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Hey, Jarek. F. E.A.R:Extraction Point is the best Expansion games. The plot happens where Douglas Holiday has sacrifice his life and the same to Jin. That was touching where your teammates are killed😭😭😢
I have some fcked up notebook so i can't have stable frame rate even with mods so I will play the entire trilogy when I buy myself a new computer. Just want that nostalgia tingle.
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU. So, a bunch of years ago I played a game on my J2ME phone. And for the love of god I couldn't remember its name. I was watching this video and I went to look at the comment section. And I saw this comment. Mentioning Gothic. And I instantly knew that was the game. Gothic 3: The beginning.
@@dustindubbo2892 yeah, that was an extremely unpleasant surprise when i reinstalled minecraft after a 2 year hiatus. I thought i was safe chilling out in the ocean on a boat, and then suddenly *rape*
@@magmat0585 it really killed the whole underwater exploration thing, there's just so many of them that being impaled by tridents for some gold nuggets just isn't worth it. Also ruined underwater houses for me.
Yes! The analysis is finally here! F.E.A.R. really needs more representation. It's kinda depressing how the industry has devolved from this game where enemies are fucking geniuses to new fps games where enemies stand in one place and sometimes aimbot you across the map. Or always miss
@Anthony Johnson I played every single one on max difficulty aside from NuDoom because Ultra Nightmare is just masochism, none of the NPCs in either NulFenstein or NuPrey are complex or have good A.I., they're either gimmicky, standart static scripted mooks or bulletsponges. And it's spelled *"NU"* as they're all (inferior) reenvisions of the older original games.
@Anthony Johnson I don't want to be a cool kid, I want to play good videogames. The New Order and Old Blood are ok, certainly beat the original, but they're still not on par with Return to Castle or 2009. The New Colossus and New Blood are both horrible fucking games though, pacing, weapon variety, plot, writing, you name it. New Colossus at least had good shooting, New Blood didn't even have that thanks to Loot and Shoot bulletsponge enemies *"Doom 2016 is better than the original"* Doom 2016 is a shittier Painkiller clone with no modding, and no open ended levels, the original Doom is a first person bullet hell with a million community mods. It's like comparing Duke 3D to Duke Forever, just that 2016 manages to be decent. Still have no idea why people fellate it, probably because FPS games are fucking shit nowadays so a really average game looks like some sort of masterpiece, the brand probably helps as well due to familiarity and peer preassure.
Oooo, I’d like to contribute to your argument. Holiday’s death is more impactful because he is the first npc who isn’t killed in the opening engagement and actually fights alongside you for a solid 10-20 min. After going through aaaaaaalll of the first game and the first two hours of EP by yourself having an AI Buddy was awesome, story wise you felt a little bit of comradeship. And then the game rips it away from you by having an unknown enemy brutally kill holiday. Then you’re alone for the rest of the game Secondly, that final fight sequence has a sense of emotional urgency to it. You’re ‘keen’ to get the fuck out, and you’re amazed that the sun is out, but then every replica pours out of the woodworks to stop you, literally all of them, flanking you from all sides, and while it’s a satisfying shoot out, story wise i could just picture the point nan screaming furiously, ruthlessly gunning down everyone trying to stop him at the cusp of his escape. So yeah, that.
I often think that the industry doesn't really push AI but it does not seem like many people care about that. A good AI in shooters feels so damn good.
This game was what set the bar for me as a kid, when it comes to good gameplay. I only wish they had turned it into a paranormal/monster anthology series ala SCP.🥺
I never finished FEAR because of the horror sections. Got the "end" with the facility and all the booms, but never pushed past the flying ghost things. Still, even with all that Alma is always on my mind. Every time I turn around to descend a ladder in ANY game I expect to see her there.
Saw a smaller TH-camr talking about it and apparently they shell out somewhere around 1.6k for a sponsorship, after hearing that I can't really blame anyone who takes a offer at that price point.
Man i really wish some other developer could see the potential of the Vivendi (Extraction Point, Perseus Mandate) time-line and make an offshoot series on it
@@rafterman5072 well considering the age of the game, anyone who has a decent everyday pc at home can play this. And for your other point, you can really easy just connect your pc through your tv and use a wireless controller like a ps or a xbox controller.
Not confirmed for consoles yet but there is a game still being developed called Trepang 2. Pretty close to FEAR with vastly improved shooting with most of the same abilities and some new mechanics like improved sliding and invisibility cloak. They even managed to nail the shotgun. You can download the free demo from Steam.
There's a good sort of homage/spiritual successor to FEAR called Trepang2 (a placeholder name, it's not the second game in a series). There's a free demo on steam which is basically a pre-alpha, so don't expect loads of polish. But despite it being a pretty barebones demo with a sliver of campaign, two hoarde mode arenas and a secret area for getting the wave 30; it shows off some really solid combat, visuals, and a decent AI. It really feels like a modern FEAR game that doesn't suck.
The levels are still work in progress but damn the core shooting feels so good and they even nailed the shotgun. Even what little levels they have finished look shit but play well just like FEAR.
