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3Feb 12
I was thinking about Starship Troopers AS USUAL* and it suddenly brought me in mind of Quantum Gate, which I played once in maybe 1995 and entirely forgot until just now. Says the box: An adventure game set on a distant planet, you are sent out to fight in a war with an alien race.....or are you? (You are not.)
It was a first-person interactive movie; mostly you watched live-action cutscenes in teeny tiny frames and very occasionally you shot stuff. The shooting happened in a blocky VR mode, supposedly an augmented reality overlay built into the envirosuit that kept you from being dissolved by the alien planet's atmosphere of acid vapour or whatever.
Though it and Starship Troopers share a few generic sci-fi plot points (space marines! shooting aliens!), what dredged up the memory was this same bleakly satirical vision of Earth's future military: brutal and sanitised, like Starship Troopers' jingoistic Federal Network ("Would you like to know more?").
Right near the end (spoiler), your spacesuit got ruptured in a shooting bit (spoiler), and then (spoiler):
And then (spoiler).
It was more interesting than excellent, but check the video anyway for its authentic first-person soldiering stream of consciousness. Transcript:THE HELL IS GOING ON WHAT IS THAT SOUND OH JESUS OH JESUS THERE'S A RAID OH MAN I DO NOT WANT TO GO DO THIS OH DAMNIT
*It was on TV
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I have fond memories of a similar(ish) game from that era - The Dark Eye - stop-motion cutscenes linked point-and-click gameplay that featured (amongst other things) a selection of macabre tales from E. A. Poe, voice-acting by William S. Burroughs and a musical score by Thomas Dolby. Still one of my favourite "games" of all time. Sadly, the copy I have won't play nice with recent iterations of Quicktime.
I have fond memories of a similar(ish) game from that era - The Dark Eye - stop-motion cutscenes linked point-and-click gameplay that featured (amongst other things) a selection of macabre tales from E. A. Poe, voice-acting by William S. Burroughs and a musical score by Thomas Dolby. Still one of my favourite "games" of all time. Sadly, the copy I have won't play nice with recent iterations of Quicktime.
I know this was a PC game, but for some reason it made me think of the Jaguar. Either way, a lot of stories on Gamespot are making me feel really old, like Dannyodwyer's piece on Final Fantasy. One of the things I'd really like about working at Gamespot would be the opportunity to reminisce with like-minded gamers that actually played games in an arcade. Kids these days look at me cross-eyed when I mention Operation: Wolf.
I know this was a PC game, but for some reason it made me think of the Jaguar. Either way, a lot of stories on Gamespot are making me feel really old, like Dannyodwyer's piece on Final Fantasy. One of the things I'd really like about working at Gamespot would be the opportunity to reminisce with like-minded gamers that actually played games in an arcade. Kids these days look at me cross-eyed when I mention Operation: Wolf.
Video reminded me a little of The Journeyman Project games, although nowhere near as cool or interesting.
Video reminded me a little of The Journeyman Project games, although nowhere near as cool or interesting.
thanks for reminding me about the Starship Troopers game... the ol-strategy-one,damn that was a good game!
thanks for reminding me about the Starship Troopers game... the ol-strategy-one,damn that was a good game!
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