Wow!

[The Baskinator]

I downloaded an NES emulator not too long ago, and I was playing Maniac Mansion (one of my favorite old skool games), and shortly afterwards I decided to play Max Payne...the contrast was incredible.

I just wanted to say what an AWESOME (I capitalize AWESOME because it cannot be properly expressed in small letters) game Max Payne is. I started noticing little things like...Max's coat moves when he runs...talk about detail. I remember games like Contra being "advanced", And Wolfenstein 3D (which I still play) was the greatest thing I had ever seen. Now games have characters that move, act, and look like real people, not peach colored pixels holding large black blobs to pass for guns. But those were fun too...

I just love video games... images/icons/grin.gif

[SnLnc]

BASKINATOR!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU'RE ALIVE!!!!!!!!!!

[The Baskinator]

Yep yep. I've been reading the forums the whole time, but I never really had time to post anything. But I'm not so busy right now.

You actually noticed I was missing?

[Guest]

Yeah:

http://forums.3drealms.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=1&t=007794&p=

posts five and six

[The Baskinator]

well, i did see that....but i didn't think anybody 'really' noticed... well shucks, fellahs...I would love to get misty eyed and hug every one, but.....I don't really want to. images/icons/grin.gif

Does anyone else have the frequent occurance of getting smacked in the head by grenades in MP?
It popped into my head and I thought I would ask before I forgot...

[Guest]

<Mod promotion voice>You know, if you love Max Payne so much, you could download my mod from the links below and play even more max payne!</Mod promotion voice>

<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>Does anyone else have the frequent occurance of getting smacked in the head by grenades in MP? It popped into my head and I thought I would ask before I forgot<hr></blockquote>

I hate it when grenades pop into my head. But I don't think I'm likely to forget it.

[The Baskinator]

I eat grenades.

I bounced a grenade off of a wall in a warehouse, and it hit the guy in the head, the blew him up on to a ledge. I took a screenshot of it, because it made me laugh.


the victim (http://www.geocities.com/ilovemaxpayne/ledge.jpg)

[Hatch]

Roflmao! Grenades no but those darn Molitov's (sp?) burn me up! wOOt! It's cool when you know the enemy is gonna toss one. Just strafe so his aim changes and he tosses it into something real close to himself and watch him dance! graemlins/dopefish.gif

Peace
Hatch

[MikaRMD]

Hi Baskinator,
Good to see you back! images/icons/smile.gif (and writing)

[Daedalus]

<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by The Baskinator:
Now games have characters that move, act, and look like real people, not peach colored pixels holding large black blobs to pass for guns. But those were fun too...<hr></blockquote>

Yeah, and imagine how games will look like after the next 10 years... it's so freaky! Maybe games in future will be so real like the holodecks in Star Trek. You go into a holographic room, run a program and find yourself in a virtual reality which has no difference to the real world, like Matrix or s.th... Wow!!!!!! I hope I'll live long enough to experience such games.

[SnLnc]

Wow Baskinator...You were popular. images/icons/tongue.gif

[The Baskinator]

<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by SkavenRMD:


Welcome back, Baskinator! Remember: you ain't seen nothin' yet. images/icons/wink.gif <hr></blockquote>

Whoo hoo!
I wonder if it ever occurs to you that some people (meaning me) worship the ground you guys walk on.... images/icons/grin.gif

[rgnjc]

I have to admit I was quite impressed with Max's model. Very detailed, and the coat looked to naturally move and hang on his body, I liked it very much.

[SkavenRMD]

And we didn't even need a fancy procedural cloth physics routine for that. images/icons/grin.gif

Welcome back, Baskinator! Remember: you ain't seen nothin' yet. images/icons/wink.gif

[Guest]

<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>And we didn't even need a fancy procedural cloth physics routine for that. images/icons/grin.gif <hr></blockquote>

Another animation layer, huh?

<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>Remember: you ain't seen nothin' yet. images/icons/wink.gif <hr></blockquote>

Don't start me off again. images/icons/tongue.gif


- Dist images/icons/smile.gif rtedReality

[SkavenRMD]

At least it has occurred to me that some people have an awful problem with that.

[The Baskinator]

I'm totally pathetic, I know, man.
It's really more I admire you, rather than worship. images/icons/grin.gif

[SkavenRMD]

Hey, whatever floats your boat, ma'am. images/icons/smile.gif But I actually meant that some people have an awful problem with someone (or something) being worshipped.

This way the item of worship also inevitably becomes a target. Conversely, if you want someone or something to be attacked by wiseguys, just worship him/her/it a little. Isn't that what women have done for thousands of years to amuse themselves? images/icons/wink.gif

[matt_gamer]

I also think that the face skins are great! When you shoot an enemy his face changes into an death look. It would be awesome once we get higher powered computers that can handle flowing animation on faces like in the new Final Fantasy movie. Then we would be in the realm of realism.
Max Payne has tons of realism. But it also has it's fictional area.
Could you jump from a one story building firing guns and land on your side without pain? hehe

~MattGamer

[SkavenRMD]

AFAIK, Soldier of Fortune 2 has animated 3D facial expressions on the characters, so it definitely is coming up as soon as the common hardware can handle it.

[Guest]

<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by matt_gamer:
...Could you jump from a one story building firing guns and land on your side without pain? hehe<hr></blockquote>

Nope, but for someone who just swallowed five bottles of painkillers it should be no problem.

[MC Hammer]

if you have a NES emulator I hope you got punch out. That games is awesome!!! its a classic.

[The Baskinator]

<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by MC Hammer:
if you have a NES emulator I hope you got punch out. That games is awesome!!! its a classic.<hr></blockquote>


course i got punch out...i suck at it, but i got it. I also got a bunch of really strange games that were made only in Japan...one of them being "Jesus Kyoufu No Bio Monster". Cool stuff. images/icons/grin.gif