I had enough fun with the game to see it through to the end... and play through the rather disappointing DLC. There's no denying it was in stasis for about a decade too long, though.
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I had enough fun with the game to see it through to the end... and play through the rather disappointing DLC. There's no denying it was in stasis for about a decade too long, though.
Rickenslacker
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DNF was just so devoid of anything. In DN3D there were at times 200 enemies per level, I think DNF barely scratched that in the entire game.
CheesecakeRecipe
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Sounds like they've put significant work into this update. Really glad they've stood behind their product so well.
phantomspiker
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Lost Planet 3 gets worse and worse
Apparently, it only has 6 multiplayer maps. The multiplayer portion doesn't come until the end of the review.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ht0nb9D7SzY
Apparently, it only has 6 multiplayer maps. The multiplayer portion doesn't come until the end of the review.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ht0nb9D7SzY
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
I counted how long it took to cover the same distance in Black Ops 2:
Walking Speed: 3 seconds
Running: 2 seconds
ADS: 3.5 seconds
The standard loadout allows for only about 4 seconds of running at a time.
Walking Speed: 3 seconds
Running: 2 seconds
ADS: 3.5 seconds
The standard loadout allows for only about 4 seconds of running at a time.
paperspace
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Do you know what an engine is? Please don't make stupid remarks based on zero knowledge.
Wheres ma GFWLless Batman and Bioshock 2 Grief!!!
Any particular order I should play them in or just whatever?
Thread really is getting hostile tonight.
Not really sure what the issue is here, I was referring to Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, Double Agent, and Conviction all run on UE2.5.
Blacklist being on the same engine makes the transition significantly easier, instead of using a more modern engine. Then having to create completely new assets and code.
It seems to be coming pretty soon, I posted this earlier.
phantomspiker
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paperspace
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Sorry if I was too harsh, but you have no idea what you're talking about.
Feel free to educate me then.
The fundamental point being that sticking with the same engine would facilitate development of the next game, don't see how you can really argue against that.
paperspace
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What you're referring to is one number you found on the internet. "2.5" doesn't mean anything.
The engine is modified and updated to today's standard. Sure, many methods are limited by the engine but a single number isn't indicative of what the engine is capable of.
I just think it's ridiculous when people call out on engines being bad based on nothing and suggests that they know how it affects the game. Even if you build an engine from scratch it's not guaranteed you'd see a noticeable difference.
CheesecakeRecipe
Stormy Grey
It's still based off of the UE 2.5 codebase, which is lacking quite a bit compared to UE3's codebase. They just had to add in the shit that was missing. Quite the amount of work, but even with their cute code name for it that is exactly what it is running off of.
Bioshock 1/2 ran off of UE2.5 as well and other than some shaders not looking so hot it still looks pretty good.
SneakyStephan
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I'll take ue2 over ue3 any day
full msaa support, no texture pop in, no stutter from level streaming.
CheesecakeRecipe
Stormy Grey
Steam thread's just particularly catty tonight.
There is nothing inherently wrong about my statement, other than pure semantics. The game doesn't have a high-level of visual fidelity, the game runs on UE2.5 code base, and using a similar engine to prior games in the series facilitates development. Saying that I don't know shit from that is quite a stretch.
I guess I should have made my post oddly specific and everything would have been fine. IE, "I guess they used the modified version of UE2.5 for a cheaper development process from Conviction."
Wasn't advocating UE3, just commenting on their use 2.5.
Yet somehow they let negative mouse acceleration through which, correct me if I'm wrong here, doesn't exist in base 2.5.
Would there be any disadvantage to using AnvilNext? Ubisoft owns the engine outright, so the initial cost would be lower.
Obviously development cost would be higher switching over to the new engine, which was my initial thought process for bringing up the use of 2.5.
No kidding. I have been involved in these issues, but I don't believe I have directly attacked or berated anyone.
paperspace
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Yes, and it's still modified and updated to today's standard. I don't really see the point calling it 2.5.
You might as well complain about UE4 being based on UE1. No relevance.
You know what were rad back in the day? Software renderers for 3D engines. Sure, the games looked terrible, but I was content just being able to play Quake 2 and Unreal on my crummy system, which lacked any form of 3D acceleration (yes, not even D3D).
jediyoshi
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Software renderers and 3D wrappers. I do miss those days sometimes.
SteveWinwood
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ive never seen grief be right about anything
I haven't posted a Saoirse gif in almost a week and so since people can't express their frustration with me, they're left to fight amongst themselves.
Rickenslacker
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GLQuake might've been mindblowing back in the day but nowadays I prefer playing it in chunky software vision.
toddhunter
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I used to thrash the shit out of my poor old 386DX. Was still fun.
toddhunter
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Who's Salsa?
I still remember putting together a new system specifically for Unreal back in '98 (?) so I'd be ready for the game when it was released. On my previous machine, I had to scale down the window to play Doom at a decent framerate. I went from that to playing Unreal with a brand new Voodoo2 card, which thoroughly blew my mind at the time.
Some girl.
I remember running Unreal at my 15" CRT's max resolution -- 1280x1024 -- and seeing the frames being rendered on-screen. The game was literally running at 1fps!
Fatal Futanari
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I saw someone from here on Steam playing Timeshift a while back. If you are reading this, how did you get it to run? Mine crashes after it loads the shaders.
Time to play some more NS2 this weekend I guess. It's been a few months.
Atraveller
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Woops, I meant the asteroid shooting part in Dead Space 1. Granted, I got the weird mouse troubles fixed by forcing vsync outside the game.
vikingvessel
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Though it isn't on Steam, does anyone happen to know if there is a simple widescreen fix for Operation: Matriarchy other than the 600+mb complete overhaul? My searches haven't been successful.
Well, this would make it easy to decide between PC or Vita version for me. I still haven't picked it up due to my indecisiveness.
So how is Lords of Shadows, guys? Is it purty?
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Very much so. The fact its also running at 60fps is a godsend too
Nice giveaway!
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