Mercenaries is a revolutionary 3rd person action-shooter game set in the near future and inspired by real world events. On the eve of a historic reunification of North and South Korea, a ruthless general stages a military coup to take control of North Korea and threatens the world with nuclear war. As one of the top operatives for a private mercenaries company called Executive Operations, you have been called in to help collect bounties on the general's top military and scientific advisors.
Hmmm... Red Faction is using the Lithtech Engine, I believe...better for blowing up walls. And No One Lives Forever is not a James Bond games, but a Bond-like game, based on 60's spy stuff. I'm not sure it runs quake 3 either. The Quake 3 engine bond game is named The World Is Not Enough (doi). At least, this was true the last time I checked.
"You should never have your best trousers on when you turn out to fight for freedom and truth."
Kevin and Adrian fired Paul Steed in retaliation, over my opposition.
It's kind of right there that he did stand up and fight for him. Although John would have left over not being able to make Doom3, he wouldn't, and shouldn't leave, go on strike, or anything that drastic over Steed. I hate to see Steed go. He'd be able to do amazing things with a new engine. He's done amazing things in the past. But don't diss JohnnyC for not doing something he did. He couldn't really do anything. The men who control the company, well, cotrol the company. It's as simple as that. And remember, almost *all* of them were willing to be fired. If they made it out with only one casualty(sp?), that's worth it. I still wish we could somehow get Sted back though....
"You should never have your best trousers on when you turn out to fight for freedom and truth."
What the hell is this? I mean, I'm literally shaking. I can't believe that the people at Id would ever do such a thing. True, I only knew them through their interviews and, of course, games, they seemed so dedicated to, and only to, making good games that this seems impossible. I mean, Paul Steed...Paul fucking Steed! Pardon my language, but shit man! As an artist....the best things that came out of the games were the characters! Lifelike to the extreme, thanks to Paul. And all this infighting.... I simply can't believe it. "Doom 3 or fire us?" I'd glady take a different game than Doom, with Steed working on it, than Doom remade without Steed anyday. Not to say I oppose a new Doom, it sounds awesome, but shit man... Did it have to go down this way? As I read the.plan, all I could do was say "what the fuck" over and over. First Looking Glass, now Id is going down the crapper. Ok, it's not that extreme yet, but everything has a first step. And what about the new pack? Did they just decide they didn't need him for that? Was his work done? How can they replace him? It won't be the same man, it just can't. Can anyone think of anything , short of boycott to get him back?
"You should never have your best trousers on when you turn out to fight for freedom and truth."
Could you list everything liscenced from your books? And perhaps, if you know, where said items are available? I know of the movie, radio show, games, a t shirt, a comic book, a a card set...but is that all? I sure hope not.
"You should never have your best trousers on when you turn out to fight for freedom and truth."
A while ago, Penny Arcade had up 3 movies, featuring gameplay from FF9 and 10, and concept art for FF11 (apparently a MMRPG.) They took it down about a day after it went up, perhaps becuase it was bootlegged out of a theatre. The stuff from FF9 looks great, but FF10...It took me a few times watching it to realize it wasn't a prerendered animation sequence I was watching, but actual gameplay of the main guy running around. Friggin' Amazing. I don't know if it was posted anywhere else, but it's probably worth finding them to see it. The movies are about 3 min each. "You should never have your best trousers on when you turn
It will be very hard to get even half of the jokes in the book into the movie. Unless, or course, they use a narrative thingy, a la the HHGTTG "movie" the BBC made. How do you say "There was a loud popping sound just like that of a vaccum closing around a dog's ear which had been suddenly turned inside out" without actually saying that? (Quote is very paraphrased, i haven't read the book in a while) Anyway, if they can pull is off, it'll be great. If it gets past pre-production:P "You should never have your best trousers on when you turn
My first thought upon reading this article was: AOL needs to die! My second thought was that Jon Katz could make Mother Teresa sound evil cuz she didn't use Linux. "You should never have your best trousers on when you turn
Do you think this will really change the way you live? Do you think the entire 'net is gonna change just cuz Time is AOL's bitch? No. We'll still have IRC. We'll still have ICQ or an equivilant. We'll still have whatever mail client we want to use. AOL isn't going to change the internet, they're just going to put more people on it. And I don't see how that can be a bad thing. "You should never have your best trousers on when you turn
Scott didn't say UF wasn't funny. He said the strips about tech support aren't funny. Because they're mean. But I, and apparenly most of the posters here, feel that the comics are not mean, and his reasoning is incorrect. "You should never have your best trousers on when you turn
