@BTICronox I concur.

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I wouldn't call Fear one of the best games of all-time.

Not only was there FEAR but Monolith also put out condemned around that time too. Great shit. That mid 2000s period for fps games was pretty awesome.

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Fuck Everything And Run

This and Aliens Vs Predator 2 2001. Also by Monolith Productions.

Right before this game came out in beta, my PC died, and I only had enough money to buy a piece of crap video card. Even though I had to run it at almost minimum settings, I played that beta so much that I ended up frying that cheap video card too. Thankfully I saved up enough money to get a real video card, and was able to play the full game in its full glory shortly after launch.

@@IllegallySighted yea back then we were poor too but a lot of fun back then. I used to play Crysis in with very low settings. No money to buy a better card. Also Games don’t come out every month like nowadays. Sometimes i play a game for 4-5 times and know all the in and out. Now everything is different...games come out every week but nothing stay in the memory. Maybe we are just getting old.

I’m honestly waiting for these FEAR games to be remastered especially more so now that Alan Wake has been remastered and now they are making Alan Wake 2 - BRING THE FEAR GAMES BACK!!!!

I sadly missed out on multiplayer because my internet was crap when I first played back in the day, I bet it was a blast though. Yeah Monolith's canon of games is so impressive. AVP 2 was the first titles I played of theirs and it's still my favorite (mostly for nostalgia reasons 😁)

As a big fan of FEAR and of Monolith's FPS games, I'm afraid they have long passed their "golden age". Most of the people responsible for their classic titles have left the company long ago, they don't even own the rights to many of their own IPs thanks to bureaucrats nonsense, and WB is deadset on making them create movie tieins instead of continuing their own games. Heck, even FEAR 3 represented this decline by denying Monolith a chance to create it and FEAR Online was virtually a nail on the franchise's coffin. At least we have the series as it currently is. I don't care for a remake or reboot, so long as people continue to enjoy this franchise and take a look at Monolith's other games.

Agreed...I started up a WISP (Wireless Internet Service Provider) called Rapidwave in 2003 and in 2007 we started hosting online MP games. Hosted Farcry 1, Farcry 3, Unreal Gold, Unreal Tournament 2004 & UT 3, original Quake & Quake 2, Crysis 1, 2 & 3, and FEAR & FEAR 2. Kept everything up and running until I sold the company in early 2020 but unfortunately the company I sold too, went under last year (thanks pandemic) and they axed the servers. FEAR, Unreal Gold, Unreal Tournament 3 and Farcry 3 all had a decent amount of traffic the entire time I hosted them...with an amazing amount of activity with FEAR and the original Unreal. Think it’s awesome that there’s still people who were playing these older shooters 20yrs after their original releases. Go to show how well the classics hold up to the test of time!

Thank you for the sub Carlos! I hope you enjoy your binge!

Thank you so much! Honestly man its's still year one and a lot of it was spent just getting a hang of the beast that is youtube.

Pretty much the Matrix with ghosts.

Matrix path of neo was a great Matrix game.

Try this fix: community.pcgamingwiki.com/files/file/789-directinput-fps-fix/

All great games. Outlaws is one I've never played and always wanted to, maybe I'll try to get around to it for this channel. Have you played the demo for Trepang 2 yet?

@@KIRKCOLLECTS Outlaws is my favourite game of all time, it just clicked for me. Playing on the hardest difficulty is a tactical shooter with bursts of frantic gunplay. Great adventure to go on. I've looked into Trepang2 but I think they're just copying FEAR to get a hit, my opinion now is it's less refined, less substance and more over the top for my taste. I'm waiting for the full game to come out for now.

Okay, I think I need to start looking into Outlaws soon! I'm always eager to play any of the Lucasarts games from the 90's. You know it definitely is straight up copying FEAR but it actually feels right on the money. Idk give it a shot, you might be pleasantly surprised. That being said I'd prefer a proper sequel/reboot for FEAR... or for Monolith to just make another shooter.

@@KIRKCOLLECTS You should check out Betrayer, it's made by some of the Monolith guys from back in the day when they were a powerhouse.

Same. Played the first and second games but never got to the third.

@@KIRKCOLLECTS I love the lighting and the enemy reactions in the first game the 2nd game didn't do it aswell and I don't really like the stupid hud overlay in the 2nd I still haven't completed the 2nd tbh lol

Also kinda early SCP stuff if you think about it.

The lighting has aged beautifully. Its such a unique looking game. A lot of Monolith's games have held up really good over the years. How is Fear 3? That's the one I haven't played, seems like a lot of people are mixed on it.

@@KIRKCOLLECTS Fear 3 isn't great. Arguably in competition with Fear 1 for best combat but in almost everything else it's a pretty substantial step down from the pervious two.

