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Even though it's reassuring that Valve is privately held, I'm almost looking forward to the time when EA, Activision and every other major company merges into one supermassive ****hole. I think something like that is impossible to avoid (trying hard not to sound like some kind of Karl Marx of the computer game industry), followed of course by a surge of independent developers and low-budget games.

Please, Obs isn't Konami.

Bethesda buys id = EPIC FAIL. Next, we will see EA buying both Bethesda and Blizzard (or is that Activision/ Blizzard? ) and then we'll have all our games coming from the same ****hole. They will probably fire 90% of all personnel and have the remaining work on FIFA 2012, and I bet their shareholders will be happy about the profits.

Rob Denton? Is he related to J.C.?

I hope he was serious here, because that is a pretty good answer to the question. In order for a player to be involved in a game, he (or she) must be faced with important issues and questions they're able to relate to. Choices in a RPG can and should be about much more than just "should I do the fetch quest or the kill quest and get item X or item Y as reward?".

Does this "new" fantasy game perhaps have something to do with the cancelled project called "Seven Dwarves"?

Around 07:10 in part 9 of the speech, I think we can see some new video footage from Alpha Protocol. It's a very interesting speech, and Chris seems to be a fairly bright guy. However, his interpretation of the Prisoners dilemma is a bit strange.

Yeah, and let her name be Alys... or Jill perhaps? I can't decide which would be the most clich

This is better: Too bad it's in swenglish though...

If we assume they were real (which is rather unlikely), the only place they could have come from is Japan or Russia, if you want things to make sense. And in that case they were probably on their way to being sold. The thing that bothers me is that I read on some page that the total amount of Treasury bonds was smaller than $134 bn (which would prove that theay are indeed false)... Yet this page states that the total amount of Treasury bonds amount to $1723 bn....

I agree, MP would actually be fun... GoldenEye 64 anyone?

I'm not telling my advice is the solution to the entire problem, but I seem to remember ASUS and Gigabyte mobos have a RAM configuration such as the one I described (maybe Taiwan is the common denominator here?).

The two RAM's should not be in adjacent slots, but in the two blue slots (Or in the two white ones).

You can save at any time in Splinter Cell too, no? The way I remember it, I could. On PC at least. I know it's strange, but I've heard there are actually people who prefer to play games on boxes they plug into their TVs somehow. For some inexplicable reason these users are often bothered by not being able to save anywhere in their games.

I seem to remember a H.P. Lovecraft novel with a dream sequence with a bus... or was it a tram? Hmm... or maybe I dreamt that..

Cool, my question about MMORPGs got an answer

Awesome, we should have a sticky thread called "Cespenar's Cookbook" or something like that.

Parts of the music kind of makes you wonder whether there will be Bond references or not. Something makes me think of Goldeneye 64. Or maybe I'm always thinking of Goldeneye 64? I like most of the music... The title music is a bit zany, though. Some of the music also feels just a little bit too intense, but it's still masterfully crafted.

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Nerds talk so much about how they like women it's almost gay at times.

That text is pure genius

Fire Warrior was really The Epicest Fail and to be honest I do not have very high expectations for this new game...

Well, I do hope you can choose (at least to some degree) who you're aligned with. That's pretty integral to RPG games.

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Oookay. North Korea and Venezuela are two entirely different things . I do not mean to say that Venezuela is a extraordinarily free country to live in, but Venezuela is (so far) at least a functioning democracy while North Korea is an entire different business. As to why Chavez retains his power - well, we'll see what happens if the oil prices go down, I think it will be easier to draw conclusions then. Suffice to say that most people on these boards come from relatively well-to-do countries, and we would perhaps have a hard time imagining what it would be like if we lived in a poor country full of oil that suddenly diverted large parts of the state budget to helping the lower classes and hiring people to state-owned companies. It is not hard to comprehend that Chavez through these actions have gained a very large group of votes, more than enough to vote him to power again and again. The interesting question is of course what will happen when Chavez can no longer afford this, and if he can relinquish his power (and/ or reform his programmes) if things go bananas. In such a situation, will Venezuela have gained something from his time in power or not?