Ahh, Crusader No Remorse

[~*´¨¯¨`*·~-.¸-AIN'T]

But seriously, can't you take some time to get used to the admittedly somewhat odd controls? I'm sure they'll become second nature after a level or two.

Seems like a silly reason to miss out on these fine, monocled games.

I started playing this game a couple days ago after reading this thread, so I'm through a few levels now and no, the controls haven't become second nature yet. They still seem clunky and awkward.

That said, I'm having a fucking blast anyways.

 

[AngryEddy]

You ever wonder what happened to all of these C grade actors? You think they go around telling whoever and whatever party that "Hey, I was a character in a videogame in the early 90's"?

Also, the controls for this game were fucking awful. A new player will spend an hour alone, trying to get comfortable with the goddamn scheme. Then you gotta mess around with your turn rate, this game is a mechanical nightmare. I tried to play a few months ago, but my interest just fizzled out. I never made it to the second game.

 

[Darth Roxor]

You are all faggots. What's bad about the controls? Arrows or numpad to steer, ctrl to roll and crouch/stand up, alt to step. Y'all suck is what I can see here.

Get back to Gears of War or something, I'm sure that one has a fluid and immersive control scheme

 

[Dayyālu]

You ever wonder what happened to all of these C grade actors? You think they go around telling whoever and whatever party that "Hey, I was a character in a videogame in the early 90's"?

Most of 'em kept doing B- grade stuff. I wondered and checked Imdb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0148030/). Such is the life of the C- grade actors. I was more interested in the weasel of Weasel, to be honest. Poor thing.

Also, the controls for this game were fucking awful. A new player will spend an hour alone, trying to get comfortable with the goddamn scheme. Then you gotta mess around with your turn rate, this game is a mechanical nightmare. I tried to play a few months ago, but my interest just fizzled out. I never made it to the second game.

Spent barely five min getting used to the controls. Got no problems. The main point is, there are a lot of redundant commands: if something is difficult to reach, use another key. I found the mouse support useless: keyboard only commands are "smoother"- arrow keys for movement (like the FPS of yore) and all the other keys are easily reachable with the left hand. The only difficulty I've ever found is to quickly select the Bot scrambler. The game had even a well done summary of the controls - it's easier than ArmA, people!

 

[Major_Blackhart]

Keyboard is the only way to go.

 

[Ninja Destroyer]

Play both parts like a real man, and test your skills for the last mission in No Regret.

 

[otsego]

Sorry to interrupt the (bogus) argument about controls -- the controls are fine once you learn them, just like ANY other PC game with a complex control scheme.

Anyway:



The soundtrack of the game's theme (and the childhood of many of us)

 

[commie]

Also, the controls for this game were fucking awful. A new player will spend an hour alone, trying to get comfortable with the goddamn scheme. Then you gotta mess around with your turn rate, this game is a mechanical nightmare. I tried to play a few months ago, but my interest just fizzled out. I never made it to the second game.

This is why we can't have nice things.

 

[Murk]

Awesome games with supposedly difficult control schemes could make up a genre-tag of their very own.

 

[Major_Blackhart]

Such an awesome game.

 

[Astral Rag]

Some early Crusader 2 concept art:

Spoiler

From the Crusader No Regret Strategy Guide.


Crusader No Remorse Strategy Guide for the sake of completeness.

 

[dunno lah]

Damnit Tony Zurovec. Fucking leave Star Shittizen now and start making a Crusader game. Hell, kickstart a No Remorse remake and see how much money gets thrown at you.

 

[Darth Roxor]

 

[Major_Blackhart]

Goddammit I want this made.

 

[Astral Rag]

 

[Unkillable Cat]

"On this episode of DF Retro, we shall suck out your will to live by using a narrator that's stuck in mid-yawn."

Seriously, I barely lasted two minutes because he sounds like a creepy pedo when he's reminiscing about Origin.

 

[Beowulf]

I barely lasted two minutes because he sounds like a creepy pedo

 

[GuiltyofBeingTrite]

Loved this game, I went back to it about 4 years ago and realized that it is as much of a 3D puzzle game as it is an action game. That's probably due to the controls more than anything. Did anyone play this with a joystick, better experience?

 

[Unkillable Cat]

My apologies.

"He sounds like a creepy kiddie fucker when he's reminiscing about Origin."

Better?

 

[Beowulf]

Whatever floats your boat.

 

[Darth Roxor]

^ video narrator detected

 

[Beastro]

You ever wonder what happened to all of these C grade actors? You think they go around telling whoever and whatever party that "Hey, I was a character in a videogame in the early 90's"?

I wish they'd come back. There's something endearing and amusing to them, people who knew they were voicing characters in videos games instead of famous actors hired for their name or VAs now who feel like they take the medium too seriously.

 

[Dayyālu]

I wish they'd come back. There's something endearing and amusing to them, people who knew they were voicing characters in videos games instead of famous actors hired for their name or VAs now who feel like they take the medium too seriously.

FMV where the children of that specific era, though. Too much space on disk and they got creative on filling it, plus no idea what to do with the medium. I guess the last guys to do it "non-cargo-cult" style have been Eugen with Act of War or whatever, but they tried hard to ape C&C. Some games were even sunk by FMVs, like Strike Force Centauri.

You already had the seeds of their undoing with stuff like Wing Commander though, with Roberts going all B-movie actors or former porn stars like in Wing Commander 3

Celebrities!

 

[rusty_shackleford]

latest builds of scummvm now have support for Crusader: No Remorse. Turns out that they used the same engine as Ultima 8.
https://www.scummvm.org/news/20210718/

 

[Major_Blackhart]

This is some quality necro rusty_shackleford
Quality fucking necro. The last post was before your join date.