Posts by Sentura

  • James Cameron's Avatar

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    ":2iklzvwa]ok, my last post about this topic, i promise.http://edition.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/Mov ... index.html

    what's real important here is the question the movie raises: if a movie can make literally thousands of people feel like this, what will be the next step? if similar movies, or even media, games, can tell people what to feel, wouldn't that be manipulation? while i am impressed by the movie's ability to make people feel this, the ethics behind it, and the standard it may create are very, very questionable.

  • OnLive

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    However, that is not what you said in any way or form.

    maybe i was being vague, but this would be exactly what i meant with a new protocol. if you could structure it so relevant data gets where's supposed to, and at the same time get less relevant data at a lower frequency, this would be the exact same thing as defrag said. curiously, packet structure is also a part of a protocol.

  • Totally random concept/sketch thread

    it's a good start, you seem to have good control over highlights and shades. perhaps the neck and upper body could be a little bit lighter (technically it doesn't make sense that there is light on the face, when there's none on the body; especially considering your highlights at the top of the head)

  • OnLive

    Quote from Defrag

    The important thing is that you can build a reliability mechanism on top of UDP so that only certain messages are treated as important whereas the others can be discarded without much of a problem. I.e. the protocol doesn't guarantee delivery, but the application code adds in that support. It's a bit more work, but a fairly common thing to see in games.

    this is what i was trying to argue as well. thank you.

  • Blizzard Vs Sentura

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    I can see Sentura being the kind of person who would have a potentially great idea in his head, but not have a way of making it fit into the space a videogame has to occupy; and refusing to back down on his ideas. Consequently being a horrible person to work with, let alone for.

    the value of an idea is nothing if you cannot put it into a frame; and i think that's a valued rule in design of any media. this is also confirmed further in pretty much every "making of" book or video clip i've ever watched. there are tons of ideas that are scrapped for each game, because they couldn't under the given circumstances be implemented. of course it's sad to see it go in this way, but at least you know that you're on the path of making a better game.

    also, i like how you basically made up an assumption and then derived it to make a pseudo logical argument.

  • Blizzard Vs Sentura

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    I don't see where thinking about job security is an insult. I would think anyone with a bit of self esteem would obviously consider that among the variables of choosing one company over another.

    so calling people greedy under the guise of 'job security' isn't an insult? that's how you present it. also, how exactly does this relate to self esteem?

  • Toy Story 3 Teaser and now Trailer!

    haha, i watched avatar and liked it, but not more than that. besides, just because i come with critique for a few things doesn't mean there's nothing i can't appreciate. i am looking forward to metro 2033, for instance. but i do think that toy story comes off as corny in a way.

  • James Cameron's Avatar

    i just think it's funny how so many people can have the same sort of vision of what you could interpret being paradise for them. maybe this is signalling that progress is bad that we should go back to being hunter gatherers?

  • Blizzard Vs Sentura

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    they made fuckin' Diablo I and II. "Diablo" bro. Think about it.

    that's what i've been trying to say: diablo was definitely one of the best games ever, but those people don't work for blizzard anymore. look at http://www.arena.net/ - those are the same people working on new projects. needless to say, i'm still a huge fan of their progress.

    however (and i want to end the debate here, because this is getting ridiculous - i am just repeating myself over and over again), i have come to understand over the course of the debate that the blizzard south studio has some excellent working conditions. i would still never work for blizzard for reasons already stated; and perhaps it's a matter of clashing ideologies more than anything else. also, while this for some may be a question of my passion for creating games, i think it's quite the opposite - reviewing the back catalogue of blizzard, it to me represents something that could have been much better. perhaps not in the sense of polished work, but in the sense of innovation and the creation of new titles (christ, they're a publisher themselves nowadays, even EA decided to let themselves go a bit and release games such as mirror's edge - why do you not see the same thing from activision-blizzard?). Steppenwolf nailed it pretty well i think, in that i just don't consider it a valid career choice.

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    really. after you spent a fucklong amount of time complaining that L4D2 did not innovate at all and wasn't a worthy sequel.

    honestly, i've never understood valve's choice to take in turtle rock studios (makers of l4d, l4d2 along with cs:cz). despite that, i think the atmosphere of the studio, and the passion of the people involved goes much further than what i have seen from blizzard. bearing in mind, this is only from an outsider's perspective.

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    I like how Sentura goes around bashing blizzard and saying they dont make quality games, making an ass of himself in the process because thats basically what Blizzard does best, then tries to save his ass 1 page later by redefing the word quality to mean 'innovation', only to make himself more of an ass since thats basically what every game company strives for, including Blizzard.

    i can see you that you consider this an act of defense, so let me be clear: i never questioned the quality of blizzards products; because they are polished work. what i questioned was the quality of their games. i said from the beginning that these were separate entities in that you can have an excellent product that still does not have good quality as a game. since quality in a game may vary with whatever game mechanics, narrative, objectives/moral and other game elements; i choose to view quality as the sum of these going towards something new, which then becomes innovation. this is the distinction i had hoped people would have caught on to, but maybe i was being too vague.

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    I mean, its okay if you don't like Blizzard for some reason (maybe you got ganked too much in diablo 2 multi player?), but saying that they are not innovative and that their games lack quality and that they are all about the money and that everyone who would even consider working there are slaves.... cmon, do you even read what you write?

    for the comment about diablo, please refer to my first paragraph. for the games are not innovative, please refer above (they aren't). for the rest, it was a direct response to Furyo's comment about having a net of security; which i do think is an insult to game developers in large houses, in that it's a labeling of them as people working only for money. and if people only work in the industry for money, then allow me not to have the same respect for them in comparison for people who work in the industry because of passion.

    i think this entire debate has been blown out of proportion, and it's weird seeing all of you respond to this as if it were my proclamation of being the second coming of christ. it's my opinion based on my principles that i will never work for blizzard; i don't see how it has anything to do with you or your beliefs. and honestly, i couldn't care less if you think less of me as a person or potential developer because of this, because it's just the way i am.

  • Help me decide what is the best company name.

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    "In the end, Capybara was unanimously everyone's second or third choice… and so it won the name election," Vella said. "It was the name everyone thought was 'ok' but didn't really want to win. That's democracy for you... you're not picking the best, you're picking the least-worst."

    brilliant. it's funny because it's true in politics as well