Pete Hines responds

Franz Schubert · Post by **Franz Schubert** » Mon Sep 20, 2004 6:26 am

Brillo wrote:As much as the thought of a hand drawn/animated FO makes me drool, I can't even come close to imagining something like that released today. And honestly, I'd have a hard time seeing even a pre-rendered version like the first two get released.

Let's face it... we're in the Dark Ages of gaming. We just need to hunker down until a new era emerges, a "Gaming Enlightenment", if you will.

T-900 · Post by **T-900** » Mon Sep 20, 2004 6:37 am

And much like the dark ages, the bright side is the amount of inventive violence! (morningstars, maces, witch burning, inquisitions

)

Or ragdoll physics... to be specific.

Franz Schubert · Post by **Franz Schubert** » Mon Sep 20, 2004 6:39 am

No bright side to this dark age. Just cool particle physics.

jetbaby · Post by **jetbaby** » Mon Sep 20, 2004 6:45 am

kewl partikul FX?

But yeah, I tend to agree that we are in the dark age of gaming.

However, I look forward to Destroy All Humans (I think that was the name)and maaaaybe to Rome:Total War.

Franz Schubert · Post by **Franz Schubert** » Mon Sep 20, 2004 6:48 am

I look forward to a time when developers actually possess a shred of integrity, and don't just drop their pants and bend over every time a publisher shows up.

T-900 · Post by **T-900** » Mon Sep 20, 2004 6:55 am

Computer gaming is increasing in popularity at an insane rate... Soon enough games will have longer production times, attention to detail, far larger budgets. Look at the trend beginning for actors to take place in their games, and quality film-spinoff games... Captain California himself did the voice work for the latest Terminator game, Vin Diesel voiced Riddick in Butcher Bay, Jean Reno plays the co-lead of Onimusha 3, and you can't swap 3 tv channels without finding some games review show sometimes...

Quality WILL return!

And physics are the saving grace of this era... few legal things give me the satisfaction of playing with ragdoll corpses.. yes... *licks lips..*

jetbaby · Post by **jetbaby** » Mon Sep 20, 2004 7:06 am

Franz_Schubert wrote:I look forward to a time when developers actually possess a shred of integrity, and don't just drop their pants and bend over every time a publisher shows up.

That's why I laugh and demand everyone buy Trash. Anyone that allows multiple copies to run on LAN of such an absurdly simple game deserve credit. Hopefully the game backs it up with a good gaming experience though.

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Mon Sep 20, 2004 1:55 pm

Lynch the CD-Key inventors.

Stevie D · Post by **Stevie D** » Mon Sep 20, 2004 2:28 pm

brillo wrote:
Stevie D wrote:Well, if Todd's got his heart set on goggle-tastic 3D, then goggle-tastic 3D is prolly what he's going to demand from his team, what?
Uh, was anyone expecting 2D?

You know what I mean. goggle-tastic first person as opposed to your classic top-down isometric, or whatever you call it. 3D generated models are fine far as I'm concerned, but in the Fallout style.

Stevie D · Post by **Stevie D** » Mon Sep 20, 2004 2:29 pm

Franz_Schubert wrote:Let's face it... we're in the Dark Ages of gaming. We just need to hunker down until a new era emerges, a "Gaming Enlightenment", if you will.

So long as we don't have to wear powdered wigs, I'm all for it.

T-900 · Post by **T-900** » Mon Sep 20, 2004 4:52 pm

The dark ages weren't the age of the powdered wig. They were the age of the dirty squawking people digging in dirt with sticks like in the beginning of Monty Pythons the Holy Grail.

Wolfman Walt · Post by **Wolfman Walt** » Mon Sep 20, 2004 4:57 pm

So what exactly is our metaphorical corpse wagon?

Stevie D · Post by **Stevie D** » Mon Sep 20, 2004 6:35 pm

T-900 wrote:The dark ages weren't the age of the powdered wig. They were the age of the dirty squawking people digging in dirt with sticks like in the beginning of Monty Pythons the Holy Grail.

No, you plonker! I was talking about the 'Gaming Enlightenment'.

Franz Schubert · Post by **Franz Schubert** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 3:31 am

Ok... any minute now OTB is going to show up and say "I'm not dead yet!"