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The only way you would really be able to save money would be to expedite the process through until execution, which is a condition I am not comfortable with. Leaving such decisions to a system that is run by fallible humans means that'd I'd prefer that there be no subjectivity regarding whether or not there is serious doubt regarding guilt or whether or not the offender is a permanent threat. Certainly not with an express lane. I do know that prosecutors/judges can also err on the side of caution in a more lenient way. The death penalty IS a deterrence for some prosecutors and judges (and juries too I imagine) to press for the maximum penalty for a suspect's crimes.

Ah, first it was "Only RPGs that are on PCs" and when I found a little loophole it becomes "only traditional RPGs." Why don't you just say "RPGs that I like?"

Executing people doesn't protect us from those who withdraw from the social contract though. How can you fail to be protected from someone who is dead? I'd say being dead put a spanner in most criminal enterprises. Except possibly necrophilia. How are you any less protected from that same person if he was in prison for life? The death penalty is not a deterrence. Murders still occur, often times at a higher rate than places where the death penalty does not exist (I'll be nice and assume that there's other confounding variables that explain this). The only way you can justify that the execution of a murderer will protect others from being harmed by the murderer is if you assume that the murderer will be a repeat offender. What is the recidivism rate for repeat murders? The best I can find is recidivism rate for murderers, but that just means they have returned the jail for any reason (not necessarily murder).

LOL @ Final Fantasy mention. So what if that game had save points? Maybe if I was 11 years old I would have enjoyed that garbage. FF7 is crap when compared to true RPGs like Arcanum, BG, Vampire: Bloodlines, Planescape Torment, Deus Ex, KOTOR 2 (from the fellas working on AP) and hundreds of other PC RPGs that allow you to save anywhere. You know, when you say "RPGs all have <x feature> excluding those that don't because I don't consider them RPGs" then you pretty much make yourself unfalsifiable, and hence, irrelevant. Cheers.

Executing people doesn't protect us from those who withdraw from the social contract though.

Nom nom nom nom

I played FF7 on my PC, and it had save points.

LOL!

Just to be curious, are the people criticizing the CQC preferring that the CQC be like Splinter Cell where (historically) you would click the mouse button once and watch Sam kickass?

OKey doke. After watching the video it almost looked like "you pick an option" and wait for the timer to run out. Which is a bit slow maybe, but acceptable haha.

What happens if you do not respond to a conversation in time? Does the NPC respond as if you are hesitating/not saying anything?

But it's a lot easier to sell a product that has more features in it that aren't in a previous product. Especially if fans want those features.

Having not seen it actually in play I can't really comment.

Okay I lied. It's nigh impossible not to click on a thread you've posted previously in. I enjoyed Rock, Paper, Shotgun's preview of it. The more previews I read up of the game, the more it seems like they've expanded on the game. Could they have patched this stuff into the game? Possibly. Maybe even probably. But it seems to me that these patches would have altered an awful lot of the L4D game. So much so that it would literally seem like a different game. Especially things such as the dynamic level layout (which I doubt could be patched into the game). Some of the easier additions, though, were likely decided to be added to L4D2 to create more reason to purchase L4D2 (lets be honest here, Valve is a company in this to make money). Ironically, I think that releasing these smaller additions would further diminsh L4D2 as a standalone game, and the ire of upset gamers would not be quelled. I know it's easy to say reviews and previews are bought out and meaningless, but I haven't seen any (admittedly I haven't seen many period) that weren't explicit in stating to readers that they felt this was more than just a little expansion.

According to write up I read, the weapons are all modified. I think it was IGN. So what it was an assault rifle, it played different with different characteristics of the M16 from the original one. I think I'm going to take my leave of this thread however. I've said my piece.

Did they actually say it'd be a full price release?

Lulz

Then don't buy it until it's cheaper. Problem solved.

Haha my bad. Fans are fickle.

They really should start doing this again, it's going to kick their ass in the long term. Is it really going to affect Bethesda that they release The Pitt, Alaska, and so forth as paid for DLC rather than free updates?

Well, Bethsoft didn't screw up by offering gamers updates for free at one point.

They'll never do it, but man that would be laugh out loud funny if they did ban those people.

Your guild dropped Twin Princes in AQ40. Pretty casual indeed.

Meh, I think it makes sense in a society that seems to value public health care.