Arcturus
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44 minutes ago, chakkman said:
Still gotta play through The Fate of Atlantis.
It's perhaps the best Indiana Jones game and one of the best point and click adventure games. There are three different play styles player can choose from.
QuoteEarly on, the player is given the choice between three different game modes, each with unique cutscenes, puzzles to solve and locations to visit: the Team Path, the Wits Path, and the Fists Path. In the Team Path, protagonist Indiana Jones is joined by his partner Sophia Hapgood who will provide support throughout the game. The Wits Path features an abundance of complex puzzles, while the Fists Path focuses heavily on action sequences and fist fighting, the latter of which is completely optional in the other two modes.
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Ever heard of Indiana Jones and the Fountain of Youth? It's a fan made project, started back in 2001(!) that is stil going today. It's suppose to replicate the style of the Lucasarts's games. Over the years they have released couple of demos which were very professionally done. It's being made in Adventure game studio. Anyway, I've been checking out the project every couple of years and I read that yesterday:
After eighteen years they changed their name. I think it's hilarious. Anyway, they still occasionally post new artwork.
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This one's the most Bladerunneresque so far:
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28 minutes ago, jaxa said:
https://wccftech.com/cyberpunk-2077-quest-life-paths-wall-running/
I don't have a 4K display so I'm not going to bother downloading a 1.5 GB 2-minute clip, but one of you might find this useful.
Even if your monitor doesn't support the resolution, higher bitrate means image quality will be better. This is especially true on Youtube which has low bitrates. 4k will look much less compressed than 1080 even on a 1080 monitor.
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Released earlier this month. Uncensored version of Pearl Jam's "Jeremy" which shows more clearly what happened to the main character. Actor who played Jeremy died in 2016. Directed by Mark Pellington, 1992.
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They'll be releasing couple of remastered videos of Alanis Morissette over the next week. Starting with "Ironic" from 1996, directed by Stéphane Sednaoui:
"Hand In My Pocket"; directed by Mark Kohr, 1995
"You Learn", directed by Liz Friedlander, 1996
"You Oughta Know"; directed by Nick Egan, 1995. This one's less sharp (recorded on 8mm perhaps?). Parts that are crisp look like they have been edited from photos. Flea plays on bass and Dave Navarro on guitar (they are not in the video though),
"Head Over Feet"; directed by Michee Laurita and Alanis Morissette, 1996:
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15 minutes ago, chakkman said:
This rather looks and feels like a comic compared.
That's certainly true. Original RPG has a lot of goofiness. For example there's a character named Adam Smasher
It's closer to Johnny Mnemonic than Schindler's List for sure.
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Some videos by Eurythmics and Annie Lennox where also remastered. The company that did the scanning also did other music videos, some of which have not been published yet. There's some great cinematography here and Annie Lennox is a good actress.
1986, directed by Willy Smax. Stop motion scenes sadly remained in low resolution:
1987, directed by Sophie Muller
1989, directed by Sophie Muller
1990, directed by Sophie Muller
1992, directed by Sophie Muller. Starring Hugh Laurie and John Malkovich. For some reason uploaded only in 1080p.
1995, directed by Lennox and Joe Dyer:
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4k version of "Sledgehammer" exists but it's behind paywall on itunes. Youtube has a teaser only:
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I just saw HD remaster of "Zombie" by The Cranberries and it looks spectacular.
Video came out in 1994. It was directed by Samuel Bayer who also did "Smells like teen spirit", among many others.
Recently I've been mildly obsessed with the idea of high definition remasters of old music videos. When I saw "Alien" movies for the first time on Blu-Ray after watching them for years on vhs tapes recorded from television, it was like seeing them for the first time. I'm of course talking about proper scans of 16mm or 35mm film. Youtube recently has been uploading many upscaled music videos advertising them as HD. Some people have been attempting to upscale videos using machine learning, but results aren't good.
Some music videos from 80s and 90s are true pieces of art. A lot were made by acclaimed directors like Michel Gondry, Spike Jonze, David Fincher, Anton Corbijn. Hell, even Michael Bay.
Of course original film needs to still exist for a proper remaster to be even possible. If any special effects were originally done in post production in low resolution, those would have to be redone from scratch, which would be expensive. More on the subject by Tom Scott,
Some other examples:
Directed by Dom and Nic; premiered in 1997. At 2:49 you can see people cloned in post production.
Not an MTV era, but definitely worth seeing. Directed by Peter Goldmann (1967):
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Blender 2.83 is out. It's a long term support version, meaning it will be maintained for two years, even after newer versions come out.
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Things like dynamic global illumination, advanced physics, destructible environments, that sound reverb they mention at 3:05 and just the scale of maps that you can make, all these things can enhance gameplay. Modern editors are also far more convenient to use. You can just drag and drop your assets. Now you won't even need to make low poly models (realistically you will for at least some models because high poly scans or sculpts take too much memory).
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I just learned that Dave Greenfield of the Stranglers died from COVID-19. His keyboard playing was a signature sound of the group and made them stand out from all the punk bands of the era.
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1 hour ago, chakkman said:
Not really into those freak or musclepacked characters.
There were plenty of those in Deus Ex games:
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Each DeusEx game had very different style too. First one was pretty believable in it's depiction of the future couple of decades from now. Invisible war on the other hand was set farther into the future and looked more like Star Trek.
Human Revolution was way out there with it's "neo-renaissance" fashion and completely unrealistic Hengsha city:
And it was supposed to be set in 2027
CDPR on the other hand went the slightly retro-futuristic route, that is future how it was imagined by people in the 80's and 90's. Plus it's set in California and they mostly shown the game during day. There's still a lot that we haven't seen yet though.
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11 minutes ago, JackFarmer said:
Is there already a release date?
September 17th.
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57 minutes ago, chakkman said:
Is that a good or bad thing?
I, for one, like it.
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Player pulling himself up. Never saw that in previous videos:
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All about blender
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Ian Hubert is an independent filmmaker, director of "Tears of steal" open movie. He makes short, funny tutorials. He developed a super effective workflow that allows him to make entire worlds practically on his own.