Jasin Natael wrote on 2025-02-04, 15:12:

I'm very nostalgic for all these period FPS games. I really enjoyed Quake 2 at the time, and I've recently replayed it and while it could get a bit old looking for keycards in warehouses, it's still a great game and I had fun playing it again. Unreal is definitely a product of it's time as well, but it has the strong nostalgia factor for me. It's usually the fist game that I install on a fresh build and I fire it up to test out the castle flyby as a standard stability test. Silly, maybe but it's my go to.

What surprised me at the time is the Quake II campaign for PC being totally different from the one on the N64, so I could kinda experience playing the Quake II campaign for the first time twice =P

I did kinda like the final boss fight in Unreal, but now (many years later) I know I'm never much of a fan for boss fights in any game. I don't dislike them or anything, it's just they usually don't cause any significant neuron activation for me and I prefer exploring (difficult) terrain and fighting lots of enemies over single boss 'epic' fights in a single room.
Boss fights for me are more somethings I need to get through to go back to the (for me) really interesting parts of the game (or in the case of Unreal to start the flyby animation that awe-struck me speechless the first time I saw it, I had no idea these even existed back in the day so the surprise for me was complete and all I could do was keep watching in amazement and like a statue as the game neared its ending scene).

The most memorable portion of the boss fight was me dropping all my nali seeds behind some pillar somewhere and rushing back in to heal till I figured out how to beat this boss 🤣.

Tetrium wrote on 2025-03-15, 08:19:

The most memorable portion of the boss fight was me dropping all my nali seeds behind some pillar somewhere and rushing back in to heal till I figured out how to beat this boss 🤣.

Mine was killing the Skaarj Queen by using the fully upgraded Dispersion Pistol with a Energy Amplifier I was holding onto to the end of the game and ASMD shock combo attacks.