By Tim Stone on March 9th, 2008 at 8:30 am.
From summer 2005.
Rock, Paper, Shotgun
Strafe Left: The Formative Years #20
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- faelnor : “It is definitely a modern shooter. Save system: chapters and autosaves after each arena fight. Game length in hours: 5 max. Anti-aliasing: can force in ...” on Wot I Think: The Darkness II
- nootpingu86 : “For my part, I think it's ridiculous to find the sublime in most games because of the content on display. The medium can do whatever ...” on The Sunday Papers
- Consumatopia : “@sinister agent, your original argument was "Demanding status updates is just a waste of their time that they could spend making the goddamn game." Kadayi ...” on The Sunday Papers
- Sinderlin : “@jaheira Gabe Newell made several statements and anouncements regarding the planned trilogy of "episodes". I can understand your reluctancy to call those "promises" as a ...” on The Sunday Papers
- Hoaxfish : “there's always that opposite example of player/character intelligence... a player (or DM) using a character that is supposed to be a genius by their stats, ...” on The Sunday Papers
Man, existence had crazy framerates when there wasn’t any life, or sky.
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Hah, fantastic. I reckon Crytek pinched His source code.
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I wonder what language he used.
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Hmm, wasn’t this on RPS a few weeks back as well?
Loved this strip, though.
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I remember reading this, and not getting it until I actually noticed the FPS counter in the corner ~_~
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Bonus points if some of the creatures were missing in the “optimised” panel, or were curiously more blocky-looking.
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Where does that leave the 0-day hackers?
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The Tree of Worldly Knowledge?
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The Lord doesn’t use agile development methodologies.
No unit tests? No refactoring? No incremental development? Who was his Business Analyst?
I bet he doesn’t even have a set of use cases for all of creation.
For shame.
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@ Max:
I think Crysis forgot the last step in that process actually… ;)
By the way, was this strip making fun of Far Cry when it first came out I wonder? Or maybe it’s just poking fun at all games, hah.
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omg.. good work, guy
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On the 8th day god invented “Fog” to hidde the problems with pop-up structures, and make lower the render distance.
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