Timewaster's Guide Archive

Proportions: I deliberately made him chunkier and with longer thicker arms than a human would have.  Are you saying he doesn't look human or that his proportions aren't internally consistent?

Texturing: Yeah.  Any suggestions?  Not even sure how to start working on that one...

would Alcatraz be interesting to a more mature audience?

I think so.  I'm reading it out loud to my kids for the second time and I'm enjoying it as much as they are.

Quote from: Skar on June 27, 2008, 09:56:08 PM

I totally missed Freeman mugging the camera. (I may have been scrabbling for the last of the popcorn at that very moment, I don't know.)

It was Freeman's last shot in the movie.

Oh, yeah.  I see what you're talking about.  I gave that one a pass though because by that point in the film they were into what I can only call a stylized epilogue where pretty  much everyone was talking to the camera.  You're right though, it's all about what you bring into the theatre.

First I've got to say that I thoroughly enjoyed the review as well.

However, I enjoyed the film a ton more than Patrick.  Everything he said about unbelievability and so forth is dead on, it just didn't bother me near as much as it did him.  As for the acting, well, I didn't think it sucked THAT bad and I totally missed Freeman mugging the camera. (I may have been scrabbling for the last of the popcorn at that very moment, I don't know.)

Personally, I'd have given it a 3, maybe a 3.5.

Ok, played a few more quests last night with my, now level 22, character, still no nudity found in the world.  I am in Cimmeria, the cold northern mountains, so perhaps I'm in the wrong place. I'm bringing up a currently level 6 Stygian character and perhaps when he hits 20 and travels to the warmer climes we'll see something.

I did experiment some though.  The settings do include an "Enable Mature Content" toggle.  It was defaulted to "On" though, so I've been playing with it on to date, with the experience I've described.  No nudity so far.  Tomorrow I'm going to turn it off and see what difference it makes.

Also, I created a female character, an Aquilonian Ranger.  Yes, if you take her top off, she's nekkid, with anatomically correct features.  It's hard to wrap my head around the glee this feature of the game has engendered but we all remember TombRaider so I guess it was predictable. Removing her pants revealed, essentially, a barbie bottom.  I put her bikini back on her and beat a few people to death with a broken galley oar before logging off for the night.

Meh, perhaps I shall be inundated with nudity now that I'm out in the wider world of the game. I don't deny the possibility. We shall see.

Haven't seen any nudity.  Lots of scantily clad women, no nudity. (There's more skin at any given public swimming pool.) But certainly lots of blood.  Is the recommender you mention in high-school perchance?

What I'm enjoying the most is the combat system.  It's not what I imagined from the pre-game talk but neither is it the diabloesque, clicking on goobers, clicking on goobers, clicking on goobers, ... that is WoW.  And the blood and finishing moves are integrated well with the combat system.  In WoW, there are such things as critical hits, the results of which are, truly exciting, higher damage numbers floating up from your enemy's head.  In AoC, a critical hit, and it's higher damage numbers, are accompanied by your character cutting the guys head off, or ramming your sword through his chest and using your foot to get him off your blade.

Also, the skill point system, which is there in addition to a feat tree (much like the talent tree in WoW).  I'll admit I don't have a handle on the skill point system yet, not having played enough to see how the different skills work very far down the road, but it adds a lot of complexity and intriguing possibilities for different builds.

Then you have the quests.  They simply capture my imagination more powerfully than the quests in WoW did, or in any game for that matter.  The slave who begs you to find out what happened to the friend he was traveling with when he was captured simply holds more emotional weight for me than the farmer pining for his lost watch.  This is obviously personal taste, but it certainly works for me.

Am I really the only one on this forum playing this game?