Posts by Sentura

the thing that gets me in HOMM5 and possibly in 6 is the camera. i don't want to fucking pan around to see where i'm going. i want to have an overview so that i don't get bitten in the ass if some enemy hero comes up to me from some weird ass uncanny angle. also, it's just plain fucking annoying to have to consider your options by fucking panning.

do orcs actually die?

bamp: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011- ... player-dlc

these guys are great

Quote from Jetsetlemming

the picture of the real environment and the screenshot of the game are very similar, because the game is using pictures of the real environmental as its art

If they were using a more complicated or dynamic scene as a basis it'd be much, much harder to pull off.

im talking about the video obviously. i guess it's the subtly changing lighting...

trying not to sound like an idiot here, but it has the "real" feel to it. i wish i could point to what it is, but it's pretty much just "real".

Quote from Warby

theme/setting/set-piece != story

rdr has a pretty similar story when you think about it.

Quote from Furyo

That the reactions would be negative yeah, of course, but to use the user review score of a GAME to grade its DRM is childish at best.Besides, to even think that Ubisoft would give a fuck was laughable.

obviously you filter out the credibility of people like that. reviews are VERY hard to quantify, and for the most part i always look at the qualitative parts even if the numbers are smacked in my face.

on the other hands, some parts are brilliant

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bos radio station, overgrown vault, artillery part, vault overseer rape vault, enclave hideouts and ammo vault

jetset lemming, you can't compare popcap games to everything else. they're small scale games that will run on pretty much any computer because they don't need much processing power to function. when you're dealing with complex graphics and AI in large numbers you'll have to look at things differently. a console is a standardized machine. it means it will run on every machine just the same, so developers can focus on just one type of setting, rather than on the ginormous scale that a PC has the ability to be. a 1ghz process with an old radeon 9600SE and 1gb ram gets lumped into the same category as any new super computer, and developers will waste time trying to make a good version for both, rather than just 1 version that fits all.

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It's working out ok for blizzard

it's working out for blizzard because blizzard made a game that could be used on PCs with low hardware and a wide range of player profiles, ranging from hardcore to very casual. not every game can be like that, and certainly not every game can do it to such a successful degree. just look at how many that have tried and failed. this is why world of warcraft is a great product, and why it will continue to thrive for many more years.

well said rick. i can understand that people aren't happy with the console ports, and that there is much that could be done to help this out, but i don't see it happening unless more people start playing PC games. or maybe, little by little, pc ports will get better.

Quote from Taylor

I have been playing consoles for decades. Why suddenly this gen are people who've never even touched a controller blaming them for all the worlds ills? It's fantastically tedious. There's a 360 pad in my manual? Fucking consoles! They only included 22gb of textures? Fucking consoles! God.

lolllll

i would vote isometric turn based strategy

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It also didn't run at first for me, but adding a bunch of launch options fixed it (not sure which):+vt_maxPPF 8 +set com_skipIntroVideo 1 +set com_allowConsole 1 +fc_maxcachememoryMB 1024 +ik_enablesmoothing 0 +m_smooth 0 +m_rawinput 1

interestingly, these were also the launch codes for several russian ICBMs

...because if you went ahead and pirated it before he'd still get money.

what the hell is going on, is the world ending already?

get well, mike.

i never liked apple because of their philosophy, but i know steve jobs was a brilliant man, and i am sad to see him go.

rest in peace

WJAT, i'd take new vegas over FO3 any day

good choice then.