Hell Kitty

Why would you want a copy for future viewing, the game isn't far from release. Even the folks who totally aren't interested know that. Anyway, 4 eva Also, I don't know if it's funny or sad when people think their favorite part of the gaming world is the the important part. Kings amongst games indeed,

My last post is useless now that mkrekus has appeared.

Wooden animations is a major flaw?

Yeah, Smith was Lead Designer to Spectors Project Director for DX, and then Smith was the Project Director for DX:IW, so I dunno what Moatilliatta is on about.

Oh there's always a reason, it's just never a good one, being that it comes from a sense of entitlement. This doesn't refer to just rabid Fallout fans, it's rabid fans of anything. Anyway, as for the whole "you say you're interest is low but clearly it's high" thing, it seems a lot like when people continually post in threads saying how little they care about the topic, but if they really didn't care they never would have opened the thread. I think this stems from the mistaken belief that having an interest in something is always a positive thing, when for a lot of people it's more of a morbid curiosity.

It's the Land of the Dead game.

Yeah, it's the same reason the original DX doesn't have choices that seriously alter the storyline until the very end of the game. I think if you can get IW cheap you ought to try it out, and then report back to us. *cracks whip*

I don't think it's that complicated either, but that's missing the point. What matters is how complicated and risky it seems to non tech savvy people, especially compared to PC piracy. I'm pretty sure that's how it is here in Australia, after all I bought the stuff to mod my PS2 from an Aussie online store. Although while you can buy mods you won't find anyone advertising them or offering pre-modded consoles nor are they offered by "everyone".

So is it legal and they have modded consoles on the shelf, and advertise this fact, or is it illegal and all done on the sly? Say I turned up in Portugal and decided I wanted to buy a modded console, assume I speak the language but don't know my way around and don't know anybody, can I find a store that will sell me a modded console as easily as I can one that will sell my a legit console? Probably, but what does PC users being more tech savvy have to do with PC piracy versus console piracy? All you're doing here is showing just how much more complicated it is to run pirated games on console than on PC. Clearly we have a different idea of what makes for "tech savvy". 100% of the people I know with HD consoles and HD TVs didn't even realise their consoles were still running in SD. That's about as un-savvy as you get. To someone like that, "all you need to do is insert a memory card and run a self-extracting program that you've set up on a PC" is anything but simply, it'd sound rather intimidating. It might sound simple to us, but I can guarantee you that the average person won't agree.

How does "using security holes to insert homebrew programing" equal not too hard to do? Hell, what does it even mean? What exactly is this "homebrew programing" and how do you "insert" it? So far nothing you've said suggests anything about modding a console without chipping it is easy, and you even admit you don't even know the consequences of doing it (whether it results in a banning).

I suppose so, yeah, but you've still got to download it first. Anyway, I agree with this. Can you be more specific on ways to play without chipping? I'd like to know the specifics as well. I mean as I said before, I modded my PS2 without chipping it, but I still needed to mod it, and use a swap disc every time you load a game. Edit: Yep, that's definitely modding, and far more than you need to do to play pirated PC games, and there is still the banning from services like Live.

What does that even mean? You can buy modded consoles in every store? There's a guy in every alley asking if you wanna score some console mods? You only need to check the stats on torrent sites to see that PC downloads far outweigh console downloads. I'd say the average console pirate is far tech savvier than the average PC pirate, being that you can't simply download, install, crack and play on console. I modded my PS2 so I could play imported games, no mod chips, just a new lid and a swap disc, but even that required opening up the console.

I thought the whole point is that it is now downloadable off the internet - maybe I am confused? I dunno what Hurlshot means either, it's on torrent and file sharing sites.

Apparently it's a review copy. Edit: too slow And modified console or not, on the 360 at least you risk a banning from live, meaning no updates/patches, dlc, multiplayer

If it makes you feel any better, you're always a top in my slash.

