Posts by Jetsetlemming

  • Battlefield 3

    Lit particles looked really cool. I've been fucking FOREVER since a new graphical feature bragged about in a game impressed me (I think it was the dynamic light and shadow detail added to Source circa the Orange Box), and that impressed me. Come to think of it, it's pretty much always a new lighting/shadowing feature that makes me go "Wow" Like the first time I saw Max Payne 2's pixel shaders and soft character shadows that appropriately became clearer or fuzzier when I would get closer or farther from the floor as I dived around in slo mo.

    Their example was over the top but I can easily see it used for stuff like fire and flares lighting up smoke, or street lamps lighting fog at night.

  • Crysis 2

    Some people in the SA thread on this game were blaming the design of multiplayer on Crytek UK. Ha, man, I wish. Even without the framerate issue () COD style just isn't for me. If Crysis 2 multiplayer was like Timesplitters though? Holy shit. Thumping techno nonstop, shooting people's heads off, doom movement speed, awesome mode options instead of just deathmatch and koth...

    Now I'm all sad there's no more Timesplitters games. Assholes on the internet reminding me of Free Radical/Crytek UK.

  • Crysis 2

    They saved me about 5 FPS, but the lack of motion blur and increase in FOV (imo to the fish eye level) made the mouse lag feel way worse. At the end of the round I played with those settings I had a K/D of 2/16. Now I want to strangle someone, preferably the guy who posted them...

  • Crysis 2

    Quote from 2d-chris

    I guess you're in a bit of a bad mood when playing? but if I had 20 fps I'd be cheesed, it should run considerably faster than crysis 1.

    IMO you shouldn't judge a fast paced FPS game beyond the fact it lagged for you, how can you comment on mouse lag, movement and controls if the game isn't even running close to a minimum 30 fps? Of course your going to bump into everything and get owned making the experience no fun at all!

    I wasn't making a definitive damning of Crysis 2. I had another session and did a bit better, because I discovered the night vision mode that sees through cloak at the expense of making IFF a tiny bit harder. I was a bit more used to the controls but the server I was playing on had worse ping than before, I think it was German. Framerate still in the toilet, even when loading on Gamer (I was hoping that the low FPS was because stuff failed to change going from Advanced to Gamer without a restart of the game, since on Advanced I had the exact same performance).

    I still don't like the Pier. Feels like that map needed a bunch of areas trimmed out of it, like the whole top floor of the mall area, and some of the crosswalks going down the middle of the floors, and I feel like the center water area needs to be the center of a circle instead of the outdoor area being a big U. The visual clutter on the outer edges makes seeing guys a bit of a hassle, especially the brown team (I think those are CELL).

    I was in a bit of a bad mood, yeah. I was cooking chicken and my senile grandmother turned the oven off "for" me about 45 minutes in, delaying dinner by over half an hour as it had to warm up again to finish cooking the nowhere near done chicken.

    Now that it's done though, this chicken's pretty good

    Also some people from Mapcore should play together. Maybe you Crytek guys can show off some leet tricks in the maps lol

    Edit: I didn't notice any AA things. The game actually looks basically the same on Gamer and Advanced for me, so maybe I'm just seeing a technical rather than performance issue. The lack of real options sure smarts though. There was a specific toggle in Crysis 1, I think the one that controls the detail of the volumetric clouds, that had a massive performance difference from me on medium vs high.

  • Crysis 2

    Got around to trying the demo:

    Runs like shit. 20FPS on "Gamer" when Crysis 1 ran at around 30 on mostly High (some medium) options.

    You die really fast, armor or no. Too fast to swing around and respond to somebody shooting you if you can't see them before they open fire.

    Felt like there was mouse smoothing going on, because the low FPS made my mouse noticeably laggy.

    Was there an extra map in the PC demo? The server I joined was cycling between the rooftop and "Pier 17". Pier 17 sucked, btw. Didn't like it at all. Rooftop was a way better map, though still confusing. Lots of cases where I was frustrated trying to get around obstacles to get to my objective, especially whenever I went inside that office area.

