Posts by FrieChamp

By the way, the first of two Interview clips with Jade Raymond has been posted on GT today:

http://www.gametrailers.com/bonusround.php

This Patrice guy has to be pretty pissed, he must have worked a lot to be Creative Director on a triple A title at Ubisoft and then they get this hot Producer chick on board and she gets to do all the interviews, presentations and along with that the recognition. It's starting to be really awkward that there has been so much hype building up around her, but I guess Ubisoft doesn't mind the extra attention.

Also- on Raymond's background (from the facts running next to the video on GT):

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Jade began work at EA as a producer and went on to be the Producer behind one of EA's most popular online games to date, The Sims Online.

The editor who wrote this deserves the gold star of the week - EA has ignored the popularity of MMOs for the longest time and had to buy themselves in by acquiring Origin and later on Mythic. The Sims Online was a miserable attempt to join in on the succes of online gaming under the hood of the sims franchise. The game didn't even make it to consumers outside the US.

I don't know how much Mrs Raymond is to blame for that, but to portray her as the uber succesful game producer with "all these games" under her belt, is a bit of an overstatement.

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Do I get a free copy of crysis now?

I thought you had a copy already! TO THE STORE! NOW!

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I'd recommend the mod approach instead. Because it's not an acronym.

Carry on.

That's true, if you want to go the whole way - wouldn't you even write "mod. approach" to be absolutely correct?

Thanks for bringing this up Andrew (smartass )!

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Send your idea directly to a developer so that they can print out the email and hang it on the wall for everyone to laugh at.

Nice... :roll:

I would also go for the MOD approach. Get enough hobby developers on board to create a prototype of the game and then pitch it to a publisher who decides if they are interested in giving the funds to expand the prototype into a full game.

At least that's how I would do it, but that doesn't really answer the question how you can prevent your ideas from being used/copied by the people you present it to.

Maybe somebody with more experience on pitching or reviewing game pitches has some advise on this, if so I would be eager to hear it too!

I need my buddy to buy this, not every game gets praise like "best platformer since Mario 64" and "best game I've played in the last decade" here

The combat system where you can just wait for an enemy attack and counter attack him every time (while all his friends are standing around you, waiting to be next) and the blending in mode (that makes enemy AI look quite retarded) are two things that make me hesitate to purchase it.

On the other hand the graphics, setting, free roaming and climbing does look very appealing.

Is it long or relatively short? I mean it doesn't have multiplayer and spending 60 € on a few hours of virtual climbing is quite a lot :\

Tough one!

We have a winner!

And when you want to load the level individually, you type "\map core" into the console

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BTW, trivia question for the people who own the game:

What is the level inside the Alien ship called?

Anyone? Lazy bunch

Woah that looks great!

More pics: http://www.grdb.de/out.php?url=68341&type=rss

Yay, the release party was great! Crytek rented Sven Väth's Cocoon Club, the venue and Crysis decoration was amazing and drinks/food were free of course. So basically everybody got really trashed and we had a good time

All guests got the game as a take-away present which was very cool as well, so the trip already paid off for Mr Hessi

Hessi, freakadelle, Hanno (who made most of the characters in Crysis) and me (from left to right).

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As you can see we are keepin' it real MapCore style.

Bonus picture from my framed copy:

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I might post a few more pictures of the club and guests the next days.

BTW, trivia question for the people who own the game:

What is the level inside the Alien ship called?

I'm in Frankfurt right now, I've been to the Crytek office this morning and everyone seems to be pretty happy about the scores the game has received overall.

Release party begins in a few hours, should be fun

(word on the street is that hessi is showing up)

Thanks for the comments!

I voted for feb 7th/8th!

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not really, it was on the table walking around eating bird food and stuff, and then I had to take a piss and when I got back everyone was like "haha you got a chicken baguette" and I was pretty much pissed at the bird for the remaining 1 day that it stayed with us until it jumped off the balcony

I think it was the smartest thing to do for the chicken

..and we are supposed to believe that the chicken climbed up on that sandwich all alone?

Thread of the year.

So from what I've heard the console versions will be released next week (whereas the PC version has been delayed to early 2008).

In anticipation to the release, Ubisoft put out a launch trailer, which is beautifully made in my eyes. No unnecessarily quick cuts, no commentator voice throwing buzz words at me, no explosions or enemies being shredded into bits.

Just scenery, the character and music.

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/27456.html

Watch. Learn. Post any Assassin's Ceed related information here.

Well there you go

bst evr~

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wait a few days and I'm gonna link you a contest

But it would be cooler if it was a MapCore contest