Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-1915529-20140702204420/@comment-1496755-20141008191141

True story - I did visit the Wiki in 2009/2010 as well, and it had about 10-20 pages tops. It was a little sad to look at... but then, some time later, I came back and behold - it was alive and growing!

How I would describe Soldier of Fortune... hmmm, perhaps like a marriage of Doom and Dark Forces, with a tiny bit of Call of Duty (just for the nuance). The DF part comes from the fact that you do missions in various parts of the world (country jumping - a cheap alternative of planet jumping).

Indeed, Quake 2 seems to hate everything newer than Windows 98... or perhaps it's the new hardware that's causing all the resentment? I'm not sure. It's stable enough on XP, as long as you are careful. The Reckoning seems to be most crash-prone, for reasons unknown.

Death, I think you will like Hexen - being a seasoned Thief player, you shouldn't have much trouble with the exploration and puzzle elements. The game doesn't really have any tally screens or stats (except for the ones that GZDoom shows on your HUD), so being 100% completionist becomes pointless. If you wish some new form of completionism, it could be finding all the secret levels, for example.

Make sure you get the mission pack too - it's hard, but fun. And the designers really squeezed every last drop of juice from the engine. There are some quite impressive tricks here and there.

Even though you deny it, you have learned a lot since you started playing Heretic. Think about how well you handle Iron Liches now... compared to the horror you experienced during the rare encounters in Ep. 2. Think about how the first Maulotaurs you fought wiped the floor with you... and now you are getting noticeably better at fighting them. D'Sparil is probably the only enemy that you haven't mastered completely yet.

By the way, I love the way Raven re-use some of their classic stuff. I was playing Jedi Academy recently and there is one spot where Kyle Katarn says: "No one ever said being a Jedi was glamorous." Epic Heretic reference FTW :)