Posts by Warby

i feel your pain back in high school when i was supposed to read some novel that i didn't care about i would have already after half a sentence forgotten what the sentence is about and needed to repeat read it for 5-10 times. but by contrast reading tutorials and articles about how specific graphics effects in games are achieved i can read those things 24 hours straight with out loosing focus for a second. so because i knew i was like this and that i could never ever CARE about the material being thought in collage i never went to collage. i also try to cut down on the frequent news reading on the internet and get as little distraction as possible from anything while working (on the pc) or doing physical exercise. i do think this kind of internet use shortens your attention span but seriously: "274 pages of business law " teenagers/young adults in places where they cant afford laptops with broadband internet cant read that shit either

here is some stuff that i try to better myself:

-do physical exercise

-make yourself real food

-i did successfully give irc use the boot

-i deleted all my firefox bookmarks for news sites except for penny arcade and kotaku

-i only have 2 forums i check mapcore and polycount (cut down form like 10)

-i close miranda when i do mapping work

-i never have a physical phone hooked in

-my cellphone is never on when i am not on the road and its always set to vibration alert

there is a lot of violence in all these scenes ... ... i am trying really hard right not to pretend to be disgusted and/or surprised by this ...

-the heat shoot out already got posted

-the matrix lobby scene already got posted

-the saving private rayen beach landing already got posted

-a 28 days later video with "in the house in a heart beat " already got posted

-lord of war opening credits already got posted

-a scene from fight club already got posted even though the entire movie should be in here

-the akira apocalypse ending is not on youtube

so i am gonna give you:

robert blake in lynchs lost highway:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

joe pescis rise montage with "cant you hear me knocking" playing in casino

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

if this place was snes sim city a cartoon version of will wright would walk into the screen now and declare that mapcore is a real town now ! ! !

is this turn based ?

did you add the dof in photoshop or is that a source feature i didn't know about ? looks much better than the ut3 dof

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best mofo ref ever ! :megamon: this is gonna make a great map

my website is in a big work in progress state right now one of the things i want to change is all the screenshots of my old hl1 engine maps:

prepare for more disgusting old schoolness than you can possible shake a stick at:

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i selectively adjusted the contrast and gave em all a 50% sharpen and lots of down sampling

i can tell you one thing getting the pod bots to pose for these screenshots was a bitch those guys are twitchy knife loving morons

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I wish this could have happened to Scientist Hunt

omfg that mod was fucking GOLD ... i totally forgot about it

also congratulations to gerry ... and let me just end my statement by saying i am jealous as fuck !

i bought it on friday. i am about 75% through it but i can already say this was a HUGE let down dare i say an absolute disaster.

i really wanted to love this game after all i adored the sands of time trilogy ( even loved the second one that everyone else hates).

but this game is just a complete train wreck.

ill give you guys my run down:

-free roaming adds absolutely nothing but backtracking and confusion

-combat ... sigh ... i think i could fill an entire book with whats wrong with it but ill try to boil it down to just my biggest issue: a successful hit and a missed/blocked hit are not supposed to have the same particle fx and sound hmmk ! not every games combat system can be as good as god of wars but i would have totally settled for the combat from the old pop games over this D:

- grinding .... really ? someone at ubi thought that grinding was THE FEATURE that the prince of persia games were lacking ? collecting those light-seeds is super annoying and they are not even aligned on "one" optimal path you have to run up and down a level 3 times before you have nearly enough to advance.

- no rewards for exploration ... or anything really i haven't gained a single power or new weapon or health bar extension or anything for all my troubles ... thats the problem with getting rid of health bars and pretty much everything ...

-story /writing /dialogue --> awful .... but not worse than the other 3 pop games though

-those jump pads !!!! grrr first of all i want to say that i loved how all the gameplay was grounded in the architecture in the old pop games that was THE feature for me. but now thanks to the jump pads every climb combo can go anywhere at all times making it impossible to plan ahead where you need to go in order to reach a specific spot.

-flying !!! despite looking really silly was it really necessary to fill 3/4 of the screen with particle fx so that you can hardly see where you are going and what obstacles to dodge ... and she is really good at heading for those columns straight on and i have to try and error guess if she wants me to go to the left or to the right and only one way ever works.

-corruption post filter/color scheme is ugly! all the time in the game while i am not frustrated by the grinding / backtracking but while i am actually making progress and move forward the levels are all dark and murky and look 10 times less good than when they are healed but at that point i don't care anymore.

-why does elika always teleport you back to the beginning of a level/section and not back to where you messed up your last jump ... with the sand of time i could rewind to exactly my moment of failure and fix it that was way better.

-those rotation cranks !!! the new prince is soo weak he cant turn them by himself thats already pretty pathetic ... but once elika has grabbed it i can never for the hell of it figure out which one of the two i am controlling because the game seams to always figure out how to make the crank move in the direction i didn't press into.

-the camera can not be rotated more than 90 degree while hanging form a wall making it impossible to see where you would jump ...this is such a classic and easy to fix issue ... yatzzee is gonna have afield day with this one.

-the rings where you have to press circle (i have a ps3) after a wall run (X button) he grabs the rings automatically and successfully swings around and if you want another wall run after that you don't press the wall run button X again but circle WTF !!!!!!! same goes for vertical climbing with rings and ceiling runs id expect it to be either X-"automaticringgrab"-X or X-"grabringbypressingcircle"-X not X "automaticanimationyouhavenocontrollover" circle.

