Hivesight - A Stroke Of Design Genius
Morat
Join Date: 2002-11-12 Member: 8338Members
Join Date: 2002-11-12 Member: 8338Members
I'd just like to take a few minutes to congratulate the NS team on the Hivesight feature, which I consider to be a stroke of design genius rivalling just about any game interface feature of the last 20 years.
It's sheer class, useable, atmospheric, informative and intuitive. Without it features like enhanced sight just wouldn't be the same.
/me tips hat to NS team. Top work.
It's sheer class, useable, atmospheric, informative and intuitive. Without it features like enhanced sight just wouldn't be the same.
/me tips hat to NS team. Top work.
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Like i once said, this game is godly enough to tear the winds of time from the sky of the gaming world now and forever.
'Course that's just my opinion, i could be wrong.
*coins Dennis Miller*
LM
This is not true at all! Not every game out there is a Sims [ofmg stupid game] or a realistic warfare game. The problem today is, in the PC gaming world, if you arnt made by BLIZZARD, or are a HL mod, or are a Mass Mulity Play Online Game, then no one cares what kinda game it is they just ignore it. Look at the Age of Empires Sieres or Tribes 2. AWSOME games IMHO but never really got all that big because AOE wasnt made by Blizzard and Tribes 2 aint a HL mod. UT another most AWSOME game, made it close and then failed, cause again NOT A HL MOD!
The problem isnt the games, its the players. They want whats trendy and right now HL and BLIZZARD are as trendy as you can get when it comes to PC gaming.
And as for CS being a GREAT game, it really isnt, its Trend that all. If it wouldnt have been a HL mod that game would have bite the de_dust [sorry the bitta nerd in me had to do that] a long time ago. Now i like the game and played it alot, but ive played alot games that wernt that great and ill play alot more. The game gave nothing new tho the gaming world, except maybe, fast dying. And about 90% of the games players spend the 5 hours on the game dying and then spamming WTF or BS or THATS **obscenity** or I HATE THIS GAME. I hardly ever see people actually having fun in that game, and for good reason when i can step around a corner and dye withing 1 second from some guy either AWPing me or getting a HS from some guys spraying his AK.
And look at Diablo 2. That game i played for about 20 hours a day for 4 months after the expansion came out. When i was done i prayed i could get the last 4 months of my life back, to bad i cant. That game is horribly repetative and boring as hell, but hey everyone else was playing so i joined in. I broke my CD eventually and swore never to do that again. To my suprise people still play that game heavly and find enjoyment, cant figure that one out.
Now if someone can give me a DAMN good reason why im wrong about Diablo and CS i may say im sorry, but seirously those games only made it cause trend, not cause they are all that great of games.
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Dont know bout that there sonny. Guess what, people today fear complexity and thought in games. AND THAT IS FACT NO ONE CAN SAY IM WRONG. The games today are patheticly easy and thats the way people like it. NS has to much thought invovled to "tear the winds of time from the sky of the gaming world" it may stick around for us guys that do enjoy thought in our games, but for the most part i dont see CS losing, or any huge game for that matter, to NS or any other game UNTIL HL2 or TF2. Those 2 may have a chance.
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i asked some people on my buddy list on aim, and they had no idea what ns was.
The game is more then just code. And i could be wrong but i think he still had help with that. But i do know he had people doing the MAPs and SOUNDs and MODELs. And thats what i ment, i wasnt just refering to code.
It's good, but like a tool should be possible to turn off sometimes.
I was thinking of this earlier myself. The yellow blobs can block your view. I was thinking, just have the hivesight automatically fade when it's right infront of you so it never interfered with your aim.
sierra isn't a developer, it's a publisher, they published HL too.
So, relax. If nothing else, at least <i>the hardcore gamers</i> are being attracted to NS. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->