for CoC. afaik, it hasn't been released yet.

it's too bad it's being released now though (april 21?) because i'm busy with oblivion. :P 

Yes, I would like some comments on that too. I was planning to order it from the UK along with Quake 4, because it is dirt cheap. I've been holding back because I just moved apartment and have no money. 

has devoured my life. 

has devoured my life too. 

 

it's funny cause i stopped playing oblivion about 2 weeks ago. o.0 never completed the main quest either. heh, i'm sure i'll get back to it, but i had a sudden brainwave and had to get mapping on it. :P 

what's oblivion mappage like? Is it easy to bolt new terrain sections on, extending the current map - or are you making new stuff that drops into the existing world?

I'm seriously thinking of getting back into mappery because of Oblivion :} 

sry, i didn't mean mapping for oblivion. :) i have no idea about how it is to map for it, however, from my brief looksee in the contruction set, it looks to be very similar to morrowind, in that buildings and such are built from prefab mesh objects.

if you wanted to make new terrain outside of the current terrain available, i think you need to download a mod to remove the borders around the area so you'd be able to get to it.
however, i've heard the terrain beyond the borders is generated by the computer or something... but i'm just guessing at that point.

neither morrowind or oblivion have ever made me want to make a 'map' for them. i just can't stand working with prefabs, and doing mesh work and then texturing my own prefabs was too much work, imo. (plus morrowind crashes all the time for me, so it wasn't really worth the effort anyway; oblivion doesn't though) 

Is something I am definately interested in. There is quite a big amount of quality visual mods already so what I would be interested in doing is adding new game areas and quests. 

ioc :P

Hehe, I imagined you might have been interested in doing some kind of dungeon crawl.

After I struck victory in the Siege of Kvatch over the weekend, I made a comment in IRC that some of the hordes I came up against in the courtyards and underhalls of that doomed city felt positively Necrosian. >:} 

The hero of Kvatch!

Get used to it, you'll be hearing it every five minutes from now on ;)

I played with the mode tools briefly, slotting bits together to make new dungeons seems pretty easy but like you guys I'd rather be working on a proper new area. Inserting things into the existing map, or the spaces just beyond the empire's borders seems a bit chancy, especially since the neighbouring areas will probably be expansion pack fodder. We need a proper new bit, like an offshore island accessed by chartering a ship from Anvil. Not sure how well that could work though.

Also, is it just me or are goblins ten times harder to kill than everything else in the game? Even the more vicious kinds of Daedra are pansies compared to goblins. I think it's the really fast attacks and constant charges that makes them so annoying. 

horde combat is the only thing that's challenging any more.

too bad the monsters aren't all that visually appealing. :P and really, who names a monster "clannfear"? o.0
i'll take a shambler or mancubus anyday. :P 

i'll take a shambler or mancubus anyday.

from behind, no doubt. 

crouched right into that one. -_- 

You've gotten out of mappery? 

Kinn got a game industry job at a UK console game developer so he obviously doesn't have much time for "community mapping". 

Although the urge to do community stuff is still strong, inevitably I feel it's hard to justify coming home only to spend my evenings doing pretty much the same shizzle that I do in my "9-to-5" :/ Every now and then, I'll feel motivated to do it, but in general the energy's just not there.

Shallow - that offshore island idea sounds like an excellent solution - avoids the incredibly problematic situation of merging new stuff into the existing map. All it really needs is a new NPC who hangs around the docks who can ferry you by boat to the new island, kinda like the way silt striders worked in MW. I haven't really come across any killer goblins like you describe, although for me it's mountain lions that seem to be ridiculously overpowered compared to all the other monsters o_O

necros - hehe, yeah I don't think Kenneth Scott needs to watch his back just yet, although I think the monsters look decent enough. 

i've been gone from the gaming world since 2003 or something. cant really remember. but seems im going back to it. playing arx fatalis and well, i cant help but ask what other games that have come out since then rule like hell?

jesus the 3d adventure? agh, i want that shit :-) 

Just played another world again after the recent official re-release. 

Fantastic game, if a bit frustrating at times. I looked at it more like an action puzzler than an action game, because the constant deaths are a bit much otherwise. You just need to figure out exactly what to do, then do it.

The first two oddworld games are quite similar, but a lot more forgiving I think.

Even if the game pisses you off, it's worth it just to see the beautiful design and graphics, which have really stood the test of time. 

cool. only wtf to the registration thing.
i played another version (a simple pc port) last year. pretty nice game, especially for a one-man project - the cutscene animations alone...

i'd also like to play a revamped (or at least ported) version of flashback now, because my amiga version has been broken for ages. :/ 

works fine. You just go to the site, pay, get a .txt with a reg key in the mail and pop it in your AW folder. Piece of piss. 

How do you find the time (and money) to play all those games?! 

:| 

to the whole antialiasing and anistropic filtering thing, but is it me or do Enclave and Riddick have large amounts of aliasing compared to other games ?

Playing at 1280*1024 (monitor recommended mode) with 16x anistropic and 4xAA.