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A new Doom 3 (Xbox) trailer came out yesterday. Looks like all new in-game footage. Get it at IGN or FilePlanet

We use our own Quake 2 mod to do a lot of the storyboards for our episodes, it's a good fast way to see exactly what a camera would see. We also just draw pictures too.

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Latex!

Sorry those be the rules, don't like it use dial-up at my place.

Sorry those be the rules, don't like it use dial-up at my place.

I filled in the form on fileplanet, but didn't get an email within half an hour, so I don't know if they are emailing me one or if it will require the FP installer.
umm, it seems to be an IE only style page. I tried 3 times in the ol' firefox to no avail. Put your /. pride aside and launch IE and visit this page again.

Sorry to AC, but've I modded this one a lot and don't want it to go to waste.

For some odd reason you have to use a seperate link to actually get your Tribes 2 CD Key.

The link for generating the key is http://www.fileplanet.com/promotions/tribes2_cgw/. .
And yes, you do have to veryify your email address on your Fileplanet account BEFORE you go to that page.

Yeah, I know Fileplanet is evil, but I could never get ifilm movies to play on my computer (Linux).

What, you don't remember the infamous Chex Quest? It used the Doom engine, but really looked like something Wolfenstein would be ashamed of. It even had two sequels.

I guess it is weird enough to escape a "worst of all time" label. But it should garner a "best of so-bad-it's-good." Sometimes you can find them online.

Why are argue about it when you can play it :)

Don't know if the download is available elsewhere.

cheers, Coward

Unfortunately, violence happens to be the only way to secure liberty. Nothing else works.

This shit continues until finally we, the people, rise up and smite these bastards.

Of course, when we rise up, they sick Apache helicopters on our ass.

We are so fucked.

wavetwisters the movie.

bang the machine (officialsite missing?) (fileplanet trailer)

random fun from jlist (anime and art films and more)

random fun from giant robot

Koyaanisqatsi (1983)

Fantasia (1940)

Dogtown and Z-Boys (2001)

Q3 ran fine on my oldskool radeon with no accelerated drivers through wine with no problem at all.

Why the hell would you run Q3 through wine on Linux? Just download the Q3 Linux binary.

So I downloaded the demo and am playing this Liberty Island level with the statue of liberty destroyed. I've got an AMD k6-2 380 with a TNT2 card. This sucker runs horribily! It's like a freaking slide show! This is supposed to be the Unreal engine, but there's nothing here. I mean, the statue of liberty level looks cool and everything, but honestly. It takes a 600 with a Voodoo5 to get any kind of decent framerate. Who at Ion Storm thought they could get away with just supporting 3dfx cards? This should work just as well on my nvidia card as it does on my brother's 3dfx card. Just because nvidia is new to the game doesn't mean Ion Storm should drop it! Unreal Tournament runs no problem, so what gives?

And the gameplay design. What horrible AI! You can shoot Bad Guy A who's standing beside Bad Guy B, and Bad Guy B freaks out for a minute but if you hide, he's goes back to business as usual, even though his smoking buddy is laying knocked out cold on the ground. How realistic is that?!? Wouldn't the guy go get friends or something? Wouldn't he call up his supervisor on some kind of futuristic radio? Give me a break, this is completely non-real Ion Storm. All you have to do is kill the guys one at a time, hide, and then kill the next guy. Whoopie. And there's more! Like the bad guys would actually leave a vent hole with boxes at the side of the building that you can climb up into. Honestly. The AI sux Ion Storm! They don't even dodge behind buildings, and all you have to do to run away from guys is enter a vent. You can shoot a guy with a poison dart, walk away and come back 5 minutes later and the guy is still standing there like you never hit him. Wouldn't he be looking for the bastard that shot him with the poison dart? Whatever. Don't give me this "Guess it was the wind crap."

The skill system SEEMS neat, but it's so unrealistic. As if within a period of 5 minutes gametime and a helicopter ride to a different level you suddenly become a better swimmer. Riiiiiight.

