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Problem with the silver key door but no problem because there is a handy clipping error nearby ;-)
Wow. Another miss for me. The silver key icon is a button that triggers the door. Thanks for giving it a spin.
So, is it any good?
Can't say I've been literally sat in a puddle of my own piss whilst waiting for it, but the reviews/comments are starting to come in, and after ignoring all the trolling and reviews by idiots (PC Gamer) it sounds promising. The comments on Bluesnews seem fairly reasonable. I like what I'm hearing about the impression that there is a war going on. As long as it's not a really fake impression of a war that dissipates after 5 minutes of play when you realise the AI is shit, and that all your squadmates are blundering idiots you can safely label as cannon fodder, and that only you can really make a difference to the outcome of the game... (sorry, couldn't help it after I played the CoD2 demo recently). No idea when/if I'll be able to pick up a copy of Q4 here in Japan, and as PC games seem to be kinda expensive, not sure if I will. Anyway, hurry up and post your verdicts, because I am eager to hear what people think about it. I am especially keen to hear what you Raven guys think of it. I don't care if your opinions are biased, I just want to know which aspects of the game you are most fond of. Lun, did you do MP or SP stuff? Too busy playing the thing to comment fully right now, but lots of Strogg attacking you at once = good.
Looks better than the screenshots do it justice, but that's the d3 engine for you. Runs a lot more slowly than d3 though, a quick r_showlightcount reveals why. Nicely bright lit environments but at a cost. :) As far as I can tell there isn't much in the game that would need better hardware than d3, it's just that there are a lot more lights and much largers action filled areas.
It should be said that q4 (and d3 for that matter) aren't really playable at all on my computer at the moment...I got myself a 6600gt to tide me over until a new computer a few days ago, and I can't get it to run properly. Damn things are slideshows. :( (Sandstorm) of a MP map above has some Lun signature brush style in it, but that is just an ill informed guess.
FABLE
Anyone tried this?? Lionhead RPG game, first on consoles now on the PC... Any good?? Comments?? Any obvious cock-ups?? was decent. the much vaunted 'choose your path' is exagerated naturally.
also, it appears to be rather buggy and crashes often. which is more annoying because you can't truly save. that might vary depending on hardware however. still though, good story, and was quite a bit of fun. If find that it runs as good if not faster than Doom3, nothing I've seen thus far suggests to me that it runs markedly slower.
As for the game...well...I'll wait till I'm finished, My first impressions of singleplayer however went something like this, "Well Raven have really screwed the pooch with Quake4" Multiplayer is a blast, perhaps if you don't like Quake3 (seek medical advice) you may not like it. I guess runs as good if not faster than Doom3 could be a little ambiguous.
It runs as smooth as on both my machines, everything maxed, except for the "Ultra" settings, which are supposedly for 512mb vid cards. P4 3.4GHz LGA 775 2gig DDR 400 6800 Ultra Audigy 2 ZS etc P4 3.2GHz Prescot 2gig DDR 400 6800 Ultra Audigy 2 ZS etc Fable: fucking loved it on the XBox - prolly my fave XBox game actually. I've spent about 50 hours in it, but sadly completed the main quest in only 14 hours. Cool thing is you can continue playing after that to finish any side quests and just continue dicking around in the world (and there's a lot of cool stuff to do - I'm slowly trying to aquire every building in Albion, by hanging around at night all dodgy like and waiting for the owners to come home and tuck themselves in bed, before I sneak in and murder them in their sleep >:{} ) I understand The Lost Chapters adds in a fair chunk of new content, so that should beef it up a bit.
I don't really know how well it would carry over to the PC though (the combat seems rather geared up for consoles), so I'll probably wait until TLC comes out on XBox (annoying that they couldn't tie it in with the PC release). right, i never played fable on xbox, so i hadn't realised, but yeah, after playing, i found out that there is indeed a decent amount added.
as for controls, well, i found it uncomfortable during the entire game, and i guess that's because of what kinn was saying-- that it was designed to be controlled via game pad. however, it does actually work out alright, just a bit to aclimatize at the start. also, the ability to continue playing at the end is a nice plus, because i too did what kinn is talking about. just goofing around, killing stuff, etc. fun like morrowind. :) i think the best thing fable has going for it, is that even though it's very non linear, the main quest is ALWAYS clearly marked, so if you get bored doing side quests, you can jump back into the main quest right away. ZOMG PHAITS BACK WITH TINFOIL HAT CONSPIRACIES!!!1
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/18/AR2005101801663.html]http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/18/AR2005101801663.html It sounds like a conspiracy theory, but it isn't. The pages coming out of your color printer may contain hidden information that could be used to track you down if you ever cross the U.S. government. Last year, an article in PC World magazine pointed out that printouts from many color laser printers contained yellow dots scattered across the page, viewable only with a special kind of flashlight. The article quoted a senior researcher at Xerox Corp. as saying the dots contain information useful to law-enforcement authorities, a secret digital "license tag" for tracking down criminals. Not really news worthy or anything...Mindcrime was hassling me to fix my website and make the maps available again...so I decided the map wagon thing sucked ass, and I should have fixed it ages ago, but I suck and am lazy...anyhow its all fixed now. No more flash or any shite like that.
no new maps or anything though... I was just thinking the other day, I wonder how Elek is doing? Not to mention Bailey...
Good to see you're still around! Look crap. Generic industrial bollox. Nothing remotely inspiring there.
And you can see in one screenshot there is bouncing items. I bet the whole experience will be even shitter than Q3A, hell the maps actually look less interesting. Thankfully I'm not going to be playing MP. Welcome back!
Did you know that windows has a backdoor for cia Linux doesn't have this since you can compile it yourself. That article you linked to was removed already. And I bet they are reading func too! Take care! (The printer thing... that's why you have to clip newspaper headlines and glue them onto a paper to combine your message. Be sure to not breathe and use disposable gloves... and don't do it at home.)
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