FEAR should have been a compilation SCP style game where you fight a different paranormal entity in each game ....in fact oh wait....that's what it was going to be! This and EP would have been the perfect origin story setup for that! But then 2 and 3 happened
@@gagejohnathan9641 If the FEAR games was going to be a SCP anthology style game with each game Focusing on a different paranormal Creature/entity Here are some recommendations of Creatures Werewolves 28 days/weeks style infected The windigo Skinwalkers Lovecraftian eldric Abominations Demons Japanese Yokai ghosts/monsters
@@gagejohnathan9641 yeah there are definitely things in fear 2 that actually made for a good continuation of the story. But many of them got overshadowed by the more questionable aspects of the game. And some were overlooked because they were so poorly conveyed to the player. It's a shame
I must comment on this.. I was searching for something COMPLETELY different and I typod on the searchbar and got 2 results.. It was this video and some Call of duty video from 5 years ago.. Yours peaked my interest since I have played F.E.A.R. before. I have never heard/seen you before, but I enjoyed your video, I enjoyed your presentation and whole personality of yours and now I'm subscribed...................... And I also looked at the cod video and it was crap.
just a heads up - the term is 'piqued my interest' , not 'peaked my interest', if you care enough to want to write it correctly in the future, since your spelling was otherwise almost perfect :D
I find it kinda sad that Timegate, who had everything going in there direction with Extraction Point expansion for F.E.A.R., went through such a slow, yet painful demise, with Vivendi & Sierra ordering them to rush the final expansion "Perseus Mandate" out the door for 2007 (for a game that had been out for 2 years at that point) due to both being on the verge of financial bankruptcy, then having to develop a mediocre "Tribes-meets-Borderlands" type FPS that neither they or their publisher, SouthPeak, had faith in at the time, and finally being forced to finish developing the campaign for *sigh* Aliens: Colonial Marines by demand of Randy Bobandy. They seemed like genuinely talented devs and Extraction Point was proof of that.
honestly i think publishers could be the reason why gaming failed than just corporations. just hear me out. vivendi from what i've researched here on youtube, literally just went for money. i know thats bread dead common to point out but the way they did was they just handed over everything for the sake of it. idk how to describe it
So back in 2007, after I played the original F.E.A.R., I just got the far inferior Perseus Mandate instead of Extraction Point because...bad marketing?
I wouldn't say so. Perseus Mandate has a lot more going on story wise and also has a lot of emails again, which were completely missing from extraction point iirc. EP really is just a series of levels until you get extracted. It adds almost nothing to the story, but has the better level design. Gameplay is pretty much identical between base game and both add ons anyway. None of the add ons are as good as the main game but if you haven't played EP by now I would do some catching up. All my opinion of course.
@@mikeryan1043 I think you have a point here. Yesterday I installed EP on steam, and it was a nightmare to get it run properly on Win10. When I reached the metro level the frame rate became unbearable so I gave up.That said, I remember Perseus Mandate running mostly well on Windows Vista back in the day.
Sun JoeXYS Why is that? If you can play FEAR on Windows 10, then EP should be fine too. You did remember to drop the Directinput fix into the EP game folder directory, right?
@@greatdelusion7654 Yes I did. And I also tried other fixes suggested on Steam community, nonetheless the performance I got on my PC (with 2060S) was still unstable at best. In that metro level, the FPS dropped to single-digits so I just gave up.
Sun JoeXYS Oh shit - I have a 2060S too. Ok I’m gonna try play EP tonight cause now you got me worried and I haven’t played it on my 2060S yet. I’ll let you know if it plays well and what I did.
What’s weird about the second expansion is its the same people who did extraction point What happened? Alos here’s something you guys should know that EP resolution settings don’t support 1920x1080 so your gonna have to tweak it in note pad to the desired resolutions alos sometimes the game will act up ie fps drops to game disconnected from server etc so your either a gonna need to look up a video to fix this or b tweak the graphics settings to at most medium
Perseus mandate is way better ? Way better pacing, way less bugs, you dont get stuck in anything compared to Extraction point.. something being dark doesnt make it good. Perseus is a closed story that ends in the dlc with no cliffhangers like this mess..
I absolutely agree with the points you made throughout the review, my first contact with this game was way back in 2007-2008 in a internet cafe (good o'l days) i saw the icon of an eye and the writings F.E.A.R and i got immediately intrigued, so i started it up and the first thing i noticed was the music from the main menu i knew the game was about to be a nerve test, so i started playing and was hooked in seconds and even though i was young at the time i was around 12-13 when i played it it felt different and back then i didn't knew about A.I or map design or any of that but i knew this game was special, and the horror did get me everytime i still remember the first time my hair on the back of my neck stood when i was on that ladder and i saw that girl then Fettel and it did made me nervous to go on ladders from that point on lol, it is cheesy but this game has special place in my heart and the fact that i keep reinstalling it on a yearly basis speaks for itself, when i played F.E.A.R 2 when it came out i didn't understand why people didn't like it as much but now i understand why and when F.E.A.R 3 came out it just didn't do it for me i barely finished it because it was a task for, only redeeming thing from 3 was that you can play as Fettel. I recently played the expansions (bought them) and i have to agree that Extraction Point is superior from all of the F.E.A.R games. AND GODDAMN IT F.E.A.R 1 NEEDS A REMASTER !
I couldn’t agree with you more. I’ll never forget playing extraction point at my grandparents house late at night with only my dog to keep me company. An absolute classic horror experience
The horror in FEAR I think was largely well done, although I think only one part really got me. Some random cubicle, I'm scouring for ammo/health and I see a dark shape crawl out of the darkness towards me. It was quiet and creepy, and unexpected.
The one feels when you escape from the psychiatric ward hell and hearing the music along with the F.E.A.R. coordinator contacting you at the end is absolutely LEGENDARY!
