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What went right?
All of it from start to finish.
It felt to me like they built 2 from the ground up. They either did that or removed features and I have no idea why they'd do either.
Besides the three-weapon limit, this game is pure bliss and carnage.
>>334255137
F.E.A.R. 2 was a goddamn mess.
>>334255030
Base game was fantastic. Right level of immersion and action with an excellent AI.
>playing FEAR expansion
>have grenade in hand
>low on hp
>at part with phone
>pick up phone
>SUDDENLY SCREAM
>panic and chuck grenade
>mfw blew myself up
>>334255030
its a pretty shitty game, not a lot of people liked it at launch even
>>334255030
Developed purely for PC.
Made in that sweet spot in time when graphics were good and a little story was expected, but gameplay was still king.
>>334258717
reddit is that way
Great FPS gameplay
Good horror
Excellent game
>>334257192
>have grenade in hand
FEAR uses dedicated grenade button. Maybe you meant GL?
>>334259468
>Good horror
Nope.
>Fear 1 was awesome
>I even liked the expansions
>Fear 2 was good but a noticeable step down
>I liked the expansion where you play as a Replica soldier
>Fear 3 is literal what the fuck
>The multiplayer was neat but died real quick
How did they fuck up 3 so badly? I almost gave up at the kill the creep fight it was so stupid
>>334259509
Fuck you, man. I played a ton of scary games. Silent Hill 1 through 4, Fatal Frame 2 and 3, Penumbra and Amnesia, the Clocktower games back in the day.
F.E.A.R. was more cheesy in its horror, sure, but it still had some great memorable spooks to it.
>good gunplay
>lean function
>hard shadows and lighting
>exceptionally well done particle effects like sparks and dust
>AI work that went hand in hand with the environment
The entire FEAR series is a perfect example of consolization.
>>334259940
It uses literal jump scares, but still isn't really scary because Replicas are scared of you (for a good reason, too), Alma can't really hurt you and spooky ghosts look silly.
Replica assassins are kind of creepy though, but in a cool way. Liked fighting them.
>>334260008
Lean is actually kind of OP, enemies will often fail to notice you if you lean, let alone hit you.
>>334260125
I don't know, I think there are some nice spooks throughout the game. Like that shadow that disappears into the shallow water, or Alma popping up behind the window when you turn the power on.
Also, the replicas have this non-human feeling towards them that I feel adds to the horror and isolation.
>>334255030
released just in time before monolith became wb's butt boys.
>>334255030
Most overrated FPS of last decade
>>334260574
The spooks are telegraphed by your interface flickering. Oh, my HUD does the spooky thing, time to put the gun away and enjoy the spook. Okay, it's over, back to the action.
Replicas feel more humane than a lot of supposedly human FPS antagonists, actually. I really feel for that one last guy every time I hear his desperate "He wiped out the whole squad!" on the radio. I'm sorry, last clone standing. Now, eat 10mm spikes.
>>334260125
>playing on easy
>>334260574
the spooks were only decent until you realize after a couple hours alma has no intention to hurt the point man and she serves as a lore device instead.
Niggas hating on F.E.A.R. 2, when it's actually pretty spooky. You just need to look for the spooks. I noticed that when I started looking at every corner of the game. Alma pops up in a lot of places.
>>334260836
people hate on fear 2 because it was blatantly cowdoodied.
>>334260008
>have the ability to slow down time and become a bullet spitting roundhouse kick tornado sweeping over your enemies
>use lean and play the game like some Rainbow Six tactical shooter
>>334260998
>being a slowmo babby this much
>>334260825She does try to kill you at the very end. A very unorthodox final boss.
But yeah, it would have been better if the spooky parts could actually harm you in some way. The ghosts charging at you are okay, but something more would be appreciated.
>>334260907
How? It played almost exactly the same as the first, just with less interesting AI.
>>334260836
F.E.A.R. 2 had some nice spooks, but the gameplay was dumbed down, and the writing was godawful.
One of the early spooky sections of the game starts of with the annoying hacker guy talking about pizza and anime conventions. Kinda ruins the mood.
The school hallway was phenomenal though.
>>334260836
only good level was school. rest of the game was heavily consolized with dumber ai and they took out all the aweosme jackie chan melee. they dropped so many effects like particles and smoke filling the rooms during a firefight. awful fucking helmet hud.
>>334261436
That hud was good though.
