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big nipples big life
May 12, 2014

The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Games > Derek Smart's House of Star Citizen Obsessive Insanity > Star Citizen - Holy poo poo that title sucks OP, you should fix it


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big nipples big life fucked around with this message at 20:05 on Sep 23, 2016

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Flarpy
Aug 13, 2016

orcinus
Feb 25, 2016

Fun Shoe

Hav posted:

... to right this wrong and give Crobbers fatter-tongue...

D_Smart
May 11, 2010

by FactsAreUseless
College Slice

D1E posted:

Derek: is this the long-awaited ELE?

No. Like a hurricane, these are just the strong winds and turbulence in the outer bands.

orcinus
Feb 25, 2016

Fun Shoe

Colostomy Bag posted:

Isn't all the clothing in the game basically a place holder until it is refactored?

1) what game
2) whole star citizen is a placeholder

D1E
Nov 25, 2001


D_Smart posted:

No. Like a hurricane, these are just the strong winds and turbulence in the outer bands.

LOL

WTFish
May 4, 2009
Reading Kotaku comments while listening to "Dream on" by Aerosmith

I learned the meaning of the word gleeful today.

Thanks thread.

Thanks Star Citizen

History Comes Inside!
Nov 20, 2004




Why the gently caress is Sandi always covered in fake tattoos

What is it for

SelenicMartian
Sep 14, 2013

Sometimes it's not the bomb that's retarded.

MAKE WAY NEW STARS posted:

Why the gently caress is Sandi always covered in fake tattoos

What is it for
It's to balance Ben's real tattoos. For every Sandi's fake Ben has a real one where you can't see.

Hav
Dec 11, 2009

Fun Shoe

MAKE WAY NEW STARS posted:

Why the gently caress is Sandi always covered in fake tattoos

What is it for

Roles. 'Skank #4' usually requires a neck tattoo.

Edit: Could have gone for 'dead hooker #4', but I wanted to keep it classy.

Crazy_BlackParrot
Feb 1, 2016

Christ Roberts is way better than toilet lord...
:gary: :lesnick: :yarg:
:pgabz: :fuzzknot: :eonwe:
:wtchris:
I love how the shitizens think its loving normal that devs had to waste 4 loving months to prove something to chris.

4months later " poo poo don't work Chris, we told you chris, but you didn't wanna listen chris."

everything is fine.

Crazy_BlackParrot fucked around with this message at 20:33 on Sep 23, 2016

CHICKEN SHOES
Oct 4, 2002
Slippery Tilde
an angry little fat man screaming in your face about space pants

RattiRatto
Jun 26, 2014

:gary: :I'd like to borrow $200M
:whatfor:
:gary: :To make vidya game
Change title

D1E
Nov 25, 2001


Hav posted:

Roles. 'Skank #4' usually requires a neck tattoo.

Edit: Could have gone for 'dead hooker #4', but I wanted to keep it classy.

What kind of tattoo would be appropriate for the role of "Vic's Mom"?

Hav
Dec 11, 2009

Fun Shoe

Crazy_BlackParrot posted:

I love how the shitizens think its loving normal that devs had to waste 4 loving months to prove something to chris.

"What do you mean I can't have layered clothing at space scales for a thousand plus entities? I'm Chris loving Roberts, so hop to it"

Edit: I thought they'd wrapped filming on that, but yeah, 'Vic's mom' is a breakout role.

big nipples big life
May 12, 2014

D1E posted:

What kind of tattoo would be appropriate for the role of "Vic's Mom"?

Something that says "I'm really desperate but I also have shitloads of nerd money"

Thoatse
Feb 29, 2016

Lol said the scorpion, lmao

LCL-Dead posted:

Star Citizen: The most well funded con since Enron



Took them a while to catch up to rapturegate, but 'second best salesman ever since she was a little girl' just doesn't have that ring to it...

Shala
Oct 15, 2006

i shot the pilot

Lipstick Apathy

The Kins posted:

I've suggested reading When Prophecy Fails at least once before in this thread, but it's pretty much a study of this as a psychological phenomenon: A group with deeply held beliefs will, in a burst of cognitive dissonance, strengthened their resolves in the event of such beliefs being disproven.

It's a pretty good read!

$1.99 on Kindle for people who are interested.

Thanks muh dude

HycoCam
Jul 14, 2016

You should have backed Transverse!

Jason Sextro posted:

I have a different take - I think it was a great idea to get Chris Roberts's quotes directly to show the world how out of touch he is with the project he claims to be the last word for on everything. The best way to show CR is deluded is to give him the chance to respond to the very consistent accusations that have dogged him ever since The Escapist.

