There is no way in hell any other game developer would license the Rage engine.
Why would they? There are a bunch of other engines around that do the job at way cheaper rates. I don't think one developer has licensed Idtech5 as of right now, although I could be mistaken.
Meh... "silent story", to me, frequently means "blow lots of shit up first; we were too bored to make a story, so our fans will do that work for us". Not always, but frequently.
I tend to disagree. Some of the best games have no talking at all in them. Video game designers aren't that good at Hollywood scripts. If you look carefully at Rockstar Games... these guys KNOW how to do it. They know how to make a game feel like you're right there and you can get right into the story. The technology is there also, but it's riding back-seat where it belongs.
The story and the entertainment is what's worth paying for, not technology. I mean give me another game that looks the same as all the others and I'll play it for weeks and weeks... years even if it has some hook for me. Some reason to play.
Here is what I'm looking forward to and I hope it doesn't suck:
Well to be fair Reznor started out working on the sounds for Doom3 (which can be heard in the "leaked" E3 Doom3 alpha). He dropped out of the project because it was just taking too long.
I have it on good authority he dropped out because he wasn't that much into it. Doom 3 was pretty bad, tbh.
Doom 1 & 2: technologically amazing, creative, dark and scary... total game changers. Quake: Flipped the industry in its ear. Half Life 2, created much later, was the only game that could replace Quake, and it was built originally around Id's Quake engine. Quake 2: colored lighting, easier implementations of sounds and better models. Kinda cool story but sort of lame too. Rubbery physics. Better networking. Quake 3: Popcorn baby. Popcorn game. Slick looking but zero nutrition. Awesome networking. Doom 3: Scary at times, but slow as fuck and boring in parts. Terrible acting. Quake 4: lol just bad. Looked good but pretty boring.
See the downward trend here? Yeah that started when Romero left and stopped caring about making good games.
I'm a long term Id fan here. Let me start by saying the latest id-Tech engine looks awesome, but the buck stops there. The story and the characters look pretty cardboard, when they should be amazing if we're applying the technology uniformly over every possible realm of creativity.
There's a kind of goofy appearance to things, and you can see the split-second jitter when scripted sequences switch between one sequence and the next.
Also this looks too campy. It seems like Id is really missing some of the grit that it had back when it was released Quake. They had Nine Inch Nails do the soundtrack and a lot of the sounds were created by Trent Reznor. All that stuff went away when John Romero left, or at least most of it just fell by the wayside when John Romero forgot he was a cool kid and started making cellphone games instead of gritty grindhouse type stuff.
This appears to be nothing more than an engine release that is dressed up a bit in order to sell the technology.
Look at Battlefield 3; that is the kind of game I expect from Id Software, but we get something kinda goofy.
I'd like to see what Valve would do with this engine if they licensed it -- but I'm not convinced Valve needs it.
It's about a grind for gear no mater what you do. Gear is the high level content.
I have to disagree.
Very geared players who aren't elite are not going to push the kind of numbers that undergeared skilled players will push. That means if you quit the game, you can come back in and you'll outshine the people who are fully geared if you put a little effort into getting tuned up with shit you can buy from the AH and drops from pug groups.
People that quit the game will probably agree with you because the way you describe wow certainly is the way it used to be, but I have it on good authority being 5/7 hardmode Firelands that gear has almost NOTHING to do with successful end-game raiding experience right now.
Bliz has accepted that everyone is going to gear and itemize their stuff in order to get to the end bosses, that's a given. The thing separating the players in top ten guilds from everyone else is the skill. Skill of play, skill of strategy, and skill of communication and skill of working with other trusted people. If you are missing skill in any one of the four following areas, you will fail at endgame raiding in wow as of right now... or perhaps just before the tanking buff just introduced. Bliz just announced a threat mechanic buff that will make threat essentially non-essential to the game. Now all players can just spam the hell out of anything in heroics and the tank will still have control.
In fact, guilds with very little gear can down hardmode bosses because they are just that good. There is little difference in the DPS results from a i372 (easily bought from AH now) and an i385+ player (hardmodes down), if the i372 player has elite skill, class and fight mechanics.
Bottom line here is, the game might seem annoying to some of you if you don't have the patience for it, but if you do enjoy the push to the new content, you'll enjoy the game as much as I do right now. It's a blast and I can't wait for the new content to see what other challenges will be thrown at us.
