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You may have done it before, but you probably weren't thinking "what's that super fast looking dragonfly thing?"

What do you mean by attention? It got a lot of press, and got a good marketing campaign from Bethesda, but as far as I can understand, it wasn't a smashing sale success on that level. Still, Beth was satisfied with the performance, and they're going to keep working on the IP, that much has been made clear. I mean advertising. For me the game pretty much flew under the radar, especially compared to Skyrim.

Progressing along the crit path story will help you get to areas that unlock better weapons. The Varmit Rifle and 9mm should be just fine for the early parts of the game, however. How, exactly, are you struggling? If you try heading north at the beginning, you will find VERY VERY tough battles (you're not really supposed to head that way to start)

The problem with the term "doesn't take much work" is that games are made up of thousands of tasks that "don't take much work." Just because a task isn't expected to take a long time, doesn't mean that said task should be a shoo-in and that there isn't an opportunity cost for working on it. I have heard that one should not play Dark Souls without a controller, and know a few people that really enjoy it. There are certainly advantages in requiring a specific peripheral type (probably moreso for design reasons than programming reasons).

That's the whole misconception - the question is not a better but equal experience. Dead Space has been infamous for it's poor port quality and especially it's controls. Any bad PC port that dose not allow turning-off mouse acceleration is roughly equivalent to no 'invert axis' option on a console game. Mouse and keyboard are still the preferred input method for a PC and if you are not going to account for that then you should not talk about experience being 'equal' to consoles. I'd be more willing to accept this if there weren't huge lamentations about things like graphics effects and resolution support though. Though I agree that the Dead Space port is pretty junk (and it shouldn't be). I'm curious what people would think if a PC port stated that it required a game controller to be played, and if the control scheme was just ported outright.

Bwahahaha. I may have to actually show this to some people.

Did Dishonored receive anywhere near the same level of attention as Skyrim (or even Fallout 3)?

I'll be sure to pass that on!

That probably won't be too difficult since I don't typically play Rockstar games So I'm totally in! Haha. It's funny because I actually have an XBox 360, but still held out for RDR PC.

Woo! \o/

We don't have to forfeit our worst company award because of this, though. Right!?

What do you mean!? Just set the compiler to the different platform!

Alan that has been my single biggest disappointment in gaming, the fact that Red Dead never made it to PC. What do you mean when you said its not financially viable for Rockstar to port the game to PC? At the moment I refuse to buy a console so my policy is I don't support any game unless its on the PC Whether or not it's actually true, that's part of the motivation. I don't know the full details as to why, but it's something I heard directly from someone that worked for Rockstar.. Sucks, but c'est la vie. Devs are free to do what they want, however. Edit: Seems like other people have some better explanations as to the why.

Unfortunately, Metal Gear stopped being interesting to me with MGS2. Not a fan at all. While I may miss out on Red Dead Redemption, I have no shortage of other games to have kept me busy, so it's all cool.

At the same time, I do resolve to not go Fallout style in terms of my vitriol. I do hope the game is fantastic. It's just that, paradoxically, the naming is making me be mentally more guarded against it.

HAHA yup! Was 0-4 against Tyson today, but was able to get him down 3 times, twice in the third, before losing to a decision. Soon!

Eh, the pretty much any reason for not doing enhanced PC stuff is because, for whatever reason, it isn't deemed worth the investment. Unfortunately it can be a vicious circle (e.g. NHL series on PC, which was constantly old gen instead of next gen, so fans stopped buying it, and EA ultimately said "not worth the effort to even make a port.") I am still waiting for a PC port of Red Dead Redemption, though I know it will likely never see the light of day for the same reasons, unfortunately. On the plus side, there's no shortage of PC games coming out.

Some guy brought in his NES to work. He had Mike Tyson's Punch Out. It's been probably over 20 years since I last played that game, and I found it shocking how well I remembered each of the boxers. Picked up the controller, and made it to Tyson with no losses. Sadly Tyson KO'd me in the third round.

Yeah, you will level up a bit slower, but it seems like encounters would become nigh trivial at some point. I only have two, but there are times a third would come in very handy. Though I think you only miss out on the xp you would obtain by hitting the target directly.

If you're an expert in persuasion you get an extra follower, and the dog doesn't count either.

Meh, if you want a game for cheap you can always wait until it is. It's a gamble on when it will happen. I stopped letting steam sales frustrate me by realizing that obviously I didn't have any problem purchasing the product at the higher price (otherwise I wouldn't have).

I think it's still a ways out, but it is getting a lot better.

Other issue I have noticed is copy/pasting multi-line statements. The new line/carriage return is also copied, when it probably shouldn't be (and historically wasn't). Not so much an issue if you just click on "quote" and maybe I just need to change how I do things, but here's an example with the old school [ quote] tags: Actually, looking at it now that I do this, it seems to be placing it's own carriage return based on character count as opposed to what I see on my screen.

It's only pointless to mention if it isn't reality. Unfortunately, it is. Someone was suggesting that men get the bum rap and gave an example. I explained why. The only pointless thing mentioned so far has been Since it's demonstrates a fantastic ability to state the obvious, in light of no one claiming otherwise.

Star Citizen seems better than Wing Commander at this point IMO. Wing Commander is old news. I have faith that Mr. Roberts will deliver on something just as great. All goes well we're hoping for a Star Citizen 2, right? It should be noted that, at the end of the day, whatever the heck Fargo and Co. end up doing, I hope it kicks ass because I always want more kick ass games. I just think that naming it Torment 2 will make it more difficult for them to achieve that for me, Allan Schumacher.