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  1. Posted

    Hi !

     

    As I said I didn't want to attack anybody, I just wanted to state my opinion.

     

    You should keep in mind that Highlander came out in 1995 while Alone in the Dark was developed 1992. It was basically the first real game of that kind. All versions use the same graphics as in the PC version, even the 3DO version.

     

    To some people Highlander might look better. However I think that even though Highlander uses rendered graphics as background, the drawn backgrounds in AitD look better. In RE however the rendered background looks great as well. I think it all depends on the abilities of the artist.

     

    Something that is also really bad in my opinion is that the rendered FMVs of Highlander use really bad rendered characters. They could have used really awesome animated and rendered characters, but even in the FMVs the player has a low polygon count. And the lighting in the FMVs is also very unprofessional. The FMV quality of IS2 and Battlemorpth for example look much more professional.

     

    Reagards, Lars.

  2. Posted

    Hi Gunstar !

     

    Man, cool down ! I didn't say that you are stupid or something. I just stated my opionion and said that I do not share you're point of view.

    I'd be glad to tell you why I think that highlander is bad.

     

    First of all I HAVE finished highlander.

     

    1) The "technical side" of the game lacks in many ways.

    For example the collision (for example on the bridges) is bad. It sometimes happened to me that I fell down although the hole was still a bit away.

    There are also some big design flaws. Source : "Game Design Secret of the Sages"

    For example:

    Bad controls, controls have to be "intuitive" and responsive, but in highlander there are delays when you press a button and you have to keep it pressed until an action is done.

    The animations also take to long. Once you are hit you walk a step back and stuff and till you are ready to attack again you are hit again.

     

    You can be hit by an enemy in the houses of the town and be "hit out of the room". After that you can't enter it again, because you are hit immideately again and step out again.

     

    I have not seen anything special about the puzzels. The background of highlander are rendered while they are drawn in alone in the dark and the character polygon count is also different, but that doesn't make the game better.

    I have finished alone in the dark (on PC and 3DO) and resident evil 1+3 (PSX and PC) as well as highlander (JAG). And I think highlander is the worst of them all.

     

    The story of highlander is also just bad compared to RE or AitD. They just took the animated series, captured some scenes and put them together in a new order and thought about a story that might fit to the clips.

     

    Overall:

    The other games are much more original, and better in every way I can think of. (Alone in the Dark might not have rendered graphics, but I still like the drawn background graphics more than highlander's.

     

    I have nothing against your opinion, but you shouldn't try to attack me because I state my opionion as well.

     

    Regards, Lars.

  3. Posted

    Hi !

     

    The point is not only where most people come from. After all I'm the organizer and I have to get there as well. In US for example there are much more Jag Fans, but I won't travel to US to organize a Jag fest.

     

    I'm simply going to use the best location that I can get. And the one of last year was the best I have found so far.

     

     

    Regards, Lars.

  4. Posted

    Hi !

     

    That's REALLY stupid.

     

    Why would aynbody rate a CD bypass cart with KA ??? It's not even a game !!! Just a tool.

     

    And why is the fmv CD rated mature ??? The original movie isn't even rated mature (At least not here in germnay) ??

     

    Well, I have the 3DO version of DM meanwhile and I have to say that it is not the greatest game (they should have added lightgun support to some scene and also maybe they should have sold a lightgun with it), but it is much better than games like Dragon's Lair, Space Ace, Braindead 13.

     

    I'd say Demolition man is an average game, not bad, but not great either.

     

    However I got it for a few bugs and you can be sure that if you can get the whole game for $5 you should not waste any more money on a simple fmv cd.

     

     

    Regards, Lars.

  7. Posted

    Hi Gunstar !

     

    I can't understand why you like highlander... Well, maybe I simply have different ideas about what a good adventure game is.

     

    For me Highlander was probably the biggest dissapointment I had so far.

    I understand that there are a lot of people who like it, simply because it is a Jag game, but I can not share that opinion.

    When I play a game, I don't care about the system and only about the game quality.

     

    However I have not yet seen any games that calls itself "adventure" that is worse than highlander.

