Earthsiege 2 was awesome. The dude that yelled at you when you failed a mission scared me as a kid.

Pfft, noob, When I was a kid, games didn't have fancy voices to scare you! Well except Impossible Mission, loading that for the first time and hearing "Destroy him, my robots"... nearly shat myself from surprise because not only did I not expect voice from a C64 but I also had the TV up way too loud.

Now thats a game that could benefit from the remake treatment (a new remake, not the remake they made in the 90s), give it top quality graphics and even better animation but keep the core gameplay (and have the ability to switch to the classic version like the Rtype remake did). It'd be a brilliant game simply because its already a brilliant game

Ahh another visitor. Stay a while, stay FOREVER!

SiN Episodes. I mean, hell, there was even an American OVA (non-canonical, apparently, since, well, I won't spoil it here, but things happen in it that don't mesh with the games. And yes, most of the crew making the movie was Japanese, but the order to make the film came down from an American producer. As such, the original language is English, and so on).

I want a Sonic the Hedgehog 4 redo. Everything done in 8-bit/16-bit sprites and tiles, just like Sonic 3/S&K. If Capcom can strip down to brass tacks with Megaman 9 and 10, and get back to the format that made them famous, Sega should have no pretense about it either. It's like Mark Hamil telling everyone "That was a million years ago!!" to everyone who even HINTS at mentioning he was Luke Skywalker. Corvette Summer? Who the hell remembers that? Only the hardcore Star Wars fans that know it was the movie that wrecked your face and forced you to undergo reconstructive facial surgery in between A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back.

Sin Episodes needs a sequal but I think they have no money or something. Too bad too...because the lead-in/teaser to a part 2 at the end of the game is pretty awesome.

Well, maybe as long as they add in SUBTITLES for the damn phone messages. Everything else had subtitles, even the VENDING MACHINES.....yet the phone messages sometimes were an inaudible blue amongst the other noises in-game.

Forget the sequel! Just straighten out the storyline! WTF happened to Alexis at the end of the original Sin and why is she back like nothing happened in Episodes? It would have been nice if Blade told us but apparently Gordon Freeman got his tounge. :(

It would be nice if Ritual/ Mumbo Jumbo would release the source to the original Sin. With some tweaking it could be better than Half-Life. Unfortunately with the Zenimax purchase of id, I think the window for that sort of thing is closing fast.

I think she turned herself into some sort of molecular/dna canister thing to be able to hide herself in some sort of stasis.......this is better and further exaplained in Wages of Sin, the addon pack to the original game........btw, what ending did you get? The one with just the end boss battle or the one where you confront Alexis?

In the original game, at the end she entered a teleporter that compressed and divided her into four canisters, and beamed those four canisters to the four corners of Earth. Or to the Moon. I can't remember which. Apparently, the baddies got to those canisters and reassembled her before Hard Corps did, because she comes back in Episodes.

I loved that scene......for obv reasons.

Also, one of the canisters makes an appearance in Wages of Sin...called a can/canister of elexis. Blade even walks right past it at one point. Why he didn't take it with him I dunno, or destroy it even.

What if someone turned Commander Keen into a Metroidvania? O.o

*beware of spoilers for 10+ year old game*





I've only gotten one ending. You confront Elexis and you end up getting into a boss battle with her father. Upon finishing him off you'll get a FMV where Elexis gets to press her button and gets turned into soda pop or something and is rocketed away. Blade gets slightly emo. Is there another ending? Please say 'yes'. :D

It's been a few years since I last played Wages of Sin. I don't recall there being much about Elexis. Maybe I missed something? There was the the statue in the makeshift chapel the mutants erected and one of the canisters you mentioned, but IIRC the game was really about Manero. The manual is unhelpful as the synopsis leaves things ambiguous. I found Wages to be a huge improvement over the original Sin but was pretty disappointed that Elexsis never showed up.

I get the feeling that Episodes didn't start at the beginning of their story. It's like they were going to fill us in on the significance of the canisters and what happened in between the games as we progressed through the future installments. I was reading the blog of one of the episodes devs a couple years ago. He talked about porting the original Sin to the Source engine and later on gave some hints on the Sin storyline. Unfortunately it was in riddle form and I couldn't make any sense out of it, but whatever Blade was injected with seemed to have a connection to the cannisters.

Maybe we can pry it out of him once Episodes is sufficiently old?

I dunno if we can pry it out of him....maybe. I do know there's two endings though. In one you go right to the boss battle and don't see elexis's cutscene or visit her HQ/final rocket base level where you defuse the rockets, and in the other you go to the final base level and defuse/stop the rockets and then fight her father and then cutscene.

I think the major difference is made by which path you go through the game. Like if you can't stop those two mutants in the waterworks outflow canals you get to go back to the dam and enter that room you couldn't when doing the dam prior and have to stop the turbines and block the dam and stop the water supply that way.

P.S. I think the thing that allows her to transfer into those canisters(whatever it was...teleport, dna disassembly,etc) is the pendant around her neck...which glows a blue similar to that of the canisters. Also she wears it all the time meaning it must be important to her somehow. Maybe alien artifact?

i wouldn't mind another Might and Magic game either, even if it were to be set in the Ubisoft continuity of the few games they've published in the series.

Midtown Madness.

How i loved that game. I remember, in the 2, withe the fastback mustang, in San Francisco i could do a lot of ridiculous stunts

Ritual was bought by Mumbo Jumbo, so they own the game. Zenimax doesnt have anything to do with it. Has someone tried contacting them? They may listen, since their core games are not the type of games Ritual made.

You mention Thief, have you had a look at the Doom3 Thief: The Dark Mod?
I haven't managed to get it working yet, but I have not tried all that hard. The screens look great though and it seems the engine would do it justice.
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