Game News Might & Magic X Open Development: Patch Poll #1

[Roguey]

Retro-mode doesn't remove the sliding animation while walking so it's not really retro now is it?

 

[FeelTheRads]

Retro mode actually just makes it pixelated?
Because "retro" means "shiny graphics" put through a pixelation filter. Talk about dumbshit hipsters.

And of course, really important to cater to arachnophobes. I only hope they'll cater to any other possible animal-phobia. Like, I'm pretty sure I have a mild dog-phobia. They'd better cater to me.

 

[Infinitron]

Most likely the intention here was to suggest four different features that require relatively minor work to implement, regardless of how important they are. It's also a good way to measure just how many people care about those silly things. If there are almost none of them, then they're not worth catering to. If they reach 10-20%, then that feature might be worth implementing, even if it doesn't win the poll.

 

[Metro]

I admit I replaced the spiders in Skyrim. First time I've done it in a game because they look fucking hideous like camel back spiders!



How bad could the spiders in something like MMX look? Screenshot?

Edit: Nvm, saw one in a video. Not bad at all. Slightly cartoony.

 

[Hirato]

Retro mode actually just makes it pixelated?
Because "retro" means "shiny graphics" put through a pixelation filter. Talk about dumbshit hipsters.

Technically they'd be rendering the game on a framebuffer that's much smaller in size (let's say 1/3rd of the screen's dimensions) and scaling that up to the screen with nearest filtering (read: sharp pixels).
If the game is GPU limited, this can more than double performance as a consequence.
Also note Anti-Aliasing looks awful with this method.

If they're doing it properly, they'd also turn off texture filtering for world and model textures, as well as scaling them to either a 4th or an 8th of their size. This helps give it that old-school look and as a bonus also saves a lot of memory (which can also lead to better performance).


It seems they intend to chuck a rotoscope filter on top of that though, now that's lame and unnecessary.

 

[FeelTheRads]

Well, obviously I have no idea how they'd do it. My point is that taking "shiny" graphics, as they call them, downgrading them and then saying it's retro is dumb.

 

[sser]

The spiders gave me the creeps in Grimrock, but after awhile the spookiness goes away. Also, where I live, there's spiders fucking everywhere. They even live in the trees and at night build webs down to the goddam driveway. I walked right into one about a week ago. Flush. Could hear the tension of the spidersilk pulling taut and the snap-crackle-pop of it all breaking. I dropped half my shit right then and there and ran back inside. Found the web's occupant dangling from my shoulder. Good times.

 

[theSavant]

Hirato: interesting technical insight. I also believe they just intend to overlay the scene with a post processing filter (as there are filters purchasable for 20 bucks for the engine) The performance might even get worse, since the full scene is rendered, and then additionally the post processing filter.

It's so braindead... people gave feedback about A, B, C and in the poll they offer X, Y, Z

Hey wait... I'm afraid of monsters. Can we replace the monsters?


Or better: can we replace the monsters with babies? Because in the poll picture they drawed symbols over the spider having a baby-soother and saucer eyes. So obviously they are suggesting babies instead. Let's kill babies.

 

[nocharacter]

I would like to see notes on the map first, more so than anything and in a close second comes item comparisons I guess but it's not vital. I'd rather see the bugs fixed and overall performance improve before anything else. The removing spiders option seems like such a small minority of people would benefit from that I'm surprised they would even put it on the list, but if it's easy to implement, what the hell. "Retro mode", ugh.

 

[Great0ldOne]

Equipment comparison, definitely. I recently replayed World of Xeen (awesome game), and the only thing that really bothered me in the aged UI, was not being able to quickly compare item attributes.

 

[Metro]

Equipment comparison should be a no brainer/guaranteed feature.

 

[Lady_Error]

True retro mode should be:

- Tile movement without delay
- Some sci-fi elements in the game

 

[Nael]

I hope they replace spiders with facehuggers.

 

[Luzur]

why not big dicks instead?

they leap at your face and dangle all over it.

 

[Rpguy]

This "vote" is an insult

 

[commie]

Even the icon for the spider is wrong... the spider symbol should be superimposed by the red circle / line, but not reversed. If this represents the quality of the game (and so far this matches my observations following the game development), then - no thanks.

This post is so two months ago.

We've already previewed the game and seen that it's decent, remember?

I remember all the 'decent' previews and first impressions for LoG as well here on the 'Dex. After the game came out it was rebranded as a banal shit boring dance simulator.

 

[groke]

Why on earth would they spend any time developing something every fucking person can achieve by playing the game at 640x480 @ 256 colours?

Hey Limbic, hire me!

 

[Infinitron]

Even the icon for the spider is wrong... the spider symbol should be superimposed by the red circle / line, but not reversed. If this represents the quality of the game (and so far this matches my observations following the game development), then - no thanks.

This post is so two months ago.

We've already previewed the game and seen that it's decent, remember?

I remember all the 'decent' previews and first impressions for LoG as well here on the 'Dex. After the game came out it was rebranded as a banal shit boring dance simulator.

I don't think we ever had an official Grimrock preview on the Codex. Only DU's review months after the game came out.

 

[theSavant]

Regarding LoG: yeah.... recently I wanted to investigate its gameplay mechanics and watched some vids. The whole game was: evade-wait-attack-evade-wait-attack (*repeat endlessly). What a crap. As this tactics worked in other dungeon crawlers too, e.g. Lands of Lore I, I came to the conclusion that real-time combat on tile based games is totally nonsense and will always turn to "banal-shit-boring-dance-simulator" gameplay.

Back2Topic: with all these bugs, issues and their current features "carved in stone" things in MMX, I just wished they had released the full game this month (as originally planned) and now they would start development on MMXI with 360° movement + turn based combat.

 

[Nael]

Back2Topic: with all these bugs, issues and their current features "carved in stone" things in MMX, I just wished they had released the full game this month (as originally planned) and now they would start development on MMXI with 360° movement + turn based combat.

There already is 360° movement...

 

[Infinitron]

Back2Topic: with all these bugs, issues and their current features "carved in stone" things in MMX, I just wished they had released the full game this month (as originally planned) and now they would start development on MMXI with 360° movement + turn based combat.

There already is 360° movement...

He means free movement.

Anyway, updated my theSavant.txt

 

[Nael]

Back2Topic: with all these bugs, issues and their current features "carved in stone" things in MMX, I just wished they had released the full game this month (as originally planned) and now they would start development on MMXI with 360° movement + turn based combat.

There already is 360° movement...

He means free movement.

Anyway, updated my theSavant.txt

I know what he meant. I was just being an asshole.

 

[theSavant]

Anyway, updated my theSavant.txt

Eh? ... What does that mean?

 

[Nael]

Anyway, updated my theSavant.txt

Eh? ... What does that mean?

It means:

 

[Zeriel]

Never has someone had as fitting a username as theSavant.