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[il_paulio]

No were here to challenge eachothers connections ;) Downup doesn't know how it is to have a slow connections coz all those scandinavians got a optical fibre up their ass ;)

[Downup]

:D u removed zelda :D It was like 2mb.. :P but feels like 800mb

[Daniel]

looking at those pictures again, I always thought Bert and Ernie were homosexuals...

[USED]

LOL DB, they totaly where/are ... and Ernie was most deff, the woman in the realationship :D

[Fusion]

yup, bert and ernie are gay........sesame street is a program that is run by raging homosexuals that targets young pre-school children and force them out of the closet. Sad world aint it ;)

Stripe -- i know what your thinking.......and no......this has nothing to do with it. oh btw, ol' buddy ol' friend ol' pal. . . DELETE THOSE F***** LOGS!!!! :shout:

[novoAlias]

Originally posted by Dr.N
lol.. what games do u play BlackWolf? megaman? hahaha

lol nice
GTAVC&DC but mostly 3dsmax :D the hardest level is trying to model the taj mahal but i havent got there yet :D

[novoAlias]

[i]Stripe -- i know what your thinking.......and no......this has nothing to do with it. oh btw, ol' buddy ol' friend ol' pal. . . DELETE THOSE F***** LOGS!!!! :shout: [/B]

dont do it!

i need to see what the gin masta has been up to :D

[Dr.N]

Originally posted by DanielB-3DT
looking at those pictures again, I always thought Bert and Ernie were homosexuals...

LOL .. omg especially in that pic up there.. lol

[Downup]

Ohh SpiderMan2

[enjoiskating543]

how fast did they bang that game out? his foot is through the floor quite a ways....

[Downup]

Originally posted by enjoiskating543
how fast did they bang that game out? his foot is through the floor quite a ways....

That is the lastboss... About 45min gametime.. very very shortgame

[Downup]

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[Daniel]

I dunno, that game does't look too hot

[Fusion]

no, but i hear its like gta series. You can go anywhere and its pretty limitless. Im just repeating what i hear so i will have to check it out, on the console though.

[Downup]

U can climb walls, swing like him in the air. Fight. Jump.. alot of things.. but it is not soo hot.. but great fun to swing

[Downup]

The fight with Doc OC

First
http://img38.exs.cx/img38/607/5941.jpg
Some trash/wodden parts

Second
http://img38.exs.cx/img38/3892/5942.jpg
Some .. yea u see

Third :D
http://img38.exs.cx/img38/1971/5943.jpg
Cars.. he starts throwing cars :D

(alot of them)

[Dr.N]

lol thas funny..... is the game short? l

[Downup]

Very short.. can complete it in some minutes

[Dr.N]

those stupid game companies.. they started making games so short.. like max payne.. tat was pretty damn quick:D

[Downup]

Yeah max payne 1 and 2 was a one night game... =(

[Daniel]

what about hitman contracts. I fnished the game in 1 day, couldn't believe it was already done when it was, lol. I kept waiting for a new level to load.

[Fusion]

ya those games are easy I also beat them in 1 night. Contracts was probably the easiest.

<Loads up Hitman>

http://img6.exs.cx/img6/3586/contracts.jpg

(shows Fusion still on level 1)

err.......ya.......thats just a typo. I swear to god, hope to die, stick a needle in. . . . .Daniel's eye :roll: I beat it in 1 day. And that goes with max payne too :o

[Fusion]

Condition Zero just came in today:dance:

The graphics are so enhanced, the textures are so rich, everything is just so smooth, the hosties are no longer dumb@sses and just everything is so enjoyable. Plus the deleted scenes are a nice touch although im a stricktly online player.

So here is a screen from the deleted scenes.....now dont even think for a second that this does not look good. . . . .unless of coarse your downup :ugh:

[David Ciprian]

Well the sky looks worse than in HL (1)

And what looks so good there?

[Fusion]

Well just everything in general. I guess you'd understand if you'd play all the versions and beta's.

[Dr.N]

CZ is okay.. the graphics are better than the previous one.. but still not on top for me
:(

[David Ciprian]

Fusion: yeah I played every released version of CS. but as Dr.N said ...CZ is better than the previous CS version, not the other games. Actually I am quite disappointed in CZ, after all that hype:grr:

[Fusion]

well, you have to understand the OLD engine they have to deal with. Actually im wrong, the engine is actually very new, its the hl2 engine in its beginning form, so its actually not that old but with what the have to deal with its still not that much. But it definatly is smoother, you can tell first time you try. Everything is improved, models, sprites, tex, everything. Makes it more fun to play. But I cry myself to sleep everynight because no one plays it :cry: Its like im playing with the same 2 people out of the whole community ;) Everybody's in 1.6 :( I think its time for me to pick up a new game :dunno: But so so so many to choose from:blah:

[Torlok2002]

Originally posted by Fusion

So here is a screen from the deleted scenes.....now dont even think for a second that this does not look good. . . . .unless of coarse your downup :ugh:

Um yeah, CS does not look good at all compared to recent games(even CZ!). even UT2003 has much better visuals. It's called a newer engine. I cant wait for HL2 though to see what it can do!

[blao!]

all im waiting for is Doom 3 and the SDK

then its Moddingtime baby! :D

[Downup]

whraaaaaa

[Dr.N]

is there anybody playing FarCry here?

