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    Even though it's an often brought up phrase (necessity is the mother of invention), it's fascinating to hear from the mouths of the creators themselves about how limitations (in scope, budget, technology) affect and shape the decisions made in games, and then how retroactively we pin intent, design and clever forethought to it.

    Also, I'd never heard of subtractive BSPs before. Learn something cool every day.

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    Haven't picked it up yet, but I'm curious if there's a "best place" to do so. I was going to buy directly from Fullbright, but I saw someone mention that it might be worth buying on Steam as it would give them visibility there.

     

    Recommendations?

     

     

    Right as the dude is raising his hand there's a couple of flashes of light on the desk to his left.

     

    Ghost: Confirmed.

    ghostgame.jpg

     

    :hah:

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    I started on these after signing up for Audible (slash wizard) and I quite like the audio books. However I've never seen the texts themselves, so, take that as you may. The narrator does an excellent job of characterizing specific voices and keeping them consistent.


    I would only comment so far that only having read the first two books, the world seems a bit like it was invented on the fly to coincide with the particular story he is telling - for example, I cannot recall ever hearing Calarm(? the assassin bloke) ever discussing his home (Seven Cities?) before book two when they start the whole

    revolt of the downtrodden masses

    thing. Also, being perhaps a bit dense myself, it took me going online to a wiki to understand what was happening during the first book when the mages cadre was first introduced, and I had no idea what the heck a warren was.  :getmecoat

     

     

    I read the entire series in a row with essentially no other reading between once the last book was out. Took me about four months and made for a really strange headspace but I feel like that delivers the most potent Malazan experience. It really has the feel of having been meticulously planned out from start to finish despite the several thousand page length of the complete work. I have not yet reread the later books, but I noticed all sorts of subtle implications in the first five or so on my second trip through them that make events in later books show in a whole new light. The depth is incredible. I think Erikson's prose itself is not a whole lot more than acceptable (and ICE's standard is enough lower that I couldn't bring myself to tackle Stonewielder or onwards), but he makes up for it with pretty much everything else.

    I guess I have that to look forward to - I love when this kind of writing reveals itself.

     

    I'm committed to going on through the series, most likely a book a month or so, assuming the book club that month doesn't override.  :)

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    Don't think I've posted here before...

    Err, anyways...

    If you've ever been curious about the identity of the insane mind behind PeterMolydeux, he outed himself a few times on some UK based podcasts, where he's from. It's Adam Capone, gameslave for some contracting company that worked on Kinectimals, and other various things.

    If you want to listen to him talk to his friends and be generally f-ing weird, let me direct you to the Joypod podcast.

    He also did an 'interview' with Cane and Rinse, generally summing up who he is and what he's about.

    No, not shilling for them - I've been a longtime thumbs listener, and found the crossover between Idle Thumbs and this 'smallish' world of UK game podcasts I follow amusing in a 'small world' kind of way.

    Wanted to share.

    :getmecoat