Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-1915529-20140221183807/@comment-3547390-20140303231633

Galactic Battlegrounds for me was a lot of the cheat unit Simon the Killer Ewok. Then I would get an army against me including other Simons and Yodas.

I was the same way, it started out terrible and got better. I did some very weird things with my plot lines, things that would forbid me from ever writing a plotline again. I am quite insane, especially when creative and doing it for myself.

My plotlines are all over the place. I never prided myself on a writer, I don't even pride myself on being a level designer.

You could try that. I originally tried doing that idea, but it gets boring. I rather do something different, something unique. Basically, learn the basics, then learn something as you need it. Undertake random projects until you feel you got a grasp on a concept. Start with room one, then progress to room 2. If doing Thief, do the inside BEFORE ever doing the outside (you often otherwise will end up resizing your entire map).

Hahaha, that was awesome. And in response, America gives you this - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pD-t6tcBji4

It's sad, all the good designers fall apart. Looking Glass Studios was a great company for basically creating the FPS genre and trying to do something different with Thief. I wish they could have made Thief II Gold (which was to fix Thief II and add new levels) plus Deep Cover (A spy game that would have been the first on their new engine). Even though I wasn't a fan of SS I had to give props as it was one of the first to add complexity beyond the whole Doom shooty shooty concept.

Descent... I most likely could never play it. I have trouble navigating any flight simulator, even if it is a FPS.

Commander Keen. I tried it, couldn't get into it.

Modern games... I pay attention enough to know why I hate them.

The 80s and before seems to be mostly casual gaming with some hardcore only accessible by the "nerds". The 90s sees metal, punk, and computers becoming suddenly mainstream. It was darker than the 80s. I think it was also the least hypersexualized, with celebrities being less likely to do the overt sexual acts you saw in the 80s and 2000s. It was an age of darkness, of complexity, of creativity.

What on earth is a Cryix? That is how young I am. I grew up on Windows XP with a video card that couldn't play Alien Versus Predator. XP is still around and people are refusing to give it up!

I hate the whole Gamefly thing as it basically means taking back a game and replacing it with another. What happened to keeping and cherishing games? Or are our games lacking replayability so much that they are useless after completing? So I respected it in an age where other people learned to toss it to the curb. Why? No idea. Maybe it is because I find the 90s games actually are worth something.

It is so weird, I feel like I don't belong in my generation yet I do. I live on my computer but don't believe in cell phones and tablets. I love the games of the 90s and hate the popular music of the day. I hate social networking. Yet the fact that I have this technology proves that I do indeed belong.

EDIT: I am lucky indeed! I have only so much room on my hard drive, so I can only keep so many video files as each is quite a few GBs. I usually record each video and then begin post-editing, going usually to each section of video seperated by text and assuming that the middles work. Well, I did a render today (four hours of waiting around) and while testing accidentially went to the middle of one of my videos and learned something. If I get a low battery error on my headphones (it happened exactly in the area I got a low battery error) the sound doesn't just cut off or remain, it gives a high pitched static that will blow your eardrums out! Luckily for the video series, this was the first instance of me having a low battery error whilst playing so I don't think it exists in my other videos. As I still have the raw files, I was able to go back in and cut out that second of painful static (which also seemed to chop the video anyway). The strangest thing is that the first battery low error didn't cause these problems, I was even in the midst of talking about my low battery problem when the second one occured.