[Daniel]

I think my computer would explode... I need a new video card

[blao!]

Originally posted by Dr.N
is there anybody playing FarCry here?

jupp but online does it suck, in my opinion cuz im used to BF & Tribes 2 Fights, with 64 or even more players and not such a tiny 20 player deathmatch game.

the singleplayer mode is great, havent played a Egoshooter since a long time with such a great flair and intence fights :D

[Torlok2002]

Originally posted by Dr.N
is there anybody playing FarCry here?


Right here. I love this game, your not too powerful, not to weak. You have to make a plan of attack or else the enemy will sneak up your bum and shoot ya. It's a great single player game. But from what i've played online it does suck. Walking is too slow, i get sniped in like 12 seconds. I killed 4 of my teamates with a hummer my first game... It seems like it would be a bit fun on a small lan party with close friends though, but not enough of my friends have it...

It does take a beast of a machine to play it at any good details. This is one of the few games i cant have with most of the details set to high and still play. I plays at 800X600 with most of the details set at medium and get about 70 fps indoors and 40-50 outdoors, but i need them to stay there because when the FPS drops, it drops a lot and it ruins the atmosphere it has going.

I cant wait until doom3 either, only a few more days! It looks like it will have a nice atmosphere, i hope i can run it well... It's just in time for a big lan party here in my town too! Aug 7th and 8th!

[blao!]

yea but i need a new Graphics-Card since my 9800XT wont handle High-Details in Doom3.

I hope the X800XT i ordered is here earlier than Doom3, then its time to pull out the BFG10k :D

[Dr.N]

Originally posted by Torlok2002
Right here. I love this game, your not too powerful, not to weak. You have to make a plan of attack or else the enemy will sneak up your bum and shoot ya. It's a great single player game. But from what i've played online it does suck. Walking is too slow, i get sniped in like 12 seconds. I killed 4 of my teamates with a hummer my first game... It seems like it would be a bit fun on a small lan party with close friends though, but not enough of my friends have it...

It does take a beast of a machine to play it at any good details. This is one of the few games i cant have with most of the details set to high and still play. I plays at 800X600 with most of the details set at medium and get about 70 fps indoors and 40-50 outdoors, but i need them to stay there because when the FPS drops, it drops a lot and it ruins the atmosphere it has going.

I cant wait until doom3 either, only a few more days! It looks like it will have a nice atmosphere, i hope i can run it well... It's just in time for a big lan party here in my town too! Aug 7th and 8th!

what graphics card you are using now?

and blao.. how much does cost that x800 ?

[blao!]

around 570 €uros :!!!: for the XT version

but there should be also a Pro and a SE version available but i wouldnt choose these.

[Dr.N]

256MB right?

[blao!]

RADEON X800 XT PLATINUM 256MB AGP - SHIPPING WHEN AVAILABLE

Price: $499.00

link to further details (http://shop.ati.com/product.asp?sku=2537962)

sry thought she was more expensive :roll:

[Torlok2002]

Originally posted by Dr.N
what graphics card you are using now?

and blao.. how much does cost that x800 ?

I'm using a Gforce FX5900. 128mb.

It hasnt met a game it cant take yet....

[Torlok2002]

heres some cool screens from the level im on

[MariusvZyl]

I run FarCry with Fx5700 256 perfectly. Beautifull game. Brilliant Single player, crappy multiplayer. It almost always degenerates into everyone ramming each other with boats or having races around the island.:D

[Torlok2002]

another

[blao!]

oh i hate that level, took me quite along time to get trough there

although the Design is really great :D

[Fusion]

Originally posted by blao!
yea but i need a new Graphics-Card since my 9800XT wont handle High-Details in Doom3.

I hope the X800XT i ordered is here earlier than Doom3, then its time to pull out the BFG10k :D

ah yes, the 9800xt. Although its not the newest newest, it still can run the game pretty well. As John Carmack said, and i quote:

"all of the modern cards play the game very well."

So, it may be no nvidia 6800 ultra but it gets the job done quite smoothly if you dont push it to its utmost maximum. Haveing said that, i want to point out that the most insane quality detail is really not needed. You can still see an exceptional level of detail in everything with modern cards.

So Im a little shocked that you spend all that money on the 9800 xt just to buy one that is slightly higher. What shockes me even more is that you are buying a card just for doom. If that is your will then let me be the first to say, your steering in the wrong direction.......to a degree ;) Doom 3 was stricktly based on nvidia cards so I'd recomend heading in the opositew direction from ati. And since you have cash stacking by the millions, go for the latest nvidea. Even if something goes wrong (which i seriously doubt it would) you can safetly say "I have a kick ass graphics card for 3d" because nvidia is knows for their amazing performance cards when it comes to 3d :D

[blao!]

Originally posted by Fusion
So Im a little shocked that you spend all that money on the 9800 xt just to buy one that is slightly higher. What shockes me even more is that you are buying a card just for doom.

Even if something goes wrong (which i seriously doubt it would) you can safetly say "I have a kick ass graphics card for 3d" because nvidia is knows for their amazing performance cards when it comes to 3d :D


bleah... im not just buying it for doom³ for christ sake, that would be insane, im earning some money now and what i wanna do is give my older PC (2600+XP, 512meg DDR, GF²MX) a little more power just a bit more RAM and the 9800 XT.