I'm reminded of this. Some links to the story from the original post: http://www.komonews.com/news/30397234.html http://www.kirotv.com/news/17236379/detail.html

The QoS demo was too short for me to really get anything out of it.

The "guy from Africa" is a Kenyan bishop, a Christian, and Christians would call it a blessing, and any Christian would find it pretty insulting to have their ceremonies dismissed as witchcraft, although non-evangelicals find this stuff rather odd.

Nick Fury appears after the end credits.

Like I said before that's really not true.

It's not as though the rest of the game world suddenly stops whenever the player just stands around until they've healed. If you're in the middle of a firefight you can't just "stop playing" while you regenerate because your enemies won't stop playing. While you're hiding in cover you might loose sight of your enemies and allow them to get the drop on you, or you may need to retreat to a different location before you can heal up.

I always use subtitles, and it seems like most of the game without them are the ones that don't have separate volume controls for voice and sound effects/music, so I'm constantly raising the volume during dialogue and then lowering during action. Annoying.

Angry Internet Men in other parts of the web all seem to have assumed "cover system" means something like Rainbow Six Vegas, and then there is this: [quote name='Ren

How on earth can you consider it idiotic when all we know about it is that stealth simply means staying out of view? Shadows didn't even play a part in the original, it was always more like MGS, you had to stay out of view, unlike the system in such games as Thief and Splinter Cell where you can stand right in front of someone, face to face, but you're completely invisible because you're 100% in shadows. Speaking of MGS, according to the article there is even an aug that shows the player the NPCs field of view. I saw a video a while back where Harvey Smith mentioned IW "fixing" this redundancy by combining all these different options into one biomod, but realizing that having all these options felt better to players because as you say it made developing your character much more interesting, even if your choices all lead to the same place. Yeah I never understood that, DX was here is your objective, complete it however you want. It was more like Thief or Hitman, dropped into a large area and left up to your own devices, with a story that was pretty much just as linear as those (totally linear) games. I believe that back when DX was called "Shooter" it was even going to be mission based like those games. I don't have any problem with health-kits, but I prefer regen if careful rationing doesn't play a big part in a game. Playing through Crysis made me think of DX with the different suit modes using energy. I'd like to see something like that in a DX game, right down to your energy being used as a shield when no augs are active, and the way energy usage depends on what you are doing rather than simply draining slowly away. Has anyone played Battlefield: Bad Company? I've only played the demo, but rather than health kits or regen, the player carried a syringe device, that when used would restore your health and would slowly recharge before you could use it again. This removes the health kit hunt element of so many FPS, as well as stopping players hoarding items they never use, but still leave healing up to the player. I'd actually prefer energy regenerate automatically like Crysis, but health being like B:BC. If Adam Jensen has the ability to go prone, do the developers need to come up with an explanation as to why JC Denton could only crouch? Being that I prefer regen I'd rather they just include it for gameplay reasons, without the need to stick to what DX used or make up some kind of silly explanation as to why things were better in the past. I actually really like the "Renaissance meets Cyberpunk" thing they've got going on. It's like they're doing the opposite of Thief 2 (awesome art deco awesomeness) -> Thief 3 (boring dark ages boringness), and just like those games there is no reason to explain the change because there isn't really any in-game way to do so. I really like the style compared to the merely functional DX graphics. And of course anything is an improvement on the DX:IW "lets use the same few textures on everything" approach to graphics. I also love the mechanical GitS style augmentations. I'm the same. It's far more believable that way. Amen sister! Sillier than old Gunther Hermann? Not really. The Barrett character is far more in keeping with the style of the original than the renaissance style is.

At times. The hiding some books in the epilogue, while interesting in regards to the game and it's theme, was something that I see as quite bad design. I could have down without the epilogue entirely. Kinda felt like being told a joke, thinking it was funny, and then having it explained to me why the joke was actually funny on several different levels. It was disappointing after the great final level.