strawmandesign

Don't remake good games. Make new good games. Don't reboot good games, reboot poor games that had a good premise.

@D16_Makaveli I sometimes wonder if he inspired the Big Head mode in various games. Regardless, no one gives him the raspberry.

A classic. 😂

During production The Neverending Story was actually called Story As a Service but they felt it was a bit too on the nose when development paused briefly after the Artax service went down.

I feel that Arc Raiders shouldn't flag it as an aggressive act if you kill a player who is loud, since you are only defending yourself.

I tried the Big Arch, twice. Really not as bad as their CEO made it look.

@Gammitin Oh look at you, Mister Fancypants, got a video card for your fancy colored lighting.

Pentium III + Windows 98 + Quake II

@D16_Makaveli Why are they showing new footage to talk about being old?

Then I'm ancient, because I remember much more. 😉

@AnchorMCS The community has always provided solutions to iterate visuals as people pleased, without charging for it. The map sources have been available since 2006, we can compile maps with AO, bouncing, and phong. And we can do so while checking if it looks correct before uploading.

@strawmandesign To be fair, they did remaster the 3D models and the lighting was updated to fit modern Quake mapping standards. That's about all they and that's very much enough.

If you can look at this and think it needs a remaster, or a reboot, you are not a fan. You just want to claim the name. Go find a game you actually like and support it, stop being cultural parasites and monetizing corporate rewriting of history.

@ACarmackArtist Fun fact: When Chuck Norris stepped through the teleporter in e1m8, the level died.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!

@NilesSankey unrealarchive.org/unreal-tournam… It's a rather symmetrical level, but fun enough, and very consistent levels of detail. That last one is surprisingly rare.

@strawmandesign Interesting. Looks like the map is "DM-Essence". I can see it in the list below, but can't find the files/images online. unreal.fandom.com/wiki/CliffyB's… I love looking at old unreal maps. Those were the days.

Cliff gave me my first (real) contract job back in 2001 at Epic Games. He would literally mail me a CD with the Unreal Warfare build/tools. I CD-ROM installed it and made levels for their latest (very early phase, never-released) game. He told me "Dude, we expect only the best, so please understand if we ever cancel the contract." (totally fair) But when I submitted my first level, he said "This is great! I'm glad we sent you the build!" 😅<-- My face I was so proud, I photo-scanned the check they sent me ($5k!!) but I ended up leaving the Epic contract for another full-time gamedev job (bad move, Epic gig was a dream job). Anyway, Cliff was a character back then (we all were), but I owe him a lot for believing in me. So yea, I don't know what he was thinking either 😁 Thank you CliffyB! ❤️🫡

@NilesSankey ruineR, I seem to recall him capitalizing the last r like that. Your name does vaguely ring a bell, I honestly at the time probably would've parsed it as a reference to The Crow.

@strawmandesign !! I was going by the name "skankey" (terrible choice 😂). I never made it onto the Ownage site 😭 What was your friend's handle?

Full disclosure - none of my games have sex in them. Unless you count paying 50 food to the Town Center to pump out a kid.

I really like that this is happening now.

@eybbwybyw9762 @GrahamSig

@GrahamSig Please point to where the sex is in doom

Maybe the funniest post someone who worked on Doom has ever made

Gotta love how gaming history used to be released to the public and now it gets locked away inside of re-releases that change content.

Finally, "remasters" on my video card instead of bothering contracting a company. Now we just need NVidia to install a grabbag of mods which strips it of the original identity.

@Shinich08413513 It's metal for people who don't like metal. Honestly, it feels more like dubstep with guitars sampled. The only memorable bits are Bobby Prince's original melodies periodically tossed in.

I’m going to piss off the DOOM fans with this. I don’t like DOOM’s 2016 soundtrack at all. Shit is just Djent Chugga Chugga riffs and god damn It sounds bland as shit. Honestly the DOOM soundtrack should sound like Immolation, Morbid Angel, Incantation, And Deicide.

"This new game burnt less cash on idle cycles for their tech art team who had better things to do."

@D16_Makaveli @Matty_OW All this to say, these are skills we learned in the first Doom. It doesn't take anything special, just gaming without the invisible mechanics that are common these days to make people think they're awesome.

@D16_Makaveli @Matty_OW His opponent jumped his first shot (which looked like it should've hit, but, yeah), got his second shot, expected a kill from it because shotgun at that range and thus didn't expect the movement and simply failed to reacquire, maintaining a constant gap behind.

“There’s no coaching that.” Yes, there is, but it would require him to download this fun app called Aimlabs and grind some scenarios I give him.