The X800 XT in my newer pc (AMD FX-51, 1 gig DDR) so that i can also use the older one for network renderings. :cool:

Yea and ive thought about a Geforce but honestly only the PNY cards, impress me but they are to expensive.

so its ATI all the way for me baby :D

[Torlok2002]

Originally posted by blao!

Yea and ive thought about a Geforce but honestly only the PNY cards, impress me but they are to expensive.

so its ATI all the way for me baby :D


Fanboy:p

Actually and if you really want "all the pretties" the 6800 is PS3.0 compliant so there's your pretties. I dont see that much of a difference between the 2 in price anyways if you compare similar models. Here are some benchmarks for doom3 since it seems to be so important
http://www2.hardocp.com/article.html?art=NjQyLDI=

Anyway, they are both fast! Wish i had one....

<edit> to add to this I will also say that doom3 is OpenGL based which I doubt very many people will argue that Nvidia is better at than ATI. Just a quote from hardOCP:

"It seems as if the Radeon X800Pro is going to have a very hard time holding a candle to the 6800 series card and the great performance we are seeing from them."</edit>

[blao!]

Originally posted by Torlok2002
Fanboy:p

Actually and if you really want "all the pretties" the 6800 is PS3.0 compliant so there's your pretties.


yea i know about the Pixel Shader 3.0 but that isnt supported by any Game yet and i dont need the PixelShader for a faster rendering. The X800 XT is a bit faster and cheaper compared to the 6800 Ultra, ergo X800 XT will be the next card.

Sure i would love to buy a Wildcard-, FireGL- or PNY-card but i dont have so much money for that.

[Torlok2002]

Well, there was a game... farcry w/ the 1.2 patch, but it got recalled, should be back soon though!

I think i need to reinstall farcry cause im getting a lot of errors and graphics anomilies. The last part of level Cooler i was supposed so save victoria, when i entered the room she screamed help me and then commenced to running around the room hiding from nothing (yes i check my cryvision... there was NOTHING there...). I played through the level 4 times before d/ling a cheat to skip that level.

[Fusion]

here's another from cz......new models, new guns, you know that sort of thing......dust btw.

[Dr.N]

on counter strike.. the firsto one .. MAN. i had all type of skins.. for hostages.. grenades , guns.. lol

once i got CZ.. i didnt touch the files( i dont know y.. but i soemtimes like to keep the original stuff..

[Corth]

NO ONE is more of an ATI fan-boy than me, my video cards have always been ati, from the Rage2 days up to my 9800XT. I am however going to stay away from the X800 series. ATI will need to rethink the way they design their next gen cards or I might be switching to nvidia. I cant even believe I wrote that...

It feels as if my world is falling apart! :cry:

[Fusion]

N -- Yeah, the skins do look very nice, the only one im not happy with is the m4, planning on doing something about it soon.

Corth -- I know what you mean about the X800 series. But im not surprised that they arent doing so well. They only designed the card to keep in competition with nvidia's latest. They are really stepping it up and ati just threw this on the market as a despiration for sales and rank. Thats why im not to fond of them in general. . . .perhaps they're method was better in the past but like it mattered on the 16 and 8 bits :lame: we are getting into some really advanced graphics and ati is derfinatly slipping. I definatly regret going with ati, I had a geforce before my 9800xt and I was pretty satisfied with it. Payed an extra 600 and i wasn't left with a whole much difference. But if i went with nvidia's latest, I would probably be bragging about how amazing it is........I hate learning lessons:( But what do you think with your xt? satisfied?

[Corth]

I've had a complete opposite exerience with my XT than you have. I havn't had any slow downs or graphical problems yet. Painkiller runs perfectly on my system with everything maxed out. The only game I've actually had problems with is Spellforce, but the stupid game was looking for german files... hence-not a GPU issue, but crappy programmers).

The thing that might make me switch over is the fact that (it seems like) alot of game developers are switching to openGL now, and the Radeons support of openGL is not as good as Nvidia's.

the X800XT does perform 2x better than the 9800XT, but it's lacking support for openGL might just kill it and make people go for the 6800Ultra.

[Fusion]

Originally posted by Corth
and the Radeons support of openGL is not as good as Nvidia's.

oh, i had no idea. I think im running max off opengl. . . . and perhaps thats why there was bearly a change. Im going to have to get painkiller and see how it runs.

[Dr.N]

Fusion.. i was looking for some good skins for weapon for CZ.. didnt find any.. can u link me please?:o

[Fusion]

well i think you can use normal skins how you would with 1.5 1.6 or whatever. Their still .mdl and to my knowledge, fully compatible. I guess the question would probably be, were do i put it right? well . .

e.g c:\program files\steam\steam apps\<your email>\counter-strike\cstrike\models

[Downup]

Fusion

http://www.francecomputer.net/catalog/images/ts-noob.jpg

[Downup]

http://www.n-sane.net/forums/uploads/post-34-1079040872.gif

[Daniel]

hahahaha!

lol that's the jesus from one of my favorite movies, dogma.

I love that part where Ben is dropping people from the sky, the priests's head pops like a melon, rofl

[Fusion]

LOL, thats halarious!!

