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No, it uses SecuROM as a disc check. In addition, you have to be online during the installation (15 activation limits), you need GfWL to save the game, but can do this by creating an offline profile. Yeah, the place that had 5 installs now changed it as well. When your up to 15 installs you might just as well drop the activation thing, but whatever.

@Darth: There's nothing stopping a "blockbuster" from having a story where you don't save the world. It's not some crazy innovation, how many movies are about saving the world? Even most of the popcorn movies aren't about that. As for the end, IIRC there will be a canon ending where Shep lives and they will use that as the default for ME3.

Apparently it's the same old 5-install limit with the ability to reclaim your activations when you uninstall. Nothing new here.

I wasn't talking about ME specifically. While Shepard was somewhat generic, I was mostly happy with the presentation. When speaking of the main character the ever-present problem of you vs your character inevitably arises. While I like to play established characters, apparently most other people don't and having a super blank slate as your PC is pretty annoying at times.

Is there something particularly special about Bioshock 2's DRM?

It's nice that all the experienced professional soldier types also come with an identical personality. If you're writing a story you need to give your characters some depth, "generic space marine" just isn't going to cut it.

I guess "save the world" is the easy way to an epic story and there's nothing wrong with the basic idea, but if everyone uses it, it loses any meaning or significance. Like if every main character was a tough badass space marine, oh wait.

My point is that you don't need to inflate the stakes to cosmic levels to make the story feel epic. With decent writing a personal story will be easier to relate to and be much more gripping and satisfying than fighting for some abstract goal of cosmic proportions. Not many developers understand this or at least don't have enough initiative(or freedom from publishers) to stray from the norm.

If they actually manage to pull it off in a non-cringeworthy manner, I'd give them mad props. I can't think of any recent-ish AAA that kills the protagonist at the end, especially in the middle of a trilogy.

If this makes any kind of profit, they WILL find a way. Story or setting has never stopped anyone from making sequels(or, god forbid, prequels).

But how can you make a sequel, if you didn't save the world? Does not compute.

So we can look forward to the big Daddy being a washed up celebrity in about 10 years? Awesome! Which one do you think will finally jump the shark? They did that near the end of Bioshock 1. I can't wait for Bioshock 4: Revenge of the Big Nephew.

Shadows of Amn is most certainly not about saving the world, at best you save an elven village(plus your soul) and even in Throne of Bhaal the world is hardly at stake. The whole super awesome main character thing is such a cliche, especially when you don't grow into it, but start out as such. I'd like my post-postmodern heroes, especially in sci-fi, to resemble actual relatable characters not some superhero caricatures. If you really want to go the caricature route, at least don't take yourself too seriously. This is another problem with many many games.

Well, it does have some crazy multiplayer stuff and if you miss this one how are you going to keep up with the storyline once Bioshock 3, 4, 5 and 6 come out?

So yeah, this is coming out in about three weeks. Here are some trailers. Is anyone excited/interested/suicidal?

Welcome to three pages ago. I think that having humanity represented as a bunch of bloodthirsty thugs and psychopaths is oh so appropriate.

I can.

Yes you are less special than a amnesiac demigod, but more special than a random peasant without a magical piece of a extra-dimensional sword stuck in him.

That didn't matter until the last third of the game and barely three people knew it. Except for the part where Githyanki coming to your village to get it from your cold dead chest started the story. Nope, they were coming to your village to find the shards that they know were lost in the area. They didn't know one is in you until you confronted their leader. Still your main character is hardly a nobody.

That didn't matter until the last third of the game and barely three people knew it. Except for the part where Githyanki coming to your village to get it from your cold dead chest started the story.

Having half a Githyanki silver sword stuck in your chest cavity doesn't exactly make you a nobody.

Shepard is obviously the chosen one. He got all the alien knowledge in his head in ME1, right?

I wonder if beating the unbeatable Reapers, passing the relay that no one has ever returned from and winning the unwinnable war is just a day's work in ME2, what will Shepherd do in ME3? Oh that's right, rise from the dead

I like the movie trailer style, but melodramatic much? It reminds me of the Matrix Revolutions trailer.