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Hang in there Tarna. My wife and I always joke about the fact that our life insurance policies would solve all our financial problems

I imagine that is the issue with investing in any well established company. Of course Apple was well established 10 years ago, and then it turned into a behemoth because of a small music player. So who knows?

This is clearly going to be an automotive restoration RPG. That car needs to be put back together!

The 11th is a federal holiday here in the US, but I still think it's coming out on Friday. It's actually an issue for me, I am going out of town Thursday and won't be back until late Sunday. I've never picked up a preorder that late, hopefully it's not a problem.

Star Wars has some pretty dark stuff, even if it is handled a bit clumsily. Anakin flopping around with no arms or legs isn't exactly a kiddie scene.

I don't get it.

I'm going to throw it the MDK guess to cover my bases.

For my money, the best dark choices tend to be ones that are fairly justifiable. For example, in Dragon Age there is that kid that is possessed, and there is a blood mage that can open a portal so you can save him. The mom offers herself as a sacrifice in order to power the portal. Now you can sacrifice the mom to save the son, or you could even kill the kid. I thought both were dark choices without being simply evil. They both had the greater good at stake with choices that were less than ideal. Apparently there was a good choice, going to the mage's tower, but the situation seemed more urgent than making a long trek with a possessed kid to me. So far TOR seems to be giving those choices on occasion. There is a flashpoint video aboard a ship (Esselles?) that shows the players choosing between spacing the engineering compartment to put out a bunch of fires or running around trying to put them all out (or some other lengthy task.) It makes perfect sense to sacrifice a few lives to save the rest of the ship, but it is still a pretty dark choice to make. A lot of these light/dark choices in these games that I consider difficult tend to be more about being fast and effective or being slow and careful. The 'kill this guy for fun' stuff is boring.

Huh... I got nothing. Maybe they got the Indy license form LucasArts.

Yep, I've got two pre-orders registered, one for me and one for my wife. One is early September and one is early October, so it will be interesting to see how many days extra that gives me.

Come over to the Western Conference, things are interesting here.

My dad used to rub bourbon on my gums when I was teething as a baby I heard. My mom was afraid it would make me a drunk. Oh.... wait... Serously I've heard that works. I've heard it works too! We actually use this oraljel stuff that numbs the gums. I'm pretty sure it is the same effect, heck it probably has some alcohol in it. So far he's worse than his sister about it though, he just has trouble calming down once he gets mad. He rarely gets upset, but when he does, it's not fun.

Orogun just can't help it though, the ladies throw themselves at him.

My son is teething, so he wakes up every hour or so and broadcasts his discomfort to the world. I'm really tired.

Yeah, that's kind of my feeling. Are you really supporting the publisher and the developer by using these sites? I want to keep good companies in business with my money, so I'm not sure who I'm supporting with those retailers.

Intkeys.com has it even cheaper, and yes, it works. You have to remember though that you sometimes get a Russian IP key, but the provider actually does the activation for you, if you are willing to give him your Steam name and PW (obviously, change PW temporarily to something else). I looked at the website. It still seems pretty sketchy. Is it really legal?

The used games market is predominantly console-based, so DRM isn't really part of that discussion.

Watching a couple gameplay movies does not = playing the game. Thank you for sharing your uninformed opinion though, it is important to have people with wrong opinions because it makes those of us that are right feel superior and warm inside.

There is no argument here. Anyone who has played both knows SR2 is better than GTA4. They are trying to do two different things, and SR2 is much better at what it is trying to do.

I'm pretty sure Morgoth never actually played either Saints Row game, he's just throwing out an uninformed opinion of it to keep things lively. Because anyone who plays SR2 knows it's the greatest sandbox game ever made.

They don't, because their EULA is subject to their Privacy Policy. Most relevantly "EA will never share your personal information with third parties without your consent. We may, however, share anonymous, non-personal, aggregated and/or public information with third parties." If you want to you can make any EULA/ Privacy Policy look bad though. Valve exempts 3rd parties from any and all provisions of its privacy policy, for example. And 90% of its business is selling 3rd party stuff... I should probably also repost the link I stuck in the Random News thread debunking the current "Origin uploads your entire HD to the internet!!!" scare. What it actually does. But what about the internet boogymen!?! I know they must exist. Seriously, I was worried about Origin and not happy about needing another program to run games. I was comfortable with Steam (which actually took some time) and didn't want to hassle with something new. But it turned out that Origin is faster to load and barely noticeable, so I'm over it. I'm not going to miss out on games I enjoy because of it, that sounds crazy.

Yes, I would be fine with that. I am already registered there (Because I purchased DA:O and ME2). Eventually Origin will replace Bioware Social, they've already started merging the accounts, and now DA2 and ME2 show up in Origin for me.

It's funny how it seems like GTA keeps getting more and more serious, and Saints Row keeps going further on the opposite end of the spectrum. Looks great though, I think I'll like it better than 4.

I vote with my wallet, and so far if EA force us to install this I wont be buying any of their future titles. Do you hold the same stance with Steam? I can respect being against both Steam and Origin, but choosing one to discriminate against seems petty.

It's slow as **** and the fact that you have to exit and enter the game every single time you change server is extremely annoying - plus your browser has to be open, which is just a waste of RAM... incidentally I'm not impressed with the new "features" as you might tell. And not being able to change squads mid-game... None of that has anything to do with Origin. That whole browser Battlelog thing is completely independent. edit: And I agree with you, the browser thing is odd. I've gotten more comfortable with it, but it does seem like a waste of resources. It just seems to be aimed at making slower computers have a bad time.