Posts by Mazy

  • Crysis settings comparison

    Aye, I think High DX9 is fine for me. I'm not using Vista on my work machine, and I'm not quite sure if I'm gonna bother getting a new computer for this.

    Oh and Low looks way worse than FarCry imo, lighting is unbelievably terrible.

  • New Tim Schafer game

    Quote from Chunks

    here's a link to a video of a guy showing off the record from the marketing/press kit he got: http://kotaku.com/gaming/clips/jack-bla ... 310349.phpI can't believe this guy was stupid enough to record it w/ his camcorder, the least he could've done was to rip it onto an mp3, you can't hear crap. My ears hurt now.

    Was thinking of posting it, but he's such a fucking moron and I got a headache and so furious from watching it that I decided not to

    Would love to have actually heard the record though.

  • Call Of Duty 4 demo

    Looked like that for me as well. That level is hardly the most mindblowing visuals ever, but to be fair then its also by far not the best looking I've seen so far. The MP maps in the beta were a lot better looking.

  • Half-Life Episode 2 (Contains spoilers!)

    I finished Portal yesterday, just came back from work where I finished Episode 2.

    Portal is absolutely genius, obviously. By far the most exciting thing in the package. Nuff said. TF2, amazingly good fun too.

    So Episode 2, from reading peoples comments then I'm sure most of you will disagree with me. Although I think its a really well made and paced experience then I simply couldn't shake off the feeling of there being a lack of something in it. I still have a hard time putting my finger on it, but I really don't feel that the HL2 setting is doing it for me anymore. I mean the forests areas are cool, it looks great and all, but all of this felt like something you had done before....a lot. Apart from the Strider battle (which I started out thinking was a dumb quicksave nightmare but ended up really liking when the shit completely hit the fan, awesome), then it felt more like a series of spectacular ingame sequences with some, at times, very generic bread and butter gameplay in between.

    Maybe its just me who's too much in the mood for some amazingly solid AI teamwork after playing Halo 3 (and fuck off with your hate until you've played it on Heroic or Legendary), rather than some really well presented but in the end veeery similar fights to the other HL2's. There's obviously exceptions, such as the ant lion defense bit and the fight after seeing the advisor in the barn.

    Anyway, its not bad, and I can see how Valve has tried to spice up the game while staying true to the original formula, which is obviously what people want. There's just a part of me who wishes we could get off this episodic trilogy and onto a new location and set of ideas. Valve have proven themselves of being absolutely brilliant at creating this kinda stuff, and I'd love to see a completely different environment from them.

    Oh and the story stuff (and I know I'm sounding really angry here, but I'm just being honest about this ). I donno if its just me, but in HL2 and Episode 1 it felt like Alyx's timing and dialogue felt a lot more smooth than in E2. Here I found too many awkward pauses, and I really never felt that was a problem before. Also the entire lead up to Eli's death could only have gotten more obvious if they'd tattooed a bullseye on his head

    Oh yeah, the music was brilliant, kicks in at the exact right times, awesome.

    But in the end, Episode 2 was good fun, I definitely had a good time playing it overall, even with a slight sense of deja vu. Probably a nice 8/10 from me . Gonna be exciting if they're gonna do what they kinda hinted at with the Portal/HL2 crossover. Might be a nice end for HL2 with Gordon accidentally locking himself inside a parallel universe

  • Team Fortress 2 beta!!!!!

    Played a bit of Portal, love it. I'll admit that I might not be that quick when it comes to figuring these kinda things out but who gives a fuck if you're having fun . Love the style~

    Gonna play some episode 2 later. I figured it would be easier to get back to work after lil bit of Portal rather than Episode 2

  • De_Forest Released!!

    Gorgeous. Almost looks good enough for me to load it up and give it a spin, and its rare that I wanna do that. From your notes it sounds like its pretty open ended, sounds like it could be a lot of fun ~

  • F.E.A.R. 2 - Project Origin : 18 minute gameplay video

    Didn't see the video till the end, but I kinda liked the part where you woke up. Its definitely got a pretty cool feel in terms of having the 1st person character interact with objects in the world.

    However apart from that, its got exactly the same flaws that has made me sick of FEAR for life. Same repetitively dull office like environments, same dudes you fight and so on. And small spooky girls? Seriously old in my opinion. Also I can't get over those harsh pitch black shadows, they just dont look good.

    Its too bad though, I'd really like to see Monolith doing a new NOLF, that series could definitely use some more games in my opinion.