"Unreal" (the computer game) C/D?

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

I bought a disc of "unreal" a while ago. I tried installing it in my win98 b0x0r, and it sort of worked for a bit, then fucked up. I thought it was OK, and there was one scary bit at some point I think. I uninstalled it a while ago.

Last night I tried putting it in again, and in seems to have installed perfectly this time for some reason. It runs much more smoothly, and all that. However, I found it rather boring to play. Since I first tried it out, I've gone through "Half Life", Arx Fatalis" & GTA3 + "Vice City". Compared to these, & my favourite "Hexen 2", it just seems really lame. But, it was very popular, IICR, and it's follow ups still are, perhaps?

I got to the bit w/the kind of depressed bit in the ground, w/the bridge over it. There's a door, which leads to some mines. Is there anything thrilling to come, or should I dump it & go back to sunny Vice City, or wtfe?

Dud, for now.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 20 June 2005 13:38 (twenty years ago)

this is where I saved before I went to bed last night

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 20 June 2005 13:39 (twenty years ago)

i'm not a big gamer, but this is one that i have enjoyed. mind you, this was about 5 years ago. and i only played it on an office LAN, which is think is the best way to enjoy the game, i.e. multiplayer with friends/co-workers who you can chase and kill. hooray!

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Monday, 20 June 2005 13:41 (twenty years ago)

You were probably playing Unreal Tournament Rob,

Unreal was a bog standard FPS game when it came out all those years ago not great not that bad, you might want to try Deus Ex Pash it's based on the same engine so it should run okay on your PC and has a FPS/RTS game play dynamic which works pretty well.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Monday, 20 June 2005 13:52 (twenty years ago)

"bog standard fps game" seems to describe it pretty well. I'll have another go tonight, and if it doesn't get any better, I'll uninstall it. I went all the way through "Mortyr" and that was really boring, so I'm not wasting time like that again.

I'll keep an eye out for deus ex, thx.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 20 June 2005 14:14 (twenty years ago)

i always enjoyed this more than quake / doom for some reason. can't remember if i ever finished it (um, think i am stuck at the very dark bit). but 5 years is an age in computer gaming terms and i can see that post Half-Life it'll feel a bit primitive.

― koogs (koogs), Monday, 20 June 2005 14:29 (twenty years ago)

Yea and Unreal came out a LONG time after Doom and even Quake. Quake 1 and 2 DM are still more fun than Unreal in my mind.

― DAEREST V1CE MAGAZINE!!!!! (ex machina), Monday, 20 June 2005 14:34 (twenty years ago)

I still really like Doom and Doom2!

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 20 June 2005 14:38 (twenty years ago)

it's about about the UT2k4

or get Battlefield 2 or the new Star Wars Battleground II that'll be out shortly...

these games are all about the multiplayer play, anyway...

― kingfish (Kingfish), Monday, 20 June 2005 16:12 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

Anyone else downloaded the Unreal Tournament III demo yet?

― James Mitchell, Saturday, 13 October 2007 09:28 (eighteen years ago)

I never finished "Unreal", I got to a really hard bit and gave up.

By coincidence, I picked up the "Unreal anthology" disc at hmv last week, it was cheap enough that I bought it on impulse/out of curiosity. I played "unreal 2" for a bit, it was pretty tedious for starters, but suddenly got very good. It's pretty much a bog-standard sci-fi FPS, but you don't notice b/c the levels are so pretty! Also the NPCs are total cliches - the wisecracking tech, the alien spaceship commander w/a funny accent & the "hott", sassy navigator (gis "unreal aida" for some lolz) - but they're kind of likeable in their lameness & the voice acting is agreeably goofy for all that.

The other night, I got stuck, and had a go on UT 2004. Holy shit, it's like crack! I've been up til 3am the last few days doing the "just one more go" thing. Some of the levels are gorgeous, especially the outdoor/countryside ones. I'd probably never have bought these @ full price, but for cheap (I got a multideal thing w/the budget rerelease of "Doom 3", which starts off great, but gets pretty tedious pretty qucikly) it's great.

― Pashmina, Saturday, 13 October 2007 10:12 (eighteen years ago)

UT is multiplayer, with other real people blasting at you, right? I have only done that once, I think it was Quake or Quake 2 or something and every time I would start a game I would get killed INSTANTLY by someone who i think was just waiting around for new players to appear on a known spot in the game that players appear from, it was completely unfair! I think once I managed to get a few feet down the side of the closest building but then I got zapped again, I think I almost hit my computer in frustration. I felt very old and slow and stupid.

― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 13 October 2007 13:03 (eighteen years ago)

Noob

― Lynskey, Saturday, 13 October 2007 13:03 (eighteen years ago)

ahh spawn camping

― Jarlrmai, Saturday, 13 October 2007 13:28 (eighteen years ago)

one month passes...

I got past the bit I was stuck on on "Unreal 2" and got to the end. Very downbeat ending with some actual genuine pathos there. Whatever next?

How do you get past that green robot at the end of "UT04"? The little fucker is BASTARD HARD.

― Pashmina, Sunday, 9 December 2007 00:51 (eighteen years ago)

The new UT sucks balls.

― Mr. Goodman, Sunday, 9 December 2007 01:10 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah? I saw some bumf about it but hadn't paid any attention, I figured it wouldn't run on my computer.

I liked the UT04 mission where you have to invade the brewery in the australian outback.

― Pashmina, Sunday, 9 December 2007 01:14 (eighteen years ago)

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.