Posts by Furyo

Quote from Thrik

A strange correlation has been drawn by some between 'sells well' and 'has no imagination whatsoever'. It's perfectly possible to produce an attractive cover that also draws in the mainstream. A generic cover isn't going to suddenly make the game fly off the shelves, people are more likely to respond to one that's genuinely beautiful rather than following a mantra of 'tits, sparks, guns' (or whatever formula is in play).

Every single bit of marketing will dispute that. Do you think we did not make this decision after having done our research?

Ken has discussed the choice of the cover to death. There will be alternate covers for everyone to download so you gamers that already love the game and want an art piece for the cover get exactly that. This generic one is a marketing oriented one so more people are even interested in picking it up.

Quote from Bunglo

I almost read Dark's spoiler! Phew, that was a close one.

I haven't watch it yet and I'm not ganna but damn, am I the only one who thinks the warm and cool tones on the white of the buildings in the preview looks increadible?!? Vivi, it would be awesome if the art team was able to hook up with polycount or cghub for an art overview/ breakdown after this game goes gold.

Many of our level artists already are active members of Polycount. If they can do something like this, I'm sure they will

Nonsense Clement, you were a senior all along

It was their last chance to ever bounce back. Let's hope they do so now that they have a buyer.

If you want actual sales data, you're going to need to subscribe to NPD (and yes their methods for totalling sales has increasingly been under fire with the rise of digital sales). Vgchartz is doing estimates, and are not necessarily far off from the actual numbers, but it's only going to give you a ballpark figure.

Publishers ultimately are the only ones who know exactly how many units their games sold. Ubisoft would also let its employees know internally, on the intranet, what the actual numbers were. Others don't

I wouldn't mind at all

Sold in the next quarter

Finished it 4 times now. I can now do time attack runs in 3-4 hours tops (which fwiw, you actually need to go to get some of the achievements like shadow and ghost)

Just picked up Mark of the Ninja yesterday. An excellent, truly great game. Very well refined mechanics, so much better than their first opus. Get it now

So Square Enix just announced the next Hitman game will be made in Montreal.....you guys moving on to a new thing in Copenhagen?

World class art meets great tech meets dudebro fest storytelling. Also, a LOT of it is straight out of C2 (anims, hud, some weapons and their sounds, ledge grab)

Great showcase for the tech, once again.

Glad to see you're finally able to show all your great work since we last saw each other That's truly magnificent work from you guys down in POA

Haven't felt as psyched about GTA since Vice City. Truly love the sarcastic humor and true hollywood action movie style they went for. I'm going to spend so much time playing this.

Welcome to Mapcore! Feel free to apply at Irrational Games (our recruiter is a member of Mapcore, fcherbak) as we are currently looking for environment artists.

Good to hear from you guys James and Lee Don't be strangers again

Andrew, I already extended my help to you personally, but if anyone you know who is affected is interested in Irrational Games, please send them my way.

Only got yourself to thank mate, all HP and I did was push the door open so you'd fit in better

I've just finished adding every portfolio I could find online with a basic name search. If yours is still missing, please contact me

With the recent move to the new database, a lot of info from the list has disappeared. Anyone wanting their portfolio back up on the list, please send me a PM with the info required.