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Which is a bit of a problem for me. I'm not going to wait two years for the payoff or play 8h a day to see the awesome finally. MMOs are designed to not end, otherwise people would just ditch them after finishing them. You'd think this would be a bit of detriment to the story.

It's not for him to allow or disallow. He's working for a different company and doesn't own the rights to Deus Ex. He made Invisible War, there's nothing left to be destroyed. I may have posted it to symbolize what the "new" Lucasarts has become.

No, just no. System Shock 2 lite was bad enough, I don't want to fathom how bad Planescape Torment Lite would be.

M&B is more like a "Medieval stuff" simulator.

I misread "nor" as "not", typical.

A disc check is still DRM, let's not mud up the definitions. Not that I have any problems with disc checks. EDIT: Disregard anything I said, I misread the post

It's probable that my perspectives are skewed, still not a MMO person, even if they have super special awesome stories.

There was an awesome thread on Neogaf with some dude who's mother got kidnapped by Djinnis and held captive on the roof, I believe. Here it is, but it turns pretty sour, pretty quick.

MMO is like an instant -100 points to any story in a game. I feel bad, because he should be running free, writing whatever awesomeness comes into his head, not chained to a risky MMO.

A shocking turn of events!

Don't fight it, let the useless trivia wash over you. You won't know the tropes, you will BECOME the tropes.

TVtropes Educate yourself!

I just feel bad for T

Sure, but since I'm no Sith, I don't deal in absolutes

I'm not saying that they can't get the games, I'm saying that they can't go and buy them by themselves.

All geek cred lost.

CG trailers are nice, but they don't really tell me anything about the game.

Yeah, that was speaking from my experience. I have never EVER seen anyone asked for a document when buying a game, not here, not in the Netherlands and some other parts of Europe. I've heard that they are pretty strict in the USA, but that might be totally false.

Dragon Age has EA's marketing and Bioware's("From the makers of Mass Effect") name on it. It's going to sell, but it will probably disappoint a huge number of people expecting a Mass Effect with swords.

Prototype was pretty much garbage, though, and the fun wore thin really quick. The buzz reflected that and the game sold or didn't sell on it's own merits. There's plenty of room for 3 high profile games in a month, but ~10 is starting to stretch it, especially when two of them are best selling franchises that people still actively play online. Red Faction had it's share of problems and was far from perfect, but it made up for it by being really fun. If it had been crap, the sales would have been considerably lower. My point was that there was time for the buzz to build up for Red Faction, because the next awesome thing was pretty far away. It had the chance to stand out, show off what it can do and rank up sales, without some huge franchise like Halo breathing down it's neck.

Awww. How a bout a Tribble hive mind that would get smarter with every Tribble added ala cranium rats?

Rocktober discriminates against the PC

Here are some links on the subject.

Lara Croft? You forgot April Ryan I'm a bit hesitant to ascribe a causal link here. What precisely were the expectations for the game? THQ, the publisher was "pleased" with the sales, what I said before was that it exceeded some analysts' expectations. EA actually said that releasing everything during the holiday was a bad idea. I can't find the quote, but here's a Dead Space producer complaining about bad release timing. They are actually doing it this year, but from the looks of it, they are just piling all the holiday releases into Q1 2010.

The game is rated M, so the American stores shouldn't actually sell them to minors. No one really cares in Europe.