tofuti: It really bothers me that Blood's source code was never released. It's a goddamn tragedy to kill off this game's legacy like that. I have no doubt that Blood would have been rightly immortalised alongside Doom and Duke Nukem 3D if the source code was out. It would be far more accessible to modern gamers today and more people would realise just how great of a game it was. It's easily my favourite 2.5D shooter. I rate them the biggest of them like this:
Blood > Doom > Shadow Warrior = Duke Nukem 3D
It's not even nostalgia that makes me feel this way because for most of my life I preferred Doom to Blood - not that I didn't love Blood, I just felt the original Doom games were superior when I was younger. About a year ago I decided to replay Blood after many years and I realised just how awesome the game is. Its gameplay is fucking fantastic; the gunplay too damn satisfying. I love its atmosphere, the level design, everything about it. Sure it's not as polished as some games are but it more than makes up for it in its core gameplay. And damn, Blood had such an awesome multiplayer to boot, you wouldn't expect it but it was there. I remember when I was a kid we used to go to my rich friend's house who had a LAN set-up. One of the main games we used to play was Blood over many others including the original Quake and Doom.
Yeahhhh. I hate the way we never got this game's source code. We could have really had some awesome mods made. The worst thing is that the IP owners are just unproductively sitting on it - for 15 years! Blood 2 was released in '98 and since then we've got nothing official for this game. It's ridiculous. They're holding onto it like a bunch of greedy cash cows but they're not even doing anything with it. At least give us a Blood re-release like Shadow Warrior Redux. I don't see how that project could possibly be expensive to produce and it would be a quick and easy buck if they sold it on Steam.
Shit.
This is EXACTLY how I feel. That's why I started the thread. I bought my copy of Blood when I was just 15. The game had JUST been released, and at that time I would play any FPS I could get my hands on. But this one was different. It wasn't just another cookie-cutter shootemup. For christ's sake the name weapon is a FLARE GUN. The first time I shot someone with it I tilted my little head, wondering what the hell that pink thing was gonna do...and then the zombie burst into flames. And when it finally died it showered a plume of blood and sent its own head rocketing into the air. And by god...I could kick the damn thing.
But the gore, even though perfectly executed, was only a small fraction of the reason I loved this game. The atmosphere, the jokes, the CRAFT and CARE that went into making each level interesting. A MOVING TRAIN!
To see Blood Redux pop up on steam would mean I'd have to find a way to pay $25. The game would probably only be $9.99. But fuck that. I'd give em $25.
If a kickstarter booted up tomorrow for a Blood Redux on steam...well I'd be a very poor man very quickly.
Oh well.