    I felt less like a superman and more like a robot man. Like I was playing as robocop. In that Pier 17 map whenever I could hear fighting going on on a different floor than me on the building everyone was unless they were a sniper (in which case they camped across the pier in that building that was as far as I could see completely inaccessible without exposing yourself to the snipers or slowly working from spot to spot in cloak), I sighed and didn't even bother trying to go join it, because the slow, clumsy movement and fast deaths meant that unless people are fighting five feet next to me, I'm not going to be able to join that fight.

    Just in general the maps felt too big for the player count. We had 9/10 guys and Pier 17 in particular felt big and empty. Even on the rooftops I never saw more than three people in a firefight at the same time, even around the dropship king of the hill thing.

    The LMG was way overpowered compared to everything else. My K/D ratio doubled when I "unlocked" the Gunner.

    I'm just gonna go back to Bad Company 2 now....

  • Battlefield 3

    Quote from Mazy

    YOOSSH!!!!

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    Feels so good to see actual PC footage of a game for once. Not even Crytek did that. God bless DICE Looked sweet as hell.

  • What are you playing now?

    I love rail shooters. House of the Dead Overkill is bar none best game on the Wii, and the House of the Dead arcade games were always my favorites when I used to go to the arcade with my brother. Dead Space Extraction has an issue particular to it, with the loot collection, that other games don't have. HotD has powerups that you can miss but they're much faster to get, you just shoot them, and they're typically extra points or something so it feels more fair and less frustrating that because you're on rails you missed something.

  • The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

    If you like Gothic and Oblivion you'll like Nehrim, it's like a meeting of the two made by a bunch of really good German modders. They change the RPG system, with Gothic style trainers and much slower skill ups by practice, and no skill tie-ins to stat increases, and they revamp the UI to be more like Morrowind's instead of Oblivion's big consoley lists. The storyline is much more subdued and less EPIC DRAMA WORLD ON THE LINE!: You've been selected to go to Hogwarts be trained to be a wizard by the illegal council of mages, who are in hiding under a fairly asshole monarch. Peril ensues, as you've been recruited, like it or not, into a bunch of outlaws. Also everyone's racist against elves.

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  • The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

    Quote from Bunglo

    Should I just skip Marrowind and play Oblivion?

    Do you have no ability to tolerate less "real" mechanics like the possibility your weapon can pass through an enemy and "miss" if your skill or stamina is low? Do you prefer generic fantasy worlds and hate original things? Does exploring a volcano sound more or less interesting than exploring a sparsely decorated plain?

  • Dragon Age 2 demo

    Played the demo as a rogue. Liked it more than Dragon Age 1, especially the difference in how the Rogue works: I started out as one in DA1 and found it really bad compared to the other classes and restarted as a mage (and then still didn't play much past Lothering). Of course, the way they take away your starting skills after the inquisitor lady calls BS spoiled it a bit... I earned them back EVENTUALLY, though. The game looks worse than DA1 though. Feels like the textures are lower quality and there's less special effects going on, though that last one could just be because the demo's all in drearily lit places. The textures thing really got me though. In the first five seconds of the intro video they focus the camera on a torch on the wall as the dwarf is dragged forward, and the wall next to the torch looks like something out of Deus Ex. I never noticed anything like that happening in DA1 or ME2.

    Also not being able to pull the camera back farther was really annoying, though I'm sure if they don't include it in the release, it will be modded in shortly thereafter.

    Also goddamn, giant fake tits everywhere. Even DA1, which got flak for how all the women looked, wasn't as bad as this. Sister boobs, magic old lady boobs, gypsy boobs... sheesh!

    Overall, I had fun. Still not going to buy it, though. Not paying $60 for a game, no way.

  • What are you playing now?

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    I was doing that too when i had to give my borrowed copy back. need to buy it, game is fantastic.

    Before I gave my borrowed PS3 back to my brother (He got out of bootcamp and went to the extended marines training stuff that allows him to have personal belongings again so he took it back before getting shipped out to Hawaii ) I bought Infamous on PSN. If you split the purchase with other people it can be pretty cheap, I put in $6 for it.