Posts by Rick_D

  • GRAW 2

    Sooooo I didn't know this was out so soon. After playing it I can see why it's out so soon''

    The bugs are constant, from shooting whilst reloading (if that's a feature I'm a blue whale); HUD messages staying on the screen - and accumulating from each save/start so you end up with a massive amount of text on the screen that doesn't belong there and won't go away.

    The AI of team mates is shocking - nothing has been changed since the first version, I would go so far as to say it's actually worse in 2.

    The art, when i first loaded it up, was great, some sexy normal maps (love the different height of bricks and things like that ), the levels tho, were a little uninspired. After playing through four or five missions I started recognising buildings and large objects from previous levels. Now I know it's supposed to be set in mexico and stuff is generally going to look a like but it's a bit cheap to re-use whole buildings - especially when you look art some of the earlier GRAW levels which seemed massively unique (maybe it was just better disguised in 1).

    The saving system still sucks shit, why can't we auto save, why must we have checkpoints that put us right back to the start of the level? I presume, and this is the only logical reason, it's to make the game last longer and to make it seem harder - you're hardly going to run out of memory - the game stores every single checkpoint anyway so wtf..

    The cutscenes are hilarious, the voice and visuals sync up only half the time, the cuts between characters talking are abrupt and leave you thinking "has the other guy even finished what he was saying?".

    Overall I have enjoyed it during the moments when it hasn't been sucking due to bugs and retarded game design, but I feel the whole thing has been totally rushed and it shows.

    I don't know what the deal is or what problems Grin ran into, or if they were pushed into finishing the game early but it's a bit of a disapointment overall ;(

  • I am making a DoD:s map.

    I would have thought drawing a layout (put in something for scale, draw what you think 512 units should be on your layout) - making it into a texture and using it in hammer as an image plane to flesh out the layout.

    4096 is massive though, totally depends on the type of bridge - large suspension bridge, maybe. Just a regular dod bridge then I think it's way too long imho. Boring for everybody except snipers - and I don't think we should be encouraging more sniper-whoring.

  • DE_Ritual2

    yeah lol, all these asshats bumping dead threads are showing me some cool stuff I never saw before lawl.

    Let's bump some of Zackers work - OHWAIT all his threads were flame-fests, I remember those xD

  • Silicon Knights sues Epic Games

    Quote from Sa74n

    Epic Games' Vice President Mark Rein sent out a press release this afternoon notifying some gaming press of the suit: "This morning we were served with a lawsuit by Silicon Knights. We believe the claims against us are unfounded and without merit and we intend to fully defend against them," said Rein.

    "We'd love to tell you more about it but unfortunately our lawyers want us to save our comments for the courthouse so we're going to do our best to comply with their wishes. In that vein we'd appreciate if our friends in the industry and media would refrain from asking us about the suit because we're only going to say 'no comment.' We just wanted to share the news directly before the rumor mill starts churning."

    Yeah I read that but it's hardly the kind of statement I want to read, doesn't have enough juicy gossip

  • We've got Hostiles- Remake

    Quote from JeanPaul

    The only flaming I have ever seen on this forum to directed towards me, its pretty fucking annoying. Sorry if I call it like it is.

    because you bring it on yourself by being a dick to people like the OP.

    Maybe take a bit of pleasure in knowing that people are anticipating the mod, and are being inspired by your work. Instead of bashing and flaming them like a stressy teenager.

    I can't name all the games and levels that have inspired me in the past, and I want to have that same effect on people in the future, to ignite that spark of creativity, to encourage someone else to make their own stuff. So instead of being a complete retard about it be proud.

    Jesus Christ, this is why the mod scene is totally fucked.