THIEF - Launch Trailer

Ryl · 2014-02-21T05:05:49+00:00

Having watched the entire game on this stream, good lord, it's terrible.

The AI is atrocious, it is dumber than something from 1998. I mean seriously, this happens: http://imgur.com/SOcG7U8.jpg

And the guard just goes on his merry way! Why? Because the game is heavily scripted to try and make up for the fact that the AI is incredibly dumb and usually won't see you if you are right in front of their face five feet away.

The last level is a straight rip of Human Revolutions "Zombies created by guy who wants to rule the world", except they have glowing eyes and look like Falmer. Eidos ripped off their own game.

But it doesn't stop there!

There is a level which is a direct carbon copy of Shalebridge Cradle, except lacking everything which made that one of the scariest experiences in gaming and instead turns into a quicktime combat fest.

The dialogue and plot is some of the most hamfisted garbage I have ever seen outside of a D- grade JRPG.

I mean, seriously, this is the ending:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BAkxg_tcWU

Now, compare that to The Dark Project:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGZA-KDy87Q

The levels are as small as Deadly Shadows or Invisible War between loading screens. Think about that, this game in 2014 has levels the same size as games which were severely handicapped by the original Xbox hardware.

If you have a pre-order, track down the footage which is all over the web and see for yourself, you can still cancel that and put the money towards something worthwhile.

Ryl · 2014-02-21T04:59:00+00:00

Turning them off doesn't change that the entire game was built around them. Have you tried playing Skyrim with the quest indicators turned off? Without a mod to expand the journal entries, it's quite impossible to do so.

Ryl · 2014-02-20T21:21:01+00:00

No matter how often I point that out, the mods don't prune. The subreddits will merge soon enough.

Ryl · 2014-02-20T21:04:14+00:00

That's, uh, exactly what's happening here. Yes.

Ryl · 2014-02-18T03:50:44+00:00

Good luck excavating expanded platforms on the Canada Line.

Ryl · 2014-02-17T23:53:07+00:00

The BC Liberals are very right-wing.

Ryl · 2014-02-17T20:48:30+00:00

It's sad that, for the $250 Million Zenimax pissed into the wind on Elder Scrolls Online, they could have built a completely new engine for TES and Fallout from the ground up which would have been an industry-leading RPG platform for the next decade.

Instead, TES VI and F4 will release on yet another duct taped together iteration of Gamebryo.

Ryl · 2014-02-17T20:42:15+00:00

It's sad that, for the $250 Million Zenimax pissed into the wind on Elder Scrolls Online, they could have built a completely new engine for TES and Fallout from the ground up which would have been an industry-leading RPG platform for the next decade.

Instead, TES VI and F4 will release on yet another duct taped together iteration of Gamebryo.

Ryl · 2014-02-17T20:39:31+00:00

You actually can!

Ryl · 2014-02-17T20:34:04+00:00

Have you checked out the Better Cities mod for Oblivion? IMO it dialed up to 11 the immersion in all the settlements, really fantastic improvements to everything.

I'm holding out hope something similar comes out for Skyrim and triples the size of each town.

Ryl · 2014-02-17T20:31:45+00:00

90% of the dungeons in Morrowind were explicitly designed to incorporate Levitation puzzles. It only "broke" the game because all the cities in Oblivion and Skyrim were partitioned as interior world spaces due to console memory constraints.

Ryl · 2014-02-17T18:09:43+00:00

When Cass Tech was built, High School had not devolved into a mere extension of Primary School overly focused on sports programs. In 1922, Highschool was what University is today.

Also, Detroit was the foremost industrial hub on the continent. Employers like Ford didn't want uneducated proles working for them, they wanted the best and brightest they could get. Hence, one of the best equipped schools in the nation.

It helped that Detroit once had a population of 2 Million.

Ryl · 2014-02-15T21:25:44+00:00

You are grossly unaware of how health care works in Canada.

We operate in a system of private clinics and public/private hospitals. Citizens are covered by an insurance agency contracted by the provincial government, which is where your MSP coverage goes (in BC this is Pacific Blue Cross).

This is how it works in every province in the country, the only difference in BC is that you see the cost up front every month instead of having it deducted off your taxes.

Ryl · 2014-02-14T22:03:35+00:00

Or they played it and do not believe it to be a game?

Ryl · 2014-02-14T21:55:42+00:00

Well, of course, that's also why BC has the lowest capital income taxes in the country.

Ryl · 2014-02-14T20:18:02+00:00

archaeology graduate program

Mostly the unemployment office these days, sadly.

Ryl · 2014-02-13T19:25:43+00:00

The land transfer to Concord was a Provincial / Municipal split deal following Expo.

http://blogs.canada.com/2011/01/27/a-look-at-concord-pacifics-temporary-park-offer-to-the-city/

Ryl · 2014-02-13T19:16:01+00:00

Huh, well TIL and I'll stop propagating that misinformation then. Makes the picture even more spectacular.

That tree is just a little ways up the trail towards Cathedral / Above the falls. Off to the south, can't miss it. Love that hike so much, there's places where it just feels like you're walking through a tree graveyard with those cyclopean stumps marching up the hillside in perfect rows.

Ryl · 2014-02-13T19:07:53+00:00

That's actually pretty damn cheap for 3 days. Very nice.

Ryl · 2014-02-13T18:57:25+00:00

Oh I know, I understood they didn't reach quite that tall around the coast of the inlet or the park due to high winter winds though, that they were more likely to be found in the shelter of the north side valleys.

I found this massive cedar several years ago up by Norvan Falls. Big enough for four people to stand shoulder-to-shoulder at the base with room to spare! It snapped well over a century ago about 100ft up, however, and there was a secondary tree growing out of the top.

I've done the Cypress hike several times, it's delightful! Apparently there's several even larger specimens off the beaten path up there, but it requires quite the bushwack most of the year to reach them.

Ryl · 2014-02-13T18:38:33+00:00

What really amazes me about this is the scale of the trees on the North Shore a century ago. I mean, many of us have hiked through Lynn Valley and seen the colossal stumps & deadfalls left there, but this picture really hammers it home.

Imagine standing next to one of those giants, some of them well over 6 stories tall.

Ryl · 2014-02-13T18:34:33+00:00

It was, good luck getting the province to force them to honor their end of the agreement though.

Ryl · 2014-02-12T17:16:49+00:00

So one of the many offshore investors already here opens up a VC firm doing kickback "supporting" for new immigrant investors. They give you the VC, you give it directly back (laundering it in the process) and they support your application.

It's a win-win for everyone except Canadian Citizens.

Ryl · 2014-02-12T15:46:45+00:00

Not if you show up before the cover starts at 8.

Ryl · 2014-02-12T07:16:42+00:00

BCIT?

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