BigJKO

Holy shit, imagine Button Frenzy native Steam Controller support.. All the possible button/trackpad/gyro combinations! Also, can we call the controller the Steamroller?

The Steam Controller update from December mentioned non-Steam game configurations coming soon, so maybe that's added already! http://store.steampowered.com/controller/update/dec15

By the time this podcast ends, the first of the spinoff movie trilogy (barf!) Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them will be out, so some thoughts on that (even just musings on it without having seen it) in the end could be fun?

Hmm, I feel like the majority of the games are really close ones for me.. There are stompings every once in a while, but most of the time I feel like we're fighting hard to get that last meter of the payload (or defending it at the last meter)

This is great! Only criticism of this first piece is the lighting on the bag looks directionless on the left side of the controller. Under the controller it feels correct, but on the left side you don't really get a feel for the direction of the light.. I don't know if that makes sense. The wrinkles look nice, but they're maybe too defined for the soft overhead light you're going for.

It gets even crazier.

Dear lord!! That's awful.. Makes me happy that the Icelandic ones didn't translate the names.

Totally agree with this. But, that said, I really enjoy watching the result of Blizzard's cinematic team's excellent technical skills and animation, ususally reserved for the house-style gritty, "realistic" stuff, going nuts on a more simple, stylish characters and world. They're obviously having a lot of fun animating the characters (you can tell these guys were just waiting for an opportunity to do all that smearing and squash-and-stretch) and rendering that simple style as beautifully as possible. What a weird choice to make the Soldier 76 short be the one with only one character in it, considering how boring he is.

You could link to the Greenlight page here? Might get you some yes-votes!

The Icelandic version is pretty boring when it comes to the names. For older books the names would always be translated into something more Icelandic. Lord of the Ring's characters almost all have different names (Bilbó Baggi, Smeygur, Fróði, Sómi, Gandálfur)* Harry Potter, however, just has all the same English names. Almost. Anything that's literally just a name isn't translated (Hermione, Harry, Dumbledore) but when characters have nicknames they're translated (Mad-eye Moody becomes Skröggur illaauga, which is Moody Evil-eye) Street names are translated, so Diagon Alley becomes Skástræti (Crooked street) thereby losing the pun. The names of the books are all pretty directly translated, but specifically Deathly Hallows is translated into Treasure of Death. Guess we don't have a word for magical object? Also, the Icelandic version of the cover looks horrible, don't know how this made it through any sort of quality check.. Oh, I came across an article about how difficult it was to translate Harry Potter to Icelandic. *The names of all the dwarves and Gandalf come directly from old Icelandic scripts, so they're the same in the translation..

I read the first book during a sleepover at a friend's house when I was 14 year old (this was 1999, when the Icelandic translation came out). I hadn't really been into books at all, at the time. But my friend recommended it to me (or his mother did, I don't remember) and I was so hooked I stayed up all night reading it. I remember being absolutely mesmerised by the introductory stuff with Hagrid and Diagon Alley. When I finished it I was so excited to find out that the second and third book were already out in English so, feeling comfortable enough in my English at the time, I had my parents order them both and burned through them way too fast. Man, reading the Wikipedia entry, I would've already seen the first movie after reading Goblet of Fire.. That is some intense Harry Potter-ing for a period of my life. When is this podcast out?!

PC on EU servers.

The positioning thing probably stems from how the game treats lag. I watched a video of two Bliz guys explaining how they handle latency and what they favour and they lean heavily on the shooter being right. So if, because of latency (to a degree, they don't favour people with huge lag) the enemy can still see you despite you having just made it around a corner, and in his own view he doesn't miss, the server will register it as a hit. There's some balancing there, of course, but they tend to favor the shooter, which is probably why you feel like you're being cheated when you made it around a corner but still get shot. It's a really interesting video, actually. They talk about how they almost always favour shooter-first, unless the target has a special quick-move ability they fire off for example Pharah's horizontal jump. The server will honor that horizontal jump over what the shooter sees. Balancing what each player sees and gets hits for due to latency is always tricky in multiplayer games and it's really interesting to hear them talk about how they tackle it. I just played a bunch of matches with Winston and I think I'm in love. His jump is just so amazing and versatile. Good for traversing big distances, good for jumping in to disrupt and good for jumping out of trouble. I love that big ape.

Thaaaaaaaanks!!

I did a little, goofy animation yesterday. I've been messing around with Octane Render for Cinema4d which is an awesome, super-fast renderer. Would mean a lot if you went and retweeted it!

Whoahh... What! This is great! Super looking forward to this! :tup:

Holy crap this is amazing! So much great art, already. Love that the bottom stack-rat runs to keep up with the Rat King's rolling body. Keep up the awesome work! :tup:

I love those character models. They look like an untextured Manny Calavera to me, somehow..

I kind of wish the game didn't have text chat. People being assholes in chat is pretty much the only bad experience I've had with this. If you're playing with friends you'll communicate with voice chat and when solo'ing on a random server the canned voice commands are enough to co-ordinate, so the text chat just feels like a place for angry people at this point.. Every once in a while people will say "good job!" but mostly it's just angry chat.

Holy cow! This has gotten a sweet level of polish since I last played it. I'm bigjko on Steam if anyone wants to add me and play some Offworld some day.

I'm playing through Dark Souls 3 and have been doodling each boss I defeat. This is my first Dark Souls ever, so this series of doodles will probably end fast, but here are the first four:

Holy shit!! :tup: Yeah, I hope those ports are discounted (OR MAYBE EVEN FREE?!) for existing owners.

Don't count on Wii U backwards compatibility, because rumours are that Splatoon, Mario Maker and Super Smash Bros. are being ported to the NX.

It's fair enough, but if you don't want the online-enabled features you can play offline, right? You just can't switch your current in-progress save between offline and online. If the game were online only it'd be a totally reasonable complaint.

Yeah, I'm totally going to buy Hitman™ because of you guys talking about it! Wasn't there talk about Steam doing some sort of affiliate/curator/store thing? Is that not how curators work? Super bummed to see that Steam lists user reviews as "mixed" with an almost 50/50 split of positive and negative reviews, the negatives almost always coming down to "it's online-only"