I like the bottom caption

"2000 year ago, you tried to be nice to them. They nailed you to a cross. Now your back. . . . and its payback time" :haha:

[Dr.N]

LMAO MAN thats so funny.. " Holy Combad:D"

[Fusion]

So I got doom recently and wouldn't you know it. . . .I already have a problem. Take a look, does anyone know how to solve this? Its not the game because it gets installed the same way on each one so it either plays bad, doesnt play at all, or plays well. And it cant be my computer because this hasent happened before.........so hmmmm, i wonder what device could be making this happen :roll:

The game itself runs fine but you see those white dots everywhere.........as in wherever there is geometry. . . . .thats were the problem is, and its not only on the main screen, it happens throughout the entire game. Stupid question but. . . .would anyone know how to solve this?

[Corth]

have you tried re-installing? sometimes it doesn't write things that well. lol, I just read the support section of the manual and it tells you to send them your computer's processor type and speed (eg. Pentium 200 MHZ) hahaha. anyway, the readme file might have insight, activisioin.com/support might. Turning settings way down might help... lol, I wish I was at home so I could try stuff... and do you still have that same 9800xt that was messing up far cry and stuff? cause if you do... for shame! :p get it replaced!

[USED]

update your video card drivers.. I can bet you that is what the problem is

[Fusion]

Originally posted by Corth
have you tried re-installing? sometimes it doesn't write things that well. lol, I just read the support section of the manual and it tells you to send them your computer's processor type and speed (eg. Pentium 200 MHZ) hahaha. anyway, the readme file might have insight, activisioin.com/support might. Turning settings way down might help... lol, I wish I was at home so I could try stuff... and do you still have that same 9800xt that was messing up far cry and stuff? cause if you do... for shame! :p get it replaced!

yes actually I do have the same one......planning on getting it replaced soon.......but who am i to say that......i promised myself that, what was it? 3 months ago!!

I did update the driver........and i reinstalled it. Now im going for Omega's new ati driver........im really going for everything here.

But im going to try and decrease the core because I feel its really creeping up too high. So ill post some screens on the change, if any.

[Fusion]

well it turned out that lowering the core did get rid of the dots. But when one problem dissaprears, another re-appears :ugh: ya i know, ill never get to the end of this.

So now my problem is jamming in game. Walk a few steps and have it lock up......great first time experience with doom huh? Anyway, I managed to grab some screens for you guys. This one is a particle shot. It looks much better in the game because you can see the heat waves and how it distorts the picture (you know, where there is a refraction/distortion right over a camp fire)

[Fusion]

and here's one just testing skin texture and everything else. Sweet huh?!?

[Corth]

I'm not sure what's causing all those problems except that it might be either your card is screwing up, or your PSU might be sending too much power to it (like my case).

P.S. You missed my favorite sub-game ;)

[Fusion]

lol corth. . . . i played that game for a while :D Damn chickens!!!!

Well looks like the omega driver improved the gameplay so I wouldn't exactly call myself happy, but rather scared. . . .very scared :hmm:

. . . .and i managed to capture some kick ass screens. If your a hardcore doom3 player then spoilers ahead (the pics tell their own story) This took me some time to put together so enjoy :)

http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/9355/doom15.jpg

[Corth]

haha, I didn't find the present in the toilet! Stepping out onto mars was just awesome, it looks so nice. I still stand by what I said about the lipsync could have been better ;)

How many times have you died Fusion? I'm not that good at FPS games and the first time I ran into that huge dog beast I swear I reloaded about 10 times, haha. This game is Uber scary, it's also got funny points too, like the issues of "booty" at the beginning with the Unreal/Quake3 (not sure which one) girl on the cover, and this screenshot...

P.S. I don't really think it's a spoiler, but it tells you how the chainsaws got there, lol. I still havn't found them yet :(

[Torlok2002]

I'm stuck. I have to meet bravo team in alpha labs, and have been walking around in circles for 3 hours.:(

I get off the elevator,(crawl through vents) and can get to the infirmary, but i dont find much of anywhere to go after that, I get the video uplink, and return to the place i got out of the vents...

Please help!:grr: :grr:

[Fusion]

Corth -- oh yeah!! I forgot to mention lipsyncing in my last post. Well i do agree with you totally. . . .they really could have done better with it. Im not really sure wether it's the timing because it seems right on but i think that the expressions are too extream. . . . like if he were to say "free", then he'd make an extream open rather than a normal wide visime.

I haven't died at all yet except for the time i jumped off the railing. I know im playing on easy but. . .well I guess it is kind of a shame because it takes away from the realism. That huge monster/dog mech speared through the glass at me (which was so FREAKY!!!!) many times and i didn't go down. I think im going to start over on a harder difficulty, im just piling through and there are med kits every 10 steps:ugh:

I wouldn't either consider it a spoiler but if I didnt say anything you know hardcore doom3 fans would be bitching! :)

What do you think of the physics? They seem a bit off dont they? And they didnt assign properties to all geometry. I dont know, maybe its just me but im still a fan of the havok physics in MP2 :)

Tor -- I almost had the same problem as you, I kept circling. Make sure you have gone back outside to mars, trace back your steps until you get to main doors (like elevators/air suction rooms)

[Corth]

*note - probably some spoilers gonna be written*

Tor, make sure you use your flashlight alot too, I got stuck and I finally found my way through a very dimly lit area. Then you need to go up a ladder and get someone's PDA for the big doors to the labs.