Perhaps with normal people. If the past portends the future--by Monday morning Citizens will have spun this as another sign of the greatest game ever and the need to back just a little more. What I'm waiting for is the backpedaling that will occur if the subscription model pans out to be true. Just last week the Citizens trashed Dual Universe over its funding model. Seeing those same people twist the narrative how subscriptions to a game years from release is groundbreaking and necessary should be enough to stretch my head, so when election day is past--maybe, just maybe, my head won't explode.

Tijuana Bibliophile
Dec 30, 2008

Scratchmo

D_Smart posted:

No. Like a hurricane, these are just the strong winds and turbulence in the outer bands.

See? You can do pretty decent thread title material after all

orcinus
Feb 25, 2016

Fun Shoe

MAKE WAY NEW STARS posted:

Why the gently caress is Sandi always covered in fake tattoos

What is it for

Misdirection.
Makes you not notice the wrinkles and veins.

Tokyo Sexwale
Jul 30, 2003

HycoCam posted:

Perhaps with normal people. If the past portends the future--by Monday morning Citizens will have spun this as another sign of the greatest game ever and the need to back just a little more. What I'm waiting for is the backpedaling that will occur if the subscription model pans out to be true. Just last week the Citizens trashed Dual Universe over its funding model. Seeing those same people twist the narrative how subscriptions to a game years from release is groundbreaking and necessary should be enough to stretch my head, so when election day is past--maybe, just maybe, my head won't explode.
That's probably true, because nothing will get through to the true believers left. They will spin literally everything to mean what they want it to because their attachment is that important now. So it's not about talking to those who are left, it's about telling the story publicly.

Colostomy Bag
Jan 11, 2016

:lesnick: C-Bangin' it :lesnick:

D1E posted:

What kind of tattoo would be appropriate for the role of "Vic's Mom"?

Star Citizen logo tramp stamp.

nigga crab pollock
Mar 26, 2010

by Lowtax

http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2016/09/23/inside-the-troubled-development-of-star-citizen posted:

Stripping out the first-person systems that come supplied with the CryEngine seems like a bizarre decision, but Roberts says it was essential for his plans to unify first and third-person perspectives. “In most first-person shooters, the first-person is floating hands in front of a camera and the third person is an entirely different set of animations and assets,” he explains. “It works fine in first-person games, particularly single player first-person games. It's also the reason why, if you play a game like Crysis, the fidelity of the animations in the single player game aren't the same as you see in the multiplayer game. That's also true of Call of Duty.”

i read this bit on the toilet when google now gave me that kotaku article and i honestly can't believe he said this

is chris roberts even remotely involved in the development process? has he ever even played a cryengine game?

Shala
Oct 15, 2006

i shot the pilot

Lipstick Apathy
My favorite comments are any of the ones that tout the commenter's experience in development and they say it's totally fine.

I wanna know what Mickey Mouse Operation those guys worked at. From what I've read of CIG's process and the culture, it would be an immediate "I need to quit and not have my name attached to this clown car" in my book.

Alan Smithee plz.

orcinus
Feb 25, 2016

Fun Shoe


Plot twist: It wasn't "nominated". You submit your own project into the pool.

Plot twist 2: The phrasing might make you think Adobe chooses the best one. It doesn't. There are two rounds of public voting. Best one wins and gets a trophy from Adobe.

Plot twist 3: They already got the award in 2015. They just resubmitted the exact same Turbulent Star Map project for this year.

Rad Russian
Aug 15, 2007

Soviet Power Supreme!

nigga crab pollock posted:

i read this bit on the toilet when google now gave me that kotaku article and i honestly can't believe he said this

is chris roberts even remotely involved in the development process? has he ever even played a cryengine game?

They spent 3 years with headbobbing and now refactored everything an invented the FPS genre again with a floating camera. Money well spent.

Ostentatious
Sep 29, 2010

chris roberts had very likely not played a video game since the 90s since all of his design ideas heading into star citizen sounds like something people thought would be cool when Quake 2 was popular

Tijuana Bibliophile
Dec 30, 2008

Scratchmo

orcinus posted:



Plot twist: It wasn't "nominated". You submit your own project into the pool.

Plot twist 2: The phrasing might make you think Adobe chooses the best one. It doesn't. There are two rounds of public voting. Best one wins and gets a trophy from Adobe.

Plot twist 3: They already got the award in 2015. They just resubmitted the exact same Turbulent Star Map project for this year.

