Comments on: Sitrep: The Story of Cybermage: Darklight Awakening

By: Toby McCasker

Toby McCasker — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 23:41:37 +0000

Maaan, Origin. Wing Commander. What the hell, EA.

By: realone

realone — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 08:38:06 +0000

Such a good game back in the day, pity EA killed Origin Systems, Inc.

By: angeredsoul

angeredsoul — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 06:44:07 +0000

Strife, that game brings me back. So awesome, far above and beyond anything around the same time as far as story and gameworld went.

Multiple paths, different upgrades. Non combative hub worlds where you could buy and sell. It was great, wish someone would remake it.

By: darthlondar

darthlondar — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 05:13:16 +0000

Reminds me of Dark Forces or Rise of the Triad

By: edward

edward — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 04:46:34 +0000

Haha @ Marius yes there was a weird period when it seemed the pixel world was better than the polygons.

I think the people where busy playing DooM still.

I think it the same reason Strife disappeared in 1996 (it had to handle Duke Nukem 3D and Quake too!). Or why Marathon didn’t make an impact. These games had a lot more to FPS games then action yet they didn’t do well, because we all at the time where just having fun with Doom.

And then Quake, the multiplayer was amazing, Duke Nukem 3D was action, comedy plus cool weapons.

RPG elements where too slow maybe for this era?

By: Marius

Marius — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 03:05:38 +0000

Ok I just watched the actual video. I always like looking at these old games for the pixel art they show. This was just before the world discovered polygons, and we spent a few years in a bland polygon mess without textures. Fortunately we’ve since overcome that problem.

By: Marius

Marius — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 02:56:06 +0000

Cyberwhat?