greylord

What type of anti-used game system could it have??? Unless it's an always online type thing where your games have to be registered. if that's so, and Sony doesn't follow suite...call me glad that I chose the Playstation route.

Well, you could be finished in 10 hours. I lost interest in the game that quickly, traded it and never played the rest of it.

Looks like my death was fore ordained...My avatar seems to have died on the forums too!!! But never fear, I think I got one to come back with...

Can everyone see the new avatar then? Ironic that I'm not an Ubi fanboi on the PC, but I do play Ubi games via console!

I lost my Avatar!!! Hmm, I guess this is a fresh start...where to look and what to get....

Well, that's how life goes, sometimes you're on top...sometimes you're REALLY cold! You guys really do need to go to the Gnoll fortress and everywhere else now, get as much XP as you can before hitting the big bad guys.

Thanks a LOT!!

I would recommend installing the fixpack first, then UB and then eventually if you want some (or any) of the parts of the tweak pack. I like the maximised HP when levelling up and the accelerated banter (there are a lot of inter party you might miss out on otherwise). If it's allowed, are you able to post links to any of that and the mods here? For those of us who have no idea where we are supposed to look. I have the original disks, so not the new ones released...from the sounds of it they should be find for it all though.

On a related note to the OLD discussions, I've never played the mods, what exactly do they do for PS:T?

Hey, when I bite it I want to see my kill stats too, just to see how much (or little) of a slayer I really was!

If we leave out 'right' or 'wrong' for a moment then, yes, it's illegal in a number of countries. DVD's (movies anyway) usually come with a copyright notice telling you that you are not allowed to distribute or duplicate the content of the disc in any shape or form. I don't think I've ever actually read a copyright notice or paid attention if the disks had it or not to tell the truth. I suppose I should have. So if it's a UK movie, not available in the US for download...and it's copied off a UK disk in the US...or a US disk in the UK...or even better, either one in Japan or Korea, which one is claiming who broke what law? I need to pop in a movie and see if that warning is actually on there! It's kind of messed up. People record movies off of TV, or music off the radio and pay nothing...yet someone like me who paid for the movie and then proceeds to use the disk as back up because our primary movie watching time is on the plane or train are the ones that they actually have made laws saying we're doing something illegal...even though we have no desire to distribute or really duplicate for anyone else...it's simply for private viewing! There has to be a clause that says something like duplicating or showing for those OTHER than personal means...surely. I could swear that even then you're allowed one copy for PERSONAL backup in some nations. Perhaps it's a pure Hollywood US thing that has tried to stretch it's reach across the world? Then again I travel a LOT (read most) in the US so I guess they'd consider me culpable. (Edit: Are you certain that law actually applies to personal usage on an Iphone or Ipod? Hasn't it referred to hard copy in the past rather than soft copy on a personal item when you can only watch one of them at a time anyways? I KNOW many of the DVDs nowdays have noted that this was done, and I think noted it legal or whatever since they now actually include these digital copies along with the DVD itself making this process to put it on my Ipod even easier. Surely they aren't saying, go ahead and break the law so we can go ahead and prosecute you? I'd probably think that's akin to bait and switch or something.)

Perhaps not piracy, but illegal in many places. Many countries (and I belive the US for instance, Sweden for sure) has laws that prohibit circumvention of DRM. So if the DVDs are protected in some way (which I believe all DVDs are, could be wrong about that though), copying them is illegal. DRM on DVDs? Pretty poor DRM. All I have to do is put it in the computer, copy the file and then render it into a format the IPhone can read. I thought DRM didn't let you do that type of stuff. I literally don't hack the DVD or anything like that. It's a simple put it in the DVD drive, via Windows 7 or XP, and drag and drop the file into my videos folder and then render it and put it in iTunes. Actually I can play it on Itunes without even dragging it to the desktop, and even supposedly transfer it to the Ipod, but it doesn't actually transfer unless I render the files into an mp4 or format that it can read. Edit: If that's bypassing the DRM, since it's done via Windows, I'd imagine it's Windows OS that enables the bypass, even if it's done innocently...does that mean Win7 is a big offender on the piracy front by definition then? It would be the actual item bypassing the DRM in reality, since I have no idea how to actually bypass DRM normally. Microsoft willfully creating a way for people unknowingly to bypass DRM... Now that's a wierd thought. Anyways on with my original thought. Plus, it's for personal use only and I'm using it that way instead of the DVD if I put it on the Iphone or Ipod. They consider that illegal in some places? Talk about draconian.

I'll check if it's on PSN then. They typically haven't had PS2 games available on the PSN for PS3, but just recently they started putting some PS2 games on there. Don't know if they work or not however, haven't tried any of the PS2 games on PSN out. I have d/l'd a couple of the PS1 classics though.