Well it's not been changed since last year and is still more impressive than anything out there :smuggo:

checkmate goonie

sorla78
Oct 11, 2012

EAT THE PAIN AWAY!
Confirmed: Chris Roberts is a narcist.
Confirmed: Chris Roberts suffers from OCD and is a hopeless perfectionist.
Confirmed: Chris Roberts got all the backgrounds and is never wrong. it's always the others blaming others being wrong. Essentially Chris is that kid that knew it all that everyone hated at school.
Edit: Confirmed. Chris Roberts is passive-aggressive.

- Article 1 out of 5 - looking forward to what else is there to tell. someone finally writes that novel that this game development dream turned nightmare deserves.
- Surprised how great this article must have been put together to convince both sides of a dime that this is the best thing that could ever have happened to their respective sides of view.
- r/starcitizen clearly are the harbingers of NDA compliance, all those employees speaking out harming the development process.
- INN is going to have a long rear end livestream and is to conclude with dead eyes "we told you everything is awesome - this is fine really - it's all going to be different now".
- Ben will auto-compensate with weird nerdgasmic tweets over the weekend.
- Those sixty headcounts are certainly going to be an easy fill now... I mean who in their right mind voluntarily risks to wander into micromanagers hell.
- Chris Roberts is a misunderstood softie, rides the broncos from no man's sky and absolutely hates passive-aggressive americun'ts - very christian bale, also he has a background in everything and likes to be worshipped, likes to have his HR person to walk people into rooms for headshots.
- Must be quite a job to be married to that guy... not wearing the wedding ring certainly must be a constant tickle to CR's OCD - very passive aggressive.
- Americun'ts are useless
- Erin and his merry band to the rescue, it's scary how close to collapse the project seems to have been until he got in.
- How random to let the faith of star marine fester with fanbase speculation for what felt an eternity only to confess the details when being confronted and it still not being clear to them where mistakes happened from their summit. (bonus points for giving the vanduul size issues in their environments more new credibility, how did that happen again)
- Chris Roberts loves devotion. Beer never stood a chance to win his handshake. (and you sent them free beer... what a waste)
- His directors seem to be devoted to the cause "we show them anything goes" - also TonyZ comes off as someone not necessarily caring about the human factor when his team mates got the shaft.
- Chris Roberts making everyone go around the world for his beloved apple events. "this is a pc game"
- Everyone thinks Chris Roberts is like Steve Jobs, Elon Musk or Jeff Benzos - overlooking the fact that all the latter actually had success and are pretty rare none of them messed up in games development before heading for film development and messing up there again (also none of them ran a tickle porn empire)
- Citizens are easily impressed with CR's wayne attitude - knowing exactly what he wants, knowing no compromises and expecting dedication and devotion - uh, that guy will finish things, he is loud.
- Most citizens must also not do well in relationships if they hold any - seeing them not seeing the bad communication issues with CR.
- Most citizens must either have no work or are working in dystopia for not recognising micromanagers being the worst kind of leadership archetype you can work for.

It's certainly refund time.


- would love to hear from 8ball the reaction from the floor about this article

sorla78 fucked around with this message at 21:27 on Sep 23, 2016

D1E
Nov 25, 2001


What happened to all our resident shills?

Drunk Theory
Aug 20, 2016


Oven Wrangler

D1E posted:

What happened to all our resident shills?

I assume, since this thread has calmed down, that we've been downgraded in threat level.

Frontier forums seems to be getting hit hard today with the shills though.

Shala
Oct 15, 2006

i shot the pilot

Lipstick Apathy
MoMA's too busy doing that write-up he promised a thousand pages back.

*edit* Assuming he's not too busy having fun in SC, that is.

Tijuana Bibliophile
Dec 30, 2008

Scratchmo

Shala posted:

MoMA's too busy doing that write-up he promised a thousand pages back.

*edit* Assuming he's not too busy having fun in SC, that is.

Write-up? Was that before or after his promised 2.5 ~gameplay~ video?

ripptide
Jul 28, 2016

Almost purrrrfect (sorry)(not really) analogy for SC. "Hmmmm what's this? Looks good, oh wait, boy does that stink."

stinch
Nov 21, 2013

Colostomy Bag
Jan 11, 2016

:lesnick: C-Bangin' it :lesnick:


Phenomenal. 36 hour day.

D1E
Nov 25, 2001


LOL 36 hour workday.

Certainly without overtime pay as well.

Shala
Oct 15, 2006

i shot the pilot

Lipstick Apathy

Tijuana Bibliophile posted:

Write-up? Was that before or after his promised 2.5 ~gameplay~ video?

That's probably what I'm remembering, I have a hard time remembering dreams in the morning.

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big nipples big life
May 12, 2014


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