Komag

Yeah, the whole point is to make them at just that level which most gamer people will get a couple/few wrong, so it's a reasonable challenge. Now if you asked my mom to take the quiz, might as well train a monkey to randomly select (not that my mom's a... nevermind)

"Inventor's Guild" works fine for me, I'm for keeping it

The only one I see that you could be talking about I'm pretty sure is a close up car

Well, they could be more machinists and the people just call them the inventors because what they make is so crazy amazing to the average poor folk

Woohoo, I got 9! I thought the first car w/city was real - I still can't believe it's CG. 3/4 on bonus (I thought the colorful salamander thing was CG, mainly because of how oddly the tail twisted without any creases) The part 1 version - 8/10 (I thought the real nails were CG and the CG nails were real, woops!) One of the main things I looked for were tiny random imperfections, hinting it was a real photo

Okay, it's working fine now, thanks a bunch for the quick tips But does this mean we can't see render mode while editing? That is a really BIG drawback I think! Perhaps it isn't really

Okay, I downloaded and unzipped it to a folder on my desktop "DarkRadiant". Inside the zip are a few subfolders, a bunch of dll's, something called "RADIANT_MAJOR" (and MINOR), a couple other things, and "darkradiant.exe". So, I click to start "darkradiant.exe", and after accepting the default "Global Preferences" the program starts. It looks a lot like Doom 3 Edit. But I can't do much! I managed to make a cube room, load doom's Hell textures and paint the walls, add a player start and a light, but what now? There doesn't seem to be any build bsp or play game mode or anything like that. Am I just being blind? I guess I'm not much of a pioneer, since I feel really lost! I like to have some basic tutorials, rough "trail" laid out so to speak, then I can flesh it out, expand little things, make it nice and palatable for the average guy, etc. Maybe I just need to read more tutorials already out there - Radiant tutorials? PS - I can't seem to find any Dark Mod stuff either - textures, models, weapons, ai, anything. Have I failed to install it correctly?

More trim, less flat lighting

Yes, it a full free game, but I guess it's pretty short. It's not a commercial game. It's more like a rough tech demo or alpha of a game. There aren't many textures or models overall, so the filesize is small

I got it at FilePlanet here: http://www.fileplanet.com/165412/160000/fi...hic-3-Teaser-#1 To me it appears quite toned down as far as advanced graphics go, compared to earlier movies from a year ago or so. But it still looks great, and if it's really coming out this fall then I'm VERY excited about that! I really like the second scene shown in the trailer, with the castle on the mountain hill, with the keep way off in the distant background to the left. I just can't wait to explore this new land! In the mean time, I have Gothic 2 Gold to play yet. I played Gothic 1 four times and Gothic 2 twice, but never 2 Gold, so I look forward to exploring the new areas and story/characters.

Although I really really hate "frak", they should have thought of something else for that show

I played it for about 30 min, and while it has it's plusses, I was turned off and decided to just uninstall it. First of all, this is not an FPS; rather, it's an adventure game. You gather clues and inventory, and solve puzzles using your inventory items and just figuring things out. I wasn't scared, mainly because since there aren't any weapons of any kind at all I knew that nothing could really be thrown at me, and I was right. There was one point where I found a sort of "trap" and I figured "oh, okay, I'll probably have to use this to kill a monster", and then, sure enough, a monster came from the other room at me and I used the "trap" to get it just in time. I will say the atmosphere is GREAT! It's dark and musty and just feels right. Pushing and pulling large crates and grabbing other stuff works pretty well, although I prefer the Oblivion aspect that things will dangle straight downward from the point you grabbed them at (in this game, they stay in the exact same position). I really didn't like the controls at all! I like the idea of manipulating the environment, but it was very awkward and clunky to do some of the simplest things. It's just a tech demo, yes, and a lot of smoothing out the interface needs to happen. I thought the performance wasn't very good, and VERY inefficient. Each teensy tiny area has to load separately when you go through a door/portal (think 1/5 size of DWIW areas). The architecture is only square rooms and rectange halls, and the draw distance is very small in the dark, so the game ought to run at something more than an unplayable slideshow with all options turned down to absolute minimum on my GeForce 5650 128mb 1gig ram Pentium M 1.4ghz. When I played on my desktop at home (Athlon XP 2500+, 1gig ram, GeForce 6800GT 256mb) it ran smoothly. So perhaps the game makes heavy use of newer shaders. My bottom line - worth trying out, good atmosphere, innovative yet clunky gameplay, demanding on your system for not much to show.

I haven't yet, will soon

hehe

Heh, yeah, it will probably just blow over sometime soon I actually like TTLG because most of the folk there (in the Thief forums) are great and have been around doing good Thiefy stuff for years. So, we'll see.

Nah, I didn't burn any copies, but I do have Thief Gold and Gothic 2 Gold so that's sort of a similar deal I guess But yeah, there's no way to support the Thief developers at this point I suppose

Okay, so apparantly they really REALLY hate anyone mentioning they have Thief and other games for sale, because that thread got deleted, and it pissed me off so I wrote a "that sucks that my thread was deleted, you buttheads" type thread (bad idea, I know), and now I'm freakin' banned! I know about their "no business promoting" rule to avoid schemers and advertisers from spamming their forums, but a one time mention of some games I'm selling hardly counts. So I guess it was not just that but the combination of that and then my thread complaining about it. I also know David and GBM personally despise me (due to disagreements over political/economic issues in Comm Chat over there which I abandoned after that), call me awful names and have joined in the "I hate Komag and he sucks" threads, but this seems over the top. Oh it's not like I've been an integral part of that community for over 5 years, no. It's not like I've spent hundreds/thousands of hours personally working to help keep the Thief community in general alive and strong. oh well, screw 'em

Yeah, you're probably right. I thought maybe someone had Thief 3 only or something. Well, someone bid on Thief with 5 seconds to go, they got it for 1 penny! (plus shipping of course)

Thief ends in 10 minutes! There are no bids, so I guess the shipping is too much, so if anyone here bids I'll send it for only $2 shipping! Woohoo!

I still have my original trapeziodal Thief Gold, so this Dark Project is a spare copy

I agree, and I hope I haven't crossed that line. I suppose the drives may have, and I noticed their pics got "rubbed out", so I went ahead and edited the post.

Hey I'm selling these used games on eBay, the auctions all close tomorrow: [img]http://www.keepofmetalandgold.com/oddpics/ebay/bestdealsever/bestdealsever193.gif[/img] Thief The Dark Project [img]http://www.keepofmetalandgold.com/oddpics/ebay/bestdealsever/bestdealsever173.gif[/img] Gothic 2 [img]http://www.keepofmetalandgold.com/oddpics/ebay/bestdealsever/bestdealsever463.gif[/img] Heart of Darkness (similar to Out of This World or Flashback) If anyone from The Dark Mod wins one or more of them I'll give an extra $2 off the final total (including shipping) per game. :thumb: EDIT - removed other stuff

It's the teaser's fault!!! - folks are getting wind of it and getting curious (or it could be a big fluke today, random roll the dice luck, like five sixes when playing Risk!)

I wonder how Gone With the Wind would have sold if he said "Frankly my dear, I don't give a F***!"

My WinXP disc is from the first week it was released, back in fall '01 I believe. I was SOOOO glad for it, as all my crappy Win 98 daily crashes stopped overnight.