FEAR is one of my favourite fps sagas. even though FEAR 3 feels more like a call of duty i really like it. I love the whole saga, the only dlc i never finished was perseus mandate, and now that i have fear 1 platinun, i gotta play the saga all over again
FEAR's grenades are pretty great, though my favorite grenade/explosives in a game was Project Reality mod for BF2. Anyone caught in the 5-6 metre radius is incapacitated or killed nearly instantly. Maybe have like 15HP left and a heavy bleed if you are around 6-8M. Then much less 8-12M out likely being able to tend to your own wounds. at least with hand grenades and other smaller explosive blasts. They also coded in the shock wave coming from the explosive so you could dive down to minimize or negate all damage from an explosive that detonates around chest height. There was also a huge variety in types of explosives. The Alternate Rifleman class for the NVA get an SKS and 3 bouncing betties plus a ammo bag for 2 more mines. Then they could each place 10 mines total. So if you had 5 guys from a 8 man squad go Alt rifleman you could have 50 mines in a jungle. Problem was these mines are blind to friendly only way to not set them off is to crawl. So it's time consuming and dumb teammates forget to check the map for markers. Spent so many hours just dicking around with booby traps as NVA or insurgents. Lol even did US Marine sappers who mine'd the NVA main supply line stoppering them from having the supply and spawn advantage as it was an Island map assault map. Where US starts on an Aircraft carrier and needs to capture the island starting with beach and air field. We finally got a spiritual successor or two to Project Reality time, for FEAR to get one.
Dude you forgot to mention the genius of the reality transition they(I think) invented. The sequence when you (spoiler alert***) shoot Paxton in the head is beyond genius. The two realities do not emerge until that point, I mean that they interact and by fighting off the ghosties you act in the other reality not being conscious of the consequences. So this part of the design is incredibly complex and worth mentioning, lovely video you did here, enjoyed it a lot.
The first game to introduce me to spas-12 shotgun and I grew to love it throughout the full expansion of the game, hope to see games like this as well the condemned games where you play as a detective figuratively & literally. Great analysis please make a video about condemned if possible!
I remember playing extraction point when i was in early high school. Damn that game gave me more chills than the 2nd and 3rd game. Definitely more memorable. Perseus Mandate on the other hand was... Ok.
Absolutely great Game sadly we here in Germany never got the Expansion because of Censorship to the Violence Factor and so we have a incomplete Game. 2nd Game the same only the third is Uncut
The first F.E.A.R game is by far my favorite game of all time. It has all my favorite things in a video game in one game and just reminds me of my childhood. It's everything ❤
Finally. The first time that someone made a real good review of this awesome franchise. Believe this guy don't play other F.E.A.R. games only the original and EA. Thank you
After a while the replicas scare you more than the actual horror...I can't count how many times I attempted to go around to surprise the enemy and find they were doing the same thing. Right in my face kicking me to death, yeah I've yelped a few times. And as for the shades/shadows. If you play with subtitles, everytime they hiss and growl the text window displays "...". That's so eerie to me it sends a shiver.
"A war is coming, I've seen it in my dreams.." That ending has always stuck in my mind, the backdrop and music accentuate Paxton's short monologue perfectly! Glad it made an impression on others too! The base game ending awesome too! Feels like those epic, memorable gaming experiences are long gone now... the noughties were the golden era for me!
Fear multiplayer was also God damn awesome. I loved it so much I actually wondered why it never became an esport. I used to play the online 24/7 with a potato PC, dual pistols all the way or no weapon massacre. Nobody ever talks about fear MP, it was AMAZING! I'm gonna play it again.
I'm glad that finally someone appreciated that corridor in hospital - so freaking depressing and scary But I disagree about the ending - the pointman has been through a LOT. Saving him for once would be a relief. After all that's almost identical to how the original game ended.
Hey, Jarek. F. E.A.R Extraction Point is so tragic, more Action and Horror . When Point Man and F. E.A.R team were targeted by Paxton Fettel, Replica Forces, Alma Wade and Alma's apparitions. That is before F. 3.A.R game.
FEAR and Extraction Point were so great. It was impressive how badly they dropped the ball with the "sequels". So much to work with but they just decided to piss it all away to be as generic as possible.
Thank you for video! Finished F3AR on release, didn't liked it at all, but few days ago I played and completed it just before I finished DOOM 2016 on Nightmare difficulty, and I played F3AR on Fearless, and I was surprised how well it plays if you stick to "run gun slide kick grenade perfect slow mo timing to ALWAYS go for headshots etc", and the ranking up system kept me till the end, made me do my best to complete challenges and gain power for Pointman. Didn't liked the plot, but anyway I was not there for the story, gameplay is incredible solid. IMO, of course. And yeah, I am forcing my friends to play the first one every since too xD
I’ve been wanting to get fear for awhile now. Thankfully recently the whole fear pack on steam is now around 10-11 bucks so it was a good time to grab. Liking it so far.
I was seven when i played this, i had already seen the Friday The 13th saga and the first scream movie (i have terrible cousins that i lived with growing up) so it didn't scare me as much as i guess it should but it still scared the shit outta me the first time i saw some of those
I'm so glad I bought the original FEAR collection on Steam when I did. I tried to get a friend to play it and he told me the collection was like $50, which is atrocious but still almost worth it
9:24 yeah i remember this one Alma didnt get me but Fettel almost gave me an heart attack as a kid. My brother just jumped down skipping the scene entirely.
I decided to play Fear and it’s DLC’s not long ago . I have to say that the original Fear and Extraction point were some of the best games I’ve ever played. The combat in the games are just unmatched, nothing I’ve played compares. Also the AI to this day hasn’t been beat, I’ve never played a game that has AI this good and I play A LOT of games. And I thought extraction point was better than the base game. The combat in extraction point felt more chaotic and the horror segments were more flushed out
I do enjoy FEAR and its two expansions. I have replayed all 3 countless times over the years and I haven't found any other FPS that entertains me like this. I like the extreme difficulty since it makes me feel more James-Bondy having to be quite blunt and precise to win easily most fights.
10:00 After that ladder scene i was always expecting someting to come out even in fear 2 and they never did it again. I think its one of the best ways to scare someone.
There was scene in one of the later games where Alma (the older incarnation) suddenly reaches out for you between 2 steps on a ladder. It might have been in the 3rd? It was kind of cool, because it happens when you are on the middle of the ladder instead of the top or bottom, and its a nice little reference to the original scene.
