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Naw, I believe that system went down the toilet once we stopped receiving galleons filled with gold bullion from the american colonies.

Spain.

Sucks for you. I just rented Dawn of War out of sheer boredom, it sure beats warez.

Huh? I can rent PC games alright. I have done so several times in the past. I don't live in the US, but I don't think it's unheard of. Maybe your local rental place just sucks...

I'm not preordering. Does pre-renting count? I'll tell the guys at the local rental place to hold on to a copy for me... "

Does this mean that once the international version is out, american retailers will get different versions of the game than the one the've been getting up to now? If that's so, how will customers be able to tell between the patched and unpatched versions? Heh, it seems it was worth waiting after all. "

9600 Pro? Don't you mean 9800? I bought my 9600 XT 128 about eight months ago and I think it cost me about $150? I'm confused now.

Misunderstanding someone can lead to mistaken conclusions. Making a point on a mistaken conclusion yields the same result as twisting an argument. The only difference is the intent. Again, if somebody misinterprets you, you start a fight because you assume they hold you ill will? You need to get out more often man.

Your not understanding my posts don't make them babble. Maybe it has something to do with your ability to grasp ideas. That's one of the stupidest things I've read from you. And man, you do say a lot of stupid things. So, if somebody just misunderstands you say, at work, you start a fight? Heh, you are one sad, sad little man.

LMFAO. Yeah, you sure do focus on the topic as hand. I still remember those 7 or 8 posts in which you kept spamming 'what are you babbling about?' just because you had suffered a brain cell lockup but just couldn't let it be. Attack you where? It was you who started it all when you started whining about me twisting your post. That might have been a misunderstanding, but it was by no means a personal attack. However you responded with one of your pitiful attempts at wit.

That's pretty rich. The anti-logic specialist whose interests are comprised of 'his opinions' telling me to mature. Now I've seen everything. You see Volo, one of the main definitions of a troll is someone who posts just in order to disrupt fruitful discussion. Even if what I post is wrong, I still stay on topic and don't go off on a tangent at the first chance. You, however, do that all the time. You are the troll, Volo, not the rest of us.

Yet another perfectly fine thread hijacked by Volourn and his uncanny efforts of anti-logic and totally unrelated discussion. Stick to the topic and stop wasting electrons.

Nope, it's not. By that standard, most people, in and outside of the internet are trolls. You will be hard pressed to find anyone who hasn't ever twisted an argument to make a point. Eh. What am I doing discussing with you?

You are welcome. I thought by now you would have looked up what a troll is. Obviously you haven't. Are you just lazy or is it you need help? You still angry with li'l ol' me about that thread in which you were the flame guest of honor or is it just you were dropped at birth? Don't waste your time trying to annoy me. I've faced far worse.

Yes, Bloodlines uses that protection, apart from the standard SafeDisk. StarForce it's called. It's been cracked already, though. I downloaded a nifty little tool that hides the virtual unit's drivers from Windows and thus, from SF as well. Since then I can happily play Bloodlines without needing the CD. No protection lasts too long these days.

Suckage.

Agreed. The AI in the IE games is next to not existant. In fact AI script files are incredibly simple, and the most complex ones just include specific scripting. Difficult battles are only so because of extremely cheap and unstoppable/uninterruptible scripted events or buffed out NPCs. Then you don't understand the whole point of any game that is not a FPS. In a FPS what count are your reflexes, your wits. In a CRPG what counts is your sense of strategy, your capacity to planify a tactic and implement it to win, or change it if it's not working. If you fail, die, and have to reload, whatever tactic you were using was flawed. If you don't like strategy or thinking while playing games, then CRPGs are not for you. Well, old school CRPGs, that is. "

BG had some tough ass battles, no matter how many times you played it. Sarevok was an endgame boss with a difficulty I haven't seen in any other CRPG(IE or not). Irenicus was a joke. Amelyssan was plain cheap. I played BG only after beating IWD and BG2, so I was pretty familiar with the IE environment, and I still found it pretty challenging sometimes, even more in the higher difficulties.

This is odd. We both seem to have the same graphics card and I didn't experience any of the problems you mention, only the occasional crashes to desktop after long sessions. I'm still running on the Catalyst 3.10 drivers, I'm incredibly lazy when it comes to updating drivers so, maybe it's a problem with newer Catalyst releases?

How fun of you to demand proof considering you usually don't even bother to back up your own claims with logical arguments, let alone solid proof. Welcome to Denial. Population: You.

Er... have you noticed the 'SPOILERS WILL BE MOVED' line under the name of the board? Yes, it doesn't mean you can post spoilers and then some moderator who is being paid explicitly to watch what you post will move them. It means you can't post them, and if you do, they will be moved/deleted without warning. Jeez. <_<

IF the pc version is patched up does that mean international xbox version may be patched up as well or just the pc? what do you guys think? Naw. They will probably put out patch for the PC version shortly (or maybe not that shortly) after the game hits the shelves. But releasing a finished, working product? What are you on?

The 'is supposed' being the key part of the sentence here. :ph34r:

I wonder how long will it take them to add 'Buggyware' to the filtered word list, just like In-eptplay. "

I'm not sure about that. Game sales always reach a peak in Christmas season. It's like if you buy a SW game now, It's ok if you buy another one on March or May, because last one was a 'Christmas gift'. However I don't know many people that can afford/are willing to buy a SW game each month. What I do know is that if they had K2 and Republic Commando competing directly with the EP3 game, sales wouldn't be as good. International sales on those games are going to be hurt, you will see. Unless they pull off another non-simultaneous international release, that is.