Posts by D3ads

This is out now apparently, didn't realise! This looks absolutely stunning for a psp game, kinda like Silent Hill 1 with some graphical effects from Silent Hill 2. I would love to play it but I don't have a PSP nor do I want one and I doubt it'll see the light of day on the PC. Anyone here with a PSP checked it out?

I don't listen to reviewers really, it's entirely upto you at the end of the day whether the game is good or not, critics aren't always right.

Congrats on finishing it anyway Mazzle~

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I'm sorry but Tomb Raider was blatantly an excellent film.

I'm afraid all the respect I had for you has just gone out of the window with that one

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On the subject of games to movies, I watched the Silent Hill movie last night and I was actually quite impressed. The story was trousers, but the translation of the games atmosphere and ambience was very well realised. The regular parallels between the game and the film (trainspotter moments) were enough to make up for the predictably crap plot.

It's pretty much the same as the original game, only it's a mother and daughter as oppose to father, Silent Hill storyline is well deep anyhow, go read The Book Of Lost Memories

As for Hitman, not really interested in going to see it at the cinema, I'll watch it when it's out on DVD or tv...

I said kinda, obviously it's many years behind Doom 3 but it's still quite nice the way they've got the dark lighting done.

Doom 3 has parallax mapping?

Really? BuZZer said they'd removed the Stalker content...

dux: I think this looks kinda like the Doom 3 engine:

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I'm probably in the minority

Oh, my muzzleflashes look a little odd in the screenshots, they work in-game though, trust me

New media posted on the moddb page:

http://www.moddb.com/mods/4961/paranoia

Only 8 days to go *dribbles*

Wow, amazing work. I'd go for the first lighting choice as well, the second one makes the area look 'washed out' and the third is too purple for my liking.

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This is looking so much better now, I think that plant in the last screen is really odd though...

Looks like a cable to me... Nice job anyhow.

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Cool man Whats your name? lol I can't read your signature.

My handwriting is always odd as I write differently to most people, it's 'A. Lindsay'.

As for the hand.. *head desk* I fucking hate drawing hands, I always get them wrong. Mind you, if you look at the hands on the Pyramid Head model in SH2, they aren't quite right there either, but then he isn't forced to be human...

I might fix this anyhow, replace the hand with a new drawing and recolour it. I might also add a background to it at some point.

I thought I should practise colouring drawings on the computer more since I haven't done it for a long time, this is now only the second time I've done this other than a Spawn colouring job I did about a year ago.

My own pencil drawing, inked over, scanned and then painted underneath the drawing layer. I wasted over 8 hours of my life doing this

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Looks excellent!

I'm with dissonance, that's pretty freaky Looks cool though, where did the source image for the face come from?

Haha, I love Taylor.

I'm hopefully going to be using the 'Paranoia' mod as a base for this project, which will enable bumps and an actual projected flashlight. In the Silent Hill games, each room is pretty unique, the textures for each wall are different and details like shadows and lighting are painted onto them, I've never noticed this in any other games, not even Resident Evil. If I can get the environments looking like SH2/3 I'll be pleased, I don't need occlusions and HDR, we'll see

I like the combat in SH btw, since it's not meant to distract from the actual point of the game which is the storyline and puzzle solving. The actual fear factor never really comes from the creatures anyway, however disturbing, it's the fantastic use of sound and subtle set pieces that creep the player out.

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lol 40's America.

Isn't HL like £5 now on Steam with all the extras?

The thing is they started it in early 2004 before HL 2 came out and the modders weren't even that experienced with the engine, with the exception of BuZZer who works in the industry I think, so a lot of it came from learning as they went along, in that respect what they've managed to produce is very impressive. Sure it would look better on Source but then so would any mod, if they'd ported the content to that engine then they would probably have killed it off, I mean look what happened to Nightwatch...

They're supposed to be implementing higher detail normal/specular and soft shadows before release, we'll see if they actually manage it, if not they could always add it in a patch later on if so.

It looks mighty impressive, like a mix of Tomb Raider and Hitman during the time of the Crusades. I don't know whether it would be my thing though, but the footage I've seen of it is nice and I always like developer diaries.

Yeah I think the writer's views are pretty unrealistically biased, just because an engine's new doesn't mean that it's easier to create things over older engines and the level of detail expected in games is high nowadays.

Paranoia will have about 50 maps btw, this is going to be one of the longer mods about...

I'm in the final credits! Made them some new sprites since they were using default HL ones for explosions, muzzleflashes and the like, BuZZer is impressed with them so they are being used, yay