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Because he's the showrunner of so many shows right now? Other than Fringe, that'd be exactly zero. He hasn't been involved in Lost since season one, that's always been the child of Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cruse rather than Abrams.

It should be. The problem is that finding a crack could be difficult without downloading the entire game. Since the game doesn't need the cd to play after it's installed, sites that usually post cracks for backup purposes aren't doing that. Cracks are more readily avaliable than warez are because they arent illegal and as such can be placed on websites. Thus you dont need to torrent anything. You should never have to warez a game to get the crack for it. I was talking about games using the EA DRM specifically. Since most sites that post cracks to so to circumvent the need to have a CD in the drive (at least officially), they don't feel the need to have the Mass Effect crack, because ME doesn't require a cd in the drive to play once activated. I know the site I usually get nocd cracks from doesn't have it.

Afaik they keep doing trip attacks with weapons that don't allow you to do trips.

Because I didn't have the password for the sa account. Nor should I need it because as an admin on my windows account I have all rights I need anyway. The whole problem in that instance is that the program I launch when I launch Sql Management Studio in turn launches another program, which is the actual studio. And since I can't chose run as admin on a program being launched like that, I didn't have admin rights when I logged in. That's not the only thing UAC has messed with in regards to development tools. It's a paing when using CMS systems and similar as well. For an office user that only does word processing and the like, then it's fine.

It should be. The problem is that finding a crack could be difficult without downloading the entire game. Since the game doesn't need the cd to play after it's installed, sites that usually post cracks for backup purposes aren't doing that.

On the contrary. If you're using your computer professionally, it's almost essential to have it turned off. At least if you're working as a web developer. There are so many things that get messed up by UAC that it's not even funny. Worst example is how it managed to prevent me from getting admin rights in SQL Management Studio (which is a Microsoft Program). Started it (as admin even), logged on with my windows account, and when I got through the logon prompt, I no longer had admin rights, and there was never a UAC prompt.

But if I buy a pair of pants only to find they are really uncomfortable when sitting down, I can always just return them. Give me a 100% no questions asked return policy on games and your analogy will hold up. Edit: As far as creating a demo. Who cares if you give away too much? I want to know if the game is fun, so let me play the first 30 minutes or so of it. That should be enough to let a player know if the game is worth spending money on.

No weapon specific feats work with the silver sword.

Civilization

Sentinels isn't a second game, it's an expansion. Completely free-standing from the first game story-wise, but it still requires S2 to play. And Sentinels is amazing. They took every thing that people complained about in S2 and improved it (at least everything I complained about). Sentinels is simply just gold. One of my favorite games ever. (I'd stay away from Hammer & Sickle though, that was pretty bad)

ToEE had a better combat system. But the encounter design was vastly inferior to IWD. It also suffered from turn-based games old curse, combat turned into a crawl when there were many opponents on the screen. Even when they did things at the same time, it took ages for me as a player to get back in the action. Not as bad as some fights in Fallout, but it was still frustrating. Somehow this same phenomenon never bothered me in Silent Storm, so either they had better encounter design, or I was just too enamored with the game to care. Also, in ToEE, those damn cheating bugbears were annoying as all hell. I really hate those bugbears.

Somewhere on the Bethesda forums a poster noticed this, too. As for the music you have to remember that Fallout 3 is based on the 1950's versions of the future. To me, it therefore makes sense that the music used is from the 1950's in the game. This means there have been no hiphop, no breakdance, no house or dance music. Only the 1950's music - like a place frozen in time. Oh, I know it is a tribute to the setting of the originals. My problem with the 5 movie clips was, that it was the only thing "50'es" about them. The had that retro "90'es" feel to it (hence the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. reference) Otoh, the non-vault locations in the originals didn't have all that much of the 50's vibe either... Nor did they have 50's music in those locations of course.

The chance of Vista becoming the major OS to such a degree that XP will be obsolete is almost insignificant. I currently have it installed on my home computer and apart from DX10 there is not a single feature I have use for compared to XP. MS know they dropped the ball on this one, so Windows 7 will be released before XP becomes obsolete, that I'm sure of. But if you need to buy an OS, it matters little which you get.

Depends on the motherboard. My board has one slot for PCI cards. Typically there is at least a slot or two.

If you're going for 9800-series you should be looking at 9800GTX+ rather than 9800GT. Not sure what the price on the GT is, but the GTX+ isn't that expensive. It was initially priced at $219 by Nvidia. But given how much the 260 has dropped in price, I'd think about that one myself. That or the 9800GX2 which actually outperforms the 260 and the 280 in some tests. Or ATIs new cards, they have tested very good.

Control Panel > Folder Options > View > Remember each folder's view settings I think that should do the trick. Probably works in Vista as well, but on XP right now so I can't check.

How come this doesn't belong in Skeeter's? Anyway a lot of companies give away anti virus for free. Mostly it's ISP:s, but I can see how others would do it as well. What they get out of it? It's a marketing tool. Simple as that. If the OPs question is if there are free antivirus programs as a viable alternative to buying them, then yes, there are. AVG Free comes to mind for instance.

In regards to Vista, while it is annoying for those used to XP, it isn't all bad. I am currently trying it out at home and am starting to get the hang of it. Although at work it caused so many problems I went back to XP. The source of most Vista-related problems is the moronic User Account Control feature. It asks your permission every time you want to do anything that requires you to be an administrator. Only it doesn't always ask and when it doesn't you're not running things as an admin no matter what. Turn that thing off and Vista is much, much more easy to work with. If you work in software or web development there are still problems, most other fields I think it should work decently enough. Not sure when it comes to gaming, haven't gotten that far yet.

I'm also looking forward to this. I never got into Gothic until Gothic 3, but I really liked that one. Never did finish it though, my computer could only handle that much. I really should replay it now that I have a computer up to snuff.

If you read the other thread active in this section, framerate says they are working on three projects, so the unannounced not-rts won't be in production until SoZ ships. So they are holding to their three project model.

What Lucian is saying is what I was told when asking the same question. And it's also what I did. Also, don't stare yourself blind at the FSB thing. From what I gather that won't be the choking point for memeories anyway. What you want to be aware of is the Cas Latency. The lower the better. It's either represented as CL5 or if it's more detailed 5-5-5-18. I ended up getting 800mhz memories with CL4. I got 4GB of those for the same price as 2GB 1066mhz memories with CL5 (almost).

You're certainly not.

Considering Oblivion had virtually no DRM (a simple cd-check and that was it), it seems unlikely they'll all of a sudden go down that path.

I want to play this game so bad... The more I see of it the more I'm falling in love. Edit: One of the things I like the most is how the developers are so confident in their gameplay that they don't bother with cool cinematics in their trailers. All we get to see is gameplay excerpts (edited in a snazzy way of course) and they seem to think that'll be enough. And for me, it clearly is.

The aes sidhe are later versions of Tuatha De Danann from what I gather. Here is the wiki article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidhe#The_s.C..._aes_s.C3.ADdhe