Wild West Week at CFD! continues:
"I won’t mince words — the basic, vanilla Western isn’t to everybody’s liking. Some people find the concept of cowboys and indians, the dusty wilds of the American Southwest and gunslingers dueling in the street at high noon to be hokey; anachronistic relics from the childhood fantasies of a generation silly enough to have been born before personal computers could fit in your front pocket.
"Let us ignore for just a moment how stupid and wrong these unimaginative people are (and they are, believe me) and assume that the standard Western in video game form is boring on principle (which they generally aren’t). What do you do with something that you don’t especially like on its own? You mix it with something different that you do like and you suddenly find that it doesn’t taste as bad as you originally thought. Or, if you already liked it, you now realize you’ve created something truly amazing… or at the very least interesting."
Popularized by Doom in 1993 and still making video game haters gnash their teeth today, first-person shooter games are the best thing to happen to gamers since pizza rolls. So here are 15 underrated first-person shooter games you may have missed.
Although the late 2000s Turok wasn't my favorite, I would love a new entry. Open world survival with shotguns and dinosaurs. Not sure how we'd get the fusion cannon, but that would be pretty sweet too.
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All of these games are pretty much universally praised. Outside of Timeshift I literally own all of these.
XIII, The Darkness 2, Far Cry: Blood Dragon, Timesplitters: future perfect, Bulletstorm are awesome games
17 years after its initial release, Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath has returned -- and has never been better than this.
GameEnthus Podcast ep415: Humility or Siege Nomenclature This week John (@BookofNerds) from @BoardinEastLA and the @FivebyGames Podcast joins Mike (@AssaultSuit), Tiny (@Tiny415) and Aaron (@Ind1fference) talk about HighScore, the life of Chadwick Boseman, plenty of board games, plenty of video games and much more.
Man, I soooooo need to play Stranger's Wrath.
Reminds me I still need to play Red Steel 2--played the first and thought the series had potential. I like the cut of your jib, Rob.
Red has really gotten me into the this western stuff...
Stranger's Wrath was one of the reasons the original Xbox was awesome. Genuinely innovative game.