Augury

I had a couple of videos sitting around on my hard drive and I decided it might be fun to share them instead of just deleting them. I was going to upload them directly to my webspace, but then in order to watch the movies you’d have to click on the link, download it and then watch it. That’s a lot of steps for a few moments of entertainment, so I went ahead and created a YouTube account which I may use to embed videos here from time to time. In some ways I was reluctant to make a YouTube account — YouTube has a lot of that “MySpace” air to it, and frankly, I’m tired of having to make accounts for every webpage that I visit, it’s a real pain to keep track of things. On the other hand, YouTube makes it easier to watch the videos and saves me bandwidth, so hard to argue against that.

The level here is a Quake 3 level reimagined in UT2004 as “Campgrounds” — It’s one of the most played maps in UT2004 TDM (Team Deathmatch) and TAM (Team Arenamaster) gametypes, and Deathmatch too I suspect. Personally I think that UT2004 is stealing maps from Quake just goes to underlie the problem with the whole UT2003/4 situation. Good music selection for the video, I thought. The non-compressed version of the video can be downloaded here (Save as…) if you don’t want to look at the extremely artifacted YouTube version.

Another video below, this is a movie that I was linked to by a person who’s doing some Unreal Engine 3 work. Apparently he was playing this for fun, looks kind of neat.

Even if I’m not entirely thrilled with a lot of the game changes that were made you have to admit UT2004 has some pretty damn cool mods. Fishing - The Catch full download (Save as…).

Later tonight I’m hoping to play one called “Air Buccaneers” about pirates in airships — I’ve been meaning to play it ever since I got the 2004 Editor’s Choice Edition DVD, but couldn’t find any players. Apparently I just wasn’t looking in the right spots or the right time, the server is 213.202.217.154:8777 and games go on every Saturday and Sunday.

PS. Is it just me or do these embedded videos have weird white boxes breaking my layout? I don’t remember this happening with the other videos I embedded.