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that's some good work there simon. Again, a well presented documentary showing not only the personal aspect of a clan, but also good commentary from the corporate players. Lookin forward to seeing more of your work.

sujoy's hair is fabulous.

I hate when I put the gel in but forget to style.

Gel is SO yesterday =) Modelingpaste / wax > all :P

great movie simon!

Cool! Go simone! :)

good work simone, there better be my name in it, or scooters roofing else thats just rude!

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Great work, this is the kind of stuff we need to make gaming mainstream :)

Very nice indeed! :>

A very nice movie simon. Keep up the great work.

while I didn't like "Modern Day Gamer" very much, this movie is extremely well done and has a great content. Keep up the great work simon, this movie really is what the community needs.

My words! Way to go simonb!

lol follow Simonb's "investigations"! Modern day gamer 1 was downloaded alot; part 2 is the best documentary out there.

omgomg! cant wait! *downloading*

Very nice

On my copy I did edit-out the part with the "Splash Damage" interview; teh happy :D

why?

Malc

had a more special place for it

Where?

Norm

excellent!!

Very nice movie :)

I especially liked the parts showing off the different tournaments around the world, (WCG-UK, ESWC, IntelMasters) as that really did look impressive :p

i have like sound lags in the movie like he is buffering or something its very annoying...

anyone else get sound problems?

Me, actually.

The sound is very choppy, kinda like vinkie said. It seems like constant rebuffering without real success.

yeah me too

me too, stutters like mad all the time. As if I was streaming it from a crappy website.

yupz

thanks for telling me about this.

Ill try & find out what this is ASAP.

sound only stutters with regular windows media player
works perfect with media player classic

I have no problem either way.

I had no problems watching it.

got it on my computer, like it can't keep up or something
on my borthers computer the image goes lagging behind the sound at times :<

Awesome movie :)

I'm gonna send this to my parents ;)

REALLY impressive movie. fantastic documentary!

I think the movie was great, but I'm not totally convinced that making gaming mainstream is the best thing for the gaming community. (Unless you're solely motivated by money, and if that's the case.. you're shallow and selfish.) We all know of a "professional" organization that holds tournaments that has shown us numerous times that they are more concerned with their selfish interests that the gamers interests. (Sorry, not to make a blatant stab, but I think it's quite obvious that supporting this organization is not positive for gaming, and won't convey a fair view of our community) As long as those on top of this mainstream push are the gamers, who knew what tournaments and clans were like before all the money, then a somewhat positive outcome will probably occur. What gaming doesn't need are more businessmen taking advantage of the gaming community to make a buck. I think that can be easily accomplished by the gamers simply supporting the gamers, and not the businessmen.

If more and more businessmen arise and start building companies that rely on gaming the gamers will only support the ones that are best for their own gaming interest, the bad ones will fail. The more competition there is, the better.

if nobody was driven by money, the world would not not be half the place it is today. sad but true. and if you had the chance to win some money from a gaming skill, wouldnt you take it? that wouldn't make you shallow. how does it make you selfish? survival of the fitest my friend. and if you can make sure that you can survive, you can also make sure your family and friends can survive. almost everyone is motivated/supported by money or something like it, whether it be goods, services, etc.

yeh, even communist russia wouldnt exist :<

exactly.

When you first start playing online games, were you motivated by money to start? If so.. you're still wet behind the ears and have no place to respond to my comment.

think of the people that play sports for the hopes of making money at it. with the word about cpl and every news tidbit about gaming on the news including the prize purses, i woudl imagine some people actually have started in hopes of winning some money. don't be nieve.

Excellent movie!

downloading... :)

BUT, i'm sure it's gonna be great. so i'll say this in advance: n1 :D

but if i watch it, and it isn't! i'll take that back :(

Modern Day Gamer 2 is a terrible name.

what would you suggest?

modern gamer 2day?

Modern Gay Gamer.

Modern Gay Gamer - The life of UNR-Lord Rab. What a blockbuster it would be!!

I knew you'd be along shortly.

I can't sleep, just watched aph daler from ch1 (cpm1a game) wowowowow!

Yeh, that game is regarded as a bit of a classic.

"yeh" sounds very infantile, dear.

I'm fairly sure i've heard replies in the affirmative uttered by those other than small children.

Peado. :(

Why do new gaming films always have to use some retarded "just came out yesterday" video codec. Neither WMP nor PowerDVD works and i'm using a rather new codec pack.

GRR

Anyone know what codec to use?

Play the movie with Windows Media Player. It should try to download the needed codec. If it doesn't work get yourself the newest media player at the Microsoft page or use Windows Update :P

but I hate windows media player, it is a spawn of satan :(

you shouldnt waste your time thinking mediaplayer is evil or sth...

install windows media player9, then use mediaplayer classic - a 600k thirdparty media player that supports everything, including quickslime and realgayer. :D

MPC ownz all other media players! But for me i doesn't want to play WMV files, so i have to play them in WMP9.

