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Yeah... Penner is playing exceptional hockey right now. Kind of funny because Lowe mentioned they hoped he'd start to peak after two years.

That sucks. Write a letter to your government

As far as I can tell based on the IGN video review, you can restart the game with your endgame character, and all the monsters and whatnot will have scaled with you. It might not be an explicit difficulty level, but it seems like you can replay it with no issues.

Just curious though, aren't you still supporting the DRM that you don't really care for? Or are the disc copies stripped of some? The one thing I really like about Steam is I can easily d/l and play my games at work during lunch

I could just be biased, but I think this is a great way to market the game: http://www.dragonagejourneys.com/ A free online flash game! Apparently you can unlock gear for your DAO game by doing so too.

Right to you door too probably haha. What's Steam or other DD like?

Consequences!

Hmmm, it might not be 360, but I'm pretty sure it's 180. If it makes you feel any better, I can probably get it for free

Yup. Was really bad in school. And getting motivated to find work immediately after school was a bit difficult too actually. I think just enjoyed the time NOT slaving away haha.

Hey I'm broke!

I am certainly shorter fused than I have been in the past. I blame me letting it all build up

You do realize I'm discussing criticism that happened when I was a child growing up right? I haven't "exposed" any children to violent media since I was in fact a child myself. It's not like I'm a 28 year old running around watching violent movies with kids today. Futhermore, whenever my aunts/uncles requested that I stop watching a particular movie because they considered it to violent for their kids, I always complied. It's what a lot of 10 year olds do. If you'd like me to admit that I didn't really have a full understanding of my utter hypocrisy of how I behaved 19 years ago compared to now, then you got me. Some pretty stiff standards you have there.

Haha that pic is awesome.

As a comment, when John Buchanan was University Liaison for Electronic Arts, he did a recruitment session at my University (about 2004 or so). He showed some numbers demonstrating general trends at the time for sales, and they demonstrated that the PC sales tended to be static and stable. They didn't significantly change up or down outside of the odd blip here and there. Consoles with their limited lifespan obviously surge and peak, but in his numbers they tended to grow faster. Now this is 5 years ago now, so things may have changed. I also don't recall if the charts were in revenues, market share, or units sold. But at the time, according to the recruitment, PC sales were neither declining or increasing.

http://pc.ign.com/dor/objects/957205/borde...realgamer.html#

That commentary was referring to my own inaction for never saying anything about it. Particularly in later years when it's more difficult to simply dismiss my concerns as the whims of a child. But yes, I'm a giant deviant. Despite the fact that my parents actually took some time during those pesky child rearing days to ensure that I understood the differences between make believe violence and real violence. Having said that, I certainly was NOT defying my parents wishes. I just had to endure the criticism that stemmed from their self-righteous attitudes. Though perhaps you're stating that my extended family is better suited to raise me as opposed to my nuclear family. Furthermore, it's simply their attempts to make decisions for me. You're quite ardently against institutions like the government telling you what you can and cannot like, and how you should spend your time and money. I extend those same concerns to everyone. I won't dispute that there are times that people should keep their mouths shut. I have no problems not saying anything to much of my family on things regarding religions, since many of them are very religious and making a stink about having to stand around as someone says grace before a meal is something not particularly worth mentioning. I don't even really find it offensive, I just disagree with a lot of it. However, were I to start making commentaries to them about how I feel about a great many people that have interacted with me based on religious grounds, it'd be their failing to say nothing about it if my comments offended them. If I go about it as cluelessly as she did, there'd be no reason to conclude that I was being offensive if no one made any comments. On the other hand, I know some of them are pretty devout, and I exercise some judgment that perhaps making some commentary about my opinion on religion to them is probably not the best way to not offend them. For the record, this is also the FIRST time I had ever heard anything of the sort from a family member of my generation (i.e. not aunts and uncles, grandparents etc.). I'm not particularly keen on having someone make comments about how she feels all violence is wrong and "never right" in response to , especially when in the past she certainly seemed to quite content with it. Given her framing of her original comment as a statement of disbelief that someone could consider the content posted in my video as entertainment, it very much seemed like a judgmental statement. Even though I am skeptical that she is incapable of understanding that violent imagery can be entertaining to people (especially since I've watched violent movies with her in the past and she), I still gave her the benefit of the doubt and responded with examples of violence from other forms of entertainment. She decided to respond to that by stating she completely against violence (a hypocritical stance at that), and that it's in no way right in any form of media, while also telling me sensational stories of the corrupting influence of violence and the resulting innocence lost. It doesn't seem like the smartest thing to say to someone who obviously has no issues with violence being displayed in entertainment. As I grew up the issue got raised less and less by family. I'd like to assume that people simply decided to stop parenting me. Of course, I also no longer bring my nintendo over to family get together for all of us kids to play violent video games, so the opportunity doesn't present itself as much anymore. Most people have expressed support for me finding a job that I enjoy. Though I do wonder if they realize that the company I work for indeed makes violent video games.

