ZylonBane

...but which usually leads to endless rounds of "I thought we fixed that!", as more and more special-case code gets layered around the core problem.

I have no idea what the underlying technical issue is here, but the way you're talking about it, it sounds like you're treating the symptoms instead of the disease. E.g.-- coding around the problem instead of fixing it.

All those green women certainly aren't going to seduce themselves.

Sounds like you never watched much of the show.

Yes... "thoughtful". That's certainly one way of describing it. Worf: Captain, the aliens have opened fire and blown a hole though ten decks. Picard: Oh, well, open hailing frequencies. Deanna: I sense hostility. Data: They aren't answering our hail. Riker: Return fire! Worf: (fires exactly one shot) No effect. Riker: Run away! Geordi: We can't. Their first shot disabled every system on the ship. Wesley: Hey guys I [tech]d into their [tech], disabling their [tech]-[tech]-[techitytechtech]. We're saved!

If the Wilhelm Scream makes it in, you're morally obligated to use Castle Thunder as well.

I dunno, I'm more partial to ". . . .", ". . .", ". . . .", ". . . .", and ". . . . .".

If you agree, then why are you rolling your eyes at him? Myself, I'm just taking it as a given that sooner or later someone will port Baffords to TDM (even if they do change the names to protect the guilty).

You've obviously never played any of Jason Otto's FMs.

I think players would really appreciate having a dedicated "Next Key" command. Of course, the best possible solution to managing large inventories would be to have an "Inventory" command that pops up a grid display of everything you're carrying. Not being able to visualize your inventory is needlessly retro.

Well, this thread is just full of win, now innit.

And the AI animations too, I hope.

Close, but no. You're using it backwards. One could more accurately say that "a cutscene is glorified dialog". Or that "dialogue is almost always a half-assed cutscene".

You might want to reconsider what "glorified" means.

You know what would be great? If TDM AI could actually sleep *IN* their beds, not just flop on top of the covers in their street clothes. Apparently nobody in The City makes pajamas.

Considering that every one of those features except mantling are standard components of the Doom 3 engine, claiming them as elements incorporated from TDS is more than a little disingenuous.

Girl Genius. http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20030307

A couple months or a year wouldn't have changed the design decision to make TDS less "sim" and more "gamey". Special Loot and Loot Glint and Respawning, oh my!

Not to anyone who actually knows what a camera obscura is.

They're called 'undead missions'.

For example, the $100,000 that was paid to design the NeXT logo. Yeesh.

NEVeR!

Jesus Christ why are you using those gigantic underlined plus signs as bullets? And Times New Roman? Arrrgghgh, my eyes!!

Just because that's what the thread is about, doesn't make it not mental masturbation.

What exactly do you think the "RT" in "SpeedTreeRT" stands for?