Legalisation would cut crime(+free up police resources), increase health, reduce deaths, and raise money in taxes. Seems like a no brainer to me for anything between two consenting adults which doesn't harm others and which would pose no significant risks to the two people either. Instead I have to escape to a fantasy universe to see such common-sense policies enacted !
Oblivion without OBSE definitely limits you - you can still get alot of good mods, but there are other also very good ones you'll be missing out on. Unless stardock plan to update it so OBSE will work I'd have to recommend people get it from steam instead, which is fully compatible with OBSE+other mods (at least all the ones I've tried). I'd also say Oblivion is a game where you really need mods to get the most out of it (unlike other games, such as morrowind, where although there are lots of
Purchased defence grid during the steam sales, was a bargain. A great game, definitely would recommend it to anyone who's enjoyed a tower defence type game/strategy games generally.
[quote] Since everyone's kind of talking about Bioware, I've got a quick question about Dragon Age. Do you have to manage your party in combat or it like KotOR where it's kind of optional? I've shied away from it because I'm not so interested in dealing with a whole party. [/quote] It's optional. You'll want to do it (especially with the mages) to get the most out of your party/for the hardest battles, but the AI is much better+more customisable than BG2 so yo
[quote] This is just estimate because NPD dont have data from Steam, D2D etc. IMO in 2009 50-60% were bought over digital distribution service. [/quote] I'll take a survey of 180k people giving actual experiences over 1 persons random estimate any day. The main flaw I see with the survey is it was of members, which presumably means members of an internet-
It's not released yet. Wait a few hours and look it up in the steam store (if you're too early it'll tell you how long you've got to wait before it's released)
[quote] It's obvious you don't read posts in this thread, otherwise you'd've seen the one just above yours. [/quote] It's obvious you lack the basic level of intelligence needed to look at time stamps on a forum thread before making wild accusations. Furthermore I'd have thought it would be fairly obvious I was responding to you given how I kept on quoting what you were saying and responding to your posts. There's a big difference between providing a link to a side that points out so
WoW is almost a sole exception in being able to successfully charge monthly fees. Given the massive volume of failed MMOs that have tried to emulate WoW's success I've little doubt that any publisher that tried bringing in subscription fees to play standard games online would suffer a huge drop in sales (unless the single player is exceptionally good, and given the trend in recent years to cut down on single player and let the multiplayer try and make up for it, I highly doubt that will happe
[quote] KotOR, DAO and ME have pretty much the same plotline. Not counting sequels, that's literally half their games with the same plotline, and those have been the latest released. You also ignored the fact I'm saying they started to suck post-KotOR. Probably because it's convenient for you. [/quote] No, it's not half their games. I've already been through 4 of their games which have different storylines, and the best you can still come up with is 3 and then say that 3 is half o
[quote] "BG2 has a different story to NWN which has a different story to Jade Empire which has a different story to Dragon Age. They're not even close to being similar." Good job on choosing the exceptions [/quote] They're hardly the exceptions when they're the majority of the games Bioware's released - from BG2 onwards their 'big release' games have been BG2, NWN, KOTOR, Jade Empire, Mass Effect, Dragon Age, and Mass Effect 2 (unless I've forgotten some other one as well). It's a f
[quote] You've not played enough Bioware games. They are the exact same story. Every. Single. Time. [/quote] BG2 has a different story to NWN which has a different story to Jade Empire which has a different story to Dragon Age. They're not even close to being similar.
