Wrath of Dagon

Newsweek, lolz, there's a reason they're about to disappear.

They should lose the piss filter.

You don't investigate, you jump to a stupid conclusion, makes sense to me in an RPG. But may be that should be explained to the previewers, so they don't make the game look bad through their own ignorance.

I was wrong about the electoral college having proportional representation, since each state gets electors for its senators. Also this article make a strong case for why it's a good thing: http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20100812/cm_csm/319397

Sort of related to the subject: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/12/educatio...amp;ref=science

Now this I think is an argument that has teeth. Under the "Full Faith and Credit" clause any agreement (remember marriage is a contract in the eyes of the law) made in one state is binding in another. If a couple was married in Iowa the shuold also be married as far as CA is concerned. If they were not then they can make a compelling argument for injury under both the Full Faith and Credit clause and the 14th amendment. I wonder why this has not been tried yet? It seems like the way to go to me. Enoch and I were discussing it once and he did not think it could win. He is certainly better infomred on this kind of thing than I am but it sounds like a no brainer to me. I may be remembering wrong, but I thought that was exactly the issue when the Defence of Marriage Act was appealed before the Supreme Court. They said it only applies to enforcing valid contracts, else every state would have to accept every law that another state passes, or something to that effect.

You don't know what the make up of the Supreme Court will be like by then. And did I miss the news, has Breyer quit being liberal at some point? It's not minutiae, it's the most important guaranty of our rights that exists. Of course that may be hard to grasp to a royalist. And there's no guaranty of equality under US constitution, there's a guaranty of equal protection under the law.

A lot of good games there, of the ones I've played Thief DS is my second favorite game ever, Metro 2033 is a good shooter, great atmosphere, and BG&E is very good also, the stealth is quite reminicent of Thief but not as deep.

Well, if you think about it, most game commercials feature CG cutscenes, so it's a marketing thing.

It wouldn't make much of a difference since the votes are still proportionally allocated. It would simply eliminate the case where someone could win more states by a narrower margin and defeat someone who wins fewer states by big margins. The real constraint on the big states is the Senate, not the presidential electors.

Laidlaw said The 500K discrepancy may just be an estimate artifact (game may have sold better in Europe, half of 360's are outside US, also there're more PS3's in Europe, EA shipped extra copies, etc), it still sounds too high to me. If I had to guess, I'd guess 200K, but that's nothing but intuition.

But DA2 is turning into Dragon Effect, so it begs the question why a game that garnered success on its on values needs to imitate another. The only signinficant thing changing for the console version is PC voiceover, and that's because most people prefer that. It's the same reasoning Bio used for why TOR is going to have full voice over.

I wonder what the Ninth Circus is going to think about the guy completely ignoring higher court precedents.

See his link on p 25. That's what I figured. Where you went wrong was assuming there's a significant PC component in there. I see nothing in the numbers to indicate that.

'Felicia day fanboys' is such an ugly way to put it... 'enlightened individuals' sounds MUCH BETTER. Italian women must've gotten a lot uglier since I was there.

The way I understood it he was doubling because he extrapolated from 2 months to 3 months and adding in PC sales, not because he was doubling for world wide. Which btw, probably 70-80% of full price sales will be in the first month. And yes, I meant $50 million in total revenue generated, not EA's cut. Actually figuring the profit they'd see is tricky business.

Both true and not? Prop 22 was exactly the opposite of claimed, it both outlawed homo marriage and was struck down by the court.

It only becomes unhealthy once it goes past a certain point.

Never happened.

The study sounds very plausible. There seem to be 2 kinds of people, those with tunnel vision (but more analytical) and those who think outside the box (but less logical).

Those sale number for ME2 are way down, VGChartz has it at 900,000 in it's first week and 1.4 mil after a month. Heh, VGChartz. There's a reason Wikipedia don't accept them as a valid source. EA's own figure was 1.6 million sold including all PC after three months, though it isn't the first time they've been caught out that way (similar thing happened with Bioshock). NPD is a limited source as well, but far better regarded than VGChartz. For What it's Worth the methodology I used to get the figure was: ME2 800k NPD (2 months 360)-> 1.6 million total sales after three months inc PC (per EA quarterly report). DAO 1100k NPD (2 months PS360)-> 2.2 million total sales after three months inc PC (extrapolation). DAO has almost certainly sold more than 2.7 million copies by February (reason: initial shipment was 2.7 million per EA quarterly report but it had shipped 3.2 million by February). That suggests PC sales of 500k + proportion of 2.2 million + whatever else has sold since = estimate of roughly a million. There are a bunch of assumptions there of course, but I'd say the 1 million estimate is a fair one. When you're extrapolating, are you taking into account that NPD is NA only? Worldwide doubling the NPD number is a pretty good estimate. If DAO indeed sold 1 million on the PC (which I don't believe) they'd be a lot more eager to support the PC (that's 50 million in revenue, surely worth a top down view).

Alan Wake

All the other Bio games since KOTOR were console ports, they came out on the console first. DAO was the only one meant as a true PC game, but even there they realized at the end it wasn't viable and had to quickly do console ports.

They said you won't be able to zoom out as far. Free camera doesn't cost them anything probably, so they can put that in. Edit: That only makes sense for a console port. If they were developing for PC first, certainly any PC can handle overhead views. The performance issue is just an excuse because they don't want to admit they're porting from console.

Why would you remove the overhead view from the PC version unless you're just porting from the 360 and don't much care about the PC version, since it's pretty obvious most PC players prefer the overhead view? And they said DAO was received better than ME, so yes they're trying to consolize because that's where most of their sales are, not because they think ME sells better.