     

    The only Jag CD games in my opionion that are really good and could actually compete with other system's games are Iron Soldier 2 and Battlemorph.

     

    Regards, Lars.

  8. Posted

    Hi !

     

    I suggest Battlemorph and Iron Soldier 2.

    They are surely the best CD games so far.

     

    However when I bought Highlander I was very dissapointed and upset, it is really an insult to the action/adventure genre.

     

    With Hover Strike I was also very dissapointed. Although it is not as crappy as highlander.

    Hover Strike could have been fun if it had a higher framerate, bigger field of view, more interesting missions (just find object X and destroy it) and if they removed those annoying hills that you can't fly over and put something else in there instead or at least made those hills more obvious so you can see them from far away.

     

    World Tour Racing is also MUCH too slow in my point of view. The most important thing in a racing game is a fast framerate and fast gameplay, ALL THE TIME. This is sadly missing in WTR.

     

    If you are searching for a racing game on the Jag try super burnout (the only real fast racing game on the Jag) or power drive rally.

     

    Regards, Lars.

  9. Posted

    Hi !

     

    Most people were from Germany.

    However that is not the reason why I chose that location last time. The main reason was that it was very cheap (I don't remember the actual price, but we have not found anything with such a low price, that's all I remember), very big and the people could eat and drink something if they wanted to.

     

    Regards, Lars.

  10. Posted

    Hi !

     

    I think theme park has only sound when you have active rides and people walking around in the park or so.

     

    You can be sure that it is not the cartridge. (At least that would be incredible bad luck)

    Because if the roms were damaged the whole game woudln't work and the pins can also not be dirty, because then the game wouldn't work either.

     

    I think it has something to do with the Jaguar (sometimes it seems like the Jaguar does only what it wants to ;-)) or the settings of the game.

     

    Regards, Lars.

  14. Posted

    Hi Thunderbird !

     

    No I do not hate surfing the net. At least not as long as the page is good.

    But that is different. I'm not surfing the net because I want to enjoy a game or enjoy a games's graphics. I'm surfing the net because I want to chat with people, get information or things like that.

     

    At a resolution of 1024x768 the "JPEG effect" is not as obvious as at an resolution of 320x240. And it also seems like the JagPeg compression on the Jag was used with much lower quality settings than most websites use for their JPEG graphics these days.

     

    For example when I create JPEG graphics for my site I usually use a quality setting of 100% (although even then there is a bit loss, but it is not that bad).

     

    Regards, Lars.

  16. Posted

    Hi Thunderbird !

     

    Thanks. If I need help with boxes I'll contact you.

     

    To gunstar:

    It is not only the the bad collision, bad controls and the other obvious flaws in Kasumi Ninja that make me not like the game.

    It's also the moves, (seriously, if even have to press a "special move" button to tell the game that you are trying to do a special move, it is quite lame i think.

    The moves itself aren't special either.

    There are only few moves.

    The characters are boring in my opinion. The animations use too little frames and the graphics have an much too obvious "JagPeg effect" on them.

     

    It sounds like you are protecting games with bad controls. The question is simply is it necessary that the game has such bad controls ?? In all cases I have seen so far it is not necessary and could have been fixed easily. And if that is the case it's simply a fault of the developers. They didn't think about the controls well enough or they weren't good enough/too lazy to do it properly. Why should I play the game then if I can find thousands of great other games on other systems, that do not suffer from those problems ?

     

    To sum it up shortly, when I bought the game I expected something with at least the quality of mortal kombat (everybody said it was like mortal kombat for the Jag).

    But I was very dissapointed when I found out that I had wasted my money on a bad wannabe mortal kombat rip-off.

     

    I do not want to offend you, because you like it, but this is what I think about the game. It should have been like Ultra Vortek. Although Ultra Vortek isn't perfect either, but at least it doesn't lack that much on the technical side.

     

    Regards, Lars.

  17. Posted

    Hi ATARIPITBULL !

     

    It will be a CD game, that is for sure.

    I can not tell yet, when the game will be finished.

