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2010-01-06 19:23:51
No time to post something about VCAs. I have to finish my video today or tomorrow.
I really have a hard time struggling with anomorphic 16:9 PAL footage on my Mac. I have a problem to get the right aspects for my After Effects compositions. It sucks. I better ask a tutor tomorrow so he can explain me what I need to do with my settings to make it work.
Man... working with square pixels all the time was way easier. -
2010-01-05 15:25:18
Man Hasteroth,...
You know... you take it too far with self exhibition on the internet. I have a broken heart and a shitty time too, but I don't spread it that much and I also think I'm quite an internet exhibitionist.
You know what? I didn't got over somebody for 2 years and than when I thought about it I couldn't remember a good reason why to stick that much to a person and that it was actually not worth it. Especially when I broke up with somebody lately where I definatly know why I have feelings for that person and what I love a about her.
So... you probably will meet somebody who will be way more your type of person you ever dreamed of and if you don't know what you really want: Well you will when you know who you are and what person you are. You're young. Your personaly will develop more and more.
Okay when I found somebody who is so close to my ideal fantasy of a woman than you can do the same. and when you found this person and lose it... well there is no reason why you shouldn't meet a more ideal person on one day in your life. Well I miss my ex. I totaly do and I would do a lot to change it, but I'm also aware of this. You should be aware of it too.
Being down and depressiv is the easier way to deal with it, but it will bring you only backward and not forward.
BLAH! Actually I wanted to write something about the VCA (positive stuff actually), but whatever. I'll do it tomorrow. -
and here is why MW2 single player sucks
2010-01-04 17:14:14
CONTAINS SPOILERS
First off: If you like it: Okay. However please don't think it's the zomg-best-game-ever made!
The multiplayer is pretty much fine. Sure there are a lot of bullshit moments too, but overall it makes a very good game.... which isn't the same for the single player. Where do I start?
Oh the storyline! Hahaha... even an old James Bond game has a better storyline and storytelling. The story is pretty much not existing. You just don't get it. You just can't read it out of all the metaphers and confusing time and scene skiping. All I can do after playing this game was to look it up on wikipedia. I watched a friend today finishing this game and after the game we had to guess what motivation behind the character had and what actually was going on. It wasn't about interpretating, it was pure guessing.
The KI is shit. It is the same shitty KI that already Call Of Duty 1 had. It improved a bit, but overall it's the same tunneling game experience with friend and enemy KIs standing next to each other not shooting on each other. Yeah wow... I saw a mission fall apart because one stupid script didn't triggered. It shows how the whole single player is a card house that's ready to break down.
The enemies are insane. You get around a corner or leave cover and you will instantly get shot that you're almost dead. Ever played on Soldat or Veteran difficulty? No? You spared yourself a lot. At the same time 20 rocket launcher dudes are not able to hit you with a shot. Wow... Oh oh and the snipers! You leave your cover and they need no second before they can place a shot into your body. Nice...
You know... Halo 1 had an awesome KI, F.E.A.R.'s KI makes you shit your pants because the bots are so clever and heck... even Half Life 1 has a better KI. Why has Call Of Duty still the same retarded KI?
"It's a realistic experience of a modern war". Yeah right... Ghost Recon and Operation Flashpoint are way more realistic. In CoD all enemies have nothing better to do than shooting you. No matter how crazy it is. Why would I want to hunt down two snipers with dogs and 200 men (-> COD4 sniper mission) and running straight to the snipers so they can kill them?
Your allies are most of the time useless. Once I had a usefull friend on my side, but that was only because the script system failed and the mission was therefor bugged. I remember this awesome time when I went around with one single marine in Halo 2 and we were able to do a lot together. He was so helpful and knew how to stay alive. It was a pleasure.
"It's the ACTION!" Yes it is. Leave your cover and you get shot repeadatly into your face and you shake so hard that you can barely aim. Wow... However I can understand if people have fun with the action in the game.
"but this awesome action scenes?" That's somehow innovativ, but in the end: All those scenes were Soap beats the shit out of an enemy to take his snow mobile. All those scenes were your ally kills somebody with an awesome move. All the time you attack a prison as sniper on a helicopter while 4 enemies are not able to shoot your helicopter down with rockets while floating in the air...
All those scenes are mindless eyecandy. This game is like an AMV with a lot of eyecandy, fast cuts, but in the end: There is nothing depth in it at all. Those things are gimmiks to make the game different to other games. All those scenes are innconsistent to the rest of the game. After those bits of awesome scenes you are still left in the same old model of Call Of Duty 1 with better graphics and different weapons. I only want to say that those scenes are nice, but they don't keep them up long enough to seperate them totaly from common shooter games. They are just candies that get consumed fast and what's left is... nothing.
Anyway I give them the point of innovation here, because you see stuff that you don't see in any other game (but movies!). Than again they need to think more. Like... Why can't I shoot light sources like lamps when I have a night vision equipement? Like at this prison level. I really wanted to shoot the lights out to get some cover.
It's questionable why this game still has no duck and cover mechanics like Gears Of War 2 or Uncharted. Why? You leave your cover and you instantly got shot into your face! Okay it's not a core of the original CoD, but for god's sake! At least give the enemies some time to react before they begin to shoot you. PLEASE! This is one of the most frustrating aspects of the game.
"but it shows the anonymity of war and cruelity of war. With this AC-130 mission we showed it. You shoot from a plain little dots. That's what war is like."
Yes that's what it's like (or how it can be), but for god's sake! Don't take yourself too serious. You didn't made a realistic war game. I don't get moral dilemas. I get disgusted by what you did with in the Airport mission. I play games since my whole live and I'm liberal, but this shit takes it way to far.
You basically play an amok run. With shooting innoscent people with no mercy. Blood is everywhere, tons of bodies and people screaming around. SHAME ON YOU! You crossed the line and for what? For just makeing the game again "differnt", because you wanted the player to be a helpless man who gets angry on Marakov for doing this. Yeah right... All you wanted is more attention with crossing a moral line.
In the censored version you can't should at the victims. If you do: The game is over. Thank god they made it a bit alright. It's disgusting when you can join the sadistic slaughter of this amok run. I'm disgusted of all the 12 year old kids that probably play this mission, slaugthering innoscent people and thinking that this is cool.
It's not. We are already killing thousands of soldiers we don't know without blinking our eyes. Isn't that enough?
Oh and what I want to say about the boss fight:
"Drama, baby. Drama!" >_>
Yeah... I get tired to run to the exit and suddenly everything wents dark and another scripted action scene gimmik starts. It happens way to often.
Things they made right:
-They didn't gave us too much characters to get used to them, but hey! In the end all the new ones get killed in an action script anyway... They gave us with Price and Soup two likeable characters to care about.
-You're so often the passenger of a vehicle who has to shoot enemies. This time you can often drive by yourself. That's nice. -
2010-01-03 19:04:42
Fuck MW2. Yes: FUCK IT! The single player is just one overrated piece of flawed shit. This is sooo overhyped!
Expect a detailed rant tomorrow or in the next days. -
2010-01-03 08:06:31
FUCK FINAL CUT PRO! Seriously. Fuck it. Fuck the hell out of it.
I make a speed change on a clip and it moves almost everything on the timeline after this clip. My whole audio mix was messed up and the rest of the video would have been fucked up too.
This program has such a massive bullshit factor that it hurts. I was all about to throw my drinking glass on the ground because I was so angry.
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