Mamoulian War

Yeah Morion Blade + Rat Ring is crazy, but unfortunately, I suck to much to stay alive with 30% HP So I have used Kris Blade +5 + Ring of Magical Sharpness combo. Maneater on first time was for me like WTF, I put him down to 30% and then another one appeared and I went for Archstone again

Well, just to kill all the special Black Phantom NPCs and some levels, because I needed Friend's Ring Hehehe. Also i forgot to ask, Flamerlurker wasn't giving you any trouble on NG+,++ or NG+3? It was alaways the hardest boss for me. Flame Lurker is absolutely easy as pie for Caster Build. I was actually disappointed, when I found how to cheap shot him (. All you need to do is cast Cloak right after you walk into fog, run behind him from right side (when running on left side he can detect you sometimes), cast Homing Soul Arrow, run to save spot, cast Cloak again, and repeat... I remember confronting him for the first and second time. He pretty much instantly teared my ass. I found this cheap tactics only on NG++, so first two kills were pretty hard for me, and with Flase King Allant and Old Monk, they are the only three bosses, which could me put to RAGE while playing :-D Anyway I have finally achieved today the Platinum Trophy, when I learned last two miracles today. Right at the start, I have decided to not use the duping exploit, and it was well worth the fun and challenge ) The save says 197 hours played, and last time I have checked I had more than 700 deaths O.o I bet, that I went well over 800 :'( It is so far the most challenging Platinum, which I have achieved and 3 years ago, when I was stuck on False King, I have never thought, that I could get it. \o/

Well, just to kill all the special Black Phantom NPCs and some levels, because I needed Friend's Ring

Just finished NG++ of Demon's Souls. To my surprise, False King Allant was down just after 4 attempts! Looks like I learned how to play this game better in last 7 days Anyway, the biggest challenge for me this time was Black Phantom Satsuki. But in the end I was able to put him down after few attempts. Right after that, the Spider Demon, because it was my second boss in NG++ and I was still very rusty with controls and completely forgot most of the game mechanics. Lost a lot of souls there, but in the end, the game became after that little bit more relaxing I decided to get all the game drops, and was successfull with it. I was missing some vendor weapons and armors and the very rare Gargoyle Crossbow. But after hour or two, I have successfully acquired it Now onto my last NG(3+). For Platinum Trophy, I will need to kill 8 bosses and not 7 as I thought, I will need to rescue Saint Urbain in 4-2 as well. So I will probably go for Adjudicator as my second boss this time. Cheers \o/

They even confesed to it, in one of their interviews. :-P The biggest pirates in the EE, were the first people who opened the first official games shop in the region as well.

I seriously doubt that. It is very hard to believe, but 2015 is really the most quiet year in piracy/anti-piracy debate on this board Probably, that;s because GOG released to much awesomeness from kickstarters, that people simple did not have time to complain about big publishers and their DRM sillyness:P

You could not buy the non-shareware version of Doom in East Europe, because something like credit cards did not exist at that time here among average populace.

That's the part of my statement you take issue with, really? Every widespread phenomena has some cultural and social importance, all you need to do to get that is to live in a country where piracy runs rampant. Heck, there are countries which would apply mods on a game, rebrand it and sell it under a different name - now that's genuinely harmful piracy, but denying its cultural impact on countries where it actually happens would be a little silly. Anyway, the bit of my statement you actually should have taken issue with is the bit which goes on about *what* kind of importance that is, in other words, opening up to western market before it even properly arrived, because that's based purely on anecdotal evidence and my own experience. Edit: We would never talk about Doom in school if a classmate didn't bring a floppy (floppies?) with a copy from his uncle, which then quickly spread around. Majority of the games which formed my childhood were pirated - not that we knew that'S even a thing back then. And a big part of early purchases from me and my friends were based on excitement for next installments of those games or at least games which were similar. I moved around quite a lot when I was a kid/teenager so I experienced more than a single collective where this happened. Naturally, I might have just gotten lucky and what I experienced might not have been an indicative of majority at all. Actually this is what happened in every east european country. Every gamer was a pirate at some point, because there were no shops, which sold games here. After the shops started to open and they got older with proper jobs. they just stopped to pirate and start to spent ****loads of money on games. The guy which had 15 years ago the biggest collection of pirated games, that I have ever seen has now one of the biggest Steam Libraries I have ever seen. Like it or not, piracy in youth opens first the heart, and in middle age it opens the wallet big time. That is a fact, which I have experienced in my surrounding with almost everyone, who have ever played a pirated game, when I was a kid.