People who think of challenges as being a PITA will not be able to defeat H-Ragnaros until the next tier or perhaps the next two tiers if ever.
Now if that's not your thing, then I don't see the point of the game. Bliz has a game for you then, which is a fun goofy dungeon crawler that you'll enjoy. Diablo 3... it's gonna be a lot of fun. There will be more epic parts of that game if you go hardcore with it, but my guess is that it's the kind of fun game we've been waiting for when we're not raiding endgame wow and it will probably appeal to a really large audience at least for a while.
Isn't that an extreme case, magarity? Do you really think I'm going to end up like Kaczynski because I think people in general prefer falsehoods over scientific fact? We pander to businesses that provide us with a false case.
We love movies and we love music. Music is all about how some girl loves you and she's gonna sleep with you if you buy the right cologne or if you drive the right car. Movies are all about perpetuating the lie that women won't sleep with you unless you're cut-throat in business and have lots of money and a great body. For women flip it around. The film industry foists its beliefs upon young girls that they have to look a certain way or they won't get asked to the prom. So they shove fingers in their throats to try and fit the mold.
Facebook is just a business like other businesses and they are going to try and make people believe this stuff matters and has merit, but that notion is false. Six degrees of separation on Facebook will not get Bill Gates or Warren Buffet to invite you to their private members only club for a game of golf and a Swedish massage. It won't get them to buy something from you. It won't get those kinds of people to notice you.
It won't get you a date, either.:) Okay it MIGHT get you a date but you'll seem like a total stalker if you try.
Real science is always scoffed at buy businessmen because it often gets in the way of profit. Profit is only generated by bullshitting people, and science is the act of making people see the facts. No businessman wants you to see the facts or even consider them.
Think about it. Someone buys something ridiculously cheap and resells it for insane profit. That's crazy! But it happens every day and even SCIENTISTS buy things at five times the standard material price, or more! Except of course, DIY people. These are the purist scientists who not only know how to put things together but they also know how to create things with their hands that are better than marketed versions of the product for a number of reasons.
Facebook doesn't know anything about me. I have subscribed there and posted there for a long time.
They sell the information they have collected on me to other companies and they make a tidy profit for it, but the funny thing is that what they are selling has nothing to do with me. It won't help someone market better to me. It won't help someone convince me to buy something.
The reason this kind of thing doesn't work is pretty easy. I'm the kind of person that makes purchasing decisions based on the actual products or services and my perception of them, along with my decision of whether to trust them. Anyone working with Facebook I automatically distrust. I never trusted Yahoo to begin with, especially when they had the overgrown mess of a website back when Google was starting its journey.
So it really doesn't surprise me that Facebook has partnered with Yahoo, but to be honest I couldn't give a shit about it.
This is just ivy league idiots passing money around. There is nothing more going on here.
Privacy erosion is slow. What you do wrong today you might not notice until five years from now when you're applying for a job, or trying to get a mortgage or trying to get married. Shit you put on Facebook is the permanent record that your high-school guidance counselor warned you about.
People surrender their freedom every day when they go to work. Why wouldn't they then ALSO surrender their freedom when they are goofing off at work?
When Playstation Network was hacked I laughed because I wasn't stupid enough to give them my personal info or a password used in multiple other places. I had a distinct password sent to them and they never saw a dime from me over a credit card.
When it comes down to it, what other people call paranoia, I call standard practice.
This is pretty funny considering that all laptops are manufactured by the same company, including Apple's laptops. As for security, they just demonstrated a total kernel pwn for ios recently, so I'd be willing to go on record that all the companies suck at security. When it comes down to it, if you want to break into something you can find a way. These companies would get a lot farther if they realized that nothing is really secure and instead they decided to give people what they want out of the box instead of collectively dismissing our rights to purchase real property.
Yes, that would certainly calm things down. [/sarcasm]
I'm pretty tired of hearing these riots being referred to as being anything remotely like V for Vendetta. These are young people, disenfranchised people without jobs or educations, robbing stores and beating people up and stealing their stuff. None of them are attacking the government directly for political reasons. They are hurting their own people; it's a social implosion and it's fucking sad.
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Why would they? There are a bunch of other engines around that do the job at way cheaper rates. I don't think one developer has licensed Idtech5 as of right now, although I could be mistaken.
Can't play Starcraft 2 on this. MONEY!
