Undying - Clive Barker's Horror Rollercoaster FPS
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- čas přidán 3. 07. 2024
- Clive Barker's Undying is a relatively obscure horror-flavored guns n' magic FPS that has developed a cult following over the years. It features a handful innovations for the genre, and is arguably quite ahead of its time. In this video review, I analyze it to see if it has held up over the years, or if it has ultimately become a historic curiosity.
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00:00 Intro
01:20 Acquiring + No patches!
02:30 Story 1
04:36 Visuals
08:41 Audio
11:00 General Gameplay
15:31 Weapons
20:31 Magic
25:05 Level Design
34:03 Story 2 (SPOILERS)
36:39 Concluding Thoughts - Hry
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I think this was my first dive into the horror genre when I was younger. Went directly from this to the Penumbra series and so forth. This is so nostalgic.
Pretty good place to start. I don't have nostalgia for this game (since I first played it in 2018) but it still holds up. I personally don't find it to be scary, though I have developed a resistance to horror over the years.
I recall being disappointed that it didn't leverage the repeated use of the mansion into a Metroidvania structure, but the raw style of the game carries it beautifully. I love it.
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Not going to lie. A drunk, angry Irish Sonic the hedgehog sounds frightening.
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I dunno about hitboxes, never noticed anything wonky aside from that bullets don't connect magically as in modern shooters (I've beat Undying for the first time last year). I think old games used proper hitboxes that lines up with model where to shoot leg you need to actually aim at the leg, not in a general direction of a lower body part. Yeah, it feels wrong quite often, especially for a more fast paced arcade-y game, but that's how it was. Arcade shooters probably should have hitboxes that are bigger than the model. That magnetic bullets BS was popurazied by halo I think, because gamepads are inaccurate and you need to compensate lack of accuracy.
I don't remember exactly what I said in this video, but I believe I theorized the game may just have inconsistent damage feedback. Either way, there was a non-negligible number of moments where it seemed like my bullets passed through enemies. With no tracers or bullet holes, it's difficult to gauge the trajectory of bullets, so I don't think we'll know for sure what the root of Undying's problem here is.
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