Posts by dux

  • Bulletstorm

    Quote from Rick_D

    well, you have microsoft/sony to thank for that. it is a TRC that the screen cannot be blank, unresponsive for longer than 10 seconds or so. the unskippable intro videos are used to give the game menus time to load in. otherwise you could skip the videos and sit watching a blank screen or a loading screen for the exact same amount of time as you'd be watching shitty intro videos. so they figure just keep them unskippable and load it in the background.

    so, that's why. the increased complexity of starting menus, the requirement to avoid screen-hangs, and a general hatred of the customer.

    I just learnt something. Thanks rick.

    I've been playing this some more and its actually improved over earlier chapters. I actually laughed a few times at some of the stuff said. Either the writers started drinking and smoking or they got some new ones.

  • Bulletstorm

    Curiosity got the better of me and I had a go.

    Wow.

    Bad port is bad. Where do I even start?

    - You cant alt tab. I know not everyone sees this as a problem, but I like to be able to alt tab a game for whatever reasons. This is the first game I've come across in a long time that just won't let me come back into the game. It's as if it's going "You dare to remove yourself from this fantabulous game for mere seconds?! No, you cannot come back in. I'm also going to wipe your key bindings for being such a shit.".

    - Mouse acceleration feels like it's on, I can't be doing with mouse accell.

    - Watched about 15 minutes of cut scenes before I even got to really do anything. What is it with games these days taking control away from the player so it can go "Oooh, look at me I'm big and fancy with my fancy cut scenes I'm so awesome!" As the games dialogue goes "fuck you cock suckers.".

    - The main characters voice, yeah, soon as he spoke I knew who it was. When you can identify the actor from one spoken word you need to wonder, isn't there anyone else?

    - They haven't made any effort in naming the keys. I was told to "Press and hold MouseTl2" What the fuck is mouseTl2?! I tried every mouse button but just ended up getting raped in that particular sequence because I wasn't sure which button it was. It wasn't mouse2 as that's my ironsights and this wasn't a situation to sit and find out as there was a huge helicpoter shooting seven shades of dick out of me.

    - This has terrible character dialogue. Jesus christ Epic, I know you guys have an art budget as you keep waving it in my face like a giant erection. So how about you spend a little money on some writers as well? I know it's just a silly shooty game but if you're going to force me to witness a cut scene with people talking every 10 seconds at least make it bearable!

    - Let me skip the stupid intros! I don't want to sit there every time watching these stupid logos. Once is enough.

    - You can't edit the ini files. What a load of shit.

    - Is windows live in this? I forget. It probably is, so fuck it.

    + Looks pretty.

    + Kinda fun when it lets you play.

    + Loads stupidly fast.

    + Great sound.

    + Quite satisfying.

  • Battlefield 3

    Yeah, but DICE display their Single Player stuff in other games which I'm cool for. I'm just not digging it all that much; having a load of SP thrust in my face through a purely MP game.

  • Liam Tart - Environment Artist

    The dungeon scene is super pro sauce and your portfolio is nice and simple. I'm gonna jump on the bandwagon here and agree with mino about the contrast in the asteroid scene. I just think the lighting needs a bit of tweaking is all, a reduction in contrast a definite.

  • The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

    Quote from Steppenwolf

    Morrowind has the Bloodmoon expansion which will give you a good pretaste for Skyrim.

    If you have around 200 hours of free time play both games + expansions.

    Yup, morrowind for me was one of those games where I would start playing and say to myself "just an hour of two this time." I look at the clock and it's been 6.