Wacom

I know, I know, I posted this like 10 pages back. But, I didn't get any answers, so here it goes again. What tablet should I save up for? Every time I do the What Wacom Test on their website I get some expensive 300$ thing. I just want to use it for everyday animating, but I also wan it under one-hundred. Any suggestions?

Theres an official tablet thread made by Rudy. Do a search. its the most extensive collection of information available on tablets of all kinds.

-L

Shirtys retarted view on everything

I don't remember. Did you already do me?

At 1/4/07 02:07 PM, Luis wrote: I saw some cool youtube news thing on banksy.. its kind of old because he made those pieces ages ago but still worth a look see.. its like the first time hes ever been filmed while he was workin

Ah that was cool. Channel 4 News represent.

'Like Glastonbury', I doubt it :).

Score

I was wondering if this would get a score of at least 3.0 if I submitted it. Personally, I don't really think so. I also got kinda lazy towards the end.

At 1/4/07 11:29 PM, Masterswordman wrote: Score

I was wondering if this would get a score of at least 3.0 if I submitted it.

shouldnt trees burn if meteors hit them?
the art and animation was good.. i think..
i guess the only way you get to know its submitting it.. its muhc better than most of what its submitted

At 1/4/07 10:22 PM, ShirtTurtle wrote: Ya, k.
Since you asked nicely.

Cheers! That made me grin and chuckle like nothing else today has!

Thank you.

Wierd that you mention General though. I think I only went on there once this year, when I felt like drawing some random folk after Christmas. Normally I'd hit the streets and stop passers by, but couldn't be bothered that eve.

You give a nice feeling to the forums overall :)

to me anyway

Awww... you make me blush.

At 1/4/07 11:38 PM, PinkSkull wrote: shouldnt trees burn if meteors hit them?

They were burning. You just couldn't see them burning.

i guess the only way you get to know its submitting it.. its muhc better than most of what its submitted

Yeah, i'll just submit it anyway.

RE: SCORE

I liked it.

Dunno about the score, maybe 2.8 ->

re: Studio Ghibili

oh i now rememberd in a thing my favorite in a way is kiki delivery survice

re: bans

how do you get bnned so many times i only got banned 1 time for 24 hoers when some noob
opend a spam tophic so i told him ban you noob so luis banned me ans said somthing like
this "oh i see your ban stick doesn't work unfortionly for you mine does"

Wii

At 1/4/07 07:33 PM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: WOOHOO I GOT A WII

Why is everyone here obsessed with the Wii? As far as I can tell you look like a twat while playing it and there's no good games for it. (No Rock* titles, it wont have MGS4 and no pro evo). I'd rather have toe surgery than have a Wii.

In other news I am having toe surgery soon. Have any of you lot had surgery before? How'd it go? Got any gruesome pictures to share?

At 1/5/07 07:57 AM, Kirk-Cocaine wrote: Why is everyone here obsessed with the Wii? As far as I can tell you look like a twat while playing it and there's no good games for it. (No Rock* titles, it wont have MGS4 and no pro evo). I'd rather have toe surgery than have a Wii.

Yeah, the only thing that is really, really stopping me from buying a 360 is the fact that it won't ever have MGS4 on :(. Anyway, i don't want to start a Wii V PS3 flame war, so i'll stop :P.

I've never really had surgery, except for some enormous stitches when i was about 2. So no gruesome pics, sorry :(.

RE: wii
i dont think that wii is so good i am gouing to buy a ps 3 i am just waiting that my dad will
go to shicago agin i had an argument with some of my frinds (xbox lovers) is the ps 3
gouing to be able to read ps 1 and 2 games ???

LUIS IS A NOBZ

At 1/4/07 09:53 PM, Luis wrote: Theres an official tablet thread made by Rudy. Do a search. its the most extensive collection of information available on tablets of all kinds.

-L

Omfg spammer, you never use subjects! You*re destroying our efforts to keep this thread cleanzored.

RE: Wii

At 1/5/07 07:57 AM, Kirk-Cocaine wrote:

At 1/4/07 07:33 PM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: WOOHOO I GOT A WII

Why is everyone here obsessed with the Wii? As far as I can tell you look like a twat while playing it and there's no good games for it. (No Rock* titles, it wont have MGS4 and no pro evo). I'd rather have toe surgery than have a Wii.

