If you love FPS games - yes. You can "upgrade" the experience using gzdoom (except for hexen 2 which uses q1 engine) and texture packs. Check some reviews on youtube. Anyhow the price is really low..
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They're quite interesting, in a mostly good way.
Heretic is like a fantasy DOOM. Some fun monsters, levels are a bit more open and it's more challenging. If you like DOOM you'll like Heretic, it's a good one, though I would not say it's quite as good as the old DOOM games.
Hexen is interesting. It plays a lot like DOOM, and feels remarkably smooth to play. The game has a far more open design with a greater focus on puzzles. Some people love this one, others find it confusing. Three classes with unique weapons gives it some replay value as well. Worth checking out!
Hexen 2 is rough. It runs on an upgraded quake engine and the levels are pretty big. Combat feels good and once again you have multiple classes. Some of the puzzles are downright fiendish in this one though and it suffers from a classic case of "where do I go?" syndrome. Still worth a try, you might find the exploration fascinating, and even if you just play through the first world and drop it afterwards you'll get your moneys worth out of it thanks to the solid combat.
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As Seibitsu said, its an amazing price for this pack. And thank you for this heads up.
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Look interesting, even more at this price, but a quick question for people that already played them :
Thanks :)
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These games were made in the mid 1990s and there wasn't much native controller support back then. There might be some workarounds if you search the forums on their Steam pages.
They feature multiple difficulties and have cheat codes, including invulnerability, level skip and all weapons/ammo.
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Yes both games have an easy mode (first difficulty). There are also cheats, but you won't need them on easy.
Controllers should work since Wolfenstein 3D and Doom had controller support. Will test and confirm.
Update: So they use Dosbox which does not support controllers out of the box. Possible but tiresome
You can use a different launcher / frontend like Doomsday or GZDoom which have inbuilt controller support.
As a plus, GZDoom will automatically find the games once installed on Steam / GOG
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Check out the Brutal HeXen mod, it adds a lot of cool stuff.
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Bought.
About classic FPS games, Marathon is out now on Steam https://store.steampowered.com/app/2398450/Classic_Marathon/.
Two more coming soon
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2398490/Classic_Marathon_2/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2398520/Classic_Marathon_Infinity/
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I'll add that these Marathon games are free, and have been for a long time. I remember playing them back in 2008 or so. If you don't want to play the Steam versions for whatever reason you can fiddle around with the open source project:
And for the uninitiated, Marathon was made by Bungie and is related to Halo in some ill-defined way.
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Mandaloregaming did some amazing videos about the Marathon games, it's a really intriguing series
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Reminder that Hexen is more of a puzzle game than an FPS. Finding all those obscure buttons and items.. phew
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Wish they doing Remastered of Hexen pack but no one find out
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Hey check youtube there're lots of mods to improved the visual quality of these games.
Heretic - Fully Remastered
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhpojVc-Ins
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I think "hexen" means witch in German. But I am not completely sure. I heard this long ago and haven't checked it.
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Yeah, I was going to say that (but again, I wasn't sure about it). Thank you for confirming it.
In my language, Euskara (Basque language), we use the word "sorgin" to refer to the witch concept. The word means "creator" in our language, and "our witches" were understood more as doctors or druids. They were people with a nice knowledge about nature, and used it to cure the rest of the community. It is a pity the word has been mixed with the "bad concept" of wrongdoing witch of nowadays.
Anyway, this it seems a nice deal for 1€! Thank you for your time!
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