Posts by Sprony

As some of you might have read I'm currently experiencing how it feels to be put aside even though I did my very best at work. Combined with the recent news of people getting fired at Irrational and Santa Monica made me realize something important.

The game industry has no unions (as far as I know) and little job security (as far as I can tell). People are often expected to move around the world and even the most casual gamer has heard of crunch time. There are so many news report about bad working conditions, unpaid over time, temp contracts, mass lay offs, extreme crunch time, etc that you really start to wonder why someone would want to work in this industry.

The above sounds horrible and I'm sure there are great places to work and enough companies that care about their people. I'm just an outsider so I could be totally wrong (hopefully not, because this post would be embarrassing otherwise). It just seems to me that what's left is pure passion and the determination to pursue that.

Plus a lot of discipline in remaining motivated. Because it's not just the companies and publishers, gamers can be terrible too. You put your heart and soul in a game and people can get so negative that they personally attack you (extreme example).

Where I'm going with this is that you all know should know that there are people out there (like me) who really appreciate what you guys are doing and respect the hell out of it. I ain't trying to gas you all up, I just call it how I see it and I feel that this is something that should be said. So in short:

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polish hospial FTW

This is looking bloody marvelous. Plus, they added physics to props in the engine. Nice

Well the first half of my collegues had their talk today. All were told not to mention anything but luckily one did. My department will cease to exist. Everybody will have to find another job. I'll hear more tomorrow and I'll update this topic after I had my talk. Thanks for all the support so far guys.

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/450776/dayz-cr…by-end-of-2014/

In short:

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"I'm really good at risk-taking and making other people take risks, I've always been good at that in my life," Hall said. "But eventually, that's the bad person to have. Eventually, you don't want the guy telling you to go over the top and get through. So at some point I'll be a disaster for the project, at least in a leadership role." Hall said he will stay with the project as long as he is needed. After that, he'll leave DayZ to the development team at Bohemia Interactive, though he'll always be involved to some extent. He plans to return to his native New Zealand and start a studio of his own. From there he will pursue more multiplayer survival concepts and may even pitch them to publishers, though "not under traditional terms". "I feel like DayZ is a fundamentally flawed concept, and I've always recognised that," Hall said. "It's not the perfect game; it's not the multiplayer experience, and it never can be, [with] the absolute spark that I want in it."

I thought it used Source instead of IdTech5????

I love it man. Except for the blue in the corner. It kinda makes it difficult to see what's there.

By any chance a fan of Brutal Legend as well? Would love to see some of that

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God damnit collectors edition sold out in like 10 seconds on game. Never even got a chance. Dicks.

Since you're my favorite pessimistic Brit I went around and looked for you here. Alas, no Collectors Edition

Based on what I've seen so far it looks like they managed to fix the blurry textures up close that Rage was renowned for. Which makes it only look more sexy.

This is by far an PC title but I'm wondering how the PS4 version will do.

The title says it all. Sounds interesting. I do remember the good old days in which kids beat each other silly on the school yard if they didn't support Team Nintendo or Team Sega. There's irony in the article btw, it's being made by Sony

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=115245

Fuck the reviews. Nowadays it seems as if the sole purpose of writing about something is to bash it. I saw the game play trailers, it looks great to me, gonna buy it for the PS4, period. The only negative thing for me is the PS4 price. This is always the case with new consoles but I'm not paying 60 euros for a game. I guess I'll have to wait or try and get it from someone who finished it. It's pretty ludicrous that I pay 17 euro for a Steam key but 60 euro for a PS4 copy

Finished entries for the first Mapcore Mini Texturing Challenge.

Discussion thread:

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/450614/gearbox…ss-destruction/

I watched Captain Phillips yesterday. I didn't expect a lot of it even though Tom Hanks, who's always great, was in it. But I was in for a treat. It's a really good thriller. The suspense is handled well and before you know it, the movie is over. Something you should definitively see.

Bring on the HURGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Wish you best of luck friend!

Can't imagine how stressful this must be, since what you also recently wrote here; hope that they notice you are an hard worker with ethics and keep you.

Size of the house, don't worry about that, the important thing is to provide a roof for the child… I can assure you for personal experience that when he'll grow up he'll nostalgically remember where he came from and appreciate more the place where you'll move in the future

Thanks mate!

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So is it playable ? lol, it should be if EA is spittng out 2nd assault

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I made this topic for the lulz but now that the final result has been released I don't find it funny anymore. It's actually kinda sad.

Maybe we could convince Rick_D to write a review like he did with the Jurassic Park game?

This is the kind of work I expect from an office temp with a bad attitude.

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I did not recognize any of these characters. Am I supposed to?

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