Ok, I'm not wanting to extend this console war shit, but I have to say that I like the theory behind the Wii. Instead of getting in a big cock measuring contest over CPU and shit like the competition, which is really only good for the hardware manufactures, it seems to be focussing on gameplay and originality, which is all good.

Whether it actually turns out OK is another matter entirely.

At 1/5/07 11:05 AM, Paranoia wrote: wii stuff

What's bad about CPU-whoring? More CPU=better games, simple as that.

RE: Troll

At 1/5/07 10:42 AM, ArthurGhostly wrote:

At 1/5/07 10:05 AM, Toast wrote: You*re destroying our efforts to keep this thread cleanzored.

Please quit your trolling. >:C

Just try to imagine a forum with no trolls, no spammers, no nubs, and no flame wars... Wouldn't it scare you to death to think about it for 2 seconds? It's horrible.

Tooooooast

At 1/5/07 11:09 AM, Toast wrote: Just try to imagine a forum with no trolls, no spammers, no nubs, and no flame wars... Wouldn't it scare you to death to think about it for 2 seconds? It's horrible.

I'm going to have nightmares tonight :(.

Tutorial CollabSite(Plan)

Okay, i was bored, and all my mates are on holiday until the start of term, so i made this little plan for the tutorial collab site. None of the buttons work, I've only been working on it for about 1 hour, so it's just rough. Anyway, say what you think i should add, change etc(has to be doable in flash/fireworks).

Linkerdy Link.

RE: Gaming

At 1/5/07 11:07 AM, Claxor wrote:

At 1/5/07 11:05 AM, Paranoia wrote: wii stuff

What's bad about CPU-whoring? More CPU=better games, simple as that.

Gameplay's about actual fun-ness. Graphics help matters, but it's not like they're directly proportional to the overall quality of a game.

I'm not old enough to be an old-skool gamer, but I've had enough of a cold over Christmas to appreciate my collection of PS1 games.

Im fact, here's a list of total awesomeness in no particular order:

Rayman

An immense 2D platformer. The artwork and charecter design are just adorable, and the sound matches the levels perfectly. Picture the scene: You're sliding down a piece of sheet music, trying to avoid bad notes, when you land on a walking drum in flippers and goggles! The resulting bounce allows you to land on several clouds, which shoot off, allowing you to land on a selection of mini-clobes being held by a giant Buddhist monk! In the mean time, cages of electoons are spawning left, right and center and a weirdy magician is waiting for you to hand him ten tings to reach a bonus world where you have to jump on a variety of platforms with smiley faces on them! I wish I were making this up!

The only real flaw in this magical title is the learning curve. The gameplay goes something like this:

Level One - Pretty easy; a little tricky towards the end
Level Two - Getting hard; some dodgy jumps and quick reflexes required
Levels Three onwards - Alternating between hard as hell and borderline impossible

If you can actually play long enough to become skilled at it (like me) it's an unmissable title.

Oddworld: Abe's Oddesey || Abe's Exodus

Some of the best scene-switching 2D platform action I've ever seen. What could have been a straight forward case of running around, timing jumps well and occasionally finding things turns out to be something much, much richer.

You control a guy who is basically helpless. A member of a race of slaves with no physical weapons or health bar (being shot, sliced e.t.c is fatal), and little to do but run. Something about this makes it all the more satisfying when you jump onto a platform being chased by a coulbe of machine-gun toting sligs, pull a lever and drop them into oblivion. Provided you're not in a position where you can be shot, you can chant to possess your slavers, which is even more fun since you get to actually shoot things.

But wait; there's more! You're not the only one of your kind captured, and one of the objects of the games is to rescue as many friends as possible. This is achieved by communicating with them using a wide variety of voice commands, and leading them to safe portals where you can chant to lead them out to safety. Of course, it's often a lot more fun just to get them sliced, diced, crushed, electrocuted, exploded, shot, eaten or beaten to death.

The sequel is a great example of expanding on the original in new and exciting ways! You can possess a whole new range of creatures, all of which have at least some voice commands (the soldiers can order dogs around; the executive types can order the soldiers around; great fun!) and really open out the game. As always, there are plenty of friends to rescue or slaughter and a range of different moods.

