Drowsy Emperor

The pointlessness of that level of graphics fidelity is staggering. A few people and a camera and you get that same thing for a fraction of the cost. The perpetual insistence on more realism in games serves only the graphics card manufacturers. Games lack style and visual design first and foremost or simply ideas. Having realistic graphics doesn't make a bad game better, it just makes it a bad interactive movie (which is exactly what both of these look like). Ultimately, even this is nowhere near realism - animation is still crap and all the people look dead, like mannequins.

I'm currently reading through Sundered Skies. Its a fantasy setting for Savage worlds, in which the world is made up of separate floating islands populated by standard and not so standard fantasy races. There's a large pirate element because ships are used to traverse the "void" in between the islands and a bit of horror because exposure to the glow of the said void can make you mad. A few other twists are that elves are by default evil slave owners, their slave race - the wildlings (any combination of animal and humanoid) is playable... Its not fleshed out in the same in depth way Forgotten Realms and its like were - its short and sweet and made with the intention that the players should fill out the rest with their imagination. I like it so far.

No, what they need is power armor. Christ what a culture of fear mongering and paranoia. There's a significant chance of being murdered every day of the year if you're a Serb in Kosovo and no one wears bulletproof vests.

To be fair, the last time i was in New York, some of the locals wondered if "Finland" was a suburb in Paris, France. Maybe i just look french. Serves you right for not ordering liberty fries

Why would it not be acceptable? He's not going to play multiplayer with a cracked copy so its not as if he's stealing someone else's right to experience the game. Down the line he may make a few bucks more by selling a shrink wrapped copy - or he might not, if the game turns out to be worthless junk. He's more likely to lose money on a game than make it, given the quick drop in value games experience. Many collectors editions aren't going for much money on ebay, regular editions are next to worthless. Somewhere down the line he might even make someone happy with a mint copy, something most collectors prize. What's the purpose of championing the legal rights of multi-million multinational companies that can and will hire a legion of lawyers to do so on a whim? Especially since he's already given them their money, and money is the most important issue after all.

I have paid for exactly every one of the games I have played. Some games I've paid for three times (Gothic 3). Now tell me: what did I steal? You paid for a product (or a product key) and then you chose not to use it. That doesn't give you the right to then download it illegally. You don't see how silly that sounds? If I buy a ticket to a movie and decide to just hold on to the stub, then go home and download it illegally, that doesn't put me in the clear. edit: This is also a very slippery slope. If I buy a movie without a digital copy, does that give me the right to download it off a torrent? That's not a fair assessment. He has paid for the product and therefore gains the right to use it. The way he chooses to do it may be unlawful but no real injustice has been done, as the developers still get awarded for their labor at. the price they set. Laws exist in the interest of upholding the ideal of justice, not blindly following the actual written word as though its the gospel.

EA is not collapsing Pity. Not that we have much to gain either way. EA has been a big part of the process in which games were increasingly homogenized and turned into large industry, but that process is now both larger than EA and irreversible. Drawing satisfaction from its collapse would just be enjoying a misplaced feeling of poetic justice.

Is EA collapsing or are you all taking out of your asses?

Digital sucks on a tablet for french-belgian bande desinee because the format is so large.

Hmm that's something to keep in mind when I'm hunting for a secondhand copy on ebay. I hear the newest FFG edition is terrible

The thing to keep in mind is that while the folks at Relic had plenty of enthusiasm for HW3, almost none of the original team were still there.

The Game of Thrones is fantasy soap opera. I can't stomach either the book or the series.

What were their motivations? (the ones in Canada)

I thought the second edition is considered to be better? You might be onto something there, I sort of thumbed through Delta Green casually and thought it had too much US material to be of much use, but now that I think about it, since its a game of horror and conspiracy, they don't need to know much of the actual setting material to begin with.

All I want to know is how many FBI agents does it take to get over a picket fence.

Someone, somewhere spent his commendable talents and a lot of time making a rape scene. Must be that guy from Austria that kept his daughter in a basement. Or like half of deviantArt..... Purge the deviant

Which one? You can find Corto Maltese English editions on ebay. From what I can tell, Sous le signe du Capricorne, La maison doree de Samarkand, and Mu (and possibly one other) have as yet not been translated (completely) into English. The other question I'd have is, as an uninitiated person, which story would be the best to start with? The best way to read Corto Maltese is in the chronological order of the character's life. Meaning, the earliest adventure, called "Youth" should be the first one followed by the rest in order of publication: Ballad of the Salt Sea, Sign of the Capricorn etc. The thing to keep in mind is that there is a radical shift in the art style as "Youth" was one of the last released albums. The drawing style became simpler and more elegant over time. Ballad of the Salt Sea was the first one published and its visually much denser and unrefined. Its followed by 4 albums of short stories which are followed by 7 albums with a single story (including Youth). Youth, Helvetians and Mu should be read in color, as they're practically empty line art. The rest are better in black and white. The pinnacle of both the art and storytelling are Corto Maltese in Siberia and La maison doree Samarkand, with Tango, Celts and Corto in Venice following suit. Mu and Helvetians, the last two are probably the worst. They're dreamlike and at times impenetrable except on a superficial level.

Someone, somewhere spent his commendable talents and a lot of time making a rape scene. Must be that guy from Austria that kept his daughter in a basement.

Even EA Sports has better games than Gearbox.

Sounds like a mix of Nobilis and WoD

Homeworld 3 shouldn't be anyone's first RTS. That way failure will come quicker than you can say banana mothership.

I haven't. Give me your impression of it.

Jesus Christ, this is still discussed. If you want more realism just ask Obsidian to ship the game with a rock inside. Seriously, videogame writers suck at writing romances - you're asking them to do the impossible and its going to make the game even more hammy than fantasy videogames already are.

The point I was trying to make was that the area's always been a buffer zone between East and West, and thus subject to basically millennia of conflict. In that you're correct. WAAAAGH!

I'm a fan of rich settings and simple systems. Good luck getting a gaming group to learn a new system with a heavy rules set.