Re: The Latest - State of the project
Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 8:04 pm
So will we see New Vision this month?
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I can understand now where you thought this, Let me go on record to say that I have the utmost respect for the film industry, I've even used a lot of film methodologies in my print based work before (mainly photography) I do appreciate a well put together film and appreciate how much goes into them versus the level of your average brain dead shooter. My wording was definitely epic fail and I apologize for that.I think it was mostly the way it seemed to imply that "yah, man: not everyone's cut out for the high-octane world of video game development: it can be super hardcore. So it's good that when you inevitably fail, you've got something really easy and relaxed to fall back on: like the film industry!"
When film is also a fucking hard field to break into, and anyway: game dev isn't exactly "astronaut training" level of craziness in the first place.
If you see what I mean.
In terms of art, I prefer the way old game art was created - that's how I got into it and that's what I prefer working with. Making high poly meshes to bake Normal Maps that end up looking rubbish doesn't appeal to me. Personally, I think around 2004-5 is where games reached their visual peak - everything past that looks very rendered and same-y (look at all the games built on either UE3 or Source - they tend to look the exact same).Salk wrote:Out of curiosity, would you tell us why you changed your mind and what made you?DaveW wrote:It used to be that game art etc. was my main hobby because I wanted to work in the games industry (when I started this), but now I really don't care for it all that much.
And about updates, things might be idle on your side but perhaps your collaborators have been more productive?
Did you give the Mass Effects a try?DaveW wrote:Salk wrote:DaveW wrote:It used to be that game art etc. was my main hobby because I wanted to work in the games industry (when I started this), but now I really don't care for it all that much.
I don't really want to work making games I hate The only thing that interests me in games is writing, since no one in the industry seems to be able to do it.
ME1 has an fairly well put together story, ME2 is a bit iffy at times I think the reliance of Questions is a bit too much, nearly every reply is a question leading into another question- whereas ME1 was more a question that lead into a statement that lead into reasoning- ME2 only ever does that when you use the paragon text, the exception being renegade abilities that are more one liners and just funny to watch. But most of the time Shepard is asking questions.. and its a bit annoying lol.Did you give the Mass Effects a try?
Not yet, I do have Mass Effect 2 lying around and have been meaning to try it out. I'm not one to automatically hate all modern games, I think there definitely are some cool ones - but pretty much all of them are by older studios like BioWare, Irrational etc.Commander Shepard wrote:Did you give the Mass Effects a try?DaveW wrote:Salk wrote:DaveW wrote:It used to be that game art etc. was my main hobby because I wanted to work in the games industry (when I started this), but now I really don't care for it all that much.
I don't really want to work making games I hate The only thing that interests me in games is writing, since no one in the industry seems to be able to do it.
I've been worried that I've grown out of videogames. I have ****-all to say in the "What Are You Playing" thread now. New games don't interest me anymore, and it's either me or the games. At least you're working on one of the great older games, helping to bring it up to that graphical peak.DaveW wrote:speaking of modern games, is another good point: I don't really like them. I will play some and find them a bit entertaining, but for the most part I just hate them. I don't think they have any real character
Me too, though there have been some interesting games lately... But so far only Batman and GTAIV have been fun.justanotherfan wrote:I've been worried that I've grown out of videogames. I have ****-all to say in the "What Are You Playing" thread now. New games don't interest me anymore, and it's either me or the games. At least you're working on one of the great older games, helping to bring it up to that graphical peak.DaveW wrote:speaking of modern games, is another good point: I don't really like them. I will play some and find them a bit entertaining, but for the most part I just hate them. I don't think they have any real character
I personally hated Mass Effect with a vengeance (in fact I did not see it to the end and sold it). I rate it poorly.Commander Shepard wrote:Did you give the Mass Effects a try?DaveW wrote:Salk wrote:DaveW wrote:It used to be that game art etc. was my main hobby because I wanted to work in the games industry (when I started this), but now I really don't care for it all that much.
I don't really want to work making games I hate The only thing that interests me in games is writing, since no one in the industry seems to be able to do it.
Indeed It is.Jaedar wrote:But those are on the RPGCodex, and the great Jonas keeps telling us that is the worst place in existaNCE!