redwalrus posted:

A Neurotic Jew posted:

I just owned Octopode so hard he actually gave up arguing.

Worship me.

trucutru posted:

Can you own Seraph?

xanif posted:

Can someone explain to me the massive amount of Octopode hate occurring?

redwalrus posted:

Octopode posted:

At some point when running towards a brick wall, the prudent person will stop.

redwalrus posted:

A Neurotic Jew posted:

Seraph is literally schizophrenic so no, there is no winning with Seraph.

Young Freud posted:

Word has it that he's got enough money, you have to pay him in weed these days.


I was reading one of those reddit threads when the Star Marine FPS trailer got released last night. There was a guy who said he could never get into an "earthbound" shooters like CoD and that this looked awesome to him. The latest CoD has you doing power leaps, speed runs, ziplining, and jet packs in an exo-suit. The next CoD will have cyborg powers. Saints Row 4 gave you superpowers such as flight. I'll even go back, Halo 2 has a moment where Master Chief goes all Major Kong on a Covenant battleship. That dude has been missing out and his gaming knowledge is loving weak.

xanif posted:

Can someone explain to me the massive amount of Octopode hate occurring?

Iridium posted:

i don't think he's incompetent. I think he has interesting vision and an interesting set of skills.

but he also lacks the self awareness to see that he isn't the one to manage a project like this, and wasnt the one that should have led Freelancer. he should have surrounded himself not just with strong talent (and a lot of it was before it jumped ship), but with competent and experienced managers / producers who would handle the minutiae for him, and check him when he's getting off the rails.

Instead his first two hires were his wife and a completely incompetent and unprofessional yet absolute and unyeilding suckup, and then threw both of them into jobs at which they had zero real world experience. Which really kind of points to the problem, doesn't it.



if anyone happens to have gotten Pillars of Eternity, it comes with a "making of" video which is really loving poignant when you compare what they went through... a 4mil kickstarter for a respected but floundering company to get back to the storytelling roots of what they did best... and brought in the right people to make some of the hard calls. And they did all this, as they said, because they weren't just representing the trust in their company, but the trust in kickstarter and crowdfunding in general. It puts SC into a radically different light, not least because Pillars specifically hired a couple of people to be that voice of reason, and the lead programmers and devs knew this was a good and important step and worked with him to get poo poo done and released just a few months later than anticipated... yet still in the open development poo poo all the whiteknights for SC are crowing about.

Good Dumplings posted:

That's kind of interesting, because that's exactly what got on my nerves so much about the minimovie. Everything and everyone was so generic - you get the nice guy, the girl with attitude, the cool-headed briefing officer - and there's nothing really distinctive about any of them. They're all around the same size, all have the same short hair, and all have the same muted color palette that everything else on the ship has. Who are these people? Why do I care about them? Nothing really happens in the demo, so they don't have a character to establish, so all I have to go on is visuals, which are all just varying shades of gray and orange.

Everything about it was just baffling; the first glimpse of this movie consists of some guy making a Generic Rousing Speech, then a tour around a bunch of corridors. No dogfights, no tense launch off the deck as a swarm of unstoppable monsters beyond the stars tear apart your home base, nothing. They could've even just had a sad scene where a salvage team is picking through the wreckage of a dead battlegroup, finding corpses for burial to actually give a sense that there's a war for the player to win. No, let's establish our setting by walking around corridors for an hour.

Octopode posted:

At some point when running towards a brick wall, the prudent person will stop.

redwalrus posted:

peter gabriel posted:

All I'll say about how 'revolutionary' this is is this

"Gordon they are waiting for you in the test chamber"

Adventure Pigeon posted:

Octopode is hilarious and I enjoy his posting.

G0RF posted:

"You'll just have to wait until after THE TEST."

Zeike posted:

lol

Sillybones posted:

Saying lies and ignoring reality. When his lies backs him into a corner he ignores everything and changes the subject.

Octopode: There are other people in this thread that still have faith in the game that aren't being poo poo on. We hate you for you.

Sarsapariller posted:

Well you're not wrong, it is dramatically a very flat scene. But we've had that discussion several times in this thread and the general consensus is that the whole of SC is kind of aesthetically bland due to a lack of any real vision except "Like Wing Commander But Not". There's not really a lot of creativity going into anything, just obsessive spaceship detailing. So I guess that part didn't stand out to me as really awful- it just seems like the general atmosphere of the game now. That being said, as a tech demo for how you'll interact, it was a bit nicer than anything they've shown so far. Is it going to make me go buy the newest package? No. Would I have preferred a dogfight scenario thrown in there, or some actual writing? Hell yes. I was just happy that they'd apparently made some progress on an aspect of the game we hadn't seen before. Yes, that is an unbelievably low standard- that's why I've been selling all my poo poo and asking for a refund for the last month.

Sarsapariller posted:

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/starmap

Star Map's pretty cool for a bit of browser tech, I will give Turbulent props for that. Wish it was actually part of the game and it would have been nicer a year ago, but oh well.

Octopode posted:

You seem to have me confused with someone else.

Zeike posted:

Sarsapariller posted:

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/starmap

Star Map's pretty cool for a bit of browser tech, I will give Turbulent props for that. Wish it was actually part of the game and it would have been nicer a year ago, but oh well.

peter gabriel posted:

You know when you put new batteries in your TV remote and it's a pain in the rear end but you finally get the lovely plastic back cover on and then point the remote at the TV, press a button but nothing happens, then you take the lovely cover back off and you've put a battery in the wrong way round so you have to stick your finger nail in and pull the battery out but because the pokey out bit of the battery is pointed at the spring in the remote it's REAL pain in the rear end and the spring tries to hold the battery in but eventually it snaps free and the battery goes flying across the room and all you wanted to do was put the drat news on anyway?

That's Octopode, he's the wrong way around battery being awkward

OhDearGodNo posted:

I'm seeing this quite a bit. Praise for features that exist elsewhere. I wonder if many of these people have played a recent game. Everything from Kevin Spacey in CoD to the blending of short cutscenes in BF4 has been done, and done smoothly.

Wafflz posted:

why do those spaceships have swing wings?

e: also why is one the dropship from aliens?

Sarsapariller posted:

It does kind of raise the question of how they're ever going to get the other capships built though, since this was the smallest one and it's taken them years to flesh out. It also raises the question of exactly how much they've got done, given how rough a lot of the clipping and animation was.

fuctifino posted:

fuctifino posted:

Octopode posted:

Part of the stated reason that it took so long to implement was that Turbulent wanted to engineer something that could be picked up, entire, and put directly into the game. I'd expect the in-game implementation to be very similar, if not identical.

Octopode posted:

Part of the stated reason that it took so long to implement was that Turbulent wanted to engineer something that could be picked up, entire, and put directly into the game. I'd expect the in-game implementation to be very similar, if not identical.

peter gabriel posted:

Digging the AV!

Sarsapariller posted:

The whole thing's done in javascript though so I'm not sure how they'd do it without having to have an in-game web browser or something equally top heavy. Which I wouldn't put past them given that whole arm-mounted UI thing they waved around briefly. At this point in the project's life cycle I'm a lot less interested in possibilities though, and more interested in when stuff's actually going to be released.

redwalrus posted: