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happyhippy posted:The first Aliens vs Predator game has a game mode that comes close. Oh, that was fantastic! We used to play that over 56k with buddies and loved it back in the day!
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Dongattack posted:i am still brought to tears on a daily basis because the warhamz 40k MMOFPS was cancelled and i was forced to waste my time with planetside 2 Another cautionary tale of the dangers of founders, lifetime and pre-order 100$+ packs. Its a shame since the monetisation model of "Free2Orks" was a really nice idea.
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Iglocska posted:drat that looked good. 40k is just oozing with style. Exactly. You can either love it or hate it, but you know 40K when you see it. And more importantly you can see when something distinctly isn't 40K because it doesn't fit with the already well established themes. The same can be said for most good universes. Star Wars, Star Trek, Alien, Battlestar Galactica, Mad Max, all of these universes have something about them that's distinct. The same goes for Elite and EVE. Star Citizen has none of that and it's entirely Chris's fault. The only defining feature about Star Citizen's art direction is how painfully derivative and generic it is. That's why every conversation starts with how something looks like something else (or looks like nothing at all). Unfortunately everything we've read says that CIG is so mismanaged that nobody really cares about the art assets anyway since they'll be pulled off to do something else six or seven times and even if they do finish something it will likely get un-approved later. But hey, gently caress it. Glowy visors and pretty space jets. That's what's cool these days, right?
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DoctorStrangelove posted:Warhammer seems really dumb and tryhard. Is it supposed to be a parody? Originally yeah It's super heavily influenced by Heavy Metal and 2000AD
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Tippis posted:I need to replay AvP1 and 2. I seem to recall that they were pretty good (if you stayed away from the “P” portion), except for having somewhat unintuitive maps, even for their time. By no means am I a super gamer, especially when it comes to FPS games, but drat I was good at playing the aliens in AvP2 multiplayer. In particular the predator alien who had some sort of powerful leap. I could leap across the board and pinpoint land on people's heads over and over like some kind of horrible giant bloodthirsty devil frog.
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Iglocska posted:Oh, that was fantastic! We used to play that over 56k with buddies and loved it back in the day! Oh, I remember modem gaming. I used to call my friends' phones to make them disconnect when I was losing in Starcraft Also my parents' rage over phone bills, and waiting half an hour for one mp3 to download Ah, the halcyon days of my youth
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DoctorStrangelove posted:Warhammer seems really dumb and tryhard. Is it supposed to be a parody? It's basically everything a twelve year old would find awesome and is completely unashamed of it.
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Tortolia posted:I look forward to seeing the designs they put in The Expanse when they get to the second book. They already had some great looking Martian space marine armor in the show. The books are very well done and well worth reading, and the show is doing a good job at following the books. The show should considering the show's producers are the writers of the books.
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Back on the earlier announcement about Elite selling over 1.4m copies...quote:"As of 30th November 2015, Frontier had net cash of £8.6m. The company called it a "good financial position to support its continuing investment plans going forwards". Time Magazine even seemed surprised by Elite's success to date... Also-- Frontier is slowing pushing their Thargoid narrative forward. Hope all this slow-motion foreshadowing has a badass payoff. G0RF fucked around with this message at 18:53 on Jan 14, 2016 |
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Iglocska posted:What was wrong with the P portion? Slicing others in half with the disc was awesome. It was even more unintuitive in its map design and had god mode. Having no sensible way to move ahead and no real enemies gets boring after a while. G0RF posted:So Frontier has $12.4 million in the bank and did $15.7 million in revenue for the 6 month period ending 11/30/15. How weird is it going to be if/when Frontier ends up with more cash in reserve than Star Citizen in the near future? A well-run business with a reasonably popular product having a better cash position than an labyrinthine insane asylum of a movie-game-tax-dodge company with no product at all… doesn't seem all that weird. e: Wtf is with my spelling today?! Tippis fucked around with this message at 19:00 on Jan 14, 2016 |
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Back in the day there were very obviously parody characters, including a Margaret Thatcher ork
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DoctorStrangelove posted:Warhammer seems really dumb and tryhard. Is it supposed to be a parody? It used to be self aware and a bit goofy but all the people that understood that left and now it's just a competition about who can be the most grimdark and heavy metal and takes itself 100% seriously. Bad times.
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Like maybe I'm just lame but to me all the designs look more goofy than badass.
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Also Elite is a great game but it has a lot of rough edges and definitely requires you to 'create your own fun' since there is no personal story or anything. I'm glad it's sold so well. Unlike a certain other game , Elite actually seems to have a really strong foundation that they are building on.
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DoctorStrangelove posted:Like maybe I'm just lame but to me all the designs look more goofy than badass. That was kind of the point, originally
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someone shoot me a pm when something funny happens, thanks
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Gilganixon posted:eh sometimes you gotta fit down a corridor and it's a hassle to get a gundam down there It's possible to do both... Masamune Shirow's power armor, including the Landmate from Appleseed.     Kow Yokoyama's Maschinenkrieger ZbV 3000...    Studio Nue "Powered Suit" a.k.a. the thing they made before they got the license to do a Starship Troopers anime...   Most of these are about as armored as an IFV and mostly under 3 meters tall. The Maschinenkrieger and Studio Nue stuff was made to be space-borne as well as ground combat.
