Posts by Thrik

They've pretty much replaced hand-drawn animation in the film scene, although the art form thankfully enjoys a continued existence on television.

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Der Untergang and you're supposed to watch it in German. Really - the actors and topic are german and it helps alot to understand the psych of what's going on.

Just to clarify, I meant whether the watcher is English or not.

I don't think there's an English dub of the film.

Aye, a superb film. Powerful, too. No man should miss it, English or not.

Hah, I've never understood the appeal of these strategy books. It seems so much more fulfilling to discover the techniques and puzzles of a game yourself — it's borderline cheating.

The only time where those books are kind of cool is when they're full of exclusive concept art and stuff, but I don't know if they still do that.

It's 360-only isn't it?

No animals in Africa, then?

Game Master for me too.

LOL at when McCain slides along the floor on his back!

What a superb movie.

Wow, not a single yellow or red review at time of writing:

http://www.metacritic.com/games/platfor ... e2?q=Fable

Definitely going to pick this up in a month or so.

Seems like it is basically becoming a case of giants owning an entire industry these days. Just look at Adobe, too.

Yeah, I don't believe we can get a 3D game as mature as Quake working in Flash just yet. It'll be a special plug-in developed by iD themselves I imagine.

With that said, the brand new Flash CS4 (and consequently Flash Player 10) has made some big leaps forward, supporting both 3D geometry much better than before and also now being able to utilise your GPU. After just a few weeks we're already seeing the first tech demos. I can very easily see games produced in Flash being a serious part of the market a few years down the line.

The simple fact that Remedy is developing it is enough for many people, including me.

It's their first game since the amazing Max Payne series, and the media — whilst clearly avoiding showing much in the way of gameplay — evokes a lot of the powerful atmosphere and storytelling potency that fans of the aforementioned series fell in love with.

It's like Double Fine or or Valve working on a new game: chances are it's going to be something special.

Pretty good of Valve if they've done what I think they've done, and allowed regular store buyers to use their service to access the game.

Hilariously unfortunate, though.

I have every reason to expect that this will be an amazing game. I am also pleased it isn't vapourware.

To be honest skdr is right — the web-based tester is clearly inaccurate for some reason and is making significant errors while gauging your specs. I personally use PC Wizard for examining all my specs; it's always been accurate and covers more than most competing software.

The Steam version of Crysis Warhead had the same DRM as the retail version.

lmao.

Welcome to the age of DRM!!

I'd go with Lightroom or an equivalent, then. That is a lot of photos!

I handle a reasonable amount, and it does get a little tiresome using Photoshop sometimes. It clearly just isn't designed for going through loads of images and tweaking their colour levels and whatnot, whereas Lightroom is directly designed for this. It can be made easier with Photoshop actions and bulk saves, but it's not the same.

I did use Lightroom briefly and was impressed by what I saw, anyway. It's easier to kind of 'get into' processing a fuckload of photos, if that makes sense.

Don't forget Adobe typically has 30-day trials for everything, so there's no reason to take anything from information alone. Give them a go!

Lightroom is definitely geared towards photographers, and works best when you have lots of photos to process. If you have anything less than 'many', Photoshop is probably preferable. You don't really need the beginning-to-end flow that Lightroom offers.