Posts by Kosmo

  • Console texture maps

    The best advice I got from a friend who works for Futuremark, when I asked about this sort of thing (texture size/polygon amount) he said, sure you can make a super realistic vase with millions of polygons and shading and all, but make it cool and out of 100 polygons with the smallest texturemaps and then you are impressive.

    I think Xbox can do 1024x easily, BUT if you can make the same results with 512x and make it look just as good, then you are on to something.

  • The latest High-school massacre

    It's hard to hate EA, they don't have face like Microsoft has, they have horns tho, maybe we should concentrate to the horns.

    But yeah, seriously, like I said on the first post, there can and usually is alot of reasons, these guys aren't wrapped so tight and something just pushed them over the edge, but before that there could have been anykind of shit loaded to their necks.

    But only the kid and something of God and bunch of mindreading frogs from indonesia know the reason why these kids snap. Maybe we should stop blaming videogames and parents AND instead start blaming the media, the kids got bad influence from the columbine thing and they get bad influence from the other shcool shootings, they think it's ok to do seems like these kids get alot of publicity and that is what everybody wants.

  • work on duke nukem forever!

    They don't mention source since they like things big in TX, big like doom3 not big in story, art OR innovation, just big on resource hog

    I can't say anything big on Unreal, maybe it's big, like the modding community before the HL kiddies got their second version of hopshoot, CS:S.

    I'd send my portfolio in there, if I had one, and I didn't mind waiting for my first paycheck for 20 years, and even then when the DNF is ready it CAN'T sell so much that it covers the developing expenses of like 50 years of development.

  • The latest High-school massacre

    Quote from RD

    U know ofcourse that they dont keep charts in poor countries, and when killings, rapes, massacres and kidnappings occur there, theyre not called crimes, but war, a crisis or just ignored because its normal there and there is no justice system. South Africa is a safe place compared to half a dozen countries on the same continent, whatever your charts say

    True, many poor countries don't have up to date charts of their criminal activity, but it leaves you wonder how well registered actually ARE the murders and violence crimes around the world, domestic violence and incest, often go unnoticed because familymembers try to defend them, reasons are psychological.

    And I'm not even going to go to the effects of war has on countries and the population.

    My theory is this, generally people are much more happier in these so called poor countries, they might be poor materially, but rich in culture and social life, they help eachother. The whole western civilization is rich by material but poor emotionally, how many western countries actually can say that they have rich heritage and strong culture, and MTV is not culture believe me. We have stress and whine about nothing, boo hoo, I don't have 42 inch plasma TV how can I live now, I should jump off a balcony, I know I drink alcohol for the rest of my life, expectations are way too high for a society to be healthy, we don't have time for social life and we get poor emotionally we bottle up our angers and explode one by one, children are propably in the worst position here, they are emotionally fragile, but from first days of their life they are forced to the neck breaking speed of the western civilization that we invented out of nowhere.

    Schooling system is no good, it promotes those who get good grades and often ignore those who are medicore or poor in school, often same kind of competition continues after we graduate and get a job, I know atleast I have had to compete with several other graphic designers for my job and I have to keep improving to keep myself on the job, I know atleast a dosen other designers who suffer from the same things I do, lack of sleep, nervous breakdowns, some of them take moodmedication all because of the work, one guy from work had to retire early becuse he had a bad burnout and he is only 36 years old, he can't work ever, he has nightmares all the time and he is pretty badly bipolar. So in what ways you think our society is healthy? We suffer from mental anguish 99% of africans have never even heard of, the society keeps the pressure and actually is evolving to the point where we have to work more to keep the cash flow on and if the company didn't grow this year as much as last year (it didn't lose any money, it just made few millions less) the workers get laid off.

    You must have read the letter the one EA employees wife wrote, well suprise! It's not that much different in any other place, EA is just an extreme example since it has thousands of workers in same conditions.

  • The latest High-school massacre

    Quote from RD

    in most poor countries the crime rates are far higher than in our rich countries.

    Actually that is the opposite, top5 most highesr rated countries by crime are "USA, Germany, UK, France and South Africa" not what you actually say poor countries. Sure when we go down the list we come across countries that have high poverty count, like Chile, Mexico, India and Thailand.

    If we look at general murder statistics then the chart show something different, but still countries like Russia, USA and South Africa are on top 10. Still we see good rotting on the "rich"countries (is the definition of rich by amount of rich people or general pool of money that the people in the country has in their disposal).

  • The latest High-school massacre

    What most of you are obviously forgetting is that USA is not the only place this happens, granted it is the place where they happen almost yearly BUT they happen here in europe too, where we have pretty strict gun laws, not a single gun in sight for miles, but these kids still get guns and run rampart in schools.

    But this is where it all goes out of the window, why these things happen in schools? Ok these places are the ones that we spent most of the time when we are young, but there are far less psychopath kids blasting everyone at malls or downtown, these do happen non the less, if you go crazy and think to shoot few people and then shoot yourself why pick up school? Maybe our school system is just plain wrong, it stacks pressure on us when we are most fragile, young age, and our parents are too busy to help us out, but they are not too busy to say a bad thing about your lousy grades. In many countries in asia, kids kill themselfs if they get bad grades because they think they don't have any future, well in a competitive environment like that it can be true, and shame is the worst thing there is in that culture.

    There are lot less these kinds of agressions in poor countries where there are very little schools, if you are looking for what I m blaming, it's the western culture and society, "if there can happen a crime, we are all responsible".

