Dear Esther Update

[Armageddon]

Now let me kill Combines in this and it would be... just perfect.

No that would suck. Did you even play the original Dear Esther?

[ROFLhacks]

I'd venture to say the 360 is more powerful then at least 1/4 of Steam users computers.

Heres the shitbox 360's specs

Processor
3.2 GHz Triple Core IBM PowerPC
RAM
512 MB GDDR3 SDRAM
Graphic Processor
ATI Xbox 360 - 256-bit - graphics acceleration 10 MB Video Memory
Sound Output
16-bit / Surround Sound

Now thats really bad

[Ark11]

Now let me kill Combines in this and it would be... just perfect.

No that would suck. Did you even play the original Dear Esther?

Dear Esther has no npcs. It would be nice if in the cave level you can see the hermit's shadow and him just as his scurry's into a tunnel.

[kkirspel]

Nooooooo, you guys can't give in!!!!
It is true though that Half-Life2 was scaled down for the Xbox version right?

nope, l4d2 is tho

Sorry guys I guess I got them mixed up then; could've sworn I heard it in the commentaries of one of the HL2 games though or something...

[Juice]

sick

[LordDz]

Now let me kill Combines in this and it would be... just perfect.

No that would suck. Did you even play the original Dear Esther?

Just a 'lil joke
And yes I played it and enjoyed it alot.

[KILLA-COW]

its not great really.

[kkirspel]

"sick", "great", "enjoyed it alot", ..."not great really"
These are all opinions, many of which are at least influenced by how you wanted the game to be as you started it up for the first time. However, in a reviewing sense, they should come from what you think of the main elements the game tried to stress.
If you wanted a fast-pace FPS, yea it kind of fails in that area, but it also isn't geared in that direction or towards many other common game elements either.
When you say its not really that great, or if you think it is, please have your statements reflected towards what the game is actually trying to do. (and you already are, please elaborate)

All that aside, has anyone played the new Halo: Reach? Its a fucking terrible RTS.

[source-maps]

"sick", "great", "enjoyed it alot", ..."not great really"
These are all opinions, many of which are at least influenced by how you wanted the game to be as you started it up for the first time. However, in a reviewing sense, they should come from what you think of the main elements the game tried to stress.
If you wanted a fast-pace FPS, yea it kind of fails in that area, but it also isn't geared in that direction or towards many other common game elements either.
When you say its not really that great, or if you think it is, please have your statements reflected towards what the game is actually trying to do. (and you already are, please elaborate)

if you are referring to killa, he's just trolling

[Saxon]

Now let me kill Combines in this and it would be... just perfect.

No that would suck. Did you even play the original Dear Esther?

I want Combines too

Seriously, I really love his art style but more than anything I want to be blasting NPCs in a first person game. If I want a story I'd rather sit back and watch TV; but whatever I'm sure someone will add NPCs to his maps in SMOD or GMOD.

[joe_rogers_11155]

what do you think would happen if someone took these new, gorgeous maps from Dear Esther...filled them with guns and ammo, health kits and suit batteries, Combine soldiers and helicopter attacks, zombies and headcrabs, striders and hunters...

and released it as "DEAR ESTHER - EXTREME EDITION"

what if they credited the prodigial map author and The Chinese Room for Dear Esther and the level design, then credited themselves with the NPC additions?

Would it be wierd?

[Saxon]

No wierder than a hack job on FPSBanana.

This sort of thing has been done many times before anyway, loads of custom CSS maps are ported to SMod then filled with zombies/GIGN or whatever.

[kkirspel]

if you are referring to killa, he's just trolling

Yeah I figured as much but still, I just had got out of Debate class lol

[ad_hominem]

Would it be wierd?

No weirder than creating Casablanca: Extreme Edition.

Seriously, putting random enemies into something not intended for such antics is tantamount to defacing the effort that went into the original work.

[Mr. Happy]

I want that detail sprite code, incredible.