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Good, I loving hate those megaplex theater things. The decent THX equipped theater in my hometown got torn down so all we had were the 16 screen/stadium seating monstrosities. Independance Day 1 on release day with the sound system turned up high was really fun.
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Golli posted:Yeah - the fantasy world where people would flock back to movie theaters now that restrictions are being lifted, resulting in huge profits is about to hit the brick wall of reality. By and large, going to a movie theater sucks worse now than it did pre-pandemic. I went to a screening of A Quiet Place 2 last weekend, the first day that the theater had resumed a normal operating schedule. They had reserved seating, with blocked off seats separating your group from surrounding groups. i passed by a multiplex cinema today where i had a part time job many years ago, i was the bartender. it is closed since almost 2 years now. i had a look through the windows and it looked like a graveyard inside. what seemed to be the most important thing back then (entertainment and business) is now dead and might never come back. it boggles the mind really
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# ? Jun 3, 2021 17:38 |
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https://twitter.com/real_lethality/status/1400441325040844804 https://twitter.com/real_lethality/status/1400442074286133249
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# ? Jun 3, 2021 17:47 |
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Does NFT space ship combat require you to purchase NFT missiles you can launch at the other NFT and then buy addition NFT bullets and explosions? This battle was awesome and only cost $14000!!! In your face Star Citizen!!!
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# ? Jun 3, 2021 17:52 |
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Absolutely nothing about an NFT game sounds like a good idea. Pretty much worst than any mobile gacha game.
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# ? Jun 3, 2021 17:53 |
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I said come in! posted:Absolutely nothing about an NFT game sounds like a good idea. Pretty much worst than any mobile gacha game. There's literally a game out there, Earth2 I think it's called, that simply scams people by selling them squares in a grid. The way they make that more attractive is that the grid is overlaid on an image of the earth. So you can purchase, say, the land plot of the empire state building or whatever. And it makes you feel like a big important capitalist investor or something. Except in the end they are just squares in a grid and nothing more, of course. You are paying large amount of money for squares in a grid. There is also supposed to be a game of some sort but that obviously is not going to happen. It's truly incredible how easy it can be to get people to open their wallets and get scammed. Sometimes I wish I gave a poo poo about money or wanted more because it honestly is not that hard.
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# ? Jun 3, 2021 17:57 |
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Mirificus posted:https://twitter.com/real_lethality/status/1400441325040844804 loving brain worms, I swear
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# ? Jun 3, 2021 18:05 |
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quote:Nothing that Chris Roberts has ever suggested is beyond the realms of possibility in game development and people who follow the technicalities of game development know that he is not looking to create a miracle, only to take aspects of existing game development and cutting edge R&D that are normally only attempted in isolation and put them all together in one package - this takes time and money which is normally in short supply by the private funding model. What Chris does is listen to the community and where a possibility arises he will take advantage of it if it is reasonable. For example procedural generation of planets, and everything that came from it, was serendipity - Chris had no plan for it, he just happened to inherit CryTeks R&D team at a time when the community were expressing dissatisfaction at an answer Chris gave about not being able to fly down to planets and moons ourselves. quote:I have a suspicion that they are trialling static (bubble) server meshing right now. I don't know the technicalities or logistics of them firing up a meshed mini-PU for testing in a way players wouldn't be able to detect from standard server handling. Players are reporting bugs.. which might just be bugs.. but they could be symptoms of information loss in the transfer from one server to the next.
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# ? Jun 3, 2021 18:19 |
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# ? Jun 3, 2021 18:20 |
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"Nothing that Chris Roberts has ever suggested is beyond the realms of possibility in game development" I mean I think technically this isn't wrong, but there is a reason why no one else is attempting this level of space sim either. Elite Dangerous is as good as it will ever get.
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# ? Jun 3, 2021 18:21 |
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It's that dog from the Simpsons.
