cnp from blues...

"Shocking" Irrational Announcement Tomorrow?

There's a System Shock 2 Retrospective on GameSpot (thanks Ant) that looks back at the highly regarded action/RPG sequel. According to the article's conclusion, this interest is more than academic, as they tease plans for an announcement related to all this tomorrow:

But why even look back at System Shock 2 at this point? Because Irrational has been, and it plans to make a related announcement this Friday (tomorrow). The studio has decided that it wishes to further what it started in System Shock 2--to work on games that promote "emergent" gameplay--open-ended exploration that offers many choices and combinations of options to players. You'll see what we mean tomorrow. Be sure to come back then.

ss3!!?? 

Zwiffle: I hear dickgirls had a lot to do with it, too.

scampie: now you get to make maps for mediocre games! Congrats! 

Welcome aboard!

I doubt the Wisconsin winters are worse than Maine, but we'll both find out, since I'll be experiencing my first one as well. I'm not too worried, since I spent a number of years in Colorado (a couple at about 9000 feet).

(and yeah, Zwiffle has a point, the blowjobs probably did have some effect on the outcome ;) 

Well, great news for you.. Good luck in your future job! Congrats... 

Congrats dude! I wish you the best of luck. I hope you don't disappear altogether from Func_msgboard and Speed Mapping. 

Good luck hope it goes well etc etc.

I know you will disappear from amateur mapping and possibly from the community too but hey ho you're going for the pro mapping thing and that's cool. 

Even more exciting than shrimpbler getting hired, METLSLIME FINALLY GOT RID OF THE RESET BUTTON!!

Hurrah, now I can actually post shite on func_ and all of it will get submitted! 

might be useful, ydnar has released bspc2 :

http://www.quake3world.com/ubb/Forum6/HTML/028364.html? 

You could do that before, but it used to require reading comprehension. 

Thanks guys :D 

To the scampmeister :) Yet another func mapper for me to be jealous of! 

I didn't think you were one that'd apply/were interested.. seems like an out-of-the-blue happening. 

Not out-of-the-blue if you've been hearing about it on #tf for the last few weeks... =)
Congrats scamp, you rock ;). 

For quite awhile. OMG IT'S BAL!?!!@ Where you been? 

cnp from blues...

The BioShock First Look/Exclusive First Impressions on GameSpot has the promised announcement of the new project from Irrational Games, and though it is not the System Shock 3 announcement that had been anticipated, the game is described by Irrational's Ken Levine as the "spiritual successor" to System Shock 2. They offer first impressions of the game, said to be in development for three years now, as well as a video Q&A about the game with Ken that can streamed for free. Here's a bit from the preview:

"BioShock takes place in a mysterious genetic laboratory. Other than that the complex is strewn with corpses (also for reasons unknown), nothing is clear to you. From what you can tell, the laboratory complex is apparently a holdover from World War II--you'll see remnants of the war as well as peeling paint throughout the complex. Something apparently happened back then that caused the complex to be abandoned by whoever was using it. In fact, the complex has only recently come back into use by the scientists circa the early 21st century, and advanced, top-secret contraptions used for arcane biotechnology experiments have been hastily bolted into the rotting walls of the complex.

You'll explore the complex from a first-person perspective, similar to System Shock 2 or Deus Ex, and you'll find it inhabited by three primary "castes" of creatures, which Irrational is currently referring to as "drones," "predators," and "soldiers"--creatures that might once have been human. We were shown a few concept images of creatures that were part human, part monster. Exactly how these creatures came to be this way isn't clear, but Irrational has suggested that some of them are actually fused with human anatomy: human lungs are grafted onto their bodies to breathe, and the human arm dangling off to the side can still hold and fire a gun."

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/bioshock/preview_6110044.html 

i've just found out that not only can i not access dylan's tripod site, i cannot access *any* tripod sites... anything with *.tripod.com times out with DNS error... coudl someone help me to fix this? 

I have 6 invites for gmail if anyone wants them... E-mail addresses on a stamped address envelope etc... 

I'll take one if it's easy to do.

n_gulati at hotmail dot com 

yes please.

underworldfan1ATaol.com 

 

daz 

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I still need to get Morrowind... 

does anyone have this NES ROM?
http://www.gamezero.com/offline/smbss/reviews/smb.gif 

congrats scampie... raven is definitely a company you could brag about working for. Bonus points are availible if you sneak into the quake 4 division and blackmail them into basing the game off quake 1, despite years of work in another direction. Promotions all round!