Posts by Kosmo

Now who the fuck wants to play something like Sin?

It sucked so much that my neighbors had to put their grandmother on one of those retirement homes.

But I'm intriqued by this distribution over Steam, the possibilities are endless, plus security and patching becomes more convinient. Now we just wait and watch EA steal it.

I'm not a game developer but I just some day might be

Kosmo

Oulu, Finland

Still I'd go to the engine forum since major part of how-to make maps is to know the tools and most major engines ship with their respective tools like HL2 and Hammer and UE and Uedit so on and so on.

And about more philosophical questions about making map like balancing, troubleshooting and betatesting we should have our own forum.

People this is what we talked about at the thread about how most of us would like to see mapcore to grow.

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what is it that is offensive about a vibrating squirrel kosmo?

it is way too exciting for me

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where the fuck did you get that keyboard ?? or is it customary in finland to have such retarded keyboards ?

Since I'm at work and I don't get to choose the computer accessories this just popped to my desk one day, I'm still waiting to get that sweet sweet logitech set.

First, there is a problem that we don't have mapping forum, I wouldn't know either where to post my questions of leet mapping, maybe I'd go engine forum or something

Second, Schlong-zilla? Damn, I'm almost offended by that name, kinda like Jezpuhs vibrating squirrel, but I'm almost offended by lot of things, mountain dew, babies, religion and so on.

Third, damn von that quote on your sig is mad funny.

ps. I am the man from U.N.C.L.E.

I'm sorry for diggind up this sorry old carcass but since I found it unbelievably hilarious that next-gen Madden NFL 06 looks almost just like the old madden, just ported to Xenon. So EA hype engine is well oiled for the next-gen battles :roll: it is so good to know, I almost were worried.

Now we can just let the thread die.. again.

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He just left Relic for some tiny company. Why would you do that?

Well maybe someone offered him sex?

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I wish game developers would earn as much money as actors.Maybe one day MTV is gonna show off the cribs of mappers :roll:

Yeah well it sure is just a thing to come since some of the game industry people that are on the collective minds have gotten somewhat a rockstar status like J. Allard through all the Xenon fuzz, but they already could do Cribs on some of the Japans Game Gods like Shigeru and Hideo.

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Actually it's from Michael Bay.

Yeah Mr. Bay directs the new magnificent, but Spielberg is Executive Producer for reasons rumored to be that he himself wanted to direct it but couldn't because he had earlier engagements like another best movie of all time, Indy 4.

bruce willis

chaingun

rocket launcher

aliens

godzilla

would be a good movie but I got even better one and it is coming from Spielbergs talented old man brain.

"Untitled Transformers Film (2006)" source imdb.com LICK THAT YEAH!

If you aren't hyped by that, you have never been a kid nor human being, I will say this once, if you don't like Transformers you should really look yourself in the mirror and shoot the guy you see, I once saw Megatron take Star Trek, Star Wars, Terminator, Aliens, every action film made from 1910 to 2021 and Electronic Arts and he threw them in to the sun and he said the most bestest ultimate oneliner and it went something like this

"*** ** ****** **, *****"

If you can't read the above, that is because it is too cool and your brain would explode and at the moment your computers processor is propably burning by the possibilities of what such concentrated cool as Megatron would say and your girlfriend got pregnand by just thinking about how strong Megatron is.

(disclaimer. don't take everything so seriously, tho the upcoming Transformers movie is going to be the best movie humankind has ever made, even if it sucks, that is how cool Transformers really are)

If you get to work @ relic I will have sex with you

Reason for my bad grammar is mostly the fact that I suck at english, and it could be also that my keyboard is some hybrid apple windows keyboard with russian alphabets and no åäö marks that are native to my language.

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Just reading the delightful articles of Gamespot, at Freeplay Brad Shoemaker makes his point on ever rising production costs of games and he compares them to movie industry by example being Microsofts Halo 2, it sold so good that it toppled most Hollywood films (or so MS stated).

Yes, games like Halo 2 can easily make more money than any Hollywood film, first of all I use two products as compare points. Halo 2 and Spider-man 2.

Production costs are rising, but truth still being that you could do two Halo 2s with the Spider-man 2 special effects budget of 54million dollars, so hell yeah Halo 2 can make easily more money than a movie like Spidey 2.

But halo made 125million dollars in it's first 24hours, compared to Spidey 2, it is more than it's 3-day gross, pretty impressive, but then again, Spidey 2 was also one of the best selling DVDs last year, and tbh if every person who saw Spidey 2 paid 50 dollars to see the movie or own the DVD I'd guess Spidey 2 would be the winner hands down, now you might ask where did I get the price of 50 dollars for a movie ticket or DVD that is insane, well call me doctor and take your medicine since that (or even more) is what you and couple of million others paid for Halo 2 (a game that cost less to do than Spidey 2 special effects).

