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"FLY135" <fly_135(@ hot not not)notmail.com> wrote in message
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> "br d" <one1@two2.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
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> >
> > You'll notice I said that if you wanted to tell people it was full of
> > bugs then fine, hardly "getting at you", the rest of the post I was
> > referring to BCM, and more pointedly, to the fact that you readily
> > offer critical opinions on something you haven't had any experience
> > of. How the game we still don't know, if it's buggy as fuck then
> > great, you made the right call, although I never said I expected it
> > not to be, I said BCM was now "mostly stable".
>
> I've been playing the game for about a total of 1.5 hours.  I've had one CTD
> and one point in the game where it stops responding to a lot of keyboard
> commands but it was still running (I couldn't even exit the game, so a CTD
> would have welcome at that point).
>
> Is the game full of bugs.  Not if what others perceive as a bug, you
> perceive as a feature.  There is no question it's buggy, but that doesn't
> mean you can't overlook the bugs and still have fun.  Collision detection is
> certainly wanting in the FPS mode.  You can expect lots of graphics
> anomalies.  It's defintitely detracts from the game when you look at at
> nicely modeled shoreline (Yes, believe it or not *some* of the modeling
> looks good), and then it converts to a bunch of hard edged polygons like
> your Z-buffer ram went haywire.
>
> Good things?  Well I liked the dynamics of the VTOL aircraft that you fly
> around on the planet.
>
> Totally bizzare things?  I landed and hopped out in 1st person mode and
> there's a bunch of animals (horses, tigers, and either gorillas or
> Neanderthal men) all wandering around as if on Qauludes (how else can you
> explain tigers and horses wandering with no interaction).  What made it even
> more bizzare was that they were all just *white*.  As if he made the model
> but decided not to bother making textures for them.  If this was a polar
> planet it might have made sense.  Not that I'm insinuating that DS does
> drugs, but I can imagine a bunch of stoners sitting around thinking that
> this would be cool to just throw in the game.
>
> Whereas most games pick a feature set and attempt to polish and make that
> feature set as correct as possible;  UC is more like an ad hoc collection of
> programming experiments that are thrown togeather into DS's imaginary world.
> Nothing actually looks to be completed.  A common programming saying is that
> the last 10% needed to complete a program takes 90% of the time.  It seems
> that DS takes every idea and implements everything but that last 10%.
>
> BTW, you will probably never hear say any game is crap.  They all have some
> merit.  It's just that not all games have developers that consistantly boast
> about how the next release will be the do all and end all of games in his
> genre, and then follow thru with something that's more the gaming equivilent
> of the "Rocky Horror Picture Show".
>
> I will say that given the printed manual/keycard and the $20 price tag, that
> UC is the first worthwhile buy in the series for people who actually want to
> see what it's all about.

You should post this on the Gone Gold first impressions thread.

http://www.gonegold.com/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=2;t=015857;p=6