This guy actually took painkillers to keep wrestling, got hooked, then got fired: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joey_Mercury. Don't become wrestlers, kids.

but if you're on painkillers, like oxycontin, you can still call me

Painkiller is one my favourite FPS games I've played. It lets you run & gun or creep about and snipe.

I think I died about 20 times in Hell because I simply had to run about and look at everything. It was the best endgame level design I've ever come across. Sadly the fight with Satan is a gimmickfest but it remains the only FPS I've played through three times. Most others I play once and I'm satisfied.

Looks like Painkiller got added to the Steam featured game rotation, with a quote from Yahtzee. Moreover, it seems to have made the top sellers list pretty much as soon as the review hit... not bad for such an old game!

Ah, Painkiller. I really enjoyed that game.

Not as much as Serious Sam, though. Painkiller isn't quite as good. The enemies aren't as entertaining, and the level design is a wee bit more repetitive.

Which doesn't mean that I won't play Painkiller. I did. And enjoyed nearly every minute of it.

Painkiller was good. I think I'll go install it tonight. Loads of mindless bloody fun.

I also loved the 'Fat American' comment. LOL.

I played Painkiller right after Serious Sam. It seemed pretty weak in that context, because Serious Sam is ridiculous - but maybe I should give it another go.

Painkiller was awesome. Best tournament title by far. Great way to blow off steam while listening to something angry like Pantera.

Zonbie, are you saying you're not a psycho assassin? Then what have I been paying you for!?

Painkiller is the dogs bollocks and is easily the best "dumb" fps out there in a while.

>> ^Aemaeth:
Meh. Painkiller was just meh. It was everything yatzhee said, but kinda repetitious by the end.


The "waiting 8 months" reference at the end makes me think he prepped this one a while ago maybe? Dunno. Regardless, amusing even when repetitious.

3 words

The Mental Asylum!!

and some more words!
I laughed at this! he's right it fires shurikens and lightning!
ahah

I hear you Spoco2 but it must be said, drink a bottle of jolt and then go mental with the painkiller, hours of fun. Of course Jack Thompson would say I am now I fully trained Phycho Assassin but..meh. its stupid and fun! And it knows it!

I say yey!

Aemaeth I'm with you on this one, to a large degree anyway.

Painkiller was a game where I played the demo when it first came out and thought it to be the best darn thing since they learnt how to make bread thinner than a loaf. I waited until it was a $9 bargain bin title (also gave me ample ability to upgrade my then pathetic machine to play it properly) and then began playing it with much gusto.

It does indeed have insanely different levels with no real link between them, and that keeps things interesting, but yeah, eventually... I can't remember how many levels in... I became a mite bored, and I have yet to actually finish it, probably never will.

Doesn't help that the cinematics are SO DARN BAD.

And for those that didn't know, the Gears Of War PC port was done by People can Fly... so there you go.

But yeah, something insanely satisfying about sticking an enemy to the wall with a wooden post, or freezing then shattering their body into a million pieces.

Fun times

Fun times

Meh. Painkiller was just meh. It was everything yatzhee said, but kinda repetitious by the end.

^ we tried that with rush limbaugh.

lost 3 good engineers that day.
and rush has been taking painkillers ever since. you'll just never know the horrors that man has endured, silently, in the name of our future energy resources.

/weep

>> ^Thylan:
It was fun. reminded me of Arkham Asylum, and the orphanage horror level in Thief 2 (great level)


Are you sure you mean Thief 2? Because I don't remember an Orphanage. Maybe you're thinking of the Painkiller Expansion?