Posts by Thrik

  • What are you playing now?

    Been playing more Tomb Raider. I'm about halfway through now and think this game is brilliant! It starts out pretty slow, but quite quickly I realised it's much more Uncharted-esque with lots of exciting set-pieces and epic amounts of destructions. The gameplay isn't anything special but it's definitely as good as Uncharted's, so that's something to be reasonably happy with.


    More importantly though, the characters, story, and atmosphere are all there. I really enjoy the world it's creating, quite Lost-esque in the sense that it simultaneously feels like an inviting island and a place that's hiding some dark shit. It's also got all the diaries and ancient documents and stuff to find that I love from games like Deus Ex and Dishonored.


    Overall it's got a great sense of place and I'm really enjoying how they've made the island feel like an actual place you're traversing. Being able to revisit areas and see how everything fits together on a map makes a big difference. Impressed by how good it looks too, it's actually one of the best-looking games of this whole generation IMO. The wind, snow, and rain effects as you get further in are to die for.


    Next I think I'll be trying Remember Me. I hadn't really heard of it coming out last month until just now, but already I've found that it's something you either love or hate. A Capcom-published game that's basically a sci-fi Uncharted with an emphasis on melee combat rather than weapons. Looks good in gameplay videos apart from some slightly hammy voice acting, and the music is sweet. Worth a shot before I take on the BioShock Infintie and The Last of Us.


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  • Splinter Cell: Blacklist

    I did Krav for some months, hoping to go back later this year. It is great, you get to feel badass while also learning genuinely useful defence and getting fit. Go do it!

    Not advisable if you're looking for anything traditional though, it's totally all about mashing the dude's nuts up and breaking his bones in the fastest possible time, lol.

  • Viscera Cleanup Detail

    That is actually an amazing idea. There's so much potential with having the player go through recognisable places, and there could be cool twists where the player expects something to happen and it totally surprises them. For example, you could be cleaning up the resonance cascade room after Gordon's fucked shit up and as you follow his path of destruction through the corridors you find a portal to the future and are suddenly in Ravenholm cleaning up dead assholes.

  • How do start creating environments!

    Quote from [HP]

    in know the basics of udk and i have created a room in udk....i have viewed ,many tuts and those tuts really makes some sense , i know to material, grid snapping, units measuring, using brushes , using skeleton meshes , using and creating static geometery , and pathnodes pre built assesments etc i have used them to make a small room with low detail and that worked i keep playing that all the day........that make me happy ...............!


    the problem with me is i want to create a level just a level like fooliage example in udk-2013-may ........... i want to know how can i start creating that from scratch.....!


    Well, look no further: http://eat3d.com/udk


    lol look at that blorange man.

  • Viscera Cleanup Detail

    Quote from Taylor

    Make it multiplayer and don't let people communicate through traditional means. It'll be like Dark Souls Journey with mops.


    Even better if each player sees a constant webcam of the other players, allowing them to see the despair in their faces caused by the mundane hell that is their existence.

  • aw yeah

    LMAO


    I was actually really surprised by how good the hospital food was when my girlfriend stayed overnight last year. Was better than the shit I ate that night!

  • GTA V

    lol. I read it as meaning his melee attacks would do more damage, like how he freaks out in the trailers and stamps on people's heads and shit. It probably will affect bullets too though.

  • GTA V

    Oh shit:


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    In addition to skills that improve over the course of time, each of the three playable protagonists has a unique special ability that can help get you out of sticky situations. Michael wields the slow-motion Bullet Time feature borrowed from Max Payne. Franklin can slow time when driving to navigate through sticky situations. Trevor has a rage mode that allows him to deal double the amount of damage while taking less damage. During his rage fits, he also has a unique melee attack. Rockstar says each of these special abilities is a limited resource that is best used strategically, so don't expect to spend the majority of your time shooting or driving in slow motion.

  • GTA V

    Quote from Rick_D

    ps3 "gameplay" doesn't mean ps3 "graphics" #toplel


    That was just knj paraphrasing, Rockstar were a bit more explicit:



    Good articles too.

  • GTA V

    I thought the gameplay video definitely looked current-gen. The previous videos and screenshots all looked incredible, whereas this video was clearly 720p footage with no anti-aliasing — also the lighting seemed a bit more basic than previous media showed (although still great).


    I'm happy it looks so great on the PS3 (and 360 hopefully), but I can't help but hope a next-gen version comes along ASAP with a boost to 1080p and anti-aliasing as we saw in all the previous media.


    One thing's for sure: it's a massive step forward from GTA4. Makes sense though, Red Dead Redemption looked a lot sharper and prettier than GTA4. It looks like Rockstar have managed to figure out how to get RDR's gorgeousness to work with so much more shit happening on-screen.