-i can digg the painterly look they are going for but SHADOWS DONT NEED OUTLINES !

-no enemys but the same 5 endbosses copy pasted a billion times D:

-the little particle navigation guide you can summon with triangle all though super useful goes through walls and the floor sometimes and more than 5 times it actually had me chasing my own tail in a circle around the level.

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last boss fights attacks are all completely worthless the only thing that made this area hard was the fact that the camera was black and white and so far away that i couldn't tell if there was a gab on that ledge or not / if i had reach the end of the ivy or not

so lets get to the redeeming values:

+there finally is a real jump button \o/

+i like the visual design of both new main characters alot

+art and tech are rock solid

+love all the shared animation between elika and the prince especial the swap animation when hanging from edges or walking narrow boards it almost looks like they are dancing it looks really cute and romantic.

+the corruption goo and tentacles look cool and how they react to you when you pass by

+ elikas double jump feels super satisfying and even elevates you up to the optimal vantage point when needed.

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the story conclusion was brilliant i kind of expected her to die once the tree of life was restored with the light seeds (kind of predictable) but that you are giving the chance to do the same choice her father did was awesome !!! ... there was something that spoiled this sequence for me though once i went out into the desert to find the trees the streaming messed up and the sand-height-field/collision disappeared and i fell out of the world and guess who WASNT dead and was ready to safe me right than and there ?

the bad far outweigh the good which is a real shame because i had sort of a bet going with mazy where

i took the stance that this will be an absolute grand master piece while he dismissed it ...

his stance was that he would rather play "avatar the last airbender" for "achievement points"

bottom line for everyone:

go get tomb raider underworld instead

/edit: i still love you though furyo

/edit 2: just finished it the ending was really cool ! all in all 6.5/10 ( omg i hate giving decimals )

vote for meaning= mgs 4 for xbox360

not that i care since i already have it for ps3

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best advert ever

qft also best SPIN ever

i don't buy into the christmas consumerism rush i mean this entire system is so fucked:

you buy X amount of gifts for Y amount of people costing you Z amount of money: now the same relatives and friends will buy the same amount of gifts for an almost identical circle of people. so if you are lucky you will receive gifts for the same amount of value that you spend so you have not lost anything except some money all of a sudden turned into material goods that you didnt have an immediate need for and are much less versatile than money ... BUT of course the ugly truth is the choice of presents goes through what i call familyiscluesleesaboutyourfieldofinterests" filter so they will always get you the wrong items, items you already own or down right items you don't want or like and i am just as bad as everyone else in my family in this regard to be honest !

so i don't give any gifts and when people ask me what i want i always tell them the same thing: "nothing".

if i come across something that i know my sister/mom/dad/buddy/grandma would LOVE and it would totally surprise them than i will pick it up right than and there.

it doesn't take a "special" occasion for me to do this all it needs is this .... SPARK of inspiration and that can happen at any time during the year.

zacker here from mapcore for example he got the GIFT OF GOD OF WAR from me totally out of the blue during the summer

i used to love roland emmerichs movies but he seams more and more to be a one trick pony ... ... sigh ...

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You need your name, site address and email on you screenshots.

*sigh* you read that your website repels job offers thingy didn't you ?

this is not directed towards you quakis:

i am so sick and tiered of this shit

...seriously ? i should open a compressed jpeg add some more hud on it because the hud shit form game X that i couldn't figure out how to get rid of wasn't cluttering the screen up enough just yet. and than fucking re compress it as jepg because double compressed images look soo much better

expected smart ass respond: "than just retake those 4000 screenshots you have on your website !!!"

seriously i am expected to reinstall every game i have modded for in the last 10 years ... and hope that i can still get it to run via means of dosbox (exaggeration) and other hacky shit ? and spend 3 month retaking all those 4000 screenshots that i got REALLY LUCKY to get form just teh right angel with peopel on it the first time around.

i don't think so and don't give me that "get rid of all the old stuff anyway" shit either ... i am proud of my modding heritage ! and if some hr retard cant remember where they got that awesome screenshot or what map it depicts or who made it i must just be a fucking microsoft excel entry to that guy and than i don't want to fucking work there anyway !

i don't know about hourances but i get lots of job offers despite not having my name email address blood type cell phone number and mothers maiden name on every screenshot.

once again this was a general rant and i apologize for hijacking this thread

the screen shots look awesome !

who ever painted that face for the cover there didn't quite capture the character though ... NITPICK

cant wait for it uncharted 1 was totally fucking "A"

the ones that went commercial aside ... real mods so to speak:

-dystopia (source)

-science and industry (hl)

-the specialists (hl)

i read those words "black friday sales" in kotaku multiple times this week someone care to enlighten me?

is this a religious holiday or something ?! and why is it synonymous with shopping ?!

/edit i see: http://%7boption%7d there is another story there about two guys shooting each other over something from toysrus

i was planning a greek themed tf2 map that would spiro or zig zag up a steep hill very similar to this looks wise ... i guess i can kick that idea in the bucket now

... looks awesome =)

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I want to remove the floating turd from the stock hl2 toilet model so every toilet in my map isn't full of turd. I'll let you know if I run into any drama

a noble endeavor !

i think these are your toughest competitions:

http://www.machinarium.com/

http://www.gd08.ch/FEIST/

and i am sort of impressed by these guys production values:

http://www.zenoclash.com/

http://www.metaldrift.com/

http://igwarlord.isotx.com/

good luck i hope zero gear wins