F.E.A.R. 2: best of the series?

[GamerGuy]

What about prototype 1?

sorry dude, I don't think I'd gotten that game...

Edit - I know it's OT, but I'd love to see Giants: Citizen Kabuto given the Remake treatment too!

 

[neatfeatguy]

sorry dude, I don't think I'd gotten that game...

Edit - I know it's OT, but I'd love to see Giants: Citizen Kabuto given the Remake treatment too!

Giants: Citizen Kabuto - I really liked that game when it came out. Not sure it needs to be remade, but it was entertaining to play back then.

Spoiler

Got myself an unopened copy of that game. It was one of the games I had years ago that my younger brother found (while I was away my freshman year of college) and obliterated the box/manual/disc because he wanted to play it (he trashed dozens of of my games this way). I came across an unopened copy about 10-12 years ago and picked it up. Shortly after I found GoG had it as a free game so I got a digital copy of it on GoG.

As for FEAR 2, I never got around to playing it, at least not that I can recall. I got the game, along with all the other FEAR games (including 3) from a bundle off Fanatical 5 or 6 years ago because I wanted to replay FEAR and the expansions and I was too lazy to dig out my physical copies. Maybe I should give it a play sometime.

FEAR 3 I remember trying the demo and the one thing that really irked me about it was all the items you could pick up were highlighted and they flashed....something straight out of console gaming at the time. FEAR was originally for the PC and was ported over to consoles a couple year later. You can tell that after that the games started to be designed more and more for the console first and PC as an after thought and you could feel it in FEAR 3 (just from the demo). I straight up refuse to play FEAR 3 just because the demo left such a sour taste in my mouth.

 

[Vario]

I think FEAR 1 + Extraction Point + Perseus Mandate was better than FEAR 2 but FEAR 2 was an excellent game. I really liked that time period in action/sci fi games, so many good examples: Doom 3/RoE, AvP1/2, Halo CE, Farcry, Crysis, Riddick Butcher Bay/Athena, Quake 4, Prey (original), Tribes2, just to name a few.

 

[Artas1984]

A couple of people won video cards, but I got a F.E.A.R. jacket and autographed copy of the game, signed by the whole dev team.

What? Man, you're one lucky sob Frag! Now i surely envy that shit! Do you have that jacket still? Can you post a photo of it?

What video cards were given as prize for that original competition? Was it the year 2006?

 

[Artas1984]

This was a nice movie reference/easter egg. Did someone catch that?

 

[LabRat 891]

This was a nice movie reference/easter egg. Did someone catch that?

Yes. I caught that 1st time I played.
IIRC, it'd been less than a year after I first saw Office Space.

(Also, I've seen the "TPS Report" easteregg in many games, since. Definitely one of those Cult flicks well-engrained into nerd/geek/gamer 'culture'.)

 

[Frag_Maniac]

What? Man, you're one lucky sob Frag! Now i surely envy that shit! Do you have that jacket still? Can you post a photo of it?

What video cards were given as prize for that original competition? Was it the year 2006?

This is a full black jacket btw. It's just that the phone cam must have picked up the green tones in my couch. The material of the jacket has been kept in mint condition so still has a bit of a reflective sheen. Oddly the couch gives it a kind of Matrix vibe though. It's a pretty good quality jacket with a nice sweat wicking liner.

I think the GPUs they gave away were 6600 GTs. They were mid tier Nvidia at the time, and yeah I'm pretty sure it was 2006. The game autographed by the dev team is actually my more valued prize! I thought it was cool that they care enough about their fans to take time to do that.

Now that I recall they also gave out Armacham T-Shirts too as part of this prize pack, but they were X Large, so too big for me. I don't have that anymore. The Jacket is Large though and fits fine.

 

[Artas1984]

but I've only uploaded one to YT, a sub level of Interval 03 Escalation called Bad Water.

A yes, that was such an awesome movie Frag! I have watched it 10 years ago and now again. Impressive how you have managed to make this video in just "on go"!
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I feel like there is no need to create a separate FEAR 1 discussion or necro some old thread. I think this thread has gotten pretty big attention in "general FEAR terms" and we have discussed truly the arguments for which the original game from 2005 with it's first expansion from 2006 are the best overall.

