Drowsy Emperor

I'm always baffled when they decide to re-release a game that everyone who was interested in it has already played.

I hope it does. Its the first shooter in ages to spark my interest. One thing that's not so good though is that we're likely to get it after the console peasants - its just not the same as jumping in on a new game when its fresh. Really, the more I think about it, the less sense it makes to have a console exclusive shooter of all things. Bungie isn't under Microsoft's boot anymore so there's no reason to ignore another source of revenue - and the programming will be done for the newer consoles which are as close to the PC as a console has ever been. Yep, I'm fairly certain we're getting this.

One would have to be really blind not to notice the creeping authoritarianism in all this. Mechanisms of control have been developed that put the former Soviet Union to shame.

GW is really weird. They let Dark Millenium die? (or something like that) only to start again from scratch.

Well exclusives might not be much of a selling point for me nowadays as most of them are sequels to game I don't care for - and this applies to both camps. The only exclusive I'd really like to play is The Last Guardian and no one knows when that will come out or if at all.

I actually agree with you re Morrigan, never found the character particularly exciting. Of course, at this stage there are few elements in DAO that do excite me, so... So you're going to buy only three copies? If you read what I wrote, I'm talking of Origins, so any buying of that is in the past. If you thought I was referring to DA3, the game's over a year away. I could be knee deep in diapers by then for all I know. Found your Morrigan have you?

One point no one mentions is that constitutions worldwide guarantee privacy of mail. So the 19th/20th century (not sure what the first constitution that guaranteed it) is ahead of the 21st. So much for progress.

The crux of the matter.

When did you become a part of the Borg collective? Remind us what happened to the pilots who shot up the civilians in Baghdad (the case Manning blew)? In other words, when the whistle was already blown and when it was time for the system to take action.

Better games, how? Its slim pickings for both at the moment, we just don't know enough to say one way or the other.

I don't think so, my PC blasts through SC2 on max settings. SC2 has a very low recommended configuration.

I think they nabbed him already. He revealed his location, how hard would it have been to mobilize assets to follow him the minute he checked out of the hotel.

I'm somewhat skeptical as to the multiplayer longevity of CoH 2 mainly because of its high system requirements. Games hoping to hit it big in this regard have to be a bit more... democratic (Starcraft 2, WoW, DotA2, Counter Strike etc. etc.) My poor machine can run CoH on high, but can't manage CoH2 on minimum ... and yet it looks far worse on minimum than CoH on high. In fact, its so ugly on minimum as to be unplayable, even with a decent frame rate.

Its a question of whether you trust the system to act in a responsible way or not. If you don't trust it, why go through the proper channels? Snowden wasn't just in the system, he was the system and he had no faith that it was going to act in every one's best interest. He explicitly says so himself. That in itself is more damaging than anything he could possibly release. We could declare him stupid, uninformed or mad - but it would have been attempted at this point... if there were any grounds for it.

Its a good that there are people in the US like Manning and Snowden that are brave enough to put their conscience first and act.

Wikileaks made public several very damaging and embarrassing opinions of USA diplomats that were based throughout the world in various countries. Its wasn't information that criminals could have used but it could, and did in some cases, cause damage to the integrity of the USA and its allies as this was information that was discussed in private. For example the king of Saudi Arabia said to the Americans " You need to cut the head off the snake" in relation to Iran and how America needs to deal with Iran enriching Uranium and there growing militancy. Despite the fact that most Sunni dominated countries in Middle East would love to have Iran subdued through a USA military attack this is not the type of thing you say publicly as it raises tension in the region between various countries. This is the type of confidential information that was exposed through Wikileaks Your inverse logic is perverse - If they weren't plotting in secret and making embarrassing opinions there would been no embarrassment, would there? We're all aware that these things are done, but you can't seriously complain when people see you with your hand in the cookie jar can you? The bastards, they actually thought to look!

*sigh* The old: "if its bad and you can imagine it, then someone somewhere is doing it" has never been more true. The older I get the more things that were previously discarded and mocked as conspiracy theories turned out to be true.

True, no arguments there.

Big N's policy of not rushing their 1st party titles and only releasing them when they meet their stringent standards is definitely a hindrance sometimes. That was partly the reason the 3DS launched without a single killer title and it was basically repeated with the Wii U. I do admire the policy, though, as their track record of 1st party titles is impeccable. Yes but there are very few of them altogether. The core titles I mean, there is plenty of shovelware that follows them. Certainly not enough to justify buying the console.

I actually agree with you re Morrigan, never found the character particularly exciting. Of course, at this stage there are few elements in DAO that do excite me, so... So you're going to buy only three copies?

Hah. ... That's low even for them. I wonder how many full games will it be possible to buy for the full roster of characters.

Has anyone seen the gameplay trailer for Bungie's "Destiny"? Looks very much like Borderlands only with better visual design. I don't know what to think about it really, it was the visual design that caught my attention in the first place but on the other hand I don't want to play a grindy MMO shooter. I'm hoping its more than that. And for a PC version of course.

The WiiU has already dropped in price. If it gets at least a dozen or two decent games a few years from now, and drops more in price (to a realistic 200$ or so) - its going to be very much worth it. Currently, however, its not. I really expected Nintendo use the year before the PS4 and XB launch to take the lead. They had the opportunity, but it just didn't happen. And now Sony has trampled all over them with the PS4 pricing. The only 2 things the WiiU had going for it were the reduced price and Nintendo exclusives. The former has evaporated, the latter are nowhere to be seen.

Not that hard to be best when you're the sole contender. Quick rundown: +art design +some of the characters +bug free, stable -poor gameplay compared to dedicated action games, a button masher on all but the hardest difficulty -no real way to customize characters -linear -typical Bioware stock characters, storyline progression -no real lasting or replay value Really similar to KOTOR but I found KOTOR overall more enjoyable to play.

I regretted I did. Consider yourself warned. Why are they charging 10$ for it? Its a bargain bin game here - I bought it for 5$ tops.