And let's not even talk about the inventory system. Sure, I got used to it within an hour, but it's like a freaking jigsaw puzzle! Why can't they just use what 's worked FOR THE LAST 10 FREAKING YEARS since Wolf3d and just give me 10 weapons, 1-10. None of this number slot crap. It's like they completely ignored everything that has been done before. Why do I have to inventorize all this freaking ammo! I'm like a walking weapons depot or something. good grief.

This is definitely not as scary as System Shock 2 either. Which, I might add, runs completely FINE on my system. They should have just made it like System Shock 2 and stuck with what works, throw in some conspiracy theories and leave it at that.

Let's not even talk about the physics.

I hear that halfway through the game you can't even sneak around anymore because there are these near-invincible commandos! sup wit dat Spector!?

I don't understand why I have to upgrade my computer just to play this game. It's like Ion Storm was just ignoring their customer base from System Shock 1 and 2 and Thief, which all run fine on my PC. This demo will definitely stop me from buying Deus Ex!

If you don't feel like downloading it, it takes place in 2004 in Antarctica, where scientists and men with guns find a pyramid built by predators and run into teenage predators fighting aliens in a manhood ritual.

http://www.fileplanet.com/files/130000/132403.shtm l

http://www.fileplanet.com/files/110000/112186.shtm l

http://zc.zeldaxtreme.com/movies.shtml

and google

If fileplanet doesn't work for you, please use zeldaxtreme or google, but don't slashdot any of these fan sites.

Supposedly Bink uses a compression technology based on wavelets that is not used anywhere else. Looking at the quality of that movie, it seems pretty interesting. That would be a neat reverse-engineering project, for somebody with the time.

Also, the Planet Half-Life Screenshot Gallery, a page with a huge number of interviews with Valve staff and previews of the game, and Videos. The huge one is awesome.

September 30th! I can't wait!

The graphics suck...a lot.

Why do people always say stuff like that? Nuts. You don't even notice the graphics after a few weeks. The game isn't in the presentation, it's in the mechanics. That's what the game is to those who still play it. The moving and shooting, not the pretty skins.

Some people don't even care if the player models look like people; they use stickmen versions for higher FPS and to precisely show the hitboxes. Think about it this way: is chess just as fun when you use plain, functional pieces instead of carved, beautiful pieces?

Personally I don't see the big whoop. Although I hope I'm still alive when the gameplay itself has graphics like that of the cinematics in these game movies. Remember the trailer at the beginning of Quake 3: Arena? I nearly shite myself a the thought of gameplay someday being that detailed and intense. Will it ever?

FilePlanet has a Quicktime movie of the Half-Life 2 E3 presentation. Looks like the physics engine will ensure you can interact with almost anything in the game.

Unfortunately, for _true_ interaction, you need a dataglove and some kind of a HUD. (Question: how much would they cost if mass-made?) FPSs' gun metaphor (and consoles' controllers) are what is really holding back fully interactive gameplay.

Funny, I run Linux and seem to recall enjoying playing:
Neverwinter Nights,
Unreal Tournament 2003,
Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory,
America's Army,
Return To Castle Wolfenstein,
and Quake 3

None of which require WineX or VMWare to be installed.
Yes, there are some games that only run in Windows, but developers are starting to see how easy it is to make a Linux port and pick up some free advertising and some more sales simply for the fact that there's a native linux client.

Another game coming soon that will ship with a linux version included in the windows box is Savage.

(what was I saying about free advertising?)

My question is, why do people seem to prefer creating excellent mods for a game like Half-Life and not so much for a game like Quake 3.
Quake3 while yes a good engine, has a few problems, the texture maps make it look dark and cartoonish. HL textures look better compared to Q3.

I would love to be playing these mods natively under Linux
WineX from transgaming, works great for HL.

Also, does anyone know how the Doom 3 engine will compare with the Half-Life 2 engine with regards to the mods.
HL2 engine is going to be the hot game engine for the next 5 years. After seeing the 600meg mpeg of HL2, the demo they gave at E3, its an engine that you can do anything with.

