I have a very hard time believing thresh invented/mainstreamed WASD.

First, well before quake there were games that required mouselook, probably most notably descent and xwing type games. (Joysticks were expensive, uncommon peripherals for the most part). I clearly remember playing both of those games with a keyboard / mouse setup like today, and that feels like it was around 2 years prior to quake's release.

Second, as a diehard quake junkie who practically camped outside the store to get my hands on the game, from the very beginning there were many sites dedicated to qtest (the beta), and the very first thing those pages trafficked were cfg files from all the people arguing which control method was best. (then came skins, maps, quakeworld, mods, machinima, etc). I would say WASD was pretty well established well before Thresh won his ferrari- I dont have any statistical data or anything, and I think its cool that carmack included his .cfg file in later releases, but I highly doubt he was the first to use it / that people used it because they wanted to imitate him.

*ban
Silex #Machinima
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9S_mcWam9M

Not sure about the accuracy of those numbers either, seeing as there were more than 17 comics (close to 30), more than one novel (closer to 10) and arguably more than 4 movies (if you include the released-to-DVD "Salvation" machinima and the the "T2 Battle Across Time" tour/rides ;-)

@dannym3141

It just felt like a bait and switch. They feed you in with in fact very plausible concepts of time dilation and black holes as we best know it, then hit you with a deux ex machinima so implausible that it makes my brain hurt.

I mean, we're meant to believe that future humans, in order to effect their continued existence create an eloborate, highly risky and convoluted system like this 'tesseract library' thing, with the completely unfounded apparent knowledge that Mcconaughey's character will both willingly jump into it and somehow know how to use it to communicate with his daughter, who will pick up on highly cryptic and unlikely signals, and know how to interpret them?

And then Mcconaughey's character also gets saved. Obviously. Why not just convey the information in a far more direct way? And by the way, I will say that the argument that there is a paradox (future humans save themselves in the past) that the video makes is not strictly true given Hathaway's team survives and it's plausible that while Earth perishes, their team eventually redevelops human society.

To me the way that the story suddenly becomes ridiculous at the end when the first half is so rooted in real actual science makes it pretty clear what happened. Some producer decided to overule the script writers and insert in an ending that is happy, sees the characters reunited lest they offend the crucial female demographic.

Yeah. Sort of how All Your History series on Machinima did it... though they seem to have lost it during season 5 when it seemed more like, here's the people who paid us to do a All Your History than anything truly insightful. I keep hoping somebody will take up the banner of All Your History and do it right. Did You Know Gaming and The Game Theorists come close, but lack the feel the original series did.

Broken links? Moved to Machinima? See here for the working videos.

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I want to work wherever these guys do... paid to shoot cabbages at buckets in Skyrim for 3 hours?!? No wonder that guy's computer in the background at 3:11 says "win"!

EDIT: Ah, they're Machinima makers Geoff Ramsey and Gavin Free (both of Red vs. Blue fame).

>> ^heathen:

>> ^TheSluiceGate:
Actual gameplay: http://www.fraserking.co.uk/spectrum/screenshots/Commando.png

Yeah, it's hard to get much from a pre-rendered cutscene trailer. Fortunately we already have gameplay footage for Farcry 3.
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/e3-2011-far-cry-3/716741


And the difference was incredible. I hate to be a miserable arse, but trailers like this are becoming almost standard. They display absolutely nothing of substance in their advertisement of the game. Trailers like this i only watch for the story, and take nothing away about the game. They may as well film 2 lesbians going at it for 2 minutes with ea's latest title printed across the bottom.

The only thing saving this video from disdain is that it's a nice little machinima. Should be criminal when it's on a tv advert.

Tha Bubble gun is actually in the regular game, in a hidden location.

also, I didn't know there were tampax commercials done with machinima.

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Is this really Machinima? I think it's more a case of some dude cutting and pasting, creating a compilation from all of the clips/trailers of BF3 that have been released by the studio.

Nice, but not Machinima in my opinion.

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>> ^NicoleBee:

I love these so much. I hope Machinima do a lot more of them!


Ditto. They are on season 3: http://www.youtube.com/show/allyourhistory?s=3 ... I watched many!

I love these so much. I hope Machinima do a lot more of them!