Mamoulian War

No ****, Sherlock. Obviously, after years of paying insane taxes, you are left without the resources to face such an eventuality. You expect the state to cover your butt - which unsurprisingly, it can't do in your example. It did... And i have accumulated enough resources to have own big flat, own car, and i have no mortgage (or how it is called) and not a single EUR of debt Can you say that of yourself Mr.NoWelfareHealthcare And it still make me happy that when **** hits the fan, all the money i payed to our welfare medical care can save my ass in a hospital when i get an heart attack and the i get heart surgery worth of 100.000+ EUR and i do not pay a single dime...

Jesus Christ. Tell me about it.. I seriously cannot imagine the amount of money our government rakes in with 25% added to every single purchase.. it scares me at times. You know, lot of benefits European countries have compared to other countries, have very high cost, and they had to be paid somehow, i do not like the high VAT neither, but last time i had car accident and spent 42 days in hospital, i think it cost our government more than i had ever paid with all the VAT purchases i had... if i ended in hospital in an unnamed non-EU country... i would surely end up bankrupt, and could just shot myself in the head right after leaving the hospital...

To fuel the war even more... endless conflict = endless flow of money into the pockets of weapon industry

read http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/20...ndorse-foss.ars and puke...

what game is this???

Just started to play 1st Drakensang game, it's pretty nice game, just my PC is to old

Amen!

of course they do... as much as selling used cars increase the sales of new cars... Rich people buy new stuff, less fortunate sell old stuff to buy new stuff, the unfortunate buy only used old stuff... less possibilities to sell old stuff = less money for spending in the hands of less fortunate = less new stuff sales... CEOs often forget that common people can't conjure money out of nothing like FED...

No idea, but I wouldn't count on it to be internationally released in the coming 6 months. 'Twas the same story with Divinity 2, Venetica & the first Drakensang. That's why I always purchase the German version first anyway. According to Wikipedia, the int version was out February 24, 2009... but take it with a grain of salt... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drakensang EDIT: unless i am totaly out of touch with the PC gaming nowadays and there is already 2nd Drakensang game released in german speaking teritories...

Really? No game retailers here take PC games as trade-in. I would also say that the 2nd hand market is more a console problem. They do not want that you sell their 4 hour long game to your friend for 20 bucks, they want your friend to buy that game new for 50 bucks... 2nd hand market does not need to have a middle man...

way to go... who wants to guess what reason they will publish, when the game will not sell enough copies? I am betting fresh bottle of beer, that they will blame piracy... Oh and another bottle on used sales of Xbox and PS3 versions of the game...

I playing it for the 2nd time after maybe 10 years??? So i almost forgot everything what happened, so i am playing it without any possible spoilers i'll check the link as soon as i kick Ultimecia's ass

Just started God of War 2 few days ago, and still trying to finnish FFVIII, the monster leveling up is hillarious in the final dungeon when Squall is lvl 50 and the rest of the party is lvl 25

And another thread where do i have to agree with purkake... something must be wrong with the universe :D People like Quantic Dream, have to get rewarded for trying to do stuff, like they are trying to do... Else we end up soon drowned in CoD:MW clones, and i rather have QTE every 15 seconds than to play mediocre overhyped shooters all the time... Heavy Rain might be 7-8 hours long for the 1st playthrough, but it's still double the length of CoD:MW2, and you can play it more than once with absolutely different character backgroud... It's realy different to play Heavy Rain as arrogant coldhearted bastard who cares only about himself, or as caring altruist who would rather sacrifice himself just to save another soul... And the consequences realy do matter... It feels like completely different game... I do not remember any other game with such a deep consequences mechanic that was released... ever... I do realy hope it will sell as much copies as possible...

That's the reason why i am getting a copy... hopefuly we will see more games where consequence realy matter if this games sells a lot...

It's just matter of taste... According to Famitsu, FFX is voted best game ever in Japan, followed by FFVII in 2nd place, FFIV on 6th, FFIII on 8th, FFV on 15th, FFVIII on 22nd, FFIX on 24th, FFVI on 25th, FFX-2 on 32nd, FFII on 60th, FFI on 63rd and FFXII out of top 100th... My favourite is FFX-2, followed right with FFIX and FFVII and the worst of the series is absolutely FFVIII :S And somehow, I realy do not know why, I enjoyed a lot FFXII on my 2nd playthrough... and I realy hated that game when I finnished it for the 1st time... If you do not like some games, that does not mean there is something wrong with the game, there might be something wrong with the player - i am not saying that's specifically your case though Althought that i think that FFVIII is rubish, i still enjoyed few playthroughs of this game much more than any other RPGs which were released after 2005, with the exception of NWN2... That goes into list of my most anticipated games... Final Fantasy XIII, Final Fantasy versus XIII, Heavy Rain (it's still not out in EU), Gran Turismo 5, God of War III and Alpha Protocol (if it will not require Steam or some other restrictive DRM on the PC), and hopefuly Dissidia 2 is already in making PS: Oh and i totaly forgot Rage from id... and maybe Starcraft 2 if itwill not require me to be online all the time... I doubt i will ever play any SC2 multiplayer game... i am to old for all that micro **** already, and i do not enjoy when my ass gets kicked by 14years olds

That would be Final Fantasy VI

Hmm i liked it much much more than the 1st one

Do you know that something similar to this was already present in "Clash of the Titans" (1981) movie and many people say it's an example of classic?... so no, you have to give better example of how GoW fails with not going with the myths... If you read at least few ancinet greek myths, you find how many of them have similar stories to tell... Especialy about era of Greek Primordial Gods... I am not saying that GoW story is "OMG teh bestest", but at least, it tells story similar to many of the original ancient myths...

I realy hope this is not the deal, else we get some retarded gangrape of the original IP with overhilarious marketing, ridiculous antisecondhand sales features and NPCs asking for your creditcard numbers selling the newest DLC with special nut armor for your hero... Not to mention huge sales! Not sure about that, the marketing did helped DA for sure, but ME2 in it's 1st week is far behind the sales numbers of ME1 afaik... We'll see how good/bad Dante's Inferno will fare and how many DA owners actualy buy the expansion...

Calax, can you please elaborate more on White Knight Chronicles without spoilers? I've seen very mixed reviews, i think i am more favoured to the positive reviews i read, than the negatives, but i could use some sort of "stimulation" to finaly decide if i shall buy it or not... I presume you like JRPGs, when you purchased it, and many reviews in magazines feels like they are just written by people who think Halo and CoD:MW2 are the greatest games ever created. So i would like to hear how does feel the overal gameplay, depth of the story and all the japanese bells and whistles, from JRPG fan...

I realy hope this is not the deal, else we get some retarded gangrape of the original IP with overhilarious marketing, ridiculous antisecondhand sales features and NPCs asking for your creditcard numbers selling the newest DLC with special nut armor for your hero...

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Gee, I wonder why people would feel inclined to resell a game. I mean, it couldn't possibly be because it's an overpriced piece of ****, right? I'm not saying that the producers of crap games should go under, but... wait, scratch that. That's exactly what I'm saying. Want to reduce second hand sales? Increase the game's replayability value so people will not want to resell it. Well, sometimes they resell so that they could buy the next one coming up. You know that in this case, people who can't resell just buy less games, right? Killing second hand sales means less new game sales, because people with lower budget will just not conjure more cash out of the air to buy same amount of games without possibility to resell...

Um... I'm sure you will have an "Away" or "Appear Offline" function? I realy hope so, anything different is BAD!!!