Posts by Erratic

  • Halo takes over the world

    Quote from e-freak

    Oh and erratic: How would you feel if you have survived D-Day or the Ardenen Offense or Operation Husky or the Iraq War and you have seen exactly this kind of violence on your real comrades? Saving Pvt Ryan for example shows it aswell but the attitude of the movie was to show that whose who fought in a war have made the world a better place and not microsoft selling a meh game more and more...

    I bet Universal and Paramount made nothing off Saving Private Ryan and Shindler's list either, right?

    I can see what you're saying but your issue really shouldn't be with a science fiction game series. It would seem more apt to be directed towards all the World War II games that get made and all the money that publishers make off of them.

  • [Half-Life 2] Model with Normal map and specular

    They're just specified in the .vmt if I recall correctly. Been a few months since I did this.

    There should be some info on the valve dev wiki here with the stuff you have to enter in. One tip though is you should store your spec map in the alpha channel of your normal map image file and use:

    "$normalmapalphaenvmapmask" 1

    for pointing the vmt to it. At least I think that's the common practice and the 'cleanest' way to store all this stuff. Or so I found, I could be wrong there.

  • Halo takes over the world

    I don't understand all the fuss being kicked up about them either. Something about a mocking/insensitivity towards veterans or something. As if a veterans experiences about a fictitious war in a fictitious gameworld is somehow innapropriate. It's not even done in a way that's really distasteful either. It's just fiction.

  • Halo 3 - No Spoilers Plz K Thnx

    Quote from Mazy

    http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=84162Hmmm

    Oh yeah, I'd been keeping up on that ever since the thread over at Neogaf starting getting bloated and unfortunately it seems to be true. I opened mine up at the store and the disc was out of its holder and scratched up. Did this about three times before I settled for the standard edition as I just wanted to get out of there.

    Sucks though, initially I didn't think it was going to be such a wide spread problem but it seems to pretty consistent with the limited edition.

  • ins_baghdad

    Quote from Minotauro

    Yeah this is definately the ultimate INS map. I still have some of the older source files and the improvements that stepp made to this map throughout these years are amazing. Congrats man <3

    Yeah, watching the map evolve over the past 2 years or so has been neat. I still remember when I first booted up INS back then and seeing it. It's come a long way but interestingly enough the basic layout hasn't changed all that much. More than I can say for my map

    Nice going on the spotlight (traitor).

  • Game reviews as predictor of sales.

    Quote from ReNo

    Anybody know how Ico fared in its rerun after the success of Shadow of the Colossus? Don't know how widespread that rerun was, but it certainly got significant shelf space again here in the UK. I'm doubt it was suddenly a top seller, but it would be interesting to see if it did better second time around.

    After playing shadow I immediately went looking for Ico and was pretty much shit out of luck. I ended up having to buy it off somebody second hand.

    Interesting though that they would resurrect a 4 year old title following Shadow's release, aside from some really major titles like the Halo's and stuff, I've never really noticed that.

  • Team Fortress 2 beta!!!!!

    Quote from Mazy

    If anything then I think the Scout is overpowered. That shotgun is fucking nasty up close.

    I sorta felt this way too. Also, the Pyro could use a *slight* bit extra length on his flame thrower.

    Other than that, pretty much awesome. Really brings back the chaotic fun of TFC, just refined and tightened up a bit.

  • Team Fortress 2 beta!!!!!

    Quote from ginger_lord

    From what I've read of peoples impressions it looks like when I get around to getting it I'm gonna have to pretend its not Team Fortress but some other cool MP game.Respawn timers in a TF game. What the fuck.

    Yeah, the first thing that hit me is the slower pace, haven't played it enough to say how it's impacted the game however.

  • Stockholm Halo launch event :???:

    Quote from Taylor

    The day it launches and gets 3 million sales (or thereabouts) in its first hour of release I’m going to be in a corner, with my mind in my happy place, blood running down my chin as I bite down on my tongue to stop the screaming. This may be somewhat hyperbolic.

    If WoW, Pokemon and The Sims are the best sellers this industry has, Halo can have its 3 million.