Posts by Minos

  • Brink

    Quote from Rick_D

    yeah but then look at all the hacking and shit, it takes like 5 seconds to "hack" a turret, and longer to set it up (that welding torch looks so pointless) and .. my god all the canned aniamtions for doing things just take forever.now look at tf2, where the spy can just run past and slap down a sapper, or capping intel and shit is done so quickly. it just seems to me that they have a lot of things that don't seem like they are needed, and yet you have to stand there holding a button watching a bar fill up, and the rest of the game is flowing past you at speed, yet there you are standing still watching boring naimations play over and over again.

    know what i am saying?

    This is totally off-topic but I have to vent it somewhere:

    If there's one thing that I hate in TF2 is how Spies have unlimited sappers. This is retarded. Some days ago I was playing engineer and a spy sapped the entrance of my teleporter. No fucking noob in my team noticed it so it was all up to me to try and fight the bastard. As I was standing next to the exit I kept removing the sappers until I ran out of metal, which only happened after I had removed nearly 40 sappers in like 1 minute. It was fucking stupid. At least I climbed to the top of the score table

  • Crysis 2

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    ":1gvsmatj]No excuse not to have a HDTV now. Only like 5% of the people still have old tv's.If you spend 300€ on a console, 50€ on games, you should at least invest on a cheap HDTV.

    That's bullshit Pint0! A lot of people still play on tube tvs.

    It's sad when developers neglect old school tube screens. I had a 34" tube TV when I played Mass Effect 2, I could barely read anything on screen. Not counting that the game had only widescreen output.

    @Peris: haha that's one of the levels that I strolled through using cloak. I tried to fight the grunts twice but there were so many of them that I just gave up and decided to "skip" this area altogether.

  • DM_Zest "Making of article"

    Thanks everyone, I'm glad to be of some use

    Quote from Sentura

    you should definitely include an overview of your map in the layout section, if only to show how the map flows (typically in oldschool deathmatch levels, dead-ends are a big no no, and making everything smooth (visibly or not), is important for gameplay).

    Great Idea, I'll try to update the article with this if i have the time!

  • Crysis 2

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    ":1508cssl]

    Same. The most problematic one for me was

    right after gunning the helicopter down, when you jump out the window towards that crane.

    Yeah, I never really tried go out of the window, I always go down to where the helicopter fell.

    Anyway, this kind of bugs shouldn't be there!

    lol

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    I went down to where the helicopter fell and couldn't find a way out so I went back upstairs and jumped out the window.

  • Crysis 2

    Quote from dux

    I got stuck loads of times. I had to spam my movement keys like a mental case to get out of my predicament.

    Same. The most problematic one for me was

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    right after gunning the helicopter down, when you jump out the window towards that crane.

  • Crysis 2

    Still on the "why experimentation is important for me" subject: I don't think I'd have enjoyed Max Payne as much as I did if it wasn't for experimentation. I'd usually quick save the game just before an important moment and replay it multiple times until I was satisfied with my performance. Being able to retry the same part using different tricks and seeing what worked and what didn't made the game a lot more enjoyable for me.

    Another thing that I enjoyed so much was quicksaving the game just before jumping off rooftops. How i love getting killed that way in games

    It's a pity that with all the awesome nanosuit powers and relatively open spaces in Crysis 2 you don't have the ability to do this

  • Homefront

    Quote from Redfigure

    max payne 1 and 2 were also ridiculously short... I think the key difference here is that homefront is shit**in sp.

    hmm I thought Max Payne had a pretty decent length. The second one is a bit on the short side indeed but that didn't bother me.

  • Thiago Klafke - Environment Artist

    Thanks guys

    Quote from luque

    Talking about the return button... When I scrolled all the way down to check the last screenshot of a project there was no "go to top" or return button, so had to scroll all the way up and press return.Nitpicking but you might want to look into that =)

    Rest is awesome!

    The return link will probably never be used by more than 1% of people visiting the site, but yeah I moved it to the bottom of the page. Makes more sense there!

    Now I need to make a PDF version of my resume!

  • DM_Zest "Making of article"

    Cross-post from my portfolio thread. I wrote a making of article of DM_Zest, showing a bit of my texture workflow and some considerations about layout, lighting and silhouette.

    [Blocked Image: http://www.thiagoklafke.com/images_2011/th…m_dmzest_01.jpg]

    [Blocked Image: http://www.thiagoklafke.com/images_2011/th…m_dmzest_02.jpg]

    [Blocked Image: http://www.thiagoklafke.com/images_2011/th…m_dmzest_07.jpg]

    The map can be download here and the making of can be read here.

    Let me know what you think!