Posts by syver

  • Destiny

    Quote from AlexM

    Considering they made Halo I don't have much confidence in this having decent gameplay.

    out of curiosity, what do you think is wrong with the gameplay in Halo? i've honestly had more fun with Halo than most other FPS's, at least in terms of singleplayer. hating halo seems to be the gaming-equivalent of hating justin bieber.

  • Destiny

    yeah, or at least an explanation how the game is going to work. the setting wasn't that intriguing. the art had me interested but after watching that I don't really care that much any more...

  • Creating landscape for UDK

    I need to create a landscape for an environment (playable level) I'm making in UDK. I have used UDK for a good while now and have decent knowledge of its world building workings. Except... I have barely used the landscape editor. At least not at the scale/importance I'm going to need it now.

    My first impression is that creating a landscape from scratch just using the brushes etc. will be cumbersome and uneffective, at least in terms of creating satisfying realism. I'm guessing the optimal route is to use something like World Machine or Mudbox to create a heightmap and then adjust it from the landscape editor (?).

    So my question is; could you recommend a route of going about this? does it make little difference what I use to form the landscape pre-UDK? Should I go with World Machine? Advantages/Disadvantages?

    I have only basic knowledge with 3ds max and zbrush, but I'm not time-restricted in any way so I don't mind taking a while to learn. I'll tutorial/read my way through it once I have a plan. Still, being noob-friendly is always a plus

    In terms of topography I'm aiming for something like this;

    [Blocked Image: http://www.dylancolestudio.com/sketches/images/Dcole_Jungle.01.jpg]

    NB: the landscape is mostly for visual and thematic purposes. the actual playspace is fairly small.

  • What are you playing now?

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    ' timestamp='1360894143' post='323890']Yeah, FEAR was awesome, FEAR2 I fucking hated, FEAR3 I never even touched it, so apparently it's worth a try? I kind gave up hope on the games industry ability to make more horror games. What happened to truly horror games like FEAR, Condemned, Silent Hill 2 and the old Resident Evil? The CoD era happened...

    Amnesia? Scarier than all those games put together.

  • Playstation 4

    I hope they've fixed R2/L2 on the new controller. That's my only complaint with the current PS3-controller. I don't mind it being a bit more chunky... (I liked the original xbox-controller too)

    edit: just noticed there's like a microphone-thing at the middle as well? maybe you can yell fus-roh-dah into it and stuff?

    edit 2: it's a speaker... hope it's not a shitty speaker like the pointless wii mote speaker

  • Oculus Rift

    I'm also waiting for the devkit which should be shipped around march-april (?). Have anyone here tried it? Would like to know how good/bad the color reproduction and contrast is. So far I've heard that some of the technical "deficiencies" can be overlooked because of the immersive nature of it.

    I'm guessing (hoping) UDK will support it soon. I also can't wait to try this with Mirror's Edge. Oculus VR + Mirror's Edge 2 + This would be cool.

  • What have you read lately?

    http://www.amazon.com/Aquariums-Pyon…n/dp/0465011047

    The book is about a North-Korean that was sent to the work camps and subsequently (well, ...10 years later) escaped. These work camps are easily on par with the camps seen in Holocaust, if not even worse in some aspects. The suffering in this country is unmatched by anything I've heard of before. Makes you wonder whether there should be a military intervention against North-Korea.

    http://www.amazon.com/against-prohib…n/dp/0984690409

    I've never read a more comprehensive case against the prohibition of drugs. If you read this and you somehow still have it in your mind that the current system is working; you must be in denial. We already live in a time where people can easily buy drugs anonymously outside of any (feasibly) traceable channels and in some years we're likely to be able to print drugs without anyone knowing. It will be interesting to see whether politicians will try to fight this with more surveillance or perhaps come to their senses.

    I'll be reading this next; Pale Blue Dot

  • What have you watched recently?

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    Klown the Movie. Rated +18 in the US, +11 in Denmark. Watch the movie if you want to know why

  • Cyberpunk 2077

    Quote from Al Anselmo

    I had a "friend" who used to boast himself that he watched porn with a guy and both of them masturbated together. "Well of course I saw that guy's penis. We watch porn together!". OMG

    He's not my friend anymore.

    now he's your boyfriend

  • Aliens: Colonial Marines - WTF Happened!?!

    why are people hyped about this game? because it's aliens? why does this game have a thread at all. it should have been locked and the key thrown away

    edit: lmao that trailer dialogue is so shitty and cliché you could mistake it for a parody

    edit 2: that is the worst trailer i have seen in my entire life

    edit 3: i have watched this trailer at least 10 times now and i'm actually considering buying the game. i will buy it if it's as bad or worse than this trailer.

  • What are you playing now?

    I'm going to give Eve Online another try ...for the tenth time or something. I just know that once I get into that game I'm going to think it's the thing best ever. I love when MMO systems are large enough to allow for emergent gameplay. Like how the super-complicated crafting in SWG created all this meta gameplay and roles.

    then there's the space setting + ambient soundtrack!