    I do not know yet how the packaging will be and if there will be a box.

     

    All I can say is that I'm working hard together with some great people to make the game as good as possible.

     

    Regards, Lars.

  18. Posted

    Hi !

     

    As for taking other peoples engines, or unfinished games, its largely a matter of expierience. Reading through other peoples code, even when well documented, is really quite tricky, even reading through your own code after a few months is hard lol, but expierenced coders who can do it well I would imagine prefer it because most of the basic work has allready been done and they can do all the finishing up work.

     

    For me it is different. I can code something from scratch much faster than reading through other people's code and understanding how and why the other coder did things.

     

    And on the other hand, when I code something myself, I can be sure that there are no errors in it and if there are errors in it I know what the problem could be. When I code something myself I can simply make sure that the program is as good as possible. If you use source codes by other coders the code might be buggy and slow.

     

    Altough this highly depends on the experience of the coder who did the source code. If he was inexperienced it can be buggy and slow.

     

    Btw, about Kasumi Ninja:

    I just found this in the google newsgroup archive:

     

    "> I picked up that game Kasumi Ninja the

    >other day. Overall I would have

    >to say that the game pretty much bites.

     

    I wrote it you cheeky bastard, took me two ****ing years ! Go and write

    your own if you think you can do better.

    Peter Wiseman"

     

    I think Kasumi Ninja is one of the most crappy Jag fighters. And it's also a good example that digitalized graphics don't make a good game. Not only the bad game design kills the fun in that game, but also the really bad coding. If he really needed 2 years to do that piece of junk he must have either been very inexperienced or too lazy.

     

    Things like bad character reaction, bad collision etc and all the other flaws are really things that could have been easily fixed. You don't have to be a genius to discover all those flaws.

     

     

    Regards, Lars.

  20. Posted

    Hi Guys !

     

    Yes, there has never been more than that one demo level. There were some more graphics for other levels, but they were never used in the game.

     

    I would say that finishing Native is impossible. Because everybody has his own graphic style and level deisgn style, so even if there would be somebody else to work on more levels and graphics it would never be the real Native, but just a game based on the native engine. The real Native could only be done by Duranik.

     

    But that is only the graphics/design part.

    Another big problem is the lack of memory.

    There also can't be sound in the game because there is too little memory left, and also because the DSP is busy all the time decompressing graphics.

    Another huge problem would be, how to create levels ??? When you load the level files all you get is a TON of declares, but nobody knows what those declares mean. I guess that even Duranik themselves forgot how they did it because it's already six years ago.

     

    I'm not surprised that nobody ever really tried to finish Native.

    I mean WHO should do it ? There is nobody.

    All the Jag developers I know of have their own projects, are too busy with life and work or lost their interest in the Jag.

     

    After looking through the source code and trying to understand how the game works I think that it would still need a lot of changes until it would be a complete game.

    It's possible that it can't be done at all.

     

    But the biggest problem is that the design files are only little documented and so nobody can create any new levels.

    Reaching that high graphic quality would also be a problem I think.

     

    To sum it all up, I think a complete Native game on the Jaguar will stay a dream.

     

    Regards, Lars.

  22. Posted

    Hi Ataripitbull !

     

    Thanks :-)

     

    However I think I'll first finish Star Alliance before starting different projects.

     

    Thunderbird:

    I've only seen those title screen demos af Assassin.

     

    I don't know if the game was developed much further than that.

     

    Regards, Lars.

  23. Posted

    Hi MightyFrog !

     

    If the OMC Games Projects like Assassin or Age of Darkness etc would ever get finished, it would be great ! I would try to get a copy of those games immediately.

    But I think it is getting more and more unlikely that those projects will see the light of day.

     

    I'll do my best that this doesn't happen with Star Alliance.

     

    Regrads, Lars.

  25. Posted

    Hi !

     

    I don't have to worry about beta testers.

    I'm doing the first testing of my programs myself, and after that I give it to the rest of my team to test.

     

    So I needn't worry about beta testers.

     

    Regards, Lars.

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