It was, and I am eternally :deeper-sadness: over the fact that some stupid update they made to windows or something recently broke the game & made it have unplayable amounts of stuttering & slowdown that increase the longer that you play it.
It's extremely rare that you can get a "tactical shooter" game that is actually tactically engaging, and in which the guns actually feel impactful & fun to use. In fact most shooters these days, I would say, have a big problem with having weapons that just don't feel good to shoot. It's not a universal issue obviously, but most the games where this isn't a problem are some sort of boomer-shooter revival game, and while I'm a fan of those, sometimes you want something that isn't going a thousand miles a minute.
I think the big problem with FEAR now, or at least the one I hear people talk about, is that it breaks if you have Nvidia hardware. I think there's fanmade patches to fix it.
But god, yeah, the guns in FEAR. Best shotgun in gaming still, to this day, and that assault rifle felt so meaty too, I loved it. And the AI still holds up too.
Honestly, your comment here makes me wish there were some mid-tier indie-devs doing a spiritual successor to Doom 3, or the original FEAR game now.
God the original FEAR was so good
It was, and I am eternally :deeper-sadness: over the fact that some stupid update they made to windows or something recently broke the game & made it have unplayable amounts of stuttering & slowdown that increase the longer that you play it.
It's extremely rare that you can get a "tactical shooter" game that is actually tactically engaging, and in which the guns actually feel impactful & fun to use. In fact most shooters these days, I would say, have a big problem with having weapons that just don't feel good to shoot. It's not a universal issue obviously, but most the games where this isn't a problem are some sort of boomer-shooter revival game, and while I'm a fan of those, sometimes you want something that isn't going a thousand miles a minute.
I think the big problem with FEAR now, or at least the one I hear people talk about, is that it breaks if you have Nvidia hardware. I think there's fanmade patches to fix it.
But god, yeah, the guns in FEAR. Best shotgun in gaming still, to this day, and that assault rifle felt so meaty too, I loved it. And the AI still holds up too.
Shame about the sequels tho.
Nightmare Reaper is some kind of weird mashup of OG doom, Duke3d, a looter-shooter, and a couple of other neat retro concepts.
I have heard of it , yes.