Although I don't agree with what Scott said, i think he was misrepresented in the above writeup. He didn't say the comics weren't funny. He just said the ones about the lusers weren't funny. To him. He didn't say anything really drastic like "We should boycott UF." He didn't say "My comic is better." I think all he was trying to say was "We should be nice to even stupid people." Which isn't a horrible idea. But, like many others have posted, most of the (l)users aren't stupid, they just aren't using common sense, or aren't reading the instruction manuals before calling tech support. And that's really what's funny. "You should never have your best trousers on when you turn
Yeah, no articles or anything on this? I'd like to get some info so I know exactly what to ask these guys to stop doing "You should never have your best trousers on when you turn
yeas, well, i'm obviously not gonna jump right into it. But it gives me somewhere to go after i mess around with wolf and doom:) "You should never have your best trousers on when you turn
This is sweet. I'm just starting to get the whole "programming" thing into gear, and id gives me everything I need! Thanks tons for the early Christmas gift, Id! "You should never have your best trousers on when you turn
Wasting time? Have you any idea how profitable to large, monopolistic companies these lawsuits are? "You should never have your best trousers on when you turn
I'm sure he was nothing like he was in his film. Otherwise he would have had an ejection seat and rocket boosters on his car. Although the articles don't sepcifically say it *doesn't* have rocket boosters... "You should never have your best trousers on when you turn
That's it, I'm moving to Canada, where this shit doesn't....oh, they did it there too?...crap... "You should never have your best trousers on when you turn
Indeed. I'm exposed to more new and different bands through mp3s than through word of mouth or the radio. For example, I'm not gonna go out and buy some random artist's cd for 10$. And i'm not gonna listen to a radio station that routinly plays music I don't like, but sometimes plays an interestingly new song. But I WILL download a random mp3, to see if i like the band. I think ultimatly it will help the record companies more than hurting them. Or at least the indie artist. "You should never have your best trousers on when you turn
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Mercenaries is a revolutionary 3rd person action-shooter game set in the near future and inspired by real world events. On the eve of a historic reunification of North and South Korea, a ruthless general stages a military coup to take control of North Korea and threatens the world with nuclear war. As one of the top operatives for a private mercenaries company called Executive Operations, you have been called in to help collect bounties on the general's top military and scientific advisors.
http://www.lucasarts.com/games/mercenaries/
Hmmm... Red Faction is using the Lithtech Engine, I believe...better for blowing up walls. And No One Lives Forever is not a James Bond games, but a Bond-like game, based on 60's spy stuff. I'm not sure it runs quake 3 either. The Quake 3 engine bond game is named The World Is Not Enough (doi). At least, this was true the last time I checked.
"You should never have your best trousers on when you turn out to fight for freedom and truth."
His firing hurts so much more because, as I was reading the .plan, I was installing Q3A in the background....
"You should never have your best trousers on when you turn out to fight for freedom and truth."
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Kevin and Adrian fired Paul Steed in retaliation, over my opposition.
It's kind of right there that he did stand up and fight for him. Although John would have left over not being able to make Doom3, he wouldn't, and shouldn't leave, go on strike, or anything that drastic over Steed. I hate to see Steed go. He'd be able to do amazing things with a new engine. He's done amazing things in the past. But don't diss JohnnyC for not doing something he did. He couldn't really do anything. The men who control the company, well, cotrol the company. It's as simple as that. And remember, almost *all* of them were willing to be fired. If they made it out with only one casualty(sp?), that's worth it. I still wish we could somehow get Sted back though
"You should never have your best trousers on when you turn out to fight for freedom and truth."
Check the Blues News archives from the past few days, Zoid. Someone just made a program that would allow Doom DM to run in a client/server manner. :)
"You should never have your best trousers on when you turn out to fight for freedom and truth."
What the hell is this? I mean, I'm literally shaking. I can't believe that the people at Id would ever do such a thing. True, I only knew them through their interviews and, of course, games, they seemed so dedicated to, and only to, making good games that this seems impossible. I mean, Paul Steed...Paul fucking Steed! Pardon my language, but shit man! As an artist....the best things that came out of the games were the characters! Lifelike to the extreme, thanks to Paul. And all this infighting.... I simply can't believe it. "Doom 3 or fire us?" I'd glady take a different game than Doom, with Steed working on it, than Doom remade without Steed anyday. Not to say I oppose a new Doom, it sounds awesome, but shit man... Did it have to go down this way? As I read the .plan, all I could do was say "what the fuck" over and over. First Looking Glass, now Id is going down the crapper. Ok, it's not that extreme yet, but everything has a first step. And what about the new pack? Did they just decide they didn't need him for that? Was his work done? How can they replace him? It won't be the same man, it just can't. Can anyone think of anything , short of boycott to get him back?
