I woke up this morning to find this waiting for me. So yea I am looking forward to getting into it tomorrow. Lent is over tomorrow as well so I can drink Coke again, which I am looking forward to. It was not that hard though, to stay off it but all the same I can’t wait to have my first drink of the stuff in over a month. I posted that the new mini blog for king raven down is now up so I will be posting the first screen-shots on that tomorrow.
I was so happy today when Bungie announced that a Sidewinder remake will be part of the new Halo 3 map pack. For those of you who don’t know which you should, Sidewinder is a map from Halo 1 and is widely considered to be one of the best multiplayer maps of all time. Bungie have said that this new version which is called Avalanche is based on sidewinder but is not a total remake, so some thing’s will be different. But the reaction on the net has been very positive with a lot of people very excited for the new maps, a lot of people who stopped playing say they will also come back to halo for this.
I never stopped playing Halo 3 online but I am very excited about this new map pack which is out on April 15.
I was out for a walk today just around the roads near my house so I thought I would share these photo’s I took with my phone. Yea I live in a dam nice area.
Forge is not seen as an industry standard level editor and in my opinion its not worth your wile learning the in’s and outs of it if you what to get some core level design and game engine skills. But I spent over an hour tonight with my bother just playing around in Forge on last resort just making our own simple map. It was far from close to any solid kind of level design like I do in Unreal but it was great fun flying around the map finding different ways to block of doors, and then testing it to see if you could get through. I think for someone like him who has never really been into game design much, its a nice little package, and for a select few may lead on to bigger and better things.
I have to say some of the stuff in Forge has really impressed me as well, the D-Day landings re-created and stuff like that, which is actually sold to play. Forge may not be able to import static mesh’s or alter terrain, but in my opinion its a very worth wile part of Halo 3.
As you all should know I am a huge Stargate fan, so naturally I am very excited for Stargate Worlds due out at the end of this year with a beta coming quite soon. Its been getting a lot of good previews from a lot of top sites and the gameplay/interview videos that went up on gametrailers look really good. I am a member of the official forums and membership has jumped over 30% in the last wile and I recommend anyone interested in getting into the beta goes over and registers on the forums as the developers said that’s how they will be selecting people.
I gave up on WoW a few months back but Stargate Worlds looks due to suck be back into MMO’s and I can see my self playing it for many years after its release. Are any of you guys interested in Stargate Worlds? Let me know in the comments.
I am so excited for tomorrow nights episode of Stargate Atlantis “The Kindred Part 2″. I am sure all you Stargate fans have scene part one by now, but I wont go into too much detail in-case you have not but you may want to stop reading now if you don’t what to know any plot details. Doctor Carson is back, O Yea! I knew it was coming from stuff I had read a few months back but it was still the best thing ever when it showed the rest of the team finding him locked in a cell at the very end, “What the bloody hell took you so long” where the final words of the episode, what an ending. If you want to see the trailer for Part 2 its up on You Tube. You lucky sods in the USA are a week ahead of us so you all should have scene it by now.
Got to go, talk to you all soon.
