The other thing that can make or break any piece of visual media is the music - a good composer can make your emotions dance to his tune.
Part of that is timing and when a game changes pace depending on what you are doing the music has to change to fit. Which makes this a job not just for the composer but also for whoever programs the music system. Two minutes of dramatic chase music is just annoying when you finish the chase after one minute...
I read of one planet in the seventh dimension got used as a ball in a game of intergalactic bar billiards. Got potted straight into a black hole, killed ten billion people. Only scored thirty points, too.
People who have no experience with FPSs may get disoriented at first, but, beyond that, all the initial chambers are really, really easy.
I've watched experienced FPSers breeze through the first few levels and then get stuck, jump through an endless loop for a while and then give up with a headache!
High hopes for Portal 2.
Very much agree! I'm just disappointed it isn't still coming out in October, but I guess I shouldn't be surprised!
I wasn't too fussed as the game ran like crap on my system anyway - despite the fact that it seemed to fit the requirements - and online play would probably have been painfully slow. I only bought it because it was ultra cheap on Steam. Why it needed Steam, Live and (I think) Rockstar accounts is beyond me. Seriously weak.
I didn't see it as a "puzzle" game at all - it was usually obvious what you needed to do and just a matter of doing it.
Maybe you and I are just more intelligent than most people. I've watched a number of my friends try to play it only to get stuck on the most basic levels.
Unfortunately that's the only part of your comment I can agree with. I thought it was original (both the portal idea and the idea of having what is basically an FPS in which you don't have to kill hundreds of people), funny (in a nicely twisted sort of way). Yeah, it was a bit short but it was enjoyable and (if I recall correctly) didn't cost as much as a full-length game.
I won't be buying Portal 2 unless I know it's going to evolve from Portal, not just be more of the same.
Have you seen the trailer? It looks pretty evolved to me.
I get the feeling that Valve is fantastic at game development and unbelievably shitty at project management.
Maybe it's the lack of management that makes their games good? From what I've read about Valve the people that work their don't have specific job titles, they just work on what needs to worked on or what they want to work on. Which would mean people only work on games that they actually care about, which would mean they actually try to make them good rather than just throwing them out of the door.
Also, it's worth remembering that Valve is a relatively small company. There's been no news on Ep3 because they've been busy making Left 4 Dead 2, Portal 2, Steam for Mac (and working on Steam for Linux or so I hear) and updates for Team Fortress.
Speaking of drivers, I bought an HP printer with claims to support only Mac and Windows. Lo and behold, turns out there is a 'NIX driver,
Hmmm. By "support" did they mean "will only work on mac/pc" or "if it's not working we'll only give you support (i.e. help) if you're on mac/pc as the number of different flavours of Linux make support a headache"?
I never understood why people expected Anikan to be likeable.
Maybe because he wasn't supposed to be a dick from the start but was supposed to have been a normal jedi turned by the power of the dark side into a monster. Maybe it's just me but I didn't get the impression that it was the dark side that turned him. Sure, he was an innocent little kid in episode 1 (and by the end was Darth Vader) but as soon as Hayden Christyouractingiswooden took over he just seemed like an arrogant prick who wanted power, consequences be damned.
So you don't want a tablet. That's allowed but it doesn't mean they are useless or that everyone else feels the same way you do. I'm not blown away by the iPad but if this drives down the price for tablets that I can use for drawing and multi-touch music making then I'm all for it.
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The other thing that can make or break any piece of visual media is the music - a good composer can make your emotions dance to his tune.
Part of that is timing and when a game changes pace depending on what you are doing the music has to change to fit. Which makes this a job not just for the composer but also for whoever programs the music system. Two minutes of dramatic chase music is just annoying when you finish the chase after one minute...
None as they are both games made by the one company (as the parent notes), Introversion.
I read of one planet in the seventh dimension got used as a ball in a game of intergalactic bar billiards. Got potted straight into a black hole, killed ten billion people. Only scored thirty points, too.
