On 9/17/06, Christian Ohm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Just saw this in the IRC logs (just what kage0 said, can anyone fill in
the endings?) and wanted to record it here:
okay. rpl's had 3 styles:
1. briefings, which were 2d straight-top-down screenshots of the actual
warzone maps, with some stylish spectrograms to the side in a "gui" type
thing, and a voice very similar to the "computer" from the various later
star-treks giving you info like "inte
the map would pan around on screen as it displayed different objectives
(none of this used the 3d engine, mind you, only screenshots of the map
with some colorful "dot and line" overlays showing enemy movements,
objectives, etc) - think of descent: freesp
2. communications, always which displayed the symbol/logo of the faction
talking to you - all symbols are animated. that's pretty much all you
see during communications.
3. cutscenes - these are full motion "tell the story" videos - some show
the transport escaping from a nuclear blast and almost being overtaken,
etc. some are almost like historical documentaries, though with more of
a "need to know basis" style to them
for the cutscenes, think of anything from a westwood strategy, or
starcraft, or something like that, but you never get to know any of the
characters, because there really aren't any characters except for the
factions as a whole, and they had much less of
--
"Hawk, we're going to die."
"Never say die... and certainly never say we."
-- M*A*S*H
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