BSPlayer included in the Klite codec pack is great...

I used it only for Quicktime. DivX Player works better for me when I want to play stuff encodec with an MPEG-4 codec.

yeah, it's still a bit of a bitch to get file associations set up properly for it, especially under xp, but works fine once it's setup okay. :)

Yeah i had some problems with that :)
Oh, MPC (besides BSplayer 1.00 RC1) is the only player with VMR support.

Tried media player classic, works like a charm. It's kinda wierd tho cause I use the latest wmp and although it downloaded a codec it gave me some wierd error message. Ah well, i've seen it and i liked it :)

Thanks for the help

v. nice :)

Nicely done!

YUIIS MAN, ffs and holy shit goat :O .. i've been looking forward to this movie for a very looong time, .. downloading with 56kbps .. ffs ,, im so omg looking forward to see this pice of art!

u'r muni :p

Look! A double post!

where

where

where
only a triple here

FUCKING ADMIN SCUM!

sorry

i love some admins

like that blue guy, and even that sujoy feller, coz he's still got me on his buddy list. I dont remember any1 else. any1. anyONE. any1..... AHHH!!66!!6!!!666!!!!

can't you move that Mission from God trailer link off the frontpage and link it to this now ? :)))

Nice simon :)

thnx mate :)

very interesting and fun to watch!
great work!!

Really nice work Simon. The quality is clearly that of a regular tv minidoc, presenting gaming goodness which makes it a very compelling watch. Can't wait for the next one (eventhough I don't care about CS too much).

does that mean there will also be a q3 one?

I have to say I enjoyed this movie very much. It's pretty much the first time I see a movie created for the people from outside the gaming community. There have been similar projects before, figures like Romero and Sujoy have spoken before. Admittedly, what Sujoy said about gaming has been a more interesting than what Fatality usually says about the same subject. (Also notice that he does not say any crapola so typical of organisers acting as if they were the only or at least the best event in the world.)

The thing that makes the movie different is what we get on top of the usual "it will get big" message. I have to say I loved 4K explaining the tactics and how the game works. It was interesting for me as well as for my sister (who is not a gamer) which means the movie was a good job indeed. Perhaps the explanations were slightly too demanding of the normal humans but generally, it was "edible" and well delivered.

Good job.

Agree. Sujoy was simply the best (especially that part about how media writes about gaming and events).


And yeah, 4kings tactical briefing ownz.

damn those abnormal humans! ;)

i've been damned :(.

yea yeyayay !

brilliant frames and great concept nicely put together. just loved it.

What needed to watch? only getting sound no picture =/

you have to update your windows media player.

nice movie.

Good documentary simonb :) All you have to do now is the the same way of explaining the other games around (Q3, CS, UT etc.) so people will get that it's not about blood and killing others etc... ;)

Well, yeah, it is, but in lots of different ways :-D

Very nice work simonb, I really enjoyed watching it! These things will help gaming in general

weee - check out an interview about the film here : http://www.planetquake3.net/modules.php?op=mo...rview_mdg2

Wow, very nice job simon, very impressed,
kudos to you and keep making the films:)

good job :)

I love this film simon even tho i hate to have a critcism for it i still think its worth mentioning.. I dont think that the..narrative should have been done by you, i mean it sounds cool and all but it just sounds a little immature.. it think it would improve the effect of the doc if it was done my a more mature member of the community i really hate to criticize as i really do love it"

Took you bloody long enough mate!

awesome, I honestly hope you can do this for a living in years to come

Simply Excellent! Well done, the effort was worth it man.

Next time you want to post a video on /. you might consider encoding the video is something other than a MS propietary format. Hope ESReality can handle traffic /. is going to give them too...

Oh ya, and great video man.

I know there are players on Linux that will play the .wmv format, so people shouldn't be complaining. The compression with .wmv is very good, so I don't doubt simon for using it.

Well for one, I don't believe the WMP9 codec works on linux yet, just previous versions. Two, even if it did, that's not the point. /. is one of the biggest open source websites on the net. Anything pro-MS is not well received.

That says more about the /. website then it says about simonb's codec choice.

Using wm9 is pretty annoying, I'm a /. reader so one of those anti-MS types :) but I'd like to see this movie. I'm running linux though and as you said wm9 isn't available for any of the oss players (older versions I've had no problems).

I know most gamers will of course use windows, but there are games which run on linux (including ones popular on ESR such as q3, rtcw:et, ut2k3) and I know people that use it for gaming.