So it's easier than we thought - all we have to do is create the second sentient machine!
It is fire that is coming from friendlies, not fire that is, in itself, friendly.
It probably makes more sense to shout "friendly fire!" that "Misdirected allied fire upon members of the same - oh too late, he's dead."
...because there are so many Steam games for Mac right now?
c) The student has either an XBox 360 or a PS3.
Portal is not difficult by any means.
That's what I thought!
People who have no experience with FPSs may get disoriented at first, but, beyond that, all the initial chambers are really, really easy.
I've watched experienced FPSers breeze through the first few levels and then get stuck, jump through an endless loop for a while and then give up with a headache!
High hopes for Portal 2.
Very much agree! I'm just disappointed it isn't still coming out in October, but I guess I shouldn't be surprised!
I wasn't too fussed as the game ran like crap on my system anyway - despite the fact that it seemed to fit the requirements - and online play would probably have been painfully slow. I only bought it because it was ultra cheap on Steam. Why it needed Steam, Live and (I think) Rockstar accounts is beyond me. Seriously weak.
Same here though the game was GTA4. Not sure if it was the same error message but I never managed to get it to work.
Ah, shame :(
Though considering the range of games currently available for Mac, it's no huge loss.
Just don't show the hooker's tits!
I didn't see it as a "puzzle" game at all - it was usually obvious what you needed to do and just a matter of doing it.
Maybe you and I are just more intelligent than most people. I've watched a number of my friends try to play it only to get stuck on the most basic levels.
Unfortunately that's the only part of your comment I can agree with. I thought it was original (both the portal idea and the idea of having what is basically an FPS in which you don't have to kill hundreds of people), funny (in a nicely twisted sort of way). Yeah, it was a bit short but it was enjoyable and (if I recall correctly) didn't cost as much as a full-length game.
I won't be buying Portal 2 unless I know it's going to evolve from Portal, not just be more of the same.
Have you seen the trailer? It looks pretty evolved to me.
I get the feeling that Valve is fantastic at game development and unbelievably shitty at project management.
Maybe it's the lack of management that makes their games good? From what I've read about Valve the people that work their don't have specific job titles, they just work on what needs to worked on or what they want to work on. Which would mean people only work on games that they actually care about, which would mean they actually try to make them good rather than just throwing them out of the door.
Also, it's worth remembering that Valve is a relatively small company. There's been no news on Ep3 because they've been busy making Left 4 Dead 2, Portal 2, Steam for Mac (and working on Steam for Linux or so I hear) and updates for Team Fortress.
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That's not likely to happen any time soon.
So, next week.
PhotoShop? Bloated, cumbersome, and twitchy.
Compared to what?
Speaking of drivers, I bought an HP printer with claims to support only Mac and Windows. Lo and behold, turns out there is a 'NIX driver,
Hmmm. By "support" did they mean "will only work on mac/pc" or "if it's not working we'll only give you support (i.e. help) if you're on mac/pc as the number of different flavours of Linux make support a headache"?
I never understood why people expected Anikan to be likeable.
Maybe because he wasn't supposed to be a dick from the start but was supposed to have been a normal jedi turned by the power of the dark side into a monster. Maybe it's just me but I didn't get the impression that it was the dark side that turned him. Sure, he was an innocent little kid in episode 1 (and by the end was Darth Vader) but as soon as Hayden Christyouractingiswooden took over he just seemed like an arrogant prick who wanted power, consequences be damned.
Can't we just put him out of our misery?
So you don't want a tablet. That's allowed but it doesn't mean they are useless or that everyone else feels the same way you do. I'm not blown away by the iPad but if this drives down the price for tablets that I can use for drawing and multi-touch music making then I'm all for it.
The chance of two planets being destroyed is less than the chance of one being destroyed. He's not saying it's safe. He's saying it's safer.
Shut the fuck up, Donnie.
(I've never even been to the US but I have heard of the In-n-Out Burger!)
Maybe, but that's not what's happening here.
You mean like internet tubes?