Posts by blackdog

  • The Mapcore Mod Team

    Cool Sigma, thanks for the additional info

    My concern is not so much the art, which with the talents here I'm sure it's possible to pull off whatever it's decided to be appropriate, but the core concept and situation.

    As I read the pitch, I'm just concerned that the comic relief will be through the robot, its dialogues and actions, which might be cool and could be pulled off brilliantly… it's just I thought that the way people were talking about it, they wanted to do something comic to the roots. To achieve that I feel there is something still missing. Also pitch makes me think bit too much to Dead Space/Alone In The Dark, which doesn't help. That's all

  • The Mapcore Mod Team

    Ps: I forgot to mention the biggest concern i have with this concept: the comical aspect.

    I thought the idea of doing a lighthearted game was encompassing: that the project would be fully comical, like Monkey Island; the way is shaping up makes me think that there are some comical accents (contained situations)… that we are missing something that would make the whole situation funny.

    Am I getting the whole concept wrong?

  • Mapcore Meetup 2015

    Well I'm pretty close, I might be able to. Might try planning summer holidays in February, so I could have an idea of how to plan for this.

    Wish we could still do a UK meetup at least… several people are from around London.

    Quote from dux

    Too far.

    Yeah, but if you don't have massive obligations having something to look for is useful. Don't need to book a flight yet

  • The Latest Nexus Range has Landed!!!

    450£ is so totally not on the 500£ side!

    I believe no one does current exchange rates frankly, cos they of course change over time; it seems to me that they sell on the spending power people have in a country, plus taxes.

    Cost in US has always been cheaper for anything, but yeah also consider taxes.

    Again, device in uk is 120€ (~100£) cheaper than any EU country! Don't see why complaining, to me seems pretty fair frankly for such a device.

    Ot: why getting rid of the Nexus 5… for a Samsung?? I would have kept it at least until being able to get a 1+.

  • Far Cry 4

    Quote from dux

    Still not available on steam in the UK. I'll probably pirate it if it doesn't get put back on. I have every other Far Cry in my steam library.

    Yeah I said it. Make shit business choices and that's what you will make me do.

    Need to let managers know to work as a proper boicot.

    Quote from Vaya

    Just got for free with my new graphics card

    What card is it? I have to start looking to buy a new computer, although I might be forced to get a big laptop :/

  • Just Cause 3

    Unfortunately too many story missions were too short and easy to carry out so that's why I say "almost". Probably best opening missions ever tho (I'm referring to first chase riding on top of the fugitive car)

    One of the few games I've 1000/1000

  • The Mapcore Mod Team

    I like the idea a lot! But. It seems a friggin huge project to tackle (in so few people).

    Just the robot part, to make it successful in the end, requires great writing and superlative voice acting. We would need an awful lot of lines.

    If this is where the effort is gonna go, I would isolate a small sequence and base mechanic and build it to see if it works, then take it from there.

    How much overtaken should the ship be? I'm thinking of how much the player would be supposed to "shoot", as I read this, I would expect to activate lights to clear environment, and the gun to stop the live enemies.

    Robot sounds great, to differentiate it from other examples and make it the most fun, I would have it:

    * follow the player with standard ai behaviour for normal traversing

    * follow simple, single waypoints (go there, idle or execute an action)

    * be controllable with a remote - creates more varied puzzles, increases exploration time (could even be that you need to retrieve its ai chips before making it fully working).

    Additionally be triggered for some scripted events. We could extrapolate some concepts like Asimov's robot laws (comic factor due to extremisation of scifi staples) and make it that for eg the robot welds a couple doors isolating the player in a very confined space, making it a puzzle to leave the area.

    At this stage I'd think that it's imperative that the player retrieves the robot as one of the first objectives, making the robot already independent and active doesn't seem right.

  • Overwatch

    Quote from dux

    What's wrong with Warcraft, Diablo and Starcraft? Great games. Even Hearthstone is good fun. We don't talk about Diablo 3, though.

    I don't like their art style with Warcraft and I can't stand mmorpgs.Diablo 3 when it was coming out really tickled me because I really like the art, but I just don't like those mouse mashers games.

    Also I quite suck at rts, although I like them, I only was able to finish General's campaigns.

    This one, as observed by many others before me, seems too much of a mish-mash of genres (also characters to me look too dissimilar), consider that I can't stand mobas and also couldn't get into TF2 when I played it…

  • The Mapcore Mod Team

    So is anything happening in the team, haven't checked the document recently and I haven't had time to insert the time freeze idea.

    Quote from TheOnlyDoubleF

    We could use these people as in the memory remix sequences of Remember Me or as in Quantum Break

    I have just seen some gameplays of a remember Me, don't remember now the remix… but yeah, being frozen like in Quantum, but you actually can move items to your advantage, like in the Quicksilver sequence, seems cool at this stage.

  • Post Your Pic Extravaganza

    Nuclear Fallout was 8k (one i run) and 16k "onslaught" (competitive, 300 or 500£ prize).

    The one coming up in May is 6k and 12k.

    They are doing trials in December, timed 400mt to train.

    Cool selection of obstacles there, are they all? They seem yes a bit repetitive. We didn't have fire, we had lots of ditches, wooden walls of different heights (last one to be climbed with rope) and rope walls, pipes to slide in, "backscratcher" (crawl on back), carry a sack of potatoes, the slowest section was called the quarry and was up & down like 5-6 times steep muddy slopes to climb with ropes. There was a version of the spider wall, but with the small bits found in indoor climbing for feet.

    The coolest bit was the zip line followed by the slide that I posted.

    Gonna post more pics as they get published.