I have f.e.a.r for 1 year but don't played don't know why but after watching this video i played f.e.a.r and i fucking god this is best fps I ever played I didn't play anything but f.e.a.r thanks man I love you
They should make a sequel to this game and abandon FEAR 2 & 3 and start making an epic sequel with today's technology at the same time bringing back 'Craig Hubbard' as Game Director and 'Richard Pearsey' as the Main Writer.
I miss this game, I was only 7 when it came out in 2005 but my dad bought it on release, sadly no one my age has played the game so I can't really talk about it with anyone lol
So Etraction Point is Silent Hill, with guns and slow motion? Awesome. Also I would play on PC, but I hate playing with mouse and keyboard on a small screen
I loved F.E.A.R and Extraction Point. I do really like F.E.A.R 2 and F.E.A.R 3? Let's pretend that never happened. I hope Monolith will one day return to horror because those guys nailed horror atmosphere. I really miss Condemned also
I always wanted like a fear arena game with just endless combat without the alma bits. I dont mind the horror bits but the combat is so friggin good the game didnt give me enough of it.
as far as melee is concerned you can also do some boxing by pressing h to holster the gun and pressing either the left or right mouse button you will start throwing some punches
The FEAR shotgun is definitely up there on my list of top video game shotguns, but nothing will supplant the Unreal Tournament Flak Cannon for me. While it lacks the "fine red mist" ability of the FEAR weapon, the Flak Cannon's combination of a shotgun and a (actually useful!) grenade launcher just can't be beat. Now, if only someone were to mod FEAR to have a Flak Cannon so you could shoot your own grenades out of the air without needing to lower the gun...
FEAR 2 IS GOOD TOO I know the combat is not too good compare to fear 1 but the Horror atmosfer is good When i first play on the intro level,i almost punch my laptop because of the jumpscare
FEAR 2 is a massive disappointment compared to the first game. The combat is a huge step down and the horror boils down to alma jump scares and little more.
WOO this video was WAAAAY more work than I intended. I love this game so I've been wanting to make a video of it for a very long time. If you enjoyed this video and want to hang out then come give a follow to my twitch! www.twitch.tv/jarek4gamingdragon
Jarek4 experimenting on a friend I love it
I think you need to do an indepth analysis on f.e.a.r. 3. I would LOVE to hear your complaints.
This video saved me 9 bucks on fear, because i bought it on gog instead of steam now.
Hey, Jarek. F. E.A.R:Extraction Point is the best Expansion games. The plot happens where Douglas Holiday has sacrifice his life and the same to Jin. That was touching where your teammates are killed😭😭😢
I do agree ending should have stopped at extraction point. Although not sure if you could continue from there.
F.E.A.R is like Gothic - every time you hear about it someone somewhere reinstalls the game and plays it for the 1000s time.
I have some fcked up notebook so i can't have stable frame rate even with mods so I will play the entire trilogy when I buy myself a new computer. Just want that nostalgia tingle.
That was me the other day, can't help it.
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU.
So, a bunch of years ago I played a game on my J2ME phone. And for the love of god I couldn't remember its name. I was watching this video and I went to look at the comment section. And I saw this comment. Mentioning Gothic. And I instantly knew that was the game. Gothic 3: The beginning.
and that all started with Deus Ex
Gothic?
"You never want to jump into water in any video game ever."
Minecraft players: Water is the key to life.
Serious sam players:UNLIMITED POWER
Until they added the water zombies that can spawn in a single tile of water and you can’t even cross a stream without them trying to rape you.
@@dustindubbo2892 yeah, that was an extremely unpleasant surprise when i reinstalled minecraft after a 2 year hiatus. I thought i was safe chilling out in the ocean on a boat, and then suddenly *rape*
@@magmat0585 it really killed the whole underwater exploration thing, there's just so many of them that being impaled by tridents for some gold nuggets just isn't worth it. Also ruined underwater houses for me.
Yes! The analysis is finally here! F.E.A.R. really needs more representation. It's kinda depressing how the industry has devolved from this game where enemies are fucking geniuses to new fps games where enemies stand in one place and sometimes aimbot you across the map. Or always miss
@Anthony Johnson Would appreciate a few current titles where the enemies are as good thanks
@Anthony Johnson NuDoom maybe, everything else is not even close.
@Anthony Johnson I played every single one on max difficulty aside from NuDoom because Ultra Nightmare is just masochism, none of the NPCs in either NulFenstein or NuPrey are complex or have good A.I., they're either gimmicky, standart static scripted mooks or bulletsponges.
And it's spelled *"NU"* as they're all (inferior) reenvisions of the older original games.
@Anthony Johnson Mimics in Prey are the definition of a marketing gimmick that adds nothing to the game, when they could and should have.
@Anthony Johnson I don't want to be a cool kid, I want to play good videogames.
The New Order and Old Blood are ok, certainly beat the original, but they're still not on par with Return to Castle or 2009.
The New Colossus and New Blood are both horrible fucking games though, pacing, weapon variety, plot, writing, you name it.
New Colossus at least had good shooting, New Blood didn't even have that thanks to Loot and Shoot bulletsponge enemies
*"Doom 2016 is better than the original"*
Doom 2016 is a shittier Painkiller clone with no modding, and no open ended levels, the original Doom is a first person bullet hell with a million community mods.
It's like comparing Duke 3D to Duke Forever, just that 2016 manages to be decent.
Still have no idea why people fellate it, probably because FPS games are fucking shit nowadays so a really average game looks like some sort of masterpiece, the brand probably helps as well due to familiarity and peer preassure.
Oooo, I’d like to contribute to your argument. Holiday’s death is more impactful because he is the first npc who isn’t killed in the opening engagement and actually fights alongside you for a solid 10-20 min. After going through aaaaaaalll of the first game and the first two hours of EP by yourself having an AI Buddy was awesome, story wise you felt a little bit of comradeship. And then the game rips it away from you by having an unknown enemy brutally kill holiday. Then you’re alone for the rest of the game
Secondly, that final fight sequence has a sense of emotional urgency to it. You’re ‘keen’ to get the fuck out, and you’re amazed that the sun is out, but then every replica pours out of the woodworks to stop you, literally all of them, flanking you from all sides, and while it’s a satisfying shoot out, story wise i could just picture the point nan screaming furiously, ruthlessly gunning down everyone trying to stop him at the cusp of his escape.
So yeah, that.
absolutely underrated content creator, keep up the good work my dude. support from northern ireland
He used to do some badass airsoft reviews back in the day.
What are you taking about
As dum as it sounds but my support from iraq
yey! other europeans watch Jarek, I am not alone!
I never understood the hate. I want my fav youtubers to get that bread
the ending......that is an ending, that music and moving in the empty hall i feel that the nighmare had finished, i feel good, is a great end
It’s more a cliffhanger.
I often think that the industry doesn't really push AI but it does not seem like many people care about that. A good AI in shooters feels so damn good.
Seems like the mainstream just wants to make interactive movies.
Personally, I prefer fear 1 and extraction point over the rest that came out
This game was what set the bar for me as a kid, when it comes to good gameplay.
I only wish they had turned it into a paranormal/monster anthology series ala SCP.🥺
A good SCP good would be dope
Trepang2 came out recently. Its got some decent SCP-ish horrors, even if its combat is the main focus.
I never finished FEAR because of the horror sections. Got the "end" with the facility and all the booms, but never pushed past the flying ghost things. Still, even with all that Alma is always on my mind. Every time I turn around to descend a ladder in ANY game I expect to see her there.
Oh raid! At the beginning i didn't care, after a while i was annoyed and nowadays i start to laugh if i see a sponsored by raid ad.
I'm pretty sure most youtubers who get sponsored by them now subtly mock it and ridicule it.
Next, you will become one with Raid: Shadow Legends
Hey if raid gave me a couple grand to say a 45 second ad in my video for a shit game I know most people wont download, I'd do it too
Saw a smaller TH-camr talking about it and apparently they shell out somewhere around 1.6k for a sponsorship, after hearing that I can't really blame anyone who takes a offer at that price point.
@@sboy1024 Yeah I heard someone say the bigger your channel, the more they give so they can give out thousands to some. It's nuts
Man i really wish some other developer could see the potential of the Vivendi (Extraction Point, Perseus Mandate) time-line and make an offshoot series on it
I'd kill for a FEAR collection for modern consoles.
Or ya know just play it on any old PC because the game runs on pretty much anything
@@noobplebdeluxe4426 Not everyone has a PC. I have a Mac and I absolutely hate gaming at a desktop because I sit at one all day at work.
@@rafterman5072 well considering the age of the game, anyone who has a decent everyday pc at home can play this. And for your other point, you can really easy just connect your pc through your tv and use a wireless controller like a ps or a xbox controller.
I'd like to see both FEAR Series and Condemned Series Remasters on Current Consoles.
Not confirmed for consoles yet but there is a game still being developed called Trepang 2. Pretty close to FEAR with vastly improved shooting with most of the same abilities and some new mechanics like improved sliding and invisibility cloak. They even managed to nail the shotgun. You can download the free demo from Steam.
Jarek torturing his friends and breaking them by making them play F.E.A.R.
There's a good sort of homage/spiritual successor to FEAR called Trepang2 (a placeholder name, it's not the second game in a series). There's a free demo on steam which is basically a pre-alpha, so don't expect loads of polish. But despite it being a pretty barebones demo with a sliver of campaign, two hoarde mode arenas and a secret area for getting the wave 30; it shows off some really solid combat, visuals, and a decent AI. It really feels like a modern FEAR game that doesn't suck.
The levels are still work in progress but damn the core shooting feels so good and they even nailed the shotgun. Even what little levels they have finished look shit but play well just like FEAR.
FEAR should have been a compilation SCP style game where you fight a different paranormal entity in each game ....in fact oh wait....that's what it was going to be! This and EP would have been the perfect origin story setup for that! But then 2 and 3 happened
@@gagejohnathan9641
If the FEAR games was going to be a SCP anthology style game with each game Focusing on a different paranormal Creature/entity
Here are some recommendations of
Creatures
Werewolves
28 days/weeks style infected
The windigo
Skinwalkers
Lovecraftian eldric Abominations
Demons
Japanese Yokai ghosts/monsters
@@gagejohnathan9641 yeah there are definitely things in fear 2 that actually made for a good continuation of the story. But many of them got overshadowed by the more questionable aspects of the game. And some were overlooked because they were so poorly conveyed to the player. It's a shame
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Trepang 2?
I must comment on this.. I was searching for something COMPLETELY different and I typod on the searchbar and got 2 results.. It was this video and some Call of duty video from 5 years ago.. Yours peaked my interest since I have played F.E.A.R. before. I have never heard/seen you before, but I enjoyed your video, I enjoyed your presentation and whole personality of yours and now I'm subscribed...................... And I also looked at the cod video and it was crap.
just a heads up - the term is 'piqued my interest' , not 'peaked my interest', if you care enough to want to write it correctly in the future, since your spelling was otherwise almost perfect :D
@@theSato Woah did not know that. :O
Laughed when you show the clip of your friend, loved this game and still love it, wish they continued this same feeling into the others
I find it kinda sad that Timegate, who had everything going in there direction with Extraction Point expansion for F.E.A.R., went through such a slow, yet painful demise, with Vivendi & Sierra ordering them to rush the final expansion "Perseus Mandate" out the door for 2007 (for a game that had been out for 2 years at that point) due to both being on the verge of financial bankruptcy, then having to develop a mediocre "Tribes-meets-Borderlands" type FPS that neither they or their publisher, SouthPeak, had faith in at the time, and finally being forced to finish developing the campaign for *sigh* Aliens: Colonial Marines by demand of Randy Bobandy. They seemed like genuinely talented devs and Extraction Point was proof of that.
