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DF General Discussion / Re: Vote for "Full Graphics Support"
« on: July 21, 2009, 08:58:56 pm »Most people are not capable of playing the game.Probably more a problem with their imaginations and the education system than with the game.
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DF General Discussion / Re: Vote for "Full Graphics Support"
« on: July 21, 2009, 08:14:30 pm »
No need to ask people to vote something anyway. It is just a suggestion system to begin with after all, and thus it won't automagically get done just because it gets spam voted. What gets coded is entirely up to Toady although he's open to input; realistically for him graphics comes towards the end because it's easier that way.
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Other Games / Re: What makes a good Tactics game? Also, Jagged Alliance 2.
« on: July 14, 2009, 02:52:01 am »JA3 is still being developed?It really just depends on which ja3 you are talking about
Last I heard Akella had the ball, but delayed it. We are looking at next year or so... and, I am pretty sure it was Akella's JA3 that was gonna be done with the Silent Storm engine... I may be wrong though- can't check their website due to web filter.
Last I knew of was Jagged Edge being a cancelled JA3 that the devs decided to finish anyway under a different name..can't find anything on Akella's site
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Other Games / Re: Battlefield 1943
« on: July 14, 2009, 01:40:13 am »4 maps? even battlefield heroes has 4 maps and its free! Sounds like they just pasted fancy graphics on to bf-heroes and tried to sell it.
Actually, they pasted 1942 maps onto the Bad Company engine
On the plus side, it's only $15.
Giving EA money will turn out to be more costly than you might originally imagine...
I could probably buy every game they have on market and I'd still not have given them a scent of profit, due to my earning a regular wage from them at one point for doing functionally nothing at all
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Other Games / Re: Battlefield 1943
« on: July 14, 2009, 01:15:24 am »4 maps? even battlefield heroes has 4 maps and its free! Sounds like they just pasted fancy graphics on to bf-heroes and tried to sell it.
Actually, they pasted 1942 maps onto the Bad Company engine
On the plus side, it's only $15.
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Other Games / Re: Discussion of the Might and Magic games being made by Ubisoft
« on: July 13, 2009, 11:58:25 am »Ubisoft seems to be trying it's damnedest to become EA, except that they seem to have forgotten to do the part where they buy out and dismantle every good developer they can get their hands on... So at least there's that.
Makes me sad, because I really liked BGaE, but the way things are going, the sequel is likely to turn out as a half assed sci fi PoP clone.
They can't be EA, Activision's already become EA. There can be only one!!
So what I'm suggesting is a fight to the death
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Creative Projects / Re: Game idea: G.H.O.U.L
« on: July 13, 2009, 11:54:39 am »
http://createdigitalmotion.com/2009/06/18/ever-woke-up-in-a-procedurally-generated-city/ This tool is awesome. Possible applications a la a project like this are obvious. Procedural, fully interactive, real-scaled cities :3
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Other Games / Re: Galactic Arms Race
« on: July 10, 2009, 05:45:35 pm »oh THATS the key difference. shoot, all this time i thought it was depth of gameplay. Diablo is alot closer to Rogue, but without "hunger".
anyway, i cant even get this thing to run, though it claims to be vista compatible. i guess i'll try it on my desktop at home later, it looks like it has promise.
Probably missing the latest XNA version required.
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Creative Projects / Re: Game idea: G.H.O.U.L
« on: July 10, 2009, 02:37:45 am »"Kill the zombies using limited resources" seems almost more like a puzzle game.
Being very partial to Brooks works and logic in general, all resources are limited even in the best of times. In the worst of times (IE the Zombocalypse), this gets confounded quite a lot. So many enemies, so few bullets..
But there's always crowbars! And hammers. and so on. A gun is sorta messy, hard to maintain, uses up resources, and draws the enemy with it's noise. It's also very hard to aim even for a trained marksman at times. Of course melee weapons have the drawback of requiring the physical strength to use them, as well as bringing you into range of the enemy if you're not careful.
Ideally I would go for a system that allows you to carry a gun but encourages careful use of melee whenever possible.
As for secondary enemies, I'd lean more towards scavengers and bandits, as well as the military in some places - they might mistake you for infected, or simply might be assholes. Of course, if you've got vehicles and medical supplies and food at your base, uninfected humans might also be a problem.
As you can see I think about zombies a little too often. oop.
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Other Games / Galactic Arms Race
« on: July 10, 2009, 01:26:00 am »
http://gar.eecs.ucf.edu/index.php?content=overview
Saw this over at Offworld and thought it would interest some folks. Described as a spaceship Diablo, it features an AI driven system that constantly develops new weapons.
Saw this over at Offworld and thought it would interest some folks. Described as a spaceship Diablo, it features an AI driven system that constantly develops new weapons.
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Creative Projects / Re: Game idea: G.H.O.U.L
« on: July 10, 2009, 12:35:27 am »Read World War Z. Not only is an awesome zombie story, it is written with consideration of almost every aspect from combat, to politics, to emotional survival.Yah, World War Z as well as it's progenitor, the Zombie Survival Guide by the same author. It deals with stuff really in-depth
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Creative Projects / Re: Game idea: G.H.O.U.L
« on: July 09, 2009, 11:49:32 pm »Sounds like an alright game but what kind of things would the zombies be able to do? I ask this since if you have a group of mercenaries all with guns, how are the zombies going to be able to have a chance to reach/kill your guys if they have no way to attack you from far away and/or are very slow moving?
Realistic ammunition restrictions? World is in chaos, not many more bullets are being made. What exist cost a lot, so you certainly wouldn't waste them on low level targets or freebie missions unless absolutely necessary. Non-mechanical melee ftw.
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Creative Projects / Re: Game idea: G.H.O.U.L
« on: July 09, 2009, 11:24:17 pm »I bet you could use the UFO 2000 code as a base to build on, I think.
Or something like UFO: AI, the open source quake-engined remake
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Other Games / Re: Morrowind Mod- Last updated: 7/8
« on: July 09, 2009, 03:20:20 pm »
Good news everyone. Daggerfall is now officially free to celebrate 15th anniversary of TES
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Other Games / Re: Discussion of the Might and Magic games being made by Ubisoft
« on: July 09, 2009, 02:13:27 pm »Whaaaat, how do you make an MMO out of HOMM D:
Looks like it's just yet-another-browser-game :/