Dvader said:

Iga_Bobovic said:

Sin and Punishment gets 8's and 9's... Mario gets 10, 10, 10, 10 , 10 ,10.  Yeah I'll get Mario.

I will have both so the right back at you 

edgecrusher said:

Epic: "Piracy is pushing us from the PC." And DRM is pushing people either into Piracy, or onto console gaming where they can have a near identical experience 99% of the time hassle free. Its a lose/lose situation for the PC.

Mario Galaxy 2 reviews: See this is a perfect example of why SEGA should have followed Nintendo's model after exiting hardware. Make sure you keep your well known, top shelf franchises in top shelf condition.

The funny is that the only console that doesn't experience a lot of piracy is the PS3, but I don't see Epic jumping onto that.

Dvader said:

Hey Steel, what do you think, is it why you started gaming in the first place, should I worry about you cause you are a gamer that doesn't enjoy this.

Those reviews probably drive you nuts.

You should worry about him because he wants a port of that game where you stick a finger in someones ass.

Updating now

Do you think that SMG2 could pip Ocarina of time on gamerankings?

Hi guys! Due to public demand we would like to give you some exclusive insight in the making of Jett Rocket. We will present three ‘making of’ parts, each one going into detail on some specific categories of the development of Jett Rocket.

Developing for WiiWare

When developing for WiiWare you can take full advantage of all the power the Wii has to offer. The only limit is your game has to fit into 40Mb. In comparison, a disc game like Zelda Twilight Princess or Mario Galaxy, has more than 1GB of space available. This means all your games code and assets can only utilize ~4% of the space retail games can use.

At Shin’en we took the challenge and decided to develop a full-featured 3d jump’n'run game for WiiWare. That was something we really desired to do for years. We wanted that game to have many large levels the player can explore. We aimed for very varied and fun gameplay and the best possible graphics on the system. Coming from Nintendo DS development we knew how to put a lot of game into a little space and we were pretty sure we would succeed if we just try hard enough. That was almost two years ago. As soon we worked out the storyline our art department started with character creation.

Character creation

We wanted a very agile look for the main character ‘Jett Rocket’. As the storyline is based on sci-fi motives the character should also look quite futuristic. And of course it should all look great from far away and in close-ups. Our budget for the main character was around 400kb. Most other objects had a budget of around 50-100kb. In the final game we had over 200 moving props and animated characters.

The Wii is quite fast in combining many textures in realtime. We use that ability to create our shaders (or materials) from many ‘layers’ on top of each other like in a graphics application. As some layers only have low frequency information we use much lower resolution textures to save some space here. How those layers are combined can be adjusted in many ways, even in real-time to some degree. Some textures for the layers are also created in real-time. We use that feature of our engine quite a lot to achieve special effects like reflections, refractions and various lighting effects.

The Evolution of Jett Rocket

‘Jett Rocket’ Character setup
Number of Triangles: 2508
Number of Vertices:1362
Number of Bones: 32
Number of Textures: 10
All Textures size: 290kb / 80kb (compressed)
Mesh Size: 50kb (compressed)
Animation: 244kb (compressed)

Watch a 360° video of the finished Jett Rocket model:

Usually we start with a paper and pencil artwork for each character. Then we create the basic mesh,  the color texture and finally add lighting and specular components.

Check out some of the creatures of Planet Yoroppa:

Chopercha enjoy flying around with the rotor on their backs. They get all excited when anyone draws near.

The reckless Snapo only feel strong in groups.

Whalo

Name: Kaiser Taikai; Domain: Atoll; Attacks: Bombs, Rockets

What’s next?

Be sure to check back for the next post. There you will learn more about actual gameplay, Jett’s special moves, the vehicles he can drive and much more. Stay tuned!

Playing with Gay Tony last night.

He's full of suprises in the bedroom. I sat there in the middle of the bed and played with myself for many hours until I was satisfied.

What a good game. Hells yeah, they inserted the fun back into GTA. I did a mission where you skydive out a helicopter, jump into a boat, then race a car with nitro boosters like Burnout.

Then a mission where you use a sniper rifle to shoot out cables holding an armoured tank to a helicopter. Then you dive out of the helicopter like a crazy bastard, jump into the APC and it's like being in the tank in Chinatown wars, and you rip the police cars to shit with your tank cannon. Oh yes indeed.

Then there was this mission where you go into this underground club, dance with this chick with QTEs, get a BJ and then kill the jealous boyfriend and shoot your way out.

Next up was this mission where crazy midget jewish "orange cunt" Mori had me out stealing cars and called the cops to make things fun. And I was driving cars off of ramps and jumping between boats. Boats I tells ya!

And then this mission where you fight against the Lost bikers from LATD. You throw mines out of the car for mucho descruction.

All great fun. If there's one complaint it's that sometimes the sandbox design often randomly kills you and some of it becomes trial and error. Or it drops you into a new gameplay situation without a proper explanation of what you are suppossed to be doing. You end up working out the controls first, dying, and then repeating it once you know what you should be doing.

Little bit lame.

gamingeek said:

Playing with Gay Tony last night.

He's full of suprises in the bedroom.  You end up working out the controls first, dying, and then repeating it once you know what you should be doing.

Little bit lame.

Anyone remember this kids tv production company?

That's up there with Touch Dic, the DS portable dictionary.