I still can't believe how freaky this game is, haha. I don't mind if lipsyncs go to extreams, as long as they look right, lol. The movements just seem off. When you play on a harder difficulty, you get even more freaked out, cause that's when your fighting for you LIFE ;) haha.

I'm definitly a fan of havok, that's an amazing piece of technology, too bad they didn't use it here... Grenades still fall funny :) I've gotten into the habbit of jumping whenever I'm on stairs though... lol. It was said before that the environment was all interactive, but you shoot a metal crate, or those lockers with a shotgun and it doesn't dent :( Grenades don't even dent things... The only things that dent and break are scripted, and yes the first time that beast came up to the glass, I thought "Oh crap, he's gonna come right for me!" such a claustraphobic feeling, then he went around the corner and bashed in the door a couple of times, I thought "Yes! I can hide in the corner and shoot him a couple of times with my shotgun and switch to the machine gun to finish him off!" Then he stopped bashing on the door and appeared outside the glass window again, I literally jumped and ended up dying (thank god for quick save/quick load, lol).

I just have to attach this picture... maybe it's because I'm morbid tonight, but after playing Doom3, who wouldn't be? hehe

[Fusion]

Tor -- yeah, use your flashlight. Can't recall perfectly but once your get through the ducts you should be close. There will be a lot of backtracking. So if you play Max Payne you'll know what I mean (keep going back and forth in the same level to do the missions). Another good tip (and this goes for all shooter games) is to follow the path were enemies are alive. Thats how I got passed that part. . . . I kept circling untill a monster showed up, then I just went with it.

Corth -- yeah, bit unforunate with the physics. . . .and I havent even tried the nades yet!! The beast mech is probably the scariest. . .I saw a video where there are pipes on the wall that fade into the darkness and a pop can is thrown from the dark......moment of silence......and that beast bust through the wall/pipes. That must have been later in the game which means it gets way more freaky because I jumped back in my seat.

Ever notice how they get the objects to look so smooth? And I know its not extra geometry otherwise the game wouldnt be sluggish on any system. The walls/boxes/misc all have almost nurb contours. . . .anyone know how they are getting this on a real-time engine? Could it have something to do with the texture?

[Phynius Gauge]

Ever notice how they get the objects to look so smooth? And I know its not extra geometry otherwise the game wouldnt be sluggish on any system. The walls/boxes/misc all have almost nurb contours. . . .anyone know how they are getting this on a real-time engine? Could it have something to do with the texture?

You know about normal mapping, right :) ?

[Dr.N]

MAN.. Doom 3 is awesome.. it has some funny details i can see:D.. like all the old dooms :p

[blao!]

Originally posted by Fusion
Ever notice how they get the objects to look so smooth? And I know its not extra geometry otherwise the game wouldnt be sluggish on any system. The walls/boxes/misc all have almost nurb contours. . . .anyone know how they are getting this on a real-time engine? Could it have something to do with the texture?

Check out the Developer Part of Ati.com they have a Normal-Mapping plugin for max and also a standalone in case you`re using another 3d packege and if you`re interested in directX 9 Shaders you could check out rendermonkey, its great to create your own DX9-Shaders.

Edit: these tools are for free. just forgot to mention that ;)

[Nappa]

Originally posted by Zergling
Dude, a bicycle? It's cool that they're putting it in there as well as all the cars, but ... a BICYCLE?? COME ON!

Boats were an improvement on GTA2

Helicopters were an improvement on GTA3

Motorcycles were an improvement on GTA3

property buying was an improvement on GTA3.

What has San Andreas got to offer over Vice City? A BICYCLE? come ON!

yeesh...

CORRECTION


Helicopters were an improvement on GTA Vice city

Motorcycles were an improvement on GTA Vice city

property buying was an improvement on GTA Vice city


And the new you'll be able to swim ,gamble,eat food and get fat,lift weights and get buff,pick up girlfriends,rob house ANY HOUSE,make a gang,get your girlfriend pregnate and if you dont claim it her supposed couisn in a gang will atemp to do drive bys on you, theres a new lighting system think splinter cell, you can tak a commercail air plane to different states,they were going to add a option if you die you can play as that guy anymore but i think they took that out.

[Corth]

Yep, normal mapping. Highend3d.com should have a bunch of those shaders for each package as well. To see normal mapping at it's best though, you should check out Unreal Engine 3 (http://www.unrealtechnology.com) our cards wont be able to run that one though, lol. I got the bad end of the stick last nght, my quick save wouldn't open (AHHH!!!) so I might have lost an hours worth of game time, hopefully it just needed a restart or something, lol, I'll find out tonight :)

Erica have you found Doom3 yet? If you buy it from future shop on the 6th you'll get knights of the old republic with it (that's what the tv is tellin me :) ) . The place I got mine (EBGames) had their order messed up and labeled for ground shipping, so the copies wouldn't have been in that day, but they called another location and got them to drop off some copies for those of us who put money down for them to hold a copy, I'm so glad I did that :)

[Daniel]

damn you guys!!! your making want to update my comp and get the game!!!