I thought section 8 was rad
honestly i think publishers could be the reason why gaming failed than just corporations. just hear me out. vivendi from what i've researched here on youtube, literally just went for money. i know thats bread dead common to point out but the way they did was they just handed over everything for the sake of it. idk how to describe it
Also, i like when Replica yell "He's too fast" when you turn the slow mo
Or, "We can't stop him!"
So back in 2007, after I played the original F.E.A.R., I just got the far inferior Perseus Mandate instead of Extraction Point because...bad marketing?
I wouldn't say so. Perseus Mandate has a lot more going on story wise and also has a lot of emails again, which were completely missing from extraction point iirc. EP really is just a series of levels until you get extracted. It adds almost nothing to the story, but has the better level design. Gameplay is pretty much identical between base game and both add ons anyway. None of the add ons are as good as the main game but if you haven't played EP by now I would do some catching up. All my opinion of course.
@@mikeryan1043 I think you have a point here. Yesterday I installed EP on steam, and it was a nightmare to get it run properly on Win10. When I reached the metro level the frame rate became unbearable so I gave up.That said, I remember Perseus Mandate running mostly well on Windows Vista back in the day.
Sun JoeXYS
Why is that? If you can play FEAR on Windows 10, then EP should be fine too. You did remember to drop the Directinput fix into the EP game folder directory, right?
@@greatdelusion7654 Yes I did. And I also tried other fixes suggested on Steam community, nonetheless the performance I got on my PC (with 2060S) was still unstable at best. In that metro level, the FPS dropped to single-digits so I just gave up.
Sun JoeXYS
Oh shit - I have a 2060S too. Ok I’m gonna try play EP tonight cause now you got me worried and I haven’t played it on my 2060S yet. I’ll let you know if it plays well and what I did.
What’s weird about the second expansion is its the same people who did extraction point
What happened?
Alos here’s something you guys should know that EP resolution settings don’t support 1920x1080 so your gonna have to tweak it in note pad to the desired resolutions alos sometimes the game will act up ie fps drops to game disconnected from server etc so your either a gonna need to look up a video to fix this or b tweak the graphics settings to at most medium
i actually had more fun with perseus mandate, extraction point was really buggy when i played, it was fun but the glitches were annoying
Perseus mandate is way better ? Way better pacing, way less bugs, you dont get stuck in anything compared to Extraction point.. something being dark doesnt make it good. Perseus is a closed story that ends in the dlc with no cliffhangers like this mess..
Sweet! More f.e.a.r.! Own and love all three of them but especially the first two. F.e.a.r.3 though is great fun on co-op!
I absolutely agree with the points you made throughout the review, my first contact with this game was way back in 2007-2008 in a internet cafe (good o'l days) i saw the icon of an eye and the writings F.E.A.R and i got immediately intrigued, so i started it up and the first thing i noticed was the music from the main menu i knew the game was about to be a nerve test, so i started playing and was hooked in seconds and even though i was young at the time i was around 12-13 when i played it it felt different and back then i didn't knew about A.I or map design or any of that but i knew this game was special, and the horror did get me everytime i still remember the first time my hair on the back of my neck stood when i was on that ladder and i saw that girl then Fettel and it did made me nervous to go on ladders from that point on lol, it is cheesy but this game has special place in my heart and the fact that i keep reinstalling it on a yearly basis speaks for itself, when i played F.E.A.R 2 when it came out i didn't understand why people didn't like it as much but now i understand why and when F.E.A.R 3 came out it just didn't do it for me i barely finished it because it was a task for, only redeeming thing from 3 was that you can play as Fettel. I recently played the expansions (bought them) and i have to agree that Extraction Point is superior from all of the F.E.A.R games. AND GODDAMN IT F.E.A.R 1 NEEDS A REMASTER !
The eyes...they never lied.
I agree F.E.A.R 1 and the expansion need a remaster.
i'd argue both 1 and 2 needs a remaster prefer 2 myself,
I couldn’t agree with you more. I’ll never forget playing extraction point at my grandparents house late at night with only my dog to keep me company. An absolute classic horror experience
The horror in FEAR I think was largely well done, although I think only one part really got me. Some random cubicle, I'm scouring for ammo/health and I see a dark shape crawl out of the darkness towards me. It was quiet and creepy, and unexpected.
The one feels when you escape from the psychiatric ward hell and hearing the music along with the F.E.A.R. coordinator contacting you at the end is absolutely LEGENDARY!
FEAR is one of my favourite fps sagas. even though FEAR 3 feels more like a call of duty i really like it. I love the whole saga, the only dlc i never finished was perseus mandate, and now that i have fear 1 platinun, i gotta play the saga all over again
Every year on december I play these games
Thanks so much for this analysis. Exactly what I've been thinking for years.
i love extraction point and perseus mandate, they are the true sequels of fear
XP made me feel more desperate and hopeless. Gosh that atmosphere was awesome.
Love your vids, you don’t meander in your points and are very concise. Just hope you’re seeing these while there are so few!
The first time I played FEAR I was so immersed that I was practically crawling through the levels because it scared me that bad.
I'm waiting for a F.E.A.R 1 remastered
If it's with the same AI quality, Then yes.