I deleted the entire link (reposted it with a disclaimer about the content though) to clear up the confusion about the link, in addition to my perception that making such comments about the woes of violent media in the comment section of violent media that I not only posted, but actually created, was somewhat in poor taste. I have dealt with the apparent woes of violent media from much of my extended family my entire life. On several occasions I had to hear it from my various aunts, or through my parents, because I was a corrupting influence on their children (my cousins) for exposing them to to violent video games and violent movies. Heck, when I was ten or eleven years old I got in trouble from my aunt for watching American Ninja 2 with my one year older cousin, a decidedly tame movie that may have ninjas getting beaten up in it. Comments in passing about the inappropriateness of me playing Double Dragon II on my Nintendo as a ten year old, and stupid stuff like that. Disagree. If I never say anything then people that do stuff that annoys me have no reason not to continue doing that activity. This isn't even malevolent, in that someone could be doing something that bothers me without the intention of actually bothering me, and they could go and do the activity somewhere else. For instance, if I'm trying to sleep and it's 12 AM, and my roommates are playing NHL 10 and I can hear them celebrating their goals and whatnot, if I say nothing then there's no reason for them to believe that they are being loud enough to keep me awake. However, I get up and go and ask them to try to keep it down, and then they are aware that they were being loud and put the effort into being quieter. I think a big problem with people is that they are decidedly too non-confrontational a lot of the time, and as a result we as human beings don't know how to communicate very well with each other in tense moments. To compound the factor, but if someone has repeatedly done an activity dozens of times, and then suddenly I comment on it, there will be additional confusion and defensiveness because the activity didn't warrant a response all the times before.

O RLY? Steam is a horrible system compared to having a retail copy - even a retail copy with DRM. You have boxed copies of Left 4 Dead and Killing Floor though right?

It goes without saying that the latency is gonna go up as you bounce around lines and gateways too.

I actually shared my gopher anecdote with her. I shot one once with a pellet gun, and felt sick to my stomach and cried. I didn't shoot another one again, and I actually actively try to avoid them as best I can (and all animals) while driving. Of course, my brother saw that I was shaken up, took the gun and put the gopher out of his misery and let me be on my way without teasing me or anything like that. I certainly didn't feel a need to be macho about it, and quite frankly appreciate it now that he didn't say anything and just let me do my thing. I felt like commenting that her anecdote about the gopher situation and her desire to be macho is probably just as much an indictment of social peer pressure and our desire to feel accepted rather than the desensitization of violence.

Though I'd love to be a fly on the wall. My aunt (the mom) once complained to the staff at a dinner theater because she felt someone's laugh was annoying. The staff member was just dumbfounded because it's not like the person could really control how they laughed.

Meh, for a game to be enjoyed there has to be something good about it. I see no problems with people enjoying a game that has poor gameplay mechanics because other aspects of it make up for it.

Fair enough. Was curious what the feedback would be like. I care because it's human studies and self-critique. I could have just shrugged it off, but it struck me the wrong way and I felt compelled to say something. I also didn't particularly care for listening to someone tell me how awful violent media is as a comment to violent media that I created and posted.

Torment is an example of poor combat gameplay. Fortunately, other aspects of it (like the writing) more than make up for it.

It seems evident that the models relate more to the Sacred Ashes trailer. To be honest I don't like the way Morrigan looks in the Sacred Ashes trailer, because she doesn't look enough like her in game avatar.