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Anyone know how long will it take before we can find out what project Virginia was? Someone mentioned that NDA on cancelled projects is even stricter than on the ones in progress.

TL;DR version: intervention is a French plot to maintain economical privileges?

I'm not arguing that scale of piracy is insignificant, it's that console piracy is greater than one on PC is what I find unlikely. The issue I have is with implication that software piracy is unstoppable with which I disagree. There is a world of difference between securing software and media. There will never be a effective solution to protecting the latter as thanks to it's non-interactive nature all you need is a video camera. Software works differently. They have been doing that for a while now. Game pricing in Russia or Hong-Kong is significantly lower than in western countries. I doubt it will do them much good in the long run, I imagine they are actually losing money on that business. I'm perfectly aware how big a business piracy is. The point is that it can be effectively combated on consoles if people designing them will actually put effort into it. Companies designing and securing those machines can make use of far greater technical expertise than any would-be hacker. Whether they actually want to is another matter.

Source for that? Simple survey of the torrent trackers would still point to the contrary. That's an exaggeration. PS3 has been cracked only recently and is now re-secured with firmware updates. You can't buy a pirate version of Portal 2 for PS3 (at least for the time being). What makes you think that PCs are still in need of constant upgrades? As the old PC market divides into specialized devices the need for universal desktop computers grows ever smaller. In fact laptop sales have almost overtaken desktop sales recently. And there is only so much upgrading (or gaming) that can be done with laptops.

would you prefer the typical fantasy approach? "zomg you the Chosen One!" "no wai! i'm just a farmer/street urchin/irrelevant peasant!" "is troofs! you are destined to defeat Epic Big Bad Guy!" "okay now all of a sudden i have awesome fighting/magic skills. i'm ready for my destiny!" If done in sufficiently corny way? Sure. But when you try to go for a serious approach and have little original ideas to present please don't hit me over the head with exposition. I can catch things on the fly and it's unlikely I will bond with cast this large anyway.

I really doubt becoming a suicide bomber is considered a career choice in those societies. And opportunities to become doctors and lawyers are not that common even in western democracies. I'm going to have to disagree with you here, being a doctor or a lawyer is not as lucrative in these places as it is in the west. It is still possible for them to have a relatively great number of doctors and lawyers. E.G: Cuba's a third world country and still manages to have a great medical system, going so far as to send doctors overseas. The problem I see is that acquiring education in such a society without any proir familiy history takes a good deal of social mobility. No matter our wishful thinking I doubt that is a common feature of afgan society. In general making policies for such a place projecting our societies and institution onto a tribal people will rarely end well.

I guess no one else found the first episode boring? There was almost no fantasy elements to catch attention and it mostly consisted of the introduction to the (typically pop-culture-distorted) characters and politics.

I really doubt becoming a suicide bomber is considered a career choice in those societies. And opportunities to become doctors and lawyers are not that common even in western democracies.

Now that could get problematic. I don't revisit inventory often but some of my friends do it all the time.

They've updated their FAQ. It says the game supports 16:9, 16:10, and 4:3. Yes. Native, non-native and letterbox respectively.

It was handed out for free as a part of some promotion.

I guess this was to be expected since they didn't streamline them enough in Oblivion/Fallout3. But how can they hope to maintain alchemy/enchanting without them? Majority of magic effects in Oblivion resulted in increase/lowerinf of stats. Doesn’t seem like they could work similarly with perks. This probably means the end of SPECIAL for Fallout.

Apparently the game will support only 16:9 aspect ratio. Other resolutions will get black bars. Anyone else find it hilarious that after all the emphasis CDP placed on graphics and supporting the PC platform they messed up something so simple?

So it's not all social perceptions. And through medieval period it was punished by burning at the stake. Not the best example to make an argument. Biological diffrences if willing. For unwilling cases a combination of social/personal factors and peer presurre.

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I'd say that a system that doesn't need a separate overlay for judging proper cover location would be an improvement. Not to mention actually do the hiding faze automatically in response to being shot at. Civ 5 TB combat is a poor example as it quickly resulted in players winning wars with 30 to 1 unit loss ratio. TB systems in general tend to be deeply flawed and confusing to newer players. If you really want to hate the ja2 remake just wait for the presentation of the strategic layer. You can already see vehicles on the tactical map that would make a major strategic resource in ja2. Something tells make that

For a beta that doesn't look half bad. But that

Shouldn't that also mention non-combat skills? Somebody posted a screenshot showing intimidation on a character sheet.

Geohot settles with Sony The terms are of course confidential but it seems that hackers donating to the defense fund were hoping for a different outcome. EDIT:Seems the terms didn't stay secret for long. Most seem to be generic "you shall not hack anything Sony ever again" agreements. No sign of a big paycheck conspiracy theorists were imagining.

The days of such complexity are long gone. Have you actually seen modern gamers trying to play thief? It's not pretty. I'm currently playing Darksiders. It's generally ok for a mindless game but tries too hard to be too many things at once.

No it's not. That modern games have abused the term to pretend action games have more depth doesn't mean that the essence of what is an RPG experience can be discounted completely. RPGs were never about levels and XP points but about the way metric were used to describe world and character that shaped your experience. If your reflexes and manual dexterity played as big a role as those metrics the game was called action-rpgs if they were far more important it was simply an action game. Analogically tactical-rpgs and strategy games were determined by the weight of your tactical and strategic decisions. Whatever will RPG mean when devs finally rebrand it is more difficult to ascertain but considering the current trend "there are numbers in it" will likely suffice.

Could you give source for this? Would love to see fort battles remodeled and some improvements to unit behavior but it does seem a little late.

Too bad they didn't mention pancreas cancer. I'd love to find out how many people here are looking forward to experiencing some of the worst pain known to modern medicine. Marijuana may be a bad example. It is after all most commonly smoked.

If you can tell it's a woman then it's not really realistic.

There's huge numbers of enemies to be sure but I never found it grindy in a mmorpg way. It's just the gameplay style. I do think it would be a difficult play for anyone who is used to DA or ME or even Oblivion. Plus there is the party combat from a first-person viewpoint which I think would be really offputting to a gamer who didn't grow up with the style when it was common. my first crpg was fallout in 1997 (at which time it became my favorite game and spawned my love of the crpg). I see that M&M 6 came out in 1998, the same year as baldurs gate, so it cant be THAT archaic right? It can. Some dungeons in game may actually need days to clear providing you won't hit respawn time by the time your done. Add to that the seriously unbalanced spells - if you miss the right magic path you can screw yourself permanetly. In short - there is a reason why M&M and Wizardry series died out. Besides there are better candidates for seeing older WRPG more in line with standards Fallout/BG would later establish - you can check the likes of Dark Sun, Realms of Arkania or even Betrayal duology. They are a little older tho and it can be felt on the graphic/UI front.