Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-5641163-20150522174501/@comment-5641163-20150524110106

Yowzer, not many XPers left in the world (3% according to Steam). Despite my long time loyalty to XP long after everyone else had upgraded, these days I find it hard to put up with, though I have to as some of my clients still have it. I can feel my XP expertise slowly evaporating as the time between encounters steadily increases...

Yeah, I know, Tie Figher for Windows doesn't compare to the Collector's edition, but I only ever played the version I've got now (I came to it pretty late, and didn't even know there was a DOS version until much later) so to me it's the definitive. And it's fun to actually use my joystick for the first (and only) time since I played through TF the first time... It's a miracle I didn't throw it away. And you're right, it's a massive campaign, and some of the secret goals are a bitch to get, too.

My favourite thing about Q4 is Strauss, your morbid, morose and fatalistic companion for most of the game. That and the giant spider. And the giant... "thing" you fight on the roof.

Always found it hard to pin down, almost exactly halfway between Quake 2 and Doom 3 (a game I only really enjoyed on my second playthrough once I found the essential "duct tape" torch mod, there's one for Q4 too) but fun nonetheless, if a little unbalanced in difficulty. I particularly liked the whole Strogg writing thing, it was a really nice touch.

The last boss battle annoyed me immensely, as I recall, and I definitely preferred the outdoor stuff to the endless insanely dark corridors, I wrote a review at the time and my main comparison was with Area 51, an almost identical game that I enjoyed a lot more. It'll be interesting to see how I find it after a three or four year break.

Ah yes, the eternal grace of the feline. Mine rolled over the other day and fell off the surface he was lying on. I had to use my entire willpower to stop myself from laughing, while he casually cleaned himself and pretended that nothing happened. I looked the other way to maintain the illusion. Idiot. ;-)