[BlackSeer]

Gonna get it as soon it goes retail in sweden, sadly I cant get all eyecandy, computer would probably shutdown :roll:

I read in pcgamer that there is a arcade machince somewhere, fully working. Thats details :D

[Corth]

I plan on taking some beautiful shots on my next trip to mars, vacations are fun :)

Daniel, Me and Fusion could probably describe the whole Doom3 game in a spoiler thread, lol, but I'm sure you want to play it ;)

[Corth]

I'm only kidding about that last comment, but I'll leave you with another screenshot, the little guy that I circled, is really cool! This bugger shows you the way to go and fights with you against all the demons and zombies, but you only get him for a little portion of a level, so he's not with you all the time.

[Nappa]

2006 you know i thought the world would have blowed up by 2000 when i was little the unreal engine 3 is going to be wild im trying to covince thi guy at epic to produces a graphic card made for that engine

[Fusion]

Thanks everybody for the links to normal mapping!!! Actually I dont know whether I should thank you or smack you because I spend yestersday about 15 hours figuring all the plugins and getting it to work. . . . im getting closer but still nothing :cry: ATI's plugs are mostly messed (except the links that have their own company - rendermonkey :) ) and I looked into nvidia's plugins and they only support until max 5, for the most part. REALLY cool feature, but damn hard to get all the plugins working together :ugh: Thats why I didn't reply to anyones post yesterday, i was tearing my hair out over this tough mapping (oh no!! not my precious hair :cry: ) ;) So thanks blao, thanks phynius, thanks corth, i'd like to kill all ya, but for now, ill give you a big hug :haha:

Nappa -- yeah, your right, its so great they keep expanding the options. As long they keep everything controled and still within an extreamly fun environment, it will still be top on my list!! I hope they never stop the series:!!!: But about epic, they dont make hardware do they?!? Im sure by the time it comes out it will probably leave the unreal 3 engine in the dust with the way technology is advancing ;)

Daniel -- oh yeah, I forgot about your little graphics problem. . . . dude you HAVE to get this.....you know there will be more games like this so it just a matter of time. Well your missing out no doubt! But dont worry we'll supply you with spoilers until you get the game and wont think its scary anymore ;)

Corth -- Your going to mars too??!!! what a coincidence....ME 2!!! Maybe we'll see each other on a different difficulty;) I love that little mech dude, the first time i saw him taking out everybody I was jumping out of my seat with joy!! too bad there wasn't any more :(

Well right now im stuck at this part. . . I cant find this guys log. And until then I wont be able to get through this damn door :( Anyone know where to get it?

[lilCara]

has anyone played Painkiller?

I'm really impressed by that game, not because of the gore, killing 'n' s..t, but because it has one of the most incredible level design I've ever seen

I've put up some screens to show what I mean (pretty big images)

http://img10.exs.cx/img10/6840/Shot1.jpg
http://img10.exs.cx/img10/6876/Shot4.jpg
http://img10.exs.cx/img10/9886/Shot0003.jpg
http://img10.exs.cx/img10/3448/Shot0009.jpg
http://img10.exs.cx/img10/6408/Shot0010.jpg
http://img10.exs.cx/img10/3079/Shot12.jpg
http://img10.exs.cx/img10/2084/Shot0013.jpg
http://img10.exs.cx/img10/9034/Shot0014.jpg

[Nappa]

Fusion


there is a pretty good tutorail on normal mapping and plus i could never get the Ati normal mapper to work EVER then theres a whole 3 whole threads on the subjset and cgtalk in the game art section

[Fusion]

oh believe me I already checked them. But I just have a problem with generating a norm map from the low and high poly models. I tried using nvidia's Melody but it always makes its own texture coordinates. Its all about getting the plugins to work so I guess I have to go for ati's normal mapper and see if i can install that :dunno: complicated installation wouldn't you say :roll: The photoshop plugin is simply a fake, i mean if you want to go for inaccuracy then its ok but for sheer realsim (doom3) you MUST be accurate and so far I dont know how game designers are doing it!?! And on top of all that I still need a renderer. . . .the gnormal plugin doesn't work:( Have you got it to work?

[Corth]

Maya loves normal maps :)

Fusion, I can't remember how to do that part, I just remember that I found the second guys PDA. I spent about half an hour just finding it. I beat the game on saturday, then I tried loading up nightmare... haha. Your life stays at 25, if it's over, it decreases by 5 every 3 seconds or so and if a zombie hits you, your life goes to -16, lol. Now all I'm interested in is a mod. A total conversion Mod...

I'm downloading some video tutorials on map making for doom3 :)

Painkiller is a cool game, I like the physics when enemies are tumbling down the stairs (after you kill them) and they push you back. It's a beautiful game, but it needs more I think.

FarCry, I havn't played it, I also don't really want to, the stuff that I see almost looks toonshaded IMO. (Not actual toon shaded, but bright).

Anyway, now that I've finished Doom 3, the only level I really feel like re-playing is hell... OMG HELL WAS AWESOME!!!

[Fusion]

I havent played past that last part i was stuck on so I havent had the pleasure of trying out hell. I was too busy figuring out normal maps and I can honestly say, im fairly close. But maybe you might have some screens of hell? no?

