Which Doom source port developers would you hire for a job?

[Big C]

ITT: Modern games with good gameplay discussed without even mentioning Demon's Souls, Dark Souls, or Bloodborne once.

If we're going to mention games with high difficulty and weighty combat, don't forget Monster Hunter!

[GooberMan]

Which I still haven't played. Mostly because I never bought myself a Wii. It's been on my list for a very long time.

[Big C]

Which I still haven't played. Mostly because I never bought myself a Wii. It's been on my list for a very long time.

If you've got a 3DS skip directly to MH4 Ultimate. It's easily the most feature-complete game in the series to come to Western shores so far, which is impressive considering the size of the system it's on.

Also:

ITT: Modern games with good gameplay discussed without even mentioning Demon's Souls, Dark Souls, or Bloodborne once.

Also, TF2 is still quite good for competitive players. Avoid the casuls, find a server where clan players relax on, and enjoy the skill on display. I regularly dominate using the stock rocket launcher on soldier.

Yeah, I'll agree that TF2 has a good game deep beneath---I just found the economy, Source filmmaker culture, focus on goofy backstory and other general "name-branding" compared to TFC's no-frills no-nonsense combat a bit too marketing-oriented for my tastes. So much stuff trying to get my attention at once, and more of it than I liked was non-gameplay stuff.

I didn't like that.

[edward850]

That said, I wouldn't be entirely uninterested buying some older stuff, but again it's mostly Steam that turns me off as they have a bad tendency to force localized versions upon non-English speaking customers, especially in Germany where ratings are binding by law, so they just won't offer versions of a game that were not rated. I'm stuck with what the makers decided to sell here, and those versions are mostly crap with shitty localization and often censored to get a 16 rating. No, thank you.

To be fair, that's not exactly Steams fault, but the publishers who refuse to allow for higher age ratings (is there something that forbids selling "R18"+ games is Germany?). And from what I hear, most developers usually make it very easy to patch or switch the content. Usually.

[Marisa the Magician]

I might hire edward850 for a little thing...

Also sorry for screwing up the thread, but I'd rather have someone like him to do netcode so I don't end up with yet another dark souls.

[Graf Zahl]

To be fair, that's not exactly Steams fault, but the publishers who refuse to allow for higher age ratings (is there something that forbids selling "R18"+ games is Germany?). And from what I hear, most developers usually make it very easy to patch or switch the content. Usually.

There are some age verification restrictions for 18-rated titles.
But that's only one thing. I'd really like to buy Half-Life 2, now that its price is acceptable for something that can't be resold.
But the only version available is the censored German language version. And German localizations of computer games are rarely good.

[ETTiNGRiNDER]

(is there something that forbids selling "R18"+ games is Germany?)

Sort of, but not exactly (it's not "forbidden to sell" but "forbidden to display" as I understand it):
http://www.mobygames.com/game-group/bpj ... exed-games

[The Zombie Killer]

To be fair, that's not exactly Steams fault, but the publishers who refuse to allow for higher age ratings (is there something that forbids selling "R18"+ games is Germany?). And from what I hear, most developers usually make it very easy to patch or switch the content. Usually.

There are some age verification restrictions for 18-rated titles.
But that's only one thing. I'd really like to buy Half-Life 2, now that its price is acceptable for something that can't be resold.
But the only version available is the censored German language version. And German localizations of computer games are rarely good.

You'd get the US version if someone gifted you the game though, right?

[edward850]

Well of course not. Gifts are database ID based, not region based.

[The Zombie Killer]

But wasn't gifting a way to circumvent the low-violence version of Left 4 Dead 2 in Australia a while ago?
EDIT: A friend of mine here in Australia actually had the game gifted to him from a Russian friend of his, thus his copy was uncensored

[Xtyfe]

To be fair, that's not exactly Steams fault, but the publishers who refuse to allow for higher age ratings (is there something that forbids selling "R18"+ games is Germany?). And from what I hear, most developers usually make it very easy to patch or switch the content. Usually.

There are some age verification restrictions for 18-rated titles.
But that's only one thing. I'd really like to buy Half-Life 2, now that its price is acceptable for something that can't be resold.
But the only version available is the censored German language version. And German localizations of computer games are rarely good.

Oh man, It's true isn't it. I'm sorry Graf, you forget when you live somewhere where that isn't an issue. Is there any movements there to undue any of that?

[edward850]

But wasn't gifting a way to circumvent the low-violence version of Left 4 Dead 2 in Australia a while ago?
EDIT: A friend of mine here in Australia actually had the game gifted to him from a Russian friend of his, thus his copy was uncensored

From a quick glance, this was because the Australian version was technically a different game (two different AppIDs). I'm actually surprised by this, but then that also means the rule is inconsistent between games.

[Graf Zahl]

(is there something that forbids selling "R18"+ games is Germany?)

Sort of, but not exactly (it's not "forbidden to sell" but "forbidden to display" as I understand it):
http://www.mobygames.com/game-group/bpj ... exed-games

That's not for 18-rated games but only applies to unrated games (which virtually do not exist anymore.)

[Xaser]

ITT: Modern games with good gameplay discussed without even mentioning Demon's Souls, Dark Souls, or Bloodborne once.

Posting simply to help fill in this grievous omission somewhat. Hell yeah Soulses (...and that other one that needs a friggin' PS4).

[Viscra Maelstrom]

i think i almost got Dark Souls in a Steam sale last year, but decided not to get it because apparently it was a really shitty port that didn't respond very well to keyboard configuration (and the ingame tutorials apparently still had 360 button indicators too)