Posts by Thrik

Unrelated: really hope DICE can use the PS4's light bar pointer thing to approximate the PC mouse experience. After seeing

is must be possible because the same tech is built into the PS4 pad.

IMO the most important thing is to make good use of your time. A lot of people let years go by in their late teens and early twenties without really moving forward. I personally thought college was a good experience because I got to dip my toes into numerous disciplines and more importantly it developed me socially and helped me to become a functional, productive adult. But at the same time, I actually think that most of the skills I use in my successful career now I developed during my free time outside of college classes.

To put it another way, being in education gave me something to do for a few years while I worked on endless personal projects and taught myself everything I wanted to learn. Some of what I learnt at college fed into my long-term goals, some didn't. At the very least, having some kind of education looks better on a resume than none, and I had some great experiences that're nothing to do with work, met some great people.

So I wouldn't get too beat up over not getting onto the course you want. Getting onto an alternative course or going elsewhere isn't the end of the world, nor is taking on a shitty job in the meantime and spending a lot of your spare time working on your skills. Just do something — give yourself actual projects to work on, just like you would at Uni. Whether you release them or not can depend on the end quality, but keep doing so in mind.

As long as your heart is in the right place you'll succeed. Many people who go to Uni don't have that true heart and passion for making games, so it doesn't help them much professionally. The dudes that succeed would probably have done so anyway, but they'd also have probably gone bankrupt and ended up homeless if they didn't do either education or low-grade work to keep things ticking while they got themselves to the right level.

If you didn't get in after demonstrating that I'm really not sure I'd actually want to go to that University. They either have impossibly high expectations or they're fuckin' clueless.

Out of interest, I wonder how many of MapCore's pros went to Uni?

This is a side-point but IMO if a game is genuinely great it should last someone 12–25 hours and remain exciting and awesome throughout. Ones that last less then that aren't a bad thing as clearly there's a demand for that short but sweet experience, but I don't like the fact that games lasting 5–8 hours are out there costing as much as the ones that last literally twice as long.

Nowadays I have to go looking up forum posts and shit to get an idea of how long a game actually is because it's not like they actually print 'oh yeah this lasts a few hours LOL' on the box.

lmao so much stupid in that pic.

I think most people who own both 360 and PS3 would lean towards saying you should give them a chance, they really do put together great stuff. With consoles getting so cheap and us getting so old it's pretty feasible to get both, but I'd definitely go with PS4 first just for the experience.

PS3 was way ahead of the 360 in terms of OS and software when it launched, even now the 360 has only just really caught up. It's going to be interesting to see if Sony repeats that.

Yep, it's a great reminder that if you're not happy with the way corporate assholes try to treat you, make a shitstorm about it. This and the SimCity backlash have made the kings in gaming realise the danger of getting too ballsy I think. Two epic disasters, and not by coincidence both involved infringing on gamers' enjoyment due to DRM.

No, all previously announced features are off. It's going to work just like the 360's discs and Xbox LIVE.

Yeah I'm still on team PS4 because I think it has the best overall control system. Despite the Kinect's advanced nature I still think the control options with the PS4 will lead to more interesting interaction in non-party games.

Who am I kidding though, I'm going to end up with both like a big bitch.

Microsoft have now got a good chance of competing because this will likely have earned them a lot of goodwill with those they pissed off. Could be one of the most incredible turnarounds in PR history.

Pretty retarded thing to do.

Worth remembering that Valve's system has been going for years so some people attached to projects will be for archival purposes. That said, it's entirely possible (if not likely) that Bailey will be contracted or re-hired to work on the HL3 audio.

Lol, anyone seen this? https://twitter.com/BreenGrub

It's by the HL1/HL2 writer. I don't think it's officially sanctioned/canon but it's basically meant to be Breen after the events of HL2 after having been turned into an advisor grub.

Another thing the Thief dudes could take a tip from Dishonored about is giving the player loads of HUD options even on consoles.

Sounds like Sony is actually pretty serious about this whole 'download part of a game and start playing before the rest downloads' thing:

http://kotaku.com/so...for-p-514144920

In principle I love the idea, but as some of you explained earlier it's far from trivial to implement in a game and it certainly isn't going to work for games that haven't been specifically engineered to take advantage of it. But, if programmers to start seriously getting on board with this at Sony's behest, could it work well? As someone who deals with preloading techniques a bit I can definitely speculate about ways they could manage it, but it'd require a fairly careful strategy for each game.

I guess the question is whether or not developers want to do it. But programmers are often known for wanting to be innovative rather than just sticking to the status quo, some might want to integrate this just for the sheer challenge of it. It'll be interesting to see how it pans out because I personally have experienced the pain of downloading increasingly big games on a slow internet connection and it is truly the worst.

Oh god.

http://www.valvetime.net/threads/update…tracker.243580/

Valve's project tracker leaked, includes L4D3, HL3, Source 2, and much more. Sounds like the HL3 group is small compared to the others, suggesting development is early stages. Maybe waiting for Source 2 to be fully ready?

lmao

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Yeah, my point wasn't very well communicated. I think what I really meant was that I like to have something I like about a character. Hopefully there'll be plenty more to the Thief guy than the trailer made out, but it didn't do a very good job of making me want to play as him. I guess I'm a sucker for the fantasy of being a hero.

Haha, to be fair Grand Theft Auto tries (very weakly) to paint your character as a guy doing bad things because he has no choice. If I decide to go on some murderous fuck killing rampage that's more my own fault.

OK I think we're having these hurg designs if the authors can give permission?