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rampancy
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Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Fredericton, New Brunswick
 
2008-12-04, 18:39

I've gone all retro:

Heretic
Hexen
Hexen II

You can play both Heretic and Hexen natively as a Universal Binary through the Doomsday Engine, an open-source frontend for the jHexen/jHeretic/jDoom ports, which allow for all sorts of nifty OpenGL-related coolness.

It's amazing how good Heretic looks with replacement hi-res textures and 3D models; simplistic level geometry and bright color palette aside, you'd mistake it more for an early Quake engine game than the Doom engine-based game it really is.

I also picked up Hexen II after learning about a Universal Binary source port by way of the Hammer of Thyrion project. Very cool.

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