It would be and that was my initial assumption, but as posted earlier in the thread they used the Doom 3-specific file names (eg: use of the word "Imp", the infamous Doom 3 enemy) indicating that they definitely came from the game itself.
Posts by Thrik
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Yeah, I wasn't talking about a recent thing. Whether or not they were cleared doesn't change the fact that they were in hot water because of it. That wasn't really my main point though; I just tacked that on to slightly bolster my comment about commercial businesses/games/etc not necessary being completely legit, having read about the Crytek licence issues years ago.
Incidentally, even if Crytek didn't do it I bet I wouldn't be wrong if I were to wager that at least one (small) developer with an employee on Mapcore uses dodgy software. Not that they'll admit it.
But again we're deviating from the main subject, which is that nicking those textures was wrong and there probably wasn't a deal to just take them after all.
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Well, it's best not to assume anything. The fact it was a commercial game didn't stop Rockstar leaving that sex game shit in San Andreas, and even Crytek was raided once for having illegal copies of 3D Studio Max or some crap if I recall correctly.
It might not make sense so much to make similar things twice, but how can innovation ever occur if developers just look at previous games and say "I want something like that" and just buy the content? Lots of innovation comes through experimentation and perhaps trying to recreate something else but ending up with something new and awesome. How can that happen if content is just nabbed?
Obviously it'd need to be a lot worse than some shit water/light maps to really matter, but the general notion of taking/buying content from other games is to be discouraged whenever possible in my opinion.
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lo fucking l.
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Hey now, Nexus might actually have a point there for once. I didn't realise it was based on that movie, which isn't set in Chernobyl and was made before the Chernobyl incident even occurred (1986).
Unless PC Gamer was talking about some other movie and not the one called "Stalker".
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Yeah use a PM for this kind of thing, but since you didn't it's here:
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Yeah, but the difference is that the responses in that video are actually funny, as opposed to a video of people eating/drinking tea and crumpets, which... well, wouldn't be funny.
It's just a funny video. It is perhaps a little tasteless that they specifically named it after the supposed stupidity of Americans, but it is primarily a video of really stupid people. They just happen to live in America.
... although I don't think I've ever encountered someone who would seriously point to Australia and think it was North Korea or Iran, or pretty much any of the other stupid answers in that video.
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I see your perspective Bic, but you have to understand that stereotypes will forever endure; you think all Brits really have bad teeth and like tea/crumpets? Just something you need to get used to.
I don't think many people seriously think all Americans are thick. Apart from people who are actually stupid, it's fairly obvious a small selection of people in one video doesn't represent the whole country and we can enjoy it with that in mind.
It's not like I'm watching the video and thinking "lol all those Americans are stupid". I'm laughing at the stupid answers from stupid people.
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That video is extremely below-the-belt but it is nonetheless fairly amusing. You just have to subconsciously differentiate between the thick fucks in the video and the entire country.
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Yeah, seriously. I actually glanced at that post a couple of times while at work and couldn't even be bothered to respond.
The fact that you quite seriously used the term "Shit Station" is also condemningly lame, and akin to the childish terms like "Grey Station" and "Sega Sadturn" that platform-specific commercial games magazines used a decade ago, whose audiences non-coincidentally consisted largely of children.
Very bad show.
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Well the thing is that the majority of people (I'm guessing) don't have HD sets in at least the UK, so having higher than standard definition wouldn't make a difference anyway as that resolution looks fine on CRT televisions. It's only once you've got an LCD or plasma television that it starts to look shit as the TV has to digitally upscale the image, very much like if you downloaded a small Windows Media Player movie and then tried to make it full screen (although TVs typically do it a bit better than that).
As far as I'm aware the CRT:LCD/Plasma ratio is very much in CRT's favour at the moment so while the latter is clearly the future, it'd be a huge financial waste to ship thousands of cables that'll never be used. We're talking millions of pounds/dollars/euros here.
I'm not saying it was necessarily a good thing to leave the £2-or-so cables out of each unit, but I am saying it's one aspect of cutting out stuff that might not be used (like the superior backwards compatibility) by a lot of people for reducing costs of each unit -- and that's an understandable strategy. Kind of comparable to Burger King giving every customer a 10p dip, even though many of them might not want or like it.
It's not a big deal to just pick up a cheap cable (avoid the official ones) for a few quid with the console; however, it should be made clear on the packaging or something that you need to do this if you want to enjoy true HD on your HD television.
Just as a side note, Microsoft did exactly the same thing with their core Xbox 360 configuration. It's no coincidence that the version with it included costs significantly more.
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It is a bit lame, but it's kind of understandable when you consider that a huge portion of people in EU countries don't have high-definition displays and thus probably wouldn't need component or even know what it is.
If they did manufacture and include component cables with all units you'd probably find either the price jumping up slightly (a few Euros more on each unit = millions for Sony) or them charging the same and losing a few Euros more on each unit (again, millions).
It's probably more logical to let people who have HD televisions buy the cables and to keep them in plentiful demand. But you're right, they absolutely should have made it clear the unit doesn't come with them and a recommendation of getting one supplied.
A bit of a slap in the face if you've gotten home to your HD television with a shiny new PS3, but I definitely wouldn't call it unacceptable. I'd go so far as to call it understandable, albeit harder to swallow when Microsoft do supply them (at a loss) in their consoles. I think they do, anyway.
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Yeah, I think using City in the name is really something reserved for comic book realities, as it's rare to encounter it otherwise. If you're going for a "This could actually happen in our current or future world" reality then I'd stay well away from it just like Mojo said.
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So what you want is a name that emphasise the once grand nature of the city, to clash with the comparably opposite tone it now has. Nobody would name a city after something bad (eg: Shithole City") so it'll seem cooler if something less obvious such as Pioneer City or something else related it once being superb.
The other option is to tie it into the hell thing by using some really old reference to hell (use Wikipedia) to imply that an ancient community knew of the hell aspect of the place and named their pissy little village after it (now a city) but it's been forgotten over time.
I'd stay well away from cliché or unimaginative titles such as simply sticking a real person's name before "City" as they don't really mean anything.
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It'd be easier to come up with a relevant/clever name if you gave an idea of what scenario the city would be used in and/or the general theme and tone of it.
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My train was cancelled this morning so I went into GAME to see if I could get a new copy of MGS: Twin Snakes but couldn't get anywhere near the tills because of the PS3 queue.
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You don't have to run it on full graphics, though. Would you prefer that they stuck a hard cap on the hardware so the game simply looks worse and is incapable of looking better, or would you prefer they designed it so it can blossom as mid/late 2007 hardware becomes more affordable and thus can be enjoyed more by those who actually have it? Bear in mind it's not even coming out for a few months.
It might be a little frustrating for hardware enthusiasts to never be able to run games on full settings for long, but it's just a sad reality of the industry. PC games have historically been a bit ahead of their time -- it's the beauty of being able to adjust graphics settings. I severely doubt Crysis will break tradition and not be capable of running smoothly on lesser machines, even if severely cut down visually.
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Only thing about it that currently appeals to me is some racing game that looked quite great and of course Metal Gear Solid 4. If it lost MGS they'd probably lose a massive portion of buyers.
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They're not exactly cheap, even with a discount I'd imagine. ¬¬
