synthetic wrote:Ok, gave it a little go, enough to explore the first mission area in town. It certainly tries to stay true to the original, but the map design annoys the heck out of me. Unrealistic and bulky is best way to describe it imo. I think the receptionist had the best voice acting, rest are various degrees of bad. Still better voice acting than Freelancer, lol.
Going to try and complete it coming days, if the maps dont piss me off too much. Kind of irritating to explore claustrophobic spaces that don't really say what they're supposed to be. I understand that chinese are stereotypically slender, but come on. Some misaligned textures, but with high graphics its pretty decent looking aside the geometry.
WARNING, THIS POST CONTAINS SPONTANEOUS OUTBURSTS OF THE F-WORD.
Here was my first game experience:
Start on a helicopter platform, take the stairs down, fall off the stairs because shitty design.
Hey wait, did that really happen? Let's try it again!
Go up, take stairs down, fall again. Yep those stairs are shit. They look nice though. Ok, one more time.
Go up, take stairs down, fall again. Ok it's definitely the stairs, the steps are too short. How lazy he didn't fix that.
Let's keep walking. Hmmm, these textures look kinda crappy. Is that what he meant with "this mod has been optimized for New Vision" because it looks like shit without it. God I hate New Vision because everybody expects you to use that shit and I prefer vanilla DX. Oh well, as long as gameplay in Nihilum is good I can live with all these little flaws. Now where's my first mission?
Ah, I've found an office, let's see what's in...
*SOUNDS OF NAILS GOING OVER A BLACKBOARD*
*throws off headphones*
Holy shit what was that? That hurt my ears! What the fuck, that's in the sound track? Holy shit that sound fucking sucked! Fuck this mod and its maker!! FUCK, FUCK, FUCK!!!
I tried the mod again later with the music off but seriously: what an overrated piece of crap. Maybe I still "haven't gotten to the good parts yet" but so far I've only been disappointed. I still have it installed and I might try it again later but the city map was plain stupid. I got bored very quickly so I went on a killing spree and I found out that HKMilitary wasn't even carrying weapons. How lame is that?
On the bright side I liked it more than Terminus Machina which was a complete waste of good coding since everything else about that mod sucked.
What's with the crappy mods lately anyway? I've been trying to stay quiet about it because I know how much work can be put into a mod. But I can't stand this anymore, particularly the "yeah let's use NV because then I don't have to go through the trouble of making this texture 256x256, too bad for the people who don't use NV!" That's not good modding in my book.
So there's my honest opinion. I hope nobody is overly offended by it but I'm kinda tired of holding back my opinion on mods just because I'm working on a mod myself. If someone would have complained about the stairs and the soundtrack and the unarmed HKmilitary when this was still in testing mode they could have fixed that.
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