marin is developing an FPS game based upon X-COM. The outrage was palpable.

I'm willing to give 2K Marin a chance here. I'm sure this is a move meant to echo Bethesda's work with the Fallout franchise, which led to the creation of Fallout 3.

Personally, I'm a much bigger fan of Todd Howard and Bethesda's work than 2K Marin's, but we'll see what the studio can cook up.

Gaming News o'the Day

Starbreeze working on new Syndicate game?.

Splinter Cell gets free weekly DLC.

Dead Space gets a prequel novel.

Major changes coming to all classes for WoW: Cataclysm.

All the rest

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Your clothes might be trying to kill you.

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You're allowed to play one game again for the first time. What do you play? Super Metroid

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      CT was my close second as well : Navy Spitfire
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  - This was mine to. Still my favorite game of all time. : bongturbo
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      I think the Goldsrc engine held up pretty well. Xen was indeed terrible, though. : The Grolar Bear
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- STALKER: SOC perhaps? Not sure I I'd be crying like a baby the entire time on the second playthrough. : Creepin_Jeezus
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  - This. With System Shock 2 a close second. : serenj
  - I agree with you completely. My time with vanilla wow was one of the best times of my life. : MrBig0
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- Company of Heroes + Opposing Fronts : Full.Bleed
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- Demon's Souls Okay, more like Planescape: Torment. : walker270
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    I was just about to write this. It completely redefined what games can do, for me anyway.
    
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    I was just about to write this. It completely redefined what games can do, for me anyway. The code is on... : Waxfinger
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- WoW, Super Metroid, original EQ. : mrwolf710
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- Thief: The Dark Project : Rag and Bone Man
- Oblivion, but only if I can play with all the cool mods as well. : UselessHack
- The Longest Journey and there are lots of other adventure games tied for second. : spazzium
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- Planescape Torment : melkore
- Metroid Prime : sevogajre
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- Tie Fighter : Scotty22
- The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past : IndigoAK
- Quake. Loading up qtest for the first time was mind blowing. : stump
- Oh man. Probably Deus Ex. But maybe Thief. I have no idea. : DerHuhnTeufel
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      SQ II and SQ III were both very good. Past that, they were ok. : Kniggit
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- I travel back in time and play Asheron's Call! : Zollington
- Eternal Darkness and/or Killer 7, because the element of surprise was so dramatically crucial. Something ... : Borzoi
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- Quake1, so I could go back through and not have any idea where the faults and ledges and map errors and g... : thekidd
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  X-Com: UFO Defense. : Bean
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    - honorable mentions: Planescape Torment, KoToR, Ultima Underworld, Thief. : Bean
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  - Just reading that word popped the Tristram music into my head. : Grumbeld
- SS2 or KOTOR. Leaning towards KOTOR. : Mexistache
- Half-Life : mikecyb
- One that was super intuitive otherwise I'd probably be pretty frustrated. : SiW.
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  - Music is a Weapon. : Crabs Jarrard
- GTA: Vice City : .Jayson
- This is too hard. RE4? Metroid? HL2? I really can't decide. : Anastomosis
- Mass Effect. : Dschinghis Khan
- Portal. : Metatron85
- Everquest : Digital_Bath
- No One Lives Forever : renegade732
- Dating : pres589
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  - If the former, then Little Big Adventure/Relentless : Drewus
- Doom or Planescape: Torment. Possibly FF7 as well. : Vincent Grayson
- Deus Ex. : Link.
- Half-Life 1 : ateam311
- Chrono Trigger : Head Rush
- Final Fantasy 7 : mista mista
- if i was more submissive, i fear this thread would set me back 2 years. really makes me want to play thr... : Korban
- Planescape: Torment. Has to be something where the story is the main hook or the gameplay is incredible.... : brickmatt
- Probably either Super Mario World, LTTP or FF7. : Yanks
- TIE Fighter with a mission creator tool. Barring that, probably BF2142 or some multiplayer FPS. : riptyde
- SNATCHER : firewoodman
- Deus Ex : Sink the Pink
- Myth. That or Doom probably : grasshoppah
- Baldurs Gate II : Pettytheft
- US SMB2 : anhero
- nothing i dont live in the past : spiderfill
- Mario bros/duck hunt : skelom
- Deus Ex. fin. : greh kleh
- Mario 64 : ColoradoCNC
- eq : jane911
- Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers : Sapiens
- super metroid : xylopagus
- probably sonic cd : CoRDS
- Shogo: MAD : Goblin au
- Ever Quest. : moe6
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      I was -2 :) : ConsFEARacy
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      awww. how cute. :) : chilln
      
      you are such a cute little boy : [7]kami
      
      Thats awesome man. I have many MANY emotional and nostalgic moments of my life that involve gaming. ... : technotica
- portal : ass-street
- A MUD, or the UO beta. : jake
- Star Wars Shadows of the Empire. I'd also like to be the same age and not have played anything graphical... : burning eye
- Decsent and Quake 1 : bawbeh
- Fallout 2. : ramshot
- If you mean forget everything about it (prequels, sequels etc.) and then play it: Pokemon. Ruby/Sapphire ... : Cliffzorz
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  - When was this game released? : IndigoAK
  - Oh you're awesome. : abrasion
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  Mass Effect 1 : jbury
  - Hmmm maybe I change the answer to Day of the Tentacle : jbury
- Kotor 1 : echoinggreen
- Ultima Online : braaains
- Deus Ex. : Marrbe
- I'm gonna have to say Shadow of the Colossus. That was one of the most interesting experiences I've ever ... : Modica Sol Solis
- Full Throttle or DotT or warcraft 2 : dfz0r
- Deus Ex : -efx-
- Deus Ex : steve_o
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    Or Zelda 3 or Fallout? I give up. : Mad Brahmin Disease
    - Zelda 3 ownz Zelda 4 imo The original though, i believe, is a once in a lifetime experience, seems lik... : technotica
- Deus Ex! : peanut-
- Duke Nukem 3D : Maarten Goldstein
- Probably Zombies Ate My Neighbors. I think that's where my kookie games obsession came from. Maybe the un... : felicia
- Looks like maybe Half Life or Deus Ex have the most individual mentions... : greh kleh
- X-Wing and another vote for Full Throttle....that must fucking say something about Lucas Arts. They were... : Saman
- Ico, Half Life, Halo, Command and Conquer, Canon Fodder, Carmageddon 2, Worms and Sonic The Hedgehog. ... : marmite
- Deux Ex. : kingdepork
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    That's a really really good call. Such an amazing game. : kingdepork
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  Planescape: Torment ^^^ Absolutely this ^^^ : jasoncrowley
  - Fuck right. : Jumperus
- FFVI. : pgharavi
- Final Fantasy Tactics. My girlfriend in senior year of high school really got in the way of my enjoyment ... : geedeck
- Braid. Most other games in this list are awesome but don't benefit from fresh eyes. : batkiwi

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