>>334261202
There were those parts yeah, but I actually giggled a bit at the aorta thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hd4j-a94qak
It was a time when there still was a market on PC for less than AAA borefest and more than indie shitfest.
Or maybe is just nostalgia.
>>334260746
You know what they say about assumptions?
>>334261202
I liked Snake Fist. RIP. Though, to be fair, the way they killed him off was pretty cheap.
>bought FEAR at launch
>PC couldn't play game on max settings or high settings because shit PC
>still have physical copy
>install it and play it at max settings
Back in the day, I would've shit myself not out of fear, but how impressed everything looked. Admittedly some textures looked lazily done, the rest looked well for a game of its time.
>>334261906
>I liked Snake Fist.
You're all alone on that one.
>>334255694
B-B-BUT COD BABIES LOVE IT
>>334255694
>>334259675
>>334260836
The school level in 2 was perfect. The rest was pretty eh
>>334261150
for me it was because the gunplay felt weaker and less satisfying, also
>hit markers in a single player fps
monolith can't into sequels
>>334260574
That shadow is one of the assassins, you can kill it with slo-mo for lulz.
no alma no
>What went right?
Not the level design, that's for sure.
>>334255030
Monolith.
They sure know how to make horror fps right.
Good:
>guns all felt great
>slow mo mechanic lead to great power trip moments
>AI felt smart (inb4 ACKSHUALLY...)
>lots of movement options
Bad:
>setting
>story
>the "horror"
I really don't know why people praise this game for the story and spooks. It was really weak. Great game though.
>>334255030
What went right ? 10mm HV Penetrator went right.Such an awesome weapon.10/10 would play again this game only for this wonderful piece of equipment
>>334255030
no one ever mentions the sound design. whoever was FEAR's sound guy is a fucking genius
>those body impact sounds
>those shell casing sounds in slow mo
>that shotgun blast
>HE'S TOO F- AUUUUUUUUUUGHHHHHHHH
>>334261202
Eh, FEAR 1 had some dumb humour moments too. The fat guy comic relief being there especially during the ending. I also recall in one of the expansions it was supposed to be a really tense and spoopy moment but meanwhile you could hop around activating the copy machines to make butt photocopies.
>>334259175
What the fuck happened to the focus on gameplay
Why the fuck have story games taken over and RPG elitists crawled out of the woodwork to shill their virtual novels
>>334265321
Making stellar gameplay is hard as hell compared to making a mediocre worse-than-B-tier movie.
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>>334262115
>that ending
As much as F.E.A.R. 2 disappointed me, it's the only game to give me a fetish for forced impregnation by ghost women.
A pretty good retrospective on the entire series:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVa6wlgR9CM
The guy goes a little tumblr at the end, but otherwise it's a solid look back.
>>334264765
>that laser carbine
I know good "game feel" is a meme, but whatever it is, FEAR has it
>>334268720
There is literally nothing unscientific about a game feeling pleasing to play and control, even though CoD is a symbol of things people don't like about the industry it's still got excellent shooting and is obviously addictive since people can play so much of it for however many years straight now.
>>334260703
>The spooks are telegraphed by your interface flickering
I liked that and thought it helped with them. It's like with the radio in Silent Hill, they're telling you something is coming and sometimes it's just a neat little gag, sometimes it's a bit creepy, sometimes it's straight up a great spook.And sometimes it's not telegraphed at all and it starts bleeding in what you thought were safe non-horror action segmentsAnd sometimes the scare happens in the distance and isn't mentioned anywhere and you'd have to be paying attention to the background to notice it
I will admit that F.E.A.R. is nowhere near around being the scariest horror game. But it's still pretty great by vidya horror standards. And then you add in the fact it has unarguably the funnest gameplay of any horror video game and, well, you get yourself a 10/10 game.
>>334264765
I completely agree. I would have finish this game by now, if the spooky moment didn't ruin the pacing.
FEAR 3 was the first in the series I played and it's literally shit. Apart from fun effects like exploding dudes, gore, kicking, slomo, and the shotgun, the rest was so bad. I could understand what the story wanted to tell me for the most part, but why did an entire city become expert zombie knife throwers (also most annoying part of the game)? Worse than Call of Duty singleplayer.
>>334269854
Just play the first fear and the expansions. Pretend that the sequels don't exist.
>>334270281
I own all of that and played a few hours of the first but fear 3 left a bad aftertaste. I'm sure I'll get back to it someday...
