TheMightyEthan

How had I not heard of this game before?! Apparently it's a Steam punk/Dickensian stealth action game... looks really cool. Some new screens just went up today: http://www.joystiq.com/2012/03/20/latest-dishonored-screens-depict-steam-punk-x-dickens-crossover/

I'm guessing battra was coming at it from the perspective that the constitution was designed to limit the power of the federal government, but if it explicitly gives the federal government a power then it's fine for the them to execute that power.

What's red and smells like blue paint? I actually find that one hilarious though...

360 version of Mass Effect 3 is on sale for $39.99 on the Microsoft Store. It says $59.99 on the game's page but if you add it to your cart then it will show the discounted price.

I consider DLC to be any non-standalone downloadable add-on (there's some overlap with "expansion pack"). It does bug the crap out of me though when people refer to standalone DD titles as DLC. Without any other context though DLC does imply to me something smaller scale than a real "expansion." Like a new side quest chain rather than a more major world expansion.

It took me a while to get the wooden head ones. The voice in my head doesn't have a British accent.

It's cool that they're actually simulating stuff at such a micro level. Weird that water is represented by agents though, since water doesn't really travel through pipes in discreet packets (I mean, I guess there are water molecules...) *Edit* - Before I wasn't too interested, but that video really kicked it up into "DO WANT" territory.

Yeah, "DLC" is just used as a generic word for any add-on that doesn't really qualify as an "expansion pack".

I think the Pragia mission is in Alliance space, but I could be wrong. You're right that most of the game is in the Terminus Systems though, and the Mass Effect Wiki doesn't say whether Pragia is in Alliance space or not.

You didn't nuke the whole damn planet, just the base.

Assuming the demo's intro is the same as the full game's intro (everything else about it is) then if you didn't do Arrival they just talk in generalities ("the shit you've done") whereas if you did Arrival they specifically say for blowing up the Batarian system.

Because you went off to work with a terrorist organization? *Edit* - What garden world did you nuke if you weren't the one responsible for blowing up the relay?

Sorry, I meant "block break".

That's Balak, and he kind of blames all humans for all actions of the Alliance, and for the general fall from glory of the Batarian Hegemony. I didn't see the dialog, but are you sure he was blaming you specifically, and not just because you're a high-profile human?

DOA5 is supposed to release this September. Haven't said how many characters AFAIK.

Oh it does? From what Dean said before I thought it acted like he'd done it.

Yeah, the game taught me the block and I never ever look at manuals.

Well I like Adventure 2: Battle, which everyone seems to agree was absolutely terrible, so maybe I'll love this one...

Right, and like I said, it's part of the story. But I don't really see much of a difference between that and the tie-in comics. I do get that it's "your" Shepard and if you didn't play the DLC then it gives default actions for it and so people talk about you doing things that you didn't do, and for that reason I think they should have just had it treat those events as not having happened when you import (which works with all the DLC except Arrival, dunno how they could have gotten around that, maybe include Arrival code with ME3 copies?)

I think in a well-established genre like this it's easy to come up with a fairly "objective" measure of the game's value: compare it to the content of other games. How many characters does a game typically have vs how many this one has? Ask, "if this locked content didn't exist at all, and all that there was was the unlocked content, would it be worth it to me?"

Trolololol. I can't speak for anyone else, but what I've said in the past about DLC is that it doesn't matter as long as what you get for the price is a complete game, not necessarily the complete game. That's an important distinction. Like how a movie in a trilogy can be a complete story without being the complete story. Or a better example would be a movie with a tie-in comic: the comic is part of the story even though it's not in the movie, and even if you don't go read it.

My RAZR would use mp3's as ringtones, but the LG phone I had after that wouldn't, but my HTC Incredible 2 does. Every smartphone I've seen will let you use mp3's (though I'm sure there are at least a couple that won't).

That makes it okay to have all the content on the disc ready and done? So, if the next Street Fighter has half the roster locked on the disc, it'll be fine as long as they charge us $60, and then we pay the rest to unlock all the content on the disc then? Why does it matter if it's on the disc rather than a separate download (all other things being equal)? Okay, yeah, that's pretty bad. The whole point of an "Ultimate" edition is to get all the content, DLC or otherwise. *Edit* - As for the hackers, I agree (with Capcom) it's stupid to go online with a hacked game like that. However, as far as whether it's okay to hack it I have to kinda give it a "meh". I'm inclined to say that whatever's on the disc is fair game for the user to get at it if they're able, even though that's kind of at odds with my position that it doesn't really matter whether the content is on disc or true DLC. I guess what I'll say is I don't really thing there's anything wrong with Capcom putting the DLC on-disc (provided, as here, there's a full game's worth of content there and unlocked already), but I also don't really think there's anything wrong with cracking it to unlock the content.

$7.49 on Amazon, gives you a Steam key.

Xbox hackers have unlocked the content.