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  2. Posted

    I found the writing/presentation of that writing in Saints Row 3 to be the best of any game. I know it is over the top and ludicrous, but there are more stand out moments In that game than most of my top 10 combined.

     

    One of the games I enjoy most for its writing is Knights of the Old Republic II. It's a bit inconsistent, I mean it's a massive RPG with lots of aliens so some of the dialogue can get pretty bad, but on the whole I adore it. I do think it's quite subtle and you have to contemplate the story a bit to get something out of it. The game leaves a lot of stuff unanswered, unexplained and unresolved. I don't know how intentional some of that is, because the development of the game was suddenly wrapped up about 6 months too early. It's part of what I like about it and it's also what frustrates some people. It's a game about Star Wars though, so it can't be as profound as a story about something more human, but as a Star Wars thing it's the best written by far.

     

    I don't want to get into specifics too much, but I don't think you'd complain about the plot being too overt.

     

    Also KOTOR 2 is one of my favourite games of all time, because it is one of the most dark representations of Star Wars.

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    man you guys get really nervous about stuff... Just chill and take it as it comes :)

     

    Also, I love my job, and I get to listen to podcasts and music all day while I create/edit AutoCAD drawings. And I get to come on here at lunch!

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    I think that's pretty much everyone's intention, but since no one can really understand what will offend someone else it's an impossible task. I didn't know about "crippled" until today, and I'm not sure what word I'd use to replace it in conversation. I'm still not convinced that "crazy" should be offensive to anyone, but apparently it is. *shrug* I dunno, I just stopped talking to people, it's the Seattle way.

     

    Not talking to people is the best way.

     

    Aberdeen is pretty bad for all things offensive to be honest.

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    I have been brought up to be nice and polite to everyone i meet, regardless of their culture, race, sex or background. And thats what I do.

     

    I dunno, I find it hard to understand how people cant to do that. 

  9. Posted

    When stewmull mentioned that PC Gamer podcast I remembered it too and discovered I still had it downloaded on iTunes. Here's the bit where they talk about Tales of Monkey Island and accost a certain someone for poor UI design:

     

    http://soundcloud.com/sam_crisp/pc-gamer-uk-podcast-extract

     

    Ha! Well, those decisions came from a level above any of the names mentioned, including Nick Breckon's mine. Oh well. I actually didn't have trouble with the movement once I got used to it but it's definitely not as elegant as pointing and clicking.

     

    I am so glad this was found! thanks Sam! :D really miss John Walker, Tom Francis and Tim Edwards podcasting together... The crate and crowbar is a good substitute though :)

     

    Also jake we all know you are better than that :P

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    Yeah, lenses for POV footage are always a compromise. Without the wide angle, they don't simulate stuff whipping by your peripheral vision so everything looks really slow. With a wide shot, the trail ahead flattens but looks like it falls away more steeply to either side. I'm planning the next prototype of this cable cam, which will (hopefully) be much faster and more stable. Let me know if you fancy messing around with one later this year (though rigging them is a bitch at the moment).

     

    Definitely going to do more skills courses, there are some good teachers near where I'm headed. With the XC bike in that video, I definitely got to the point where I felt like I was at the limits of the bike.

     

    Enduro/all mountain bikes are the way to go man! full sus 140/160mm travel is all you need for everything apart from world cup DH tracks, I ride my all mountain bike way more than the DH rig.

     

    I will keep you in mind if i venture down south in the summer for some filming/riding... Always wanted to go to Chicksands...

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    Looks gorgeous. Do you film a lot of trails?

     

    , much faster and crash less after a bit of training with someone who knew what they were doing :)

     

    That's Hemlock Stone, which is one of the few places people go and build stuff around Nottingham. I'm a way off being able to ride DH, but these past few years really feel like I've been building some skills. Watching some of my cornering in that video makes me cringe now.

     

    I did a course in enduro at dirt school last year and it was so helpful it was crazy. A whole day of riding with a coach and like 4 other people at innerleithen. It was in the chucking it down all day too, so if you didnt do what they told you to do you would crash, a lot. which I did. But after 3 or so hours it all set in and its weird how easy some things become with a little bit more knowledge. 

     

    I would highly recommend it!

     

    Also, watching back that video i was just like 'god I look so slow, and this track looks flat as fuck' haha Gopros do that though.

    I plan on taking my go pro on every ride or hill I climb this spring and summer, and make a compilation at the end of the year :)

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    Nowadays, long commutes do the same for me. I only got back into MTB as a year round surrogate for snowboarding, then realised that holy shit had I missed it.

     

    Haha its weird how one ride can get you back on it, the last year i havent been doing as much. Reason for that was snapping my collar bone riding downhill tracks, you lose confidence in your own ability injuring your self :/ 

     

    But after watching the supercross for the past couple of weeks I am itching to get back out on the DH rig.

