Posts by FMPONE

  • NEW Unreal Tournament!!!

    Quote from Pampers

    wonder what?


    If this is eliminating AAA jobs in favor of outsourcing. If it makes no difference to the fans, or they like it more, that's what will end up being favored regardless, so I'm not criticizing.

  • NEW Unreal Tournament!!!

    yeah this just handing the game over to Mapcore pretty much. Time to do thangs


    Quote from (HP)

    Keep an open mind man, the industry is moving forward and we should too.

    Also, this doesn't necessarily need to be a bad thing, quite the contrary, like you said it might give free reign to the comunity to put their hands on this sooner and make the game we want to see.


    Epic is aproaching everything in such an amazing way latelty, they understand that locking yourself behind close doors for 3 years, and BAM here's our game, is not the way to make games or engines anymore. Getting public input is extremly valuable. Valve has known this since forever, and i'm very happy to see others opening their eyes as well.


    What do you think this means for the industry and those people who would have been tasked iwth making the game previously?

  • MapCore Job Census

    Quote from PogoP

    Congrats man, really happy for you!

    Im leaving Creative Assembly in 2 weeks time to go and work for Sony in Soho (London). Really excited about it, gonna be working on their Project Morpheus virtual reality stuff. Should be a nice change from scifi. Plus my commute will no longer be an hour there and back every day!

    Woot!

  • Destiny

    Quote from Furyo

    You guys are still thinking about this the old way ie build it, ship it retail, put a 60 dollars price tag on it. This is Activision entering the games as a service era. Away from the CoD every year at 60 dollars and into the continuous life of a single large gaming platform. Essentially taking what they do best (shooters) with what Blizzard does best (online gaming and services).


    CoD has a yearly 200 million+ dollar budget (production + marketing). If they want to replace that franchise (and honestly, they've every reason to fear that franchise dying over the next few years), why not spend 500 million on a single game that's going to last them 5 times as long as any CoD?


    Because there is no guarantee people will like the game, or that anyone will care. It's Bungie, so it's going to be in good hands, but still. This is art. Multi-million dollar disasters are a reality, and making $500 Million dollar gambles is just plain fiscally irresponsible and basically indefensible from a business standpoint


    When you're starting in that big of a hole, the default has to be "this is a colossal, dreadful mistake." You then have to prove it isn't


    Anyway that's a bit of a distracting from the game itself, but yeah, I hope they don't regret the budget because it would have industry-wide consequences

  • What have you purchased recently?


    That does sound cool. I miss the days of old comic book shops, and the random cool shit you'd find there. Not much of that going on in my city.


    Quote from Zyn

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    Gave my computer a little upgrade, wasn't too expensive and way faster than my old Radeon 6950. The game Daylight was included but I have no plans to even bother with it.

    And right after I bought it, they bundled WATCH DOGS with the card, just my luck ... however, it got more expensive because of it.


    I just got this same graphics card when mine died, actually. Pretty cool!


    I love how easy it is to install graphics cards. Take out the old one, put in the new one, plug it in, and boom, you're done.

  • What have you purchased recently?

    Quote from blackdog

    Nice display Fmpone! I recently read a few roundups to see how much would it cost me for building a machine from scratch.

    How much?

    I'd jump to 27" but I'm afraid my budget wouldn't allow to get a good one so maybe better spend that money on a 24"(?).


    It was about $530 on amazon. Very happy with it so far


    Quote from (HP)

    Nice, 27" seems nice.


    I got myself a HP 32" and I have to admit is a little bit too big, you'd think bigger is always better but 24" / 27" really is the sweet spot.


    all this did was make me want a 32", damn yoU!!

  • NEW Unreal Tournament!!!

    I agree that new, cutting edge engine almost inevitably means a bad competitive experience, but who knows what we're in store for here. They might go TF2 style and really nerf the graphics so people can actually... play the game (I'm looking at you, UT3)