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I didn't know not having a phone was an option.

The big news item over the last two days has been that it was going to snow. Infrastructure and traffic was sure to be doomed. On the spot reporters made sure that I was going to be the first to know the minuite it ... snowed. So, there was some snow. The busses are all still running. Nothing ever happens in Denmark. I mean sometimes you even long for an earthquake or a tsunami. No, not really, but it really is provincial.

Could be legislation and logistics, that it's easier to set up in Russia if you want to run a hacking campaign. Russian hackers are cheap and talented and very much for hire.

Do you have an old vid card from a previous build, some other compatible ram. If you have a warrenty don't remove anything though.

So ?. Lots and lots of utter crap with the name 'Tomb Raider'. Not relevant at all to our discussion.

I fail my save vs. indifference. But hey if she can make a living becoming a media personality connected with fighting misogyny in gaming more power to her. Although sometimes it's simply part of the environment. Like an 80s Bond flick or SIN CITY or whatever. Bayonetta is not going to have interesting things to say about the role of women in society.

Every time a wolf grabs your leg and you have to button mash to get out of it that's QTE combat. Same goes for the timed finishers in all the bossfights, as well as all the regular melee QTE if that was your playstyle. The bosses don't have health bars, the only way to beat them is a predetermined button mashing sequence.

Every QTE added together make like a few minutes of total gameplay. But if that's enough to piss you off you should get that issue checked out. Levels are not narrow at all. But the main path is linear if you have tunnel vision. There is plenty more gameplay. But yes it's a 'cinematic' game. You might not personally like that but keep that inflated opinion of your own tastes to yourself. Have you played it? My estimation would be at least an hour and it's quite aggrevating. Mostly because the devs clearly thought having it in would improve the experience rather than ruin it for some people. Clearly they do not completely understand their user base. There should at least be a QTE combat on/off toggle in the options as well as key spamming/single hit options. Since we are just talking abouy key polling during gameplay there should be no technical limitations on implementing this.

I wonder if history would have judged Carter a lot kinder if those helicopters hadn't crashed. A forgein policy success and a heroic one at that at just the right moment.

It is true. It's declassified whitehouse tapes among other things. It was always going to come out. The gruesome thing about it of course is that the Vietnamese were ready to sign a deal and an immensely destructive bombing campaign went on needlessly because of Nixon's backhand dealings.

I'm not saying it's right, it's just how it is. No one ever backs down from a territorial dispute. In any event that would make the question whether the Falklands are part of Britan and what the islanders think is once again irrelevant.

There is an inherent problem with legal and traditional claims to lands in that they are historically always settled with violence. Besides, who is going to be the judge and who will accept a verdict that goes against them. There is usually no right or wrong just winners and losers. The problem for the Falklanders? is that they don't posess the military strength to protect their sovereignty. One could argue that the minimum prerequisite for a country is some ability to do just that.

Steam does not set prices for other publisher's games, competition between services won't drive down prices. The UK Steam price for Tomb Raider is 260 DKK, there's not more competition. Amazon UK is selling Tomb Raider for 195 DKK, but the same Austrian company's website is selling it for 373 DKK, and prices in Germany aren't that much different to that price. I believe publishers and Steam have had region locked games in the past, if this becomes more widespread they will do it more, and they'll probably blame it on the various incidents that have been happening within the resale market. Lets take Tomb Raider as a forinstance. Steam pricing comes to 373 DKK, no costs associated with distribution other than maintenance of STEAM servers. Random web search finds the game at 246 DKK if you pick it up at your game store. Should not be possible if not for publishers still subsidising brick and mortar outlets. STEAM has built up a monopoly of convenience from their customer base, for all the sales it's still missing one vital component : competition. You can get the game at competitive prices but only when they decide. Re sale of game keys brings competition back into the equation which is good for consumers. A game loses its 'new car smell' after x ammount of months and it's not worth what publishers think it is anymore. We need something to remind them of that. The used games market could be regulated to be more fair to pubishers, I would agree on that, but it serves an important purpose.

Could you expand on what you mean by this? Outside of the fact you don't get a physical copy , I haven't noticed the new games seeming more expensive (in the US, I mean) via Steam. Is it the non-US Steam market you're referring to? I know that's often a big contention point, but I thought the non-US high prices often applied to even non-Steam gaming as well. Lets take Tomb Raider as a forinstance. Steam pricing comes to 373 DKK, no costs associated with distribution other than maintenance of STEAM servers. Random web search finds the game at 246 DKK if you pick it up at your game store. Should not be possible if not for publishers still subsidising brick and mortar outlets. STEAM has built up a monopoly of convenience from their customer base, for all the sales it's still missing one vital component : competition. You can get the game at competitive prices but only when they decide. Re sale of game keys brings competition back into the equation which is good for consumers.

It's also steak and blowjob day which makes Pi a really hard sell by comparison. The site is down, probably drowned in requests. http://www.steakandbj.org/

Not demonstrated that this is the norm rather than an anomaly for these kinds of sites. The reason they exist I reckon is because of regional pricing and the potential for huge savings during sales. If you buy a new game at normal pricing you are getting screwed by STEAM guaranteed. Not strange that it would motivate people to exploit the sales and pricing as much as they are able.

Human Revolution didn't have QTE melee, they were canned animations like stealth kills in most games now. My opinion on it is that well, it's certainly better than bad melee gameplay, especially since it's optional. Tomb Raider on the other hand is full of QTE. Imagine I said Hitman absolution instead

And they were introduced as improvements. You actually bought skills that made melee suck. QTEs worked wonderfully in all the jumping puzzles and various tumbling actions but they just didn't know when to stop.

Finished Tomb Raider in a day. Not bad. Overall very enjoyable but also let down by Eidos not bothering with a real melee system but QTEing their way out of it just like DX Human Revolution. This made the boss fights in particular really annoying to get past. Press ▲ to not die, then press ▀ to counter but only after the eyesore prompt in the middle of the screen turns red, and if you don't know what ▀ corresponds to on the PC you're **** out of luck. When did it become ok to reduce combat to a series of tests judging your ability to follow directions shown on the screen ?. Fortunately you could just shoot most everything else, but the fear of getting caught up in a QTE and not knowing what buttons to mash was constant. Ironically it worked just fine when you had just two or three attack and evade moves in the begining.

Yes, that too.

Controllers are only good at one thing: melee action. Every time you have to aim at something you want a mouse. They are also responsible for the great pestilence of button mashing quicktime events which hit game development nearly a decade ago and is still going strong. Press 'E' repeatedly to not die... this is not gameplay, but it's more tolerable with a controller I suppose.

Does anyone have the new Tomb Raider with the AMD hair that supposedly doesn't suck quite so badly and is a bit farcry 3 ish with hunting and weapon mods etc ?

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Worked in a resturant when I was just starting UNI and one of the Chefs was similarly very offended at being called an Australian, which would naturally make us all forget on purpose. It seems to be especially important to white Europeans who moved there a couple of hundred years ago. I guess everyone wants to belong somewhere. ---

Word is they spent all their dev hours on borderlands 2. Crying shame that is.