Orogun01

Stock cinematic from a common whore, she's dirty.

But the new film will probably won't have classic line such as "I AM...THE LAW!!!" or Rob Scheinder.

Well, if we have defined copyright and intellectual property as ownership over ideas it could be a free speech case. Just with another meaning of the word "free"

Buyer's beware, the new content it's only a quest per side on the main story.

Well, that is part of the problem with the "publisher" model, isn't it? Being investment companies there is a constant drive to try to tap new markets (or squeeze more out of existing). Sometimes through added advertising (product placement and targeted advertising through profiling), sometimes nickling and diming (DLC) people to death, price fixing (hello EA and others), acquisitions and mergers (to prevent competition) and so on. Anything goes when trying to corner a market. One of the reasons that I like Bethesda as a publisher it's that they're a developer. Much like in the music industry producers are often musicians who had their careers, yet they bring all of their love of the art, experience, and craft to the table. To keep the comparison with the music industry, a producer who's an artist or has a love of the art will look for talent, an investor it's looking for the next hit. So investors tend to play it safe on guaranteed results because they have no idea what their product's really worth because they know next to nothing about it. So we get a 100 cloned games greenlighted because of investors, effectively stagnating the industry. I could easily equate the disco explosion of the 70's to the modern FPS phenomenon.

All things considered, publishers lose more money to retail stores rather than piracy. I mostly wait for the drop on prices and lots of time buy used since the store has a system in place to encourage you to buy used. I would compare it to a drug manufacturer that gets constantly swindled by their dealers and does nothing about it. Maybe a change in the production and distribution markets would end up increasing revenue for publishers without the need for intrusive DRM.

Just remember that it's a war simulation game, which means you walk 20 miles in realtime just to get your head shot off from half a mile. Oh and there are no quicksaves or manualsaves, just checkpoints after 400 miles. A great incentive not to get your head shot off at mile 399.

Yes yes, and everytime someone equates copyright infringement with theft they're murdering logic, raping and pillaging reason, and cannabalising reality. They aren't the same, it's entirely an Appeal to Emotion. Copyright infringement does not involve depriving the owner of the use of and possession of something, ie the legal and actual definition of theft. If you steal a car or wallet the owner no longer has them in their possession and cannot use them. If they were duplicated the owner would still have use of them. It's also not a criminal matter (except in unusual circumstances), but a civil one, unlike theft. Ultimately you are of course free to consider piracy as theft, barratry, arson, libel, murder, DUI, terrorism, fraud or whatever but it'll only ever be copyright infringement. I also find it rather difficult to muster any outrage whatsoever that multiple years ago someone may have duplicated an infinitely reproducible virtual good that was not available for purchase at the time- I see little point to whiteknighting corporates at the best of times (frankly, corporates don't give a asterisks beyond what benefits them, so hey! reciprocal right back at 'em) and a situation where a product is arbitrarily unavailable due to geography is hardly the best of times- it's simply not anyone else's business but the copyright holder's and the infringers. So it would be more akin to counterfeit goods rather than theft.

Wow, look at all the detail on those pollution clouds

Luckily, I wear adidas when I play the game.

I wonder if you can still mod all the horrible crap in if it's an MMO.

PC version? I'm finding the arm wrestling in the XBox360 version quite easy. PC version, but I play with a gamepad otherwise it would impossible; I reiterate, impossible to actually play the Witcher2 on the PC. That's how bad the PC controls are.

Only if they let users load all their mods.

At the moment I find it hard to frown upon piracy since it did help me to get the September/2011 UDK Beta without which I would find myself in a bind. Quite frankly aside from GOG and whatever other sites are dedicated to preservation of media, piracy does maintain a large number of games that would be impossible to get on the market since their systems have already expired.

Ok, would you still agree (as many of those pirate groups do) to support the developers of the games that you've enjoyed?

That's what bothers me about the bit in Verven, there is no alternative. If you are caught you miss on all the rewards, not that they are anything special or that they would alter the course of the story. But still the completionist in me hates defeat,specially because some guy can urinate while being vigilant.

I think that it's sort of a tradition for the game, since it really does flesh out the character and brings it out a bit more by engaging him in those pastimes. I would just prefer that it wouldn't be so cumbersome, specially for a side quest.

The sneaking bits bothered me a bit but since there was only one that was really annoying (Loredo's backyard) I would still say that what annoyed me the most was the arm wrestling and dice minigames.

Are you high or drunk?

Do you mean that if therapist freelance the entire parlor gets shut down? Or a you talking about happy endings?

It's a tutorial, it doesn't do much beyond tying the new arena mode to a story. Most of the content it's said to be at Chapter 3 with a path exclusive quest, either "Lilies & Vipers" or " The secrets of Loc Muinne" and more importantly you get a sex scene with Cynthia.

I'm actually more curious to know why we got so many Russian loons. Is LoF Russian, btw?

I wasn't actually expecting a repeat of Escape from New York, quite frankly I was just excited to see the name Luc Besson attached to another project. Specially since I haven't got a kick from an action film in a while. :sigh: I miss the 90's and cars exploding in every movie. I was split whether to see this movie or The Raid, eventually the decision was made for me but I don't regret a bit. The Raid had some awesome action scenes, bloody as hell and you could tell in that they actually beat the crap out of each other for real.

So hacking phones it's ok but hacking the pop charts it's wrong. Britain its a confusing place

Oh, no. Not so much arguing against it just.... It's not a film I'd go to the cinema to see. It's a film I'd enjoy watching with mates around, a few drinks, and a big screen tv as we enjoy the cheesey entertainment. It's Escape from New York done today. Good, fun, not overly complicated, a chunk of snark, some amusing violence. It is what it is. Escape from New York it's a ****ing classic, you sir don't deserve to have watched that film Also what's with the girl playing the female lead, does she actually like playing characters that are an R rating from being gangbanged?