Comments on: Half-Life 2 vs Eve Online: Clear Skies

By: paddytehpyro

paddytehpyro — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:58:24 +0000

Was a superb peice of machinima

By: DeeKay

DeeKay — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:37:03 +0000

Most excellent! Was rooting for JR & Co all the way!

Great characters, great action with a good soundtrack and music to match.

“…who tried to blow up my ship, twice!” Haha, good scripting too. Do more, please, this deserves a sequel!

By: Adrian Koch

Adrian Koch — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 08:33:40 +0000

Excellent Machinima with good voice acting!

Personally I would be happy about a bit less colorful voices, some parts are not easy to listen. This difficulty could easily be corrected by adding Subtitles. If your next release comes in .MKV, you can simply embed the subtitles sgo they don’t have to be “burned in”.

The theme of “getting another job to pay for the last one” reminds me a lot of the Series “Firefly/Serenity”.

When i saw the screen shots I was a little disappointed to see the generic Half Life 2 Characters, but then again, the Script and Voice acting manages to make one forget about Barney&Co and accept the Characters as genuine.

Looking forward to see more of your show!

*two thumbs up*

Adrian

By: SurlyBadger

SurlyBadger — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 04:43:41 +0000

Was OK, the idea was good, and it was entertaining to watch. To many glavanoids though. I am sure if there are more, they will be even better. Don’t get me wrong here, it was still pretty cool, and a great accomplishment.

By: Soren Nyrond

Soren Nyrond — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 07:24:57 +0000

Excellent. Also gave the feel of “tramp-steamer” in outer space.
Now, where do i send the bill, for what it cost to mop the drool off the floor ?

And can I hav wun of those EW ships plz ?

By: Neogi_Tek

Neogi_Tek — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:18:21 +0000

A very good film. As a trailer it was exciting to see the Eve universe put into a non-pod-life prospective. The only thing I hope happens in the future is he gets different character models. The writing is good and the technicle stuff is well relayed from Eve-Speak to English.

4 stars!!!!

And the montauge (spelling?) of gate jumping is basically half of the eve universe for those who don’t play the game. Having the protagonist star blankly out the window for a bunch of jumps and then walking away was exactly what I would do.

By: Niven

Niven — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:19:01 +0000

Absolutely fabulous!!!

The best Eve vid I’ve seen- the script is excellent and the quality of the whole thing is superb!

CCP, hire this man right now!

By: teko

teko — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 02:15:25 +0000

I never played Eve Online, but the machinima vid was pretty well done. I do wish someone would help them create new models and not use HL2 characters.

By: Muzman

Muzman — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:25:46 +0000

That’s cute. I really like the Eve ‘exteriors’ (made me want to intall Freelancer again or grab the Cowboy Beebop disks again). This is an amusing instance where the fako exterior scenes of a sci-fi show look better than the interiors.
A bit more by play from the support guys might have been nice. Well, from the friendly one anyway. They don’t seem like they’re very good friends. The dialogue in general could do more. There’s quite a lot of it yet often enough it doesn’t carry much more than details about the ship’s systems and probably other insider stuff. Could use more editing (as in cuts), but that might be a process limitation as much as anything. Could also have got it in under 30 I think. But tis a decent amateur effort. I laughed. I hope in later episodes we get a greater sense of the Eve universe and what goes on. As a non-player that would be cool to watch.

Are there any around who keep up with machinima here? What else is good and how does this one rank, vaguely speaking?

By: Xparky

Xparky — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:12:36 +0000

TO smilr
You can download the .MKV format (91.7 MB) torrent at http://tinyurl.com/44kw8x … only 10 seeds though. The WMV is well worth it, over 150 seeds.

By: Morte

Morte — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 10:58:56 +0000

That video is:

a) a fucking monumental achievement

b) the embodiment of why I do 3 hour round trips on shitty trains to play pen and paper RPGs with real people

Why can’t I have a computer game like this? The gloss of a Bioware CRPG, the human interaction of an MMO, and the chance for the characters to make it up as they go along instead of following a railroad script.

By: Jickel

Jickel — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 07:49:34 +0000

smilr: Well, it worked great on my Mac with VLC, but if you’re making a statement about free file formats then I guess you’re out of luck (though you have my support. Heck I just switched from .doc to .rtf for my schoolwork for the same reason).

Also, Clear Skies was pretty damn good, watched it on a PS3 with some friends last night. Maybe a bit heavy on the geeky namedropping at times, and the sound mixing could have been somewhat better, but otherwise it was by far the best machinima I’ve seen so far!