TheMightyEthan

According to the Joystiq review it doesn't have dynamic lighting either, so scenes often look like "a badly Photoshopped DVD cover" with different objects being lit differently.

Actually, that's not why I don't like it. Yeah, I was surprised and a little disappointed when they revealed the style of the game, but that was like a month before launch and I got over it by the time the game released. As for why I don't like the game, there's no one thing, it's everything about the play. It's just not fun. It's tedious. It's not about wreaking havoc, but about strategically arranging the cars to block the roads as efficiently as possible. It's to the point where it's a BAD THING when a car explodes and causes a chain reaction, because it decimates your road block. Instead of having one giant pile-up you end up with a million low-speed collisions. It manages to make causing the biggest wreck possible a slow-paced game. It makes me sad.

While I don't obsess over finding the best deal, when something like this happens I often have the same initial reaction Rocky. Then I go "meh, I got to play it all [week/month/other timeframe], so whatevs"

I'm firmly in the "DRM only punishes legitimate purchasers" camp. For the really pervasive DRM that is. I'm okay with requiring a CD-key, or registering online in order to play multiplayer, that kind of thing. But I've had DRM programs seriously fuck up my PC before *cough*StarForce*cough*. I don't think DRM ever stopped me from pirating a game, or even seriously hindered me, but it's sure pissed me off on games I've legitimately purchased on several occasions.

Don't worry FLD, I don't blame you. If anything people like you will just keep the Burnout series alive, and eventually maybe they'll make another good one...

Burnout Crash is an abomination. First I was pissed at Burnout Paradise for removing crash mode, as it was my favorite mode of the previous games. Then they finally make a game that's nothing but crash mode and it's not even fun. I remember the first time I ever played Burnout 1, I was playing crash mode and I said "They could make an entire game that was just this and I would fucking love it." Then they finally do make that game and somehow they ruin it. It makes me very sad. ;_; BURNOUT REVENGE FOREVER!

What's wrong with a flash drive, or like... e-mail?

I almost impulse-bought the Splinter Cell HD Trilogy, but the Walmart here didn't have it. Take that my impulses!

Ico. PS3 version. Already beat it on PS2, but I'm counting it again anyway.

Starting Ico, having just finished SotC.

I finally decided to install this.

That bundle is the one with Child of Eden too.

Shadow of the Colossus. I know technically we're only supposed to count games we haven't beat before, but since this is the PS3 version I figured I'd add it anyway...

Work has SEVERELY cut into my gaming time. Stupid need for money to live...

SotC has save points, but they're plentiful and given the nature of the game world I don't mind them. I agree with you though that in general save points are the work of Satan.

Frozen Synapse + Humble FrozenByte Bundle. I didn't realize I would get all those games, I thought it would just be Frozen Synapse, now I feel guilty for giving so little...

Looks like an Amish villain from Austin Powers.

Started playing SotC HD yesterday. Been playing in 3D, and I'll say the 3D really adds to the awesome sense of scale that the game already had. And HD makes finding those damned white-tailed lizards SOOO much easier. It's still way harder than it needs to be to get on Aggro though.

My internet likes to cut out for about half a second every couple hours. Not usually too much of a problem, but I have a feeling it would drive me nuts with that kind of DRM.

They patched out the always-on connection requirement, didn't they?

I'm not a UK legal person, but I went and read that law, and it certainly seems like that guy might be right. Steam sales are kind of hard to classify under that law though. For instance, it says it doesn't apply to sales by automatic vending machines or automated commercial premises. Also, the only place it specifically references computer software it says the seller need only provide a refund if the software is still sealed, which doesn't really have any bearing on Steam sales. So just a quick reading of the law makes it seem like it's certainly possible that people in the UK have the right to a refund from Steam within 7 days of the purchase, and assuming that transcript is real it certainly seems like Steam thinks you have that right. I wouldn't go using it as a 7-day demo of every game, but if you got a game that you really felt strongly that you deserved your money back I'd give it a shot.

I agree, they really dropped the ball on the new game plus for ME2. Do you even keep your money?

lol, must you have to start playing the very second it goes live?

Okay, I only watched the first minute and a half of that, but that is like the coolest thing I've ever seen.

Officially? Had you already unofficially beaten it?