I tend to disagree. Some of the best games have no talking at all in them. Video game designers aren't that good at Hollywood scripts. If you look carefully at Rockstar Games... these guys KNOW how to do it. They know how to make a game feel like you're right there and you can get right into the story. The technology is there also, but it's riding back-seat where it belongs.
The story and the entertainment is what's worth paying for, not technology. I mean give me another game that looks the same as all the others and I'll play it for weeks and weeks... years even if it has some hook for me. Some reason to play.
Here is what I'm looking forward to and I hope it doesn't suck:
http://survivorzero.com/
I have it on good authority he dropped out because he wasn't that much into it. Doom 3 was pretty bad, tbh.
Doom 1 & 2: technologically amazing, creative, dark and scary... total game changers.
Quake: Flipped the industry in its ear. Half Life 2, created much later, was the only game that could replace Quake, and it was built originally around Id's Quake engine.
Quake 2: colored lighting, easier implementations of sounds and better models. Kinda cool story but sort of lame too. Rubbery physics. Better networking.
Quake 3: Popcorn baby. Popcorn game. Slick looking but zero nutrition. Awesome networking.
Doom 3: Scary at times, but slow as fuck and boring in parts. Terrible acting.
Quake 4: lol just bad. Looked good but pretty boring.
See the downward trend here? Yeah that started when Romero left and stopped caring about making good games.
Quake was cool. It was simple.
It had a silent story and that made it better in many ways, more enthralling as a result.
As a gamer, I'd like to see a Quake TC come out of this game.
I'm a long term Id fan here. Let me start by saying the latest id-Tech engine looks awesome, but the buck stops there. The story and the characters look pretty cardboard, when they should be amazing if we're applying the technology uniformly over every possible realm of creativity.
There's a kind of goofy appearance to things, and you can see the split-second jitter when scripted sequences switch between one sequence and the next.
Also this looks too campy. It seems like Id is really missing some of the grit that it had back when it was released Quake. They had Nine Inch Nails do the soundtrack and a lot of the sounds were created by Trent Reznor. All that stuff went away when John Romero left, or at least most of it just fell by the wayside when John Romero forgot he was a cool kid and started making cellphone games instead of gritty grindhouse type stuff.
This appears to be nothing more than an engine release that is dressed up a bit in order to sell the technology.
Look at Battlefield 3; that is the kind of game I expect from Id Software, but we get something kinda goofy.
I'd like to see what Valve would do with this engine if they licensed it -- but I'm not convinced Valve needs it.
You should have posted this anonymously just for the hell of it.
Slim Pickins is now slim pickens, I'm afraid.
I have to disagree.
Very geared players who aren't elite are not going to push the kind of numbers that undergeared skilled players will push. That means if you quit the game, you can come back in and you'll outshine the people who are fully geared if you put a little effort into getting tuned up with shit you can buy from the AH and drops from pug groups.
People that quit the game will probably agree with you because the way you describe wow certainly is the way it used to be, but I have it on good authority being 5/7 hardmode Firelands that gear has almost NOTHING to do with successful end-game raiding experience right now.
Bliz has accepted that everyone is going to gear and itemize their stuff in order to get to the end bosses, that's a given. The thing separating the players in top ten guilds from everyone else is the skill. Skill of play, skill of strategy, and skill of communication and skill of working with other trusted people. If you are missing skill in any one of the four following areas, you will fail at endgame raiding in wow as of right now... or perhaps just before the tanking buff just introduced. Bliz just announced a threat mechanic buff that will make threat essentially non-essential to the game. Now all players can just spam the hell out of anything in heroics and the tank will still have control.
In fact, guilds with very little gear can down hardmode bosses because they are just that good. There is little difference in the DPS results from a i372 (easily bought from AH now) and an i385+ player (hardmodes down), if the i372 player has elite skill, class and fight mechanics.
Bottom line here is, the game might seem annoying to some of you if you don't have the patience for it, but if you do enjoy the push to the new content, you'll enjoy the game as much as I do right now. It's a blast and I can't wait for the new content to see what other challenges will be thrown at us.
People who think of challenges as being a PITA will not be able to defeat H-Ragnaros until the next tier or perhaps the next two tiers if ever.