Aside from the gameplay, the titles have a load of fantastic dark humour. Signs in the areas you're escaping or rescuing people from read such gems as: "A little hard work never killed anyone important", and in FMVs the NPCs generally have some great lines to offer, the best usually being from the sadistic soldier types.

Tomb Raider I - III

The first three Tomb Raider titles were wonderful for creating great, atmospheric levels from a very limited engine. Puzzles and exploring were the basis of these games, and the gameplay improved with each sequel. The ability to climb, and a wide range of human enemies came with the second, and crawling, not to mention some of the hardest but greatest levels ever devised, came with the third.

Not to mention that there's something very satisfying about killing a room full of human, gun slinging or pipe weilding enemies, then jumping over to pick up their med-packs and ammo individually.

Tomb Raider IV - V

Not really in the same category as the first three, because the inventory system and more flexible level systems set them apart. They're still fantastic games, but in different ways to the originals.

Lemmings and the Worms Games

No. Justification. Necessary.

Final Fantasy VII

I'm aware that it's no longer cool to like this game, and a lot of people say it's totally overrated, but they need to remember this: Sometimes things are rated highly because they truly are awesome. And at least one 'Best Game Ever' really is the best game ever.

Out of all the games that I ever played, this is the one that really most drew me into the story. Every time I hear that theme I just go on a major nostalgia trip to when I was like seven and playing it, and the whole game is just a great experience.

A great story isn't quantified by graphics, or even gameplay (which just happens to be kickass). It's something less easy to describe. The Lord of the Rings books were boring as hell, but they were still representative of great stories, and this game has the advantage of not actually being remotely boring. Just the way the events are presented is wonderful; the game starts with you going after this big, evil corporation, but the past comes back to haunt it and you're caught up in events as a legendary warrior from the past returns. By the end of the second disc when you see the corporation in ruins... Well; it's just great.

In summary, it's an amazing game, with an amazingly put together universe, and you shoudl definately, definately play it.

Final Fantasy I - IX

To my knowledge, all but number three were released on the PS1 in various compilations or stuff. They all make great games; umber VI is fantastic for characters as very few of your large party are left without some form of plot and development. And if you like freedom, pretty much the entire second half of the game is optional to some extent. VIII is interesting at the very least, and nowhere near as bad as a lot of people claim, and IX makes a great return to the feelings of the original games, with some fantastic graphics.

Ape Escape

Just about the best 3D platformer out there. You have to travel back in time to capture... monkeys... From various periods in history. The gameplay is spot on, and each level is unique and entertaining. The worlds come in sets of three, with occational boss challenges and a few boss fights, mostly towards the end of the game. It's surprisingly well directed and moving, despite some really annoying voice acting, and there's plenty to do as well.

RE: TC site

The news made me lol....anyway, the font you used looks nice on the buttons, but remove it from the text, will ya? It is much harder to read with white background. Or maybe the fact that is outlined is the problem...?

RE: Gaming

At 1/5/07 12:02 PM, Paranoia wrote:

Gameplay's about actual fun-ness. Graphics help matters, but it's not like they're directly proportional to the overall quality of a game.

I agree, as long the game is fun to play I don't care what it looks like, which is why I dislike the Wii. It just doesn't seem fun.

Oddworld: Abe's Oddesey || Abe's Exodus

Oddworld is sublime. The Quick Save feature in Exodus should be compulsory for every puzzle-platformer. There's nothing more annoying than having to re-do the first two-thirds of a puzzle, because you keep messing up the final third. Allowing the user to "save" at any point in the game is a stroke of genius.

And I'm get little-to-no sympathy about my toe surgery here people. ;)

PS3 backwards-compatibility

At 1/5/07 09:39 AM, DarkMana wrote: Yes, although they've found 200 or so PS1/2 games that don't work on PS3.

Not true. There may or may not be 200 or so games, but its not a matter of them not working, there are just aspects of them that do not work. The majority of them are fully playable.

Re: Gaming?

At 1/5/07 12:02 PM, Paranoia wrote: Im fact, here's a list of total awesomeness in no particular order:

I don't know how you could make the header a "re" if there was no original gaming.

Anyway, You wrote a ton about a variety of games, all PS1 games. If your argument was these are still good games even with poor graphics, then you need to remember, at the time of their releases half of them had the best graphics on the market.

