Posts by arhurt

  • Level design/Game Flow Tip

    You say you have a survival third-person shooter, how is it that you'll create this gameplay? Are you going to have a lot of exploration and scavenging for items (bigger environments, less linear) or just plain few resources and force the player to play smart?

    I'd take a look at Flying wild Hog's Hard Reset levels, they have a nice linear environment that usually goes on spirals and revisits settings multiple times from different angles and is a nice way to have a somewhat large level that won't need to stretch over a wide area too much. Like they usually start with the player at the lower section, then he goes to the back and climbs on some walkways that spiral back over the starting area. I think it's the best way you can do this and keep the amount of actual work to a minimum.

  • Are you man enough?

    Quote from PogoP

    Seriously though, holy shit dude. Is the tumour cancerous? Hope everything goes well for you, keep us posted (but not in too much detail).

    Thanks man. I'll know if it's cancerous after the biopsy, after the surgery. Here's hoping it's not!

  • Are you man enough?

    Are you man enough to cut off one of your balls?

    Yeah cause I'll have to. I have a tumor on my right testicle, and they'll have to remove one of my balls. True story. I'm not worried since I have more than enough man juice to make it with just one. I even asked if they could make a BALL OF STEEL prosthesis but the best they could do was a silicone one... at least I won't be left with a dangling empty ballsack.

    Anyway my point is, dudes, get your health in order, or you might lose your balls. For whatever reason, men in our society aren't generally open about some health concerns. So if you don't want to risk losing your balls, think about getting checked, self exams, etc. This shit is serious. It can quite literally be life and death, and there is nothing manly about a man dying of a disease he didn't think he could get, or that could have been caught early enough to be treated successfully if he'd just been willing to examine his own body and/or let a doctor do it.

    So, massage your balls. And did you know man can get breast cancer as well? Well they do, so massage your man-tits while at it.

    I haven't had a date scheduled for the surgery yet, waiting for some test results and shit. I'll let you know of any developments. Wish me luck!

  • The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

    Fast travel is essential, I guess what they meant is this: you are on the horse, an enemy appears, you have to get down from the horse to fight, then get back on, then you spot some alchemy ingredients you want to collect, then get off the horse, collect them, then get back on, then you walk some more and see an NPC, then get off the horse, talk, get back on...

    Since you can only basically move with the horse, the constant getting off-on really interrupts the flow of wandering the wilderness, and the resources needed to actually flesh out horseback mechanics (talking, fighting, interacting) where not worth the investment, so they left horses in their most basic (and honestly silly) iteration.

  • The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

    I read somewhere that they specifically didn't put enough resources in the horses because they found it broke the experience of the player and exploration.

    Which is a shame, really, if you could fight on horseback and at least interact with stuff on your reach (speak to NPCs, pick up ingredients) it would have been so much more fun.

    But then I think they let it in so the modders can improve on that, so there is hope.

    Anyway me playing (Wolf Queen quest spoilers) recorded the video for a friend to see what the game is about:

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  • THQ going down the pan

    So sad, but hopefully they can find room to survive.

    They have done an absolutely great job with the 40K franchise. I'm not sure how much they have to pay back to Games Workshop, but I hope I don't see their 40K line-up change. The 40K MMO though, as much as I would love to play, has to disappear in flames.