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More than you might think I think the reason that many of us find them to be better is that they play on human nature instead of simply showing "You win!" movie that shows nothing and leaves you with nothing but an empty feeling. I saw Strelok returning to the old man and the dog in the 'merge ending' and thought I might at least get something related to returning home or something, instead I got nothing.

Penny arcade beat you to the Nazi comparison, theirs was jus subtle.

Not surprised, just wondering. The numbers are interesting because they show that we could attain something close to a 20-25% DX10 marketshare when W7 comes around and people might just stop being prissy little princesses. So true DX10 games in 2010-2012? And yes people are probably happy with XP. I still think that the bad hype has had an effect considering people still mention Vista as buggy and Bloatware, which isn't entirely wrong if you still live in 2007. Vista is still bloated, but that doesn't mean that it will be particularly noticable if people have computers that can actually run newer games. And the buggy part haven't been relevant since I started using Vista and that was back in september or something. The diagram shows nothing except that corporate users dislike Vista which isn't related to how many people use it. or am I missing something?

I'm normally mostly a fan of homebrewed IPs, but, I think you should go spread this idea around the office and see what happens.

The problem with the "I want to be rich" ending is that the people who get it are the ones that ignore money and get enough because STALKER like any other game with an economy where you can sell stuff ends up with more money than you know what to use it for. I too enjoyed the wishgranter endings once I realized the idea behind them. @Whiteteeth's Dreamfall comment Didn't fancy an ending where practically nothing gets resolved eh? I still wonder about that one.

I saw a carcrash last week and while most people agreed that it was just a horrible carcrash I saw the truth in it. The carcrash was in fact a masterfully designed alien plot to trick innocent humans, and definately not a carcrash. I know this because Occam's razor shows that this theory has better explanatory power than the regular carcrash theory because of the shrewd and manipulative minds of aliens. I'm not saying it's the truth but it is a very real possibility Xard + Krezack debunking and I'm not sure I ever want to do an argument like this again. And yes I'm being outlandish for a reason. @Gromnir 1) You being banned from Bio means nothing.a 2) Your football match argument is not analogous at all. 3) People in the armed forces would have problems because the problem wasn't whether they would turn on their computers every 10 days but rather whether they can get acces to the internet at least once every 10 days. Considering that we have anecdotal evidence of this and nothing to disprove it I would say that it is indeed the more likely case. 4) When and where did Bio employees lie? 5) What's this AIDS misinformation you're alluding to? a: we have on the other hand seen to many bad spy movies not to consider the fact that you might be a double agent. : :ninja10: Someone please tell me if I'm being completely wrong here?

Of course it makes sense to you, you created it. It is all hypothetical as there is nothing that points towards it except that "it could be". There is no reason (as in no evidence) to believe that Bioware had done anything except what we know them to have done, come back when you have evidence that either disproves Bioware's/EA's claims or proves that your claim is right. As RN said Hindsight. You are working on the assumption that Bioware has dishonorable intention and the fact of the matter is that you know nothing of Bioware's intentions. Edit: Also Occams Razor. Edit2: Occam should have had an easier name, damn famous people with strange names!

As likely as any conspiracy theory, yes. You have nothing that points to this except that it could be.

I'll detail how to get the stuff needed for the "proper" ending then, read at your peril: At some point in the game the main questline splits into two. One of the new quests is the one about finding Mole which in turn will lead to finding Strelok's stash. You will then go through several quests which will end in pripyat (or whatever the northernmost city is called) at another of Strelok's group's stashes and here you will find a 'key' that will help you through a specific door. About finding the door: At some part when you fight your way through the inside of Chernopy NPP you will fight the Monolith in a hallway that is slightly before the wishgranter, this halways has to exits; one leads to the aformented wishgranter. The important part here is to go out the other exit and find the aforemented speciel door. If you're in doubt check you quests as one will lead you to the wishgranter and one will ask you to find the door. That should be plenty of spoilers. Edit: Does this make sense?

If not then you haven't spent enough time Edit: Totally didn't realize that I'm still in spoiler-land, hence the spoilerizing.

I'm not sure I would call the 'merge with AI' a good ending considering that the zone appearantly dissapears in the longer ending and I'm not in the habit of trusting AI's when what they claim to be doing is both needlesly complex and obtuse. STALKER is deliberatley vague with both endings but something doesn't feel right. Also you seemingly have to 'kill' it for the zone to dissapear.

Spoilerized for those who know nothing and want to know nothing: @D_N

Please do.

I'm not sure that buinesses moving to Linux (don't a lot of them already use it?) would make it the dominant platform. Dominant doesn't just mean more users. Linux will also need some way to make it actually worth moving to for people who don't care about their OS and who don't need anything special.

I guess you could say that the question is whether developers will get real and start using DX10 better before 2010ish when windows 7 will come out which most people for some reason think is gonna be loads better than Vista, which is already quite good. I'd say that you should get Vista so the day of DX10 games can come closer, UNITED, WE'RE UNSTOPPABLE! *Starts waiving a sign saying "Vista rules, xp drools"* @Krezack Do you have a link to wherever you got the 10-15% claim from?

Noone knows exactly what it is tied to and as such the only reply really is that it is tied somehow to some hardware things in your computer. I don't know what will The graphicscard shouldn't be important when it comes to tying it to the PC as Derek French reported being able to switch graphicscard without using another authentication. Noone really knows anything excpet what we can deduce logically from the very little info that we have gotten so all of these questions are a bit premature.

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Thanks for the tip. It's a Hall of Fame mod and as such I would have found it as soon as I find the time to start going through mods, much appreciated though.

So anyone of you guys that know of any mods that have non-traditional stories and especially non-traditional narratives in them? I do like the regular mods and I will play them at some point but the kind of mods that I outlined above are the ones that interest me the most. For NWN I personally liked Beneath for its different way of doing things and I would be looking for some similar experiences in NWN2.

That would be the worst thing to do. What they should do is to focus on Rapture and its fall, there is a good story in there and it can be told on the big screen.

All the games were based on the film.

Hardware configuration. Noone knows anything more specific than that.

Securom registers hardware configuration and counts down for each different configuration. That's how I understood it at least, there is a bit of leeway as Derek French showed when he claimed to have switched out a graphics card without using up another one.

Let me preach His name! Ready to unleash eleven barrels of hell! This is essentially what happens when anyone mentions Dawn of War, it's like OCD except it's fun.

Basically, yes. I mean, I have installed and re-installed some of my older games at least thirty-fifty times - would I be able to do that with Mass Effect? Probably not. You've gone through 30-50 different pcs over the last 10 years? I used to reformat my gaming PCs at least once every three months. Add a couple of changes of machines and harddrive crashes and it comes out about right. You should get authentications back if you just manually uninstall the game. I too think it is ****ty, but then again, so is Bioware getting bad sales and stepping their copy protection up for Dragon Age. Nothing is sure when you vote with your wallet, but you're doing something, doesn't that count for something in your book? @Tale I agree completely with what you wrote about the new iteration of the copy protection, but surely the rpoblem I outlined above would be the worse fate. I'm certainly buying now just to show that the complains were there for a reason and that actions such as Bioware's is appreciated.