Still, they are correct
in that I want to support
them. Not least because
they're Canadians. But
because their consistency
in excellence makes me
want to.

Because I am one of those
people who have decided to
forgo an internet connection
at home (I have it at work)
it was very difficult for me
to come to a decision about
Mass Effect, but finally
I compromised by buying the
game and downloading the crack,
thereby supporting Bioware
but also being able to
actually play the game.

For me, this is more
like two people meeting
at a party who discovered
that they could help each
other out, that they could
collaborate on a project.

Only without the whole
"we'll buy you" aspect
of the whole thing.

The lightsaber battles in
that were the closest I ever
felt to having a real one.

I think there are still
multiplayer servers up
running that game.

PC games coming out 6 months later,
with a few more things.

You've made your profit with
the console versions, you've beat
a level of piracy where they used to
have your game out day and date or
even before, and you get to fix some
major bugs that were in
the console version.

Seems like Bioware has a nice rhythm
with regards to this. In a way I
wish their upcoming Dragon game
wasn't PC exclusive because when it
doesn't sell millions it will draw
poor comparisons to what console
sales would have been.

You play the unhinged, less-reticent version of the main hero.

NOt that this is a bad thing.

It's good investigative reporting.

In other news, I fucked your mother.

Makes sense.

Most surveys that are
considered really accurate
only take in 1000 individual
responses. If developers
don't heed these results,
they are shooting themselves
in the head.

Rather, that 81% of
gamers who would
actually buy it,
don't have Vista.

Seriously, beyond GTA and some
other titles, a lot of games
deserve to be sampled, but not
bought.

I highly suspect that Force Unleashed
will be highly repetitive (kill this jedi, kill that jedi) and pretty much
a corridor shooter/slasher with cutscenes to move the story along.

Read the article here:
[www.ctv.ca]

1. After you complete the singleplayer, please open up the world so that you can just run around and do cool shit. STALKER required a patch in order to do this. Please don't make the same mistake.

2. Perhaps you might consider a series of multiple rooms where the object is to go from the entranceto the exit, much like PORTAL, with increasing difficulty, but using the Faith parkour mechanic.

Otherwise, your game looks wonderful.

PLEASE.
fuck.

I think this is a particularly MALE way of being, to generalize. Men tend to like to be independent, and so this sort of copy protection OFFENDS men's sensibilities, because then they have to RELY on EA's servers never going down, and that frightens us.

So having a PIRATED version, that will always work, even if there's no internet, no server on the other end, comforts us.

Which is why piracy will never die, and why PC gaming might.

All the marvel videogames, however, continue to disappoint.

[en.wikipedia.org]

Yes, stay through the credits
for a treat.

Watching it made me want to play it even more.