NOLF Tech Demo Released

will somebody please buy my monkey?

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Currently d/ling the techdemo. My question:

Does id have anything to worry about graphically? Or is this the engine the equivalent of the Gamecube, too litlle too late?

This demo * O W N E D *. Deus Ex quality imo, fun stuff .Can't wait for the game to come out.

To #288, by the way.

wow I'm blown away by NOLF so far...especially the blatant (teen)? lesbian sex going on in the darkened room near the beginning of the second level...that's got to be a PC game first...nudity is was thing thing but...well I'm not complaining.

Here are my two coins.
The game ran fast. Very fast on my system. (p3550 geforce 32 meg ddr 128 megs of ram sb live) (note turn off D3D AA in properties!) I love the theme but then I have the man from Uncle, Our Man Flint, and a bunch of the James Bond movies on tape so I guess NOLF was targeted at me. I really can't find a single technical fault with the game. The animation was good, spoken lines were good, weapons were fun, levels were realistic, and the story stuck. The worst thing I can say is the graphics didn't blow me away but they work. To be honest, I rather have a game with attractive graphics that work for the game and run fast on my system rather than a game with great graphics that require upgrading a less than one year old system. Will I buy it? Yes I will.

Another day, another FPS. Yawn.

my comments

yes it does remind me of SOF

why the FUCK did it extract in win2k
NOT run setup however and install so back to 98se
however would crash on a level load in win98se
and then work in win2k, even though it was installed in 98se (reg entries would be missing, if any)
??

stupid

anyhow
like SOF
framerate is shit on my celeron 450 / tnt1
sure it's not a kickass rig, but 98% of games in 640x480x16bit low detail are VERY fast on this only Deus Ex, MDK2 level 7 (wow) and this seem to be slow - and TFC / CS, anything else is "super"

gfx look nice, and look like on a real machine would be kind of cool
load times = ick

ok, i have read a lot about poor performance.
well its runs like a turn on my p3 650 with geforce.

maybe win2000 doesnt help, but I aint never going back, not for this game anyway

anyone running windows2000 here, and playin the demo?

ok sure it's tech demo..
but still.. blah

not a lot of new tech to show off

sigh

Hey Slimjim...


WAASSSAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!!

Sorry, just felt like it.

My two cents:

I'm runnin Athlin 600 128mb and a V5 here. I ran the game at 800x600x16 and boy was the frame rate bad. I am running DirectX8 though. I can't really see that making the FPS THAT low though. If I went back to 7 I doubt it would be up to a screaming rate. Its hard to shoot accurately when my frame rate is taking a dump here kids.

The guns rock. I had fun shooting people and thats important. The blood mist anywhere you shoot, that looked cool. The weapon sound rocked too. A+ on guns.

The engine, well based on thwe demo here what can be said? Nothing that hasnt been done before I guess. No CLEAR advantage over others yet. Would like to have seent that terrain stuff. If you're in the FPS bizz, you have maybe 2 or 3 serious competitiors so why not make sure you're doing at least ONE thing that they're not. The UT engine at the least rock for outdoor stuff. The Lithtech engine engine can...well..not sure yet.

The textures were great. Nice detail levels. On the models too. The faces were very cool looking and the blinking rocked. The lip-syncing could be better. Thats become standard and I'm just waiting for someone to REALLY raise the bar on that one. Even the lip-syncing in the HALO E3 demo was kinda like WHAA?

Man if I was making games I wouldnt want to put anything out there if it wasnt the NEXT BIG THING (tm). HalfLife was for a bit, as was (is) Q3. UT holds it's own. This game dosnt suck but it's no serious competition to those games and those companies are ALREADY working on their next BIG THING.

Thanks for listening.

530KB/sec muwahahahah. thanks shack.

What?!?!? NO TERRAIN?!?!?

Great idea Lith. Leave out the single most anticipated feature. Thanks for the tease. I'm on 56k right now, I am no longer interested in spending 7 more hours to download a rehashed SoF.

/me ponders whether or not to cancel d/l

Guys, does the AI do anything cool that would warrant a 56k d/l?
(ie-on the level of theif2_

one more thing

WHATS WITH ALL THE FUCKING LOCKED DOORS, I HATE THAT, IF THERE IS NO PLACE TO GO DON'T PUT A MOTHER FUCKING DOOR GODDAMNIT

The demo is not too bad. The engine isn't very good though. Even for a tech demo, (which you expect to be rough) it looks awful and runs slow. Serious Sam was better. Makes even UT look good. While the gameplay is heavily borrowed from other games, it at least borrowed some of the better stuff. You can do a few stealth things and the guns are done very well. I was especially impressed with the AK and the silenced second pistol. (not the revolver, the name escapes me at the moment) The AI is pretty good in parts, maybe that's scripting though. The guards can get pretty stupid at times. The levels feel like rough CS levels. Not much detail, (I've seen better user created maps) but fairly good at least.

The setting is pretty dumb though. Just a tip guys, but if you want to copy something at least copy the source, not the parody. A James Bond rip off game is fine, a game based on the movies that riped off Bond is fine, but a game based on the parody of the movies that riped off Bond is pretty bad. What's next, a game based off Space Balls? The whole Austin Powers thing gets tiresome in about a minute. (Austin Powers is funny of course, their lame attempt at copying it isn't) The awful music almost drowns out their pretty good gun sounds. The game also uses its setting like a sledgehammer, basically screaming "LAUGH DAMMIT!!". It would've been better if they'd just done a half-assed normal spy setting and focused on the gameplay.

While there is a certain amount of "yawn, been here before" feeling with the game, (after playing SOF, MGS, Golden Eye, among others) I'd probably buy it if the reviews are good.

2 more things

the monkey bit was kinda funny

the game is a bit to easy and the guys are a bit too stupid

A non-related to topic question. Does anyone here know if Alice In Chains broke up? We finally got a good radio station that plays their stuff...

http://zoiah.m3dzone.com/HTML/misc/directx.html

build 146 here if that helps

Is it just me, or does that guy in the middle look like he has the "Scream" mask hanging off his belt?

http://freepages.ugo.com/files1/files/nolf.jpg

i went through the first time thinking i wasn't supposed to kill anybody, i got my ass-whuped 3 times before i figured it out

and also, how long does it take you all to load the maps? Some of them took my comp a good 1:30-2 Minutes

400 biatches!!

This game would be a lot more fun in coop mode.

how the hell do i uninstall DX8

its being a bitch and wont let me install DX7 over DX8

god damn u MS, what the hell

"more current version detected, your screwd"

The engine can do convincing curves... That is not a question. The map editor, however, might not be able to.

Well, the game is a TECH DEMO, so the random lock-ups, slow performance will be weeded out and hopefully fixed.

I find it funny when people complain about bland textures and square levels.

I mean, the game is based on somewhat real-life areas, what do you expect- neon signs on all walls? I haven't seen many offices with curves...

heh, just got kicked back to the desktop at some ungodly resolution like 320x240x16color, pretty annoying to have to boot in safe mode to get it back too. Oh well, uninstall till next demo attempt.

Thanx, #377, I've been trying for a while now w/o success, guess I'm not that bright, huh :-)

Well, now that I've got down there, I'm experiencing the same crash #373 is. Oh well. Wait for the next update!

im crashing right as im about to take that guys parachute, im all "u mind if i borrow that..... " CRASH everytime

im in win2k ill go try win98 now