Posted: 28 Dec 2003 11:50
Fellow beer drinker & VSK fan here! :beer: I don't mind the hard stuff either. I'll also smoke just about anything, legal or otherwise. I'm just having a few beers for right now though, so cheers! :beer: I assume that this is the only place to chat with fellow beer drinkers & VSK fans in English, is it not?
I've been playing VSK ever since it came out here in the states, but I've only just now ordered a copy of VSK2 & VSK3, so those are in transit right now. YAY! Finally! I'll drink to that! :beer: I've yet to get into the online aspect of it yet though, so I'm sure I'd just be in the way against human opponents at this point, but I tend to fare pretty well against the computer most of the time. I don't know if that's very uncommon though. It doesn't seem to be too hard to beat. (Gee, I hope that's not an objectionable statement!) LOL
Anyhow, I was wondering why the heck there never was a sequel to VSK one day, when much to my surprise I found out that there never was a sequel to VSK in the USA! Meanwhile, the rest of the world is on VSK2 and just getting into VSK3! This doesn't make very much sense to me, since VSK is one of the greatest games ever made as far as I'm concerned, but then I love sailing, so I suppose it's natural for me to feel that way about it. I've only been along for a ride in a 2 man dingy before in real life though, so I'd hardly call myself an old salt or even a nautical buff, which makes the lack of major support for this game here in the states all the more puzzling to me. What, we still don't even have a single US fansite? I'm gonna have to do something about that! This is an outrage!
Well, I'm probably gonna end up getting more into the VSK modding scene than I am in worrying about whether or not I'm worthy of an invitation to join any races for a while, so I've just joined VSK Central also. That seems to be where all the modders hang out, so hopefully it won't be too hard to learn all the specifics for modding VSK. Currently, I only MOD for Disney's Ultimate Ride series, if any of y'all have ever heard of those games. (Yes, y'all, I'm real a native Texan!) Cheers! :beer: Suffice it to say I'm way more into roller coasters than I am into anything else, but I'm looking to expand my horizons a bit, if my fans in the UR community will allow it. I pretty much live & breathe UR, so please forgive me if I'm not around here enough to be considered very active.
OK, that should do for my background and reason for being here, so anything else you wanna know, please feel free to ask. Yes I do requests, no I don't do 3D modeling. (Yet!) Mostly I only do textures and file hacking, and I tend to be better at hacking than I am at making textures, but most people seem to think that I do quite well at both. I prefer to let my work speak for itself though, so if you wanna see what I can do with VSK, you'll just have to wait until I've learned all the ins & outs of modding it before I can show you what I can do. I'm not an expert hacker or an expert artist, so my abilities are still a bit limited, but I can do more tricks than most. Modding is definitely one of my major passions for fun.
Oh yeah, before I go, can you guys tell me why VSK1 just kinda vanished without much of a trace? I mean, after seeing all the screenshots and watching all the trailers for VSK2 & VSK3, it's kinda obvious, but since VSK1 is the only game available here in the states, it seems like there'd still be a place for racing online in VSK1 lingering around somewhere. And yet, I can't even find any patches for VSK1 anywhere, so either there never were any, or I really need them badly, if anyone knows where I can still find them. I've searched and searched, but all I've found is patches for VSK2 & VSK3 so far. This leads me to believe that there must've been some for VSK1 as well, at some point in time, but if there were, they sure are hard to find now! Could someone fill me in?
I'm shoving off for now, because it's time for a refill and a visit to the head, but I'll be docking here again tomorrow! (Or later today, depending on which side of the line you're on!) May the wind be blowing wherever you're going, sailors! :beer:
I've been playing VSK ever since it came out here in the states, but I've only just now ordered a copy of VSK2 & VSK3, so those are in transit right now. YAY! Finally! I'll drink to that! :beer: I've yet to get into the online aspect of it yet though, so I'm sure I'd just be in the way against human opponents at this point, but I tend to fare pretty well against the computer most of the time. I don't know if that's very uncommon though. It doesn't seem to be too hard to beat. (Gee, I hope that's not an objectionable statement!) LOL
Anyhow, I was wondering why the heck there never was a sequel to VSK one day, when much to my surprise I found out that there never was a sequel to VSK in the USA! Meanwhile, the rest of the world is on VSK2 and just getting into VSK3! This doesn't make very much sense to me, since VSK is one of the greatest games ever made as far as I'm concerned, but then I love sailing, so I suppose it's natural for me to feel that way about it. I've only been along for a ride in a 2 man dingy before in real life though, so I'd hardly call myself an old salt or even a nautical buff, which makes the lack of major support for this game here in the states all the more puzzling to me. What, we still don't even have a single US fansite? I'm gonna have to do something about that! This is an outrage!
Well, I'm probably gonna end up getting more into the VSK modding scene than I am in worrying about whether or not I'm worthy of an invitation to join any races for a while, so I've just joined VSK Central also. That seems to be where all the modders hang out, so hopefully it won't be too hard to learn all the specifics for modding VSK. Currently, I only MOD for Disney's Ultimate Ride series, if any of y'all have ever heard of those games. (Yes, y'all, I'm real a native Texan!) Cheers! :beer: Suffice it to say I'm way more into roller coasters than I am into anything else, but I'm looking to expand my horizons a bit, if my fans in the UR community will allow it. I pretty much live & breathe UR, so please forgive me if I'm not around here enough to be considered very active.
OK, that should do for my background and reason for being here, so anything else you wanna know, please feel free to ask. Yes I do requests, no I don't do 3D modeling. (Yet!) Mostly I only do textures and file hacking, and I tend to be better at hacking than I am at making textures, but most people seem to think that I do quite well at both. I prefer to let my work speak for itself though, so if you wanna see what I can do with VSK, you'll just have to wait until I've learned all the ins & outs of modding it before I can show you what I can do. I'm not an expert hacker or an expert artist, so my abilities are still a bit limited, but I can do more tricks than most. Modding is definitely one of my major passions for fun.
Oh yeah, before I go, can you guys tell me why VSK1 just kinda vanished without much of a trace? I mean, after seeing all the screenshots and watching all the trailers for VSK2 & VSK3, it's kinda obvious, but since VSK1 is the only game available here in the states, it seems like there'd still be a place for racing online in VSK1 lingering around somewhere. And yet, I can't even find any patches for VSK1 anywhere, so either there never were any, or I really need them badly, if anyone knows where I can still find them. I've searched and searched, but all I've found is patches for VSK2 & VSK3 so far. This leads me to believe that there must've been some for VSK1 as well, at some point in time, but if there were, they sure are hard to find now! Could someone fill me in?
I'm shoving off for now, because it's time for a refill and a visit to the head, but I'll be docking here again tomorrow! (Or later today, depending on which side of the line you're on!) May the wind be blowing wherever you're going, sailors! :beer: