assuming they actually had the intention of releasing a game and not just spend their time sipping tequila out of hooker's navels their project management really must have been awesome. 

I had previously suggested they spent the project management funds on ice-cream, but you are undoubtedly more on-target blaming delicious hookers and tequila.

I would have loved to hear the weekly progress reports from those guys. Tumbleweed city presumably. The theme to their conference room was probably written by Ennio Morricone. 

It should read on the tombstone.

Yes, this dead dead donkey is fun to beat. 

They don't even qualify as a dead horse. 

Yes, this dead dead donkey is fun to beat.

Curiosity forces me to ask ... why? I mean, all they did was work on a game that never shipped. The guys in the trenches aren't at fault here. The blame can squarely be laid on management's shoulders. Seems unfair to classify them all as useless. 

I've worked on lots of prototypes and games that still haven't shipped after a year despite being complete.

Difference is that there's only so much you can blame on management after so an extended timescale.

Lack of direction in the design team seems like a probable cause.

Probably they aren't all useless - but they have been tarred by management and marketing idiocy so much that it'd be a stretch for me to hire them. 

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/usermovies/316675.html?playlist=featured 

i think it would insult even more if it was using a variant of the q2 engine. 

[14:10] <bear^_^> http://www.giantbomb.com/talkin-bout-duke/17-551/ some good ideas here :)
[14:13] <bear^_^> duke nukem forever tycoon lol
[14:13] <bear^_^> "you get to run a game studio that never ship a game and have to find ways to keep it running" 

Probably they aren't all useless - but they have been tarred by management and marketing idiocy so much that it'd be a stretch for me to hire them.

And I think that's totally wrong. We're definitely talking to people who used to work there. Talented people work there. 

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/usermovies/316675.html?playlist=featured

Ah cool, they got Duff Man to do the voice acting this time. 

Hungover sunday posting.

Good luck to them. 

Always falls down - so when management drops one it lands in the trenches.

. . . A guy walks into a bar, desperate for a crap, the place is packed so he fights his way to the stairs and sprints up. He checks a few doors and doesn't find the WC, but the last door just has a hole in the floor. He goes for it.

Unburdened he goes back downstairs only to find the place empty. He shouts over to the barman - where'd everyone go?

Where were you when the shit hit the fan? 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIlIL5pPFmY&feature=PlayList&p=516D4AF3C973AC56&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=19 

Looks okay for a highly generic FPS. Boss combat looks ass but the rest looks pretty functional. Why wasn't there a game again?? 

Best *free* program for dealing with Rar files? 

is what I use. 

 

 

ye, 7zip = power

www.7-zip.com 

7zip since it is truly *free* (open-source). 

or anyone else that may know, how does Gears of War (the first one) play on a pc/gfx setup that can play quake4 at 1280*1024 at max graphics (16x anistropy and 8xAA)?

will I have to decrease gfx a lot or can I still play it reasonably maxed out? 

but I'd guess pretty OK. UE3 always seemed lightning fast to me. What have you got in the PC GPU wise? and CPU wise? 

To be honest, I don't know. I wasn't involved in the PC port and I honestly haven't played it. :) 

9800gtx with athlon 3700