Posts by blackdog

Finished Mr Robot a few weeks ago. I had watched S1 when the show started, but then dragged my feet to start the rest... for some reason when I started S2 found it boring and abandoned it. Watched everything from the start and found it as one of the finest shows, it's a tremendous thriller sometimes. I just feel it should end 4 episodes earlier than when it does. I know it's done to drive home and resolve the complexity of Elliot, but i guess the reveal just takes too long and feels disconnected from the tease that takes place at the beginning of the season.

Anyway there are a couple of highlight episodes that are just too good (The silent episode and the one following above all)

Nice tool

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4 hours ago, dux said: They should of kept the gyms open, the specific rules for some things were just daft. And I love the British news headlines "Soon you can hug again!" Oh fuck off.

Looking forward to seeing the mental health fallout explosion from this.

Really sorry to hear about the situation, it’s something we have lost perspective, being all stuck by ourselves.

And for the rest, yes, agree… I know it’s not much comfort but here we haven’t got it too bad, just thinking of the American craze, swinging between total disregard of any safety or Karens. Or in Italy, where the lockdown has been much stricter than here, fucking actual roadblocks and “papers please” requests if you headed out; vans with speakers driving by playing nonstop “stay inside”; police fining you hundreds for being outside for leisure despite you were alone for miles (except the police officer coming to get you). Some people were saying the army should be in the streets, bringing rations to the plebs… I mean what the fuck, people had completely lost it.

speaking of gyms I just read today they are reopening but you have to put the mask on between each exercise, plus BYO mat and other shit.

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4 hours ago, dux said: If you are given weapons that can kill what's trying to kill you then the game ceases to be genuinely scary.

Mmh what about having a weapon that can do that, but can break/wear out, or simply you have very scarce ammo, so you can kill someone in front but you might not be able to kill the next, and they could be more dangerous. Might be that the enemies are hard to hit and they counter you very hard if you miss. Or using a weapon means that more dangerous enemies will come round…

I dunno, I think we’d need to agree first what it means to be scared (in a videogame environment), in the sense we’ll never be so immersed that we’ll be genuinely scared like when your life is actually at stake.

In the general sense (from the dictionary) that fear is a sense of (deep) anxiety… I think there are many games that already achieve that.

and I think we forget that big part of the emotional response we get for stuff like this really has nothing to do with the (game) design, rather intangibles like art (lighting, characters) and most importantly (IMO) the sound effects. There are two-three games that I remember give me an actual chill along my spine: FEAR (the last escape scene), I think Alan Wake at some point, and… Untold Stories, which is a text adventure(!). The latter was really a perfectly timed combination of suspence and triggering sounds at the right time.

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3 hours ago, Buddy said: The noiseless art style made it very easy to play so I suppose it was a conscious choice. I do agree with the argument that original DoD felt more raw... it's hard to carry that over to the 'current gen' and maintain the visual clarity, though.

This is a great point, we need to remember DoDS came out while they were working on TF2 and the whole clarity/silhouette discourse was going on. I can imagine this game was a bit of an early test and/or there was kinda of a blanket mandate.

As a total addict of DoD, can only agree that the lack of “soul” was a factor in making me less passionate, it made it easier to stop playing, but the biggest negative was how the gun handling was changed, as well the movement. Of course the worst was the lack of players.

Ubisoft makes Blender collaborative

Wow, this looks very nice! Congrats on the release ?? this deserves more attention than it got.

only comment I have is that it seems to lack any “weenie” breaking the skyline to help with lineups.

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It's just her suit in particular, it's such a ridiculous oversight. And even in the handful instances where they do draw the hoops, they haven't drawn the rear sides of them. I learned about this entire IP a day ago so I shouldn't care the slightest but come on what the fuck

I get your point but it’s barely visible most times, for the instances where it’s close up like you linked, it’s a matter of visual clarity, you would understand even less with the back part of the loops

Eh, sorry @ThunderKeil for the time sink ??‍♂️ I guess I have low expectations from animation stuff so it struck me better than it is.

if you analyse it yes, there’s an up and down and plot that strays in different directions but I guess it’s to setup the scene/world.

but I wouldn’t over-analyse animation

some stuff comes back later as a reference/brief appearance.

No idea about Eve’s logo, I took it as a nod to woke culture but eh, ignored it. I agree it took me a couple episodes to get it right.

Surprising, everyone was talking about Mirage as next removed.

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wow the level cheat software is at ?

Invincible was fantastic. A mix between The Boys and the darkest DC animation

The voice cast is incredible.

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14 hours ago, FMPONE said: Surprised they didn’t pay more for Subnautica. They got a bargain.

Paying $1,000,000 for “Mutant Year Zero”? Wtf

The rest seems reasonable.

Think Mutant was one of the first exclusives? ?

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14 hours ago, ┌HP┘ said: 11mil might sound like a lot of ruppies for you and me, but that's a drop in the bucket for a big corpo. Gotta hand it to Epic, they're playing the long game to win.

When I saw that I thought “only?”, I was expecting that costed them much more. Anyway gotta spend money to make money. And they have loads thanks to Fortnite… when you make up to $400 mil in a month, you paid for the free games for years ahead!

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It will be interesting to find out more about their publishing initiative, haven’t heard anything after Remedy signed on.

The cost of free games

https://www.polygon.com/22417954/epic-…hers-developers

Not exactly about publishing, but seems more suitable new here than UE topics.

Epic Games is on the Adobe path and has now added to their portfolio of properties Artstation. Fees for those selling on the marketplace have dropped to Epic Games Store levels, and the Learning section is free for everyone.

ArtStation is Joining the Epic Games Family - ArtStation Magazine

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1 hour ago, ┌HP┘ said: I think what ruins games like these is the "Looks cool, it really looks interesting, I'll buy it later on."

Perfect analysis (hat’s so me), this game more than any others. I think being gritty and realistic, looking tough to beat… it all adds up to that approach. Then you read that needs patching to be good, even worse.

Not sure if and when it had been announced that this title was coming to PC? I had totally missed the info, just found out thanks to the GMG newsletter. Thought someone might be interested:

https://www.greenmangaming.com/games/days-gone-pc/

Shiny new stuff @Radu, or I missed you were working on a map set in Italy? (I assume because the police sign)

The main theme came up on my YT suggestions and oh my, this OST rocks

There’s been recurring content coming out about of this game in recent times. Now this: