Mamoulian War

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...

http://www.siliconera.com/2015/12/06/final-fantasy-vii-remake-will-be-a-multi-part-series/ So now it looks like FFVIIR will be episodic hack and slash :-/ The more I read, the more I am disapointed :-/

Thank you, that will help I will try it again maybe during the Christmas Holiday

Well, I really liked the Pyromancer, just the 8 charges was for me not enough... and I did not knew how to properly allocate stats Any hints from experience, what stats are best to powerup for Pyromancer?

Well, looks like I have chosen wrong class As soon as I finish Tales of Graces f, I will decide, if the game will deserve second chance from me

Well IMO, currently the best what can SE offer is Bravely Default, and Bravely Second. With these games, they stayed in line with their JRPG roots, and the sales were much bigger than Lightning Returns and probably even bigger than Final Fantasy XIII-2. I thought, they learned their lessons... Well, I still think FFVIIR will sell like hotcakes, but the whining and butthurt two days after will break the internet... For me, well I still think I will buy it, but currently, from what I have seen so far, I have decided to wait for big price cut.

Are you sure? Looked to me like you still had Attack/Magic/Summon/Item in the lower left, they just made the animations all fancy. I'd be really sad if I couldn't spend hours grinding Master Tonberrys while half-asleep by running in circles and spamming the x button...though I'm not sure I'll even buy the remake, despite spending far too many hours playing FF VII when I was younger. The bigger complaint is that Barret is too skinny and they haven't made Yuffie the main character. I think, the menu is just a placeholder for early build in a game, same was for FFXV when it was still called FFvsXIII. The video looked to me like a crossbreed of Crysis Core, Lightning Returns... I liked Crisis Core, because it was on PSP, but I am still regretting to give money to SE for Lightning Returns...

I bought the game right at the beginning, the dogs always shred me to pieces before I was able to do anything. Pyromancer has only 8 charges of some flaming stuff. The dogs just owned me before I was able to do anything with the charges :-/