So why do keep comparing these two industries with each other? Well beats me, people just like to see all entertainment all alike, but for that matter we could compare Formula 1 and game industry, both are valid entertainment, or how about NFL and games industry?

Yeah, I agree, movie industry is the one closest to game industry since they both have people working around the same concepts like actors, effect makers and script writers, but let's be honest too, they still are so different that we should not so hastily compare them together like apples to apples, games usually take very long time to make compared to movies that have actual making process of less than a year or around a year, also can we compare all movies made all around the world or are we just comparing Hollywood movies and games? Blockbuster movies eat 10 times the budget blockbuster games do, but blockbuster games cost around 5 times the movie costs on DVD. So every time you see a apples to apples comparision with games and movies, just take it with a grain of salt.

So THAT what happens when you take acid, ooh now I get it.

But def the man clad in purple on the left.

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I hear ya, but often times the units who were the hardcore Nazi supporters weren't anywhere near the frontlines. Thats not exactly handy for a war game, after all. If we're trying to be historically accurate, you wouldn't really run into these units in a game like Call of Duty, Medal of Honor or Brothers in Arms. Seeing as how these games (outside of BIA) are already borderline arcady and hold very loosely to history, I don't see a reason why they wouldn't implement Nazi-ized soldiers outside of the fact that many people find it offensive and the swastika is banned in Germany.

Well I don't know how deep the Nezism went in the regular soldier, but SS troops were very much in the front line, especially the Waffen-SS and many commando missions were ran by SS officers and soldiers, and all SS had pretty stron connections to Nazi ideology and Himmlers dream.

The games don't even mention things like Himmlers plans for state within a state and his enourmos castle building and all the occult shit that went down, both axis and allies were pretty afraid of that stuff and I think that many still are, atleast I am, they were more than crazy, they were ideological fanatics with no sense of reality, and they were in the highest positions of an imperium.

You should check out document series called Occult History of the Third Reich, scares the shit out of you and then back in I promise you that.

I understand the bannind of Swastika and anything other Nazi related, it was not a happy time, but then again, UK didn't ban anything related to Margaret Thatcher and she was not in the right mind :roll: (no, not that I compare Thatcher to Nazis but many see her as totalitarian and something that should not have happened).

OMG! Jones in the fast lane rocks so much!

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also: what is the game to right of theme park? can't make it out

Looks to me like Thief: The Dark Project, I could be wrong tho.

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Not sure what you meant by the German comment, but I'll go by what I think you're trying to say. You're trying to say that most of the German soldiers in the military during WWII were Nazi and sympathized with everything the Nazi's were doing. Thats no where near entirely correct, while there were certain factions of the German military which were fiercily loyal, such as the SS, the vast majority of German units were composed of conscripts, for example the normal soldiers you speak of. Most of these people were not Nazis, rather, fighting for their country. Most were completely normal and level-headed human beings. The nutcases who were carrying out the atrocities generally weren't level-headed or sane, and shouldn't be confused with conscripted units.Then again, you could have meant exactly that, and I could just have misunderstood what you said.

Yes, I know perfectly well that common soldiers and the average street person were not Nazis nor did they support the acts that they did, but if you think about it, there has not been a single Nazi in RTS or FPS games since the days of Wolfenstein and Spear. So why did they leave them off?

In these "realistic" games you never attack and save people from concentration camps nor do they tell you about the things that went down behind the closed door with Himmler and his SS. So now we have kiddies who think that WW2 was cool because of Tom Hanks and his Band of Brothers series. All people who have studied WW2 do not think it was that glamorous, just like RD said, american soldiers were mostly kids with no idea what they were doing and SS had some very sick agenda.

Maybe it is just me and maybe I'm wrong for hating WW2 and people who make it so glamorous, because when I watched those documents I got sick and almost threw up, and that is the effect those games should have, to remind us of what it really was, and not to entertain us.

But yeah, now if those games were as brutal as they should, they wouldn't make them, and actually, that would be way better.

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well its just that theyre in the next room grayfox and could easily walk over to the other room and check on them every 10 minutes.

They weren't home, they were in some local internet cafe.

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Children are dying because their parents go out to dance or for a couple of drinks, watch TV etc. Why is it any worse when playing on computers is the reason?

It's not worse, it's just wrong that small children and babies don't even have a chance to live due to their parents negligence. No matter what the reason, this should not happen.