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Alright guys. I think it's about time we got some general discussion up in this bitch!

So, pitch your dream game. The game that you are praying / waiting for.

And no, I don't just mean "HL3!"... I mean pitch a game that you want to play. Hell if HL3 is the only thing you want, explain why. What do you want to get out of the experience of playing the third instalment of the Half-Life series?

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For me, I'm all about role play. I love the Bethesda RPGs like Skyrim and Fallout 4, but they do not scratch the RPG itch all that well. More recently I've been getting into CRPGs like Pillars of Eternity and Tyranny, both by Obsidian. Coincidentally, Obsidian also developed Fallout: New Vegas, my all time favourite entry in the series.

It's also a big deal for me to be able to customise as much as possible. My characters appearance, my gear, my stronghold. Games like GTA:Online and again, Fallout 4 allow an obsessive amount of tweaking to the smallest things when making your character. Things that nobody else is ever going to see up close.

On the other hand, I love playing Co-op / Team with the SnC guys. Even the absolute worst, bug riddled titles that would be an absolute cringe fest in single player become utterly hilarious with friends at your side

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My ultimate dream game would be an open world, fantasy RPG, which allows for coop play. Not an MMO, but a story driven world that I can enjoy with a handful of friends, or on my own. Ultimately it would offer the most customisation possible, so that my character and my gear would vary greatly in both appearance and statistics to that of my friends, catering to my specific play style. It would also be story driven, with meaningful choices that can be made along the way, affecting me as a player and the world around me.

With a decent, physics based combat system as seen in games such as Dying Light, I can imagine one buddy charging in with a great sword, knocking foes around while another is throwing spells left and right, healing allies and decimating foes.

That, would be absolute gaming bliss for me.

But what does it measure?

6th-Graders

As long as they have the correct name, they should work without issue. I have my own urbydev.wad with colour coded tool textures.

A goldsource map! ...or where you looking for specific details?

I started on Oblivion, but never really got into it

Having looked at Morrowind, the combat looks too frustrating. This is why I am waiting for Skywind and though I've played Oblivion, Skyblivion just looks awesome as well.

Still powering through Duke Nukem 3D. It's like catching up with an old friend ... and old abusive friend who kicks you in the nuts when you make a mistake. This game is tough!

Completed Nuclear Winter (Christmas expansion), Life's a Beach (Caribbean expansion), Duke it out in D.C. (Generic expansion) and two of the four chapters in the original game.

I think I always preferred Duke to Doom because it was set on Earth (mostly) and had a much lighter and pretty ridiculous tone.

I mean just LOOK at this shit. Haha!EDIT: Just fired my way through the third chapter of the main game. Only one left. I'm about to run out of Duke Nukem

And Quake seriously lacks func_breakable, or I'm blind...

It's been a few years since I played it, but I don't believe Quake did breakable objects.

Dark Souls is one of those series of games I hear about but is of absolutely no interest to me... I assume they're good.

I'm waiting for Skywind so I can experience Morrowind for myself.

In the meantime, I fired up Duke Nukem 3D last night. Still an awesome game.

I've heard very mixed things. Enough to put me off paying full price for it. I've seen some conversations that look perfectly natural, nothing amazing in terms of facial animation but not bad enough that you notice. Then... there are other moments. The quality of the story and dialogue also seem to have taken a nose dive, again only in certain places.

But yeah, for the most part, the eyes... They really fouled up with the eyes. Far too large, the pupils are way too prominent and the upper eyelid just doesn't sit in the right place. Everyone looks constantly surprised and it's downright creepy.

Just look at this shit...

I'm not gonna win in any way shape or form, but do I need to resubmit my map if it's been updated?

Sorry to hear about your trouble getting on the server Mr. Christmas. Must be tricky keeping yourself occupied during the 364 day downtime...

In other news, dm_hysteria has been updated following a proper playtest. Thanks guys!

Like... the first one? Good choice.

I'm feeling really torn at the moment in terms of what to pick up. The more I hear about Mass Effect Andromeda and the general "cool to hate" attitude that seems to be the way these days, it sounds bad.

However, most of the critic reviews seem to rate it favourably, saying it gets much better as the story progresses. A lot of users are posting negative reviews as soon as the game unlocks in their region. This means they either haven't played it at all or are basing it off the first two missions from the trial.

(These same people scoff at paying for the game so as not to support EA / Bioware, though must be using EA Access to get access to said trial, so they're dropping monthly payments to EA regardless... derp?)

On the other hand, Tyranny / Pillars of Eternity have gotten a ton of praise and were developed by Obsidian with crowdfunding money. They actually care about their games and offer a proper CRPG experience where your choices impact the game world...

Gah!

Why do AAA game developers suck so much these days!?

I'm all for people doing interesting things with the GoldSource engine, but I'm a sucker for the classic style and even the original Low-Def models.

I tend to follow most that have that classic look. I don't mean set in black mesa specifically. Original mods that favour brushwork prefabs over models. A prime example would be They Hunger

Somewhat ironic considering The Core uses a lot of prop models...

Looks like it could be a hectic one. Should probably spend some time on the server again this weekend?

abbadon is correct here.

Also, just a side note. I hate the way HLDM works with player models. If you're using a custom made one, other players will only see it if they themselves have the model. Otherwise, they will see the orange HEV player model. Although, I guess it prevents people making an invisible/tiny model and cheating other players.

