Drowsy Emperor

This is absolutely correct, and I have witnessed it first hand. There is no reciprocity, or even an attempt at one between the west and the muslim (mostly arabic) world. Only American nationals are somewhat protected, or are likely to get out of a problematic situation easier in the middle east/north africa than others and that's solely motivated by fear of reprisals. Everyone else has basically little to no rights in these countries. The solution to Europe's immigration problems amounts to three words: deportation, deportation and deportation. On a related note, Germany is considering reintroducing visas for Serb and other balkan citizens because some of them use the asylum system to get a year or so worth of time to work in Germany. Because a couple of thousand people abusing a glitch in the system is so much worse than having 2+ million turkish immigrants. I'll never understand why certain european nations discriminate so much against white eastern europeans (which come from relatively well industrialized countries and firmly consider themselves european, many of them christian too)- while at the same time welcoming muslim immigration with open arms. Its illogical to spend time and resources integrating a wholly opposed culture when you have a semi integrated people on your doorstep. I really would like to hear the last time a Serb, Bulgarian, Romanian, Russian etc. participated in an act of terrorism in a european country.

I'd rather save money if I can ? But yeah, I might pop out and get a stick, if they still have these at stores. My current PC desk doesn't have the space for it, one of those silly cart things, but it can make do. CH Products still make the exact same sticks they did in the 90s, except with USB support since Microsoft has discontinued gameport support at the OS level. As close as possible to an "official" Wing Commander stick - used in trailers, in the manual, etc. The man is trying to save money and you suggest some of the most expensive joysticks money can buy? @Malcador I have this one: http://www.thrustmas...tflight-hotas-x http://www.amazon.co...3/dp/B001CXYMFS Its pretty sturdy, the hotas controls are really nice to use and its fully plug and play. It pretty comfy to use on your lap, which is good if your desk is too high or in your case, cluttered. I bought it based on the amazon user reviews and I haven't regretted it so far. I don't recommend Saitek, they are far from the company they used to be. I've also had predominantly negative experiences with Logitech joysticks.

The only thing I'm not clear on is how the online segment is going to function, are other players going to be visible in the game MMO style or not

Well its at least 40% of my dream game. The rest would include a good story in the the Fading Sun setting, the game being an RPG and featuring planetside exploration and questing in addition to everything Squadron 42 is going to have. In short, a full blown space opera

*splat*

Omg, he's going to combine the mission structure and story of WC with open world gameplay of Privateer! ...fap fap fap playing co-op with friends... designing ships... ..fap fap fap Its like everything you ever want out of a space sim rolled into one game

Are you joking?

PC gamers finally have a few games to look forward to, even if they're mostly sequels of something or other.

Elaborate on that please ^

WANT

Reading up on Homeworld 2. Apparently a semi complete first version of the game was made by Relic, but then Sierra intervened and forced them to ditch it and make another - and what we got was HW2. That actually explains everything.

Why not pick up a cheap joystick?

It would really be a wonder if they couldn't make a decent Hitman game now after four attempts. Of course it will take them at least four more attempts to realize that making a game about planned assassinations that relies on purely trial and error gameplay is by itself a contradiction.

What a no-lifer. Arguing with imaginary people over the virtual status of a virtual product that no one is going to remember in a few years. Reeling from the irony, here. It was intentional.

What a no-lifer. Arguing with imaginary people over the virtual status of a virtual product that no one is going to remember in a few years. Now that I've seen what that looks like, I think I'll never argue over Infinity engine and Bioware games ever again.

I'm watching my gf play Odin's Sphere. She's playing it on easy and the even the reguiar mooks kill her in 3-4 strikes, minibosses with 1-2 and she has gone through a lot of effort to bump her hp and level. I've never seen a game so stupidly and unnecessarily difficult. If enemies stun you and one shot you (on easy?) with 30 minute boss fights (that you're going to play at least 5 times on average), that's not a game being hard that's just bad design. It has a completely inverse RPG logic the farther you go the weaker you get in relation to the opposition. In short it has all the retarded gameplay traits of japanese games: too much grind, stereotyped characters, 2 decades old gameplay etc. etc. Too bad its so splendidly drawn and animated.

Half way through Homeworld 1. Left the best part of the saga for the end. After that I'm going to persuade a friend to play Icewind Dale 2 with me and toy around with HW2's skirmish. That's where the game really shines. Pity its hard to find people who still play it. PS Running around in Morrowind. The game is not exactly sucking me in to be honest. First time I saw a main quest where the introductory part is: "piss off until you level up".

I find that these days I know more about the games the reviewers are talking about than they do - especially the older titles. With retro reviews its particularly easy to see who has actually been in this hobby for a while and who is talking out of his bum. Maybe its time for retirement.

I have maybe fifteen counting the free ones. I only bought the classics I don't own.

Yeah game prices drop like a rock after only a couple of months. And as a late buyer you get the patches too. Unless you're Blizzard or something. They keep their prices up for much longer. I think these days it only pays to be the first to the party for predominantly multiplayer games so you don't get stuck with l33t jerkoffs a year later when no one else is playing. On a totally unrelated note, GoG allowed me to redeem a copy of Witcher EE for my old serial no. No more fiddling around with the discs and patches on reinstall, yay.

How is that an RPG? It looks like a stealth action game

I just found out about Prey 2 and before I could get properly excited I found out it was practically cancelled. God damn it. Strange they'd do that, it looked like serious cash had already been spent on the game.

Yeah GTA IV had the best story by far, but the missions, especially the latter ones are just plain boring.

With the 1.1 patch (although the changelog doesn't mention changes to Soban's mission 12) I used a full fleet as a single strike group and steamrolled all over them losing 2 destroyers and a full set of frigates which I rebuilt by the end of the mission. It wasn't all that hard because they tended to come in waves and I always had my full force against each one, usually outnumbering them severely. Regardless, you definitely have to pay attention in HW2, while in Starcraft II it was possible to play the campaign on autopilot.

Apparently, the reason I'm not pulling my hair out while playing HW2's campaign is that they reduced the difficulty with the last patch. I shudder to think what it was like before they did that, because the missions are still far harder then in an average RTS