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Post by Mark Jones Junior on Feb 13, 2005 17:41:23 GMT -5
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Post by John Lomax on Feb 13, 2005 18:23:58 GMT -5
www.mattwood3d.comSpeaking of matt, anyone asked him to join up yet? Bill I thought you did? - John
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Post by Bill Harbison on Feb 14, 2005 2:27:35 GMT -5
www.mattwood3d.comSpeaking of matt, anyone asked him to join up yet? Bill I thought you did? - John i emailed him but didn't get a reply.
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Post by Simon Butler on Feb 14, 2005 6:36:31 GMT -5
Ah...the game based around the cg...
a fine example of arse-ways thinking.
another quality product.
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Post by Bill Harbison on Feb 14, 2005 6:44:58 GMT -5
Ah...the game based around the cg... a fine example of arse-ways thinking. another quality product. The title said it all! Matty's 3D stuff was always good - I remember watching him take his first baby steps with 3DS during JP1. A dinosaur made out of boxes, walking around !!! Looked good!
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Post by Paulie on Feb 14, 2005 6:49:06 GMT -5
...and then he started writing his own shaders with Lomax and MY GOD they did some mighty fine stuff!
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Post by Brian on Feb 14, 2005 16:39:44 GMT -5
"But don't let all this unhappiness trouble you. Instead have a wander through these pictures and wonder at what might have been. "
err.. a CGI showcase with no game maybe??
naughty how he's got all that stuff copyrighted to himself......
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Post by Paulie on Feb 14, 2005 17:31:22 GMT -5
I'm intrigued what was "the game" supposed to be - all that ever seemed to come out was hot air and waffle...
What was the line on Granada Reports? "If ILM saw our renderer they'd be impressed" - it was a good job I was wearing my girdle - as I fear otherwise my sides may have split! ;D
The pre-rendered showreel looked nice though...
- Paulie.
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Post by Brian on Feb 14, 2005 17:39:55 GMT -5
as far as i can remember "the game" was a plane, or a tank moving over a barren landscape by the time it got canned...
so, no "game" at all really...
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Post by Paulie on Feb 14, 2005 18:18:57 GMT -5
WOW! I take it back, ILM would have been impressed (!)
- Paulie.
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Post by Simon Butler on Feb 15, 2005 5:03:53 GMT -5
load of bollocks.
As far as I know...the story was that someone was using company time to work on their showreel and then Wardy got a glimpse of some of it and a hasty excuse was made up about it being for this monster game called Carnage.
A blind man on a galloping horse could have seen that it was never going to come together.
Of course I had been shuffled out by this time...but this period in Ocean's history is filled with technical bollocks and 3D claptrap from a load of windbags who all talked great games but sweet sh*t-all came out.
Quality products from those days...Hanna Barbera...cool. Green Lantern...oooh Lordy. Carnage...say no more.
You know the old adage...you can't polish a turd.
And another one that was even more appropriate: The lunatics were running the asylum.
Monkey Nuts! Another fine title. And then the crowning glory...SILVER!
It was as though someone said "I know...let's just let the staff run rampage, coming up with half-assed ideas and surely something is going to materialise???"
Bum Nuggets!!
Too many chiefs and no bloody Indians...apart from Ilyas that is.
Ocean had got arrogant...they thought they were cock-of-the-walk...no-one and nothing could touch them, they had money coming out of every orifice and surely their sh*t-hot team should be able to make a game out of anything...they were literally that good. Says who? The rot had set in yonks ago.
But no-one was paying any attention, too busy buying fancy schmansy new buildings that were totaly impractical as soon as the staff moved in.
Lessons should have been learned years before in the days of dipsh*t the dolphin...yet another triple A Ocean product.
As the Spanish-American philosopher, George Santayana said, "Those who cannot remember the past are destined to repeat it."
and for those who wish to disagree with me:
Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.
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Post by Paulie on Feb 15, 2005 6:08:22 GMT -5
Dewey the Dolphin! Blimey I'd forgotten about that!
Mr Shortt reverse engineering the Megadrive (in about 10 minutes too!)
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Post by Bill Harbison on Feb 15, 2005 7:29:06 GMT -5
I wonder if Mr. Ian Turnbull will ever show his face on here...
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Post by Simon Butler on Feb 15, 2005 8:20:09 GMT -5
who the hell's he?
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Post by Paulie on Feb 15, 2005 9:02:45 GMT -5
a character by all accounts...
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