Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-1496755-20171111143841/@comment-1496755-20180821122102

I'm looking forward to it too... it's getting lonelier and lonelier around here. These days we're just 2 people on this floor, no more than 10 in the entire wing of the building. When I walk down the corridors, it's so quiet that I can feel my steps echoing in the distance. And when you consider that we are practically outside the city, itfeel a bit creepy.

Something a bit similar in my case too - when the previous person occupying my position decided to go live abroad and quit, one of the vice-deans decided to take a shortcut, so he approached my mom and asked her that they needed someone who is "good with computers" and if I'd be interested to take this job. She already knew how much I had grown to hate working at the translation agency over the previous year, so she immediately gave a positive reply. And I was so happy when I found out I could finally get out of that swamp and move on with my life... furthermore, this was half a year before moving to my new home and I was already getting impatient for this glorious occasion. So yeah, we work at different departments, so there is no chance for undesirable family interferences.

Oh, you are right, Gamespy's sites used to host all sorts of mods, some of which pretty good. And some of them were probably lost forever once the whole thing started to fall apart. The Wayback Machine mitigates some of the effects of lost websites, but its scope has its limitations too.

Another thing I noticed about Daggerfall - how much they downplayed race choice. In Arena, race determined your starting stats, but in DF, only the choice of class does (overriding anything that may have been set by your race). Racial bonuses are pretty much gone too, so if you really want to beat the game, you'd just have to pick a High Elf, to use their immunity to paralysis. All races in Arena had some bonus, even if it was something barely useful, like the Khajiit "fast climbing" ability.

Heh, newer games generally tend to be easier to mod, but only if they were intended to be. Most older titles required more rough hacks to mod. The way you describe it, it sounds almost like Oblivion has an immune system that perceives mods as intruders.

HD textures slapped onto the old game geometry - noticed a similar topic on Facebook today. No amount of pixels can hide the fact that it's a plain flat wall :P

Heh, finding bugs can be fun too, especially if they are weird ones. A mystery mod cold be cool too, if we don't know what to expect. Would it be a positronic slug (psionic slug's distant relative) or the ability to blow up medkits and ammo with misdirected explosions? Who knows...

There was a time when people would write their names lIkE tHiS... come to think of it, some still do. Ugh.

He-man would have been somewhat okay, if not for that hair. Max is on the level of every MS Paint doodle I've made as a kid. Home Simpson and Mario would be utterly revolting even as sprites, can't even imagine how nasty the models would look. Judge Dredd and Mr. Toad looks seem to fit best so far.

There could be a good reason for this... maybe everyone is Morrowind is deaf and you can only communicate with them by exchanging notes. Thisshould totally become official lore!

Given enough time to tweak and tinker, it would surely turn out nice. I've never really dug into the modding scene, so I don't know what kind of stuff exists for the other Quakes either.

WoW doesn't really have thieving, but it has stealth and pickpocketing. The cool thing about it is that it can give you items that cannot be otherwise obtained. Most of them are just junk, e.g. empty wallets, handkerchiefs, etc. but it's still something unique that non-Rogue characters can never possess. Some naive players can even be tricked into buying some of these.

Wow, just as DirectDraw once became obsolete and faded away, the same thing will happen to OpenGL eventually. Don't know if you've heard about Vulkan - I believe it's already trying to establish itself as the new standard and dethrone GL after its pretty long reign. Truth be told, Vulkan really is more efficient and powerful than GL, especially on modern multi-core systems, but I think GL will stay with us for some more time before it begins its exodus...

There are people who prefer Brutal Doom solely because of the whole flipping off thing. So immature. I often tell them BD gives the wrong message to people who are not familiar with the series, but they don't understand what I mean...