Yes, I did see Roman Wilderness and although I didn't play it (I don't play Quake anymore) I had a walk through to see if I could recognise any of the areas that I used. It looked awesome.

This Onion 2 (The Imp's Castle) is finished but as I don't play Quake I have sort of lost the feel for game-play. Consequently, apart from a few test monsters, or those used as switches, it is effectively unpopulated. I do have the additional music pieces but they need editing down to usable size and I have not placed them within the map yet.

The Imp's Castle is just more of the same and is a direct continuation from the end of This Onion.

I will get around to finishing it (no timescales) and recently played through HL2 again just to try to get a feel for games again, I also started Far Cry2 but didn't really latch onto it and gave up.

But one day, one day... 

thanks for the response, it's nice to know you aim at letting your work be finished some day. That's been a major part of my motivation to keep mapping for a very long time. The other part is just that mapping is a decent way to spend time however unproductive it is. But I thought that the end of This Onion was some of the most epic scenery possible, so I'm glad to know that I will be able to explore that for real one day, and I'll be there to review it.

I got into Far Cry 1, and Dark Messiah of Might and Magic, but never Far Cry2 or HL2, I couldn't run those games but I wouldn't be interested if I could. For me, games have to take me somewhere I couldn't be normally - and that isn't just a crashing 747 or a the matrix keanu reeves, it's instead a different sort of world and that's what Quake kicks ass at.

In other words AVATAR shows exactly what is wrong with the last 15 years of tech, tech visionaries, artists, popular culture, nerdism, psychological problems, etc, when compared to Quake. 

avatar? i thought it was a pretty good action movie, but i don't understand what you meant.
and i still have a soft spot for dark messiah, if only for that wooden village attached to the side of a sheer stone cliff. 

I guess what I was trying to say is I want this weird, elusive sense that the RULES of a created world are different - ie ALIEN - not just the scenery - - ie AVATAR. One reason why Quake is so exceptional. 

 

the most idiotic thing ever. It totally got me to snap out of the movie because:

1) how are they kept in the air, and why are the dragons flying around it not affected by that effect

2) WHERE DOES THE FRIGGIN WATER THAT FALLS FROM SOME OF THE ROCKS COME FROM 

i remember reading some blog or article or whatever after seeing the film. it was written by some hard science fiction buff or something.

basically, it worked out that a magnetic field powerful enough to hold a hole fucking island in the air would rip the iron right out of your blood, to say nothing of those little helicopter type ships they use.

i guess we're just supposed to accept the magic hand-waving. especially regarding things like the water falling out of the floating islands. 9_9

looks fucking cool though....... :P 

tech nerds on barricades!!!!! 

some things are better left unexplained. in this particular case, those which have no explanation other than to look fucking cool ;p

i actually think it's an accurate example of what tronyn was arguing for with games like quake; it doesn't make sense, it doesn't abide by any rules of physics or logic but it looks awesome and enhances the atmosphere. how many void maps are there that just float without any explanation? or waterfalls in maps without rain or mountains.. etc

plus i don't think they were that out of character with the rest of the film. none of it is exactly realistic 

Well I sort of agree with Sleepy, the flying rock thing just kind of threw me out of it. I can buy an ecosystem where organisms have evolved some kind of USB hub to communicate with each other or whatever, and forests of memories and what not, but the floating rock islands could have been really high cliffs and it would have made a lot more sense/been more believable.

Also, unobtainium. w t f 

i actually didn't mind the floating islands per se. i thought it looked quite badass. but the waterfalls just made no sense.
you can sort of imagine that it's the unobtanium that has some kind of special property that makes things float. maybe that's why earth needs it so bad. but how is water being pumped up to those islands to fall down in such large quantities??

also, i hate it when movie dudes think they are being clever using joke terms as actual stuff in their films.

besides, unobtanium was already used as a joke in 'the core'. at least in that one, the material in question actually did have a name, but it was nicknamed unobtanium (and the other characters laugh as though they know it's silly).

in avatar, everyone says it like it's serious business which just ended up looking silly. 

you guys will say that minecraft is unrealistic... 

midi-fucking-chlorians 

Twice twenty, you whippersnappers! Go Quake! 

 

My friends are all sat in a tiny bachelor pad, squatting over an xBox360, playing CODBLOPS. Two of them just came with me to the kebab shop to get a plain cheeseburger and chips ~(approx 200yds from bachelor pad).

I just bobbed round to my house to grab a box of Stella Artois and finish my burger. Friday night -woooo!!!!

Confined spaces and CODLOPS. The thing is that when I got there in the first place he they were playing the zombie manse level, and they re still playing it now. And the entire Slayer discography was queued on a PC, and is still going strong :S 

sounds like a fun night... was the Stella because of the Slayer, or vice versa? 

They were. Stella just because it is, and Slayer just because they were. And tonight just because its Friday etc. TBH I honestly think its just because thats what we always do. Im no alcoholic, but i get drunk every Friday night :D Almost. Very occasional exceptions, and I often drink on Saturday night TBF. But Sun - Thur = school nights. Cant get drunk on a school night. 

 

1- writing a paper
2- drinking a Colt 45
3- listening to slayer.
4- not actually writing my paper, at all, anymore. 

I would very much like to hear a drunk brit say the word 'kebab' - if it's nearly as funny as when a kiwi says it it will be hilarious. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHvrkqMei4c&feature=fvw 

That seems like such an American thing to do :( 

I asked because of the back cover of Reign In Blood:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2672jcATIK4/TKSxNygFTmI/AAAAAAAABtw/O4VmSUV9IgY/s1600/slayer_reign_in_blood_back-1.jpg 

... We had a dinner with friends in order to prepare our X-mas dinner, as we decided to celebrate X-mas together (both family will not move this year...).
It turned right, but we had 4 bottles of wine (1 per people) knowing ladies didn't drink that much...
And as usual: headache this morning... but not sick, and that is cool !