Nah I think they should leave it. They’ll fuck it up somehow.
no need for a remaster, its fine, maybe a console port but its controls dont quite fit a controller
JV S it was already ported on the 360
@fossilfern now that I think about it your probably right
FEAR's grenades are pretty great, though my favorite grenade/explosives in a game was Project Reality mod for BF2. Anyone caught in the 5-6 metre radius is incapacitated or killed nearly instantly. Maybe have like 15HP left and a heavy bleed if you are around 6-8M. Then much less 8-12M out likely being able to tend to your own wounds. at least with hand grenades and other smaller explosive blasts. They also coded in the shock wave coming from the explosive so you could dive down to minimize or negate all damage from an explosive that detonates around chest height.
There was also a huge variety in types of explosives. The Alternate Rifleman class for the NVA get an SKS and 3 bouncing betties plus a ammo bag for 2 more mines. Then they could each place 10 mines total. So if you had 5 guys from a 8 man squad go Alt rifleman you could have 50 mines in a jungle. Problem was these mines are blind to friendly only way to not set them off is to crawl. So it's time consuming and dumb teammates forget to check the map for markers.
Spent so many hours just dicking around with booby traps as NVA or insurgents. Lol even did US Marine sappers who mine'd the NVA main supply line stoppering them from having the supply and spawn advantage as it was an Island map assault map. Where US starts on an Aircraft carrier and needs to capture the island starting with beach and air field.
We finally got a spiritual successor or two to Project Reality time, for FEAR to get one.
Dude you forgot to mention the genius of the reality transition they(I think) invented. The sequence when you (spoiler alert***) shoot Paxton in the head is beyond genius.
The two realities do not emerge until that point, I mean that they interact and by fighting off the ghosties you act in the other reality not being conscious of the consequences.
So this part of the design is incredibly complex and worth mentioning, lovely video you did here, enjoyed it a lot.
YES!!! the return of the awesome hat, i kinda missed it on the last video
The first game to introduce me to spas-12 shotgun and I grew to love it throughout the full expansion of the game, hope to see games like this as well the condemned games where you play as a detective figuratively & literally.
Great analysis please make a video about condemned if possible!
I love how you went from covering the worst fps games ever created to covering THE best ones.
Some say, to this day, the Point Man is still waiting on top of the hospital roof waiting for another helicopter to arrive.
I remember playing extraction point when i was in early high school. Damn that game gave me more chills than the 2nd and 3rd game. Definitely more memorable. Perseus Mandate on the other hand was... Ok.
Bruh at 19:33 when the helicopter blew up it played an ad. Talk about perfect timing.
Absolutely great Game sadly we here in Germany never got the Expansion because of Censorship to the Violence Factor and so we have a incomplete Game. 2nd Game the same only the third is Uncut
Doch, beide Erweiterungspakete kamen auch hier raus, ich hab sie beide.
I hope you can do an analysis on condemned
Oh yes that was a dark one
The first F.E.A.R game is by far my favorite game of all time. It has all my favorite things in a video game in one game and just reminds me of my childhood. It's everything ❤
X2 it's my favorite game too, but extraction point is the more I enjoy to play
Fear 1 was my all time favorite fps from when I first played it a couple years after its release untill I played Doom 2016
Finally. The first time that someone made a real good review of this awesome franchise. Believe this guy don't play other F.E.A.R. games only the original and EA. Thank you
That music made me so happy at the end, and the my heart shattered seeing the chopper blow up
After a while the replicas scare you more than the actual horror...I can't count how many times I attempted to go around to surprise the enemy and find they were doing the same thing. Right in my face kicking me to death, yeah I've yelped a few times.
And as for the shades/shadows. If you play with subtitles, everytime they hiss and growl the text window displays "...". That's so eerie to me it sends a shiver.
"A war is coming, I've seen it in my dreams.."
That ending has always stuck in my mind, the backdrop and music accentuate Paxton's short monologue perfectly! Glad it made an impression on others too!
The base game ending awesome too! Feels like those epic, memorable gaming experiences are long gone now... the noughties were the golden era for me!
The second rule of fear
NEVER EVER DROP THE SHOTGUN!
It’d be cool if a fangame or comic was made as a sequel to Extraction Point, basically having Pointman going on a solo manhunt for Fettel.
That would have been a better sequel, and I would have added some new monsters as well
Fear multiplayer was also God damn awesome. I loved it so much I actually wondered why it never became an esport. I used to play the online 24/7 with a potato PC, dual pistols all the way or no weapon massacre.
Nobody ever talks about fear MP, it was AMAZING!
I'm gonna play it again.
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I love that I'm not the only person to jump at their own shadow for the first time in FEAR
Hey! Love the channel. I live 5 mins south of downtown! Portland represent bud lol.
I love this game as well. Nice MegaDeth shirt by the way man. Rust in peace album cover.
i hope you’re doing well for yourself man, such a great creator, with a mind for really solid game analysis
I'm glad that finally someone appreciated that corridor in hospital - so freaking depressing and scary
But I disagree about the ending - the pointman has been through a LOT. Saving him for once would be a relief. After all that's almost identical to how the original game ended.
Fettel didn’t really want point-man dead he just wanted him to accept the truth
for fuck's sake....
*installs and plays fear for the 100th time*
This is so good
The F.E.A.R. games get me even after multiple playthroughs, even watching you play got me
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Hey, Jarek. F. E.A.R Extraction Point is so tragic, more Action and Horror . When Point Man and F. E.A.R team were targeted by Paxton Fettel, Replica Forces, Alma Wade and Alma's apparitions. That is before F. 3.A.R game.
Only time I tasted something akin to F.E.A.R. was the Trepang 2 Demo. My god, I wanna play it now!
FEAR and Extraction Point were so great. It was impressive how badly they dropped the ball with the "sequels".
So much to work with but they just decided to piss it all away to be as generic as possible.
