Posts by Steppenwolf

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It's Casper the ghost!

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It's not surprising that many of the members who worked on SS2 also worked on Thief. Those guys really know how to make great game experiences, and I love those guymes.

They also worked on Ultima Underworld and Deus Ex. It can be said that these people made the Top 4 of PC first person titles (imo). Don't get me wrong Half Life, Duke 3D, Doom, Quake etc. all were great games but none of them came close to the quality of these Looking Glass (later Ion Storm) games.

The more i play the more i like the game. With a better gun and suit the handling gets better and its more fun. The atmosphere of the game is fantastic. Never seen a game with such a love for detail in the levels (well after 6 years of development its something you can expect but it already looked awesome years ago!).

When i was at that train station near the crashed helicopter it was night with a thunder storm. With full dynamic lighting it just looked awesome. I thought i was alone because i shoot everybody in that area but then i saw two tiny glowing eyes between the wagons. It was a almost invisible bloodsucker who watched me. It gave me the creeps.

Here is a nice gameplay video.

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Game doesn't look so scary from our nowadays perspective but at its time it set a new standart. The sound design was excellent and i think that made the game so scary.

stalker is the scariest game since System Shock 2 imo. i had to stop playing today because it made me too nervous.

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HAHAHAA!! that was indeed my graphic card drivers, it's ok and smooth now .Well what i can say about this game, the atmosphere is really awesome, but i mean, when you try to make a postapocalyptic background, a cool thing is that the player wanders in a dead world without life, and feel opressed. But goddammit, in that game i will sure not feel alone with dogs, mutants, stalkers, army dudes and so on, there's always something to kill every 30 meters. AND THEY REAPPEAR TOO

I say that because i've played maybe only 3 hours and i must have killed almost 400 living being. It's a fps you will say. well, you are not totally wrong

The real "dead zone" near chernobyl is everything else then without life. in fact its a paradise for nature and wild animals.

Also the game is not set in a postapocalyptic scenario! The world around chernobyl still exists postapocalyptic would mean that the whole civilization on earth would be destroyed.

Not as funny as Shaolin Soccer tho

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hehe, yes iam born/life in "mühlhausen"

ah cool. mapcore comes closer to me

ha ha this game will be so banned in germany

Looks good tho but needs more of Teddys normal maps.

Looks like a good map.

I know its a already finished map but if you will ever update it give the fog a color that is similar to the blue/greyish sky.

What was your inspiration for this map? Are you from there? I ask because i live in Thuringia.

I would like to do the test but there are a lot of difficult english words in the test that are not in my limited vocabulary.

Anyone figured out how to open the db files? Would like to mod a few things. While the Level Design and Environments are awesome a lot of the rest could use more work. Playermodels, monsters, weapons and animations dont look like 6 years of development imo.

A thing that prevents me yet from playing more is the extreme shacking of the first person view. I get a headache from that. Never experienced that in other games before. Guess that has to be fixed before i can find out if i like the game or not.

Should watch the Directors Cut then. You will love it. It's what one would expect from Ridley Scott. A excellent movie. Glad im not the only one here with that opinion.

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(1985. first day at school with my huge sugar bag)

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Not my cup of tea. The movie felt empty and was very boring in my opinion. No story only a bunch of fags (seriously they look like that) slaying each other.

If you like historical incorrect epic battle movies i suggest Apocalypto and Kingdom of Heaven (only in the Directors Cut). I enjoyed both movies much more.

If its mmo games ok. But i will never pay extra for multiplayer like in current fps games.

I recently found this awesome old air photo of my hometown:

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It's from 1910. I thought it would be cool to see how its looks with colors and gave it a try in photoshop. Thats what i came up with:

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Like all colorized b&w photos it looks kinda artifical but im happy how some of the colors came out, especialy the trees.

The technique i used was the following: For the basic colors i used a modern air photo as palette. I overpainted everything by hand in a new layer, which i mixed with the original photo. This alone looked very flat and not realistic. For more color variation i rendered different colored clouds in new layers and fiddled around with different mixing techniques till i was happy with the result.

Killertomato i have read the thread two times now and still dont get why you are so angry. It's a german mod team with a *.de url. What did you expect?

Your first post was a little demanding imo. No wonder the welcome wasnt so warmhearted and when you compared the behaviour of the german board members with nationalist behaviour you disqualified yourself.

From my experience the average german speaks not very good english. Reasons are different.

1. the school system isnt the best in europe

2. the population is big enough that a second language isn't necessary to come far in life

3. On TV andf cinema everything is dubbed (as you self mentioned). Reason for this is again the big population. There is enough money in the country to dub everything and the quality is usualy decent (unlike dubbings in other countrys).

4. In east germany (16 million of the population) people learned russian in school till the fall of the berlin Wall. I for example had 6 years of russian in school and only 3 years english.

Is it as goooood as 'Within a Deep Forrest' ?

Will check it out later.

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details for a chappel in my second ins map