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# ? Jun 3, 2021 18:21 |
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Defiance Industries posted:Disco Elysium came out in 2019. Bethesda's just not very good at writing games, it's not that they're forced to suppress the talent that they don't have. Weirdly enough, Bethesda is pretty decent at designing the occasional little side quest or random cave with short bits of text to discover. If they just stopped trying to turn "find missing family member" into some kind of grand main quest for a Fallout game they would be in a much better place.
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# ? Jun 3, 2021 18:22 |
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I said come in! posted:"Nothing that Chris Roberts has ever suggested is beyond the realms of possibility in game development" I would disagree with that statement based purely on the specific mention of "game development". Sure, nothing Chris has Chris' fully realised fidelity vision with gas propagation, and physicalised ship component interactions, and all the other pipedreams.txt is IMO too complex to simulate in real time on client PCs, and that's why they can't get the drat thing working as promised, and never will get the drat thing working without using the same cheats other game devs use.
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# ? Jun 3, 2021 18:34 |
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Lammasu posted:The Wing Commander movie is up on YouTube for free. I've never seen this but I've wanted to since I became fascinated with Star Citizen. Wish me luck. You could just have watched the Spoony review of it to get the idea commando in tophat posted:So I never played Morrowind like a heathen I am, does it still hold up, or is it just a nostalgia and actual gameplay is clunky and obtuse? I certainly preferred oblivion's magic system to skyrim's, where you could craft a light spell that would last minutes and fireball that would cost all your mana. In contrast, skyrim let you get gear that would make spells free, but that was really boring Morrowind is mostly still pretty cool, imo. Our PC could barely run it without crashing when I was young, so I've mainly tried it in the last few years. If you mostly just want the vanilla experience and don't need all the crazy mods ever made you could go for OpenMW which gives you a fresh engine that has most of the functionality of the original but without being programmed by Bethesda or from 2002. You still have to install the original, though, so you can point the OpenMW engine to where the game assets are located. I would still recommend getting a mod that adds at least a tiny bit of mana regen over time, since Morrowind doesn't give you that by default, and probably a mod that makes the levelling system a bit less weird. Having to level up your "other" skills X number of times before leveling up your major or minor skills to get the next character level with higher stat boosts than if you didn't was a pretty dumb system.
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# ? Jun 3, 2021 18:36 |
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Lammasu posted:The Wing Commander movie is up on YouTube for free. I've never seen this but I've wanted to since I became fascinated with Star Citizen. Wish me luck. If you're worried that your life might not be ruined enough after this, don't worry! The entire season of the famous Saturday morning cartoon show "Wing Commander Academy" is available for free on peacocktv.com! See the show that left an enduring legacy of dozens and dozens of cardboard boxes full of worthless crap!
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# ? Jun 3, 2021 18:43 |
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I said come in! posted:It's that dog from the Simpsons. My friend also had a dog that looked just like Santa's Little Helper
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# ? Jun 3, 2021 18:50 |
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Mirificus posted:
This guy fails to mention anything wrong with Elite: Dangerous' strategy. What's wrong with getting the basic framework of the game right, then giving it a retail release while continuing to support it with updates and expansions? It certainly seems preferable to Star Citizen's outrageous feature creep of making specialized ships for agriculture and journalism before those mechanics are even put in game. Will Chris Roberts delay the game until he works out detailed Space Reporter gameplay? And of course, his last sentence is completely wrong. Game companies have been releasing public alphas and betas for at least a decade prior to the announcement of Star Citizen. I guess he could argue that companies that did that put out largely feature-complete products and used open betas largely for balancing and tweaking, so they weren't involving their fans as much as SC. But the development of Star Citizen makes a pretty good case for not allowing internet fanboys micromanage every feature of your game from the beginning. EDIT: Since when is Squadron 42 going to be three games? When I last followed Star Citizen news, it was just one game, in chunks with about 50 missions total. How has its release structure changed since then? William Bear fucked around with this message at 19:08 on Jun 3, 2021 |
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Bofast posted:You could just have watched the Spoony review of it to get the idea Just because my polearm wizard knows almost nothing about polearms or magic but is instead an accomplished thief blacksmith doesn't make it dumb!