What I havnt heard anyone talk about it, how HL2 engine will be compared to the CS2 engine, since they are not based on the same engine. So will people just port CS to HL2 and be done with it? Or will the CS be locked into a weaker engine? That would be quite disappointing.

Anyone else feel ID got a little scared when they saw the Half Life II trailer? Much like the 3D Realms guys see their technology be eclipsed every six months?

I cannot express the feelings I felt when I first saw this game, except that pervailing knowledge that my life will become less meaningful than usual come September.

They have. And it looks awesome. It's just that, frankly. The Half-Life 2 stuff looks MORE awesome, and is overshadowing it.

Yeah, the NOLF2 cutscenes were cool, but graphics-wise they will have nothing on Half-Life 2 once it comes out. Check out the 500mb footage at fileplanet and search for it.

Oh? So then I guess "illegal p2p" sites like GameTab (bittorrent) and FileFront (redswoosh) aren't a solution for getting game demos faster than CrapPlanet's fantastic client-server lines eh?

P2P is a hack

Why do I get the impression that your job depends on the centralization of power that client-server allows?

If I need to download a BF1942 patch, I'll get it and delete it

Speak for yourself. Not everyone is as selfish as you apparently are, and p2p will eventually have reputation systems for weeding rogues and assholes out of our webs of trust.

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Still, I can't recall a game that I haven't been addicted to without playing the demo first, e.g Uplink, System Shock 2, Sim Golf or even Rise of Nations. I mean even Mr. Driller I tried out before I bought the damn thing.

I cannot think of one game that has not been demoed, developers know that the one way to get a good game known and bought is to release a demo, well except for SS2.

what about those obnoxious adds you'd get when you visit fileplanet (http://www.fileplanet.com) they are shockwave/flash adds. i use mozilla's phoenix browser and sometimes konqueror. assuming you have the flash plugin installed how would the browser block those? i've seen more and more of those quite recently

Well, actually the files are hosted on fileplanet, so it should be pretty ok.

Try here or here.

Linux Client || Windows Client

And for anyone without a subscription, save your trolling and go find a freebie mirror. :o)

Linux Client || Windows Client

And for anyone without a subscription, save your trolling and go find a freebie mirror. :o)

I gotta say, of all the Linux games I've tried, Alpha Centauri is most tight. Not only was there no messing around trying to get the thing to run, it's a big fat game with good graphics that will keep you busy for a long time.

If you want to check out the demo, you can download it here.

Speak of the devil, the demos are now posted to Fileplanet for both the Linux and Mac versions of the game.

Now if they'd just activate the button that allows you to actually BUY the game. ;)

Speak of the devil, the demos are now posted to Fileplanet for both the Linux and Mac versions of the game.

Now if they'd just activate the button that allows you to actually BUY the game. ;)

the trailer is also up on fileplanet and fileshack.

http://www.fileplanet.com/download.aspx?f=120963

Might as well spread the waiting around a little.

I'm fairly happy with my Geforce 4 MX, which is a big step up from my old Geforce 1 ddr. I've been utilizing the video capture feature of it and you can download a movie of me outrunning cops in Vice City, HERE.

I'm just curious... what is so bad about MX that it only cost me $112 Canadian dollars to get the card? I find that it gives me pretty good fps in Quake 3.

But Doom 3 will be another story, methinks. :)

Kewl...Yes, I certainly enjoyed the origonal Hired Guns for the Amiga...Interestingly enough I thought that if this game were done right, it would be an extremely kewl concept for a realtime multi-player 3D game...As a small footnote, an incomplete and extremely buggy AGA version was actually available through "alternate channels"...

To add to what you mentioned about the "3D" (PC) version ... as far as I can tell, the last company that had anything to do with the rights to Hired Guns (3D) was VR-1 (Jaleco) ... now largely an X-Box developer (how ironic). In 2000, they released this 2:50 minute movie at E3 and even had a "sneak peak" page on their main site. There were a few stories in magazines and on websites that discussed the unique gameplay...but now, the only mention of it on the company's web site seems to be in an "about us" page...

Just out of curiosity, did you come from the Amiga before your work on Hired Guns (your nick would suggest so) or were you strictly PC???

