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Posts by blackdog

  • Daredevil

    • blackdog
    • October 9, 2016 at 1:17 PM

    Should we do a new topic for all of these, or just one Defenders topic? (That's the next series coming out)

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  • John Wick

    • blackdog
    • October 9, 2016 at 1:07 PM

    Can't find an old topic, so here goes:

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  • Mafia 3

    • blackdog
    • October 9, 2016 at 1:01 PM
    Quote from Bastion

    23 hours ago, Bastion said: Not reviewing too well on steam at the moment. sitting at mixed.

    Also crowbcat released a video on it.

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    This is so amazingly funny! Probably better than the game itself

  • What's going on with your life?

    • blackdog
    • October 9, 2016 at 8:37 AM

    Sorry to hear that @FMPONE, hope this leaves you and any other Mapcorean on the East Coast unscathed.

  • What's going on with your life?

    • blackdog
    • October 7, 2016 at 8:05 PM

    Working in this place I am amazed and wonder every week how can certain people carry on with their lives in the current society.

    Latest piece of fun is the new housekeeper which started last week.

    Second day of work contacts the manager to say can't come in for the day because she has to assist the mother in law for chemio. Fair enough, then without warning stays home rest of the week.

    Comes in again this Monday. Tuesday was off, Wednesday texts the manager she has a migraine so she'll stay home. Today, Friday, she gets the official welcome in the team during the morning meeting, two hours later disappears. Turns out she "was feeling ill" and went home only texting the manager that wasn't even in.

    I mean what the actual fuck?! How can you leave your workplace without telling anyone.

    But shouldn't be surprised by that, since Monday left work without checking/asking for her shifts the rest of the week.

  • Architecture in level design?

    • blackdog
    • October 6, 2016 at 4:57 PM

    Wanted to say what Chris said, but I was also thinking that at the time of HL Episode 2, they were saying they did research/hired expert for exactly for this sort of thing. Things are built to work and with a logic, so only research can help.

    Unfortunately I can't think of any source dedicated to this kind of thing.

    I guess maybe take advantage of those who made research for you? like play/watch a playthorugh of Brothers In Arms or Medal of Honor/Call Of Duty, surely they based their stuff on some research. All of this though, after you have come up with a satisfying layout, imo.

  • Tips on creating my map layout?

    • blackdog
    • October 6, 2016 at 12:05 AM

    Have you looked at some walk through of some important creations?

    If you are in for CS stuff, DaveJ the creator of Dust/Dust 2/Cbble has on his site the original creations postmortems.

  • Mafia 3

    • blackdog
    • October 5, 2016 at 3:10 PM
    Quote from Jetsetlemming

    6 hours ago, Jetsetlemming said: They're doing more work to connect it to the series than a Far Cry sequel ever has, lol

    They never attempted to connect FC titles, and that is -like it has been mentioned- cos it's such a broad title. And frankly that's perfectly fine. They do the same with GTA: change the setting, change the characters, same brand.

    It's exactly the attempt to connect the last game to the previous, forcingly re-introducing a character that was previously the main one, that makes it feel bolted on ;) You want to be bold and revolutionary, than you don't need ties to old stuff.

  • Quantum Break - Remedy's next game!

    • blackdog
    • October 5, 2016 at 3:01 PM

    If anyone is interested in getting this, I have a discount code that I was sent from Green Man Gaming, this brings the cost down to £29.99.

    First come, first served, add the voucher at checkout

    #000073-MZ7PCB-BEYQKF

  • [Portal 2] Repercussions WIP

    • blackdog
    • October 4, 2016 at 10:01 AM

    T h i s

    i s

    f c u k i n g

    a m a z i n g

  • What have you watched recently?

    • blackdog
    • October 3, 2016 at 5:00 AM

    Almost through Gotham season 2.

    I feel it started well, went down a bit into mediocrity (with the exception of the birth of Riddler), and the last episodes with heavy emphasis on Dr. Strange were very good. Bit weird though how they mix up origin stories.

    Guess next I'll focus on all the Marvel Netflix stuff, want to see Luke Cage but still haven't even watched Daredevil S2.

