Wrath of Dagon

Why is it difficult to imagine when it was supposed to be a PC game all along? Console versions are nothing more than (possibly hasty) ports.

So the game is basically done but Sega doesn't want to release it during an empty Christmas season publishers would normally kill for. Nothing fishy here at all.

Console battles will have to be easier since you don't get the top-down view, or the click to move on companions, thus tactically battles will be harder to manage.

This is an absurd statement and true of any game that lets you save anywhere. Not really. In a crpg where party members can die, you not only have to win through an encounter, you have to win through keeping everyone alive. Unless you are willing to just write them off and move on. Which is always an option, but not one many are going to take. Plus eventually you'll run out of party members. In a gamer where party members can't die, you no longer have to concern yourself winning and keeping everyone alive, you only have to concern yourself with winning. Combat becomes much easier in that situation, and difficulty becomes less of an issue. So why not just make it harder to win? It's all a question of balance. With permadeath, they have to make the fight easier because you're only as strong as the weakest link, plus you're more at the mercy of randomness. Like the Dukes in MoW, I don't know how anyone would win that if you had to keep everyone alive. Sometimes you just have to sacrifice some pawns. Permadeath just requires different (not necessarily better) tactics and balance that's all.

Yes, most of the speed increases now are from parallel processing. It's difficult to increase clock rates further because of heat and latency.

Because developers are evil, and they know what you enjoy better than you do.

Lulz. This is funny as I do not think that you fully understand what you are talking about. Lulz why don't you enlighten me. "Lulz," good job counteracting my examples of David Ashenfelter and Al Jazeera. Hilarious. I normally ignore you, since you live in some kind of bizarro alternate reality and aren't really worth talking to, but OK. I'm not really familiar with the cases you named, but even if your allegations are true and intentional, it still doesn't have anything to do with freedom of speech in the US, which is what that table purports to rank. They actually have a separate (much lower) ranking for extra territorial US. Edit: OK, David Ashenfelter is in the US, I didn't immediately realize that. The person who's demanding he testify is not the government as you seem to imply, but the former prosecutor who was fired by the government for misconduct in a terrorism case and is now suing the government. It is his legal right to demand that the reporter testify, as there's no special law preventing reporters from testifying, as I said before. May be that's why US is ranked 39th, but I doubt it.

Lulz. This is funny as I do not think that you fully understand what you are talking about. Lulz why don't you enlighten me.

I read the check point system is really screwed up in this game, and I hate checkpoints to start with.

Ever seen a 16-year-old get prevented from seeing an R-rated movies? Movie and game reatings are clear examples of censorship. Hence, Jack thompson is an idiot. That is all. Um, while Wrath of Dagon's post clearly displays a lack of understanding of how the freedom of press index works, as far as examples of what he asked for go, I don't think that counts. It's censorship, sure, but not of the press. America scored reasonably high on the freedom of press index, largely because censorship is rare. But it faltered on other issues (such as indirect pressure by outside organisations, e.g. lobbyists or businesses). What's your source for that statement? I don't think that's a fair example, as it was clearly a mistake by a Federal judge, caused by Wikileaks not representing itself in court. Once other organizations sent representatives to explain the issues, the judge reversed himself. If he didn't, he would certainly have been overruled on appeal. The thing to understand about the US law is that judges can make any sort of ridiculous ruling, and occassionaly have. It doesn't become law however unless it is upheld by the Supreme Court. Yes, they don't see it as a threat because EU doesn't actually do anything. Having said that, I'd be perfectly happy if EU replaced us as the world's policeman, I don't see what it buys us, though I suppose some one has to do it.

If you're implying that's something I do, just presenting a number is not enough. What you have to show are the measurement methods and assumptions used to derive that number, so they can be examined critically. A good example of this are the ESA numbers of gamer demographics, which ESA uses to make all kinds of political points favorable to them. What they fail to mention is they consider someone a gamer if he played one free puzzle game within say the last year (or something like that). People then proceed to make all kinds of conclusions using those numbers about gamers who regularly buy $60 games.

My point exactly.

You just couldn't resist, could you? I wasn't aware I was discussing one of your many trigger? You of all people should be able to recognise the validity of the science behind global warming, even if you don't give a damn about it. Certainly in my country there's very little contentious about global warming and I was pretty sure most of the rest of the world (including even America) had gotten past climate change denial as well. It's good you have so much faith in your religion. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8299079.stm

Apparently it's a larger game than appears from the demo. May be it's worth $20 after all. http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2009/10/16...ium/#more-19738

I thought Knights of the Nine was some of the best content in Oblivion, but Shivering Isles had too many repetitive dungeons, though some of the story was kind of neat.

Well, the closest and easiest way of seeing a restriction in the "press" is to type **** or **** or **** on this very board and see what comes up. We have no such restrictions on any media channel in Sweden, for example. USA has lots of those, hypocrites as you are. We don't have any restrictions, except on public airways. Obsidian is free to restrict whatever it wants on its private boards, that has nothing to do with freedom of the press, you obviously don't even understand the concept. I was actually born outside the US. And I've been in about 6 other countries. Mexico couldn't be more different from the US btw.

The report is based on a questionnaire sent to partner organizations of Reporters Without Borders (14 freedom of expression groups in five continents) and its 130 correspondents around the world, as well as to journalists, researchers, jurists and human rights activists. Just to be clear they are professionals with an interest in freedom of speech, not some random group of people with an axe to grind. I imagine the main problems in the US have to do with national security issues, I recall several high profile cases where journalists were forced to reveal sources, and a general fear of lawsuits among the big publishing houses, although this is hardly unique to the US. Controversial investigative journalism has had a hard time this last decade as news outlets are pretty much only about making money and not so much any more about fulfilling their part in the system of checks and balances. I meant what specifically they found that caused them to give US a low ranking. Journalists are only forced to reveal sources if they're called as witnesses in a trial, reporters are not above the law and have no special protection as witnesses. Controversial investigative journalists can investigate and print whatever they like, if they're too lazy to do that or if there's not enough money in it for them to bother that's hardly an indictment of our freedom of the press. That organization itself said they only measure the freedom of the reporters, not the quality of the reporting. I challenge anyone to find a single case where the freedom of the press has been legally restricted in the US. This ranking is clearly a lie and propaganda.

I said for whoever's interested, since we're talking about different economies. I already posted a GDP growth chart for different countries. Edit: What a surprise, a group of leftist loons doesn't think US has enough press freedom. I'd like to know what they're basing that assessment on.

I get 400 billion zillion channels on my cable, of course I have to pay $80 a month. I can see Finland is very advanced. Here's the Economic Freedom Index for whoever's interested http://www.heritage.org/Index/Default.aspx

Here's an even more amazing tale of Communist espionage: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1009/28317.html

lolz

How do taxes help with the cost of living increases exactly?

No, social security surplus is an actual surplus, not debt. The debt is the sum of all deficits, the CBO public debt column is the true national debt, not what your chart shows, although that's a common mistake, it get misreported all the time.

Isn't Obama British anyway since he was born in Kenya when it was still a British colony? Btw, the Boers won the Boer War, the Spartans won at Thermopylae, and the Texans won at the Alamo!

Krezack, you chart is incorrect, it does not match my CBO numbers. This is probably because your chart is ignoring the Social Security surplus.