If nobody else wants them... 

Almost forgot, I'm at zombie(dot)abe(dot)vigoda at google mail 

How does Quake Fans feel about Chasm the Rift? I remember the weapons and models were great. 

you could blow limbs off people. The quality of the models and things were really high. Wasn't it one of those games released at the wrong time though? When something else just looked a little better? Like Quake 2 perhaps? 

It was released in the end of '97, after Blood and Shadow Warrior which already were looking old for their time with no room over room 3D and despite it's nice looks and the gimmick of shooting off limbs, it's gameplay was pretty mediocre compared to either of those. Also, like 5th said, Quake 2 came out like a month later. 

And graphics were still fancy. Gameplay was a bit lacking but I still personally enjoyed it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbLr-nyJZUw 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ae2bldv3a5s 

'96-'98 were absolutely bonkers

Quake, Quake 2, Unreal, Half-Life.

Releasing something like Chasm in that period was suicide. 

....looks like the sort of crap Killes has a dry wank about every night. 

 

chasm had much higher poly count on its models, higher texture fidelity, voice acting *and* lip syncing, limb removal. Sadly it wasn't room-over-room and it handled 3d in the same way as Build engine games (if you looked up the vertical plane was fixed, looking skewed). If I remember the game *still* ran on DOS too, it really was a mixture of next gen ideas but on an ageing engine. 

http://www.kitfoxgames.com/level-design-and-procedural-generation-in-shattered-planet/ 

Thanks for that Spirit 

http://i.imgur.com/FmFjQmw.gif 

Inside3d got two new subforums.

One for client-side QuakeC (CSQC) and another for standalone idtech games.

http://forums.inside3d.com/index.php 

I'm 30 :/

Three years till the name change... 

30? *eye roll*

I don't like how people attach such significance to numbers. 30 is nothing. I barely remember 30 it was so long ago. 

30 only becomes nothing when you turn 31. i remember feeling depressed at turning 20, although if anyone conveyed the same to me today i'd... probably tut audibly

happy (belated) birthday ricky 

We are only old in your mind... 30 is just a number... let's enjoy life !! 

30 is not just a number and the best part of your life is almost undoubtedly over! 

You boys narf make I larf 

I only attached formal significance to two birthdays: 27, because it's the idiot club, and 30, because when I was young and naive I had all these ideas about who I would be when I was 30. Turning 30, I had to admit that those things were never going to happen and who I am now, is who I am. But letting go of the last shreds of romantic idealism also forced me to adjust more, to try to chill out more like The Dude. I liked the following song's attitude - sad but still kind of happy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQMsMDCUMwI&list=PL147F4418400BF64D
The Devil Makes Three - Graveyard (of Dreams) 

You get older, your knowledge increases and your responses to events become tempered by maturity. You get better at life.

In counterbalance, your body starts collapsing. You get aches where there were none, any party knocks the ode out of you for days and if you're unlucky you get bit by something nasty and incapacitating, but not mortal.

It's all a foreshadowing of the slow and steady descent into losing your mind and body, becoming trapped in a decaying husk, more and more detached from the real world.

Mortality.

Go give someone you love a hug.