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Signed On Aug 8, 2006, 22:21
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News Comments > Ships Ahoy - Max Payne 3
41. Re: Ships Ahoy - Max Payne 3 Jun 3, 2012, 11:33 siapnar
 
space captain wrote on Jun 3, 2012, 10:59:
countless times where some long range enemy about 5 pixels tall is full sprinting along and one-shots me in the head with a AK or something
Sounds like CounterStrike

Dades wrote on Jun 2, 2012, 20:10:
You'll be fine with that, just don't max everything out. It looks great even on medium settings.
Thanks Dades
 
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News Comments > Ships Ahoy - Max Payne 3
31. Re: Ships Ahoy - Max Payne 3 Jun 2, 2012, 18:22 siapnar
 
How's the game running for people?

I'm hesitant to buy, considering I only have a 3.16ghz E8500, 4gb of RAM and a GTX 570 OC.

Yes, I know my GPU is being bottlenecked
 
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News Comments > Game Reviews
12. Re: Game Reviews Jun 1, 2012, 16:08 siapnar
 
Is there any way to sell the digital copy of the game?

I'm thoroughly unimpressed with Diablo 3.
 
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News Comments > Dishonored Gameplay Trailer
8. Re: Dishonored Gameplay Trailer Jun 1, 2012, 12:47 siapnar
 
Kudos for them for using some music other than dubstep or fog horns.
And for that music being absolutely fantastic.

Art style is awesome and if the gameplay is anything like Messiah, this could be amazing.
 
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News Comments > Far Cry 3 E3 Teaser
29. Re: Far Cry 3 E3 Teaser May 30, 2012, 23:43 siapnar
 
Wetworks wrote on May 30, 2012, 02:44:
I hope they don't stray from the open world concept of Farcry 2. The trailers I've seen so far have been very linear, it would be a crime to make just another 8hr linear cod clone instead of improving on the flaws of Farcry2.
From all of the videos we've seen, it looks extremely linear with excessive hand-holding.

I love some of the ideas/concepts of this game, but I'm very wary of it's execution
 
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News Comments > Epic Wins Case Versus Silicon Knights
14. Re: Epic Wins Case Versus Silicon Knights May 30, 2012, 23:40 siapnar
 
When I worked on UT2003/UT3 mods and maps, the Epic community managers were extremely helpful in the forums.
I don't see why they wouldn't be in a larger context, unless SK were being unreasonable.

Since I've met a few people at SK and they happen to be pretentious pricks, them being unreasonable doesn't seem like a stretch
 
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News Comments > Skyrim to Add Mounted Combat
14. Re: Skyrim to Add Mounted Combat May 26, 2012, 11:40 siapnar
 
Tanto Edge wrote on May 26, 2012, 01:01:
I'll stick with Mount and Blade until Skyrim supports a thousand troops at once.

The civil wars in Skyrim were sad with their ..six troops? Eight?
Same thing with Oblivion.
I remember one of the main story fights with the Daedra, with talk of an army of troops battling it out on the field.

4 dudes and a chick showed up for the most glorious of battles.
 
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News Comments > Diablo III Claims Sales Record
9. Re: Diablo III Claims Sales Record May 23, 2012, 11:37 siapnar
 
Wowbagger_TIP wrote on May 23, 2012, 11:21:
Creating more PC gamers is a good thing. I still find it funny that people were buying new vid cards for this game though. I just couldn't get into the game though.
I'm into the game, but I don't see it as all that great. It's a good game, but very repetitive and limited.

No need for PC upgrades.. it runs flawlessly on my 4 year-old system, partly due to the clever way the artists built the levels.
Since the world is only viewed from one specific angle, they got away with making a lot of it 2D, rather than 3D.
I must say though, they did a fantastic job masking that fact.
 
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News Comments > Aliens: Colonial Marines Suspense Trailer
26. Re: Aliens: Colonial Marines Suspense Trailer May 22, 2012, 15:28 siapnar
 
Beamer wrote on May 22, 2012, 07:51:
It's based on a movie, so that's expected, right?
I'll never understand the hatred of scripting here. Half Life was one of the most scripted games, and the first super scripted game, and that's part of what made it great. Things like seeing a zombie eating a scientist in the distance, or having a zombie bash through a door to get you.

Scripting is a good thing, so long as it isn't the actual combat scripted but the atmosphere and the way some enemies begin combat (e.g., jumping through a window, bashing in a door, etc.)


Scripting is pretty much awesome and I really, really don't get why so many people go "looks too scripted!" The alternative is pretty much to just have aliens standing out in the open waiting for you to walk into their line of sight...
I think they're leaning more towards the "taking away control from the player scripting" being annoying.

I'm all for scripting in games - the HL series has some of the best - but I hate it when the game rips control away from you and shatters the immersion.
It's basically a cheaper way of scripting, where, since they don't know how to direct the player's attention properly, they just take control of the camera.
 
