Posts by Kosmo

  • Hard times ahead?

    Quote from TomWithTheWeather

    Maybe the major players just aren't the major players anymore...

    True, and to think about it, even if the time of powerful individuals making something that changes the whole industry it gone, you still can see that most major innovations that have huge impact on the industry come from smaller development studios. Well, I don't know how small something like Epic is but making the most popula engine to date, or might even be the most popular engine ever.

    And games like Farcry, Dawn of War, Fable, Chronicles or Riddick and ofcourse Pirates! have had tremendous success and actually deserved it.

    But sad buyouts have happened too, like Westwood, oh westwood, I'll always remember you. And failures that have happened to wrong people and wrong game, like Illusion Softworks Mafia which was one of the besst games ever made, but it didn't get that much attenttion.

    And things that you should be afraid of, like maybe one day someone buys Remedy and they lose their edge and the already seen changes in Blizzards management styles indicate that they are gradually changing in to something not so likeable (or maybe it's just my imagination).

  • Dumb Design vs Intelligent design

    Quote from mawibse

    Kosmo your such a mean bully, bricking me and rediculing god and Timberlake, now I'll cry myself to sleep.

    Is there a friendly bully? Besides, I like badmouthing God, because all his followers are weaklings, what is the worst that can happen? Some Priest tries to kick my ass because I said God sucks? It's so easy to kick Popes ass that I'd let my little sister do that.

    Quote from mawibse

    Since I'm a brick n all, who(m) did the three sons of Noah populated the world with?

    They had all sorts of animals.

  • Hard times ahead?

    Back when I started to dream of working in Games Industry, and actually realized that it might be true someday (this was somewhere around mid-90s, might have been 94,) the industry was pretty strong and it seemed like a perfect job in every aspect.

    But since then, alot has changed, lately I have been thinking that it might be a good idea to gather as many talents as possible and maybe even study the artforms used in film industry and comic industry, or any other industry somewhat close to the game industry. Rising costs in development and recent buyouts has made many jobs insecure, you can never know when your company if bought out and jobs laid off because the buyer just wanted the licences your studio owned and not the talent. Alot of threats these days.

    But the gameviolence media circus recently going around the world doesn't seem to help things at all, now it's not enough that you might get fired, or lose your job because of financial status, but you might get even sued becuase some asshole doesn't know right from wrong and decides to blame popular game X for his actions to get out of the heat.

    I know it used to be pretty bad in the film industry too, violence in movies was and still is an issue and comics got censored pretty harshly back in the Comics Code days, thank god those days are over.

    But as the popularity of video games seem to rise and they get more and more media time the issues they rise are equally big.

    But I'm pretty confident that this will be over sooner or later, but I don't like the current direction one bit, indy game developers don't have it so good anymore, compared to the old days of Lord British and Sid Meier or Peter Molyneux, they got it good back then.

    So, any of you who currently work in the industry had any similar fears, or are they just exaggerated by the media?

  • Dumb Design vs Intelligent design

    Mawbise you are dumb as a brick, that I'm sure.

    I never pitched "Search for Adam" as something scientific, I just said that Adam is a proper term (not THE proper term, THE proper term would be Homo Habilis or some other from the start of the Homo genus) for first human, since they are trying to find the first human and alot of people regardless of religion know about the Adam and Eve mythos, so when they say "Search for Adam" people instantly think that they are searching for the root of humans/first human, or atleast that is how I tought about it.

    Thusly, making it proper term for the current situation or rather proper name for scientific show searching for the roots of human, but at the same time dumbing it down for people. Capish?

  • Web portfolio

    I'd say that the overall feeling is nice, not cumbersome, but I would advice you to scratch the whole top part of the site with the navigation and rething it, it just doesn't work at all. The colors are fine.

  • Dumb Design vs Intelligent design

    I just wish those ID retards would stop using their one and only thing against evolution theory "it's too complicated", if they don't understand it they should just keep their mouths shut.

    ID is way too easy to be true, how the fuck can you explain anything with "it just is" all the time?

  • Twisted society

    It is widely known that Finland is full of IT companies, and we have Nokia one of the biggest players if no the biggest player in the cellphone game, all of our universities are studying new information and communications technologies. Our largest industries are Steel, Paper and IT, I just don't know what more I can tell you to make you happy.