@LIONHEAR-_-

Yea that was very clear to me also atleast, from the over the top reaction by most players to the ending "wtf sort of ending is that" sort of comment, i found it clearly to be a cliff hanger to the next Mafia as we dont know what happened to Vito and with Joe we dont know if he really has been wacked in the end. The alternative ending they originally had in ( mafia 2 soundtrack name gave it away ) maybe we would have known more about whats happend and is going to happen.

Also from how Vito reacted to Joe being taken away ( he didnt really do much to stop them ) i mean he went to extremes to save him before why not again ? i think he knows he wont be killed or Joe will be able to get out of it somehow as hes good enough.

These are just my opinions

EDIT: people still moaning about it being short when you play it for a full day --_--, i mean wtf you play it for a day and expect it to be longer and still interesting. I am pritty sure if it was longer players would have moaned its to stretched out. Also a tip for new players, take your time, have fun, look about between missions, do stupid things betweens the missions and firstly dont rush it like others seem to be doing it, like it some sort of race.

Honestly whoever thinks this is "the best looking game outhere" has no opinion on graphics and should not make any complains about graphics at all!

Point is that those graphics are too dated for 2010!!

dakan45

For what the game is and has its extremely good and it sets the atmosphere rly well.

I still dont get how people can say the graphics are bad. They're great. It has this gritty feel to it which fits the games whole atmosphere. The lighting is some of the best ive seen in a game. The weather changing is just amazing. Its so awesome to get caught in a storm at night. It just looks amazing. Then when the storm starts to pass you see breaks in the clouds and the moons glow shines through and you can see the stars. Its just beautiful. The zone can beautifull and it can be hell which makes the zone so awesome. Mods also make it look even that much better. Killfox

I totaly agree with you on all of what you have said. I was near the Jupiter facilite, walking around in the pitch black, with only a torch for navigation and omg when the lightning started it made the atmospher AMAZING, you would only see the torch light area but everytime the lightning flashed you would see everything for a split second and in that split second you may see ( like i did ) a pack of dogs prowling around you ready to have you for dinner. Along with the lightining makeing shadows from eveything when its flashed you also get the mist/god ray type things added with rain its just brilliant.

The thing is if your really wanting to understand and approciate this game you gota read the book that stalker is based on called a roadside picninc and know the history of the Chernobyl disaster and due to my brother going to Chernobyl/Pripyat for a photography trip and me reading up about it i love what stalker gives the player.

I am normaly a graphics hore but with games like STALKER i dont give a dam about the gfx as much, its all about the AI life going on around you, for example watching from atop a tower and watching stalker/mercs patrol and sneak up on mutants, along with mutant dogs attacking mutant boars and human patrols. At night seeing the camp fires dotted around the map with stalkers and bandits going about their life, monsters of the night looking for a feast or the sudden flashes of firefights between factions.

You gota look bast the basics of what make normal games good, gfx and big explostions, this games about the feeling, the envolement in this life going on around you, the atmosphere and the grittness of the story.

Sure bud, just curious. Why didn't you ask the other designer if he had work to share? Just a little strange your askin me, no dramas though :-).

spanK__

He didnt ask but i will say, i am a level designer and did BA (Hons) Visual Communication and Media Design / Computer Arts at UNI, so tis valid :P

@ OoSuperMarioO

I will give you some constructive criticism

1) From a designers point of view the colours you picked are to dark so nothing will draw peoples eyes to the cover.

2) To many flat layers.

3) To much white space, even though it has a basic art background its nothing that a viewer would really go "oh look i know that" as its to basic.

4) The HL2 logo and the G-man wouldn't be in front, behind or anywhere near the title that would some how distract the viewer from viewing it or recognising it.

5) The overall feel of the cover is to COLD blue and black are dark colours and give viewers feelings, just like red is hot, etc maybe check out a colour wheel ( handy link ) oh and about the blue colour being cold, just looked at Alyxs face kinda explains it :P

I know your just making fan art but if you want to make good concepts and develop your skills you need to understand and learn from these and other criticisms

i downloaded the free trial last week and i have to say it SUCKS!

the graphics are awful the combat is broken and the voicing gets old really fast

how can people pay money every month for this game when games like guild wars have no monthly installments and better graphic and combat

your views?

mirriorman

m8 as others have said you only played the trial, the graphics style is bad for the size of the world and having hardly any load times in the world. If you play past the trial it starts to get better and with friends its even more fun, but if your upset with the game due to you being ganked, just accept your a noob and that when you are at higher lvls you get ganked less.

MW2 needs no skilland all that would be at the top of the LB would be hackers and cheats.

I ignore them, but some people are really obnoxious with how they go about making accusations ("lolol you're staying silent even though I called you a hacker, it MUST mean I'm right!")

Also: obvious e-peen thread. Nobody cares about your pubstardom.

[QUOTE="Kikujir0"]a hacker will blitz you the moment you step in their line of sight.Velocitas8

Wrong, and if you believe this: you probably aren't too much better at spotting cheaters than the people accusing you are. For example: triggerbotters do not display this type of behavior. In fact, it's very very hard to tell if someone is triggerbotting unless you spectate them in the first-person. Even then, the vast majority of players still won't notice anything suspicious.

I have played in a couple of matches and the cheaters are very clear, you walk anywhere near their charr and your dead. I joined a server and a guy had 87kills to 4 deaths and his name was the only thing show up on the killing list, so Kikujir0 is right in what he said. The thing is there are so many different ways to cheat you wont notice them all just the ones that use aimbots like the example i just gave.

Me and my friend are almost always at the top of the score board, i have had for example 40+ kills to 2 deaths and my clan friend 50+ to 2 deaths, while we haven't had players calling us cheats as its clear by our play style we aren't, i do find it EXTREMELY annoying when you do come across a cheater that as soon as you put your foot into the open your dead....and again.....and again or you come up behind them and they instantly turn directly behind and boom your dead, your powerless to do anything about it to :x

With punkbuster in MW i always saw players names coming up saying somebody using some hack was banned when in MW2 VAC seems to do JACK ALL!

[QUOTE="Lemonio"]

can you give me suggestions?

i played around in the charachter creator, and i decided that i don't want to be a dwarf

but i am not sure whether i want to be human or elf, male or female, and i am not sure about the class and origin

also what are the benefits of choosing different things

for example, if i was going to be a mage, would it be better to choose a human or an elf

FelipeInside

Incorrect people do have the game and have been playing, dont believe me, check out http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/9/index/60508/3