Number of posts : 6401 Age : 45 Location : Southampton, UK Registration date : 2009-02-23
Subject: Re: Media Wed Dec 29, 2010 9:48 pm
Lunarwolf wrote:
I've used it and am happily saving screenshot after screenshot for a new pen 'n' paper RPG I'm writing - really, really lazy considering I could make the images in Daz, but hey, time is money!
Here are a couple of really quick characters to give you an idea, a male "flyboy"-style starship pilot and a female soldier-grunt:
Caryington Veteran Agent
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Subject: Re: Media Thu Dec 30, 2010 3:18 am
This computer thing is rather cool but too expensive... I'd rather keep mine!
Commander Nord Freelancer
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Subject: Re: Media Thu Dec 30, 2010 4:17 am
this is what i got
Caryington Veteran Agent
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Subject: Re: Media Thu Dec 30, 2010 4:24 am
Looks pretty cool but well what's more important in a computer is that it works not to look great. Well... that's my opinion on the subject.
Commander Nord Freelancer
Number of posts : 1761 Age : 40 Location : Norway Registration date : 2009-03-24
Subject: Re: Media Thu Dec 30, 2010 5:59 am
Caryington wrote:
Looks pretty cool but well what's more important in a computer is that it works not to look great. Well... that's my opinion on the subject.
My works well its 5 fan on it so its keep it cold and its not much noice either
Lunarwolf Chief Operative
Number of posts : 6401 Age : 45 Location : Southampton, UK Registration date : 2009-02-23
Subject: Re: Media Thu Dec 30, 2010 6:08 am
Caryington wrote:
Looks pretty cool but well what's more important in a computer is that it works not to look great. Well... that's my opinion on the subject.
Unless its an i-book/i-mac
Caryington Veteran Agent
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Subject: Re: Media Thu Dec 30, 2010 6:22 am
i-things don't work and don't look too great. It's almost precisley what I was depicting earlier ><, Don't try to mention those pear stuff as often as you can, you i-things addicted
Lunarwolf Chief Operative
Number of posts : 6401 Age : 45 Location : Southampton, UK Registration date : 2009-02-23
Subject: Re: Media Thu Dec 30, 2010 8:35 am
I hope you don't mean I'm I-addicted! I go to anti-apple lobbies! (ok so I dont, but I would if I could!)
The only i-whatever I've ever owned is an i-pod shuffle which I sold almost immediately. My missus has an i-mac which I refuse to let her switch on in the flat. It was given to her to help her with her dsylexia when she was at college so she's too sentimental to throw it out but I won't even allow it out of its box anywhere near me
Caryington Veteran Agent
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Subject: Re: Media Thu Dec 30, 2010 8:47 am
Being I-addicted is something different ><, It's being addicted of yourself and is usually called egocentrism. I wouldn't even think of trying to imply you may have this horrible flaw! Now about that apple-addiction it's not too bad cause one's got to eat fruits and vegetables... and there are worse ones than the apples: coconut or mango, for example!
Lunarwolf Chief Operative
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Subject: Re: Media Tue Jan 11, 2011 6:42 am
Lunarwolf Chief Operative
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Subject: Re: Media Tue Jan 11, 2011 11:29 am
I thought the music sounded slightly familiar!
Some of the guys who worked on Dragon Age and also the Heroes of Might & Magic series were involved
Commander Nord Freelancer
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Subject: Re: Media Tue Jan 11, 2011 11:55 am
i dont think it will be the new MMO of the year its stand between SWTOR and the most beutiful graphical MMO ever TERA
Number of posts : 6401 Age : 45 Location : Southampton, UK Registration date : 2009-02-23
Subject: Re: Media Tue Jan 11, 2011 2:04 pm
Commander Nord wrote:
i dont think it will be the new MMO of the year its stand between SWTOR and the most beutiful graphical MMO ever TERA
You never know....
