While on one of my now-daily ModDB content expeditions, I discovered this: I WORK ALONE. The capital letters are necessary I guess, to convey the amount of working alone you’ll do, not that I actually remember any times I’ve actually worked with other people in STALKER where my mates didn’t fall over dead before the end of the mission. Depriving one of his teammates is merely depriving one of another additional source of glorious, glorious loot, I say. Continue reading
It appears that it’s the end of an era here, folks. Fistful of Frags just got updated to version 3.5, which adds the much publicized overhauled dual-wielding system, various massive AI improvements, new guns, maps and a mode. Unfortunately for all of us, 3.5 is (from what I can gather) the last major update in the Fistful of Frags development cycle.
I’ve already downloaded it and intend to play it over the weekend; maybe I’ll see some of you chaps online in this world where men are men, women are manly and horses are feisty and kick people in groins.
Download it here for your executable-types or click this link if you like your mods in Desura-shaped packages
It appears they’re serious about waking up this time. Portal: Awakening, the Portal mod that rather famously collapsed after its lead modder complained about all of the haters, has risen from the ashes of crushing defeat like a proper metaphor illustrating rising from the ashes in crushing defeat. In his place is a person that seems to know his stuff and seems to have the thick skin required for mod-making on the internets.
The mod is go for a Spring 2011 release, though if it will be released during the month before Portal 2 hits remains to be seen. In the meantime, there’s a rather decent trailer showing off the Portal 2-esque aesthetics embedded below.
I was going to post this yesterday, but I’m horrendously lazy and I fell asleep. Why am I posting this over a week after they actually announced this new feature? Because it made me laugh my ass off. I could have just imagined some Cry of Fear developer saying out of the blue, “hey, let’s do a co-op feature.” Then, they all code it in, snap some pictures, back-flip into their sports cars and drive off into the sunset. This is where I imagine that e-fame produced by making pretty Half-Life 1 mods grants you sports cars, because alas it doesn’t.
It seems like the trailer for Skyrim being released (I know that was weeks ago, I live weeks in the past, man) has brought my hype-o-meter for Oblivion up to an all-time high, and it seems like that is true for others. I’ve been watching Dibella’s Watch for the past couple weeks to see if it would live up to my lofty standards for Oblivion moditude, in that it looks pretty, looks meaty gameplay-wise, and doesn’t look like the bad parts of Japan’s animation industry walked over and sat on it. Fortunately, from what’s been released so far the first and third criteria have been met with a promise that the second criterion will be fulfilled soon.
And with the pace that Antiscamp (creator of Fairy Tale and Hundred Years War, both for Civilization IV) has been setting, I’d say with a fair deal of confidence not attributed to my latent clairvoyant powers that the final version will be out well before Skyrim comes out, which happens to be his deadline for completion. Seriously, he’s averaging about a release a week at this point. Continue reading