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While it did require Windows Live, I don't recall having to activate it online.

What does that even mean? I'm not sure. If we are making the argument that God directs our history, then I'm not sure how the collapse of the Roman Empire would fit into that flowing statement. Sure, the church survived, but it took hundreds of years to re-establish itself. The Roman empire was extremely evil.

No, the Conservative party ruled for 10 years about 15 years ago. Besides those two big parties need the support of at least 2-3 smaller parties each in order to have a chance at winning, if they don't have that, the other side gets more votes.. Which makes things interesting, because a leftwing party could technically get smaller rightwing parties to support them and vice versa. Does that mean the bigger parties never get absolute majorities on their own? Nice.

Our population is as divided and we are only 6 million people in total.. We have a multiple party system and that works pretty well to calm the tides. I think your problem is that you've been thinking in North/South, Eat/West or Democrat/Republican .. generally a further polarized western dualistic view of reality.. for too long. And in that multiple party system aren't there only two parties with a chance of actually winning elections? Edit: Venstre og Socialdemokraterne?

They should do an action game version of The Trial, while they are at it.

What's with the bad 80s cartoons?

I'm not arguing the benefits of being the first on the scene, here, but rather the seeming schizophrenia of, oh so many gamers who have diametrically opposed reactions to two very similar games.

Isn't it just a regular disc copy protection?

Imperialist this, imperialist that. LoF talks like a Red Alert villain.

I'm checking them out as we speak. Beirut - Nantes

Beirut - Elephant Gun Pretty good.

I can understand perfectly why people see Dead Space as a bad game. However, what I have trouble getting is why RE4 is almost universally seen as God's gift to gamers, when it's, in many ways, practically the same game as Dead Space.

Other than the third person action gameplay where you take potshots at specific body parts of slowly advancing masses of enemies, I guess you're right. Really, the ways in which Dead Space's combat is different from RE4 were outright improvements to the gameplay: more interesting and varied weapons, better and more varied enemies, much better boss fights and generally more responsive controls.

I'd imagine the plot advancement was forced by the cancellation. In any case, Sierra and Victor are far and away the best thing to have come out of this show. I hope they get more opportunities in other productions.

I have always been under the impression that whatever game sales numbers are shown, they're almost always only retail and only US.

He does that.

I like strong looking brunettes. I'm not a cat, I'm holding a cat.

They might not be funny, but the lady was kinda cute.

Here's a question fo LoF: In what specific ways was the Soviet Union a Marxist country?

I thought the horror, plot and everything not immediately related to the action was pretty incompetently done in the first one. What it did do well was taking Resident Evil 4 gameplay and turning it into something interesting and engaging. So, from where I stand, this looks like, maybe, a good call by EA. Also, I never could get used to that strange, silent HUD robot walking a little ahead, and on the left of my field of view. Why was he there?

Didn't the whole Lord of the Rings production cost 300 million? 100 million a movie, I guess.

Right at the start, in the upper left part of the flowchart, there are what seem to be pairs of dialogue options that lead to one reply, each. What's the difference in outcome between these options?

I've met loads of gorgeous Australian women. Very impressive, especially if you consider I've never been to Australia.

Where are all the people who used to play infinity engine games? They seem to have been replaced by those who want games to play themselves. I started to laugh and then I realized you're serious. I've played all of the IE games at least once. Actually, probably at least twice for each and some of them several times. I also started my DA on hard and have not reduced difficulty the entire time. I didn't realize this was an manhood contest. The AI has casters do stupid things. Just the way it is. ...And since you have to unpause somewhere along the line, you're going to end up with bad mage decisions from the AI if you have more than one mage. Ugh, you know, I thought this was a place to discuss stuff. Sorry to have intruded. I'll just head back to the other DA thread. Forget I asked anything. Don't leave! Anyway, the point isn't one of manhood, but rather that something seems to have changed between the time when you played Infinity games, and now with DA. What's the difference between micromanaging two warriors and two mages in DA and micromanaging a 6 person party in BG2, for example? If anything, in DA things are much simpler to take care of than in BG2. Stay and discuss! I still love you! In a manly way, obviously.

Where are all the people who used to play infinity engine games? They seem to have been replaced by those who want games to play themselves.