New Horizon on 4/3/2011 at 04:30
Quote Posted by mr. hermit
*vomits*
doom 3 and the dark mod are so ugly. everything looks like plastic and clay.
Yup, everything did look plastic in doom 3. :) It was due to the over use of strong specular textures in doom 3. We don't do that...so I don't know how everything could look plastic. TDM only uses specular textures where and when it makes sense... shiny metal, wet objects...that kind of stuff. We use them 'sparingly' because they don't make sense in our Mod...which is the furthest thing from a shiny, sci fi mod. :)
Springheel on 4/3/2011 at 13:59
September 2010
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the screenshots for the darkmod look ugly, every item looks like it's mad of plastic, yuck
i cannot get immersed properly in a game that looks like this
March 2011
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*vomits*
doom 3 and the dark mod are so ugly. everything looks like plastic and clay.
Don't worry, we heard you the first time. Thanks for stopping by, though. It's great that you still care enough to visit.
Shadowhide on 4/3/2011 at 19:58
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The new Interaction Shader makes the speculars just sing the right notes, no plastic look for me.
The new enhanced normal maps make all the nooks and crannies so lifelike you will try to reach into your monitor.
I prefer to see more good TDM missions then another shader that makes bump mapping deeper or whatever
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doom 3 and the dark mod are so ugly. everything looks like plastic and clay.
You say so because your computer can't run TDM and you never play it.I understand your point of view,because some guys from TDM forums never played T1/2 and say that it old and ugly crap
New Horizon on 5/3/2011 at 00:44
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....,because some guys from TDM forums never played T1/2 and say that it old and ugly crap
Just to clarify...I am pretty sure everyone on the TDM team has played Thief 1 or 2....but yeah, there are some players on the forum who haven't played the original games. They don't know what they're missing though. T1 and T2 were our inspiration.
demagogue on 5/3/2011 at 02:06
Yeah there's a kind of irony there too. A lot of the original motivation for Dark Mod was a return to the spirit & style of T1 & T2 in a next gen engine in contrast to the direction T: DS went (though with its own peculiarities too of course). But to say it isn't conscious of its roots has it almost exactly backwards.
New Horizon on 5/3/2011 at 02:54
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But to say it isn't conscious of its roots has it almost exactly backwards.
I think there are just some younger players who like to stoke the fires a bit...and who aren't fully aware of the history of why the Mod came into being in the first place.
Melan on 5/3/2011 at 08:20
In the specific case of aidakeeley/Aprilsister, the one who best fits the description, there is no indication that he is younger, or has not played the previous games. He is just an annoying poster. He doesn't build missions, and he doesn't contribute to the core mod. Who else? oDDity? He hasn't logged on the site since forever.
Otherwise, the mod is obsessively pro-Thief, and (
http://www.blog.radiator.debacle.us/2010/12/dark-past-part-1-on-immersive-sim.html) as it has been pointed out, uncompromising about the hardcore thieving experience.
Renault on 5/3/2011 at 08:28
I think he's (Oddity) in jail, for spying on people or planting cameras or something like that.
mr. hermit on 9/3/2011 at 17:23
I am not trolling.I have the same issue with thief deadly shadows ,which I think has better gameplay than TDM but I still think it's a terrible game.
The only true thief experience for me thief 1 and 2. I have no hopes for "thief" 4
