sorophx

preview videos? right. and aren't rentals essentially the same thing as piracy? or does the publisher get a cut every time I rent their game from some store?

yeah? I thought that if you get surrounded blocking doesn't help. and for some reason my character fails to counter-attack 50% of the time, he gets stuck in his blocking animation. maybe it's my mouse, though. I also forgot to mention that I never put any points into any stats or abilities unless my equipment choices or the game demand it. right now I have 60+ points stored in both abilities and stats. I always tend to gimp myself to get the max out of the game. so I tried melee in the beginning, then I tried ranged. I liked ranged more so now with accuracy at 50 and endurance at 25 I'm almost too weak but I still manage to win most battles with a bit of planning and skill. provides a challenge. since combat in this game is too simple. man, will we ever get an AAA game like Blade of Darkness but with a bigger game world? I don't use potions

can't tell much without spoiling anything, but TW2 is essentially a big dungeon crawler. quest-givers exist only to make the player explore entire locations. it's basically a hack/slash game. reminds me of Diablo sometimes. it's a mix and mash of every big RPG released in the last couple of years. Oblivion+Witcher+Fable-thing abomination. there's no C&C or dialogue choices. most quests (95%) have only one possible solution. the combat is brutal, though. melee combat is very unforgiving. I found a glitch which made me practically invincible, but without it I stick to ranged weapons, because it's the only way to avoid getting killed every few minutes. ranged combat made the game pretty interesting actually, thanks to traps/decoys/dungeons' layout. personally I like the game, but that's because I approach it not as an PRG but a slasher (which it is). I'm on chapter 3 now, and the story still sucks. the only really good thing about it are visuals, graphics and level design. the interface and most quests are atrocious.

I remember buying a copy of the PC port of Gears of War on a CD, I beat the game in 1 afternoon and naturally wanted to try it online. but then my system got corrupted and I had to wipe everything off the hard drive. so I tried to reinstall GoW. and it wouldn't let me. on any other system the PC would just reject the CD. now, it might have been possible to download another version with my CD-key directly from the publisher, I never got to trying. but the idea of making the installation 1-time-only just blew my mind. did I download a cracked copy of the game afterwards? yes I did. because it seemed like the easiest solution. was it wrong? I don't think so. P.S: the Wildfire Games post is right on the money.

ugh, never beat Fable that game was just too bad no matter how I looked at it.

by "copied" you mean didn't buy it? because as far as writers go (the real ones), they don't care, the more people read it the better, right? or am I alone in this?

some of you seem to be missing one point, a lot of people who pirate games don't even realize they're "stealing", that it's illegal. downloading a game is exactly the same as getting a copy from a friend. the source of the problem is the Internet itself and the total accessibility it provides. piracy only became a problem when publishers noticed it's scale, when it expanded beyond the scene. they're definitely not losing a lot of money, at least they weren't 'til recently. you're right, the only way to solve it is to sell games at acceptable prices and make them accessible. for example, in my hometown there's not a single store I can buy games at, you can be sure no local 16-year old kid will go out of his way to order/download a legit copy, because it's a 3-step process and there aren't a lot of parents who'd bother with it.

oh, I must have had it turned off. characters covered in blood from head to toes do look silly

even Mass Effect had a better beginning you're obviously biased you work for TopWare?

oh god. there's so much blood on the floor under her... that's usually the result of a dead body, that had been lying for hours, not two people fighting. it does like like anime, only the more morbid type.

this is pure genius! when he started break-dancing, I almost lost it

the funny thing is Two Worlds 2 has a story very similar to Risen...

judging by the intro and the first two areas, it's crap. I think it's a very poor story, for a first chapter, that is. maybe it gets better. the game itself is beautiful, though. a very good engine. the only problem is character animation. the hero look like a cripple when running

that's pretty much my whole gaming youth

that's what I meant, I will never see the old looks.

I must be missing something, but the melee in two worlds 2 is... errr... nothing spectacular. at least it haven't been so far. the character isn't very responsive to comands, most of the time I just keep clicking the left mouse button because there's no way to apply tactics while attacking, I get surrounded all the time. I hope it gets better as you level up and find new skill books. and then there's Dragon Age-style slo-mo kills gotta give credit to the developers, though. at least they tried to make it complex and interesting. but mob placement ruined it (unless they had a jack-of-all-trades character in mind when designing dungeons)

so, if I understand correctly, they removed the old zones and replaced them with new ones permanently? I'm asking because the russian distributor is giving away the base game and the first expansion for free, I'm thinking about trying it out... does it mean, I won't see the old zones even if I don't install Cataclysm?

ugh, really? I thought you could activate it online. I mean, this version I have here, it's in english, in order to play it I just have to buy a serial code and then activate the game. or I can play through the tutorial for free. or it's available only in Europe?

so, do we have a Two Worlds II thread somewhere? such an anticipated game and nobody played it yet? the demo gives me headaches, I want to discuss

which is exactly like The Witcher (I only have the demo, but can't shake the feeling I'm playing TW 1.5)

I'm trying to imagine a third-person Fallout game, that is designed like Tactics: with missions rather than an open-world big area thing, with a very deep combat system. something like Alpha Protocol but better and without QTEs. and in my mind it's the best RPG ever...

yes, yes, they did keep in mind, that a lot of people still use old operating systems like Windows Millenium or XP. back in the day Micrisoft didn't have representatives in many countries. naturally, Windows'd get copied and redistributed by bootleggers. besides, modded versions of Windows tend to run more stable. as for the PC, there's a huge market of used parts. it's not a problem to build a relatively fast machine by gathering components from different people and/or bigger stores that offer hardware at very low prices. electricity is something different, of course. mine costs me 20 bucks a month at most, that is if I leave the PC running for a couple of weeks. usually, though, it's around 10-15 dollars.

yes, they did. I think it was in one of the holotapes in FO2 (or in the bible)

a decade? I'm getting the impression it was made in 2006, that's only 4 years EDIT: what? Titan Quest so much cheaper than Torchlight? 15 euros is too much for it

yeah, I figured as much, but my grasp of english kinda failed me there, and I just couldn't resist