I miss those so much. Any modern games still playing with this concept? I remember Half Life had the bathroom, kitchen, and office, and I remember a backyard one in Quake 3 that was really cool.

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    102 years ago

    Man, this post brought me back memories of Unreal Tournament (and 2k4) and now I feel very nostalgic for all those custom maps and weapons. Used to spend so much time playing giant insta-gib deathmatches (and when I had all the time in my late-teens/early 20s). Wish that game is still supported.

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      52 years ago

      What are your opinions on Xonotic? It’s a FPS that borrows many things from Quake and UT games, features a lot of modes and has an active online community, so I think it could provide a similar feel?

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      I used to play a ton of Quake 3 Rails only Instagib! I was hosting a Q3 server for a while not long ago, but just didn’t have the time to dedicate to it. Might be fun to spin up again. It would run 24/7 with bots so I’d just hop in and out during lunch downtime or something.

      What a throwback.

  • @[email protected]
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    102 years ago

    Good old de_rats. I never saw something like that for other games, but brings up memories. I should install 1.6 again sometime…

    • r00ty
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      22 years ago

      Yep, immediately what I thought of when I saw this.

    • prole
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      22 years ago

      Came here to say Tinykin. Great game that nobody ever seems to talk about. Hard to recommend irl as well since the name makes it sound like a kid’s edutainment title or something.

  • @[email protected]
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    52 years ago

    I haven’t actually played it yet, but HYPERCHARGE: Unboxed has been in my Steam library for ages. That looks like it may scratch your itch …

    I really miss some “toy soliders” 3D shoot-em-up that I can just baaaaaaarely remember from the 1990s … does anybody remember the game I’m thinking about? (There was definitely a series, I distinctly recall the name ending in “2” …)

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    82 years ago

    My kids showed me some Minecraft maps with that concept. Unfortunately I don’t know where they got them.

    In the Thief: The Dark Project mission The Sword you can find a gigantic room.

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    122 years ago

    It Takes Two is a great co-op (no singleplayer) game where you play two parents who are going to a divorce when they are turned into two dolls and need to find their way to their daughter while getting across their yard and house.

    It’s really fun for couch co-op!

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    152 years ago

    Rat maps! Those were so fun back in the day. Some real good ones for CS and HL1.

  • @[email protected]
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    12 years ago

    HL2DM had some awesome rat maps. I need to backup my collection of source maps off my old hard drive.

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    32 years ago

    TF2 has some good ones. Those were the days, along with the original prop hunt, rocket jump maps and sledding.

  • @[email protected]
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    152 years ago

    Not a shooter, but superliminal I think has a few levels that let you use portals to change your size, and there’s no limits on how many times you can do it, so you can shrink yourself to be microscopic to the point where you can fit inside a straw and it takes like a minute to walk to the end of the straw. Everything in the room is modeled to be quite detailed, so there’s also a chess board, and you can get on top of the rook piece and it’s like being on top of a castle.

    Pretty fun puzzle game

  • Sage
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    52 years ago

    Theres hypercharged: unboxed its oretty fun. Also some toy story games kinda scratch that itch for me

  • glacials
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    142 years ago

    There’s a survival game called Grounded that’s basically this but even smaller. And a coop story action/adventure called It Takes Two that does the same.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      52 years ago

      I’ve been playing through It Takes Two with my SO, such a great game. I’ll have to check out Grounded, 40% off right now.

      • raccoona_nongrata
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        22 years ago

        It’s a lot of fun, but is a lot better with at least one other person. When it was free for a weekend my friend and I basically did nothing but that game for three days.

        Big spiders tho 😬