It definitely had a lot in common with Onslaught mode. There was some overlap with the types of vehicles, too.

I was using the GAMESPOT weighted numbering scale:

Generous Averages Make Easy Satisfied Publishers, Our TrafficReliesOnThem

It’s a very different game, although it does have vehicles, so it has something in common with UT2004 in that way.

Unreal 2’s multiplayer only has one game mode. It’s kind of like capture the flag with some resource management. There are power generators that you need to take for your team in order to use vehicles. You can also capture respawn points which give your team more choices of where to respawn from.

You choose one of three classes when you spawn, with each class having specific weapons. You don’t pick up weapons as you go.

There is a release of the multiplayer that’s available for free here: https://xmpcommunity.com/. After Epic tool all Unreal titles off of digital stores a while ago, they specifically mentioned xmpcommunity.com in a blog post as a way of still playing the game. So it has their blessing.

Unreal 2, at launch, was the most absolutely 7/10 game I’ve ever played. Just a very generic singleplayer FPS, and not the sequel to Unreal that everyone was hoping for.

I say “at launch,” though, because almost a year after the game’s release, they added multiplayer, and that is still my favorite multiplayer game.

Yeah, it definitely seems like it was to just make it take longer.

Same here, I always liked SA1 more than SA2. I remember being so amazed that you could pick any character to play next and then you’d find out, in any order you chose, how their stories would intersect with one another. SA2 felt like a downgrade without that. I also liked the art style of the first game over the second one.

Yes, I meant Deadly Shadows. It was liked overall, and moreso as the years went on, but I remember plenty of people thinking it was disappointing at the time. Heck, there’s one in this very thread. :P I haven’t played the first two (and I know that I need to), but I know that it deviated from those quote a bit, and that seemed to be one of the main things people disliked about it.

Thief 3. I had never played a Thief game before and thought it was great. Apparently, fans of the first two games were disappointed with it at first. I think the criticism didn’t last long, though. Everyone now seems to agree that it was good.

Oh cool, looks like it was a good lineup.

Looks delicious! I’m getting the impression that your entire family is a bunch of culinary maestros, lol. :D

P.S. what festival is the wristband for?

Oof. Marvel Tokon was just revealed three days ago, and is being made by a developer that everyone already knows and loves. This has to be the most unfortunate timing I’ve ever seen.

Edit: OK I spoke too soon… apparently the people who worked on Killer Instinct are working on this. This could be good. Still going to be less hyped than a new Marvel fighting game, though.

Same here. Thinking about that class just now, I remembered the name of one of the sites that we were told to use to find GIFs and animated buttons. I think it was called “animation factory.”

Well there is an https://www.animationfactory.com/ and it has exactly the types of GIFs I was thinking of. More classics right there.

Very!

Those are amazing, thanks!

The first two Sonic kart racing games were good, but I heard that the third one was a step down from the first two. (I’ve only played the first two myself.) I liked the fact that the first games had split screen for couch multiplayer on PC – that’s not common.

Glad to see Crimson Viper come back, I thought she was going to be a new series mainstay after being in both Street Fighter 4 and Marvel vs. Capcom 3.

The trailer was definitely unexpected. :D

I’ve never actually used it, but Faircamp caught my eye a while ago. https://simonrepp.com/faircamp/

I’m not sure if you can create a blog with it – it might only be for showcasing your music, no text posts. It definitely looks nice, though.

Gotcha. The web UI in wallabag is nice and works pretty well with ereaders. It’s already black-and-white, although it doesn’t have pagination, so you’ll have to scroll.

I’ve been using Wallabag for a few years now and really like it. (It’s the one thing I’m not selfhosting, though – I’ve been using their hosted service. But it should run on a raspberry pi with no problems.)

You can also export to epub, but you have to do that manually. OP, does your ereader run android? There are wallabag apps available, which are nice because they usually work offline after downloading articles from your wallabag server.

If you really liked the interactions between the characters, honestly I think The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog did that better than any of the other games did. If that’s the main appeal for you, you’ve already played the best one. I haven’t read the comics myself, but like others have mentioned, that’s probably what you’re looking for.

Sonic Adventure 1 and 2 feature many of the same characters as The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog, but the dialog isn’t really as polished. It’s an English translation of a Japanese game at a time when they were still trying to figure out how to do cutscenes in 3D Sonic games. But based on your criteria, I’d say those are a good starting point, though. They’re both on Steam. (The first game is called Sonic Adventure DX because it has the “upgraded” graphics that many fans think is actually a downgrade in art style. There are mods to change things back to their original look. I think this SADX mod installer installs all of them for you.)

Sonic X Shadow Generations has many of the levels from Sonic Adventure 1 and 2, but lacks the same cutscenes and characters. The gameplay is great, though.

And if you liked the OST, then you’ll definitely like the music in the 2D games, especially Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Sonic the Hedgehog 3 & Knuckles, and Sonic Mania.