Posts by Chimeray

  • Level Designers Needed(Dissertation Help)

    This is how I thought of them, could be wrong... Might be interesting for the interviewee to look at as well cos if they´re wrong perhaps other people have judged them wrong as well

    Reward: Pretty vague as in risk/reward, achievements, experience, gold, ...

    Risk: How much chance of failure and how harsh said failure must be in order to gain certain rewards.

    Balance: Difficulty of enemies compared to the player.

    Interest: Didn´t quite understand this as well... How interesting things are? Interactivity, things to see/do? Keeping that carrot in front of the player?

    Fairness: Enemies using rocketlaunchers while you have a knife. Walking up to a door and randomly getting squashed by an anvil. Did the events that caused certain stuff to happen make sense to the player, were they expected. Things that cause frustration, really

    Was this what you guys thought of as well??

    You also seemed to miss "flow", which is a nobrainer and always imported... Perhaps that´s why it´s not in the list

    Variety of pace/contrast as well.

    Not sure what to expect from this but best of luck! It´d be interesting to see what you came up with!

  • Mass Effect 3

    I don´t think they loose 20-30% (or whatever the rate is) customers for not releasing the game on Steam... So the cost they don´t have to pay as royalties to Steam is now going straight in their own pockets, minus the loss of customers. All in all, I´m betting it nets them more money so I suppose it actually makes sense and is "fair" in a way. You get all the money for the effort, Steam gets none.

    The only question is why they don´t just release it on both platforms then. The Origin sales would give them a higher profit, the Steam sales... well, like usual. It would be sweet indeed, but then what´s the point :/ People would just buy it off Steam and then you loose so much money on that outrageous royalty.

    So yup, as inconvenient as it is... As long as Steam doesn´t lower its royalty rate I think every publisher should have its own platform. Boom, I said it.

    But yes, Puddy, good points. I suppose we can only guess if it´s actually worth it... Steam does indeed give a way higher exposure...

  • What are you playing now?

    Started playing Fable 3. Bought it about a year ago before I moved here but never got the time (or a console for that matter) to play it.

    Environments area a bit unappealing Same for Skyrim... pfff. Is it just cos the consoles are at the end of their lifetime that devs can´t seem to make them "lush" anymore?

  • Star Wars The Old Republic

    First impression (only played like 15 mins last night):

    Environments seem to my liking, I really hated the ones in Rift... Just open plains with random stuff placed on it (level designers or environmental artists? lol). This on the other hand seems to have taste

    I apparently hate Star Wars music, orchestra, blahblah. At least on the main screen.

    Character creation is very 2006... It sucks donkey balls. Wasn´t able to tweak my character to my liking... Feels like one of those from crappy FTP MMO´s...

    Will do some actual play tonight

  • What have you purchased recently?

    Yes offcourse for Bluray as well I love watching movies I plan on watching some HD tv as well, I subscribed for a pack that included internet + tv and I got to choose 8 channels of my liking, took some HD ones. Gotta love national geographic in HD Those subscriptions are pretty cheap here in Sweden compared to Belgium!

    Can´t wait to see all the jagged edges and blurry textures on the 360 though xD But meh, sitting in a couch and gaming/watching a movie with some friends is awesome. The main reason why I bought it.

    Yeah, unfortunately all bigger models have 3D, making them more expensive and I dont´t really need it So it feels like I´m paying too much. Oh well, perhaps it´s worth it!

    I´m also sitting quite far from the TV and I hate leaning forward to make out the details, like text... So it´s a bit unfortunate... Could´ve saved a great deal of cash if my place looked different, then I could´ve gone for a smaller one.

  • Donate to MapCore, feel awesome!

    Stopped using Paypal as well. I always thought it was some sort of "Bank" but it´s just a business. They can block your account and you can´t do shit unless you go to court. Not the same rights apply as with a bank :/

    They froze my account once until I provided a copy of my ID, front and back... You should never have to give that info to "a company..." in the first place. Then they said the ID wasn´t enough and I needed to show some bank statements of the bank account I was using. Very shady imo... Some banks don´t even put the required stuff on bank statements so I´ve heard that some other people just couldn´t get their money back...

    All in all it took around 2 weeks since they asked something, then wanted something else after...