Posts by blackdog

  • What have you purchased recently?

    Thanks to clearing it up Minos.

    Was pretty hyped and considering the VR before we started to know prices, know real computer req. and… see what you can play (which is very poor atm).

    Anyway, even if I only tried one game on dev kit, oculus always gave me the idea that it was just adding motion tracking to the camera*, that games would be the same experience (sitting down), on the other hand looks more ergonomic.

    Surely things will improve quickly, right now I wouldn't invest on this gadgets unless I was developing something for it.

    *A lot of this I always thought could have been implemented already just by leveraging webcams, which are widespread. Adding peek behind a corner that way I think would go a long way without really costing much

  • De_forlorn WIP

    Liking this as usual. I'm sure it's something noticeable only in a screenshot, but in the second the metal supports are a bit weird as they join this very matte and flat bottom part of the wall. In particular the corner one is made of two supports, where in reality I'm pretty sure they would put a single support right in the corner. That little tip of yellow that pops ups is weird. Also using one brush would help reduce brush count which in specific is probably nothing but if similar things repeat all over the map... anyway it's just super nitpicking

  • System Shock 3

    Gives me Event Horizon vibes… Im still not fully convinced by the environments, although I know they follow the original. Maybe that's what's gonna make it more scary in the end.

    Inventory system seems clunky, maybe is still temporary(?). Also zombie animations are taken straight from HL2?! :D

    Cool the initial sequence of assembling the suit parts to enable certain HUD functions.

  • Battlefield 1

    Is there any news if the game is focusing on any particular front (expanding on others afterwards with DLC), or it will be offering maps from the different areas like 1942? Me and my fellow Italian friends will be very interested to see the Austro-Italian conflict on the Alps… I come from the area where the war songs sing "the foreigner will go no further [than the Piave river]" (yup, an early version of "you shall not pass"), our grand grandfathers dug in the cliffs and were moving weapons and ammunition on the back of donkeys. The Alpini corp is probably the most celebrated in Italy.

    Havent seen anything suggesting our front will be in the game for now.

  • EU Referendum

    Quote from Hipshot

    12 hours ago, Hipshot said: In Sweden EU-laws are superior to Swedish national laws, with some few exceptions, it's even written in our constitution that we are a member of the EU and the constitution is in many ways adopted to fit well into the EU and how it works.

    Afaik it should be because of the Lisboa pact in 2007.

    And to be fair, if we are to create a union of states, that's the way to go.

    Unfortunately, compared to the US that we try to imitate, we have centuries of legislation and very very different cultures, whereas the US was being created by like minded people who, spoke only one language for starters (dunno if French did matter).

    A lot of legislation wouldn't happen at all and certain important topics would never be regulated: I work in the environmental sector and my colleagues (teachers) are now concerned not only about what they'll teach in two years (the programs they run are EU based) but that most environment protection laws in UK come from EU, and I'm worried what a deregulation could do to this beautiful country. In Italy we are destroying everything in favour of building houses and factories, I would hate see that happen here.

    PS: "Brexit, a still life"

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  • EU Referendum

    Goddamn fuck.

    Are they gonna brexit my ass now?

    I still haven't applied for residency after 3 years (stupid!) and was starting to think of citizenship as Italy is a place I don't want to go back until I'm a millionaire and can afford a summer house.

  • Days Gone

    Art and mood immediately grabbed my attention. I've managed to see the gameplay yesterday and holy shit this game can make you feel in a zombie movie like no other game until now. They really got inspired by WWZ.

    Im not sure I understand what kind of story they are going for, trailer was very TLOU, gameplay is L4Dish…

    Anyway @Sprony never say enough, I'm still hoping to become a developer and bring my ideal zombie game to life :D (hint there would be customisation, driving and asynchronous interaction with other players)

  • Forza Horizon 3 - PC

    I'm not much into driving games, and in particular o found Forza boring as hell. But when the first Horizon came out I spent dozen of hours on just the demo to compete for times with friends.

    Unfortunately price never dropped under the threshold I wanted to spend, and then my 360 fell in disuse.

    This looks superb in terms of location. Downside for me it's the kind of game that sucks you into countless of hours to perfect your runs, and I don't have that kind of time anymore :(

  • Xbox One

    There's no much sense in selling/buying a gaming box at that price if is not modular/upgradable.

    At least this is the market view as of now I think. Sure being a closed box they could push it and for longer, but more than 500$ I think it's out of market.

    I haven't kept up with news but from the headlines I thought that all outlets are assuming it to be just another console. I mean this is the first time I read of such a price tag