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[Smoke_Tetsu]

Here's something to put on your radar to keep an eye out for coming sometime in the future.

Features:

•  A non linear experience lets you explore any part of the fully open Moon base and find out secrets other players may not!
•  There are no health packs or multiple lives, in Routine there is a Perma Death system that will keep you on the edge!
•  Be immersed with Full body awareness, Deadzone aiming, no HUD, no health bars or points system… you must run, hide and survive!
•  An 80′s vision of the future that presents itself in audio and visuals!
•  Randomized environmental hazards, AI locations and useful aids.
•  Find floppy disks to upgrade your Cosmonaut Assistance Tool that will directly affect how your weapon reacts.

My interest is piqued even if it end up just being FEAR on the moon as some people say it looks like. I'd like to know details about how certain things work like the perma-death.

{Official Web Site}

[Thain Esh Kelch]

Looks great!

But... Floppy disks still in use? Didn't they have any future visions in the 80's?

[Frost]

I'm interested!

Although, yeah, floppies...? CDs have been around since shortly before I was born, and I was here for the majority of the 80s. They sure they don't mean 70s?

[JaguarGod]

Frost, on 18 August 2012 - 09:52 PM, said:

CDs have been around since shortly before I was born,

Oh man, I suddenly feel so old!!!   Sometimes I forget my age and I feel younger than I am, but then with having three kids, one of them 15, I remember and it is kind of a downer. You know what, growing up is overrated anyway. Stay young and play games on your Mac!

That teaser looks quite interesting. Visited the site and I have to admit that it looks like it could be a nice departure from a lot of the games out there. But it's always hard to tell until you can get your hands on it. As far as the floppies, cd's were around in '83/'84 in the US, but I do not believe they were "heavily" used as storage/data media until the late '80s early '90s. They were used for music in the early '80s though, but you were going to spend a crapload for the cd player to play them. But my memory could be going and I could be wrong!

[Janichsan]

JaguarGod, on 19 August 2012 - 11:26 AM, said:

As far as the floppies, cd's were around in '83/'84 in the US, but I do not believe they were "heavily" used as storage/data media until the late '80s early '90s. They were used for music in the early '80s though, but you were going to spend a crapload for the cd player to play them. But my memory could be going and I could be wrong!

Well, the CD turns 30 these days, so there's that. But it didn't really play a role as storage medium for computers until the early 1990s. I started out with tapes for my C64 in the 1980s. And while we're at it... get off my lawn, you goddamn kids!

[Smoke_Tetsu]

Also even when it did get started playing a role for storage medium on computers it didn't really take off until the whole multimedia boom and even then many games where being shipped and sold on floppies rather than CD. But then again people have tended to be behind on the storage mediums just like the whole period when we had a lot of people returning DVD based games in favor of multiple CDs....

I mean, it's like what? Did these people always upgrade everything in their computer except their optical drive? Oddly enough there was enough of those people too that stores where indicating that it was better for them to stock titles on multiple CDs because all the DVD copies where being returned.

But I digress, floppy discs where in heavy use in much of the 90's I would say up until at least the mid to late 90's when they started getting cheap enough that they could make cheap demo discs and such from them. It was great to get rid of floppies though because of course they hardly had any capacity to them and even back in the day we had to do a lot of disc swapping and it was pretty easy for them to become a vector for computer viruses especially if you are using them in a computer lab. One time some students brought a pirated copy of Mortal Kombat 1 which had the stoned.empire.monkey virus and infected all the computers in my high school computer lab. Since I was a known gamer the faculty blamed me.  

[Frost]

JaguarGod, on 19 August 2012 - 11:26 AM, said:

Oh man, I suddenly feel so old!!!  

Considering I hit 30 in mere months, I'm happy to hear that instead of the smug sniggering of the younger members of my generation who need some more holes in them. Speaking of that... <goes and grabs shotgun. Loads slugs> What's that? Don't got nothin' to say anymore ya little frakkers? I THOUGHT SO! YOU BETTER RUN!

JaguarGod, on 19 August 2012 - 11:26 AM, said:

You know what, growing up is overrated anyway. Stay young and play games on your Mac!

FTW. Real life is Mac gaming. The fake stuff is all that other crap you have to do in between.

[DaveyJJ]

Frost, on 19 August 2012 - 10:59 PM, said:

Considering I hit 30 in mere months ...

Talk to me in 20 years, and stop reminding me of our shared birthday! This isn't a happy one!! Now get off my lawn!

[ikir]

It sound interesting... Need more infos on perm-death and i don't like floppy upgrades   it would be to have minidisc or cd upgrades

[Frost]

DaveyJJ, on 20 August 2012 - 04:43 AM, said:

Talk to me in 20 years, and stop reminding me of our shared birthday! This isn't a happy one!! Now get off my lawn!

It could be worse. At least you can still say you weren't here yet when man first made it to space (barely). Not like some of these geezers who were born to a world that still thought the V2 was the popsnizzle, going faster than sound would kill you, and a sputnik was some kind of grease gun.

[tbade]

Janichsan, on 19 August 2012 - 01:45 PM, said:

Well, the CD turns 30 these days, so there's that. But it didn't really play a role as storage medium for computers until the early 1990s. I started out with tapes for my C64 in the 1980s. And while we're at it... get off my lawn, you goddamn kids!

Yes I remember those days - the first game I bought for my Apple came on a cassette tape. It was almost faster to type the code in then load it from the tape!

[UmarOMC1]