any tips how to make it not ugly-looking on the coast? maxing both detail distance settings doesnt help at all 

yeah I dont know, bit weird but it runs ok without the soft stencil shadows so its not too bad. 

yeah, getting into graphics programming, but a demo is a shitload of code :/ 

finished ridick.

very very good stuff with a few detracting flaws. I liked the engine, nice effects and even though AA doesnt work properly and it's a bit of a system hog with stencil shadows, it still looks quite good without those options. Levels look good, not brilliant like Unreal 2, but good. It helps that a very strong atmosphere is also there which definitely gives it a very distinct sense of place.

Combat I thought was brutal, I havent played FEAR yet but the fights against the guards here were quite thrilling quite a few times. And none were too frustrating. The movement, however, felt like shit.

I cant say I cared for the way they closed each chapter, with riddick getting caught and being placed in higher security each time. Fine the first time, annoying all the other times.

Secondly, there is non-linear and there is annoyingly nonlinear. I have to say, especially in the mine levels, it felt closer to the latter than the former although I guess I gathered my bearings quick enough.

Anyway, overall I was very satisfied with it. 

Alot of the opinions I heard were the same - another game of flawed brilliance; I want to play it.

The thing about getting captured each time sounds interesting, kind of like Eternal Darkness where you know most of your characters will end up dead after the chapter.

Although there you kept some of the items and all of the spells - in Riddick you lose everything you collected each time? 

yep, you basically start a new chapter each time in a different higher security setting 

nice stuff!

dont know how far in I am, but I love it. 

is a fine example of a game where the overall experience is higher than the sum of the parts. It's not a great shooter, it's not a great stealth game, it's not a great melee fight game but it is a great game. 

I spent about 3 hours playing a 2p battle with a friend yesterday. I had only played the game for about 6 hours in single player, so I still haven't mastered the game. Anyway, it was great fun. Some of the maps were too small, but the cuteness of the Pikmin always shown through. It's like a cross between Katamari Damacy, Lemmings, and Warcraft.

It was my friend's first time playing but he kicked my ass in in 12 out of 22 rounds. :/ 

rpg spelled pakman wrong 

Bear that is well put about Riddick. I'm not sure I found it quite "great" but it is very good in the way you mention. It's a solid, well done, one-off gaming experience.

Far Cry is awesome (with the quicksave command added). Not much more to say than that. It gets better and better generally. 

I think you spelled Pacman wrong. ;) 

i seriously thought it was written like that :/ 

finished it.

Awesome game, the engine and levels are brilliant. Outdoors are obviously the star attrations but indoor ones looked good too, although you could see that the designers threw in every effect they could to make up for the lack of detail possible in indoor levels.

Still, it looked stunning and ran pretty well on my setup, some killer views of stuff in some areas. But it's the same open endedness of the levels that lets you go pretty much anywhere that makes the gameplay so varied and interestng. The AI is ok, and the fights are nothing special but the sheer amount of variety afforded makes it very fresh.

I died many times but I was only frustrated on a handful of occasions which is saying a lot for a game with mainly hitscan weapons. The story and cutscenes were crap, but they didnt come into the way too much. 

I stopped playing right around the introduction of the TriGens or whatever they were called, the hammy NotFunCheesyButJustPoorlyDone introduction of them, and the attempts to scare me with having boots being dropped from ventilation shafts in the ceiling... I mostly just felt insulted at such attempts.

The game, as I experienced it at that point, wouldve been significantly more difficult if the ai sought cover from sniper fire (gone into buildings, ran behind a rock). You could kill off an entire map laying prone and looking down the iron sights of your machine gun - with each enemy dropping in plain sight of one another.

It had some cool moments (lead shotting a helicopter with the rl, only to have it tilt to the side and three guys fall out to their deaths) and some nice detail, but ultimately just didnt do a whole lot for me. I noticed this when I had to take a break from it for schoolwork, and didnt find myself wanting to get back into it, a day later, or two weeks later - when I ultimately convinced myself to do so, shortly before finally uninstalling it because I preferred having the hard drive space than the game available at any given moment.

I'll give it a go another time, or just wait for Crysis - though what I've read of that... I dont care how cool you make it sound Mr Developer, you just tried to sell me a game on a renamed Endurance bar. 

Nitin's views >> scarecrow's views

;) 

that reminds me, I hated those little common ones as much as those fat semi-electronic things in rtcw. They did way too much damage and had a long reach in their melee attacks. 

Only wrong opinions. 

the common trigens are overpowered for the amounts that they appear in the maps.

and i much preferred the outdoor areas to the indoor ones. one of the later maps where you start off on the rubber raft and have to blow up some towers was a really cool and fun one. 

basically, all the missions where you are free to roam around in vehicles taking out marines are awesome, and all the missions where you fight mutants are so-so.

At least that's how I remember it.

There were a couple of fucking annoying levels near the end, but overall it was a fantastic game and is a good reason why you should all be excited about Crysis. 

kjhggfd 

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mop 

So Im playing this... hardly an RPG
feels more like adventure + simplistic beat`em`up. Neither is exciting. But its got nice unique style overall, I hope it gets better.
( pics http://jade.bioware.com/specialedition/screenshots.html ) 

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