On my recent FEAR series replays, for whatever reason i felt like Perseus Mandate was under-appreciated... While i agree that it is the weakest game in the series (still better than FEAR 3 though), it had some great atmospheric levels and i left a record of my last walkthrough for the sake of showing exactly that:

It's a simple walkthrough of level 9 showcasing the stronger points of horror elements in the game. This video is only for those who have not played this expansion, so you do not get brain fed by people who with bias say that Perseus Mandate sucked, and does not have anything good in it - that is BS. Just the last level of Perseus Mandate was the most challenging level in the original FEAR games series - to finish it on hard difficulty without dying once felt a like a real struggle, a challenge that the previous original games did not provide. Just for that this expansion did not suck in my book!

When it comes to Trepang2 - this game should have been a multiplayer release only. It's "single player" absolutely lacks everything that made FEAR/FEAR 2 great and does not even feel like one, more like random arenas filled with bots... Heck, i like original FEAR graphics more that Trepang2 graphics. Trepang2 is nowhere a spiritual successor of FEAR!

 

[Frag_Maniac]

A yes, that was such an awesome movie Frag! I have watched it 10 years ago and now again. Impressive how you have managed to make this video in just "on go"!
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I feel like there is no need to create a separate FEAR 1 discussion or necro some old thread. I think this thread has gotten pretty big attention in "general FEAR terms" and we have discussed truly the arguments for which the original game from 2005 with it's first expansion from 2006 are the best overall.

On my recent FEAR series replays, for whatever reason i felt like Perseus Mandate was under-appreciated... While i agree that it is the weakest game in the series (still better than FEAR 3 though), it had some great atmospheric levels and i left a record of my last walkthrough for the sake of showing exactly that:

It's a simple walkthrough of level 9 showcasing the stronger points of horror elements in the game. This video is only for those who have not played this expansion, so you do not get brain fed by people who with bias say that Perseus Mandate sucked, and does not have anything good in it - that is BS. Just the last level of Perseus Mandate was the most challenging level in the original FEAR games series - to finish it on hard difficulty without dying once felt a like a real struggle, a challenge that the previous original games did not provide. Just for that this expansion did not suck in my book!

When it comes to Trepang2 - this game should have been a multiplayer release only. It's "single player" absolutely lacks everything that made FEAR/FEAR 2 great and does not even feel like one, more like random arenas filled with bots... Heck, i like original FEAR graphics more that Trepang2 graphics. Trepang2 is nowhere a spiritual successor of FEAR!

Thanks, sadly that is an old video that I did in very low res due to my spec and capture tool at the time.

Lately I've been playing Alone in the Dark 2024. It doesn't have the same horror vibe as F.E.A.R., and the combat is a bit awkward. It has some good suspense though and the puzzles can be challenging. It's also pretty spooky in places.

 

[Fokker]

The first game was the best in the series as well as the expansion Extraction Point; Perseus Mandate was good, but not as good as the first game/expansion (I wasn't a fan of them stuffing in reflex time for the non-Pointman character). The story, horror element, and enemy AI was some of the best I have seen in an FPS, even to this day. Fear 2 improved on the environmental repetitiveness, but I just didn't care for the combat or writing as much. Fear 3 just felt weak in comparison and too great a departure from the first two. The separation of that one felt as jarring as the jump from Crysis to Crysis 2.

 

[Deleted member 239770]

F.E.A.R is not a bad game.
It just became too easy for me on the first try.

The fights are very predictable and they offer no real challenge, though I do admit the AI is better than average for a SP FPS making some newer games look archaic.

I have too much mechanical / intellect for it where my mind was shaped by CS and playing other FPS shooters against actual skilled opponents.

The story is lame in F.E.A.R and the scary shocks with the little girl become predictable and boring, so the only last resort is the games mechanics which frankly are excellent, but not at all challenging enough for me.

5/10.


-Modern perspective, though I have been gaming since 1995 (5 years old).

F.E.A.R 2 not played but own, 3rd the same story...

 

[64K]

FEAR 2 was just a shadow of the original FEAR. I played all 3 but the first FEAR is the only one that I replay every few years. It has it a lot to offer gamers. Great AI and the psychological effect of Alma popping up when you least expected it. The game lulled you into thinking you were just playing another shooter and then BAM, Alma makes another creepy as hell appearance. The game is a classic imo.

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