If you want to argue on behalf of Nintendo for making a system which is relying on its ability to make games with interesting gameplay without a strong emphasis on graphics you should look to the recent past. They had few if anything games that were very popular for the gamecube. I don't know of any games that were very outstanding gameplay wise. The best game for the system was arguably Resident Evil 4, which as far as graphics, was superior to the PS2 version. The game with the most interesting game play I can think of would HAVE to be Katamari Damacy for the PS2. It had some very basic graphics but was a load of fun.

You don't need some funky controller to make better gameplay, you need more imaginative developers. Better graphics capabilities is not a restriction, any game developer has it in their power to make a game with less than conventional graphics and a strong focus on gameplay, look at Alien Hominid.

Now I was about to start saying things that may be bias, or maybe I should say more bias. But my point was not to show loyalties either way. I will admit, I'd much rather have a PS3 than a Wii, but at this point there is not much of a point in either. Neither has more than one good game. Sony fucked themselves in many ways and its a damn shame, but it doesn't matter to me. For no other reason, I'd get a PS2 to extend my Final Fantasy collection. I owe, FFI, FFVIII, FFIX, FFX, FFX-2, FFXI, FFXII and I've played a decent amount of the others. About the FF comments you made, if any game is under rated its FFX. FFVIII is acknowledged by a lot of people as being a great game, its my favorite, but I never owned FFVII so I can't say if its better or not.

Re: Surgery

I had surgery once. It is kind of personal, but since its not like I'll really need to confront anyone here about it I don't care too much.

One day, when I was in my early teens I guess, its kind of hard to recall, I woke up in a pool of my own blood. I was shocked and confused but regardless the first thing I did was go to the bathroom to take a piss. Which was both painful and as shocking, because I was pissing blood.
So apparently I wet the bed, but instead of being urine, it was blood. It happened maybe half a dozen times and I don't think the doctors ever figured out what the fuck the problem was. In an attempt to find out I went in to the hospital for exploratory surgery. This is where they took a long thin camera and stuck it in my urethra to look around and whatnot.
To the best of my knowledge no reason for things was ever found and things just kind resolved themselves. It was an emotional and confusing time for me, because to be perfectly honest I was beginning to wonder if I used to be a girl and no one told me and I was having some adverse effect of the surgery(surgery being the fictional surgery where I was changed from being a girl to a boy).
Anyway, as far as the surgery goes, it was uneventful. But if for some reason they stuck anything up your urethra during your toe surgery expect the next time you pee to be painful.

peeing blood..ugh

cameras up peeholes, blood pissin, sex change issues.
I was having lunch too. I should totally ban you for this story.

-L

blood urine

you grossed luis out! amazing! have you ever seen the nasty ass food he EATS?

RE: Tutorial CollabSite(Plan)

Maybe you should use a different color sceme then blue and white. Then again, it would keep a sort of consistincy. Still, I like it. Very organized.

RE: Tutorial CollabSite(Plan)

At 1/5/07 01:22 PM, Masterswordman wrote: Maybe you should use a different color sceme then blue and white. Then again, it would keep a sort of consistincy. Still, I like it. Very organized.

Thanks, i thought about adding multiple colours for the bg and header, whadya think?

At 1/5/07 12:09 PM, Re2deemer wrote: The news made me lol....anyway, the font you used looks nice on the buttons, but remove it from the text, will ya? It is much harder to read with white background. Or maybe the fact that is outlined is the problem...?

Yeah, the news is just temporary to see what it looks like :P. I was going to add colour to the text, but then, if i did implement a colour changer thingymabob, i'd have to make loads of colour variations for each update :P. Anyway, thanks for the comments, keep em coming :D.

Masterswordman

Dude your sig is unbelievably ugly please let me make you a new one for the love of Allah almighty. thnx.

At 1/5/07 01:56 PM, Luis wrote: Masterswordman

Dude your sig is unbelievably ugly please let me make you a new one for the love of Allah almighty. thnx.

All he really needs is a new set of text.

At 1/5/07 01:56 PM, Luis wrote: Dude your sig is unbelievably ugly please let me make you a new one for the love of Allah almighty. thnx.

Re: Masterswordman

Alright, show me what you got.

Oddworld

Shame they quit making games a few years back :(

although that tv show they did/helped with < unsure> was pretty good..

they should get back to making games again :(