Posts by Warby

  • Batman: Arkham City shots

    no new catwoman shots ?! D:

    either way cant wait i am super hyped for this game !

    also i am calling it now:

    -batman : arkham asylum

    -batman : arkham city

    -batman : gotham city ! (thats what the next game will be called they are gradually branding themselves out of the corner !)

  • design or art?

    i feel your pain man it was one of the main reasons why i quit my job at ioi !

    i love both art and design !

    why is that so hard to accept for the military-industrial-cooperate-pigeon-hole-conspiracy-complex !

  • What are you playing now?

    the thing with twin snakes is that it has tons of little nintendo jokes build into it there is mario toys and stuff everywhere so if they where to release this on bluray/psn

    someone would have to go through the game and PURGE it of all the nintendo copyrighted material which might be a much bigger/riskier/more expansive task than you might think

    with other words:

    FORGET IT !

  • What are you playing now?

    i saw mgs 3 subsistence while i was in copenhagen at a netto super market in the bargain bin for 10 kroner (= roughly 2 euros) i was like:

    "nah i already have too much on my plate to play ! ... god damn i wished i had bought it D: )

    and yeah i am also waiting for an mgs 1 + 2 + 3 high def rerelease on bluray or psn ! *WANNNNNNTTTTTTTT*

    - i just finished oddworld stranger ! much better port and game than munchs oddysee holds up surprisingly well both visually and gameplay wise but i had numerous game freezes and there is no options to control the graphics or even resolution of the game ( actually that just got patched in yesterday after noon when i was already in the last level * )

    +story/cutscenes/voice-acting is excellent by video game standards

    +stealth is optional but fun if you pull it of similarly to uncharted 2 in that regard !

    +the different ammo critters are hilarious !

    +first person melee attacks send enemies flying in a strangely satisfying way i guess its the sound ... ...

    +best alpha blended grass/foliage i have ever seen in a game ! completely artifact/aliasing free and no sorting or masking issues either ! i tip my had to you oddworld inhabitants ! ( its all low poly and low res of course i am strictly talking "tech" here ! )

    +the game almost always offers a none lethal solution to resolve a situation !

    +every thing must have been build based on awesome inspirational concept art you can practically TASTE it

    +has hardly any loading interruptions seams to stream from beginning to the end showing that this can very well be achieved on the pc ! background loading for the win !

    +reloading after dieng is fast which is needed because:

    -you will die A LOT ! the game is hard as fuck ! but thats kind of par for the course with oddworld games

    -the corridors between the big pretty game areas all look the same and boring and have literally no gameplay in them god of war metroid uncharted and jak and daxter managed to hide their background loading more cleverly.

    -collecting corpses/knocked out enemys becomes repetitive and takes too long

    -jumping feels floaty and is extra infuriating when you try to jump out of water

    -game froze /crashed a couple of times

    -automatic save points are a bit too far apart !

    -hardly any established oddworld creatures /lore appears in the game ... this might as well have been in a different universe / have a different ip !

    all around 7/10 recommended if you like the oddworld games or are interested in alternative fps gameplay !

  • [L4D1 & 2] Waters of The Dniepr

    the screenshots look solid but do you really think its a good idea for marketing to name your mod/campaign something completely unpronounceable ?! how would i tell my l4d friends at work tomorrow that they should check out your campaign while we are standing at the water cooler ?!

  • "20 Brush" level compo! WIP / discussion thread

    Quote from ReNo

    I don't think I entirely agree CJ - there's definitely a lot of brush saving you can take advantage of through subtractive brushes.Lets say you want a ring shaped platform. In purely additive engines you're looking at 1 brush per section of the ring, so the more curved it is the more cost there is in terms of brushes. Essentially this shape becomes impossibly expensive as you're gonna be spending almost half your budget on it for even a blocky one. Switch to an engine that allows subtractive geometry and you can have as smooth a ring platform as you like in just 2 brushes - add 1 cylinder, then subtract a smaller cylinder from the middle of it.

    That said, as long as people take that sort of difference into account when judging, I don't really mind.

    I think it's kind of a shame that there's only 1 entry allowed per person though, given the quick nature of building these maps. But hey, I've not finished my first one yet, so maybe it's a little early to be moaning

    quoted for truth !

    also in unreal next to the add and subtract buttons there are 2 more i dont recalls what they are named but let me quickly explain what they do:

    you can build complex geometry than envelope everything with a cube and press one of those buttons and the builder brush willasume the shape of what ever there is solid or empty that way you can build really complex stuff out of one brush ! and in fact you can import closed geometry from a 3d app as a brush shape:

    2 of my old unreal maps where made out of 1 brush !

    [Blocked Image: http://warby.bitproll.de/projects/0023_dm-cbp2-koma/dm-cbp2-koma_02.jpg]

    [Blocked Image: http://warby.bitproll.de/projects/0022_ctf-cbp2-skorbut/ctf-cbp2-skorbut_04.jpg]

    of course there is static mesh stuff too but the lions share on those screenshots is one mega brush ! hope the rules account for those ^^

  • What are you playing now?

    just finished the bad company 2 campaign ! id say its on par but doesn't surpass the most recent call of duty outings.

    +great gun feel especially the sounds !

    +destructible buildings \o/

    +vehicle sequences are not all completely prescripted and lame !

    +great humor

    +its not always on "11" like call of duty is ! those 11 moments have to be build up to and earned !

    -too many large fog sand /snow storm sprites in my face at all times !

    -plot breaks down in the end

    -ugly tree alpha dither artifacts seriously what is that shit ? the engine can definitely handle normal alpha masks why not use that everywhere ?!