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Tip of my Joystick - Find games by describing it.

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Platform(s): Windows PC via Steam

Genre: Action/Shooter

Estimated year of release: 2000-2010

Graphics/art style: 3D third person shooter

Notable characters:

Notable gameplay mechanics: I tried a demo of a game on Steam many moons ago, but I'm certain it no longer is on Steam. Here is what I remember:

It was a third person shooter and early on in the demo you encountered this big rug hanging on a horizontal pole in a small backroom with many crates. You could shoot the rug, and it had physics calculations, that made it move believably.

[Fig. 1]

Then you encountered enemies in a huge room with ramps. Somehow you could take control of them or use your mind powers on them somehow. They had an aura to indicate this, which I think was a light blue.

[Fig. 2]

The same level also had a puzzle with ramps that were held up with hooks on a chain. You could mind-power those hooks to move them, so that the ramp would come falling down and let you walk up, or let enemies fall down.

[Fig. 3]

I know that many signs point to Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy, and it looks close to what is in my mind, but I have not found any footage of the incredible rug, or the hook puzzle that I remember so clearly.

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[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Also, the rug was not part of any game mechanic. It was just a great rug. So it may be a PhysX exclusive rug, which I don't know this longplay used.

[–] Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

I knew it was psyops. It was a very fun game with cheats on so you could just ragdoll enemies all day long.

[–] lemmyartistforhire@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes, but all my memories are from the Windows demo, and that may not even be part of the full game.

[–] lemmyartistforhire@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There are flags at 1:18:00, that look like they might react to gunfire, but they are not shot at.

Didn't see anything else, in this video, that looks like the incredible rug.

[–] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Looks like perfect sleep material for me. Thanks!

[–] lemmyartistforhire@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Let us know if the sound of a big rug being shot, or the sound of someone walking by a big rug that can be shot, but not shooting it, wakes you up.

[–] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

Def will do

[–] donuts@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is a good guess, but I don't think the gameplay involved this much sneaking from what I can see at first glance.

[–] passenger@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

Haven't played either, but 3rd person with mind control mechanics brings to mind Messiah and Omikron: the Nomad Soul (with David Bowie!)