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. 

I don't think I can add much to what has already been said, but I now have this game under my belt. So as not to repeat too much, I'll make a few brief points:

- Excellent environments, models and character models. The quality and detail in so many differing environments shows the level of research and skill within the PK team. Excellent work - not a bad level in the game from a visual POV.
- The final level Hell was the most freakish and creepy and wickedly original game world that I have ever seen. Incredible. It will freak you the first time you run through it.
- The Shipping Docks level gave me real vertigo as I walked along those cranes - this is the first time a game made me feel really uncomfortable about heights - it was great.
- Physics: something about that hanging cross in the Monastary level that was irresistable. The physics was useful and fun.
- Rich ambient sounds that are bizarre and effective. Great moody music when you're not listening to Battle Rock.
- The right number and effectiveness of weapons.
- Except for the Swamp Boss, I found the boss fights to be okay and I normally dread boss fights. The puzzles were good.
- It really ran great on my older system.
- It could often be fun.

Some lows:

- Why deny the Prison and Forest levels to those that don't play at Trauma skill? I may not be good enough to get that far.
- Long load times - but that's the price of content so I'll deal with it.
- Very immersive environments combined with totally unimmersive gameplay and battle music.
- It could sometimes be not fun. The desire to see more of the great settings pulled me through. The Railway Station and Military Base were really hard.
- Most secrets that are too difficult to get at.

I found that the best way for me to enjoy PK was to spread it out over a long time. That way, the boring gameplay seemed less boring after returning to it after a long hiatus. Horde slaughter then seems entertaining for a bit.

I have Battle Out of Hell but something makes me think that I'll have to reinstall PK for it to install properly.

I've seen it so cheap that I'd highly recommend it to anyone who is interested in gameworld design. 

A platform game, where you play a bouncing blue ball, yay!
Quite nice really, gameplay is fun, visuals are cute, music fits ok.
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