    And there's also stuff like Westworld coming to Now TV that I have put in my list… sooo much stuff around :/

  • Want Help Building / Upgrading a PC?

    • blackdog
    • October 3, 2016 at 4:55 AM

    @Squad -1 to Google event, in the meantime there's already an LG with latest Android

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  • Battlefield 1

    • blackdog
    • October 3, 2016 at 2:54 AM

    The cutscene were the soldiers face each other and then lower their guns made me think of the Sainsbury xmas ad...

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  • No Man's Sky

    • blackdog
    • October 3, 2016 at 2:02 AM

    Just seen in a news recap video that they are being investigated for misleading advertising.

  • I need your help.

    • blackdog
    • October 3, 2016 at 1:58 AM

    Cast my preferences. Sorry, but I didn't see something that particularly excited me, i've put only one 4 the rest is between 3 and 2.

    Have you tried with the process of listing the attributes you want your clients to think about when they see your name? Because for example Kratos symbolizes authority and doesn't seem a good fit to me; also sounds just harsh and makes me think of wood splinters, in relation to furniture. Prometheus is famous for stealing the fire, which to me has a negative accent (I don't want to think of my furniture and fire together), although he's also the creator of mankind, which could be positive... so you could for example look up translation of names or related qualities. Just to stick with the Prometheus example: look up some African language translation for "creator" or "creation". And so on.

  • Quantum Break - Remedy's next game!

    • blackdog
    • October 3, 2016 at 1:39 AM

    Great looking game, played the first act and started the second.

    I feel the pacing is a little off, as: there's a lot of reading to be done to find all the details about the story that keep you from playing. As well when I was "ready" for the TV episode, it didn't come.

    And I'm not completely happy with the gameplay: time powers look insane, are great in concept... but I'm not finding as rewarding or easy to use. I dunno if it's because on PC the gamepad doesn't feel flawless (I'll try adjusting aim speeds but just doesn't feel as accurate as other games) but I'm finding shooting less satisfying than Alan Wake. So much so I even went back to basic pistol after trying to use the more powerful because the latter has an insane kick that is uncontrollable, and doesn't do 1-shot-1-kill either. But maybe the most annoying part is the cover system: you cannot crouch manually and the character sticks to walls automatically, where it wants. There are several doorways where you'd want to stick to pop shots from cover, where you just can't - and because the camera is closer than your average shooter, you can't properly see without exposing yourself.

    The other biggest disappointment is probably that you can't melee! You rush someone with the "blink" power* and you find yourself shooting in each others mouth. Guess at this point that it will be a makes-no-sense unlockable "skill", which it makes it even more silly, since they made sure the character has a background for his weapons training (picked it up in Cambodia or something!!111) but can't punch a douche standing in front of him, despite the character has an history of trouble making.

    *To be noted that I haven't been able to confuse the AI using the blink power, and that the implementation could have been much better implemented. First it has a fixed distance, that means that unless you are going pillar to pillar, very often you don't blink into another cover. You cannot blink over obstacles, or down the stairs, so you get discovered if you were trying to stealth around or start a surprise attack.

    At least though, seems to run fine at Ultra settings on my 970m, I only disabled the anti-aliasing that notably causes artifacts like weird halos around objects (was pointed out in a Digital Foundry review).

  • WIP in WIP, post your level screenshots!

    • blackdog
    • October 2, 2016 at 11:13 AM

    @AndyW i think that's a bit dark...

  • Quantum Break - Remedy's next game!

    • blackdog
    • October 2, 2016 at 10:32 AM

    Beginning installation... I waited today that I have the rest of the day off, as it's quite discouraging having to install a game over friggin 5 DVDs.


    Edit: says 1h 40m :o

  • What movie is this?

    • blackdog
    • October 1, 2016 at 8:24 PM

    Invasion of the flying CD-ROMs


    lol

  • Quantum Break - Remedy's next game!

    • blackdog
    • September 30, 2016 at 11:20 PM

    Received today the PC retail collector's edition. Fine piece of box they made :) behind the scenes book is 100+ pages! A lot of information, there's even a section on cut content.

    DVDs look slightly bent, hopes won't be a problem installing. Funnily enough, will be the first retail game I activate on steam

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