Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-1915529-20140221183807/@comment-3547390-20140608011045

Yeah, Unreal's plot is just escape while every other game is fight and get further into the world, meaning it is the best for doing the exact opposite of everything else. The story would be awesome if it was better implemented. Imagine if they all had the depth and complexity of Thief? Actually, on that logic, the System Shock series did that right. It might have had mechanics that were annoying, but the story was amazing and extremely creative for its time.

Actually, I liked how Unreal was handled. We didn't have story tropes blasting in your face. You were a prisoner, met creatures that were violent and fought them, and align yourself with the harmless Nali. Then again, I would have enjoyed if the Nali turned out to be the enslavers. I mean, the prisoner just landed and has taken a side. What if the Skaarj was a resistance group putting up defenses while the Nali were secretly enslavers (Dark Arena could have worked perfectly for the forshadowing).

I haven't even touched a game of that series after the first Unreal. I personally am bugged by the way the series went. Suddenly you were running and gunning, a marine in a tournament fighting against a ton of other people. It just didn't have the same feel as being a prisoner with no power on an alien world. Quake has tough marines, but the series has always been about such characters (I wish Quake had continued with the Lovecraftian direction, I don't believe there is a game out there as dark as Quake). Unreal Tournament basically betrayed the premise of the original game in favor of standard FPS stuff.

XD, it takes you a while to get through a bottle.

Ah, we never will have a game as dark and insane as Quake in the mainstream. Look at some of these ads! Why don't we have stuff like this anymore?

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