Dacron wrote on Feb 27, 2020, 19:46:

Drayth wrote on Feb 27, 2020, 19:35:
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Reported for lewdness.

Reported for italicized lewdness.

That reveal is very unintentionally hilarious in parts.

Liking what I see.

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: /

I'm at work.. talk to me. How was the reveal?

sof 2 clone, no thnx

I just finished a full play through (beta, obviously). The graphics in Xen are F'ing amazing, but WOW did that go on, and on, and on, and on... got a bit tedious. Only complaint. Everything else makes for a fantastic remake.

Thanks Red. I had grown tired of being the one to drag up old quotes of his to show how wrong he'd get things up the road. It's a near endless treasure trove.

Skadeen skipped town within days of Amazon sending them a letter stating that all of the CryEngine code was included with the licensing of Lumberyard to CIG. That was the death knell of what was left of CryusariverTek's claims. I guess he got the Amazon part right.

Lurker's Guide was pretty much my homepage while that show aired.

Bhruic wrote on Feb 20, 2020, 20:56:

RedEye9 wrote on Feb 20, 2020, 20:27:
What's the developer payday if purchased on GOG .

$15,000,000 million dollars to host a file. I'm in the wrong business.

Yeah. "Host a file". That's all steam does. /s

Well. to be fair, he's used to EGS's level of service.

MT Silver wrote on Feb 20, 2020, 06:33:
I can't believe there's a discussion of living ships and classic sci-fi shows and no one has mentioned Farscape so far.

Or Lexx!

Ok, maybe not Lexx.

Kxmode wrote on Feb 19, 2020, 20:24:

Mr. Tact wrote on Feb 19, 2020, 19:14:

Drayth wrote on Feb 19, 2020, 17:48:
Also, JMS accused Paramount of plagiarizing his work in DS:9, he never mentioned TNG that I know of.

Right. I have no evidence nor can I quote a claim of plagiarism, it was just me speculating wildly...

I think the charge stems from a meeting he had with Paramount suits to pitch B5, which they turned down. A year or so later, DS9 premiered that had mirrored many aspects of B5. Admittedly that was a foundational point. The show ended up going in a different direction than B5, in the same vein, Blizzard originally ripped off Warhammer 40K for StarCraft but gave the series a unique path.

There's actually a few other parallels between the two shows than that, but I can't go there without getting all spoilery.

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodline Unofficial Patch 1366685.4 uploaded to the universal holo-net bringing improved smells to the cereberal wetware port from 2172 of the classic game (also slight tweaks to Malkavian dialogue).

Kxmode wrote on Feb 19, 2020, 17:30:
Unfortunately, I can't! I wish I could ignore the special effects, but I can't. I know that makes me shallow. The acting and plot are top-notch for the first few episodes I've seen, but those "$20 special effects" completely breaks the immersion for me. The quality has to be consistent throughout. I think The Expanse is my Babylon 5 (I know, it's not the same story). But it has top-notch special effects, excellent story, great acting, and unfolding and an ever-growing conspiracy that just keeps pushing the limits. I almost stopped watching because it was such a slow-burner in the first season, but once it got to its starting point, the show kicked into overdrive and never let go of the throttle.

Your loss, but The Expanse is great too. I bet if you just keep watching you would eventually get wrapped up in the stories and the characters enough to start ignoring the FX (they do improve as the seasons go too).

OR...!! Pretend B5 is a cheesy (yet great) tv show within the Expanse universe! Note that things take off after first season, but somehow 99% of all 1'st season episodes become relevant in some way or form eventually.

One thing to note about B5 is it was basically the first American show to have a complete story arc laid out instead of doing the Star Trek episodic thing.

Also, JMS accused Paramount of plagiarizing his work in DS:9, he never mentioned TNG that I know of.

The Half Elf wrote on Feb 18, 2020, 13:40:
My biggest issue is 1) the graphics are reduced, 2) I'm not about to spend another 400+ hours standing up 3) last time I checked mod support was non-existant.

If you're talking Skyrim a quick ini edit allows any of the Skyrim SE mods to run on it (and as one would expect, there's a Skyrim VR subset of SE mods). It also has it's own Skyrim VR script extender.

Also, you can play it seated.

Until the app can be -used- there are several possible scenarios which can occur.

- Highly unlikely, but still hypothetically possible (for anything unreleased) - the game is canceled.
- The game turns out to suck, and actually causes sales to drop and confidence in the VR market to drop as well.

Just running with those two, if either of those scenarios occurred you feel HL:A would be referred to as "The killer app for VR!" vs, "The app that could have been a killer app for VR...."?

I do not feel it can be referred to as a killer app, because there is no app... yet. That's just assuming the VR manufacturer's weren't simply woefully under-stocked due to the slow sales of VR to begin with.

The only thing driving sales right now is hype.

"The less a man makes declarative statements the less apt he is to look foolish in retrospect."

Hype <> Killer App.

This thread just became Half-Life: Can of Worms

Kxmode wrote on Feb 12, 2020, 15:57:

Mr. Tact wrote on Feb 12, 2020, 14:37:
Interesting question: Who has been fucking up worse recently? Blizzard or Microsoft?

Microsoft produces a wide variety of products

Their line of condoms didn't really seem to take off.

I want both.