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# ? Jun 3, 2021 19:03 |
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Mirificus posted:https://twitter.com/real_lethality/status/1400441325040844804 Lol, FOMO the Game. Fear Of Missing Out is the common thread between this latest hack game, SC, the scam MMO, etc. How many polygons, the blockchain, NFTs, whatever - those are straws that the whales grasp at to try and justify that, at the end of the day, they're paying for a ticket, for a seat that hasn't been installed, in a ride that hasn't been designed, in an fairground that hasn't been built, because they're sick of being inconsequential dust in this careless world.
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# ? Jun 3, 2021 19:16 |
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Armitag3 posted:Lol, FOMO the Game. Fear Of Missing Out is the common thread between this latest hack game, SC, the scam MMO, etc. How many polygons, the blockchain, NFTs, whatever - those are straws that the whales grasp at to try and justify that, at the end of the day, they're paying for a ticket, for a seat that hasn't been installed, in a ride that hasn't been designed, in an fairground that hasn't been built, because they're sick of being inconsequential dust in this careless world. They need to learn that being inconsequential dust in an uncaring universe, in point of fact, owns
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# ? Jun 3, 2021 19:18 |
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"See all those bugs? That's the proof that it's working!"
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# ? Jun 3, 2021 19:49 |
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FishMcCool posted:You don't have to do this. Like, really. You really don't have to do this. Me too. I took a date. It went as well as you would think.
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# ? Jun 3, 2021 19:52 |
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TheAgent posted:I was looking through some of the biggest star citizen supporters and well well, surprise surprise most of them are on SC_trades and hey, lookie at that, most of them are huge into NFTs, crypto and the latest fun fad of AMC/GameStop HODLing This doesn't surprise me at all. The same geniuses who get played on social media by hedge funds are also big on SC? Color me shocked.
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# ? Jun 3, 2021 19:59 |
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There are actual cults with less robust conceptual defense mechanisms and less sophisticated language manipulation. T-minus how long until we find the Crobbler mummified, wrapped in Christmas lights, and bedazzled with glitter paint on a bed in his mansion?
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# ? Jun 3, 2021 20:03 |
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NumptyScrub posted:I would disagree with that statement based purely on the specific mention of "game development". Sure, nothing Chris has Even if you could do all that stupid poo poo on modern hardware, it would still be better to use the "cheats" because you're freeing up cycles for something else. The entire science/art of software development of any kind is doing more work with fewer resources, not saturating every pipeline in the flow.
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# ? Jun 3, 2021 20:50 |
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another "THE ULTIMATE SANDBOX MMORPG" oh ffs, just play ffxiv
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# ? Jun 3, 2021 20:50 |
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My theory is that promising an MMO works best on a certain kind of person which allows these scams to succeed. Promising a fighting game or boomer shoooter or whathaveyou just won't attract the right kind of person who is susceptible to these scams and the general FOMO feeling.
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# ? Jun 3, 2021 20:54 |
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Dwesa posted:another "THE ULTIMATE SANDBOX MMORPG" Other red flags used in promoting scam MMOs: "It's a game where you can go anywhere and do anything" or "It's the last game you'll ever want to play."
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Dwesa posted:another "THE ULTIMATE SANDBOX MMORPG" xiv is good and not a sandbox, what they should actually do is go play eve
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# ? Jun 3, 2021 21:00 |
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I said come in! posted:"Nothing that Chris Roberts has ever suggested is beyond the realms of possibility in game development" Wait for the shocking realization that once, if ever, it releases it turns out Star Citizen really is just another video game MMO for kids and all the dreams of space life forever in the world of Ready Player One are dashed.
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# ? Jun 3, 2021 21:10 |
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Bofast posted:Weirdly enough, Bethesda is pretty decent at designing the occasional little side quest or random cave with short bits of text to discover. If they just stopped trying to turn "find missing family member" into some kind of grand main quest for a Fallout game they would be in a much better place. Liam Neeson is going to find you, and be your father. Just pretend that Fallout is really your average Liam Neeson movie and the reality is he is hunting for you while you wander an aimless wasteland, killing people along the way who may have information on your whereabouts, until finally you both meet!
