RPCGamer
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I kinda wonder if a reboot with some fixes and tweaks would see it do well. It doesn't need to be a high budget title (kinda think the less detail can be effective in itself), but there's a potential there.
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Condemned: Criminal Origins Was a Horror Milestone | Lost in Time
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I kinda wonder if a reboot with some fixes and tweaks would see it do well. It doesn't need to be a high budget title (kinda think the less detail can be effective in itself), but there's a potential there.
ChoosableOne
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It had a sequel? Wow I didn't know that. First one was great.
Judge Magister
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Absolutely comprehensible since Condemned CO is not on PS3 and Condemned 2 Bloodshot is not on PC.
ChoosableOne
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Rpcs3 shows "in game" so no luck.
ChuckeRearmed
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I did not like the ending where it started to get more and more mythical. The beginning and almost till the end it was superb.
Ironman_Bad
Member
Needs a remake
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
First game is amazing.
Second is, well it's something.
Second is, well it's something.
AltogetherAndrews
Banned
Yeah, this one was a real gem. Is Monolith still around, in some capacity? Between this and FEAR, they sure had a way of working the nerves.
nnytk
Member
I don't know if this is a controversial opinion or not. But I absolutely LOVED the second game. That bear encounter omfg. The wild online mode that game had. So many insane ideas and I just loved smacking enemies in close combat. Such a wild game.
That second game is a lot like The Darkness to me. Hidden gems.
That second game is a lot like The Darkness to me. Hidden gems.
Chuck Berry
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adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
It sure is!
It was Cocaine Bear before the movie.
Chuck Berry
Gold Member
And that whole scene is fucking beyond terrifying, like a playable anxiety attack. The definite high point of the experience to me lol
Judge Magister
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The Infectious Paradox
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Probably the best horror game ever made
vodka-bull
Member
Condemned was great, I remember it was the only game I‘ve played that had only 970 GS when completed.
Player Respawn
Member
Couldn’t get into it cause the melee didn’t feel good (from what I remember), I thought the “Fear” demo was way more scary at the time. Gotta give both these games another try someday.
TerribleAtThisGame
Member
I remember its biggest crime being block being mapped to L3 or R3. It was painful.
I loved this game. I'd buy a collection instantly. The sequel was bonkers I remember. It's like the devs smoked meth before they went to work. Somehow that's a compliment.
I loved this game. I'd buy a collection instantly. The sequel was bonkers I remember. It's like the devs smoked meth before they went to work. Somehow that's a compliment.
trikster40
Member
Remake games like this: genuine good games that are forgotten. I don’t need remakes of games that just came out 5 years ago.
Red Crayon Aristocrat
Member
Seems so simple today, but I remember being AMAZED that the plastic Christmas decorations in the department store level looked like actual plastic lmao.
Plague Doctor
Member
The game is flawed but what it was trying to do was pretty fucking good.
The biggest issue is how almost no other dev studio took the baton and ran with it being more of a grounded, brutal, melee focused kind of survival horror/kind of detective thing/etc for quite some time.
It's like we (the gaming public of the 00s) all liked the first game, wanted and received a second game, and got upset by the end of that second game and then said, "Burn all this shit to the ground and let's forget this happened".
Only Indie horror games now are kind of exploring what Condemned did like 20 years ago, but it's odd almost no one else did.
The biggest issue is how almost no other dev studio took the baton and ran with it being more of a grounded, brutal, melee focused kind of survival horror/kind of detective thing/etc for quite some time.
It's like we (the gaming public of the 00s) all liked the first game, wanted and received a second game, and got upset by the end of that second game and then said, "Burn all this shit to the ground and let's forget this happened".
Only Indie horror games now are kind of exploring what Condemned did like 20 years ago, but it's odd almost no one else did.
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GymWolf
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I'm just replaying the game on the xone (i had to buy a digital copy because the pc version doesn't want to work with a controller) and the i almost forgot how crazy the ia in this game is.
This is LITERALLY what the fake tlou1 reveal promised in term of ia, it is still better than 99% of games today.
If you miss actually smart ia, play this fucking game, possibly on pc with m+k because the console looks and run like absolute crap.
Oh and the sound design\tension building is unrivaled, last game i played was the sh2 remake but this is just better (enemies being smarter also help)
This is LITERALLY what the fake tlou1 reveal promised in term of ia, it is still better than 99% of games today.
If you miss actually smart ia, play this fucking game, possibly on pc with m+k because the console looks and run like absolute crap.
Oh and the sound design\tension building is unrivaled, last game i played was the sh2 remake but this is just better (enemies being smarter also help)
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FoxMcChief
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That’s how I deal with hobo in the city.
TGO
Hype Train conductor. Works harder than it steams.
Hz or Fps.
if Hz then that's fucking weird, I don't think I've seen anything refresh below 50hz..
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
TGO
Hype Train conductor. Works harder than it steams.
Itchy Tickles
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Condemned was the 1 game before the Xbox 360 console release that made me want to jump, not only Xbox from PlayStation 2, but into the next generation. I remember watching gaming shows at like 3 am on domestic TV and seeing the gameplay and being gobsmacked.
When I played it, it felt special and definitely a new generation of gaming. (Think I might've got it in a console bundled with Kameo, which is kinda funny if my memory is correct)
As for the game, I loved it. Atmosphere, combat, graphics, story, audio, etc. I would love an updated version or a sequel not locked to consoles like 2 was.
(Thought 2 was very good too, but the final boss fight left a source taste for me)
Haven't played or watched anything of it in years, so it might have some jank that would need updated, but overall, it does deserve some love. (Saw The Darkness mentioned, I would fucking love that game remade too)
When I played it, it felt special and definitely a new generation of gaming. (Think I might've got it in a console bundled with Kameo, which is kinda funny if my memory is correct)
As for the game, I loved it. Atmosphere, combat, graphics, story, audio, etc. I would love an updated version or a sequel not locked to consoles like 2 was.
(Thought 2 was very good too, but the final boss fight left a source taste for me)
Haven't played or watched anything of it in years, so it might have some jank that would need updated, but overall, it does deserve some love. (Saw The Darkness mentioned, I would fucking love that game remade too)
Puscifer
Member
Supposedly they had to cut the game down some after Manhunt 2
AltogetherAndrews
Banned
Iced Arcade
Member
Such an awesome game and my gamer score is still screwed up from it
Heimdall_Xtreme
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The Waifu of the Game.
Hugare
Member
Amazing game. Remember being amazed by the graphics back then.
Game was scary as shit. Those damn manequins.
