Re: [Official!] Project Horizons Comment Crew Chat thread.

by StoneSlinger88 Sat Mar 16, 2013 2:29 am

CamoBadger wrote:
RoboRed wrote:So, this: http://www.polygon.com/2013/3/15/4109186/valve-capcom-left-4-dead-2-resident-evil-6-crossover

Thoughts?
How about this, Valve?

MAKE EPISODE 3 OF HALF LIFE 2 INSTEAD OF THIS RANDOM CRAP!!!

THIS! SO MUCH THIS! Goddammit, the ending of Episode 2 was fantastic, but that was a horrible place to make us wait years and years for the next episode.

by Valikdu Sat Mar 16, 2013 6:03 am

On discovering Star Citizen:

[Official!] Project Horizons Comment Crew Chat thread. - Page 14 Space-core

Also... Would you like MORE?

by Valikdu Sat Mar 16, 2013 7:05 am

In case someone except me didn't know this:

The Mane 6 Team have taken Lauren's offer and are working with her to finish Fighting is Magic using her original characters.

by Harmony Ltd. Sat Mar 16, 2013 8:49 am

RoboRed wrote:
Sindri wrote:
stringtheory wrote:I'd go for Dashites, though that kinda brands us as outcasts (sorry, that was unintentional), so I'm not sure if I want that association
This is a thread for fans of a fanfiction of a fanfiction about murderous miniature pastel equines in a grimdark post-apocalyptic future.

If you wanted to stay anywhere near socially acceptable, you should have taken a left turn about three layers of WTF back.
Aaaaaand, into the quotes list.

You might want to put that quote list into spoilers or something, dude. It's starting to take some place.

by **RoboRed** Sat Mar 16, 2013 9:48 am

NEVAR.

by Frost Sat Mar 16, 2013 9:50 am

Scrolling quotes list.......

Fuckfuckfuck it's sorcery

*grabs shotgun and hides in crawlspace*

by **RoboRed** Sat Mar 16, 2013 9:52 am

for frost:

by Frost Sat Mar 16, 2013 9:55 am

For some reason, that reminded me of the old SNL "Punk'd" sketch with Justin Timberlake.

Vampire comes out of 50 Cent's bathtub. 50 cent pulls handgun out of bathrobe and shoots vampire repeatedly.

by Ironmonger Sat Mar 16, 2013 11:29 am

RoboRed wrote:
for frost:

>Bowie Knife
>.500 Magnum
>Charge with reckless abandon

by IncoherentOrange Sat Mar 16, 2013 1:41 pm

Fimfiction's new layout is so meh.
But I found this video which summarizes almost everyone's reactions.

by Overthepacific Sat Mar 16, 2013 1:46 pm

Valikdu wrote:In case someone except me didn't know this:

The Mane 6 Team have taken Lauren's offer and are working with her to finish Fighting is Magic using her original characters.

This is absolutely wonderful news.

by Ironmonger Sat Mar 16, 2013 1:52 pm

That video makes me want to smack the guy even more now.

by IncoherentOrange Sat Mar 16, 2013 1:55 pm

(This has probably already been said, but... meh.) Also related to Fighting is Magic, if Skullgirls reaches 725 000 or so on their Kickstarter campaign, they'll allow Mane6 to use their engine for free.
On Star Citizen? Well, it's the only game of its type that's come about in a long time that isn't a job simulator (EVE Online).
The reason I'm excited about it is that it's got a significant chance of being like Freelancer, but better. I think Ketchup would say the same.

by Stringtheory Sat Mar 16, 2013 2:11 pm

IncoherentOrange wrote:(This has probably already been said, but... meh.) Also related to Fighting is Magic, if Skullgirls reaches 725 000 or so on their Kickstarter campaign, they'll allow Mane6 to use their engine for free.
On Star Citizen? Well, it's the only game of its type that's come about in a long time that isn't a job simulator (EVE Online).
The reason I'm excited about it is that it's got a significant chance of being like Freelancer, but better. I think Ketchup would say the same.

I guess no one saw my post in the middle of the night about this then

stringtheory wrote:on a similar note if you haven't heard already, if the recent Skullgirls indiegogo campaign reaches $725k (currently just over $400k), Mane6 will get to use the Skullgirls engine for free for their next game which will be getting characters/concept art from Lauren Faust herself, not to mention you also get Skullgirls, an awesome 2D fighter

by Sindri Sat Mar 16, 2013 2:25 pm

swicked wrote:Why is everyone so excited about Star Citizen?
I feel like I must be missing on on something, having not played any of these games it's based off of.
I get that it's a single player game that acts like a MMORPG and there's a bunch of different ways you can progress though the story, or multiple stories, but I guess I still don't get why this is quite as amazing as you guys are saying.

It's not a single player game that acts like an MMO.

Squadron 42, the single player campaign version, is a fairly straightforward campaign like you'd see in any classic space combat simulator, but with much better technology and a brilliant writing staff behind it. The full Star Citizen game is... pretty much a galaxy simulator. Every facet has been designed for maximum immersion.
Everything is seamless from walking around in a starport bar and talking to people, through getting in your cockpit, all the way up to capital ships. Your cargo isn't just a set of numbers on your manifest, you can actually walk around the ship and see it. When you fly by a capital vessel like the Bengal Carrier (which is a fully playable ship from launch) you can literally look in through the windows and see the other players standing on the bridge.

And the flying itself... your ship isn't just a pretty box with stats attached for things like speed and turning. Instead, they have full rigid-body mechanics, mass for each individual part, thrust applied through the engines, and a complex fly-by-wire system that takes your instructions, calculates the optimal maneuvers based on current mass distribution and thruster capability... and that's before we even get into things like boarding attempts and personal-scale combat inside the halls of your ships.

Plus it's being designed from day one to work with VR systems like the Oculus Rift. Basically, from a purely mechanical perspective, Star Citizen is the best simulation of flying a ship through space made to date, and I very much doubt it will be surpassed within the next two decades.

But just a flight sim is boring. Which is why they've got a top-tier writing team building a galaxy around it. You can already see a lot of their work in the press releases, promotional work, etc. on the RSI page. As for your place in the persistent galaxy, everything from running freight to speculative trading to prospecting to bounty hunting to piracy to military life to freelance mercenary work to exploring new jump points, systems, and planets is a viable career choice. Player actions will change the face of the galaxy and get your name in the record books, NPCs killed will be forever dead instead of rebooting for the next player to grind against, every added region (with content being added constantly for at least the first few years) will be discovered by PC explorers...

This isn't just a solo game that you play for a few dozen hours and finish. It's not a wow clone "rpg" where you click, watch the sprites dance, and repeat for years while they take your subscription fees. In conceptual scope it's closest to EVE, but instead of being about numbers on spreadsheets and basically just working a second job, it's the most immersible simulation of flying through space ever made to my knowledge.