If they do make it human only I hope they have a 'specialism' or some other branch of customisation you can choose which has a similar effect as race to help differentiate characters. That said it can help with immersion - I really liked deus ex in part because the main character felt a lot more realistic due to being fully voiced. It's a shame that there won't be multiple origins as with DA1, but there's no reason why the decision should be allowed to limit ways of differentiating your chara
Bioware have yet to let me down (apart from DRM, aand even there they've usually been able to persuade EA to pursue a slightly less draconian DRM system than would otherwise have been used). Every game of theirs that I've purchased has been brilliant and soaked up countless hours of my time. They're one of the few companies I could pre-order a game for and not be really worried whether it'd turn out to be a flop. BG2, NWN, KOTOR, Jade Empire, Dragon age - all have been (IMO) at the 't
[quote] It's very unlikely youll see a game pop up in one of these that you were actually planning to buy anyway [/quote] Actually almost every game I was thinking of buying has popped up in a steam sale this last month! I've had mass effect, left4dead, oblivion, defense grid, space rangers 2 Dragon age awakening, Max Payne, DoW2: Chaos Rising and Civ 4 all on my list of games to maybe get if I had enough money and they were really cheap - there are only a couple of other gam
I find I'm at the point now where games thought to have poor graphics by todays standards look good to me - the difference is now between good graphics and amazing graphics, and so I'd much rather have good graphics with good gameplay than amazing graphics with average gameplay. Going back far enough though graphics reach the point where they start to look a bit awkward and detract somewhat from the game. Overall if a game has poor graphics (but good graphics) I probably would
Some great deals - managed to pick up Mass Effect 1 for next to nothing - was waiting for ages for them to have a sale (since that's one of the few games I'm forced to buy on steam thanks to the DRM)
IMO it's not hard to get a good computer capable of running the latest games (albiet not on the highest settings in every case) for a low price, without needing to build it yourself. I usually pick up a computer from ebay with a good processing speed and good RAM capacity (it doesn't have to actually have good RAM though since it's fairly cheap to get), where the motherboard+power will support a good graphics card. I then purchase the graphics card separately, and have a computer that's bette
Try evil genius. You can't pick up and drop your people anywhere, there are almost no rpg elements, it's just for the pc, if you play it right you can have almost no people attacking (while if you want to have lots of people attacking at once it's also fairly straightforward to do), it's in a 'dungeon keeping' genre (replace dungeon with evil lair), it's designed for single player (no multiplayer), the AI is decent (not great though), there's no DLC, and the nature of how you build your lair
I hope Deus ex 3 will be more like the original, but I doubt it. The trailer is very good though, so I'll certainly be keeping an eye on it.
I'd just ignore OMG Spooky, some people aren't worth the effort [quote] "The game doesn't change if the name changes" Again, fallacious argument Strawman [/quote] They're not strawmen, since that's exactly what he said - if the game had been called something else, he "would have had no issues with it and probably would of purchased [it]". To me that suggests that had the name been something else he wouldn't have disliked it. Issues with false expectations/marketing wouldn't af
The best guide IMO isn't the number of users, but the total sales value from those users. I'd rather have 1m users spending an average of $100 a year than 10m users spending an average of $8 a year.
I can vaguely recall Brad referencing some figures wrt whether it was impulse or D2D that was 2nd behind steam - maybe if you can dig up that post in these forums it might have something in it? (I don't think it had an actual document, but it was based on something I seem to recall). It was quite a while ago though (maybe 1-2 years) so the situation will likely have changed a bit since then.
Can't see it working very well in the UK - their broadband network is patchy at best, meaning this service would be limited to only a fairly small number of households. Even if it was to dramatically improve, I still don't see people paying a monthly subscription for OnLive ontop of a monthly subscription to BT for internet, on top of payments to 'purchase' games on the service (unless they just have a monthly subscription with access to all games)
[quote] I think they should have hid the statistics until close though. It affects behaviour seeing the averages like that, shaming people into paying a more reasonable amount [/quote] Isn't that exactly why they shouldn't have hidden then? Afterall the aim was to get as much money from people as possible, not to just give the bundle away.
[quote] Valve is a US company- US law would apply [/quote] No, because Valve sells its products around the world. If Valve was a US company, with it's servers in the US, selling products only to people in the US, then US law would apply. As it is though, other countries laws apply as well as the US's.
