Daikatana Is Coming

Romero will ...

You will pay no less than $39.99 for John Romero\'s Daikatana.

r_draworder 1 does not show that there is overdraw. that just makes quake traverse the bsp tree from back to front. it puts the polys through the same pipline, so near polys aren\'t drawn over the far ones, which makes it look like that. there is still 0 overdraw.

of course when i say 0 overdraw, i\'m not considering entities.

Thresh prolly drives a Civic with Acura badges.

crap

regarding your comments about the quake engine\'s visibility determination - any level designer will tell you that there\'s a huge amount drawn that isn\'t visible to you. the engine \"sees\" alot more than you do. this is a fact easily demonstratable regardless of what is written in any black book, or blue book, or frickin magenta book.

type r_draworder 1 at the console and you\'ll see what the engine is actually drawing.

how bad the overdraw is depends alot on the design of the level.

FreshView, regarding your comments about the Quake engine\'s

#304, next time, try \"_John_Carmack\"

Daikatana with BONUS for $29.99! I\'ll let you guess what the bonus is.

http://www.gamestop.com/product-detail.jsp?origin=cmsnHOME&sku=642041

#301, as I am at work, I cannot dispute or verify your claim, however when I get home I\'ll look it up (I own both Zen, and Black book). As far as the only SP with CTF, the only other games to have shipped with CTF and a compelling story based single player game are Shadow Warrior, Rise of the Triad, and Blood2. (easily forgettable titles, though admittedly I only played ROTT)

253, wtf are you talking about? I never expressed any opinion at all as to whether i like flashy/no gameplay games or ugly/good gameplay games better. But since you ask, q1 owns all. It\'s all I play anymore because i havn\'t found a game that\'s more fun to play.

anyway, i picked up the abrash\'s book the zen of graphics programming. they didn\'t have the black book. this one only has a little in it about quake. But i do know that quake uses an s-buffer, and i know what i\'m talking about :P

back on topic... i didn\'t read the first ~150 posts, so i don\'t know if this has been mentioned yet, but
\"the only SP FPS to ship with CTF\"

wtf is that all about?

lalalala

mofo.

here\'s something i saw in a local Staples flyer a while back but forgot all about...

http://gimik.dhs.org/pre-baked_daikatana.jpg

/Gimik

#296:

Thresh Saves Gaming! 12/29/99 Chet Someone mentioned this Washington Post article in our forums

Thresh (One of the most-widely known names on the Internet according to his ego) has once again saved gaming from being pigeonholed as geek only fun.

Thresh clearly shows that gaming is also home of the egotistically insane . From his own special brand of ESP to saving homeless kids with Quake, Thresh shows his ego and insanity know no bounds.

The \"Master of the Virtual Universe\" takes a quick timeout from bragging about his gaming exploits to brag about his other conquests. He is dating \"Miss Chinatown San Francisco 1994\" and has his own trading card. Oddly the article makes no mention of his being asked to do a Playgirl shoot. The rumors about his shortcomings and refusal to do the Playgirl photo shoot may have finally gotten this tidbit dropped from his standard interview brag list.

Thresh doesn\'t keep the insanity to himself. Simon de Montigny from Montreal chimes in with his own insanity, \"(Thresh\'s success) means computer gaming is on the way to becoming a full \'sport\' like chess.\" Has Canada sunken so low to declare Chess a sport? Out of the thousands of emails that Thresh receives everyday, this is the best quote they could find?
It is time to start taking the bets on which gaming ego makes it to Letterman first, Billy \"so wicked I didn\'t mail the shirt I said I would\" Wilson or Thresh.


From http://www.oldmanmurray.com/rna2000-01.wcs

#294, indeed.. tape is so 90s

Beta, VHS, WTF are those? I buy all my DVDs online, and rent all my DVDs from http://www.netflix.com baby! Fuggin\' tape...how old school.

Not to infringe on the whole VHS/Beta/DVD (which DVD ownz btw) stuff but...

Yeah, look at the old Daikatana shot and the new one. Then look at the new Daikatana shot and compare it to any current Duke 4 shot...

I hope, for Ion\'s sake, the game play is awesome.

VHS = Microsoft. Easy to use, everyone has it, the performance is good enough for most people.

Beta = Linux. For small, hardcore groups. You\'ll spend a lot of time to get it going, and it will be marginally better. Consider yourself l33t.

It\'s too bad that this debate is so worthless with the advent of DVD....

ah well...

#285

Eh? A standard Beta tape is three hours, twenty minutes.

Thresh is from the land of Sony..that is why he uses VHS.

LOL JUMP INTO RIDICULOUSNESS!!!!!

Dude.. I\'m sorry, maybe for the novice, Beta is cool, but you don\'t see thresh going with Beta, do you? I\'m sorry, but VHS is for the hardcore.

If you want HGIH QUALITY (lol) VHS tape you can only fit like 2 hours on it.

Hahaha... look, I know VHS managed to stomp them out, but Beta was the better stuff.

Picture quality, durability, the works.

If we took a movie, me with a Beta copy, you with a VHS and watched it every month for the next year, if we put our TVs side by side then compared our tapes at the end of that year I can tell you know which will have retained its picture quality - the Beta.

Any great movie I get I copy it onto a Beta tape (Heh, I have 60 blank Beta tapes!) and watch those. They don\'t degrade.

Of course, there are disadvanages - the rewinding and fast forwarding is slow as hell.

It doesn\'t matter ultimately. DVDs stomp both quality wise. Now we just need recordable DVDs.

Kinda like how there are lots of people playing Deer Hunter eh

#279, what do you say me and you take a nice trip down to blockbuster and count the number of beta tapes.

Fine fine, that\'s not fair, let\'s go into the wayback machine to 15 years ago, and walk to the conrer video rental place and cound the number of beta tapes versus the number of VHS tapes.....

My man.. VHS may have been poor quality, may have been ugly, but they had numbers...


LOL.. THIS IS SO FUCKING RIDICULOUS.

Bake now, apologize later!

Damn straight Beta was better!

Can you honestly say you have 13 year old VHS tapes you can watch that aren\'t worn down to nearly nothing?

#276, indeed, I found i basically impossible to play.

well, consoles suck anyway.

Romero is cool because his title is: 64m3 D3516n3r

I wonder if all the people that posted after him that praised and thanked him have long hair and leather pants?

The control on goldeneye suck soo bad. Just try to do my copyrighted rocket jump to mid air rail move with that slow stick.

Ominous, if midshift comes back.. we\'ll do this.

Beta owns VHS my man. I have he-man on beta...transformers, she-ra, fucking rainbow brite i bet too. Clockwork orange, the shining, and other great movies. They picture was cleaner then VHS, but alas sony done fucked up (sony right?) and we got VHS....oh well...DVD is here.....for now.