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Guys would you recommend playing CK1 before this game, or just start on CK2?

I also completed the survey, I must say it open's the proverbial can of worms around the various conspiracy theories on the role of gaming journalists and how objective they are. I imagine some people on this forums will have a field day answering these questions

I find it interesting that you're characterizing these protests as "riots," when Brazil's president Dilma Rousseff has publicly endorsed/backed the protesters. Ignoring the now-cancelled bus fare hike (which would have been a significant financial burden on Rio's many, many poor slumdwellers,) the people involved are essentially the first generation of Brazilians raised in an environment open to freedom of expression after the end of the military dictatorship in 1985. This is a country rife with festering socio-political-economic problems which haven't been addressed. I don't care for CNN as a news source (public radio and the BBC are where I go,) but even they aren't characterizing the situation as "riots." Riots\Protests\Civil Unrest, you can call them what you want. Lets not debate semantics And the story about the Riots\Protests\Civil Unrest is the same on BBC, Sky and Al-Jazeera so I'm not sure why you don't find the CNN link credible?

Its good to see Microsoft hasn't been exorbitant and has been consistent in there pricing around the Xbox

You are right Brazil has made some excellent social improvements. But that's not what I am concerned about. The riots in Brazil are basically a class war, the rioters are people that represent a large percentage of people that probably don't earn much money and that feel they don't have many economic prospects. But for the last 20 years Brazil has been quite vocal about doing everything they can do about uplifting the indigent and they seemed to have achieved the perfect result. A growing economy and middle class and effective social services for the poor. But that's not enough it seems. And if the rioters are asking for major changes then what has been the real impact of Brazil's economic reforms? We face similar challengers in Africa where there are large numbers of impoverished people. So imagine if the poor of Africa take to the streets and demand change like in Brazil? There would be bedlam as certain governments are doing all they can do address the social inequalities in Africa but it wouldn't be enough. These types of riots would bring the economic powerhouses of Africa to its knees. Of course this is unlikely to occur in most African countries but its a concern nonetheless. I want to see how this Brazilian instability plays out

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/06/20/world/americas/opinion-brazil-simoes Guys this is big news and worries me. One of the reasons being that Brazil is considered a paradigm of how emerging markets should grow there economies and how to address social issues like poverty and unemployment. In South Africa we are constantly told how we should be more like Brazil. But these intense riots actually highlight that there economic resurgence has major systemic problems. The riots were originally started by people unhappy with the bus fare increase that was implemented to help pay for the football World Cup next year. But then grew as people vociferously objected to other social issues like general corruption in the government, ineffective health-care and issues around education. One million people rioted in Rio De Janeiro today. Brazil faces some serious civil unrest Anyway the link gives the background to these riots so read that for video's and more detailed information

Man, that's one seriously ridiculous 'Murica **** Yeah Cannon. What I love about Saint's Row is that after the first one they realized that if they continued to try to straddle the line between comically over the top and gritty realism they would just be another GTA knockoff and nothing else. So they abandoned any semblance of relism and just went for ridiculous over the top madness. Each successive iteration has just gone ahead and pushed the absurdity envelope further. I pray they still have the female Russian accent voice option in this game. The part where the protagonist and Pierce are driving down the road in Steelport and singing Sublime ~ What I Got in SR3 is so hilariously awesome with the Russian accent. That's an accurate assessment of the Saints Row franchise . I don't think they are as good as GTA but still very entertaining

That's good to know, very big relief

Meh... the itnernet is geting over-sensitized. More and more forums seem like they are run by natzi's. It's liek people have nothing better to do with their life other than look for things to be offended about. I just recenetly got banned from BSN for posting a DA meme in hte DA meme thread. Because the meme contained hte word "F***". Becuase nudity, sex, violence and sacrificing children to demons is OK, but saying the forbidden word? OH MY GAAAAAAWD! You are out of control Trashman, completely OUT OF CONTROL !!!!

You missed your calling my friend, you should be a comedian And you have a way with words that I can only admire

An interesting read but I question its validity. End of the day, as AwseomeOcelot mentioned, those games are shooters and are about killing people. The gratuitous amount of killing may be something to look at but I don't think so. Those games would lose part of there appeal, and sales figures, if you couldn't kill large amounts of enemies. And then when he gives examples of games where you don't kill people he mentions Arkham. Well Batman doesn't really kill anyone ever so that's not applicable. Shooters are called shooters for a reason. You need to play an adventure game or an RPG if you object to the nature of a shooter

Having Liam Neeson in Fallout 3 didn't make it Schindler's List. Why was that comparison made around Fallout 3? I think the point is having recognized actors can only add value to the overall gaming experience but you right, Witcher 3 won't win an Oscar.

I want to share with you a guys a bizarre and funny dream I had last night. Remember that dreams are just your subconscious mind trying to rationalize the various thoughts you are having. So a dream doesn't have to make any sense or mean anything as you'll see in this case As I mentioned I go to Vegas every year for a Technical symposium. In this dream I was in Vegas but I was staying with Hurlshot and he was showing me around Vegas with his wife. But he looked like he did in his Avatar picture, not in real life. We were also life long friends. He took me to all these clubs and in this one club I met a school friend who I haven't seen for a while, a guy called Mike. Anyway Mike started talking to me about "what I was doing in Vegas" and then he came back to Hurlshots house and we all had a barbeque. I woke up and the first thing I thought was " surly Hurlshot doesn't know Mike". I then realized that I also have never met Hurlshot and the whole thing was just dream. But it felt so real

I hear you, that's probably what happened. I am hoping Steam support will just update my German version with an English one. I am not sure of the logistics but I can't imagine its that hard to do?

That is relevant technical information, thx

Oh okay So the chance of getting some cool stories is unlikely, I get it

Hi All I was given Bioshock as a gift on Steam. I downloaded it and noticed its in German I have logged call with Steam support on Tuesday and still had no response. This is longest time I have ever had to wait for them to get back to me. What else can I do to get an English version of Bioshock or should I just wait?

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You can get all of the benefits for $10 cheaper with some simple modding. Although I picked it up for $10 o Steam, but still haven't gotten around to playing it. Okay, thanks Good to know

I have never played BG1 and wanted to get BGEE, why do you think its a waste of money?

I like the idea, but I read no mention of the type of PC infrastructure they plan to have? How will we play our games and browse the Internet? Will we still have access to the Obsidian forums? I don't think they have properly thought things through

Good point. But realize that demos are very expensive to create. They consumea lot of dev time and are merely for marketing purposes. Since the game won't be going to market for a while... they saw no need to. And if the game isn't well received, that's just a lot of negative publicity. They'll keep it under wraps "until it's ready". By extending the development by a year, BioWare can avoid the whole issue of it being shamed by the The Witcher 3. They can be more reactive to how it's perceived and make some last minute changes do their game. I think the extension proves the reliability of that leak on reddit, where a BioWare employee (or was it an alpha tester?) confided that DA3 is nowhere near ready and an assured train wreck if it were to be launched this fall. Anubite despite your supportive posts I'm starting to really believe you don't think Bioware is a good development company or that they have a future. Maybe you should just be honest as this sycophantic view of them is a little unbelievable?

Let us know if you have to take any hot celebrities or porn stars around. We want details Calax, details

Awesome, this should give us plenty of time to discuss the implementation of Romance\Sex in PE