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Time for a rebirth of the "post recordings of your instrument" thread I think guys??
Eh. I'm more excited about Bioshock really. All EA have got is the name since it's not the same developers who'll be working on SS3 so thus far there's nothing to suggest it'll be any good.
Mapcore band?????
I can't be bothered rewriting my whole opinion as it's on my blog (see sig), but I am generally pretty happy about this. E3 is an exciting time of year for sure, but if its lack of domination means smaller shows can exist throughout the year then I'll be a happy bum. 
Wait, you live in France Koko? Why have you got the french version then? I thought it was just Canada that speaks french...
Someone could send you their English voices. As far as I'm aware there were some pretty big name voice actors in the original set, so they should be pretty good.
Yeah I guess it'll differ from studio to studio Tom, but I'd have thought that for D3 to go after a job these days (or in a few years as he seems to be implying) he's going to need as much ability in the whole area as possible.
I mean I'm not a fortune teller so I dunno what things'll be like in five years or whatever, but I'm guessing that studios will at least want some rudimentary skills in each art area just so they can interact with others in their department better. It might not be a job requirement, but if other workplaces are anything to go by then they'll go for those guys who can first. I imagine the games industry will get busier and more demand on people to get their foot in too. 
I'm not dissing you or anything, it's just I recall you once going on about how you'd really like to work in the industry. But if all of your skills are completely irrelevant due to them being based around an obsolete engine, you may as well not have done the work at all. It's like going for an IT job and walking in with eight years experience with Office 1995 but little with Office XP. They'll go with the guy who's stayed on the cutting edge of technology and is truly motivated to keep up with developments.
If you're planning to work in the industry then what you need to do is tackle the problem of not being able to produce sufficient quality models. By continuing to cling onto HL1 you're just falling further and further into a hole that's going to continuously get deeper as engines progress and more modelling is required. Because let's face it, modelling is an unavoidable component of modern 3D design, and you're going to have to embrace it sooner or later. Needless to say, later is not good.
They do sex education here when you're 9, so I think I'll be able to largely avoid that problem. 
It's seriously time to cut your losses and move on to another engine D3. It's been almost two years since Half-Life 2 came out now.
Do you plan to work on stuff for completely obsolete engines for the rest of your life, always staying behind the pack? It seems really daft to me to waste time on an engine that is pretty much incapable of impressing anyone nowadays. Even Nightwatch's visuals paled in comparison to pretty much anything on Source, even if they were incredible by HL1's standards.
I mean I don't know if you're planning to work in the industry or anything D3, but spending all your time on an almost completely irrelevant engine doesn't seem like the best way to go about it.
Quote from FrieChampYes at some point the kid will be exposed to sex, violence and other things, but I simply do not think that these are matters which should be in the mind of a 10 year old or younger.
Were you aware of them at that age? If not, you're pretty damn special.
I think it's some kind of delusion for adults that kids are totally ignorant of sex and stuff. I was playing Duke Nukem 3D when I was like eight, and I know the same applies to lots of other people. I also caught glimpses of violent films, heard about sex at school, etc.
A lot of people assume they even though they were exposed to sex at a young age and turned out fine, nobody else was. Mino's comment above about thinking he's an exception is a classic example of this.
The fact is that almost everybody is exposed to sex/etc at a young age because they're unavoidable components of human life. I'm sorry if that comes to a surprise to anyone, but it's a fact. Kids aren't as naive/unexposed/innocent as you'd like to think, and there's nothing you can do about it save for removing all electrics in the home and preventing them from attending school.
While I don't agree with showing that programme at 6pm since it's clearly inappropriate enough to piss off a lot of people, I think the "Omg it is stripping away the kids' innocence!" comments are complete nonsense. The only thing it's stripping away is parents' confidence that their kids don't know about sex, drugs and sex. xD
I wonder how concing will work now.
It'd be an interesting evolution if they actually made you a bit more physical, so if you go flying into a wall you don't just slide down it like in TFC — instead you SLAM into it and then fall to the ground in a big ragdolly heap of death.
Obviously it'd have to be tuned so it doesn't kill you every time. Perhaps if you hit it gently enough the medic/scout could attempt a bit of Spiderman and stick out his legs so he hits the wall by the feet and then slides down a la TFC.
No it isn't Koko, those are the cinematic Source effects (colour correction, motion blur, depth of field, film grain) that were unveiled/demonstrated a few months ago and as of yet haven't appeared in any games, with the exception of the film grain that is now in DOD:S. Scripted as fuck, but still in-engine.
But yeah, I guess a gameplay video would have been nice but this is still some damn good advertising. It's also important to remember that this is 2006 and it's been a long time since the last TF game, so there's lots of people out there who've simply never played one.
Yeah it sounds insane, but it's true. You show all the guys who were 8-10 when TFC came out but are now 14-16 a bunch of clips of TF in action and they'd be 100% confused, so this video introduces them to the roles available in the game quite nicely. Hopefully Valve will be smart and follow it up with gameplay footage before long though.
I really enjoyed the scripting though. Valve are truly awesome at doing traditional cinematic type stuff, but since they've got a tradition of making their games 100% from the eyes of the player you don't get to see it very often. It's nice to have them show it off in trailers.
Oh fucking hell. That looks awesome, and I love the campy style they've got going on. I really hope they get the marketing right to lure in the masses though since quirky, stylish graphics can work against a game.
I'm uploading a mirror to YouTube now (along with dozens of other people most probably) since a big wmv is a bit bulky for quickly showing to friends so I'll post a link when it's done.
I liked the voice. I mean I assume they meant it to be cheesy as hell and not all serious.
As for Portal, I've had a number of people tell me it's a SP puzzle game, so I'm assuming that's exactly what it is. Presumably the technology can/will be expanded upon in the future and taken into a multiplayer context though.
Can you imagine TF2 with portals?! I can see it now: a spy sneaks into the enemy flag room, opens a portal back to his base, and floods of HWs piss through.
You should put this in Fortress Forever, Defrag. xD
I'm kind of finding it hard to believe that you seriously just said that csharp.
TF2 video should be up for grabs soon. xD