Killed my nemesis from when I just started the game. He's now been replaced by a guy that's a hundred times more annoying...

Shadow of Mordor

Picked it up again after a year and having a lot of fun with it. Cannot remember the plot or anything about the main characters at all. Somewhat forgettable.

What I do remember is Ogrush the Literate One, an Uruk who had killed me many times in the past, usually by calling in a bunch of his mates. He had grown to a ridiculously high power level that was causing me no end of trouble. I finally levelled up a bunch and unlocked a whole load of abilities that allowed me to carve through his entourage and lob off his ugly head.

The Uruk hierarchy is easily the highlight of the game and something I hope other RPGs implement in the future. It doesn't end the game when you die, but it does punish you in a pretty brutal way.

"Hey! You just tried to kill an Uruk captain who was way too powerful for you. Well guess what? He killed YOU. Now he's MORE powerful! Ha! BUT WAIT. Now that he is more powerful, he's taken out his superior in a dual and has gone up ANOTHER level! ...Boy you really fucked up, huh?"

Yeah... thanks game.

I never even noticed that... I guess because I've heard the word 'ordinance' a lot more often than 'ordnance.'

But now of course I have to wonder, how would one store ordinance.

Awful tempted to make a new DM map free of competition restrictions.

Entry submitted. Head hurts. Going to sleep.

It's looking pretty God damn sexy. Let me know if you want any voice acting.

Wasn't that done already?

Not saying you can't also do it of course?

Oh, you think I'd put your map on the server? .... Eee, this is awkward

Oh you bitch.

My OCD would not let me settle... That screenshot alone, the missing grid and the texture alignment, just makes my skin crawl.

I took some screenshots of my work in progress map last night, struggled to remember my imgur login, failed and went to bed. So yeah... you now get nothing.

note: Yes, I am basically punishing you for my absentmindedness.

Anyone gonna be about at the weekend for a hot dicking? (Late evening / early morning hours GMT) Might also see if I can get my competition entry server worthy over the weekend.

@Archie, maybe a skybox change to go with the texture update. The grass and redbrick walls makes me think Britain. The New Mexico skybox makes me think... well... New Mexico.

So the two together make Britico... which sounds like a cleaning product.

Heh, some of my favourite MOTM reviews were the ones where I could be a dick... so, all of them then

There's a good chance I've just had a brainwave in the last twenty minutes that has given me the desire to start again... I'll see how I feel about this new idea when I get home.

@DocRock: Getting some serious Mass Effect vibes from that theme. This is not a complaint.

@Unq: Very faithful recreation and a fantastic idea. I can imagine Blast Pit would make for a hell of a deathmatch map.

@Jessie: Genius. If there's one thing we need more of in this world, it's camo nets... on poles...

Might be able to get some screenshots of my efforts up soon...

Looks like there's gonna be some more HLDM at the weekend

I'm pretty confident I can get this done within the next week actually... but maybe a two week extension could convince others to throw their hat in the ring?

Against my better judgement, I also started mapping last night... Guess in entering.

I already know what I'd do.

I like Archie's method better.

To clarify, he was taking Accutane to treat severe acne. The side effects include depression and psychosis, which are likely what lead to his suicide.

It was recommended for me while I was at high school, but I turned it down. My friend's older brother was also using it while taking his GCSE exams and hung himself before getting his results.

The first two look a little bit off somehow. It could just be the textures used... but that third shot is awesome! I love it.

The Core is an urban legend, except it's not really urban and sure as shit isn't legendary.

I remember when I mapped with a standard of 6-unit thick walls.

...I'm glad those days are over.

I did take a look at the RMFs for Colony42 and was meaning to ask to about that... Like, how our why would that be a thing?

Might be worth looking into. Just the graphics overhaul alone has made New Vegas seem fresh again, not to mention that J Sawyer released a directors cut mod which I'm meaning to get hold of.

Obsidian Entertainment just seems to care a lot more for their projects and the true nature of RPGs. I must try out Pillars of Eternity at some point.

Probably should have done something for this...

I have been attempting to start an evil character in Fallout 4 and it just cannot be done! The voice actor, Brian T Delaney, is just too nice a guy to pull it off. My character looks evil as absolute sin thanks to the in-depth character creation, covered in scars and markings with sunken, dead eyes. However, he sounds like my GOOD character woke up on the wrong side of the bed...

So I fired up Fallout New Vegas and modded the crap out of it to take the edge of the graphics, specifically the horrendous character models. Within minutes, it was so much easier to be a real nasty bloke.

Come on Bethesda. If you're not going to let Obsidian make another Fallout game, at least learn by their example!

Don't get me wrong, I love Fallout 4. I just can't replay as a new character. I'm just going to need to scour the entire map with my initial build.

Is this not generally frowned upon? I know it's been a few years since that one kid got expelled or arrested or exprested or some shit?

It's very much pronounced in the scottish accent and most others for that matter. I can only imagine a full on cockney accent would use the stop.

Right, that does it. I'm playing some Overwatch this weekend!

It's a moot point. I don't think Battlefield is meant to be realistic in any way shape or form...

I've not played a single ARMA game that doesn't just feel dreadfully clunky