Monthly Disco pt. 4

Feature of this month is Steve Porter - The Return, one of the best sample of progressive house, and undoubtedly top song in the whole world. This track shows how rich music can be, and how addicting it is.

Duke Nukem 3D Chain-Link Fence

Duke Nukem 3D was released in 1996, and graphics are fabulous.

14 years after Fallout: New Vegas came out.

It is funny to see how close in quality these two fences are from totally different era of graphics, no matter how many pixels are in New Vegas texture and how few are in Duke Nuke 3D texture samples. It has to be remembered that Fallout: New Vegas is an open world game and Duke Nukem 3D is scripted, small milieu game. Still it is impressive how good looking Duke Nukem 3D still is, and how boring looking Fallout 3 and New Vegas are. Guess working with fewer pixels lets imagination wander more blatant.

Fallout: New Vegas Chain-Link Fence

Fallout 3 was released in 2008 and Fallout: New Vegas came out in 2010. If we compare DOOM 3 chain-link fences

 to Fallout: New Vegas chain-link fences,



we can see Fallout has much more poorer quality in graphics than in DOOM 3. Reason is obvious: Fallout: New Vegas can be said that it is technically related to Fallout 3. Fallout 3 and New Vegas are both open world games, where 3d spaces are vast, containing massive amount of textures, while DOOM 3 and PAYDAY 2 are based on narrow 3d spaces, containing lots of textures but better in resolution. DOOM 3 is a scripted tube run game, where player cannot go back where he came from after certain border crossing, which means level transition. So Fallout: New Vegas is an open world game, which needs to maintain lots of textures but poorer in quality, while DOOM 3 is a level based game, which needs to handle only textures belonging to current level, but better in resolution.

DOOM 3 Chain-Link Fence

DOOM 3 was released in 2004.

Chain-link fence looks good, same quality as in PAYDAY 2, and DOOM 3 was released almost 10 years before PAYDAY 2. This means overall DOOM 3 graphics were ahead of its time and still looks good.

PAYDAY 2: Chain-Link Fence

One way to evaluate graphics in games is to look at a chain-link fence. Many games have this type of fences somewhere in the 3d world. This time we have a fence from PAYDAY 2 from year 2013.

It looks nice and sharp, almost authentic as in real world, but not quite. It is only composition of 2d textures, consisting perhaps at least a normal map and a diffuse map. Still, quality is good and sufficient.

Monthly Disco pt. 3

How did i got into listening progressive house, which was important discovery i ever did about developing my music taste? Desperately i wade in the internet to find something new and original what mainstream electronic music was in the ears of teenagers in Finland. Beginning of millennium (2k) i discovered site called Progressive-Sounds, and it was glorious discovery. Instantly i got into world of music which dominates whole electronic music universe. First find was song called:

ALEX DOLBY - Hazy Way - Evil Nine Remix
ALEX DOLBY - Hazy Way - Evil Nine Remix from Spotify.

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

During the story, a mysterious box appears indoors of Ebon Hawk. If player opens it, he will be cast to different space where a sentient being awaits for challenging player to a riddle duel.

Short but funny thing to encounter. This is a good example how random events invigorates otherwise dull ride.