Posts by Mazy

Shipped Friday, from Shanghai

Just left Incheon, Korea.~

Oh and haters, we heard you the first time, just let it rest

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I tried it a couple weeks ago but the host went on this big obnoxious rant about Yakuza 3 and shit, assuming that it costs nothing to localize a big open world game like that to English, and admitting he didn't even buy Yakuza 2, but still indignantly raging on the US game market and Sega's decision to not bring it over. Really annoying.

Agreed, try and give this weeks ListenUP a second change tho. Ive veen listening to 1up yours and now this for about 3 years now and its become this thing i really look forward to each week. Still not as great as 1up yours at its peak, but i still Think its pretty damn good.

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Lol, that's a gaming podcast run by a guy from Gamespy. https://www.eat-sleep-game.com/news/200 ... 29-081309/

Idle Thumbs (run by a guys from Shacknews and Gamasutra):

http://www.idlethumbs.net/

I think it might've been Idle Thumbs I heard it on since they specifically mention Batman: Dark Asylum in the show notes.

PS You should listen to Idle Thumbs regardless of any Batman/Hitman rumors, it's by far the best gaming podcast out there. The last two episodes have been the funniest shit I've heard in weeks.

Haven't really heard those podcasts, but have you checked out ListenUp? (formerly 1up yours). By far the Best games podcast IMO.

Oh and yeah, I dont even get how those "rumors" about the next Hitman got this far. AFAIK they were shot Down fairly quickly.

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Ah okay, thats good to hear =)Are you guys still looking for coders?

Aye.

http://www.ioi.dk/recruitment/jobs.htm

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i was under the impression that there was also a female character, hmm? still, it's great to see these different archetypes. if this has excellent gameplay as well i'm sold.

Yeah there is, just haven't been a viginette with her yet~

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Hey Mazy, beeing the final core member left at IO, are you also looking for another place to work?And if so, is IO a sinking ship?

Huuuh? Hell no! Warby and Zacker quit because they wanted to do other things (education and Warby wanted to go back to Germany and wants to be a millionaire before he's 30 ). In fact considering all the horror stories lately with companies closing down, then there's quite a lot of new folks being hired at the moment, although pretty much all of them are coders :G

But I'm not gonna bullshit myself or anyone by saying that if Mini Ninjas severly underpreforms (*Knock on wood*) it not gonna have some consequences, obviously your products need to sell if you wanna remain profitable business.

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Quite possibly one of the best films in the past decade. It surpassed my expectations tenfold, and my expectations were pretty damn high. I'd seriously go see it in the movie theater... don't wait until it hits DVD, you'll regret it.

Got tickets for the premiere day here, next Friday. Can't wait!

That Rage trailer looks pretty good, but I'm seeing what I feared, the vehicle sections look kinda flimsy in the controls Hopefully it plays better than those insanely short glimpses in the trailer made it look like, its just that its pretty uncharted territory for id, I'm fearing the worst.

Anyway, really digging the visuals, love that very bright look for a post-apocalyptic setting.

Even though I didn't work on this, then I figure I should take the reigns of pimping it here (Since I'm the only one from the core left at Io now ). Lots of promotional stuff going around at the moment, some really cool character vignettes. Also the game is slated for an early September release, 8th in the US, 11th in Europe.

COMMENCE YOUTUBE SPAM!

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Thanks all !

Ah yeh.. there is a good reason for that :embarassed: I was only credited as an additional artist and pretty much all (of the very few things I did) didn't make it to the final game anyhow.. So I figured I didn't want to show it off in my portfolio as that would be kind of strange. I'm also credited in Wanted and Terminator but as I didn't do much in either I didn't care to put any of that up.

Ahh, fair nuff, its not really like you need to show that you've shipped titles anyway, plenty of stuff to back that up already.

Then again on my portfolio I'm crediting myself as having worked on the retail version of Day of Defeat (since I'm apparently in the manual's credits), even though I have no idea what I did

Looks great! You definitely got the env art down very well~

Oooh unannounced prototype~

Btw, now I'm starting to feel really discouraged from doing my TF2 map since you basically did exactly what I had in my head with the hill kinda going up in a spiral'ish, except I'd add a PL cart

Anyway, really strong portfolio insta, you rock!

Why didn't you put Bionic Commando: Rearmed on your portfolio, rather than only on the resumê? I'm just saying it since its probably the Grin game that has gotten the best reception AFAIK, I'd say that counts for something.

Oh and I don't need to say anything, Blaz knows he rocks!

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huh? I dont get it?

Seems that people are whining about it not being the first TF2 snow map ever

http://www.teamfortress.com/classless/

Oooh.

I'm still hoping that there's a ALL OF THE SUDDEN Soldier update as well (Or Engineer ).

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just a deal that didn't work out.

Alright, sensitive unannounced stuff, gotcha.

Well, that sucks

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hah, first time i hear of that, I guess that's mostly gothenburg people. I hope the best for them =). Anyways it's a weird feeling that's it's over now. I saw it coming but not this fast! I wouldn't blame square only.. but it was the final straw ofcourse. It's really a big combination of factors that had been accumulating over the past year.

I'm going to use all this free time I have now to develop my skills and do some freelancing. If anyone can use a freelance artists or know someone that does, let me know! I'll have an updated portfolio up soon as well.

Again, what's Square's part in this?

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Just ordered one. 13", 2.53GHz, 4GB Memory, 500GB HD. Plus additional remote and a Mini Displayport to DVI adapter.

I'm all giddy! Its been 5 years since I bought a new computer!

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oh when will valve stop being awesome?!

NEVER!

http://www.teamfortress.com/classless/hidden/hats/

http://www.teamfortress.com/classless/hidden/barbary/

http://www.teamfortress.com/classless/h ... igmatical/

http://www.teamfortress.com/classless/h ... ociety.jpg

The info is straight to the point, and it looks pretty solid. Navigation wise I think its fine, would be better if you could just scroll through all the pictures, but as for the palette then I definitely agree with the others that you should change it a bit. Hate to say it, but just a black/white site would look better than what you got right now, although that might be a tad boring . Just keeping it simple, no-one is hiring you to be a web designer.

Oherwise I think its pretty good, weren't aware that you were Lead LD on GRAW2 PC and BC~

Nice! Grats insta! I've been planning on doing a PL map with a somewhat similar look to that one, like a volcano island where you start at the bottom and it spirals up to the top, where you gotta drop the cart into the hole. Don't really have the time or motivation to do it right now tho D:

I really do hope that Valve adds some more payload maps with this update. Badwater is absolutely amazing, and Hoodoo and Goldrush are great, but considering that PL is by far the best of TF2s modes (NO DISCUSSION!) then it feels pretty weird that they keep pushing the Arena mode.