I won't blindly buy Nightdive games again lol.

[Macario]

I have liked almost all the remasters they have made, but it seems that they remaster games leaving aside the quality of the game itself, Yeah, I didn't like this game, lol. Although I must say, a few improvements wouldn't have hurt, as an indicator of what to do in the levels to progress, nerf flying enemies (I hate all flying enemies), or at least make the movement not so horrible. A dept told me on Twitter (or X, or whatever) and he said "wanted to leave the game as intact as they could" it's like...come on, they took Quake 2 from being a bland thing to being a lot of fun to play. It is very arbitrary when they decide to improve or not the games they remaster, I guess it depends on the team that is working on the games? who knows.

[[deleted]]

I think they did a good job but the classic cheat enhancement could have been improved in my opinion. Too confusing for me as I never played original. Anyways, sorry you didn’t have a good experience with the game. Always more to choose from for whatever suits your style.

[Director Bison]

I don't mean to be rude, but I have no clue how one could look at the 2 video trailers for this game on the store page, and then complain about what they get. This game is a chaotic mess of level design and enemy placement. That's quite evident in the trailers as well as the screenshots, and I would say the unorthodox nature of PO'ed is the entire appeal.

This game is advertised as weird fever dream and out of the ordinary, not some groundbreaking hidden gem that redefined Classic FPS. Frankly I think they're selling exactly what is advertised.

[solamon77]

Originally posted by Director Bison:

I don't mean to be rude, but I have no clue how one could look at the 2 video trailers for this game on the store page, and then complain about what they get. This game is a chaotic mess of level design and enemy placement. That's quite evident in the trailers as well as the screenshots, and I would say the unorthodox nature of PO'ed is the entire appeal.

This game is advertised as weird fever dream and out of the ordinary, not some groundbreaking hidden gem that redefined Classic FPS. Frankly I think they're selling exactly what is advertised.

Yeah, definitely. PO'ed is exactly what it has always been and that's how it should be.

[Macario]

Originally posted by Director Bison:

I don't mean to be rude, but I have no clue how one could look at the 2 video trailers for this game on the store page, and then complain about what they get. This game is a chaotic mess of level design and enemy placement. That's quite evident in the trailers as well as the screenshots, and I would say the unorthodox nature of PO'ed is the entire appeal.

This game is advertised as weird fever dream and out of the ordinary, not some groundbreaking hidden gem that redefined Classic FPS. Frankly I think they're selling exactly what is advertised.

My problem is not that it's weird, but that the gameplay is very bad, lol.

[Macario]

Originally posted by solamon77:

Originally posted by Director Bison:

I don't mean to be rude, but I have no clue how one could look at the 2 video trailers for this game on the store page, and then complain about what they get. This game is a chaotic mess of level design and enemy placement. That's quite evident in the trailers as well as the screenshots, and I would say the unorthodox nature of PO'ed is the entire appeal.

This game is advertised as weird fever dream and out of the ordinary, not some groundbreaking hidden gem that redefined Classic FPS. Frankly I think they're selling exactly what is advertised.

Yeah, definitely. PO'ed is exactly what it has always been and that's how it should be.

You'd think they would fix it a little, but they left it as intact as they could for some reason, and Nightdive always makes changes to make the gameplay smoother, like making Shadow Man's controls with a mouse, and more fluid instead of leaving the controls tanky and the heavy movement of the original, Or how they added hints when selecting the levels to do TP so that the game is not so confusing, and how they added a compass to Quake 2 and generally made improvements to make the gameplay faster, etc. I feel like they did almost nothing for this game.

[Billy Blaze]

Yeah... not gonna lie, I tested this game at first to see, if it's worth a buy, and good god, I just couldn't see the appeal.
For example, I have zero nostalgia for "Powerslave/Exhumed" and the "Nightdive" port was basically my introduction for that game... and it's bascially my absolute favourite shooter now.
And normally, I tolerate much crap and bad games, since I've played basically the entire PSX FPS library and had fun with pretty much every title.

But this game right here?
It's like starting "Doom" without a pistol.
And I'm not against a psychedelic leveldesign but the experience was far from pleasant.
Maybe I'll give this game another shot later down the line, but this should have been a 5,-€ game or maximum 10,-€ game at best.
And I'm not against more expensive games... I enjoyed the 30,-€ "Turok 3" really much... and again, no nostalgia, first time playing that game.

[Billy Blaze]

Originally posted by Director Bison:

I don't mean to be rude, but I have no clue how one could look at the 2 video trailers for this game on the store page, and then complain about what they get. This game is a chaotic mess of level design and enemy placement. That's quite evident in the trailers as well as the screenshots, and I would say the unorthodox nature of PO'ed is the entire appeal.

This game is advertised as weird fever dream and out of the ordinary, not some groundbreaking hidden gem that redefined Classic FPS. Frankly I think they're selling exactly what is advertised.

