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embit, do gaming w Anyone else remember those giant scale maps that used to be in shooters? e.g. bathroom, kitchen, office, backyard, that made you feel so tiny?

Supraland is also a good game

dawnerd, do gaming w Anyone else remember those giant scale maps that used to be in shooters? e.g. bathroom, kitchen, office, backyard, that made you feel so tiny?
@dawnerd@lemm.ee avatar

TF2 has some good ones. Those were the days, along with the original prop hunt, rocket jump maps and sledding.

morsebipbip, do gaming w Where are all the good stealth games?

Mandatory Dishonored 1 and 2 recommendation, but Prey is also very good

romano, do gaming w Anyone else remember those giant scale maps that used to be in shooters? e.g. bathroom, kitchen, office, backyard, that made you feel so tiny?
@romano@lemmy.shtuf.eu avatar

There’s a freeware (open source but copyrighted art) shooter called World of Padman, that’s pretty much what you’re describing.

EDIT: You wanted “modern” but, it’s slightly less so. Sorry.

snowbell,
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Wow, freeware. Now that is a blast from the past. Definitely gonna have to try that out, thanks!

orca,
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I get old school Quake vibes from this. I love it.

llii, (edited )

I think it’s in some way based on a quake engine.

I played it years agon, maybe i need to try it again after all this time.

llii, do gaming w Anyone else remember those giant scale maps that used to be in shooters? e.g. bathroom, kitchen, office, backyard, that made you feel so tiny?

I love(d) them, too!

Maybe check out Tinykin, it’s great!

snowbell,
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That looks awesome! So glad I made this thread! 😀

prole,

Came here to say Tinykin. Great game that nobody ever seems to talk about. Hard to recommend irl as well since the name makes it sound like a kid’s edutainment title or something.

ELLIOTTCABLE, do gaming w Anyone else remember those giant scale maps that used to be in shooters? e.g. bathroom, kitchen, office, backyard, that made you feel so tiny?

I haven’t actually played it yet, but HYPERCHARGE: Unboxed has been in my Steam library for ages. That looks like it may scratch your itch …

I really miss some “toy soliders” 3D shoot-em-up that I can just baaaaaaarely remember from the 1990s … does anybody remember the game I’m thinking about? (There was definitely a series, I distinctly recall the name ending in “2” …)

snowbell,
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Army Men: Sarge’s Heroes 2? I played the shit out of that

ben, do gaming w Anyone else remember those giant scale maps that used to be in shooters? e.g. bathroom, kitchen, office, backyard, that made you feel so tiny?

There’s a survival game called Grounded that’s basically this but even smaller. And a coop story action/adventure called It Takes Two that does the same.

snowbell,
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I’ve been playing through It Takes Two with my SO, such a great game. I’ll have to check out Grounded, 40% off right now.

nottheengineer, do gaming w Anyone else remember those giant scale maps that used to be in shooters? e.g. bathroom, kitchen, office, backyard, that made you feel so tiny?

Ah yes, good old ttt_teenroom.

Those maps make callouts very easy because pretty much everything has a name already, so you don’t need to argue about what’s what.

rekkar, do gaming w Anyone else remember those giant scale maps that used to be in shooters? e.g. bathroom, kitchen, office, backyard, that made you feel so tiny?

Grounded comes to mind

Ocean, do gaming w Anyone else remember those giant scale maps that used to be in shooters? e.g. bathroom, kitchen, office, backyard, that made you feel so tiny?
@Ocean@lemmy.zip avatar

Not a shooter, but superliminal I think has a few levels that let you use portals to change your size, and there’s no limits on how many times you can do it, so you can shrink yourself to be microscopic to the point where you can fit inside a straw and it takes like a minute to walk to the end of the straw. Everything in the room is modeled to be quite detailed, so there’s also a chess board, and you can get on top of the rook piece and it’s like being on top of a castle.

Pretty fun puzzle game

Deconceptualist, do gaming w Anyone else remember those giant scale maps that used to be in shooters? e.g. bathroom, kitchen, office, backyard, that made you feel so tiny?

Like the Duke Burger level in Duke Nukem Forever?

snowbell,
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Yep, exactly! What a cool concept.

Deconceptualist, (edited )

I was actually being facetious. Maybe it seems like a throwback or whatever now, but back when DNF finally released, the “tiny player, big world” idea was rather played out. Duke Burger felt very dated and out-of-place in a game where you’re supposed to be this big macho badass because suddenly you can get stomped on or crushed by small kitchen objects. The level itself is a maze of almost entirely platform jumping puzzles and totally overstays its welcome. But I guess it looks kinda cool and does sort of break the monotony of a bad game.

Other games (and especially player-made maps) in the late 90’s did it much better. I especially remember custom levels for its predecessor, Duke Nukem 3D, that had a lot of fun with the shrunken player concept. HL and Quake too like you mention. Folks here also said de_rats in Counter Strike which might’ve been the pinnacle.

chief_x86, do gaming w Anyone else remember those giant scale maps that used to be in shooters? e.g. bathroom, kitchen, office, backyard, that made you feel so tiny?

Good old de_rats. I never saw something like that for other games, but brings up memories. I should install 1.6 again sometime…

r00ty,
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Yep, immediately what I thought of when I saw this.

Thalestr, do gaming w Anyone else remember those giant scale maps that used to be in shooters? e.g. bathroom, kitchen, office, backyard, that made you feel so tiny?
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  • Skadabucci,

    de_rats good map!

    Sagethefolxhero, do gaming w Anyone else remember those giant scale maps that used to be in shooters? e.g. bathroom, kitchen, office, backyard, that made you feel so tiny?

    Theres hypercharged: unboxed its oretty fun. Also some toy story games kinda scratch that itch for me

    tulwinn, do gaming w What forgotten cult classic games are worth revisiting?

    I’m probably alone in remembering this game but I loved Hardwar back in the day. It’s an Elite style trading game set on Titan. The player pilots a ‘moth’ ,a small flying craft, between craters.
    It had an interesting story that played out as you explored with areas blocked out, due to events, and made accessible later on.

    The developer closed doors but IIRC at least one member of the team released a patch that had been developed later on.

    I played it pretty obsessively and it had a small passionate community but it wasn’t a hit.

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