No it wasn't. The best that could be done until few months ago were illegal emulators written for Linux that ended with it's removal. Actually no it isn't. That may be the case now but not long ago it was possible to switch PS3 into factory/developer mode and run games from hard drive. That method required no changes to the console and IIRC enabled further development of custom firmware leading which enabled piracy until firmware patches. My mistake. I'd call it a crack, but I guess it doesn't match what some call a crack. It still allowed people to play pirated games regardless however. If it didn't, then there'd be no reason why they've been selling the pirated PS3 games on the markets for so long or had them available for d/l online. As I said, I actually never tried the pirated games myself (friends did) so I have no actual experience running or trying to run any of the Pirated games or how it was done (though I have run games from other regions, but as I said, I think that's allowed by the PS3 OS and that it's now region free), so it's from that perspective. So, whether it's running it in factory/developer mode or whatever, that it allows you to play pirated games to me seemed to be a crack. Not an expert in pirating, as I suppose is apparant by my terminology, probably since I don't technically pirate (from my definition, though the definitions are cloudy these days...is putting a movie I already own and transferring it via a program onto my Ipod piracy? Or is playing PS3 games I legally buy from other regions across the world Piracy?)

What systems is it on. Is it d/l for PS3 or PC?

I have never played a RE game. I think I saw RE1 played, but me, myself, I've never actually played one.

It's absurd. Everything may be cracked. But that takes serious skills and commitment. Most crackers are in it for the glory and when faced with real challenge they go for easier targets. Just look as PS3 - it remains uncracked and piracy on it was impossible for years. And that's despite the fact that Sony was embarrassingly lax with their security. WTH are you talking about. The PS3 has actually been cracked for years. IN fact the ONLY way to play the pirated stuff from what I understand is to actually CRACK the PS3...aka..it's not really a crack, more like enabling it via a certain OS update on it with a backdoor or something that disables the DRM or something...hence you can play PS3 games you d/l from the net. Never actually did it, but I see the disks in the stores and they even sell the cracked PS3's in some places. It's sort of funny though, if they haven't fully cracked a game and you buy it, they'll say bring it back in a month and we'll replace it with a new and improved version. I didn't buy the game (I like to buy my games from US stores normally gamestop, which to my knowledge is typically all legit), but I have friends who do when we travel...when he was told that comment it cracked me up. There's nothing more than something like that to admit open piracy at the store...and this is out in the open in what appears to be a typical electronics store in the marketplace. Console Piracy is HUGE in many places in Asia and elsewhere. Dwarf's PC piracy by a hundred fold. Games cost $5 for new releases, and overall sometimes it's hard to actually find a legit copy. My downfall is since I travel I try to find cross region DVD players. I'll buy the movie in one area...and look for solutions to play it in another. For example, I'll get a lot of movies from Britain, but I can't play them in the US. So I search high and low for US DVD players which are region free (I think my PS3 is actually region free already, I think Sony did this, but I actually rarely use my PS3 as a movie player, using an actual Movie player to play movies). I have played British releases on the PS3 (Agarest War: Generations of War for example, though I think that particular game is also available for d/l via PSN in the US, I have the hardcopy disk from Britain) which means it's probably region free. However, the way things go, even though I ALREADY OWN the movie (and maybe they'd apply it to the PS3 games as well, but I doubt it, as I said, I think the PS3 was made region free in an update a while ago for this specific reason among others) and PAID for it legally, I wonder if these evil companies would consider that piracy? I also use a program that scans my DVD's (bought legitimately) to transfer them to my Ipod...as I do more movie watching via my Iphone than on TV these days...that means I actually BOUGHT THE movie already...just looking for means to transfer it to Ipod/Iphone format instead. I'm not sharing it with anyone, it's something I already own that I'm putting in a different format (though I DO appreciate many recent releases having that already on the disk so I just have to pop it in the computer and transfer it digitally to my Iphone/Ipod...makes things MUCH EASIER). Is that piracy? I can guarantee if they consider either of those piracy that they lost NO sales from it, though if they prosecuted they'd probably halt my support of whatever company they worked from (hence lost sales in that way...just like Ubi lost my sales to their PC division...though ironically I suppose that means they GAINED sales to their console division) [clarification, I have NEVER been prosecuted by UBI nor had I any legal complications with them, I switched due to their DRM schemes and thus my example with them of losing my PC sales due to their actions of anti-piracy...which didn't GAIN THEM any sales...just lost them sales instead]. Anyways, as I was reading an article in this thread posted above on Andrew Crossley and it linked to another thing that occurred just recently. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16642369 Looks like that some sort of file sharing company bites the dust. Is this company really that big? It says it's called Megaupload? And the people are in New Zealand? Wow the US has a broad reach to be arresting foreign citizens now. How is that done? I'm not certain what I think on this...interesting that the BBC connects this arrest and closing to the Wikipedia and SOPA protests. I don't think that these are connected in anyway...so unsure why the news connected them...or is that the US trying to connect them to try to justify SOPA still. If this is their justification with the ability to go and arrest anyone in the world regardless of citizenship...I'm thinking perhaps it's suddenly a world concern and not just a US one?

