Comments on: The Google Wasteland

By: Briosafreak

Briosafreak — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:15:18 +0000

Wow thanks for the link!

By: Gorgeras

Gorgeras — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:35:45 +0000

I keep seeing screenshots of player characters wearing awesome threads and nifty masks. I have yet to find any of them for my evil guy. My good guy has his look, but my evil guy don’t. Something must be done!

By: Legandir

Legandir — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:48:43 +0000

@Tei: The Last Guy already uses Google Earth in a game. I dont think the death of Lively means much for online 3D games. It was more down to it being too similar to second life. I know plenty of people who wouldn't touch a pc game but spend hours on kongregate. If they had 3d games that play as easily as kongregate they'd eat it up

By: matte_k

matte_k — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:19:13 +0000

I’ve been struggling with FO3 ever since the patch to fix the lock up when exiting the game GAVE me that problem instead of removing it (although, I didn’t have that particular bug to begin with, so…) Think i’ll head back to it when a decent patch comes out that kills most of the showstopping CTD’s. Shame really, because what I have played of it, i’ve quite enjoyed.

By: Tei

Tei — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:43:32 +0000

@Legandir: Google Livelly dyiing is big news for gamming. It mean 3D + Web is failing again. And is.. how much? maybe 10 years tryiing to have a 3D web. Today there are lots of webgames, some of these are wild popular, like OGame (a ogame server can have 100.000 players, and have lots of servers)… adding 3D to the equation could get amazing. But aint happening. It seems 3D and web don’t mix. I think people will still tryiing (there a good format now, X3D, that is based on XML and is standard). Maybe one day Google Earth will support to “import” game maps, or support create games ( Total War alike) …become a game engine. Or for some reason, It will never work. Maybe, because games are optimized beast, and a general rendering engine can’t make games look good.

By: DigitalSignalX

DigitalSignalX — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:44:17 +0000

Blessed your spam filter, ruined a perfectly coded trollish reply :D

By: Quater

Quater — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:18:33 +0000

I think that deep-voiced Oblivion guy did quite a lot of the characters, but Bethesda did a much better job of varying the voice actors this time around (mercifully)

By: thefanciestofpants

thefanciestofpants — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:38:49 +0000

I may be painting a bullseye on my head, but I found the characterization and voice acting well above my (low) expectations. Apart from Oblivion Imperial Guard Chap doing Burke.. but.. I dunno.

Voice acting was actually quite good I thought. The main storyline was a bit rushed, but the sidequests were damn enthralling.

By: Quater

Quater — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 02:23:29 +0000

@ Pags: I certainly hope so. I hear some people have managed to fudge it by setting the .ini file so that it only uses one or two cores, but essentially there seems to be a major bug that mainly occurs on Q4 machines when you enter a house – after a minute or two the display just locks up completely and you have to get into the task manager and end the Fallout 3 process. I tried all the suggested fixes from all the forums I could find, and none of them worked for me. It seems to be a really widespread problem and for me, it makes the game totally unplayable. I hope you have better luck.

By: Pags

Pags — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 02:16:02 +0000

Quater: that’s worrying news, as I’d intended to put it on a quad core machine. Is there a fix in the pipeline?

By: Quater

Quater — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:54:13 +0000

GAH I just wish I could play the damn game, I had to uninstall it due to a showstopping freeze bug that seems to affect quad core CPUs. I could only play it for like 10 minutes at a time before it crashed completely. :(

By: rustdragon

rustdragon — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:19:01 +0000