I actually got Far Cry few days ago, its not bad at all!! Some things can really pis$ you off like their incredible AI (they can see you a mile away) and everything is a little difficult to control but the graphics keep pulling me in. Thats why doom triumphs over FC, not only is the AI and gameplay better in doom but they also have quite a thrilling story. I think the only think FC beats doom in is the shaders, FC's DX9 vert shaders are incredble. Well acutally I dont know if it beats it, but its really close.

Cara -- Painkiller doesn't really do it for me although you have changed my mind about the level design. I actually thought painkiller's LD was......well......$hit. . . .but after seeing your screens Im not sure anymore. The fast......VERY FAST gameplay with the rag dol havok physics are tight for the first little bit but it dies. If your into those types of games then im sure you're having a blast!!! :D I want to get further in painkiller till I get to those huge demon creatures. . . . thats some intese gameplay!!!


Here's some shots I took from FC. . . . . stupid story, nice graphics :)

http://img17.exs.cx/img17/2457/farcry_1.jpg

[Dr.N]

Cool graphics.. and yep the story is stupid. isnt it somethin that has to do with a tourists boat that drowns .. and u are left on the island.. im not sure tho. is that it?

[Corth]

I'll post some screens of hell tomorrow, I don't have internet at home right now (just at work).

So I'm gonna get back to work ;)

[RickStefani]

The story in FC is actually not bad. You are a tour guide that is saling a girl around the island in the begining and you boat gets blown up but it does go on from there. Yu later find out she works for the Cia and you are chartered because of your SF background. There are experiments going on on the island. I am sure Doom 3 is awsome and I do plan on getting it. I am going to wait until I get a better graphics card so I can play it in it's full glory. I am like the rest of us and the hell being released In a Sci_fi enviroment story does not get old but tell the truth, if I was not a dork, It is overdone. Halo probably had one of the more original stories as far as sci-fi goes.

[lilCara]

Fusion, I'm not really into these kinda games, I just needed something for fun :D and Painkiller is exactly that...
And about those monsters at the end of each set of levels... they're one of the best things in this game.... because they each have a weak spot that takes a while to figure out and you can't kill 'em if you don't...
And from what I heard at the end you get to fight the Devil itself, and the map is incredible and refers to moments in human history like the trenches of the two world wars, the atomic mushroom and so on... ;)

about FarCry... haven't played it myself, but my brother does and he likes it...
about the story, I read that along with the rest of the game was made in a hurry only to show what the engine is capabale of doing... oh well, I don't really know that well :)

[PhantomOokami]

;D its a him, MARIO!

[blao!]

Originally posted by PhantomOokami
;D its a him, MARIO!

YAY! oldschool :D

[blao!]

Originally posted by PhantomOokami
;D its a him, MARIO!

YAY! oldschool :D


@Fusion: dunno why ye had so many probs with the normal mapping plugins i just installed em and they work really fine :D

[Dr.N]

Here u go.. man Doom 3 is cool.. but id still prefer FarCry..

[Dr.N]

i stil don have Photoshop.. so bad quality up ther

[Corth]

:ugh: my last RW disc died last night, and these dang macs dont have a floppy drive. I'll find a way to post the screens of hell soon. Has anyone found berserk yet? :haha:

[Fusion]

Blao -- Well it did take a bit to get started but I think things are running at a smooth pace now. I have a lot of plugins I need to get rid of because it got hectic. Very nice feeature though!

Phanton -- What a game :) Jumps a high 20 ft in the air, eats mushrooms, and has an occupation of a plummer. Ya thats leading our younger generation streight out of the path of drugs, you go Nintendo :D

[Corth]

haha, your sig is funny Fusion ;)

[Fusion]

heh, I had to put it there because once I found out most of what I needed to know about it, those were the exact words I said :D

[lilCara]

Here you go...Hell ...

I won't post other screens cuz I'll ruin all your fun.

http://img66.exs.cx/img66/4597/hell2.jpg

[Dr.N]

HOLY SHIZZLE Man.. lol.. freaky stuff.. lol im still stuck at Mars city haha ,. ive been playing the game for a little bit still

[Fusion]

it does look freaky, but seems like this is a short game, everybody seems to finish it or at least almost have. . . is it?

[lilCara]

From what I heard it has about 20 hrs but I know people that finished it in one day... ;)

[offtopic] tomorrow I'm leaving for about 2 weeks :D I gotta wake up at 5 am local time :) I'm going to Hungary for the F1 race and then to Austria.
Cya guys in 2 weeks!

[Dr.N]

ENJOY BRO! .. Austria is great.. the Nature .. people are kind ther..

[PhantomOokami]

Hey, I have a question about Doom. Someone told me it was similar to Half-life... but how scary is it? I didn't find Half-life too scary... but I'm a chicken with certain horror games.

[Dr.N]

Half life 2 is not scary.. but the style of the game.. those bioligical monsters or chimical or whatever they are.. thats the same style as in Half Life..

Only big difference is that Doom is scary lol

[Downup]

SHE GOT NO FACE..

http://img45.exs.cx/img45/9862/namnls3.jpg

[Dr.N]

what is that doownup?

[PhantomOokami]

Lol, I know Half-life isn't scary, I play it a lot. You think I'll be able to handle Doom?

[Downup]

Originally posted by PhantomOokami
Lol, I know Half-life isn't scary, I play it a lot. You think I'll be able to handle Doom?