MMORPG.com wrote:
Rift - 8.20
TERA - 7.96
SWTOR - 7.93
DC Online - (not yet reviewed/rated)
Anything could happen!
>>Source<<
Witya Agent
Number of posts : 345 Age : 41 Location : Wroclaw PL Registration date : 2010-08-30
Subject: Re: Media Wed Jan 12, 2011 12:45 am
Yay! Another two Fantasy MMORPGs!
CAN I HAZ KILL BOARZ WIT HAAMER?
Seriously? We need more? Is it like "Ok! We need original idea! But similar to WoW because of the PROFIT! Mix it! A little bit more... good, now Warhammer rip-offs! Yes! Man this will be awesome! " ?
Lunarwolf Chief Operative
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Subject: Re: Media Wed Jan 12, 2011 12:48 am
I've just completed my Rift beta and I have to say I was actually really impressed with it.
Best mmo I've played in years. If TOR is in any way delayed, I'm getting it.
Just a shame the next beta event is 25.01.11
Edit: oh, and in defense of this comment (which I appreciate is only an opinion)
Witya wrote:
good, now Warhammer rip-offs! Yes! Man this will be awesome! " ?
Rift uses the WAR engine in its design but in no way is it a 'rip-off' - for one thing pvp is an optional part of the game unlike WAR where you had to go pvp after about lvl 20.* Yes its 'generic fantasy' in that it has Elves, Dwarves, Dragons, Magic etc but there is nothing wrong with that - there's a reason why that genre has been popular for 100s of years.
We do need more Sci-fi mmos, that's totally true. But the problem with the vast majority of sci-fi mmos is they suck and fall flat on their as5. That's why SWTOR has such a cult following and even the same could be said of STO (before it launched and people played it )
* I had 4 lvl 20 characters on WAR. Each time I got to 20 and looked for more PVE content that wasn't really PVP wrapped in another name, I lost faith and went back to make a new character which, for me at least, was far more fun.
Lunarwolf Chief Operative
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Subject: Re: Media Wed Jan 12, 2011 2:03 am
No I have no idea either - but its got Lightsabers in it!
Apparently the asian dude is from 'Glee' - but as I've never seen it (except in adverts that make my eyes and ears bleed) I can neither confirm nor deny.
Caryington Veteran Agent
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Subject: Re: Media Wed Jan 12, 2011 3:34 am
I'm 200% behind Witya... Med-fan is irking me, I just have to hear the words elves, dwarves, dragons to get bored to death. The only difference between all these are the general map and the name of cities and NPC. Besides that? Nothing new under the sun!
We want Space and Stars! We want Laser and Starships!
Lunarwolf Chief Operative
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Subject: Re: Media Wed Jan 12, 2011 3:40 am
Well personally I'll always be as much as a Fantasy Fan as I will a Sci-Fi fan (and lets not forget Star Wars is technically Sci-Fantasy, not Sci-Fi) but to put this thought to rest before people manage to upset each other's sensibilities; here's some ace footage of KOTOR clips strung together
...and as some of the comments on the youtube link say; KOTOR would indeed make an ace film
Lunarwolf Chief Operative
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Subject: Re: Media Wed Jan 12, 2011 12:38 pm
Caryington Veteran Agent
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Subject: Re: Media Thu Jan 13, 2011 2:23 am
Sci-Fantasy? o_O Star Wars is a Space Opera, subfamily of the Sci-Fi genre. Anyway let's not start one of those boring academic discussion... Forgive my boringness, master, I woke up to early and let my coffee fall on the ground.
Lunarwolf Chief Operative
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Subject: Re: Media Thu Jan 13, 2011 2:56 am
Caryington wrote:
Sci-Fantasy? o_O Star Wars is a Space Opera, subfamily of the Sci-Fi genre. Anyway let's not start one of those boring academic discussion... Forgive my boringness, master, I woke up to early and let my coffee fall on the ground.