I don't see this as bad news. I pay for the games I play, so I'm also paying for the pirated copies that unscrupulous people play for free. More money to the game developers => better profitability => lower risk for investing in new games. One of the reasons, why you have so many Steam sales, is the direct competition with piracy. No piracy = no sales. Just look at the console market... There are almost no sales on digital downloads compared to PC games.

Once upon a time, one very wise man said, that Patience is a Virtue... He was very wise indeed...

After 3 and half years, I have booted up again Demon's Souls. I quit the game, because I was unable to kill False King Allant on New Game + and Dark Souls came out. I spent first 2 hours in getting back into the controls and gameplay. I have started to go against some easier enemies and then went back to False King. First attempt took me about 5 seconds, and got raped badly (sorry but there is no better word describing how that first attempt against him looked like ). Well, despite that very bad outcome, I have decided to not give up until the bad boss drops dead. It took me more than 20 attempts, but he got finaly his ass kicked! My quest for non-glitch-abusing Platinum Trophy of this game can continue Today after long and perilous experiences in NG++ I have finaly received Friend's Ring, and only Foe Rings missing now for the Rougue Trophy. I had to kill 8 black phantoms to get my character to Pure White Character Tendency, to get this ring, because as always, my first playthrough was done without any walkthrough, nor spoilers. And looks like I have killed two innocent NPCs during it Without Duping, for Platinum it is needed minimum of NG++ and 7 bosses in NG+3. The Hardest for me will be King Allant again and Old Monk on NG+3, we'll see how it goes, but I really love the difficulty and challenge of the game! Man have to really put some effort to learn the game, and I really love that!!! To bad, that not many games with such a rewarding gameplay are realeased nowadays

If it's true, It's Good news for the suits, but the bad news for customers and preservation projects like internet archive

Give it few weeks, and there will be enough porn for it, to justify the price :D

Final Fantasy IX-2.

Oh. You beat me to it! (

Clicking at one of the links in your second article I've found something very interesting to read about Canada... http://thefifthcolumnnews.com/2015/03/canadian-intelligence-caught-clandestinely-backing-islamic-state/

Soo have you played Wolfenstein: The New Order? Just sayin'. I ain't touching Steam even with a 10-foot pole... so no. If Beth put it on GoG, it would be day 0 purchase.

White March II Star Ocean 5 Tales of Berseria Torment Gran Turismo Sport Kingdom Hearts 2.8 Remix Dark Souls 3 Atelier Sophie Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory II Stellaris Probably Doom and Shadow Warrior II. It is very long time, when I played solid single player FPS. But only Shadow Warrior will be released on GOG, so I know who will get my money if I decide to buy new one. I wish I would be hyped for Final Fantasy XV as well, but well, the more I read about it the less hyped I am for it. All I can see is Skyrim with japanese bling bling.

Looks like FFVII Remake, will be also censored http://www.siliconera.com/2015/12/21/final-fantasy-vii-remake-developers-on-what-to-change-and-what-to-keep/ The more I read about it, the more I wish, that they would never cave in to the OMGREMAEKNAU crowd :-/

on GOG as well

The newest SNES emulators do not need BIOS dump to run. They are emulating everything out of the box. Only thing you need is the original cartridge to play it legit.

Well not if you have original cartridge. At least in most of the civilized countries it's fair use ;-)

Probably try to finally finish Demon's Soul New Game + Having little bit issues with the last boss and probably Tales of Graces F and Septerra Core. If I get to much free time, I'll probably start up Europa Universalis II or Crusader Kings. And of course some Grand Turismo 6 and before Star Ocean 5 comes out, I should make the final Chaos playthrough of Star Ocean 4. The last piece of the crazy requirements for the Platinum Trophy...

and this one on reuters is pretty interesting as well... image: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2Qvd0a_Nk9iUzB1U3dXUk5NVGs/view?usp=sharing the article from 5th november is long time deleted and the link was replaced to article from 6th november... EDIT: no way now to know, if they just changed the headline of the article, or something in the article too...

Yes it has been proven irrefutably that Assad used chemical weapons against his own people...not sure what Meshugger is trying to say? You mean this evidence? http://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-crisis-un-idUSBRE94409Z20130505 /sarcasm TLDR: UN had testimonies already in 2013, that sarine was used by rebels...