7upMan
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So what, Ghostery does the same, but without the ancy flow chart. It shows a list of all cookies, trackers and widgets and whatnot that load with the web page. You can block them all or one by one, or even white-list the whole website. Ghostery is available for Opera, Firefox and Chrome.
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Yeah, from what I've seen, it sometimes feels like The Deadalus Encounter Reloaded
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Never heard of this mod, though it sounds very enticing. I think I'll check it out.
Can you get back to me after you checked it out? Now that Thief appears to be such a mess, I need an excuse to start up Dishonored that is collecting dust in my Steam folder for many many months.
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Nah, I still don't think even Deadly Shadows reached these kinds of levels of horrible.
A more applicable comparison would be to Dishonored, a game which suffers many of the same issues this new Thief does.
Nacht, are you familiar with the Ultimate Difficulty Mod for Dishonored? Do you think the game is better with it WRT Thief playing style?
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@Sir Taffsalot and Shadowhide: I can only agree to what 7upMan said. Both of you have made some big steps forwards since your first approaches. And don't forget for how long Bikerdude is mapping here. I don't know the TDM for long enough to know how his first release looked like, but I fairly doubt it looked like what he is posting here
I had the pleasure of testing BD's first map from beta onwards, and I can say that he had great mapping skills then already, regardless what he himself might want to say about that. Since that time, he only improved, but the talent was there already. However, for some, talent just means working extra hard. "Genie ist Fleiß!", as Goethe said.
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You might also glean some general multiplayer and co-op ideas from an archive of the www.doom3world.org website (site is currently down indefinitely).
So what's the thing with that site? It was around for ages, hard to believe it's gone.
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same here
Shadowhide, you have absolutely nothing to be ashamed about. After all, judging from the latest screenshots you posted on darkfate.ru, you have come a looong way since your first map 8well, let's never speak of it again
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Maybe it's the cluttered harddrive. With NTFS, fragmentation is supposed to be less of a problem than with FAT(32), but still I can imagine that a well-used HDD can slow things down. Also, it sure won't help if you have only one HDD in your system.
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Any idea why they went with loading zones for Thiaf, instead of streaming? Serious memory budget constraints? It sure ain't memory issues from audio.
Remember this game was designed with last-gen consoles in mind, so everything was built for this smallest common denominator. You can always add high-res textures, objects and clutter to a map, but you will hardly change the layout of the whole map.
Personally, I must say, that after watching quite a lot of reviews I will refrain from buying it at a price above 5 EUR. And even then I will check first if there's any news on the modding front. Judging from reviews, I would sorely miss real free-roaming, climbing up, jumping over and shooting rope-arrows. I hope that fans will find a way to add that to the game, even if it means you get to see broken geometry.
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Well, in the recent issue of German gaming magazine Gamestar (that also reviewed the new Thief), the editors got to play the first three levels of the new Wolfenstein. They said they liked it a lot and can't wait to play the full game. There seem to be multiple approaches to playing this game, as in Rambo-style vs. Thief-style.
This leaves me with the vague hope that Doom 4 will be in good hands and more fun than Doom 3 which is highly moddable but ultimately lacking in gameplay.
@Nacht: I'd love Doom 4 to have some variance in gameplay. Like levels where you just waltz through your enemies, but then also maps where you try to stay quiet or else you're screwed. If you look on the market today, there are lots of fast paced shooters out there (Painkiller or Serious Sam come to mind immediately), and while this kind of games can be fun for a while, they get old quick (at least to me). OTOH, the jump-scare Doom 3 was so repetitive that I couldn't really enjoy it, too. Let's hope that D4 will find its own, good way.
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I doubt I'll ever play the new game. I was planning on watching someone's Let's Play of it, but after seeing some of the streams of the leaked game, I may not even watch a Let's Play.
Well, if you're referring to Thief and not to OMSI 2 (the real name), the German gaming magazine Gamestar has published its newest issue yesterday and a review of Thief. They were not happy with the game. All in all they criticized that it's neither appealing to old-school Thief fans nor to the new generation of gamers who'd have fun with DX:HR or Dishonored. The game is said to be fun occasionally, but it reeks of wasted potential.
