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its kind of hard to say that blockland runs off of torque engine, since it's modified to the point where you can almost say blockland is it's own engine

Actually, Blockland's engine and Torque Game Engine are about 95% similar. Really the only changes he has made are adding a datablock type of fxDTSBrick, removing maps, adding shaders, and changing a few things like packet size to allow more bricks in builds. Every other change he made was done in Torque's scripting language and compiled to a DSO. These don't count as changes to TGE because while TGE ships with example files they are not licensed under TGE. If you were to generate a perfect C++ representation of Blockland's binary, most of the defined functions would be exactly the same.

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Games / Re: Xbox One and PlayStation 4 Are a Generation Ahead of PCs, EA Says

« on: May 23, 2013, 11:26:10 PM »

Quote from: otto-san on May 23, 2013, 10:29:12 PM

they talked about some kind of stupid social media integration stuff or w/e and technology that'd be up to the game devs to implement

But... These games on the PC can already use the API of these social sites..?

I mean, just because EA is inept and expects bill gates to show them how to do it...

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Games / Re: "Are you an Xbox or Playstation guy?"

« on: May 23, 2013, 11:19:42 PM »

They're people who live in a black and white world.

They can only like one thing for some reason and I don't understand it.
I mean, I do prefer the PS3 over the Xbox 360, but in the end it's really all about how much I'm enjoying the game.
The dashboard and avatars no longer matter to me the moment I hit that "start game" button so why does it matter what the dashboard and avatars look like?
"but the (console they needlessly hate here) controller is so uncomfortable!"
I don't understand how that. All the controllers are professionally designed to be comfortable (except for n64, nintendo was drunk. what's the third grip for, my ass?).
Yes, we all have our preferences, but they're all still comfortable to hold.
"but the community! (only console their parents could afford) has so many less little kids!"
Don't kid yourself. I know that no matter what console you play, you're running into the same kinds of people. I've had my fair share of rageaholics, trolls, squeaky children, gurlgamurz, and so on in any community. And I know fanboys of each system (including PC) fits into at least one of those categories. So yeah, you're part of the problem buddy.

Why do I prefer PS3 over Xbox 360? Because while I do enjoy playing an online game here and there, I don't do it often enough to bother paying for Xbox live. Why do I prefer PC over PS3? Because I simply prefer keyboard and mouse, and the much wider selection of games. All in all though, I could care less what system I'm playing. I care about what game I'm playing.

So am I a coke guy or a pepsi guy? Definitely Coca Cola. But I wont throw a fit if the only thing available is Pepsi.

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