Hell Kitty

So if I bought a boxed copy of a game that uses Steamworks from outside Australia, Steam might suddenly cut my access to that game?

While the rest of the world gets all the extra goodies, for the US what extras you get depends on where you make your purchase. So yay us. Of course here is Australia we pay a million billion more for our games so it all evens out. I don't much care for Steam, but I don't see how its use makes a publisher "even more money-grubby ".

Indeed. A reviewer needs to have an understanding of the product they are reviewing, they need to judge it based on what it is and what it is trying to do, whereas users tend to judge products based on what they want them to be, even if what they want isn't what the developers ever intended. Having a different opinion or not focusing on an aspect you think is important doesn't mean a reviewer is a liar or paid off. Radiant AI exists in Oblivion, it's what makes things like the poison apple quest possible. While it sounded interesting in theory in practice it didn't do a whole lot more than what we had seen in scripted schedules. It's time to get over it people.

I hope it takes a long long time to get here: by AUgust 26th summer is almost over, and I can't handle another winter right now. I'm looking forward to a long hot slow summer. I don't know what crazy planet you live on but DX:HR will be coming out at the end of winter.

You other companions can't deny, that when a boat sails in with a great big mast... I'll be in my bunk.

But Bio doesn

Link? http://forums.eidosgames.com/forumdisplay.php?f=252

Release date is the 26th of August. It seems so far away.

It's not supposed to be a secret. Anyway, like Calax I enjoyed AC. The actual assassinations are fun, and while the activities you need to complete to get to the assassination are repetitive I love the setting and enjoy exploring the cities. The sequel is much, much better. The tedious, long-winded unskippable conversations are gone and the tasks you need to complete before each assassination are now interesting, unique and properly integrated into the story. AC:B is an even greater improvement and I think calling it a stretched out DLC doesn't do it justice. I eagerly await AC3. I wouldn't say it's vital to play the original first, the main character gives a brief overview of events at the beginning of the sequel, but if you enjoy the story and decide to go back and play the first game it's going to be disappointing in comparison. Lara Croft is a female Indiana Jones, and Nathan Drake is a male Lara Croft. A couple months ago I bought both Uncharted games, and while I traded in the first immediately after playing through (funnily enough for AC:B) I decided to keep the sequel. They're both pretty formulaic - some exploration/climbing/jumpy bits then some cover shooting, repeat - but I enjoyed the second game a lot more. I dunno, maybe it was the more varied settings, maybe the two gameplay parts were better integrated.

Me too. It was one of the few technic sets I had. Back in my day I had town, space and castle sets, and then the pirate sets arrived. I got these for my birthday or christmas one year and OMG it the greatest thing ever. I was also rather fond of this castle set I had:

Is this a bad sign? That depends on how full your glass is, and what it is you choose to fill it with. I don't really think it means anything. No release date has been given, it's all guesswork. The only thing we know is that Square delayed it until the next financial year.

Your face.

No, I'm saying that the problems people have (and not just with DRM, with games and systems and whatever else) are never as widespread as they like to think.

I don't think Episode 2 specifically is overrated, I think the whole HL2 experience is overrated.

Jeremy Irons always kinda reminds me of my dad.

I don't own Episode 2, but I did play through a rental for the 360 once upon a time. I'm in the "it's overrated" crowd.

Well yes, as I just said if we ignore that particular very successful form of DRM then we can go back to saying "DRM doesn't work". But while folks like to ignore the rare successes* because they work against their argument, companies don't. *Almost as much as they like to overstate the problems DRM cause for legitimate customers.

I've played the demo on both PC and 360 and apart from the obvious like higher resolution on PC the graphics were much the same.

This is bulls***. If 50 percent of the people consuming your product haven't paid for it, that's a problem. Anti-DRM gamers look at the situation and think "You sold a lot of copies and made a lot of money, therefore you have nothing to complain about and shouldn't use DRM.", but the companies think "Half our audience is stealing from us, we need to find a way to stop, or at least limit that." People like to repeat that "DRM doesn't work" but that's not always true, with Splinter Cell Chaos Theory being the best example as it was more than a year before it was cracked. Companies are constantly trying to come up with new forms of DRM in an effort to replicate those few successes.

Director of photography, who apparently was a bit of an ass himself. They kissed and made up, Bale made a public apology and his career doesn't seem to be any worse for it.

I though you were part of the wait six months for the ultimate edition crowd.

So you're just weird then. Heh. I have a 22 inch monitor for my PC and 26 inch TV for my 360 and PS3 on the same desk, so the whole couch versus office chair thing is lost on me. Anyway, I've only played the demo but I'd classify it as an adventure game rather than a puzzle game. Like Labadal I like finding different solutions to problems, but I think I need to get around to finishing Costume Quest before I buy their next title.

What's the issue? Have you played the demo?

Too subtle to claim that this is "not much to do with piracy really". Once it's on the net it doesn't really matter how it got there*. The game has been pirated many times over by now. *Although a copy that has no protection is certainly worse than a copy that has yet to be cracked. Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, for example, was available to download long before it was ever cracked. That splinter cell had the most evil DRM of all, just like Prince TT. What was the issue? I have SCCT on PC and never had any problems with it.

Too subtle to claim that this is "not much to do with piracy really". Once it's on the net it doesn't really matter how it got there*. The game has been pirated many times over by now. *Although a copy that has no protection is certainly worse than a copy that has yet to be cracked. Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, for example, was available to download long before it was ever cracked.