TheMightyEthan

The pre-order DLC in Dragon Age 2 is actually one of the reasons I'm not buying the game. Not the only reason, however. But I won't buy it because I feel like they're punishing me for being unsure about their changes to the game mechanics and not deciding 15 years ago that I was going to purchase it. Once I played the demo my fears about the combat were (somewhat) allayed, and I would have considered pre-ordering it at that point except by that time the pre-order DLC was no longer available and so I'll be damned if I'm going to shell out the full price and get less content than others who are paying the same amount.

Before the demo/beta was planned, someone at Crytek was like "man, we are totally screwing our PC cusomters... I KNOW! I'll leak a dev version so they can see how much we're screwing them over so they'll know not to waste their money!"

I don't think there's anything in here that you don't find out within like the first 10 minutes of the game... Other than inside spoiler tags, I mean.

lol, I figured it would be obvious, since I was acting like I was under the impression that pirates just magically osmose content onto the internet. Back to my question though: are we doing the steam event?

I dunno, it's not so much that he's tricked as that he's desperate, and willing to do whatever is necessary to save the woman he loves. That, combined with the fact that at first glance the colossi are just giant monsters (and who, especially a gamer, would object to someone killing giant monsters?), leads to this situation.

I agree, as long as the main game is worth the cost, and the DLC is worth its own cost, then I don't care at all. People like to complain about the Mass Effect 2 DLC (specifically the DLC characters), but what I got on the disc felt like a full game to me, so I was happy. It also matters to me how it was developed. If it was developed as part of the game and then removed then I'm less okay with that, but if it was developed separately as an add-on then that's fine. Of course most of the time we're never going to know for sure how it was developed. On-disc DLC is tougher, but just because it feels more like removed content than added content even though I know it doesn't really change the nature of it.

I meant arguable that Wander is bad. The colossi are obviously the victims no matter what.

Yeah, I got what you meant, I was sarcastically mocking those who pretend like it's the people downloading it who put it up to begin with.

Let the hype train roll! Leaflet inside the Dragon Age 2 box (from ): *Edit* - The assumption is that this is talking about the Arrival DLC, though there's a small chance it's actually just for ME3.

Oh yeah, I agree, I've always felt like it's at least arguable that Wander is the bad guy, or not really "bad", but doing arguably bad things because he's desperate. The colossi are just victims of his desperation.

... I don't remember that happening...

The way DLC and online codes and such work on the 360 is that when you buy or activate it then it gets tied to your XBL account, and then the first time you download it it gets tied to that console. So you can play it on your XBL account on any 360, and anyone can play it on their XBL account on your 360. Also, once a year you can reset the console license and transfer it to a new 360.

I don't actually know what you're talking about, what part was it? (Use spoiler tags.)

Isn't everything? Seriously though, people were talking about their longest times staying awake, I joined in. No need to be a jerk about it.

But that's how piracy works, isn't it? Also, are we doing the Steam Crysis 2 MP Beta event tonight?

I'm okay with stuff like that. To me that's just people writing how they speak, and in informal settings like the forum, twitter, instant messaging, etc, that doesn't bother me, because functionally it's the same as an informal conversation with a friend. So I've been known to say things like "gonna" (apparently enough other people do that Chrome spell check recognizes it as a word) and "wanna" (that too), even though ordinarily I'm a grammar nazi. Somewhat relatedly, I don't think I've ever seen someone write "Imunna", even though people say that quite frequently.

After much back-and-forth, I've finally come to the conclusion that I like the PS3 cover better. Hell hath no fury like video game nerds scorned?

I'll agree with this, and then retort that the 360 pad >>>> PS2 pad. Course, I don't do things that require precision d-pad. If I did, then I would definitely go with either a DS2 or 3 if I could (Battra's link above looks nice too).

I know, hence the lol and the Apparently I'm bad at responding to jokes online in a way that communicates that I got it was a joke (this has happened with you and I several times before). Also, what happened in Steam?

In no particular order: ME3 LA Noire Portal 2 Team Ico Collection The Last Guardian Journey From Dust Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword Catherine

Mass Effect 2. I'm working on getting all my playthroughs ready for ME3.

38 hours. I was soclose. I had been up for 38 hours, sat down with a bowl of cereal.... crashed in the middle of eating. I once stayed up for 56 hours for no goddamned reason. I was just hanging out with a friend one night, and we ended up never going to bed, and then the next night the same goddamn thing happened. NO REASON! I slept for about 18 hours after I finally went to bed.

Nothing's wrong with my Civ V box... What on earth are you doing to them that's causing them to fall apart?

That's interesting, because I'm the opposite: I'm completely sick of military shooters, and yet this has my interest. Of course, I'm also opposite in that I only care about SP, and don't give two shits about multiplayer.