Posts by Metal-la-la-la

  • Quake Wars Beta Released!

    Quote from insta

    My guess at the owners of those cars :BMW Z4 : Boss

    Lotus Elise : Producer

    Black sports car to the left : Boss and producers weekend ride

    Minivan : shared by modelers, graphical artists, level designers, sound engineers, programmers, QA, office cleaner, tech guy, concept artists etc.

    :wink:

    Haha yeah, in fact it was my guess too

    ...or they are owned by people working for another company around

  • Dissertation Research Questionnaire

    About graphics or gameplay, the answer is very easy:

    The graphics are the best marketing buzz you can have for your game. If you game looks great, people will always seek for informations about the game and they will obviously know when it will be out. They will also wait the game release as much as a teenager could wait the porn movie time on TV.

    So, some awesome graphics will give you the opportunity to (almost) always have news of your game on gaming websites, or in the magazines.

    But if you don't have a very good gameplay, people will try it and will quickly say on the forums that your game is a piece of shit so you won't sell anymore copies of your game after some weeks.

    So we could resume it like this:

    Bad 3D + bad GD = commercial failure

    Good 3D + bad GD = Lot of copies sold during the first weeks, but none later

    Bad 3D + Good GD = people will "slowly" buy you game on a very long period, sometimes during for years. Lot of people will probably wait to get your game at a lower price

    Good 3D + Good GD = €€MONEY!€€ €€MONEY!€€

    Crysis and ET:QW are some very good example of how much a video game with good graphics can get an incredible marketing buzz

  • Saving Private Ryan...

    Saving private ryan is a pretty good movie, with some interesting scenes and a good post-production, but the story is just stupid...

    Personnaly, the best war movie i've ever seen was a movie made by the BBC called "warriors", about the war in former yugoslavia. It's not a blockbuster so you don't have any "kick ass" scene but believe guys, this movie really make you understand how awful is the war: burned people, mass murders, people hanged in front of their house by the local mafia, UN soldiers unautorized to do anything who just can watch people being killed...it's really hard.

    But if you're looking for some very good war movies, there are two french movies about the WWI, one called "A very long engagement", made by Jean-pierre Jeunet, the guy who made "amelie" and "Alien 4". This movie is a fiction but once again, this movie really make you understand the horror of war and how people can be desperated.

    Another movie, more positive, is "Joyeux noel (merry chrismas)" which is a movie about a TRUE story. During chrismas 1914, German, french, and scottish soldier came out of their trench and spent chrismas together, on the battlefield. Their had "diner" all together, they even played football together, they talked about their life, their familly and some german soldiers even accepted to transmit some mail from the french soldier to their famillies in occupied territory. And the fact that this story is totally true really make our brain work if you see what i mean

    you can see the trailer of merry chrismas here: http://www.moviemaze.de/media/trailer/2 ... stmas.html (the trailer is different depending on the language you choose. In my opinion, the french and german trailers are the best, the US one is boring)

    And the trailer of "a very long engagement" here: http://www.moviecentre.net/upcomingmovi ... er/217.php (same trailer for all languages, it's just the text who change a bit)

  • Quake Wars Beta Released!

    Got a beta Key

    I've tried the beta and if we except the horrible graphics, well, i don't know why but i haven't found the fun i had in Wolf:ET.

    The weapon just seems strange, when i kill someone, it more because i've been lucky than because i've been accurate. I also don't really understand why we have to select a mission as there's anyway only one or two.

    I don't think i'm a sucker at ET as i've reached hundreds of times the max skills of the class, but in this one i can't do anything.

    Of course, the lag don't help to like it...

    All in all, the point i dislike the most is the weapons

  • EVE Online

    I've played to eve-online for some months 2 years ago and my opinion about it is mixed:

    - You MUST have a big guild (called corporation) if you want to have fun

    - The game is very slow during "normal" gameplay...very very slow...i would even say "boring"

    - The game suddently because incredibly fast when you're engaged in PvP. When i say incredibly fast, understand that Quake 3 is a game for grannies compared to eve in PvP. So if you're mining (probably the most boring thing of the game after travelling), you can't even go to toilet while your ship is doing his automated mining task because if someone come, you'll be dead. (you rarely die in this game, but death is a very big penalty)

    - 80% of the time, your screen is just made of a spaceship flying all straight on with a nice background picture and you who rotate the camera around your ship while some little cross, circles and squares moves on the edge on your screen.

    - The progression system is good and bad at the same times. As your character continue to progress offline, it's cool...but when you come back after 3 months without playing (for example, you stopped because you where bored but you want to try again as they released a patch), you feel very weak and bored because you can't say "ok, i'm gonna do some power XP all day long, and tomorrow i'll finally be able to test this new feature"...no, you can't...you have to wait something like 4 or 5 days IRL sometimes even more...and just for one skill level (on 5) so i let you imagine how long you have to wait when you want to test something that require to raise 5 skills up to level 3...you test it only 3 weeks/a month after.

    On the positive points:

    - The universe, totally driven by the players. Players have a real impact on the gameplay, on politic, etc...

    - The content of the game is incredibly rich...hundreds and hundreds of items, guns, ammunitions, ships, etc....All these items contribute to create a very very large amount of combinaisons for your your ship, so the fight are never "rock paper scissors". You really have to use your brain during fights

    - The size of the game is gigantic, so you have a lot of things to explore and it will ask you months, if not years, to visit everything

    - The economic system is the best i've ever seen...but it's a complex part of the game, you'll need some time before understand it very well

    - The politic system, with all the factions system is really great...once again, it's just the best i've seen so far

    And another point i would classify as "neutral": The game is very "solo". Except PvP, you don't do much things in group. Some people may like it, some don't. For my part i like to play solo and in group, but eve online didn't offered enough group thing for me, that's probably why i stopped (this and the fact that the game is very slow)

    Now, it's only my opinion and the best opinion you can get is yours, by try it by yourself

  • The great beer vote!

    I don't like beer but i drink it anyway because it's the only alcohol which allow you to drink all night long without being totally drunk...just a bit, which is perfect for me

    So i would vote for "cheap blonde" (yeah, the tasteless beer which cost 10€ for a jug)