Doom3 is not scary.. Only the first hour.. after that u can go everywhere u know how the monsters looks like and stuff.. Great game

[Corth]

Doom is pretty short, I was hoping for a longer gameplay experience, and I was really hoping for hell to be ALOT longer than it was. I want to get a screen of some of the monsters in hell up, but I gotta wait for money to buy another rw. :(

I'm also hoping the mod community produces more stuff for Doom. :)

[Corth]

Argh, someone mentioned there was a cutscene with one of those baby monsters in a bathroom, I didn't find it the first time around, so I played through again but I still didn't find it! Does whoever said it know which level it's on? or am I just remembering wrong???

anyway, here's a screenie of one of the monsters in hell that I said I'd post... :)

[Dr.N]

helll.. hell ya:D

[PhantomOokami]

I just went on vacation to see my dad. Apparently hes rich now and he missed my birthday and now I got a crap load of games! I wanted an ATI videocard but it wouldn't run on my computer so I passed. I had everything to play Doom3 except 1.5 ghz! I still have a 999mhz, so that was a kick in the teeth >.< I'm getting a new computer for Christmas though.

Apparently my step brother downloaded Doom3 and he went out to buy more ram.. turned out to be bad ram and he had to buy a whole new computer.

Anyway, off to play FF11 online for my computer! I'll post screenies later!

[Edit] P.S... I didn't find Doom scary XD

[David Ciprian]

Try Silent Hill 2 or 3! :D

[PhantomOokami]

Maybe I should! Probably one of the reasons why I was afraid of Doom3 that much was because I was one of the only smart people to play with lights on XD They cheated in the trailer.. the monsters were just fast forwarded.

[Dr.N]

Originally posted by PhantomOokami
I just went on vacation to see my dad. Apparently hes rich now and he missed my birthday and now I got a crap load of games! I wanted an ATI videocard but it wouldn't run on my computer so I passed. I had everything to play Doom3 except 1.5 ghz! I still have a 999mhz, so that was a kick in the teeth >.< I'm getting a new computer for Christmas though.

Apparently my step brother downloaded Doom3 and he went out to buy more ram.. turned out to be bad ram and he had to buy a whole new computer.

Anyway, off to play FF11 online for my computer! I'll post screenies later!

[Edit] P.S... I didn't find Doom scary XD

lol.. 999 mhz is mad.. my last computer had this.. as u said u can have everthing ok.. RAM and gfx.. expect those nineass mhz:S lol

[Downup]

THIS IS FOR FUSION

This is what u should do to CS

[novoAlias]

BOOM!


i is not spamming :halo:

[Fusion]

Whew, I narrowed it down barney, now

RUN!!!!

[Fusion]

Now as for you Mr.I-Hate-CS :evil:......

[David Ciprian]

Downup: lucky you for forgetting to add batteryes in the remote :D

[Downup]

Hehe thats was kinda good =)

[Dridon]

Heres mine :)

[novoAlias]

I'd prefer a magnum :D or better yet a grav gun with lots of those blades from ravenholm lying about

[Fusion]

Speaking of, what did you guys think of HL2 Deathmatch?

I only played it with a friend because once it exceedes 2 players, its gets really slow. And online play should never be with just a 1 on 1 but it turned out pretty fun. Especialy when you restrict yourself to only the gravity gun. . . . . it becomes a game of basball, he throughs things at you, you catch them and pitch it back to him until it finally hits him and he dies :D The games entertainment factor only decreases when you use the same gun over and over. Like the one that shoots that orb and follows you for a good 5 min before you finally die :( Other than that, great fun :!!!:

[Fusion]

had to play some deathmatch :) her's a nice screen which happens to me approx. ever 5 seconds. . .

http://s04.imagehost.org/1074/dead.jpg

[3dmonkey]

Has anyone checked out Prince of Persia I or II yet. Its the best looking game i've ever seen ( including Doom 3). The visuals are absolutely amazing and the gameplay is pretty awesome too. Check out the websites
http://www.princeofpersiagame.com/us/screenshots.php?modescreen=pc

http://www.princeofpersiagame.com/us/pop1.php

[Fusion]

Unfortunatly I have not tried any prince of persia (except the classic on 8 bit). I do have it on my list to give it a try but i'm not sure you know about a little game called half life 2. You say its the best graphics you've ever seen. . . . . well my friend. . .. .you obviously have not seen hl2!:eek: Just look at any one of the shaders. . . . . and you'll change your mind very quickly

[novoAlias]

HL2 DM ROCKS!
and CSS even though i hated the first one :D

Imo cs has given css an undeserved bad name =/

[Fusion]

Originally posted by BlackWolf
Imo cs has given css an undeserved bad name =/

:eek:

W-W-What? Oh now we have to settle this in max. . . . ill see you on the perspective grid. . . .hater ;)

[novoAlias]

:D only because ive been playing BF42 DC Mod when youve been playing CS ;)

[JDM3dee]

loved this one....:D

"you pick up the damn can...":p

[Dr.N]

ROFL nice one now you TAKE THE CAN OR I PULVERISE U:D

[novoAlias]

haha now whos the bully!

[Dr.N]

got Hl2 and sims 2 today:D

http://img58.exs.cx/img58/3708/sim2nt.jpg

[Dr.N]

http://img53.exs.cx/img53/5686/ppl5do.jpg