"You should never have your best trousers on when you turn out to fight for freedom and truth."
Could you list everything liscenced from your books? And perhaps, if you know, where said items are available? I know of the movie, radio show, games, a t shirt, a comic book, a a card set...but is that all? I sure hope not.
"You should never have your best trousers on when you turn out to fight for freedom and truth."
A while ago, Penny Arcade had up 3 movies, featuring gameplay from FF9 and 10, and concept art for FF11 (apparently a MMRPG.) They took it down about a day after it went up, perhaps becuase it was bootlegged out of a theatre. The stuff from FF9 looks great, but FF10...It took me a few times watching it to realize it wasn't a prerendered animation sequence I was watching, but actual gameplay of the main guy running around. Friggin' Amazing. I don't know if it was posted anywhere else, but it's probably worth finding them to see it. The movies are about 3 min each.
"You should never have your best trousers on when you turn
It will be very hard to get even half of the jokes in the book into the movie. Unless, or course, they use a narrative thingy, a la the HHGTTG "movie" the BBC made. How do you say "There was a loud popping sound just like that of a vaccum closing around a dog's ear which had been suddenly turned inside out" without actually saying that? (Quote is very paraphrased, i haven't read the book in a while) Anyway, if they can pull is off, it'll be great. If it gets past pre-production :P
"You should never have your best trousers on when you turn
My first thought upon reading this article was: AOL needs to die! My second thought was that Jon Katz could make Mother Teresa sound evil cuz she didn't use Linux.
"You should never have your best trousers on when you turn
Do you think this will really change the way you live? Do you think the entire 'net is gonna change just cuz Time is AOL's bitch? No. We'll still have IRC. We'll still have ICQ or an equivilant. We'll still have whatever mail client we want to use. AOL isn't going to change the internet, they're just going to put more people on it. And I don't see how that can be a bad thing.
"You should never have your best trousers on when you turn
Scott didn't say UF wasn't funny. He said the strips about tech support aren't funny. Because they're mean. But I, and apparenly most of the posters here, feel that the comics are not mean, and his reasoning is incorrect.
"You should never have your best trousers on when you turn
Although I don't agree with what Scott said, i think he was misrepresented in the above writeup. He didn't say the comics weren't funny. He just said the ones about the lusers weren't funny. To him. He didn't say anything really drastic like "We should boycott UF." He didn't say "My comic is better." I think all he was trying to say was "We should be nice to even stupid people." Which isn't a horrible idea. But, like many others have posted, most of the (l)users aren't stupid, they just aren't using common sense, or aren't reading the instruction manuals before calling tech support. And that's really what's funny.
"You should never have your best trousers on when you turn
Yeah, no articles or anything on this? I'd like to get some info so I know exactly what to ask these guys to stop doing
"You should never have your best trousers on when you turn
yeas, well, i'm obviously not gonna jump right into it. But it gives me somewhere to go after i mess around with wolf and doom :)
"You should never have your best trousers on when you turn
Does anyone know where I can find info and the tools/compilers to mess around with this?
"You should never have your best trousers on when you turn
This is sweet. I'm just starting to get the whole "programming" thing into gear, and id gives me everything I need! Thanks tons for the early Christmas gift, Id!
"You should never have your best trousers on when you turn
Redhat 6.0 was released? when did this happen! why didn't anyone tell me! :P
"You should never have your best trousers on when you turn
Wasting time? Have you any idea how profitable to large, monopolistic companies these lawsuits are?
"You should never have your best trousers on when you turn
I'm sure he was nothing like he was in his film. Otherwise he would have had an ejection seat and rocket boosters on his car. Although the articles don't sepcifically say it *doesn't* have rocket boosters...
"You should never have your best trousers on when you turn
Here's a CNN article on it as well
"You should never have your best trousers on when you turn
That's it, I'm moving to Canada, where this shit doesn't....oh, they did it there too?...crap...
"You should never have your best trousers on when you turn
Yeah.....I'm gonna sue Id and Valve over lost work hours. Stupid deathmatch......
"You should never have your best trousers on when you turn
Of course, outlawing the tools isn't so unheard of....Guns, for example....
"You should never have your best trousers on when you turn
Indeed. I'm exposed to more new and different bands through mp3s than through word of mouth or the radio. For example, I'm not gonna go out and buy some random artist's cd for 10$. And i'm not gonna listen to a radio station that routinly plays music I don't like, but sometimes plays an interestingly new song. But I WILL download a random mp3, to see if i like the band. I think ultimatly it will help the record companies more than hurting them. Or at least the indie artist.
"You should never have your best trousers on when you turn