Posts by Jetsetlemming

  • How retarded is this comic getting

    Quote from D3ads

    ...I don't get it.

    What the videos of Mirror's Edge online. There's view sway and movement, especially when you attack people or jump, and when you land from jumps you roll... even watching a small video instead of it on a TV, especially on the rolls, made me a bit queasy. The gag is that it's giving him motion sickness, with that weak humor backed up by an extreme vomiting scene, which always goes over well.

    e: off topic what the hell is that supposed to be in your sig image, it looks like bbq chicken in poor lighting

  • US presidential election 2008

    Just heard a radio commercial claiming Obama's health care plans will cost 50 million Americans (1/6 the entire country) health care.

    Despite it being universal healthcare.

    It then went on to accuse the plan of making a "bureaucrat" in charge of health care instead of a "doctor". You'd think the McCain campaign had never heard of an HMO or insurance company before.

  • Fallout 3

    Quote from twiz

    I've got stuck in the landscape twice and had issues with a gun not firing a couple times, and once after I slept, there was some crazy black hole/tear in the space time continuum, but after I ran out of sight of it and came back, it was gone, so no real harm done.

  • Left 4 Dead

    Quote from e-freak

    actually - it's all ingame assets, just extra animations and unlimited source-version which would certainly not run on any machine atm

    It doesn't have to run on anything realtime- Source recorder renders individual frames to match a framerate non-realtime. They can set up the scene, script the events, and then have everything play out in engine and output it as a billion .tga files, encode them into a video, and throw it on steam. You can do all of this with the public version of steam. Only tool Valve's holding back is their cinematic physics thing- what they used on the fire escape at the end. That's because it's a commercial licensed thing from some third party, and they aren't allowed to distribute it.

  • i am about to buy "world of goo" ... so who wants my $2.38 ?

    Quote from e-freak

    on the steam region thing: I'd say you could present your favorite american some money and he could just randomly present you a game via steam but that's all random!

    This is the only reason I still use Paypal- because despite there being competitive services Paypal might as well be a monopoly. If someone asked me to gift them a game and I told them to send the money via clickandbuy or something at best they'd roll their eyes and ask someone else and worst publicly accuse me of trying to rip them off.

    Paypal's up there with Ubisoft and the American political system for organizations I flat-out hate... [Blocked Image: https://migrationtest.mapcore.org/public/style_emoticons/default/mapcore_smilies/emot_shakehead.gif]

  • Coop

    Quote from Zacker

    Implementing COOP to an existing game is by no means an easy task, even with fully working SP, MP and splitscreen already! There is an a lot more coding to be done than you might expect. I know this as I experienced it firsthand with Kane & Lynch, which I worked on the DLC for. COOP was a highly requested feature, but it did not get in as it would probably have doubled the dev time on the patch/DLC.

    Think of e.g. the thousands of characters running around on some K&L levels, how would you synchronize those over network? This is just not possible without insane amounts of bandwidth.

    Kane and Lynch didn't have coop? I thought that was pretty much the whole point.

    Quote from seir

    As Zacker said Coop Mode is very hard to add. If there's a trigger on a level that is checking a distance between player and some other thing, what to do when there's two players. Yes - check distance for both of them. That's x2 of work to do. Another example is splitscreen. When engine works fine on one screen there might be problem rendering another field of view of second player.Games like GOW was made for Coop, levels where planned great just to have fun on two player coop. In open space levels there's a lot of problems with setting position of player and good action spawning that won't look stupid so first of all: games with engine that can support it and games that are planned to be coop might give a good gameplay

    No coop in Dead Island, then?

  • Far Cry 2 review

    Quote from Zyndrome

    Ok, so I guess it's completely normal that a ratchet wrench behaves like this:[Blocked Image: http://i35.tinypic.com/ngx7iq.jpg]

    Notice how the small pin just keeps turning back and forth.

    YES I AM COMPLAINING ABOUT A SIMPLE ANIMATION ERROR. NOW BE GONE,

    I HAVE A SCRIPTED EVENT TO KILL TONIGHT IN THE WORLD OF AZEROTH.

    I can't stop staring at that shadow in the bottom right corner and how shitty it looks close up.

  • Call of Duty: World at war

    Quote from dux

    Oh how I laughed. That's just made me dislike it even more than before. What is this g ame trying to be, serious world war 2, return to castle wolfenstein AND left 4 dead all at the same time? Please.

    I'm willing to give their RtcW + L4D ripoff minigame the benefit of the doubt if it's a good game, and more importantly, has a good PC port. With Treyarch behind it, I'm doubting that last point. I'll wait to get excited until after it's released and I've seen some PC focused reviews.

  • What have you purchased recently?

    Quote from skdr

    Why did you end up with 19" ?Price difference between 19" and 22" / 24" isn't that much and they are pretty much standard in WS area these days...

    Extremely limited budget. This was only $200 + shipping.

    I watched through all three Robocop movies back to back on my new monitor last night, fucking awesome.

  • WIP in WIP, post your level screenshots!

    Quote from freakadelle

    Yeah, they've obviously cut a lot out for this one (public release).

    Dunno if thats a good thing or not, but it probably means you're going to see a million (probably bad) custom maps come out for FC2...

    Please don't get things mixed up. Farcry2 is based on the Farcry1 engine and has nothing to do with our cryengine2 (crysis, crysis:warhead, crysis:wars) Farcry2 was done by Ubisoft and not by Crytek(EA)

    Far Cry 2's engine was built from the ground up and is called Dunia...

    Quote from JeanPaul

    I can guarantee its not the editor the developers use.

    Considering it can only make MP maps, you can't make SP missions or anything with it... yeah