The Nameless One releases stuff for free

[AOFanboi]

The latest and greatest edition of Battle Cruiser 3000 can apparently be downloaded and "enjoyed" for free now.

http://www.3000ad.com/gnn/index.php

Continuing the tradition of releasing my games for free on the net after
their shelf life has expired and marking the imminent release of Universal
Combat - A World Apart, I have today released the full and latest version of
Battlecruiser Millennium.

The only question I have is: Why does he do this during E3 when his announcement is guaranteed to drown in the flood of info?

[Fabricated]

You have no idea how important he thinks he is.

[WindupAtheist]

Someone told me that after all the bullshit and infinite patches to get it working, the end result was actually kinda fun.  But I'm too afraid to find out.

[Strazos]

I'm too afraid the rest of my system would reject my HDD if I tried to install that thing.

[Shockeye]

Someone told me that after all the bullshit and infinite patches to get it working, the end result was actually kinda fun.  But I'm too afraid to find out.

Give it to Haemish, he'll try anything.

[schild]

I don't think he'll try this.

[Strazos]

Why would you wish such a pox upon such a dear friend?

Give it to Poptart instead, she'll have plenty of time to try it in between bouts of web design. 

[Shockeye]

Why would you wish such a pox upon such a dear friend?

Give it to Poptart instead, she'll have plenty of time to try it in between bouts of web design. 

I think she's still catassing socializing her way through the latest EQ expansion.

[Rodent]

I'm dissapointed, the title of this thread lead me to belive this was going to be about Torment.

[Murgos]

I'm dissapointed, the title of this thread lead me to belive this was going to be about Torment.

Oh, we certainly are talking about torment... 

[schild]

I'm dissapointed, the title of this thread lead me to belive this was going to be about Torment.

Rofl, no, unfortunately not. The Nameless One, you see, is a character in a video game. How can he possibly release something for free?

I wonder if it's ok to dislike Obsidian for all eternity for not buying the Planescape license lock stock and barrel.

[WindupAtheist]

You know, with all this time to have come up with bugfixes and patches, and with a price tag of zero dollars, it COULD turn out to be a nice little diversion.  Let's find someone who's never heard of Serek Dmart, and get them to play it.  Get a fresh perspective.

[Nazrat]

One visit to the support pages of his website will surely cure anyone of playing the game. 

My memory was sycophants were lined up to the right.  Anyone who can't get it working is banned.  Has anything changed?  (My blood pressure won't let me go back to that site.)

[Der Helm]

I downloaded it.

I unpacked the .rar file.

I unpack the unpacked .rar file into a setup.*

This file unpacks the installer.

I install the game, spend the next 30 minutes locating the temp files and delete them.

I start the game.

Select the tutorial.

I sit in my spaceship. something tells me I have a "urgent message".

I look at  dozens of buttons, no clue what they do.

I try to recieve this message for 5 minutes.

/uninstall

[WindupAtheist]

Was there some manner of documentation available?

[Der Helm]

There was, but I could not bring myself to reading the 120+ pages of the pdf file.

At least there was an index.

But no tutorial ...

[Daydreamer]

There was, but I could not bring myself to reading the 120+ pages of the pdf file.

At least there was an index.

But no tutorial ...

Guild Wars is 144 without an index, though to be fair they take the 'tutorial' to a rather unusual extreme

[Samwise]

I downloaded it.

I unpacked the .rar file.

I unpack the unpacked .rar file into a setup.*

This file unpacks the installer.

I install the game, spend the next 30 minutes locating the temp files and delete them.

I start the game.

Select the tutorial.

I sit in my spaceship. something tells me I have a "urgent message".

I look at  dozens of buttons, no clue what they do.

I try to recieve this message for 5 minutes.

/uninstall

Best review ever.

[Soukyan]

There was, but I could not bring myself to reading the 120+ pages of the pdf file.

At least there was an index.

But no tutorial ...