    Riding DH is the most peaceful thing in the world for me. This is my go pro footage of half of my favorite trail http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTfIqQDUwwY.

    Two years ago i filmed that, weird. WAY faster now haha.

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    Watch 'Ohm Wrecker' on youtube, he was the first guy to beat it. The thing I learnt from him was to use almost all of the early locations to gain scrap crew etc. as the fleet arc speeds up the further you get into the game.

    I always take out the rocket pods first, they will do the most damage and set fires etc.

    I normally use a stealth generator and as soon as I see the rockets firing I cloak.

    Also fire all of your rapid fire lasers at once, rather than sustained fire. Go for the shields first and then wepons.

    When it comes to the drones, I take down the shields then the robot room.

    Also try kill the people in the weapon pods, so they cant repair them, but just killing them doesn't stop them firing.

     

    I beat it almost every time now on normal. For what that is worth.

     

    Oh and pause, A LOT.

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    Yeah, I've found the same, at least with the younger ones. A bunch of guys I've met who are doing MTB into their forties are much nicer, but the others, I end up having too many horrible conversations where they bring up immigration, some other Daily Mail issue, or (more trivially) "Why would you play video games they're not real do a real thing outside".

     

     

    To be honest one of the reasons I ride mountain bikes is so I can get away from everyone. Especially the secret trails where no one goes (and they are built better than any trail centre haha).

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    I started listening a couple of days after they finished the first batch of 51 pods, I was super bummed about missing out. They the 13 or so with Gaynor were amazing.

     

    And remember when they announced the kickstarter and I was super stoked :D

     

    I heard about them from the Uk PC gamer podcast, just a off hand comment by Tom francis about how some UI was bad and he thought jake seemed smarter than that or something, really weird how that turned out...

     

    Well done thumbs! And I wish you another happy 10 years! :)

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    I used to find that living in Nottingham (about 800,000 people), I'd notice the small town mentality of people I tended to bump into in Derby (about 200,000); i.e. more conservative, more frequently racist or homophobic, and much less tolerant of anyone who looks or dresses differently. Having lived in London for a couple of months, I feel sort of the same way in Nottingham now and it's been making me really unhappy (In London and Brighton, I really love that most people dress a bit younger and no one really cares what you're wearing). It occurred to me a few months back that my company doesn't tie me to any particular location in the UK. I can't afford London or Brighton this year, so fuck it: I might as well give up on dating and go somewhere I can pursue my interests.

     

    I'm contemplating moving to a much smaller town so I can do proper mountain biking more than once or twice a year. It has some of the best trails in the country in rideable distance, and someone is building a trail centre just outside of town too. There are interesting projects going on like this (they grow food in public planters and give it away to people who need it). Opinions from mountain bikers on various forums: "You might need a beard to fit in", "Loads of hippies", "Full of fucking Guardian readers". Sounds great :tup:

     

    Is this in Scottish boarders by any chance?

    Also most people who like action sports like mountain biking or motocross are not that pleasant. From what I have come across anyways.

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    Maybe the time for me to play is over, it was 3 years ago I started playing and must have put hundreds of hours into it over a year and a bit. I think I have lost that spark, I'm going to play some multiplayer with a friend and see if we like it (both stopped playing at the same time).

     

    One other thing, this might just be me, but im not sure.

     

    The industry as a whole feels different from 2-3 years ago. Minecraft unified the whole pc community, everyone was having super colourful and almost innocent fun with this game. But as it started to fade away and the consoles started to lag aswell as the Lords Management's crept in, I feel the industry feels... I dunno... darker... Less united, groups have splintered. No mans sky could re-spark that but it is not player content generation, just procedural exploration. Im not saying I have not had fun in the last 2 years, I have played and enjoyed a lot of games (around 80-90).

     

    Mad ramblings... But I have been thinking about that for the past couple of months. I might just be me and im not as happy as I was 3 years ago haha.

     

    Also please don't jump on me for the Lords Management comment. :)

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    I have been thinking about this game alot lately. I played from the alpha up until there was tameable wolves. But I went back a couple of months ago and really didnt like the new additions: magic, xp, etc.

    So this lead me to think that this is the only game where I disliked future revisions. I dont want to turn into a CS 1.6 nut or anything. But I think I have become a minecraft beta purist.

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    So i started and finished the first book last night. It was surpirsing how similar it was to the films, like shockingly so.

     

    I love the art style and the dialouge is great. Also I dont think i would want to see it in colour, I really like the black and white nature of it.

  23. Posted

    Watching the trailer back I think the UI looks really slick. 

     

    Also when the star fighters are flying through the asteroid field and one shoots through a asteroid, I wonder how much will be destructible.

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    wow didn't think I would be berated for saying something I thought the trailer depicted, for all we know there could be a story, trading or even design/building elements.

     

    Edit: Sorry! I just read Ben X's post wrong :getmecoat