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Research is starting to show that marijuana has health benefits too.

There's a plethora of things that people can do to make customers happy. I don't dispute that some people would like a demo. I'm just saying that if they don't feel the cost of making a demo will be recuperated by the increased sales it generates, then there isn't as much incentive to put people on it. Sucks for those that would like a demo, but not much that can be done about that as far as I am concerned. It may be advantageous to, it may not be advantageous to. It's hard to say. I know that there are a lot of games I picked up because I loved the demo. But at the same time, there have definitely been games that I did not need a demo to decide I was going to pick it up.

Oooooo! Enjoy!

Wine is good only if it's red wine, because the tannin from the grape skin is good for your heart. You can get tannin from other sources (such as tomatoes, my favourite! nom nom nom)

To be fair it's only 5.

I must have missed your point, because I don't see where I have a "problem" (wow, I actually like playing games!), or how the raison d'

Clearly not, because you have no problems voicing your disapproval of a judge's decision.

Isn't that kind of par for the course? It's too bad and hopefully it doesn't affect early sales in a significant way.

I know Lajciak, it wasn't commentary that you shouldn't care about the DRM because it has lots of potential activations or what have you. You have your DRM preferences and that is that. I didn't mean to make a commentary about them. It was purely a comment of surprise at the online DRM.

Yes and they are all barcoded

It's just not in the budget at this time

I'm actually surprised they let you run it on as many as 5 machines at once within a 24 hour period.

I don't know how big directly, but the game does recommend like 20 GB of HD space. Though I don't know how many DVDs the retail game ships on, so it could be that it's compressed, or they accounted for save game space or something.

That's nice.

I like variable resolutions, and at the time it was significantly cheaper. WHen I bought my CRT, I couldn't afford an LCD monitor that could do 1600x1200

I'm a 1024x768 gamer too. Though I have a CRT. Otherwise I'd use a native resolution of my monitor. Even at 800x600 I have to look for aliasing though. I'll notice it if I'm scanning a horizon or need to look at the model edges. But that's rare I find.

Nope, simultaneous release. New Dragon Age review here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqV-jVhL0Y4 Is this spoilerage watching? 'Cause you know, if I've gone this long, I might as well wait it out... The review is absurd and silly and quite open about it. It was done by someone that did not play the game. It's a joke.

Nope, simultaneous release. New Dragon Age review here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqV-jVhL0Y4

Oh come on, there is not a single person on this forum who hasnt at one point downloaded something not entirely legal. But in this case it was actually a friend of mine who gave me the info while he was complaining about delayed PC versions of games. Which wouldn't be Dragon Age. So yay.

I heard the 1.3 patch just came out.

Didn't even notice until you pointed it out

No, I think that's the way he'd like the humans to be. Only then can we be communist!

I think the idea of Dog having additional talents on the console build was experimented with, but ultimately not implemented. I remember seeing a version where he had warrior talents too, but the most recent version I played, he did not. Flow control refers to, specifically, the actual level up process. It's difficult to click on the little plus beside your character on the console. You don't level up more frequently in terms of experience acquired. Though the game is easier on the console. EDIT: I haven't read Nathan's post, it's possible that the warrior talents are still there. The primary difference is that on the consoles the flow control required that the player allocate points. If they had nothing they could allocate a talent point to, you couldn't proceed through the level up. I have since moved on to other projects, but I thought that we had changed Dog's level up so that he wouldn't run into situations where he had no place to put his points. I'll take a look on Monday

360 platform. Assassin's Creed has an overall of 81 on metacritic, it sold 4.53 million. Fable 2 overall 89, sold 3.21 mil. Mass Effect overall of 91, sold 2.08 mil. Fallout 3 overall 93, sold 2.63 mil. Oblivion overall 94, sold 2.84 mil. It seem pretty random to me, I don't think metacritic score has that big of a say in sales numbers. Oh I wouldn't doubt that there is a correlation somewhere. I would bet a lot of money that you have more game sales if you score more than 50% in metacritic compared to below What determines a "good" game is tricky though. And whether or not game buyers want it is also a different story.

Because they can.