Posts by Sentura

Quote from Taylor

I’m not going to spend 2-3 months playing another game to see if I like it when I have years of work (and that's a very fitting word) pumped into WoW

this is exactly what i'm getting at; the perfect example of pride. you play for so long that you dont think anything else is worth trying out. eventually there'll be a point where you'll get bored of whatever it is you do now, rethink about how much time spent on it and if it was worth it. i'd wager you'll think it wasn't.

i've been through the process myself and i realized that a game is not worth playing unless it's fun. pride no longer does anything for me, so any addiction rarely 'hatches'. if i play through a game and something within the first 30 minutes doesnt pull me in, it's not worth the effort. you may say that this is a relatively short timespan, but try to put it up against a demo of any game. you get just about the same timespan. what someone will probably say now is, "yeah but MMOs are much slower paced!" to this i would reply: yes, they are much slower paced, but if i am not out doing something in the game 30 minutes from when i get thrown into the world, then either the pace is too slow, the tutorial is too long, or it's just an alltogether inferior design. put it this way: i value entertainment over innovation and pride.

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i also saw someone mentioning that world of warcraft's casual attitude is what secures its populace. sure the "casual" attitude is a factor worth pointing out, but what MMO is not casual? in which MMO is it a global race to the highest level that everyone implicitly participates in? it's not the "casual" factor that does anything for the MMO, it's the word of mouth. if your friends are playing a game and saying it's awesome, you will try it out. the same goes for any MMO.

in heavenly? i've got a save at the end boss and it's just too impossible/frustrating to complete. it's a shame because since it's a story driven game i'd like to see the ending.

yes, the mapcon has been moved to the 8th of february. apologies for not updating the thread until now, but i have been busy.

hp if you have nothing relevant to say then dont post.

i ponder why it is people think that games can't be "dethroned". we've had games before world of warcraft and there will be games after world of warcraft (or EVE, or whatever other game that apparently has the "throne" of the genre). eventually any such game will succumb to only few players playing (counterstrike 1.6 is just about a perfect example) to just people that dont want to let go because their addiction is too full. now cs 1.6 is held together by leagues, and more importantly, money. games like EVE or world of warcraft aren't. it may be that either will dominate the genre for a couple more years, however i feel we're moving towards the end of their reign (world of warcraft, at least). there some high profile MMOs coming up this or next year so world of warcraft will actually have some competition; and with more and more people getting bored of the game itself, i reckon alot of people will move from game to game, as has been witnessed before.

i almost forgot how bad heavenly sword was... until i tried it again. this game is a waste of money.

yeah i picked up dmc3 second edition or whatever, not had any squibbles with it. although i do admit that the beowulf boss was tedious. and that they could have made more checkpoints in the stage where you go around killing all the bosses again. whoops, spoiler!

anyway yeah there have been references to angry videogame nerd in the thread, but since he only reviews old games, i think it's crucial that we have a thread for newer games that seem to follow suit.

yeah i'd reckon so as well since it is a heavily modified q3 engine

same here... it's not gone

i dont think asian models will work on western games. westerners are too whiny about not having this or that and that will essentially ruin the game experience. from a purely anthropological perspective, of course.

i like the title, reminds me of dr. strangelove.

looks decent, ill give it a whirl later and post some feedback

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i just finished it. hands down the best custom made portal map i've tried to this date, and i'd even go so far as to say that it ranks up there with some of the original maps. perfectly atmospheric and in tune to the original game, with subtle details everywhere. even the difficulty was fitting; not too hard and not too easy. if there's anything i could complain about, it would be the length. it felt a bit too short -- though if it was longer, it could rival the original game.

excellent job; i hope you have more of this stuff up your sleeve.

you've probably tried one or two of these in your lifetime as a minimum if you are or have been a hardcore gamer. games that awoke your contempt for humanity once or twice. or that might just be me.

anyway, this thread is about the most frustrating, annoying games ever. i decided to make this thread because i am fed up with lousy games and i think others deserve a warning before embarking on a journey to a gamer's hell. throw in quick arguments if you want to, but just be sure to list these games as you will do the world a huge favor. NOTE: try to avoid discussing what others think of any of the games, just put your suggestions down.

personal "favorites" (in no particular order)

rick dangerous (500 screens, about 1000 traps that are unavoidable unless you've seen it before, 5 lives no continues)

wario - master of disguise (inaccurate stylus controls, awkwardly positioned buttons, insanely annoying bosses and only limited save features)

skate. (extremely annoying challenges at points, few annoying "features" that are placed where they shouldnt be, and missing where they should, controls could be more accurate)

heavenly sword (imagine god of war without jumping or platforming, and instead filled to the brim with annoying battles, annoying bosses and a switch character that has NO MELEE WHATSOEVER AND YOU CANT TAKE AIM WITH A CROSSBOW CLOSE QUARTERS)

castlevania 2: simons quest (just... dont play it)

start posting, i know there's a million of these out there

compared to the original game, this looks more like cgi than crysis realism. it is nice, but it's not what i'd expect from the cryengine

..is that a hammer that guy to the right of the tree is holding?

d3 you need to come, i reckon i have met your good/evil twin over here

i prefer quality over quantity, fletch.

it's not so much a problem as a nuisance. you enter the site, get immidiately attacked by pop ups then proceed to wait the next five minutes for the image to load. sure, in the end you see the image, but honestly there are tons of free hosts out there that do it so much better :\

neither of that is what i consider westwood though -- westwood for me everything from dune 2 to red alert 1 (you people know what i mean).

petroglyph have some ex westwood people in it, i doubt that turtle rock has any of those.

50 weeks is only 11,5 months since a year is 52 weeks. for a room like this two weeks or even one week work time is simply too much. honestly, move to another engine and you can save time not to mention effort. d3 please consider it, it feels wrong to see such a willful project take so much unneccesary time when you could do it in half of that.

as far as downloaded music goes, there are major record labels that have surrendered more or less, removing whatever copy protection that was on their products before. there's even a small record company in denmark that encourages people to pirate their music.