Guild Wars is 144 without an index, though to be fair they take the 'tutorial' to a rather unusual extreme

Guild Wars also provides tutorial information in the game to the player directly the first time you enter the game. BC does not do this. I have a friend who is a Smart proponent and he said that if people weren't so lazy and would just read the manual, they would find the game enjoyable. I challenged him to do that and then demo the game to me. He stopped reading the manual around page 20 and could barely figure out what to do during the 30 minutes that I patiently watched him hunt around the game for the appropriate commands. At that point, I realized that while he may have done some nice stuff with his games, I don't have the time to devote to learning how to play it. It's an unfortunate fact, but for me, games are meant to be leisure acitivities and are increasingly rare in my life due to lack of spare time. But I digress. The BC games are great for space sim hobbyists with the time to devote to them.

[Yegolev]

I can see little has changed in the BattleCruiser domain.  I have been told that a key element in diagnosing sociopathic disorders is the inability to learn from one's mistakes.

[Triforcer]

Is there a story behind why we don't name him, or is He Who Must Not Be Named a nickname, or what?

[Viin]

They are jealous of his almighty game-dev, sex-god, uber-PR skills. Thus, he cannot be named.

[NiX]

The real reason is the fact that he has some power from another universe where he can sense when people mention his name. When this happens he reigns death upon the helpless forum goers.

[WindupAtheist]

Awesome!

Serek Dmart!  Serek Dmart!  Serek Dmart!  Serek Dmart!

I bid you to appear!

Serek Dmart!  Serek Dmart!  Serek Dmart!  Serek Dmart! 

Appear and smite mine enemies!

[Daydreamer]

Sorry to burst your bubble Windup, but I think you have to be in a bathrrom, lights off, staring at the mirror for that to work.

[Mesozoic]

Sorry to burst your bubble Windup, but I think you have to be in a bathrrom, lights off, staring at the mirror for that to work.

 I thought that was how The Nameless one summoned his Doctorate.

[AOFanboi]

I thought that was how The Nameless one summoned his Doctorate.

Why make the effort? Just keep saying you have a Ph. D. and yell at anyone who says different.

I seem to have read that back on the Usenet group c.s.i.p.g.space-sim, our dear Dr. Smart tended to respond to EVERY article mentioning either himself or BC/BC3k. And often threatening people with legal action and whatnot. Raining frogs, too, maybe.

[Nazrat]

I believe that he also has invaded and launched his minions at various game forums over the years also. 

You could not speak his name because of his well known ability to find any reference to himself and either proceed to shut down all discussion or launch threats of litigation.

His name is well deserved.

[Murgos]

Him and his apprentice Cleve M. Blakemoor, the two of them together nearly destroyed all conversation in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.* for close to 5 years.

You know?  In some ways those two are at least partially responsible for internet boards like this ones existence.  There was so much noise on those forums from the constant flaming that people had to find somewhere else to go talk about the games.  Bruce is a dilettante next to those two at turning conversations into something about himself regardless of topic.

[Daydreamer]

Dear Nameless One and Apprentice(s),

Thanks for your loving flames, trolls, lies, and just generally being a complete shitcock.

Sincerely, f13.net

[eldaec]

Is there a story behind why we don't name him, or is He Who Must Not Be Named a nickname, or what?

Because he spends too much of his life googling his own name.

[eldaec]

Though obviously not quite enough of his own life to prevent him creating piles of crap like, for instance all his games.

I'm not entirely sure it's even safe to say the name of his products out loud.

[HaemishM]

Goddamnit, you've linked to his web site from here. That means he'll eventually check his referrer logs and be driven back here.

I'm tempted to install the games just to have actual evidence of his nutbuggery.

[schild]

Every time you play one of his games, you take a piece of Serek Dmart with you.

I don't know what that means, but go ahead. Nothing's stopping you. 

[HaemishM]

Yes, good sense is stopping me.