I'm not sure if I can put up a scanned copy of the article, but suffice to say that an overall score of 78 percent is not the best thing for an AAA title. The review closes with this:
"Thief leaves us just like it has begun: unsatisfied. Overall it is a decent, sometimes even truly fun game that could have been so much more than it ultimately was. Like a real Thief, for example. Or a Deus Ex in steampunk. As it is now, it's a bit of both. But never completely so."
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bad is any German simulator game of your choice.
What? You criticize Omnibus Simulator 2014? How can you?!?
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. Inventors aren't furniture-makers...why would their furniture look different from anyone else's?
Why are they not furniture-makers? I mean, I never considered them a homogenous group, so I think it's not out of the question to have someone of this guild who gets his mind set to build this kind of furniture collection.
Also, is there an equivalent to the Mechanists in TDM? I think the metal furniture would look quite at home for them, too.
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XendroX, how about you re-label this furniture as belonging to the Inventor's Guild? I absolutely can see some of those crazies with that kind of chairs and tables. I agree with the others that the furniture is out of character WRT the Builders.
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Can you please re-post your novel in PDF format? I am too paranoid to run other people's DOC files on my computer.
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There are honest, nice people in this world who just want to help. I did the exact same thing a while ago.
Dude, you areally ARE generous! An IPS screen of that size still costs a substantial amount of money. Anyway, I'm glad to there are people who step out of their way to brighten up someone's life.
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Epic game - epic soundtrack.
Man, my gf played that game to death. Too bad that I never got the Ultima 5 (?) mod for this game to work.
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I like The Witcher (1) and DX:HR soundtracks a lot, especially the tracks that have been posted. However, I would like to mention a game that has a very very very special place in my heart. The news that there will be a HD version of this game and its successor gave me great joy. Without further ado, I present:
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While it's not necessarily an illness, but there are parents with children who are born (or become) deaf or even deaf-mute. I heard many times that some of these parents won't bother to learn sign language and instead send their own children to special residential schools for deaf kids, so they won't be a bother to their parents. It may just be me, but this is something that is completely and absolutely out of the question in terms of right behaviour. While there may be constraints to where to find a school for your deaf kid (after all, every country handles this differently, even in the EU), I think every parent should at the very least have some command of sign language to be able to communicate with their own child.
WRT the OT, I find it absolutely admirable for a grandfather to go not just the extra mile for his grandkid but to actually walk a hundred miles, so to say.
@The Black Arrow: Sadly, it is absolutely NOT a very typical thing for a family to do. There are many many families (and not even only dysfunctional ones) out there where parents and/or grandparents wouldn't even dream of doing that for a child/grandchild. So yes, in my book, the grandfather is most definitely a hero.
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Enjoy your youth. Things only get worse later on.
Absolutely. Had I known what I know today beforehand, I would have lived my life very differently. Oh, and I second the suggestion with the anonymous poll. I am not comfortable telling everyone THAT I AM ALMOST FOURTY YEARS OLD!!! Oh god, I am so old I even have grey hair in some places!
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One of the only people I really really like outside of these particular forums is ZylonBane, though. He cracks me up and he can sound pretty dismissive sometimes, except that he's right most of the time.
Sorry, but I couldn't disagree with you more on this part. Just making a texture mod for a game (even when it's popular in that particular forum) does NOT give you the right to be abrasive, disgusting and overall unpleasant. There are lots of ways to offer a dissenting opinion, but his is the worst. Fortunately, this does not apply in this forum, and even friend Shadowhide learned to be civil. The only real detractor is/was Adia Keeley (under his dozen aliases), and he is banned every time he falls into his old pattern.
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Has anyone looked into how realistic the game will be w/ regard to sword drawing? When the sword is unsheathed, will there be the sound of the grindstone like in virtually all mediaval movies/shows? Ever since Siyar posted that video, I keep noticing how few (if any) media gets it right.
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I just preordered this yesterday
The game or the deletion of this thread?
Jobs...do you work with computers in your day job?
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Well, learning how to spell right is much more difficult. To quote from another thread:
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