> which tasked the company with working on updates for "America's Army," the 2002 first-person shooter
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Ahhh so they're the ones who made that game less realistic and more modern shooter-y. Which I have no doubt is exactly what they were asked to do, because the original AA game was slow and a lot of people hated it compared to ut or cs1.6
Shame though, it was the only game that kinda had that level of realism, with "rifle from prone while waiting can hit you at 400+ yards, but if you're running around you struggle making hits under 100 yards" that encouraged very methodical play with teamwork and spotting.
> which tasked the company with working on updates for "America's Army," the 2002 first-person shooter
30 seconds
Ahhh so they're the ones who made that game less realistic and more modern shooter-y. Which I have no doubt is exactly what they were asked to do, because the original AA game was slow and a lot of people hated it compared to ut or cs1.6
Shame though, it was the only game that kinda had that level of realism, with "rifle from prone while waiting can hit you at 400+ yards, but if you're running around you struggle making hits under 100 yards" that encouraged very methodical play with teamwork and spotting.
I still remember sitting through a legitimate field medic first aid course before unlocking the medic class. That game was something else!
Doesn't the ARMA series at least support that level of realism?
Wow, I can see how many people would find this to be a very boring game but it looks amazing to me. Sad that I missed its golden age.
aeiou aeiou
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-- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv6RbEOlqRo
In case anyone wants to play around with DECtalk without downloading the game, there's https://webspeak.terminal.ink/
Here is my favorite one: https://youtu.be/aFbuSShYKpc
huehuehuehuehuehue john madden john madden
I'm not sure why but that is one of the funniest things I've ever seen on the internet.
somewhere, deep in my soul, I heard:
"JohnMaddenJohnMaddenJohnMaddenJohnMaddenJohnMaddenJohnMaddenJohnMaddenJohnMadden"
"uuuuuUuuuuUuuuuuuUuuuuuuUuu"
Another one is the Microsoft Sam (& co) speech synthesis, it can also produce funny results, like someone making copter sounds with it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_vNhLYW_e4
Obligatory John Madden song clip showing off the speech to text engine: https://youtu.be/ovcTKHupdxo?si=Qh_nsYmkGtwcxrMR
John Madden? John Madden!
Bad TTS is like an inverse uncanny valley where it's so inhuman it's charming.
Moonbase Alpha was the location where the TV show “Space: 1999” was set.
First episode saw the moon permanently leave Earth orbit.
aeiou
Spent years playing this game. It is the closest thing I've seen to real time chess. Also excellent soundtrack that sets the mood.
EDIT: whoops I thought this was moonbase commander, another NASA sponsored game from another time.
> real time chess
That would describe Crypt of the NecroDancer.
here comes another chinese earthquake ebrrrbrbrrbrrbr
Bah, thought this was related to the classic UK TV series Space:1999.