Posts by LiVinGHeLL

  • What was your first ever map?

    I made the classic 2 rooms connected by a hallway in Worldcraft for HL1. That was the first time I learned what a leak was. Compiling was hell back then. Man, when I moved onto making a button that opened a door, I thought I was Carmack.

    I had plans to create a full single player mod - I wonder if I still have the plans for all that. It was essentially just fighting through many floors of a black mesa skyscraper.

    After making many many test maps I eventually started working on HLDM maps and then DoD maps.

    Who remembers the 30-60-90 minute map contests? I found a zip file full of hundreds of those the other day.

  • World of Warcraft : Warlords of Draenor

    Very much looking forward to WoD. I have been playing wow since beta minus a couple breaks (mid-tbc and most of mop). I can only laugh at Taylor's post about it being lifeless and you'll never meet anyone again and blah blah blah. I just got back from blizzcon where 24 of my guildmates from around the US all flew in an hung out for 4 days. We have been playing for years now and it has branched out into many other games - but we always have that common ground in wow. We burned out from being a hardcore raiding guild at the end of cata and pretty much sat out all of mop (until we started a recent 10 man, we missed a good expansion). However, WoD seems to want to take it back to the TBC roots and it has a lot of my e-buddies excited.

    WoW is an easy beast to hate - but its an awesome game in the truest sense of the word.

    I do think they need to catch up with some other mmo's in terms of features- and you can see it in a lot of their WoD design choices. However it may just be too little too late with mmos like Wildstar knocking on the door. ESPECIALLY in terms of PvP - I have considered pvp dead in wow since TBC, unfortunately.

  • Heroes of the Storm

    I was at blizzcon and was able to line up with 9 other people and play 2 games of in house 5v5. The big differences from the other mobas are as follows: XP is team shared - everyone is the same level on a team. There are no items - everything is based around the skill build you choose. At certain levels (1,3,6? I cant remember) you get the option to choose 1 of 3 upgrades. For example, you may be able to choose to have 15% stronger heals or 15% stronger damage. The entire game is based around 5v5 team fights and map objectives. No one is off fucking around with neutral creep mobs in the jungle. Its a refreshing look at the genre.

  • E3 2013 - The Division | Ubisoft

    This game looks so beautiful - that amount of detail is incredible. If they are actually recreating a full detailed NYC I am going to poop myself. I am very sad there is no PC version planned. Although it has a pvp game involved, so the PC gamers would absolutely trounce any consoler 8[

  • Wolfenstein Returns?

    My big issue with the guns vs robot game is that I have yet to see a game pull off a decent amount of feedback for the shooter. I guess Mass Effect 2 did a pretty good job when you were shooting droids. If I only have a low caliber or slow firing rifle, I want to be able to at least knock them back a little bit. Or if its a larger robot, I want to be able to hit shoot its hand or weapon and have it do something. Nothing is more boring than emptying 30 SMG rounds into an unflinching robot until it just explodes after X amount of damage.

  • Call of Duty: Ghosts

    Quote from Erratic

    Yep. We look to games now to solve our age old existential crises. Books failed, movies failed, music failed, now it's up to games to take charge and illuminate these problems. I don't want to waste time just playing something, my time is too precious for that. I want something that will change my world view. We have to stop with the man shooters and make meaningful faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaart

    Nope, we can have both. But a yearly released cookie cutter shooter is an obvious cash grab.

  • Oculus Rift

    Quote from knj

    srsly ? it looks fucking hard to play FPS like this !

    I played with TF2 for a little bit and I feel like it will actually be an advantage. You can check your corners while still pointing your gun forward. They have a lot of different modes you can try out, but the default is something people could definitely get very good at. Assuming they don't barf.

  • Oculus Rift

    I reaaaallly want to play mirrors edge with it - but tuscany alone gets me motion sick in 5 minutes. I am hoping things like the hydra + standing up will help with this stuff in the future.

  • Oculus Rift

    The dev kit is 720p (1280x800) but the commercial headset will be 1080p and should solve the resolution issues. Head tracking will solve a lot of the motion sickness issues (leaning forward and back currently do nothing). I have only played with my dev kit for a little bit, but the effect is really hard to explain to someone who hasn't strapped the thing on their head. The biggest issue to me is the motion sickness, it apparently takes quite a bit of time to get used to it. Your brain is extremely confused about the input its receiving.

  • Bioshock Infinite - Spoilers thread

    I just don't get how people can not get the story. If you didn't understand why you were doing what you were doing, then you weren't paying attention to the dialog or environment. The only time you should be confused is when you enter the asylum - gee, I wonder if thats intentional, you think? But you aren't completely blind as you walk in and its snowing, Booker says "Snow? In July?" So you know we're in the future. As it goes, if you pay attention, Elizabeth is basically explaining everything that happened. You really don't even have to use your brain if you listen to her announcements, the video and especially if you pick up the voxaphones in the place.