NS2 Wins Indie Game of the Year! Pre-Alpha Footage Released news

u should try it then!

yep, try it! Its still the best hl1 mod :D

Downloading HL1 now, and NS1 when HL is done!

have fun ;)

And don't give up too fast, you'll be killed a lot from *wtfwasthat* at the beginning but once you get whats going on its just great :D

Yeah, I could never really play, way too hard for me.. :(

takes time to learn the way of Kharra (did I spell it right?)

Yeah I think I'll just need to get used to it.. it looks pretty cool, but a bit odd at the same time.

at least not another boring zombie mod, and modern warfare shooter horsesh*t

Haha very true!

Think you can get rid of the teeth in console by making model_weapon 0 or something

I'm sure the answer is "when its done" ;)

Personally I think they'll try to release something big on halloween - either the beta or the 1.0 - we'll see :)

no please.... that's way too far away :O

I'll say it's K... it's not an industrial game with 50 coders and 50 artists after all, give em some time xD

Im sure there will be alpha first...

only for thoses who pre-ordered the Special Edition xD

Remember, this is "pre-alpha" footage. Which means next comes the alpha, then the beta, just to be technical.

According to the UWE website, they are working hard on getting the alpha playable as soon as possible.

Both games target different markets and have their own perks. Don't compare.

You wouldn't compare Starcraft & NS2 in terms of Gameplay, would you?:P(Kind of an easy one to do though.)

AFAIK Both AvP and NS2 are FPS and have aliens. This is enough for a comparison. Everyone is free to compare...

Half-Life is a shooter and has aliens.. So does Unreal Tournament.. Not many people would compare those two games together..

you are not objective...

Red Faction and Natural Selection 2 both have guns.
We should compare.

you didn't get the point did you? You can't restrict people. If you want to make a comparison go ahead

It's like comparing apple's and pears, both are fruit but they're not the same, sure you can compare but it's not as fitting a comparison as comparing different apple's together!

I compare apples and pears. For example I like apples more than pears. You compare fruits. You compare fruits,meats and vegetables. IMO "comparing apples and pears" is the worst counter example for ever created. Every comparison is important, see, you are comparing comparisons :D

You fail to see the point, I said you can compare, you repeat that exactly as if I didn't say that. Pay more attention.

I wasn't doing a "counter example" like you said, I was actually semi-agreeing with you, you're free to compare everything, but some comparisons match along better than others.

Comparing an apple with an apple is a more in depth comparison than comparing apple's with pear's, you can compare both but you may miss details if you compare at a wrong level.

You could compare Graphics that's like comparing an Apple with an Apple, comparing genre is like comparing a fruit with another fruit, AvP could be an apple, NS2 could be the pear, you can compare the two but you'll be skipping out on some details between the two. You could say the apple is tastier, but that doesn't mean the pear doesn't have it's own good points that could make up for it not being a tasty.

So yup, feel free to compare everything you want, nothing wrong with it, but when you judge what game to buy for example it's good to compare everything, so compare the apple and the pear(AvP and NS2) and the apple with the apple(graphics vs graphics/gameplay vs gameplay, etc) to get a comparison that's looking beyond the surface.

So how do you define what falls in the category of apples and what falls into category of pears. That depends on your point of view; subjective.

Not really they're two different things thats like saying oranges and lemons are dependant on point of view.

I think he's comparing the graphics, actually. In which case, I agree; NS2 does LOOK better than AVP2

lol no way graphics are definitely where AvP3 get way ahead. I think one thing that AvP should maybe consider in new releases for MP is the whole building side for marines and upgrades for aliens. That would be where NS is more exciting. Just remember that AvP3 has awesome graphics and a pred that would kick the onus' *** lol. Both sweet games, but obviously a lot more money and time spent on AvP3

You're right, a lot of people assume that with the constant Spark updates, the team isn't working much on the actual game. In reality, this is quite the opposite of the truth. The Spark updates just happen to be good things to post about, but take up only a small portion of dev time. Max is working on the game engine and Charlie writes the NS2 game code.

You can read more about it in the last news article:

Moddb.com

Actually there are still a lot servers up for it, yes... and theres still a huge, active community! :)

I understand your point of view however it's the player's choice and the players of this community are veterans of mods. Many people in the community fondly remember playing NS1 and they believe that NS2 will clearly follow the NS1 formula which made it so enjoyable to begin with. So, we can extrapolate the game play of NS2 using NS1 as a comparison and know what the game play will be like in advance.

NS2 won the ">Upcoming< indie game of the year", not the "Indie game of the year"... theres a difference - but since both groups were put together in the evaluation process it effectively kicked out some already released games.

Still very deserved win.

the title clearly says NS2 Wins Indie Game of the Year!
and give me all the negative votes you want any fanboy here just doesn't want to hear the truth. A UNRELEASED GAME DOESN'T DESERVE IGOTY