    So conclusion? Who knows, who the fuck knows. Western civilization is sick and it is showing in our children and we just turn the other cheek, maybe we know that there are not right answeres here, and maybe we know the reasons, we are just powerless in front of our own creation, the society that we created and we set the rules for the game and we didn't point referee, now we have to just play even tho the rules are eating us away. It's a Star Wars reference but I'm going to toss it in just to lighten the mood, but to make you think "the circle is closing".

    Peace out.

  • The latest High-school massacre

    What I don't understand here is that there are alot of people who are blaming videogame violence, then there are those who say "it's not videogame violence it's gun control laws" but the thing most of you don't see that after this all about 90% of the people are just blaming things, wether it is gun laws, videogames, bad parenting, bullies and the list goes on. It is a defence mechanism, you blame my videogames I blame your laws, they blame our laws I blame your bad parenting and so on, this most likely comes to an end the circular motion which propably went on in the mind of most of those kids who did the killings. You add all these supposed accusations and you get a step closer to truth, but is the truth something we are looking for? We just want to present our own opinion which is to blame something.

    At the end we might not be pointing fingers at eachother, we might as well be pointing our fingers to the real problem, but we don't see it because we are too busy looking at the tip of our fingers.

  • Gearbox Software COGs Program Now Online

    Oh oooooooh, hehe smart!

    Cogs, gearbox, now I get it, wow took me a while <- I think that makes me not qualified

    I'd apply if I was living bit less in finland and tad more to dallas or somewhere near.

    Nice program tho, hope more game devs start to notice how hard it is to land a job in games industry (esp. people who DON'T live in usa).

  • Half-Life 2

    I think HL2 was a great game, exceeded doom3, as of doom3 didn't really give me anything, sure it was pretty and I was dripping drool just by thinking the possibilities with modern day computers and engines, from the graphics designers point of view.

    HL2 had quite good story, and some of the levels were nice, like ravenholms platform jumps, and it brought more to HL than I could have imagined, tho this made the transition from HL1 to HL2 like a jump where you were looking over your shoulder for that part of the story that was left untold between HL1 and HL2, sure they explained the gaps in behind the scenes book, but I must say that the way valve did it was just complete bullshit.

    Example. Take warcraft, a rich world where they games are based on a world that have evolved through every game, there are jumps between the games, but none of them are left un explained, in some part of the game the story unfolds backwards, telling the happenings which lead to this situation. Now and after that there are books published where the same stories are told with precision, telling the names of the people involved in to the conflicts and how did they do the things mentioned earlier in the storyline of the game. The purpose is to not mislead the player, but to give him enough information for him to sort it out, and then if he wants to know more about it, he reads the books.

    And for linearity, think of freedom fighters, I think it easily goes over HL2 with it's story and action, not in any part of the game I felt like it was done like a technology demo for a new engine, like I'm sorry FarCry and HL2 were done, not to mention Doom3 oh god! I was crying blood the last few levels of HL2 when I realized that the blue gravity gun IS my only way of wanton destruction, god it felt like Painkillers stave gun all over again, whoopdedoo, we have physics, take a hold on your self for farcrying out loud, we hare headed for our doom3 at this rate we get there faster than plutonium half-life.

    My opinions may seen harsh but let me remind you that they are only opinions, but I'm not satisfied to the results I have had from the megahits like doom3, farcry or HL2, they just don't do it to me. I'm much more looking forward to games like Fallout 3 and less to games like stalker (tho I'll check that out just because I'm a huge fan of european games) and duke nukem: forever. Hell many of the players of Vampire bloodlines and HL2 said that they liked vampire much more and I think I'll agree with them, the game was made much less like a techdemo and much more like a real game.

    Thanks for reading. Now be a man and stop crying.

    :edit: oh yes had to add that I just ordered Sid Meier's: Pirates one of the games worth waiting

  • New Brothers in Arms Trailer!

    To date I haven't played a single WW2 shooter that made me thing that it was made from a real war that actually happened, but watching this trailer made me realize that this was something not to let just pass by.

    I really like all the footage and screenies that have come to my way from this game and I think that after several dozen of ww2 games we are nearing the way they should be presented, I'm really looking forward to play this game till my eyes hurt. And I really like the High Dynamic Range lighting there, gives a nice warm feel to the scenery.

  • HL2 sales recap...how did you ACTUALLY buy your copy?

    You should have added the option "stole it from the weakest looking guy coming out the game shop, which actually was 3 dan swordmaster and actually carries his katana where ever he goes (hmh, that figures), but I got it finally just by being the one who wanted the game more so even bleeding woulds I continued to beat him with a hose till my arm went numb so I had to change my arm, finally victory is mine, what? oh crap the sissyboy bought sims 2"

    Now there would have been one more answer on that poll

    j/k I bought retail which came like 4 days after the official release date, makes me so angry!

  • Max Payne is real :o

    Oh man.. well the people who haven't lived in the moon for the past few years know that Max Payne from the first game was Sami Järvi aka. Sam Lake the writer of Max Payne, the sequel had a much bigger budget so they could hire real actors to act the parts of games many characters.

    They originally intended max payne to have comicbook style cutscenes that were hand drawn, but time was not on their side and they had to go with photoshopped ones. Which turned up pretty nice.

    There you go, hard fact packet to all who like Max Payne and overall finnish games, now go back to playing FlatOut.