grimcreaper posted:

English isnt my mother tong either. I speak American which is English perfected. We dont add silly u's to things and we also spell Aluminum correctly.

Godmode Enabled posted:

Why didn't you animate it? We are trying to run a professional thread here

Thoatse posted:

Scruffpuff posted:

OK so some background is necessary here. Chris Roberts is a man living in two times. In one time, it is the 1990's, and he is trying to turn PC gaming into a Hollywood movie. He has never left that time, and never given up on that white whale. Rather than realize that the gaming industry moved on without him, and in fact the "game as movie" days were in fact some of the worst games ever made, he instead thinks that with today's technology he can finally make it happen the way he pictured it back then in his damaged mind.

In the other time, it is the year 2014567 and he views himself as a cross between Steve Jobs and Elon Musk. The culture at CIG is now down to fear and survival. The experienced and confident developers - those who have worked on successful products and shipped titles - have left, due to recognizing that Chris is a complete and total sham. The people trying to make it day to day now have to basically trick a clueless leader into thinking that progress is being made on things that don't exist at all. The best way to make something real to someone stupid is to give it a name.

"Realistic Thruster Modeling" is one of the earliest lies in the project. By telling Chris "Yeah we're getting off LUA for the thruster modeling and moving to something else" they get him off their backs for a few more months, maybe even years, as the "ships" continue to NOCLIP through space with no physics whatsoever.

Switching from Flow Graph to whatever is the same kind of gambit. They had to name their non-existent AI "Subsumption" to make Chris think he invented something. There is no subsumption AI (spoiler alert) but if there was, it would obviously benefit from a super-secret sauce of proprietary doodads, so that's what Chris is told he's gonna get.

The networking aspect here is completely broken as well, so Chris gets more bullshit spat at him in the form of "meshes" and "network 2.0". This is going on constantly. Everyone's job at CIG is to give Chris the impression that he's a visionary inventing things, a movie director and master storyteller, and a brilliant game designer. That's the entire function of every last member of the staff here. There is no game, there are no plans - everything all day every day is a mad rush to put a new coat of paint on yesterday's failures, and come up with a new word or new concept that will be credited with being able to overcome "blockers" (such as nothing working) and accelerate the pace of development.

That's why all these buzzwords are accompanied by phrases such as "implementation time to achieve a desired effect has been cut dramatically" and "This is a huge step forward on the code side." Boots on the ground at CIG aren't trying to fool the public - they're trying to keep their jobs by continually fooling Chris. Sure, Chris: you're single-handedly creating the AI singularity while simultaneously eclipsing Moore's Law and also recreating an entire industry from the ground up through the sheer force of your extra chromosome. Here's some Subsumption, some Netcode 2.0, and a side-order of Fidelity.

AP posted:

https://twitter.com/ChambersArt/status/858952559402332160

AP posted:

https://twitter.com/ChambersArt/status/858952559402332160

AP posted:

https://twitter.com/pcinvasion/status/858411206503256064

his nibs posted:

"But Brian, why do you insist on wearing your sunglasses?"

"Dammit woman, just take the picture..my fans think I'm a cool German dude, and cool dudes always wear shades right?"

"Sure Brian, sure..."

AP posted:

https://twitter.com/ChambersArt/status/858952559402332160

Sunswipe posted:

I know it's easy to feel bad for the homeless, but don't give him money. If you really want to help, buy him a sandwich and a cup of coffee.

TheAgent posted:

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Amazing Zimmo posted:

Sunswipe posted:

I know it's easy to feel bad for the homeless, but don't give him money. If you really want to help, buy him a sandwich and a cup of coffee.

Sunswipe posted:

Has anything good ever come from someone being given a project with no limitations? Doesn't great art come about in part as a reaction to limitations? Even in nerd terms, there's plenty of examples of this. Silent Hill's sense of fear came from the dark, foggy atmosphere forced on the developers by the original Playstation's limited power. Metal Gear was a stealth game because the MSX couldn't have many projectiles on screen at any one time. For the ultimate nerd example: George Lucas. Working with restrictions, he gives us the original Star Wars trilogy. Give him unlimited money and no one in a position to say "No" to him and he gives us The Phantom Menace.

Sunswipe posted:

Has anything good ever come from someone being given a project with no limitations? Doesn't great art come about in part as a reaction to limitations? Even in nerd terms, there's plenty of examples of this. Silent Hill's sense of fear came from the dark, foggy atmosphere forced on the developers by the original Playstation's limited power. Metal Gear was a stealth game because the MSX couldn't have many projectiles on screen at any one time. For the ultimate nerd example: George Lucas. Working with restrictions, he gives us the original Star Wars trilogy. Give him unlimited money and no one in a position to say "No" to him and he gives us The Phantom Menace.

Sunswipe posted:

Has anything good ever come from someone being given a project with no limitations? Doesn't great art come about in part as a reaction to limitations? Even in nerd terms, there's plenty of examples of this. Silent Hill's sense of fear came from the dark, foggy atmosphere forced on the developers by the original Playstation's limited power. Metal Gear was a stealth game because the MSX couldn't have many projectiles on screen at any one time. For the ultimate nerd example: George Lucas. Working with restrictions, he gives us the original Star Wars trilogy. Give him unlimited money and no one in a position to say "No" to him and he gives us The Phantom Menace.

Baxta posted:

I would never finish anything if there werent deadlines and milestones, self appointed or otherwise. It's bizarre to think there is an entire cult who think 300 odd people will somehow gel together and make a good product with zero direction, incentive or motivation to do so.

XK posted:

I remember Gran Turismo 5. The studio had successfully made world class games for every previous release, so they were essentially given free reign when making 5. Not too much about the behind scenes happenings has ever come out, except that eventually Sony, or somebody, stepped in and told them the game has to come out in 6 months, period.