Posts by insta

  • prey vid

    Quote from -Stratesiz-

    Whatever "quality assurance" means. To me it just sounds like a forced attempt to market the brand.

    I guess Remedy just sent over a pre-release copy so that 3dr could playtest it for a day or two, BAM, "quality assurance"

  • prey vid

    Quote from Thrik

    God, that looks great. I particularly like the usage of portals and gravity adjustment type stuff. Funnily enough, one of the only other games I've seen that in recently is Psychonauts, of all games.But man, looks great. I've always admired 3D Realms, and their ability to create fairly fresh and exciting games in a generally monotonous genre. The visuals also look bloody great, and they've clearly stretched the D3 engine a lot if that is indeed what they're using.

    3drealms? It's developed by Human Head studios. 3drealms just owns the IP and slaps their name on the box, sort of like what they did with Max Payne.

  • Oh noes, ur map has teh been stoeled~~?!

    Quote from Phlek

    What a nutfucker....but I guess you should be proub that he chose your work. INS team posted this in a news post about 3 months ago, "Imitation is the highest form of flattery." Ahhhh I love that saying.

    It's not imitation though, he just found a bunch of screenshots of impressive maps, then passed them off as his own to impress his forum-buddies. I would say that's pretty close to stealing, which is not very flattering at all.

  • A gamer's manifesto

    Quote from ReNo

    I really like checkpoint saves in some games. Quicksave makes things too easy and even in games that have it I tend to use it sparingly. Games like Halo and Republic Commando, which have forgiving health systems and checkpoint saves, work best in my opinion. If you look at the likes of Doom 3 or HL2 with the familiar old health systems and quicksave, you are too encouraged to retry an area or save after every "good" and "economic" kill in order to get through it using the minimum health and ammo, giving you a better chance in the next encounter. I prefer to want to continue on regardless of how well I did an area - far more immersive in my opinion.

    It really really depends on the game. Operation Flashpoint used a checkpoint system (as well as giving the player one save per map, which could be used at any time), and it sorta sucked, since enemies could drop you in one or two bullets, and you never knew when to expect the mission to end or how far away you were from the next checkpoint.

    (This caused me several times to use my valuable savegame maybe 4-5 meters away from a checkpoint. Argh!)

    Games like HL2,D3 and such are fitting for a checkpoint system (autosave), since there are plenty of checkpoints per map, and you can trust the game to not fuck you over completely,so you can just play the game and not hover over the quicksave button. If you die, no problem, you reload and find yourself 5 minutes away from where you died, and you can do it all over again (but this time better, faster, stronger!!). It's not a big deal to die, since the player is more or less a superhuman, and combat is easy and fun.