G-FLEX'S PROFILE

The thing is that, even if music is composed using very basic MIDI, recording it to an MP3/vorbis/whatever still provides an advantage: You can apply whatever effects you want, and control exactly what it sounds like. It's not as if MP3s are limited to any specific style of music, or anything like that; it can be as chiptuney as you want.

Yeah, but the kind of "Germanic" it's derived (mostly) from is still the kind that was around several hundreds years ago, not what's around today.

Some of the first lines of Beowulf, pulled from wikipedia:

Hwæt! w? G?r-Dena in ge?r-dagum,
þeod-cyninga, þrym gefrunon,
hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon.
Oft Scyld Scefing sceaþena þreatum,
monegum mægþum, meodosetla ofteah,
egsode eorl. Syððan ærest wearð

Even a high-quality MIDI uses whichever instrument generation mechanism exists on the user's sound card, though, so no matter how well you compose the thing, the guy's General MIDI Violin is going to still sound like a General MIDI Violin.

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As far as annoying things in videogames are concerned, I'll throw this out there: I've become more and more annoyed with linear storytelling in RPGs these days, and more and more enamoured with emergent gameplay/storytelling. There's nothing worse to me now than doing something awesome only to realize that it was essentially fated by the developer, and nothing better than doing something awesome and realizing that the guys who made the game probably had never even considered anything of the sort.

Not that I think there isn't room for linear stories in games anymore; they're just not really what I'm into lately.

I actually think quite the opposite on that subject. After trying really hard to like Fallout 3, I couldn't bring myself to. I guess rummaging through garbage whilst wandering a wasteland doesn't appeal to me. It felt like I was playing a sparsely populated MMORPG. I couldn't shake the feeling that no matter what I did, It really wouldn't shape or change the story too drastically.

That is one major problem with games like, say, Morrowind. The world often ends up (aside from some scripted event) being far too static and unaffected by your actions. I think that this problem might be alleviated a bit once games like that start being made using more advanced procedural methods as opposed to being built by hand from the ground up.

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Drak, may I suggest saying "women appreciate confidence, rather than wussiness in men" instead of "you have to show them what's up" :p

Totally agree with the menu thing. Menus don't have to look fancy at all. I approach them with a 100% utilitarian PoV.

I take it you're a real woman right? Stop flirting with me ma'am k thx bai :P Just kidding, I totally agree with what you said. There is some women though, that are pretty brutal and mean and they need to be tamed and showed what's up. Besides that, a vast majority of women love a confident guy who knows what he wants etc.

Some of the best women in the world are the mean ones when you break them of their habits and they become lovey dovey with you. Personal experience with that one if I do say so myself. The way to break them of their habits is not to take their shit and give them a lot of space.

"Tamed"? "Break them of their habits"?

You do know there's a difference between being a confident, self-assured man and being a misogynist, right? You're acting like women are something to get under your own control; why is it that you're taming the women and the women aren't taming you? Quite frankly, I'm starting to think by reading this thread that the latter is more necessary than the former.



As far as annoying things in videogames are concerned, I'll throw this out there: I've become more and more annoyed with linear storytelling in RPGs these days, and more and more enamoured with emergent gameplay/storytelling. There's nothing worse to me now than doing something awesome only to realize that it was essentially fated by the developer, and nothing better than doing something awesome and realizing that the guys who made the game probably had never even considered anything of the sort.

Not that I think there isn't room for linear stories in games anymore; they're just not really what I'm into lately.