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# ? Jun 3, 2021 21:13 |
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NumptyScrub posted:I would disagree with that statement based purely on the specific mention of "game development". Sure, nothing Chris has I think people have a hard time parsing this. Like XYZ did it so it should be doable by abc also. It's not that any one thing is impossible (with the exception of the promised version of server meshing where in thousands could seamlessly interact in this fidelitous environment with servers spinning up and inter communicating with each other like they are one big cojoined computer). It's that doing all the things together at one time is super challenging and potentially super difficult to achieve. Rockstar could probably get closest. But not every company is Rockstar, with their level of talent and skill and years of game history allowing them to do this kind of thing. As CDProject Red discovered, being Rockstar is not something you can just suddenly decide to be and succeed at. To think you can do it with a company made from Full Sail grads and who's most powerful department is marketing and art... probably not. And that's why we're at year 9-10 or something and counting with no end even in sight yet, and with a game where YouTube videos of normal play are full of more bugs and problems than people succeeding at stuff. Sure CIG may eventually get close... but is it going to be worth 20 years and $800M by then? Just looking at UE5 and what it has brought to the table implies that console games using it are about to put anything and everything video games have done to date out to pasture. We're about to see the next generation of graphics appear and it's super exciting and if you have a game stuck in development hell like SC, be prepared to be lapped by shovelware in the graphics department over the next few years.
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# ? Jun 3, 2021 21:21 |
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William Bear posted:Other red flags used in promoting scam MMOs: "It's a game where you can go anywhere and do anything" or "It's the last game you'll ever want to play." Where do I buy this?!!?! My credit card is re- Ooihhh I see this was just an explanation of the problem. I was totally thinking you were building this game. Because if you were.. MY CREDIT CARD IS READY TO BUY BUY BUY!!! And I'll know you're serious if a basic thing is the price of a normal retail game and a bigger thing is the cost of a real car. And if you hide some costs from me until I'm enlightened and have proven my gullible nature... I will just not stop buying it all.
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The Titanic posted:
Scientology would like to know your location.
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akkristor posted:Scientology would like to know your location. Last known whereabouts: bottom of the Atlantic. No next of kin.
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Scruffpuff posted:saturating every pipeline in the flow. Lesnik's specialty
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The Titanic posted:Rockstar could probably get closest. But not every company is Rockstar, with their level of talent and skill and years of game history allowing them to do this kind of thing. Rockstar could never achieve the kind of things that Star Citizen is promising and has the good sense not to even try. Especially regarding this server meshing nonsense which along with a few other things is probably what I find most troublesome about their plans. Does anyone know if the stars, planets, moons and satellites actually orbit and rotate in Star Citizen at this point in time?
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Deskeletonized posted:There are actual cults with less robust conceptual defense mechanisms and less sophisticated language manipulation. T-minus how long until we find the Crobbler mummified, wrapped in Christmas lights, and bedazzled with glitter paint on a bed in his mansion? "With this jpeg do I outlive death, with this roadmap do I secure the stars, forever shall I have my staff and followers, forever shall I keep my promise. Another sale to mark my passing. Two more weeks and all shall be revealed." Appalled I apply a napkin to my mouth as I escape the tomb. Shrill words from a harpy emanate from the bowels of this place as I make my escape. "YOU FOOL DEREK IS DEAD" I chuckle. I am glad of it.
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Only 64 weeks 'til the MERCHANTMAN It's on the schedule so it'll be on time
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trucutru posted:It's on the schedule so it'll be on time I utter this as a car drives by me and covers me with slush. I am immersed, and yet, my bus does not arrive. Perhaps I need more bus passes I think as I look at the flowers I intend to lay at the grave of Derek Smart. Perhaps I'm just too ambitious for this world. Perhaps God needed me to remember humility. I'd be remiss to mistake the lessons granted to me. I sigh all the same. My zoot suit is ruined.
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