STRAFE: The Bleeding Edge Game set for '96 Release

[JimmyJ]

The performance in strafe seems weirdly poor, after the first couple rooms it really chugs bad for me and doesn't let up.

[MetroidJunkie]

Could have something to do with all those pixels of blood and acid that get sprayed around as a fight drags on. Funny thing is, if this was playing on an actual 1996 computer, even if it was a state of the art computer, there's no way it would run with any degree of smoothness.

[VGA]

Could have something to do with all those pixels of blood and acid that get sprayed around as a fight drags on. Funny thing is, if this was playing on an actual 1996 computer, even if it was a state of the art computer, there's no way it would run with any degree of smoothness.

You could say the same for many retro NES style platformers released recently ... or Unity-powered crap.

[DoomRater]

Speaking of Unity powered, this game is more STRAFE than STRAFE is right now: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/654018

[MetroidJunkie]

You could say the same for many retro NES style platformers released recently ... or Unity-powered crap.

Which is how you can tell it's just a gimmick. To their credit, at least the people who made Retro Rampage actually managed to get it running on the NES and they didn't have to downgrade it nearly as much as you'd think.

[Big C]

Yeah, at least Vblank knows their old hardware. STRAFE's devs seem to be more crudely aping aspects of old FPSes.

[Xaser]

To be frank, I don't give a fark about anachronisms so long as they nail some semblance of oldschool gameplay down. That remains to be seen, of course.

[wildweasel]

To be frank, I don't give a fark about anachronisms so long as they nail some semblance of oldschool gameplay down. That remains to be seen, of course.

I don't mind SOME anachronisms, but sometimes, it's absolutely inexcusably bad.

[MetroidJunkie]

Yeah, at least Vblank knows their old hardware. STRAFE's devs seem to be more crudely aping aspects of old FPSes.

Can you imagine if all indie developers were held to that standard where they have to make it playable on the system that they're trying to base the graphics on? At least it would force them to actually optimize it a little better.

[Athel]

Wait...if this is 1996...then how does ZDoom and this forum exist?

[leileilol]

I'm bumping this 2 year thread, because the game launched a couple days back on Steam and GoG, and someone here on this old fps game revised to have dynamic lights forum might have an opinion or two about it and forgot this thread existed.

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and it's confirmed my suspicions all along and I don't really need to repeat what I've said.

[Nash]

Still looks like the overabundant "indie grafic's" style of blocky art with no actual art put into it, yet sugarcoated as "oldschool".

[Sgt Nate V]

Why. Just why.

[NeuralStunner]

They seem to have captured the feel of "overhyped Quake clone" perfectly.

It's not even that it looks too bad visually, but the level of sheer conceit that's rolled into the entire product is just as off-putting.

[4thcharacter]

That commercial is just seemed like Hatred V0.5 to me.