Slowtrain

I disagree. There are different ways to protect information from being used against the owners wishes. Eventually methods will be put in place that work. It's inevitable. The whole DRM argument is silly anyway. Its the game owner's right to do what they want with the game. If they want to take the source code, roll it up in a sealed ferroconcrete container and sink it five miles deep in the ocean, that's their right. It's their game. Nobody else's opinions on the issue are even relevant.

Eventually DRM schemes wil be developed that do work and doesn't cause problems for paying gamers. It's just a developmental process. Developmental processes rarely run completely smoothly.

I'm going to humbly disagree and say he's actually a pretty good character actor. It's a Uwe Boll film. Everybody is horrible in Uwe Boll films. Even Jurgen Prochnow. The big question is how Uwe Boll gets these actors to begin with.

That Arkham Asylum thing is just a preview. It's supposed to loop right into the main trailer at 16 seconds. I've noticed that sometimes this doesn't work on Gametrailers. Try it a couple more times and it should eventually work.

Uli Booli? edit: Pidesco beat me.

I thought the first Underworld was jolly good fun. The second one seemed a little drawn out in places, but the action at the end was good. I would watch the third but I'm kinda not interested in the history, you know. I sorta already know what happens. Are there any surprises in the film or anything?

Guess I'll be playing Borderlands first then. Assuming it's not delayed too. I'm a little suprised Sega allowed Obs to delay the game again. At this point I would have expected Sega to have enforcers down at the Obsidian offices with bullwhips and chains.

Hey, who is the one who has FCed La Grange, Slow Ride, What I've Done, Assassin, an Mississippi Queen all on Hard or Expert in less than one year of xp. I voted Alan playing guitar though. Obsidian geetar hero can be a shared title.

I watched some of that Dracula film with Gary Oldman and Winona Ryder. It was all right. Didn't finish it though. Weird casting choices. 6.5/10

MOAR unique Big Guns. With cool pop cultural names. Like The Boomstick.

Alan is our geetar hero, baby.

Take me to your leader.

Not related to the end of the world at all, but justr as an informative bit: If anyone is interested in communing with their dolphin spirit guide:

I gave away my SS1 strat guide, which was totally awesome, to a friend and she never gave it back to me.

I remember an episode of Penn and Teller's Bull**** where they had on some group of people who all believed that had dolphin spirit guides. Point is: People believe a lot of wonky ****.

I don't save much. Only classics that I really love. And I toss the boxes regardless since they take up too much space. But if I can find some batteries for my camera I'll post a couple.

OK, sure, I agree that time will tell out just like any other game. But, I think that AoD is getting a bit of slack is that it is theoretically offering gameplay that major studios don't like to touch anymore. So its like a drop of water in a desert. At the moment. WIll it be a mirage in the end? Possibly. But let us pretend for now that it is cool cool water!

D00d, I was only half-serious. Chill. I'm not even sure what anyone is arguing about in this thread anymore anyway. Is it the quality of the graphics? Or what? That indie developers get more slack than major studios? That charity begins at home?

Hey, I'm saving a lot of money not having to rebuild/upgrade my pc every development cycle. And I still run all these new games better than the 360. It's like the best of both worlds.

well, a manual for starters. Most mainstream games assume gamers can't read and don't even bother with a manual.

The best thing about consoles is that my pc is more than a year old and still runs all the new releases super awesome. As long as the limits of consoles freeze system requirement creep, its ok with me. Hopefully the 360 will still be the lead platform 3 years from now!

Exactly. We are always constant adjusting our expectations based on our perceptions of a product. I adjust my expectations on graphics between a fps and a crpg even if they are both from major studios. I adjust my expectations based on whether a game is made in the US or in eastern europe. I don't think its possible to go through life with one fixed set of unyeliding expectations. AT least not for me.

That's a really good clarification and it leads me to amend my thoughts: It's not that I have lowered expectations for one game overanother; rather it's that I have different expectations. if I am paying money for a game, I expect to enjoy it. Regardless of what studio is developing the game. I'm not giving money to a studio for a game I don't think I'm going to enjoy. But depending on what studio is developing the game, my expectations over what parts of the game I expect to enjoy are going to shift. If a game is being developed by an indie like Iron Tower, then I may very well lower my expectations for presentation in terms of cutscenes, voice overs, and graphics, but raise my expectations in terms of gameplay and choice and consequences or whatever. In other words, my expectation swould shift to match what I perceive to be the potential strengths of the studio. Again, if I spend money on a game my expecation is that I will enjoy my time with it, regardless, in some fashion.