Gloom anyone?
<div class="IPBDescription">Does this look like gloom?</div>This looks a lot like the mod for Quake 2 called Gloom. Not that its a bad thing or anything. If you have Quake 2 and you want something to sink your teeth into while you are waiting for NS then go to www.planetgloom.com
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You're only the hundreth person to do so ;)
Seriously, though, NS isn't Gloom. They're both Marines vs. Aliens games, but that's about the extent of it.
Try <a href="http://www.natural-selection.org/cgi-bin/ikonboard/ikonboard.cgi?act=ST;f=1;t=3643" target="_blank">the thread here</a>.
I think many of the forum goers around here are tired of hearing about Gloom (I'm never tired of it! :). But yes, both MODs cater to a similar crowd. There are quite a few of us Gloomers looking forward to NS. Gloomers are you <i>friends</i>, not enemies! ;)
I think you'll earn some not so nice comments, don't take them too serious as quite a few here played or still plays gloom and your idea that there are similarity isn't new to them.
Which is both rediculous and unfortunate. Honestly, I was pretty turned off of the NS community at first because of that very attitude.
What i wanted to say was that Natural Selection IS different from ANY other game/mod and that its developers doesn't want that the rumor goes that something is "copied" from anther mod/game.
BTW, welcome to the forum Penguine!
ns is totaly different
....lock?.....
Ummm, no.It's PC.Personal Computer.
Please don't flame.
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I'd really like a link to one of these posts where someone actually did claim "Gloom = NS!". I didn't find it doing searches when I first arrived on these forums (linked to here from a Gloom forum ironically enough). I found plenty of "NS != GLOOM so STFU!" posts though.
Sure there are posts claiming the MODs are similar (and I firmly believe they are), but there is nothing wrong with that. You can legitimately compare NS with any team-based FPS game. I'm excited about the release for NS more so <i>because</i> I'm a Gloomer, not in spite of it.
You people are hyper-sensitive on this issue, and it gives the impression that Gloom players are not welcome here (at least to me).
<b>Penguin:</b>
Maybe someone will read your post, check out Gloom, and be mature enough to play both. That's how mod communities grow.
Don't let the offensive <b>"....lock?....."</b>, <b>"I hereby Declare penguin a moron"</b>, and the defensive <b>"NS isn't Gloom!"</b> posts get to you.
However, I have seen people bring it up in various threads many times in the past. Did you just try searching all threads for posts with the word gloom? You might come across some of these long-lost discussions (unless they were deleted or edited).
Czech it out if you don't feel like DLing the whole game and jumping right in, just to see what it's all about.
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Flayra knew and played Gloom before even starting with work on NS, so I can really not see a general bias against Gloom and its players.
On the subject of being sensitive about getting mixed up with other mods / games / movies, aside from the foxing issue, we just got the last problems on this line behind us; another HL mods developers actually blamed NS for being too good for a mod (!!!).
You get a little itchy after such stuff.
Please understand that nobody, absolutely <i>no-one</i> will be treated with any kind of bias in this community; we've got a pretty good track record in this respect.
So come on in, have a donut, join the party, and please don't react oversensitive if someone states that there are differences between mods when there obviously are such.
Oh, and the next one declaring anyone else a "moron" in here will get something from me. Something ticking.
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Agreed.
Was that directed at the post immediately prior to yours? If so, why?
Or were you merely commenting on the discussion that had come before?
You are right, I should not have quoted the "so STFU" part. It is just as inaccurate for me to say that, as it is for those responding to every Gloom post with the canned "NS != Gloom" response. Perhaps I am being oversensitive as you theorize, but I wonder how many others are more sensitive and didn't bother coming back here at all? There is definitely a hostile undertone there.
No harm done with me. I didn't mean for this to be a "huge deal". I just wanted to talk about Gloom AND NS for the things they have in common, and for the things they do not.
And that. Is. That.