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Scruffpuff posted:I would think that for the typical Star Citizen backer, the concept of reproduction would be enough to break immersion. First time that the in game animation is shorter than my real life experiences.
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Literally The Worst posted:Back in the day there were very obviously parody characters, including a Margaret Thatcher ork gently caress you Inquisitor Obiwan Sherlock Clousseau is the pinnacle of art. DoctorStrangelove posted:Like maybe I'm just lame but to me all the designs look more goofy than badass. My point exactly. To you the 40K style looks goofy. To me it looks over the top and awesome. In contrast Star Citizen is just  .
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Tijuana Bibliophile posted:star citizen is a crap name by the way The neverending wishlist
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Warriors of the future are supposed to look like this.
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:gently caress you Inquisitor Obiwan Sherlock Clousseau is the pinnacle of art. Just you wait until iconic characters such as "Admiral Bishop" and "Old Man" enter the cultural lexicon.
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Tijuana Bibliophile posted:star citizen is a crap name by the way Ask Chris Roberts ask if he'll rename Star Citizen in 10ftc and he'll promise to do so after the game has been released. Which is probably true.
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Tippis posted:A well-run business with a reasonably popular product having a better cash position that an labyrinthine insane asylum of a movie-game-tax-dodge company with no product at all… doesn't seem all that weird.
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Young Freud posted:It's possible to do both... that stuff sort of reminds me of the power armour from The Forever War:  but I was raised on Terminators and the Brotherhood of Steel so I like me some armoured suits. E: but not the sq42 ones because those are sad and lame
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G0RF posted:I'm not so cynical that I still can't be staggered by the scale of squandered opportunity on display here. I hope I never am. Cynicism is just reality on a finer scale. Or was that paranoia?  Ooh, now I have to re-watch that movie too.
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DoctorStrangelove posted:Warhammer seems really dumb and tryhard. Is it supposed to be a parody? Depend on who is writing for it. The early years are your regular space fantasy with some humour and parody element but the IP "mid life crisis" around its 3rd edition was a turn to full on grimderp, with things like rounding errors in a document causing the death of billions or loosing a hundred super tanks (each one the size of large houses) due to shipping errors. The recent Games about have tried to be more just "Metal" and forget about things like the Penitent engine, Sisters repentina and Nemesis Dreadknight (A power armor for your power armor)
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quote:CIG felt that having more stretch goals would risk prolonging development time, and instead chose to focus on finishing the core game mechanics before adding more features to their plate
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iron buns posted:https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/40xwv3/been_out_of_the_loop_for_a_while_what_happened_to/cyxxz92 And it only took them $40 million in stretch goals to realize it!
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happyhippy posted:The first Aliens vs Predator game has a game mode that comes close. Alien Tag was also dope as hell.
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Dusty Lens posted:Ask Chris Roberts ask if he'll rename Star Citizen in 10ftc and he'll promise to do so after the game has been released. I was wondering, will there be a so-called "prequel" of Squadron 42, starring the previous 41 Squadrons? I need their lengthy stories told in detail for ~immersion~ also can I sex the fempilot and who else can i sex and do u hav pixx plz
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drat Dirty Ape posted:Warriors of the future are supposed to look like this. Battletech? Battletech. Everyone knows that if your battle armor doesn't come with a set of bitchin' built in speakers it's just not worth having 
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:gently caress you Inquisitor Obiwan Sherlock Clousseau is the pinnacle of art. Sly Marbo
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e: holy poo poo, go gently caress yourself My Internet.
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Iglocska posted:drat that looked good. 40k is just oozing with style. The other funny thing to keep in mind is that the guy that did that short, Erasmus Brosdau, used to work for CIG. It was also done in Cryengine (He quit a while ago iirc though).
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EightAce posted:Lemmy, Bowie, Rickman .... True talent. God is dead. Shimrra Jamaane posted:So Elite Dangerous has announced that it has sold 1.4 million copies. Does anybody know how many copies of SC/SQ42 have been pre-sold? iron buns posted:Why go with a power armor at all when you could go with an awesome space mecha? None of those soft and easily shot parts, plenty of pew pew and dakka. I would absolutely play a high fidelity CryEngine (StarEngine???) Space Gundam game.
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iron buns posted:https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/40xwv3/been_out_of_the_loop_for_a_while_what_happened_to/cyxxz92 woah Chris posted:Starting with $66 million, I want to start focusing everyone on the level of detail and immersion that everyone’s support is enabling it reads like a cry for help
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mrking posted:I would absolutely play a high fidelity CryEngine (StarEngine???) Space Gundam game. It's not high-fidelity at all, but Strike Suit Zero was pretty dope if you're jonesing for some Macross Missile Massacre.
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Gilganixon posted:that stuff sort of reminds me of the power armour from The Forever War: Where's this from? I'm familiar with The Forever War, but the only designs I remember was the spacesuit from the dutch comic adaptation. It's a nice touch to have the fragile heating fins clearly visible. spacetoaster posted:Sly Marbo They haven't changed a bit since there's a whole series of adventures involving a pirate captain named Haarlock. Young Freud fucked around with this message at 19:17 on Jan 14, 2016 |
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