Posts by Rick_D

  • Portal 2

    haha i don't even know if it was a spoiler but i had it "spoiled" for me by scummy console pirates who got the game early while we sat around like dickheads playing shitty indie games.

  • The Potato Sack

    Quote from Serenius

    It was all a ploy to get you to buy indie games.

    this is one of the things i said my censored post.

    frankly it's pretty shameful. although they have been doing it all along with TF2. that piece of shit poker game would have sold 3 copies if it hadn't been for the TF2 hats.

    i can understand valve want to make some money and i bet this was a nice little boost to the indie developers, but it sure as fuck alienated a lot of customers. there's a lot of people who want to play portal 2 but who refused to pay40 bucks for some shitty games they would have to waste 4 days grinding away at.

    and i am a complete valve fanboy.

  • The Potato Sack

    I am okay. I am still a person. Who is okay. I am busy doing safe things that are supervised by a responsible safety associate.

    (no spoilers, even if you're displeased with the ARG shenanigans.)

  • Battlefield 3

    shiiiiiiiit it was mad last minute stuff, like, i found out i was leaving and then went in to work and grabbed some people who were still there, sorry dude

    still, i am sure we will see each other again, what about the stockholm meet?

  • Battlefield 3

    wow.... well done dice, that looks incredible.

    the animations in particular are brilliant, and the sound design really is beautiful.

    as for a scripted story it doesn't actually bother me that much. open world games are great and i adore stalker and fallout 3, but i only ever played them once, so replayability is not a huge thing for me, so to experience a well-polished single player is great.

    and look at it, it looks sexually arousing.

  • Crysis 2

    i preferred the humans

    also the way metal gear solid 4 did their crawling cutscene thing was amazing, it made you feel like you were actually working hard to crawl along the ground

  • What have you watched recently?

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    A movie about the greatest man that ever lived.

    It's a must watch for anyone who liked F1 before it turned into the circus that it is today or who just enjoys races in general.

    I just wish there was more footage about Senna in the movie though, all the testimonials can get a bit tiring.

    disgustingly rich people partying all over the world, and then treated like some kind of martyrs when they die due to their own greed for adventure.

    what a hero!

  • My first industry job + questions!

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    http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-to-rent/find.html?locationIdentifier=REGION^274&maxPrice=500&radius=10.0

    less than 500, 10 miles out of cambridge (if you've got a car that's a poxy commute), and in a nice village.if you pay less than about 400 a month the place will most likely be a bit shit:

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    http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-to-rent/find.html?locationIdentifier=REGION^274&maxPrice=400&radius=10.0

    those are mostly single rooms in an occupied house, and tbh i'd be happy to pay an extra 100 quid for my own house. a place of your own is infintely more enjoyable than a tiny bedsit or a shared house.

    do you live in a village now? are you dead set on getting into the town centre? cause it's really not all it's cracked up to be, no matter how dreamy cambridge is it's not worth jizzing half your wage over accomodations on.

  • Brink

    Quote from Jetsetlemming

    Wolf: ET did something sort of similar (capturing CP, setting dynamite, repairing the tank, using special items) all had a progress meter or a special bar that very slowly filled up. No animations besides your wrench wiggling in front of you or what have you, but still that delay as you needed to do things in an otherwise very fast paced game. I felt that it worked really well because your teammates had to cover you, or you took a big risk accomplishing something like repairing the tank. I almost always played engineer so I almost always had to deal with those progress meters, and I never got bored by it, instead it was suspenseful because of the risk I would take focusing on the job instead of combat.

    that's a very good point!

  • Minecraft

    but at the same time without valve's input counter strike, tf tf2 etc would be nowhere near as good, in fact they would most likey be dead.

    minecraft mods actually make the game better

  • Werner Martin Eggers - Leveldesign/3d

    if you aren't making a direct profit then it shouldn't be too bad.

    also if they never find out about it it is 100% legal

  • Werner Martin Eggers - Leveldesign/3d

    Quote from e-freak

    awesome. some of the most polished pictures on a portfolio in a long time! for a games industry job i guess some presentation of another engine but quake3/cod might be usefull (or at least a hint in your about page, that you know unreal or cryengine)

    it doesn't matter what engine or tools you use, as long as you can learn stuff then nobody cares. especially for your first job they expect to have to teach you their tools anyway.

  • Minecraft

    well technically he does.

    minecraft made him money while it was in an alpha stage (no idea wtf this beta is about, beta is about bug fixing and polishing features, not adding half-baked features and never fixing bugs..).

    his mission statement was to constantly update minecraft (it would "possibly never stop being developed"), and that payment now was to help him add more features and polish minecraft.

    now i have had a lot of fun with minecraft, i had more fun with bros in the creative mode (which is now gone, gg), and i only ever bought it to have my own custom skin (15 bucks for a custom skin lol, pretty good business sense though, i bet a fuck load of people bought it for that reason alone), so whilst i have gotten my moneys worth i think it's kinda bad to say that he owes nobody anything or that he has finished the game.

    also, the modding community have added more content than a bunch of guys with their own offices and 33 million bucks, so yeah, not sure what is happening there. what would be nice is if he implemented some of the good mods so that we could all play together with the best features, but he simply adds bugs that break decent mods.

    i would love to hear mojang's opinions on the whole development of minecraft, i am sure it would be either very interesting or very frustrating to read.