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Damn, that was nearly 8 years ago.

Also, after a match you can choose to party up with the people you just played with. I do it all the time.

I've been wanting to stab that dude in the eye since the first game. lol

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7 minutes ago, blackdog said: If is the new one, yes please

Yeah, it's the new one. I'll send you a key when I get home tonight.

I still got a copy of Prey to give away too. Let me know.

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wtf, how on earth is one of the most beautiful games of last year running on what is essentially a handheld console. lol

Lost Legacy looks amazing, it's worth playing just to check out the environment art and experience the really well thought out level design.

That said, it's no where near as good as U4. Even U3 is a better game, and it's regarded as ND's worst by many. Lost Legacy's pace is all over the place, the writing is weird and convoluted, and the directing could also benefit from a better flow. Even the art direction is a bit off, the color code and mood of the environment doesn't always necessarily reflect what's going on with the story, and that used to be something that ND always worked on to perfection. (Something companies like Pixar always excel at with their movies)

Also, the relationship between the two main protagonists feel extremly unnatural, the dialog just felt uncanny in many instances, at least to me. But again, it's still worth picking it up for everything else this games does right.

One of the best, most memorable games I've ever played.

Last Guardian was pretty good, but Sotc is a fucking master piece.

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1 hour ago, Sprony said: After becoming increasingly frustrated with those robot dispensers spawning military units, I just figured out there's a simple workaround by just piling a bunch of stuff in front of it

Yeah, this game really asks you to think and play out of the box like that. So good.

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12 minutes ago, Thrik said: Oh yeah. Some games like Uncharted 4 are just beauty to look at in terms of faces. It's definitely not so slick across the board though.

yeah, this is a really interesting thread on the topic

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3 minutes ago, Thrik said: That is absolutely superb. Uncanny how well such an old game captured their likenesses too. How is it games so much newer and better still struggle to make faces look as natural as HL2 did?! In some cases HL2 actually looks like a photo:

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In some ways we stagnated a bit, in others, there was actually a lot of progress in this field:

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14 hours ago, Sprony said: I haven't finished the base game yet and I believe this contains massive spoilers so I'm postponing on getting it.

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7 hours ago, leplubodeslapin said: You know it when you see their habbits, how they built houses without much plans, how they get themselves into debt to buy stuff that i wouldn't even buy (upgrading from a Galaxy S7 to an S8, taking a credit for months, taking another huge TV ...)

This is a gigantic problem, people have their priorities all mixed up. I mean, if you ask someone what they would rather spend money on, a shiny new cell phone or pay rent/buy food, unfortunately the former wins. It's obviously a sign of bad culture, habits like these get absorbed by the collective masses without anyone even noticing until it's too late, and it only highlights the importance of education, because in the absence of schooling the capitalist world will swallow you and your culture whole.

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Anyone tried it yet? Looks pretty fuckin good from the screenshots. Downloaded it tonight, but don't wanna fire it up so late, I've been getting little sleep as it is lol

Loved this video!

Here's an extra one, not related to video games directly, but the same lessons definitely apply here.

Congratulations my man!

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26 minutes ago, Minos said: This is the game that made me want to be an environment artist. I don't think any other game at that time had been so immersive as Max Payne!

Yeah, pretty much the same story for me. It made me want to be a level designer, then it rolled off to environment art.

Kind of crazy how a video game could change my life this much, for the better. I remember playing MP1 over, and over and over again, one day I was so bored I started reading the game's manual, in the very last page there was a little section called "Modding", I remember like it was yesterday, reading that little paragraph saying if I wanted more Max Payne I could hop online and get other people's content and even make my own. I got on a bus to the nearest cyber-cafe, carrying with me an old CD-RW that was rewritten a hundred times already, I couldn't afford internet at home so that turned into my routine for the months to come, we take it for granted now but man having the chance to socialize with people with the same passion for a game and mods was extremly liberating and enabling for me. Which btw, eventually in the search for more games I could mod, I found Mapcore.

Max Payne still has one of the best ambiance work I've ever seen in a video game, the balance between the story, design, art and music was nailed to perfection. It made me realize a video game can be way more than just running in boring corridors killing mindless mean dudes on the screen, they can immerse you and help better your life, I've been trying to recreate that with my art, ever since.

This brought a lot of memories!