Posts by Chimeray

  • RPG maker VX Ace?

    Any of you used it? What has been your experience? What are the drawbacks?

    I've only played 1 commercial game that was made with it and it was fairly ok so I guess it has to be somewhat reasonably good. The game was To the Moon btw.


    I'm thinking of checking it out this weekend but I was just wondering if any of you got experience with it or feel strongly about staying away from it. It seems like it's the only tool out there to make that sort of stuff, besides GameMaker... but that has horrible performance.


    Any rage inducing broken stuff?


    It's just for a potential side project, nothing too serious. Just felt like stepping out of my comfort zone and trying something new.

  • Batman: Arkham Knight

    Quote from (HP)

    no, all these assets are from the game, i'm almost certain of it, they wouldn't waste resources and time making complex models just for screenshots. I mean the carefully way they present it and render the image...

    Except for the Dark Knight render? It seems reasonable that it would just be a high poly render, the detail would be ridiculous otherwise!

    It's not that those other shots of the Dark Knight are bad but it seems to have less detail.


    I agree with those other shots though, definitely seems to be ingame albeit promotional stuff...

    Drooool

  • What have you watched recently?

    Walter Mitty

    Pretty decent, very nice CGI (not over the top, just very nicely blended!).


    Dallas Buyers Club

    Liked it although I kinda missed the point maybe? Just stuff happening, pretty grim and very good character development though.


    47 Ronin

    I liked it but I knew it was gonna be a B fantasy movie, if you know the plot is gonna be thin then it's quite enjoyable.


    Wolf of Wall Street

    Didn't really like it, was super long as well. Just meh, some funny scenes here and there but I kinda dislike the finance world and I didn't think it was gonna be about that, just party stuff xD His wife though.. hot damn. Fuck this, I like the movie.


    Frozen

    Ermahgerd it's a musical. Another surprise but it was pretty enjoyable albeit thin.


    Escape Plan is on my list as well! If you say it isn't bad then that's all I need to know As long as it's not awful!

  • Game development team needed...

    I think more people would be interested if they saw a flashy website of your game, be sure to spend a lot of time designing a company logo as well.

    Don't even think about working on the game just yet, we don't really need to see anything tangible, what we're really interested in is the marketing plan.


    (In all seriousness. A lot of us here have been part of mods/startups/indie games and a lot of them din't see the light of day, for a variety of reasons. The game just plain stucks, the team splits up, unqualified people on the team being asses... whatever. Working over the internet is hard. And then in the end you expect people to work for free as well. I sure hope nobody falls for it, the likelyhood of things just going wrong are too big. Look at it from our side... Where's the credibility?)

  • DE: HR - Dr Megan Reed's Office

    I was gonna say don't crunch the blacks, make it lighter because I saw HP's version. Then I went back to the first page to check out the original concept art so I could compare and then I was like... Where's the concept art? Ah nice, he replaced his final work on the first post like they do on Polycount! And then it dawned on me... the concept art is still there, it just looks super similar to your final shot So yeah... Props on that man, very nice conversion! Totally fooled me for a sec there

  • A little shout out to (aspiring) game industry pros

    I fucking love my job. (Bear in mind I'm young, single, no kids...)


    I know there's people out there that are having a rough time and even within the same studio or even position things can vary drastically but these days I absolutely love waking up in the morning to get to my job


    That being said, just gonna do another shout out to recently affected people, sucks really hard I hope you folks land on your feet and find a developer/publisher to work for soon! (And hopefully in better conditions if things were awry)


    And Sprony you spelled that wrong, it's:


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  • Thief 4

    Gratz on the release Rob! Not sure I'm gonna wait for a PS4 or gonna get it for PC, not sure if my laptop is powerful enough these days... It ran Bioshock Infinite and Dishonored super well, ya think it'll be fine? Or is the performance not so great?

  • Irrational Games shuts down

    Yeah didn't really see it coming either but if you add up the numbers it makes sense I guess Very sad! I haven't really played a lot of their games but I still have Bioshock 1&2 in my steam library and now it'll be a blast from the past when I get down to it :/ Weird shit.


    Hope y'all find a place but that's a lot of employees that are suddenly out of work

  • What have you watched recently?

    Best in Show(2000). Most unfunny movie ever. I thought Airplane was pretty bad cos I don't really like that silly Naked Gun sort of humor but at least it was enjoyable. This movie just didn't have any funny stuff in whatever shape or form, just really annoying people. There was some "lolwut" but definitely no laughs It wasn't witty, wasn't clever.


    I usually can pick a best-of list of any genre and sit through all the movies and enjoy them but for comedy it just ain't working :/ Gonna try a couple of others but when people recommend this as "the best shit ever" then I'm very skeptical...

  • What have you watched recently?

    Ender's Game. Pretty good, too bad it wasn't 30 minutes longer or it could've been great. The pacing is just way too fast but at least they stayed true to the book

    So I'm not entirely sure how enjoyable the movie is without having read the book, I think a lot of credibility is lost in a lot of scenes because there's no buildup.