Dragon Age Origins had DRM? I don't recall any obtrusions when I installed it...or was it a silent but deadly killer or something? Edit: Ah, okay, I understand now...so no real DRM...just the DLC thing. I haven't really gotten the DLC on PC so didn't really have to worry about that.

That's pretty much the case with majority of activation-based DRM. Change enough components and you need to reactivate. I haven't bought a UBI game for PC since I got the PS3. In fact they were a major motivator to move to PS3 due to DRM they put on their PC games. Then when doing searches on game info I found that it appears on the internet (already knew this was big in Asia via hardcopies) that pirated Console games is even bigger than pirated PC games. You simply download the game and burn an iso to disk and play on a cracked PS3. I have NO desire to infect my PS3 with viruses or whatever else they have in those iso's/games, nor do I have a blu-ray burner to do so...but it's eye opening what's available for consoles on the internet. I also think it speaks volumes of the stupidity that goes towards blaming piracy for killing the PC game market. It obviously didn't kill the console market, in fact I'd say the console market has gone up in relation to the PC market. No, what killed the Main big games in the PC market (I'd say Indies are doing better though) was the draconian DRM measures that drove PC gamers like me to the consoles (and I'm only a part way console player...I still play games on PC...just nothing UBI).

that's easy to explain. the majority of "pirates" are schoolkids that don't have the means to pay for a game online. they buy games in stores from time to time but the realization that they can get any game for free, for 12-16 year-old kids... anyway, the point about pirating demos is also correct. it's habitual. they tend to check their favorite torrent trackers for all gaming news. so as soon as something pops up, they only need to press the DL button This is a biggie, more importantly the part of them having no means to pay for a game online. I suppose the sellers could start promoting kids to start stealing their parents Credit Cards and using that, but I think that would create more problems then are already in existence. Right now the online thing is mostly people over the age of 18 I think, at least those buying...simply because a majority (meaning some have acces either via parents or otherwise) of kids under 18 don't have Credit Card access.

Using first level characters at this point = stuck??? There must be someway to level them (errant wandering monsters) prior to some of the other quests and such? Durlag's Tower seems foreboding for the party...

Don't have a link to the actual story of where Korea approved it, but apparantly Korea finally approved Diablo 3 http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/...and-update-soon

I'm assuming you know at least partially what the game is about. Well, the name is certainly misleading. There is very little of what you get in the dungeon crawl type board game. Its a brain burning - deeply strategic game with many given possibilities in a turn: several active characters with different abilities, a bunch of branching pathways on the board, opponent actions to consider, the rotate ability of the dungeon tiles, the limited allowance of action points to do all those things. In the first few plays its very overwhelming. In fact, it still is because plotting out detailed plays is very hard and time consuming. Even the designer suggests the use of a timer. However I like the strategic aspect, dicefest type dungeon crawl is not my cup of tea - all of that has been done on the PC and done better. That said I appreciate the use of the theme and I think its still well conveyed regardless of the actual fairly abstract gameplay. I mean, its two teams in a deadly ever changing maze made for the amusement of some arch mage or other. Thats the theme and its conveyed well when your brain isn't burning so much that you can turn your attention to it.Its very easy to learn, but I imagine very hard to play well. I have the original Dungeon Twister, not DT: Prison and its generally accepted that the former is inferior in component quality to the latter. Its colorful but it won't turn any heads. However I read in a few places that the actual mazes and characters are better designed in the original, so that its overall a better game than DT:P. DT:P has more eye candy with the minis and a better designed insert, but if I had to choose again I'd still pick the original. Its a medium to heavy experience, depending on player dedication, really well balanced for two players. Its made for people that enjoy a more cerebral take on fantasy games, that like labyrinths and directly competitive games. Its a game of almost pure skill with practically no randomization. I suggest you pick up the original for around 25$ if you can. That way you won't regret the purchase even if you don't like it in the long run, which could happen with the almost twice as expensive sequel. It seemed a LOT like Drakon, which I already had, so a lot of hesitation on my part in regards to the game. I didn't realize the original was only $25 though, might pick it up and see if I like it and the differences between it and Drakon. On actual Mass Effect 3, still disappointed that Origin is a requirement. Not surprising though. Means I'll probably stick more to the PS3 version until they patch it up later...IF they patch it up with the install.

Just don't die. IF you bite it I say everyone leaves the tower ASAP! I'd say your character could be important for survival in the tower.

Some nice backstabs there by Sorophyx.