I actually have a review for it, give it a peek! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Y66AjLCH08jFl2g.htmlsi=xI5KSZ-4uuPiBD3R

The A.I. is the most impressive. I sometimes had the feeling I was fighting "real" people.

@@PieterPatrick I think I should replay the game some day. Maybe I'll appreciate it more.

Yep, that exact problem happen to me. Thank god for the PC Gaming Wiki.

...you do realize that F.E.A.R. was originally brought to Windows a whole year (or more in the PS3's case) before the console versions right...? I played F.E.A.R. on my PC back in high school so I can say with confidence that this game was always designed as a PC game first and a console game later, but even so the Xbox 360 version played just fine. The slow movement is not due to console limitations being forced onto it, it's due to F.E.A.R. being a game released in 2005. For those who don't feel like subtracting, that's almost 20 years ago as of the time I type this. Even Halo, a game released even earlier than that on a console first no less, has the same feeling movement speed minus having a higher jump. You're probably just used to modern games feeling faster. Even then I wouldn't call that bad, you just have to be more deliberate about how you approach combat situations rather than just going balls to the wall though the thick of it. Basically, it's smart tactical play vs impulsive trigger play.

​@@SkyScourgeGod OK it made me chuckle a bit that you brought up "Halo" as an example to justify the movement considering its the premier poster boy of console FPSs which all in all wasn't all that mindblowing when you put it up against all games in the genre available on PC, the de facto home platform for FPS. And that type of movement isn't "deliberate", "smart" or "tactical" its just sluggish and designed for an era when publishers wanted consoles to be the future of gaming. Operation Flashpoint, Rainbow Six and Ghost Recon was "deliberate", "smart" and "tactical", FEAR simply suffers from consolitis.

@@vikx512 Ok my PC-humping friend, if you think Halo or the time in which these games released isn't a good enough example of what I am trying to convey here, let's instead talk about an FPS that is widely considered by many to be THE "premier poster boy" of the PC world: Doom. Now your first thought is probably "but Doom is really fast paced, why would you use that as an example?". The answer is simple: it is as traditional of an FPS as it gets. It's fast, brutal, all weapons are powerful and the player is made to feel nearly unstoppable as a result. F.E.A.R., on the other hand, is the farthest from being a traditional FPS simply because it is not an FPS, it is a HORROR FPS. There are very few if any examples of ANY horror game being designed to make you feel fast and powerful. Horror games by nature are made to make you feel slow and vulnerable. When not using slo-mo, F.E.A.R. can do that most of the time coupled with the games insanely smart AI. Ergo, you have to play smart, tactical and deliberate if you want to survive and progress. Another reason I bring up Doom is to mention its distant cousin Doom 3. If you want an apples-to-apples comparison of yet another FPS type game that was originally designed for the PC that can also feel "sluggish" as you call it, Doom 3 is an easy example to point a finger at. Going back to what I said earlier, F.E.A.R. was released in October of 2005. The Xbox 360 didn't come until a month later. Doom 3 was released a whole year before either F.E.A.R. or the 360 ever existed and, like F.E.A.R., didn't see a console port until much later. In this case, the OG Xbox. Also like F.E.A.R., Doom 3 is a horror FPS tailor made to make you feel unsafe hence why movement is slower. It is essentially a similar package as F.E.A.R. wrapped up in a different skin while also being older. Say it with me once again; smart, tactical and deliberate. I don't expect to change hearts and minds in a day, but I do get sick and damn tired of gatekeeper PC master race wannabe's constantly taking a dump on anything related to consoles whether it is games, hardware or people. I grew up with a PC and I own a decent SFF I custom made for modern Windows 10 gaming, a retro XP machine I built from my old high school rig to play old PC games, a Mini PC I installed Batocera on to play stuff I don't own and a f*** ton of old and modern consoles with a f*** ton of old and modern physical games to go with them. I don't love PC games or console games, I just love games. Period. Face facts and just admit that F.E.A.R. is game of its time and genre, not a result of "consolitis". Have a nice day sir. ;)

@@SkyScourgeGod OK at first it was kind of funny you came in here with your butthurt wall of text over a year after my OP because I dared to dislike your favourite game but now it is getting a bit old. Wow, "gatekeeper PC master race wannabe", really? Spoken like a true console pleb, kinda revealed your colors there buddy. Fact of the matter that gaming only makes leaps in advancement when new console generations release is all the evidence one would need to see that more games than one could shake a stick at suffers from "consolitis", if you had been a pc gamer for as long as you imply you would know that this was not always the case, consoles used to stick to what they did best while PC pushed gaming forward.