A scary trend in leaked games. Doom3 updated & out again
Monday, February 23rd, 2004 - 3:46pm
It seems that the original Doom 3 alpha leak is back out and this time it has fan made maps. It is amazing how much people do with stolen material. I would like to see some arrests but it won't happen.
First it was HL2 with improved code and now Doom 3.
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Knowing German doesn''t hurt.
That leak seems to be fake.
It appears to be legit.
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Not according to a bunch of German websites and the article you just linked to.
You don''t want to point that sort of thing out to Flux. It makes him mad. You don''t want to see him when he''s mad...
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Ok, I don''t speak German so I can''t comment on those sites
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Translation:
Oh, that clears up what we are saying then. I updated the thread title.
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most modded game before release EVAR!
Aint nothing new about the world order..it's been playing since the day they put George Washington on a quarter
85's face the truth you're too dumb.
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on a side note...the whole Doom 3, HL2 leak..warez..saga reminds me more and more of the last days of serious Apple II gaming..
When piracy was so rampant and quality titles were beginning to reduce to a trickle..
You could visit BBS''s like Leachers Palace (in GA) and see the upcoming games released in all sorts of forms...
People began to get desperate for titles or something.
Aint nothing new about the world order..it's been playing since the day they put George Washington on a quarter
85's face the truth you're too dumb.
http://www.myspace.com/armyofthepharaohs
When was Apple 2 gaming ever serious?
Being fangoriously devoured by a gelatinous monster.
When was apple gaming serious period?
before the IBM PC standard took off...
There were several years when Apple II gaming was the defacto for computers.
Ultima I-V all debut on the Apple II first...
As did... Wizardry, Might and Magic, Bard''s Tale, Archon etc..
Once the IBM PC platform hit VGA it was all over though...plus Apple priced out many people with the Macintosh line..
Aint nothing new about the world order..it's been playing since the day they put George Washington on a quarter
85's face the truth you're too dumb.
http://www.myspace.com/armyofthepharaohs
Crystal Quest!!!!!!
Damn GG gets all historical on our sarcastic asses.
Well, it seemed pretty serious when I was doing it, course so did the Amiga scene, but then at 14 or so everything seems like the whole world
.
GameGuru just rattled off some of my all time favoriate games, and yes on though I think I was on a Aplle IIC back then.
-Griffon
Did Samurai Jack ever get back to the past?
The Amiga&C64 scene was huge in Europe. The roots of many developers like Factor 5, Bitmap Bros, Wings Simulations (Söldner) can traced back to that time and these systems. I don''t think the Apple II ever was that important over here.
The Apple IIGS was the closest they ever came. Man, that was one mixed up computer. Good idea though...
Yankees rock, you know it's true...
Damn, but I loved gaming on my Apple II. Star Vikings, Sundog, Wizardry, Archon, all the old Infocom games, the Ultimas (complete with cloth maps!)...I''m getting all misty-eyed just thinking about them.
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Ah the days of 5 inch floppy discs, I still have a few of those antiques. I remember the Apple II, its square mouse (or is that the earlier models) the built in speakers and fuzzy monitor that hurt your eyes after a few minutes.
Rogue
Mage
Shaman
O''Dell lake and those text/image RPGS!!!!!!
Freaking across the globe with my C64 from BBS to BBS at 300 bauds, baby! Some BBS sites had 10 meg drives!!! Can you believe it? 10 megs!
Of course, it was a little bit illegal, breaking calling card codes and charging all our calls to unkown companies, but hey! We were really nice kids. Really!
Why do I admire videogames so much?
There's nothing else on earth that entwines art and science so closely.
Man, I remember ""Castle Smurfenstein"" as a rip-off/edit of ""Castle Wolfenstein"" on the Apple II. Ahh, memories.
""La la la la la, la la la la"" <blam> ""Ahhhhhhhh!""
no particular interest, no particular talent
I don''t remember ever seeing a mouse until the Apple III on the Apple line...anyone back me up here?
Money can't buy you happiness...but it can buy you a boat big enough to sell right up next to it!-David Lee Roth
Speaking of large storing space, I remember when floppies only had 360kb, ah and the reformating always with the reformating.
I could have sworn I seen mice before Apple II. They looked like a box being humped by a rectangle.
Rogue
Mage
Shaman
You could get an add-on mouse for the Apple II for use with programs like GEOS.
no particular interest, no particular talent
Wasn''t Lisa the mouse pioneer?
Panem et circenses
"You really need to smoke a tree first to appreciate that one." - Sanjuro
History does repeat itself. It''s a wiscious cycle, no? The developers develop crappy games, publishers publish crappy games, and the end users become hungry for anything, even an alpha of a good game.
I just saw the HL2 torrent, and its intriguing to download it, but in the end, I''d rather wait. Its not as if I''d get to the game anyway, given my lack of playing time and the ginormous level of games that I have gathering dust, and its not a given it would run anyway.
But, its interesting to see that some HL fan dedicated themselves to completing the maps, getting the game into some usable form (supposedly, anyway), and releasing it back into the wild. That''s some serious love and dedication. And skills.
Maybe this is a new method of distribution-leak the aplha and let the hardcore gamers, the ones with mod and coding skills, bang on it for awhile. Opening the closed source.
If you could recapture the code, it would significantly lower overall development time, and would result in better overall game.
sigh, i yearn for my apple 2 europlus. I lived in Brussels during the Apple II revolution and it was good.
Wizardry was the top RPG out there. WE bought every one of them.
wow, memories...
UUnngghh...
What's the next big thing?
Paused on GW...Now playing Oblivion!!!
Paused Obliviating and waiting for LOTRO:SOA!!!!111oneone
Still waiting for LOTRO...Savage 2 Beta is imminent!!!111
In my day the C64 was *the* gaming machine, all the local software shops had games for my 64, but mostly business software for the Apple.
Yes, there was a crappy square mouse for the //e. I even had a joystick for mine. It sucked, but it was better the the keyboard for playing Lode Runner.
Oh, and good call on Smurfenstein. I loved that game!
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