Its a bit unnecessary to use a proprietry format when there are good ones that could be used to reach a wider audience (xvid/divx for example). (I do realise wm9 is quite good technically, maybe 2 versions could be released?)

update: have actually got it working with mplayer, my bad, didn't realise the modified codecs were around. Some other formats next time could be handy though. Was v. impressed with the movie, nice editing and plenty of info packed in there.

apart from the extra time needed to encode, and some minor problems with codec incompatibility problems i don't see any reason for people not to be using xvid at the moment. The dual pass quality with ultra high motion search precision really knocks pretty much everything out of the water. for decoding i just have 2 words. FFD show. :)

I always have some problems with xvid and divx, seems like my PC is too slow for the high compression nowadays. But this movie runs totally smooth, not a single picture or sound lag, everything is synced well. For me this is probably the best solution there is.

point taken. Next time ill create a secondary download file compatible with linux.

don't bother. anything you can play under windows you can play under linux. people just have to update their codec collection once in a while. in fact, staying on top of video codecs in linux is a hell of a lot more pleasant than doing the same under windows. atleast with my distribution of choice.

really nice movie, and u've done a really really nice job on the sound side!

Great movie Si :)

Really great movie simon though I have to criticize one thing: the interviewed people might be unknown to non-gamers because there's not enough introduction. Most people on ESR probably know John Romero and Sujoy (how come this ? :D), but people who are not into gaming probably won't understand who e.g. John Romero is.

one thing I really like is the atmosphere in this movie. MDG1 somehow looked more dark and cold, and the sound was worse. MDG2 feels just friendlier and better to watch than MDG1 :)

I'm really looking forward to that "December 2003" thing :)

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i enjoyed the movie

why is it a sticky post......

I jizzed on it, sorry. :(

:(

lol :)

This is realy class!
Better then some TV documentaries even.

Damn awesome job :) really GG

v/nice

very nice, im impressed

Could anyone be nice enough to convert it to xvid or another similar easily useable format and post a ftp, http or torrent link to it ?

(can't get that f$*# wmp9 to install.)

Great video, very proffessional. Good work 4k etc

Thank god people are finally using WMV, the quality is so much better than DIVX for the same bitrate that it's laughable.

very well done! keep up the great work! :]

Great documentary simonb. Very nicely put together. Just one complain: too short :D I wouldn't mind watching this kind of a documentary for an hour (or more).

yepp longer is better.

Nice movie, is 4k^Explicit the q3 KR ctf dude?

yea, he is

Very good movie. Anything by the 4kings is well done!

I was honored and very pleased to have been included for a brief time in the media itself.

Thx guys! :)

- TsN|Warwitch

WITCH! :D

simon knob does it again :)

_o_

\o/

lol

first watch:great movie, although because of the narrators voice I did feel like someone died. Also, a bit hard to understand the bloody brits when describinmg the tactics =)
second watch:I have to say this is the most professional work about gaming ive seen on the net. The game description and the match narration were surprisinly effective. Never seen anyone do this before, atleast so well and pretty =) The interviews were very informative as well and the edtiting was quite professional. My score is 9.7(10) xD

Great! Wanted it to be longer :(

But great stuff, felt I was watching a TV documentary of gaming...only more dedicated.

Good luck on your next project Simon, would love to see more of this kind.

nice job Simon !

really nice to watch !

One major factor thats missing from gaming when talking about making it into a sport is the fact that games do not have standards, all sports have this , gaming however is constantly changing and evolving so set standards can never be put in place to create a real sport and this is why gaming will never be a sport. there will simply be time slots for whilst a game is new and popular and the prizes will possibly get bigger but nothing more.

yes good point.

We need to settle down with one game of choice (for fps, rts & other genres). A game which isnt owned by any company & is open-source. The game can develop but the rules should stay the same.

Should be possible...

very impressive, enjoyable viewing. This deserves more exposure than esr and slashdot. This is almost on a level where an extended version would be good enough for a 4Later or Outside documentary tbh.

yeah, working on it. u know im a media whore.

Horizon documentary!

Great vid .. one small comment.
When you have the subs that show the people being interviewed it would be good to have a line that explains who tehy are ...

Most people outside of gaming do not know who John Romero is for example ...

excellent doc though ...

good job simonb.

The News is on BBC again :)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3242426.stm

woohoo :)

Good movie, although the way you portrayed everything and your appearance doesn't really do much for the "geek" thing. :(

Not trying to cause arguments, but think of it from the public's perspective..

u talking about MDG1 or MDG2... i dont appear in MDG2.

Not sure now, deleted both files. I watched them both the other day. Another thing i forgot to mention was your voice - you sounded really quiet to me..

great movie simonb!!! =) would be fun if u went to cyberx and do a movie about that, all the great names and much games will be played there.

woo! id love to come...

cant say for sure if Ill be able to make it tho.

nice work ;)

nice movie v interesting :P

brazil !! FOREVER !
ahuahushu seus filha da puta.

why hasn't anyone commented on "simon butt" ?

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great movie :P

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