Comments on: Cutting Edge Open Source FPS

By: iga Moga

iga Moga — Sat, 22 May 2010 05:10:06 +0000

It’s not exactly like Quake 3 but it’s not exactly different.
In short, it’s nothing revolutionary and it’s comments like Quinton’s “Blood Frontier is nothing like…” that irk me.

I’ve played Quake 3, Unreal Tournament, Blood Frontier, Action Quake, Paintball, etc, etc… even Smoking Guns and only Smoking Guns can be called anything different.
Blood Frontier is a quake clone. Phil’s comment is “valid” and who is Quinton to judge anyway?

By: Quinton Reeves

Quinton Reeves — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 03:01:55 +0000

Phil’s comment is exactly what is wrong with the OSS gamers. Commenting on a game without even trying it out amounts to nothing but negativity – when one could be ACTIVELY working to improve whatever points they find fault with.

Blood Frontier is nothing like Quake 3, or any other game for that matter – sure there are some aspects which are quite common to ALL First Person Shooters, but the gameplay itself is unique and original.

Uninformed comments like this just irk me, play the game and then get back to me, otherwise your comment is entirely invalid. Thanks!

By: Phil M

Phil M — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:40:38 +0000

*sigh*

It’s everything I find wrong with the OSS community. Rather than innovate they think copying proprietary software will do.

No, it wont. No one pays less (or nothing) safe in the knowledge it had 60-70% of the features (in this case playability.)

There are some awesome open source games and apps out there, but this isn’t one of them. It’s a tired Quake III clone.