The thing is, that the trailer doesn't convey how bad the gameplay is.
You can work with a weird feverdream, a mishmash of random shapes as enemies and leveldesign from limbo.

You can jumble up the sprites and leveldesign in "Duke Nukem 3D", and it would still be fun to play.
More confusing, yes... but the core gameplay would still be great.

EDIT: Oh yeah... the trailer won't tell you that the game doesn't have music.

[Macario]

Originally posted by Eldin:

Not trying to change your mind as everyone has something they like and don’t like but the gameplay does get better, especially if you go for secret levels, of which there you earn an increase to ammo capacity and can earn extra health that helps a ton, if you find the right item. Music plays near those secret items to help. Running around with crazy amounts to of bullets and hardly dying in later levels. Enemies get to be more fun IMO too. Using this guide here to find those secret levels and items.

https://www.cheatcc.com/articles/cheat-code-central-po-ed-strategy-guide-psx-sg/

Originally posted by Billy Blaze:

Yeah... not gonna lie, I tested this game at first to see, if it's worth a buy, and good god, I just couldn't see the appeal.
For example, I have zero nostalgia for "Powerslave/Exhumed" and the "Nightdive" port was basically my introduction for that game... and it's bascially my absolute favourite shooter now.
And normally, I tolerate much crap and bad games, since I've played basically the entire PSX FPS library and had fun with pretty much every title.

But this game right here?
It's like starting "Doom" without a pistol.
And I'm not against a psychedelic leveldesign but the experience was far from pleasant.
Maybe I'll give this game another shot later down the line, but this should have been a 5,-€ game or maximum 10,-€ game at best.
And I'm not against more expensive games... I enjoyed the 30,-€ "Turok 3" really much... and again, no nostalgia, first time playing that game.

I started to enjoy the game a little more, but my problems with the game remain intact, the game shouldn't be almost unplayable without the Jetpack, I don't think it would hurt the game much if they changed the movement to not having wheels on the feet. The worst thing is that the game sometimes expects you to platform without the jetpack, I found Spiral by accident, and ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, it's the worst level I've ever played in any FPS, it was worth completing it because it gives you double ammo as a reward, but, even with the double ammo sometimes I run out of resources, which makes me think that the game is very stingy with ammo in general, now I'm in Temple, and god, that puzzle is horrible, it breaks the game for me, when I'm wrong, it lifts me up into the air so that the thorns can hurt me, but even if I load the game I still have that effect and it's not fixed unless I reset the entire game. Or yes, and all the flying enemies can go to hell, they don't need to be so tanky and fly-like, my god.

[soso]

Yeah I'm a bit hesitant with this one but I wanna support Nightdive. I think I'll pick it up when its 20% off.

[NixXxoN]

In this case it's really more about a combination of preservation and curiosity. The game itself doesn't have to be good. It's a really weird game that actually existed, and that was enough for me to check it out.

[Macario]

Originally posted by NixXxoN:

In this case it's really more about a combination of preservation and curiosity. The game itself doesn't have to be good. It's a really weird game that actually existed, and that was enough for me to check it out.

"Doesn't it have to be good"? No offense, but it sounds like a very conformist thought. I don't agree with that at all, lol.

[Silent Guy]

The lack of music was a deal breaker for me, I thought it would include at least a small soundtrack list, but after watching some gameplay videos it feels a bit dull and too quiet.

[Billy Blaze]

Originally posted by NixXxoN:

In this case it's really more about a combination of preservation and curiosity. The game itself doesn't have to be good. It's a really weird game that actually existed, and that was enough for me to check it out.

But the combination of preservation and curiosity can be applied to many old console shooter.
"Armorines: Project S.W.A.R.M." is a shooter that kinda feels like "Turok"... it might be from the same devs.
"Hybrid" feels like it has a lot of potential and it's also interesting and somewhat fun to play.
Without some limitations, it could be great.
"Disruptor" seems to be from the team that made "Alien Trilogy"... at least the menu feels like it, I'm too lazy to google right now.

And yeah... every single one would have been better than "PO'ed".
Yeah yeah, it was funny when it comes to make an aprils fool joke real... but not when it costs 20,-€.
Cause then, it feels like the dev time would have been better spent on another game.

EDIT: Oh yeah, and I don't mean to crap on "Nightdive" or so, since they are one of my favourite devs right now.
But after the bad controller support for the "System Shock" remake and now... this game... I'm also kinda hesitant buying their games day 1 on PS5.

[dukenuker]

You should know about the original game, before buying a remaster. Po'ed is very special and that it doesn't look very professional is clearly visible before the purchase. It's like a loved B-Movie, that entertaines on another level. The price might be valid point. Was there a difference in pricing of PS1 games when back in the 90s?

[Wasabi Alt]

It's like the movie "The Toxic Avenger", people like this movie because it's bad, which ends up being funny.