Posts by Steppenwolf

Quote from PaulH

Nope. I didn't actually watch the gameplay video before posting my previous comment, but having flicked through it now it doesn't look like the Skyrim replacement I was after. Too many cutscenes I guess (plus pretty bad voice acting?) and the combat doesn't appeal. Cheers though

It's not really comparable to Skyrim gameplay wise. In DA you have a party instead of just one char. Don't judge gameplay by the video tho. They play the "action" game style in the PR videos which is silly button mashing like Diablo. Imo the proper way to play and enjoy this is the tactical style tho which is a lot of fun. In this style you pause the combat every 1-2 seconds and micro manage the attacks and spells of your party. Doersn't get more proper RPG then that. Also in Baldurs Gate and DA:O the story was really really good with lots of twists and whatnot. Think of the Assasins Guild plot in Oblivion to get the idea. If Da 3 can replicate that it's gonna kick ass.

World champion in Maracana. Brazil beaten 7:1. It will never get better. That realisation that from now on its all downhill (football fan wise). I don't expect Germany to get ever get world champ again in my lifetime. But tonight i don't care.

That was insanity. I have never felt so sick and miserable for 120 minutes then the redemption in the end. Just beautiful. Dem feels. Gonna take a couple days for it to sink in.

I watched the 1990 final for warmup.

This is torture. Spent half the day on the shitter already.

Quote from PaulH

Never played a dragon age game also, but looking for my next fix along the lines of Skyrim - can anyone tell me if this is similar? Is it likely to be anywhere near as good? I read middling reviews of the previous games in the franchise.

Did you ever play Baldurs Gate? Because DA:O basically was a Baldurs Gate game.

It looks epic story/art wise. But yea i hope tactical can be played like in DA:O. That action combat looks so wrong to me.

Not feeling the characters either. I want awesome female characters like Morrigan instead of that horned abomination (thanks Anita!).

UI also looks bad, almost like placeholder.

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I'm expecting humiliation tonight. Not sure if I'm going to watch.

For who tho? Could be fun. One team freezing of fear and another team with no motivation. Either will be 0:0 or 5:5.

I've been using ddo a bit in the new quixel suite. It's quite useful with the megascans, smart materials and masks to texture stuff _fast_. Together with the ability to use your own custom materials for the megascans workflow i can see myself using this a lot for our next project.

What i'm not so happy about is ndo. It runs like crap for me. Like, move some stuff around in unzipped layer at what feels like 3-4 fps. It's impossible to work like that so i'll just use it for simple stuff like i did all the last couple years.

Still feels surreal to be in the finals. This is way different then 2002 or 2008. I get 1990, 1996 vibes. I'm almost afraid to be optimistic because i don't want it to break my heart.

Extra time?

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Silly woman, don't take cursed tokens!

I watched in the pub and the atmosphere was actualy very strange. The celebration after goals was very reserved because everybody was like "is this really happening???". I thought every goal was offside because i went watching the game with the mindset that Fifa has written the plot already long ago in favor of Brazil.

Does the US have talented young players come through? I have no doubt that the US will be succesfull in football eventualy but it will probably take a bit longer. The success of the German team over recent tournaments and this one is the culmination of changes that have been made to domestic youth football and training after the Euro 2000 desaster. That's 14 years of work. Of course some of our talents (like Schweinsteiger) popped up way earlier but only now they are old enough and have the experience to win big titles like the Champions League and so the football god willst it the world cup.

Nice gun but 4k sounds excessive. Pretty sure you could do kickass skin with half that resolution. 5.7k tris on the other hand sounds average/slightly low. Could have spent more polies on the details which are right in the players face like the screw and that corrugated thingy. instead of making it completely normal map.

With weapons it's common mistake of artist to spread details evenly so it looks good on portfolio when for actual games (and people judging your portfolio) it's important to focus the detail on the things which are closest to the first person camera (polies aswell as texture density).

Sorry Minos

That was fucking mental tho. Stuff of legends! Now lets hope they bring it home on sunday or after all this adrenaline rush i will know aswell how the Brazil tears feel.

Ambivalent about the other semi tomorrow. Kinda cheering for Netherlands but i think Argentina we would have slightly better chances on sunday.

Quote from Minos

We'll make you eat your filthy words on sunday            

Third place game is on saturday.

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I didn't knew who Werner Herzog was so i went and searched for the documentaries he did. And i fell on the most known apparently "Grizzly-man".

And erhh that was not uninteresting, not at all really... but i found it to be really really difficult to watch.

You didn't knew Werner Herzog!? Go and watch Aguirre, Fitzcarraldo, Stroszek, Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, Woyzeck, Nosferatu etc etc. asap!

Quote from Minos

Now that we don't have Neymar anymore I think it will be borderline impossible to beat Germany

Brazil still is full of players who play at top clubs and you have the home advantage. Sure the injury of Nemar is a big blow but so was the injury of Reus for Germany even before the tournament began and now we have to carry Ghostzil through every match. I expect the game to be pretty even. Could go down to penalties.