Thank you for video! Finished F3AR on release, didn't liked it at all, but few days ago I played and completed it just before I finished DOOM 2016 on Nightmare difficulty, and I played F3AR on Fearless, and I was surprised how well it plays if you stick to "run gun slide kick grenade perfect slow mo timing to ALWAYS go for headshots etc", and the ranking up system kept me till the end, made me do my best to complete challenges and gain power for Pointman. Didn't liked the plot, but anyway I was not there for the story, gameplay is incredible solid. IMO, of course.
And yeah, I am forcing my friends to play the first one every since too xD
I’ve been wanting to get fear for awhile now. Thankfully recently the whole fear pack on steam is now around 10-11 bucks so it was a good time to grab. Liking it so far.
I was seven when i played this, i had already seen the Friday The 13th saga and the first scream movie (i have terrible cousins that i lived with growing up) so it didn't scare me as much as i guess it should but it still scared the shit outta me the first time i saw some of those
F.E.A.R instills fear in me with it's atmos-fear.
100% agreed! FEAR is my all time favorite FPS.
I'm so glad I bought the original FEAR collection on Steam when I did. I tried to get a friend to play it and he told me the collection was like $50, which is atrocious but still almost worth it
I love how YT didnt notify me of this video even though i clicked the notification bell.
9:24 yeah i remember this one Alma didnt get me but Fettel almost gave me an heart attack as a kid. My brother just jumped down skipping the scene entirely.
I decided to play Fear and it’s DLC’s not long ago . I have to say that the original Fear and Extraction point were some of the best games I’ve ever played. The combat in the games are just unmatched, nothing I’ve played compares. Also the AI to this day hasn’t been beat, I’ve never played a game that has AI this good and I play A LOT of games.
And I thought extraction point was better than the base game. The combat in extraction point felt more chaotic and the horror segments were more flushed out
Tbh, hearing your friend giggling is kind of more scary when combined with the game
Rewatching this bring a tear to my eye 😢 Perfect game
I do enjoy FEAR and its two expansions. I have replayed all 3 countless times over the years and I haven't found any other FPS that entertains me like this. I like the extreme difficulty since it makes me feel more James-Bondy having to be quite blunt and precise to win easily most fights.
10:00 After that ladder scene i was always expecting someting to come out even in fear 2 and they never did it again. I think its one of the best ways to scare someone.
There was scene in one of the later games where Alma (the older incarnation) suddenly reaches out for you between 2 steps on a ladder. It might have been in the 3rd? It was kind of cool, because it happens when you are on the middle of the ladder instead of the top or bottom, and its a nice little reference to the original scene.
@@Jesterzero138 That's in Extraction Point :)
Extraction Point is an all time classic, must-play fps.
Speaking of horror, there's one specific jumpscare in the hospital that I'm pretty sure would still make me shit my pants if I saw it again
I still remember on the base game when you turn the corner, you hear a phone ring and Alma comes crawling out right at you.
Fear is surprisingly the first game to succeed in making me jump from one if it's horror parts layers of fear is the only other game that's done that.
Heeey, you started using FEAR's soft shadows! I've complained about this the last few FEAR videos. Good on you for making the switch.
Huh? I think you're confusing me for someone else. I've not made a quality video on F.E.A.R. before and I always play with max settings.
JarekTheGamingDragon Gaming Pastime channel maybe? Haha, possibly. Sorry.
I have f.e.a.r for 1 year but don't played don't know why but after watching this video i played f.e.a.r and i fucking god this is best fps I ever played I didn't play anything but f.e.a.r thanks man I love you
Ngl, extraction point is one of, like, 6 games that ever scared me. I might have alt+F4'd once (a few) times.
They should make a sequel to this game and abandon FEAR 2 & 3 and start making an epic sequel with today's technology at the same time
bringing back 'Craig Hubbard' as Game Director and 'Richard Pearsey' as the Main Writer.
9:25 Today when I think of the game F.E.A.R, It reminds me every time that exact moment.... I was 12 at that time and that night I didn't slept ...
I miss this game, I was only 7 when it came out in 2005 but my dad bought it on release, sadly no one my age has played the game so I can't really talk about it with anyone lol
So Etraction Point is Silent Hill, with guns and slow motion? Awesome. Also I would play on PC, but I hate playing with mouse and keyboard on a small screen
I loved F.E.A.R and Extraction Point. I do really like F.E.A.R 2 and F.E.A.R 3? Let's pretend that never happened. I hope Monolith will one day return to horror because those guys nailed horror atmosphere. I really miss Condemned also
I always wanted like a fear arena game with just endless combat without the alma bits. I dont mind the horror bits but the combat is so friggin good the game didnt give me enough of it.
Fun fact the console ports of FEAR have exclusive bonus missions and TWO NEW WEAPONS that are only in the console versions a new smg and a new shotgun
Original fear is my top 5 favorite games of all time. Revolutionary horror and shooter
as far as melee is concerned you can also do some boxing by pressing h to holster the gun and pressing either the left or right mouse button you will start throwing some punches
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The FEAR shotgun is definitely up there on my list of top video game shotguns, but nothing will supplant the Unreal Tournament Flak Cannon for me. While it lacks the "fine red mist" ability of the FEAR weapon, the Flak Cannon's combination of a shotgun and a (actually useful!) grenade launcher just can't be beat. Now, if only someone were to mod FEAR to have a Flak Cannon so you could shoot your own grenades out of the air without needing to lower the gun...
FEAR 2 IS GOOD TOO
I know the combat is not too good compare to fear 1 but the Horror atmosfer is good
When i first play on the intro level,i almost punch my laptop because of the jumpscare
FEAR 2 is a massive disappointment compared to the first game. The combat is a huge step down and the horror boils down to alma jump scares and little more.
The Extraction Point devs understood F.E.A.R. Better than monolith did.
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For anyone watching this late like me, you can get FEAR and it’s DLC on humble bundle for like less than $10
I got that shit on sale too