It's surely looks like ONI to me. ONI was missing a lot of details and the 3d world was kind of block shaped, but i hope it will be the same 'genre'. Things i loved about were the anime style 3d, and the fact that it was running very nicely on my old laptop (a 333Mhz).

Well, StarCraft ghost looks far more beautiful, i hope they'll be a dozen of combo to do. Btw, a funny thing is that ONI means ghost or demon in Japanese... So, is this StarCraft - ONI? ;-)

Check the web for some shots, scripts and maps at ONI Central and ONI Res. Btw, you can download the demo it's not that big, and i guess i'll playing it in some minutes again.

freddo

Well have you played Unreal Tournament 2003 yet? It has this really cool game called Bombing Run. Its like Death Match football, very cool.
Penny Aracde did a little write up of it, and a comic.
You can get the demo from fileplanet of course.

FileFront
Nvidia
3D Gamers
Beyond Unreal
The Shack
HomeLan Fed
Aus Gamers
File Planet
Faster Files
Blue's News
Gigex
FragLand
GameSpot.

And the fastest mirror that I've tried yet was Nvidia's, though you have to download six split files and run a script to recombine them.

Unreal Tournament v428 Full Install (Linux)

http://www.fileplanet.com/files/80000/89344.shtml

http://diesel.2y.net/video/tetris_japan_finals.mpe g

I love the Orwellian double-speak above the pic on the front page of that link:

Operation: DEFEND YOURSELF ?

Maybe someone should tell the US Military that 'offense' is *not* defense...

Its funny how the US calls its armed forces 'defence forces' and such - when in reality, the US Army is the most offensive force in the world. There is virtually no chance of armed conflict in North America (oceans as natural barriers), but American military is not meant to 'defend' themselves - its meant to goto war around the world. Just look at any of the 70 armed conflicts USofA has been involved in since WWII.

Defence my ass. Warmongers -- and this "Video Game" is patent jinogism (inspite of the editors non sequitor).

If you go to this page at Fileplanet.com, they have a CD burning service where you can fill up a CD with files and they'll mail it to you. I'm not sure how much the CD costs, though.

(Grabbed from a NWN Forum post by Derek French - NWN Assistant Producer)

Greetings all:
We are trying to organize a list of Beta Toolset Mirrors. If you have the Toolset and have a mirror of the install files, please post them here.

Also, for your download security pleasure, here are the MD5 checksums for the individual files:

AUTORUN.INF - C14C468795575BCE73D84989262479B4
data1.cab - 181F15C7F19E07C92727D9C49E820E40
data1.hdr - B4F103D55E8FFAAA94505716A7C82DE1
data2.cab - A7B82CE88F1FAF469892FC12208655D8
ikernel.ex_ - 4D63BBFF28AFC7A69B6DEFAF048306A7
layout.bin - 26D40B394685321838E00002C30CBEE7
readme.txt - 6CD49925A70C04B3393DEF39F44F4B51
setup.bmp - 03A01D22277FFC06F91B475696946B81
Setup.exe - 1AEB989E361AF85F5099DE3DA25457F4
Setup.ini - FEB5DB091554FE2E65CFED8E2E9D292A
setup.inx - 5AFB35300108D078A2B942DD85759E45
FilePlanet version: NWN_Tools_BETA.EXE - 6D4B52FE7264C16BE9A0A3B506E9456C

MIRROR LIST: 3D Gamers Link
Baron Bosse Link
FilePlanet Link
gec Link Link Link

http://130.237.161.56/NWN_Tools_BETA.EXE

AusGamers
(Sydney Australia)

I've mirrored the code on FilePlanet for those of you who can't download from 3DDownloads. Enjoy!

What's so great about Halo? Perhaps you missed Warthog Jump.

i download on average about 5 gigs per week. that might seem excessive but i like to download almost every new demo on fileplanet as well as keep a well updated drivers database. (im a technician, what can i say?) besides that and getting various distros of linux on the regular, i use probably more than the average user. but all my uses are legal and justified considering what i purchased the service for. i guess the final determination is how much bandwidth is the upper limit.