TheMightyEthan

I bought Dead Space 2 in last year's Halloween Steam sale and still haven't gotten around to playing it...

Faith is a very good example.

Trolls gonna troll.

To the Moon is the other one I'm mildly interested in, but Oil Rush is definitely the reason I got it. I'd been waiting for it to hit ~$10 on Steam.

I don't really see how Chell is an interesting character. She's a non-character, like Gordon Freeman, except even less developed than him. Not that there's a problem with that, and I do think it's cool that the game has a "silent protagonist" archetype without it being a SWM.

What's the difference between an iPad Mini and an iPod Touch?

Well and obviously reviewers can't be sent a physical copy before it goes to the manufacturer either. *Edit - Didn't mean that as harshly as it sounded. Rather than saying "manufacturer/reviewers" I should have said "manufacturer, or later, reviewers." I thought I'd read that MS thought it was a review copy, but I can't find anything mentioning that so I may have just made it up.

I think it's usually once it goes gold and gets sent to the manufacturer/reviewers. Suddenly you have a lot more people with access to it, which increases the likelihood of someone ripping it and uploading it to TPB.

I agree. And with Dishonored specifically (the game that set off this debate) there's no character customization at all beyond skill selection, so it's not as if they let you customize your character but then left out women or something.

Fall Indie Royale Bundle. I've had Oil Rush on my wishlist for a while now.

eleven is saying that the version of the game that you actually send to the manufacturer to be printed onto discs and downloaded from whatever online store would be fine as is, but up until then you would keep it intentionally bugged out so that any leaks would be leaking a fucked up version. Therefore no problem with consumer protection laws because the sold versions wouldn't be fucked up to begin with, only the pre-release pirated versions. That wouldn't address the Halo 4 situation though, because my understanding was that they believe it was review copies that got out.

Actually that would be kinda cool, although it would be really irritating on a no-kill attempt. I guess it would encourage avoidance rather than neutralization.

I've been thinking about it, and I've decided that current DLC practices make me significantly less likely to buy games I'm only moderately interested in at or near launch. As soon as DLC starts rolling out I start thinking "well, I might as well wait until all of it's out so I can have the entire experience" and so end up waiting to buy things that I otherwise might have bought earlier.

Yeah, but it took a little while for those patches to get released.

Alright, brought this back. Let's leave that old argument where it is, shall we?

Yeah, I'm pretty sure if you throw people in the water it counts as a kill. Which I think makes sense.

I think the slutty female characters is more of a JRPG thing than a WRPG thing. In DA:O with few exceptions the female armor was no sluttier than the male armor, same with Fable, Mass Effect, Fallout, TES, etc.

Oh, I missed Raiden. Nevermind.

tl;dr: Hottie agrees with me.

I know, but it sounded similar and I wanted to make fun of you.

Maybe MGS has a deal with Nintendo that they can't put their characters in a game that competes with SSMB?

I'm sorry, but that is a TERRIBLE name for an enemy.

What an original concept. Some kind of pre-release, "demonstration" version of the game to get people more interested in it.

Yeah, in Arkham Asylum if you pirated it then your cape wouldn't work when you tried to glide, which made a certain mission impossible. I think it was fairly early in the game too.