Now if that's not your thing, then I don't see the point of the game. Bliz has a game for you then, which is a fun goofy dungeon crawler that you'll enjoy. Diablo 3... it's gonna be a lot of fun. There will be more epic parts of that game if you go hardcore with it, but my guess is that it's the kind of fun game we've been waiting for when we're not raiding endgame wow and it will probably appeal to a really large audience at least for a while.
There is no level of applied security that can thwart applied freedom.
Of course!! He's learning how to get rich!
He could have used one proxy service and been fine. More proof that crime doesn't pay, unless you are a _real_ criminal. LOOK AT WALL STREET!
Make billions. Build islands out of awesome tech stuff.
Next step?
Build mothership!
I proved that the Earth is flat. Just now.
I placed my coffee on my desk and it didn't roll off therefore the EARTH MUST BE FLAT!
Once again, I am as smart as Microsoft.
That is all.
Isn't that an extreme case, magarity? Do you really think I'm going to end up like Kaczynski because I think people in general prefer falsehoods over scientific fact? We pander to businesses that provide us with a false case.
We love movies and we love music. Music is all about how some girl loves you and she's gonna sleep with you if you buy the right cologne or if you drive the right car. Movies are all about perpetuating the lie that women won't sleep with you unless you're cut-throat in business and have lots of money and a great body. For women flip it around. The film industry foists its beliefs upon young girls that they have to look a certain way or they won't get asked to the prom. So they shove fingers in their throats to try and fit the mold.
Facebook is just a business like other businesses and they are going to try and make people believe this stuff matters and has merit, but that notion is false. Six degrees of separation on Facebook will not get Bill Gates or Warren Buffet to invite you to their private members only club for a game of golf and a Swedish massage. It won't get them to buy something from you. It won't get those kinds of people to notice you.
It won't get you a date, either. :) Okay it MIGHT get you a date but you'll seem like a total stalker if you try.
Real science is always scoffed at buy businessmen because it often gets in the way of profit. Profit is only generated by bullshitting people, and science is the act of making people see the facts. No businessman wants you to see the facts or even consider them.
Think about it. Someone buys something ridiculously cheap and resells it for insane profit. That's crazy! But it happens every day and even SCIENTISTS buy things at five times the standard material price, or more! Except of course, DIY people. These are the purist scientists who not only know how to put things together but they also know how to create things with their hands that are better than marketed versions of the product for a number of reasons.
Facebook doesn't know anything about me. I have subscribed there and posted there for a long time.
They sell the information they have collected on me to other companies and they make a tidy profit for it, but the funny thing is that what they are selling has nothing to do with me. It won't help someone market better to me. It won't help someone convince me to buy something.
The reason this kind of thing doesn't work is pretty easy. I'm the kind of person that makes purchasing decisions based on the actual products or services and my perception of them, along with my decision of whether to trust them. Anyone working with Facebook I automatically distrust. I never trusted Yahoo to begin with, especially when they had the overgrown mess of a website back when Google was starting its journey.
So it really doesn't surprise me that Facebook has partnered with Yahoo, but to be honest I couldn't give a shit about it.
This is just ivy league idiots passing money around. There is nothing more going on here.
Privacy erosion is slow. What you do wrong today you might not notice until five years from now when you're applying for a job, or trying to get a mortgage or trying to get married. Shit you put on Facebook is the permanent record that your high-school guidance counselor warned you about.
People surrender their freedom every day when they go to work. Why wouldn't they then ALSO surrender their freedom when they are goofing off at work?
Can we please set up an IPO for this? I'm game!
When Playstation Network was hacked I laughed because I wasn't stupid enough to give them my personal info or a password used in multiple other places. I had a distinct password sent to them and they never saw a dime from me over a credit card.
When it comes down to it, what other people call paranoia, I call standard practice.
This is pretty funny considering that all laptops are manufactured by the same company, including Apple's laptops. As for security, they just demonstrated a total kernel pwn for ios recently, so I'd be willing to go on record that all the companies suck at security. When it comes down to it, if you want to break into something you can find a way. These companies would get a lot farther if they realized that nothing is really secure and instead they decided to give people what they want out of the box instead of collectively dismissing our rights to purchase real property.
I'm pretty tired of hearing these riots being referred to as being anything remotely like V for Vendetta. These are young people, disenfranchised people without jobs or educations, robbing stores and beating people up and stealing their stuff. None of them are attacking the government directly for political reasons. They are hurting their own people; it's a social implosion and it's fucking sad.
And these four guys.
Ronald Reagan also.