As far as I'm aware Star Wars is both 'Sci-Fantasy' AND 'Space Opera'....
Wikipedia re Sci Fantasy wrote:
Drawing the line between science fiction and fantasy is not made any clearer by the fact that both of them can use invented worlds, non-human intelligent creatures (sometimes, in science fiction as well as fantasy, based on myth: consider C. L. Moore's Shambleau and Yvala), and amazing monsters. It is, to a large extent, authorial fiat that tells us that C. S. Lewis' Narnia books are set in a fantasy world rather than on another planet. An example of this is Star Wars, a borderline case in which a mystical power known as the Force lends a strong fantasy element to the science fiction veneer. The main difference between the two is that science fiction is largely based on established scientific theories, while science fantasy is largely implausible.
(Source)
Wikipedia re Space Opera wrote:
Beginning in the 1960s, and widely accepted by the 1970s, the space opera was redefined, following Brian Aldiss' definition in Space Opera (1974) as (in the paraphrase Hartwell and Cramer) "the good old stuff". Yet soon after his redefinition, it began to be challenged, for example, by the editorial practice and marketing of Judy-Lynn del Rey and in the reviews of her husband and colleague Lester del Rey. In particular, they disputed the claims that space operas were obsolete, and Del Rey Books labeled reissues of earlier work of Leigh Brackett as space opera. By the early 1980s, space operas—adventure stories set in space—were again redefined, and the label was attached to major pop culture works such as Star Wars. It was only in the early 1990s that the term space opera began to be recognized as a legitimate genre of science fiction. Hartwell and Cramer define space opera as "colorful, dramatic, large-scale science fiction adventure, competently and sometimes beautifully written, usually focused on a sympathetic, heroic central character and plot action, and usually set in the relatively distant future, and in space or on other worlds, characteristically optimistic in tone. It often deals with war, piracy, military virtues, and very large-scale action, large stakes."
(Source)
Don't get me wrong, I love Star Wars (I wouldn't be here otherwise, right? ) but the vast majority of it is not even remotely plausable (in our life-times at least) so therefore I can't really count it as Sci-Fi because its more based in fantasy than science.
Science-Fiction: 'Science fiction is a genre of fiction. It differs from fantasy in that, within the context of the story, its imaginary elements are largely possible within scientifically established or scientifically postulated laws of nature (though some elements in a story might still be pure imaginative ...'
Science-Fantasy: 'Science fantasy is a mixed genre within Speculative Fiction. Science fantasy stories draw elements from both science fiction and fantasy.'
Caryington Veteran Agent
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Subject: Re: Media Thu Jan 13, 2011 3:07 am
I had never heard that Science Fantasy name that's what irked me... I'm anyway irkable cause I splattered my coffee on my desk and won't able to get another before 2 hours >_<' All this to say...
Lunarwolf Chief Operative
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Subject: Re: Media Thu Jan 13, 2011 4:20 am
Hey, I wouldn't worry....up until about 1998 I thought THIS is what people meant when they said 'Space Opera' (LOL!)
*Passes Caryington a brand new coffee*
Caryington Veteran Agent
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Subject: Re: Media Thu Jan 13, 2011 4:42 am
20 minutes and I'll be off for my lunch and Starbuck break... and after that I goonna have 5 f****n' hours to kill with nothing to do but playing Klondike... °_° What an awesome year!
Lunarwolf Chief Operative
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Subject: Re: Media Thu Jan 13, 2011 9:04 am
Wow - I hope this doesn't upset any HaloHeads, but this Bulletstorm parody video which Topless Robot called: "Bulletstorm: Combat, Insulted" made me laugh.
You've got to say the guys at Epic Games must have a pair to take the pi5s out of something as popular as the Halo series, but its all done in a very tongue-in-cheek way.
...and here's the comparison
Halo: Believe
...and you know what? I'll probably end up buying it. (click here for the 'Caryington Version' - now with added Trent.)