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News Comments > New DayZ Mod
12. Re: New DayZ Mod May 22, 2012, 14:38 siapnar
 
eRe4s3r wrote on May 22, 2012, 14:35:
From the wording of the change-log I'd say that quality of animations and graphics is not the only problem they have ,)
Yeah, those are just the things that stuck out the most, like a sore thumb
 
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News Comments > New DayZ Mod
10. Re: New DayZ Mod May 22, 2012, 14:15 siapnar
 
Verno wrote on May 22, 2012, 13:32:
Is it as clunky as the videos appear? It looks really poorly animated and stiff, the controls seem a bit wonky unless the people I've been watching are just silly and so on. I like the idea of it but the execution seems a bit...off and vanilla Arma was buggy as shit.
The animations look horrific.
I absolutely LOVE the concept of this mod, but the execution leaves a lot to be desired.
The immersion is completely severed by the utterly shit animations (especially the turbo-mode zombies) and the fact that pretty much everybody looks the same.

I could whip up better animations in a half hour, and I hate animating.
Plus, re-skinning the same player model 4 times to look completely different is rather easy. Like, really easy.


As I said though, I love the concept, and hope that this becomes something great.
Yes, I know it's alpha. Still no excuse for horrible animations and lack of player skin/model variety.
 
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News Comments > Steam top 10
24. Re: Steam top 10 May 13, 2012, 14:56 siapnar
 
RailWizard wrote on May 13, 2012, 14:34:
To anyone thinking of trying DayZ. I'd wait a couple weeks....servers are hammered at the moment. Also Russians....lots and lots of russians. Who will kill your ass without thinking, along with all the CoD rejects who should hopefully become bored after a couple weeks and fuck off back where ever they came from.
Mod looks pretty cool, apart from the horrible zombie animations and the large lack of trusting other people.

How does the 'friendly' system work? Can someone just say they're friendly then pop you in the head anyways?
 
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News Comments > Max Payne 3 Launch Trailer
8. Re: Max Payne 3 Launch Trailer May 12, 2012, 12:48 siapnar
 
Yeah Kung Fu MP provided one of the best gaming experiences of my life.

Max Payne 2 has a ton of mods for it, including many Total Conversions.

Can't wait for this third one, although recently watching E3 Trailer for the original Max Payne makes me very nostalgic and longing for the same game, just using the MP3 engine.
 
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News Comments > Hitman: Absolution in November; Sniper Challenge Bonus
29. Re: Hitman: Absolution in November; Sniper Challenge Bonus May 12, 2012, 12:19 siapnar
 
Cutter wrote on May 10, 2012, 17:50:
A) You must be new to gaming.
B) You must work in marketing to think this sort of crap qualifies as a good idea.

Such an ignorant, aggressive and elitist attitude. It's also a faulty one.
 
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News Comments > Hitman: Absolution in November; Sniper Challenge Bonus
19. Re: Hitman: Absolution in November; Sniper Challenge Bonus May 10, 2012, 15:50 siapnar
 
Not sure why there's such a bad reception to this.

It's a good, and pretty different idea to draw attention to their title.

The mini-game of sniping with style actually looks fun, too.

These days, when DLC and pre-order promotions are pretty much a guarantee, this is probably the most interesting one I've seen.
 
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News Comments > The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing Announced
9. Re: The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing Announced May 10, 2012, 09:32 siapnar
 
Aren't they making another Van Helsing movie with Tom Cruise or something?

This game could be based off that movie... which, naturally, doesn't improve it's chances by any means.
 
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News Comments > Game Reviews
8. Re: Game Reviews May 4, 2012, 17:58 siapnar
 
Pleasantly surprised by the Sniper Elite demo.

When I got my first bone-shattering kill I actually went "ohhhhhhhhh shit"
Of course, the second kill wasn't as impressive, but there's a great deal of satisfaction when you peg a clean headshot on a dude running. I like the addition of tripwires and other guns, as well.

Overall though, I agree, it's not worth the standard price tag
 
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News Comments > Ridge Racer Unbounded Demo
11. Re: Ridge Racer Unbounded Demo May 4, 2012, 15:38 siapnar
 
Ha, yeah, I was referring to only Bugbear's iterations

I'm well aware of Flatout 3's ball suckery
 
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News Comments > Ridge Racer Unbounded Demo
8. Re: Ridge Racer Unbounded Demo May 4, 2012, 14:28 siapnar
 
Wished they'd had gone and made another Flatout instead. Flatout 2 goes down as one of my favourite racers.  
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News Comments > DiRT Showdown Demo
26. Re: DiRT Showdown Demo May 4, 2012, 00:16 siapnar
 
Dmitri_M wrote on May 3, 2012, 07:04:
No Rally game has ever lived upto Rally Championship 2000 released back in '99. Not open world, but it featured true accurate track lengths. So you'd be stuck in the cockput of your beat up rally car trying desperately not to total it at the 34km mark of a 41km stage. Intense.
Richard Burns Rally.

Best... ever.

EDIT: Just saw your post below
 
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