TheMightyEthan

Half-Life 2 Half-Life 2: Episode 1 Half-Life 2: Episode 2 Team Fortress 2 Portal Seems pretty Half-Life heavy to me. Plus, I think at the time Half-Life was the selling point of the game for most people, so it makes sense that you would emphasize it. The real box art for The Orange Box is just so bland. It just screams "lazy-ass repack of games we'd already released" (even though I know Portal was new and TF2 and the HL episodes hadn't been released on console before).

Multiplayer makes sense, I hadn't thought of that. And for some games I can see making your own soundtrack in single (I always do in racing/sports games, and I can def see doing it in a game like Bulletstorm), but for a game like Dead Space that's all about atmosphere I feel like changing the audio environment would ruin the experience. That's interesting to me. I don't mind silent characters, because I am the character (even if it's 3rd person), and I'm not a non-entity to myself. If anything, having a talking protagonist (when I don't get control over the dialog) makes it harder for me to get into the game, because then they're not me and I have a harder time empathizing (not a hard time, mind, I'm not a heartless monster, I can empathize with people just fine, but it's easier to empathize with myself). Plus if the protagonist talks it opens the door to him saying stupid things that break my immersion. That makes me think of a time in Dead Space 1 where Hammond is saying something about the Security Wing, but because of his accent it sounds like "Security Wang", which made me laugh and completely destroyed the tenseness that had been built up to that point. Dead Space's atmosphere is quite good though, so I quickly got back to being tense.

Dean are you sure that's the actual, official Okami boxart, and not a mockup someone else shopped?

Why can't you get a TV signal?

ITT: Dean admits to listening to girl music. I used to pirate TV and movies a lot, but I basically stopped with TV once I got cable and a DVR (only time I ever download shows now is when the DVR misses it for some reason), and I stopped with movies when I got Netflix streaming. I've never bought a TV series on disc, cause they're just too goddamned expensive, but even at the height of my piracy I still bought quite a few movies.

It's really weird/stupid that stats aren't stored online.

Why would you want to use a custom soundtrack in a game like Dead Space? It would fuck up the atmosphere, which is like what the game is...

By "this" do you mean the game itself or the exclusive demo/beta/whatever? If the PS3 can run it fine the 360 should be able to too, unless they just did a shitty-ass port job.

Ah yeah, see I play on a monitor on my desk whether I'm on PC or console (except Wii), I prefer it over the TV, but #2 makes sense to me.

Dunno whether it puts the DLC on your EA account or on your PSN account. If you've got a gaming PC though, why did you get Dead Space on PS3?

From Gamespot's forums:

Continuum Shift is only $15 at Walmart?

It's probably an out of court settlement, so the people who paid don't have any recourse. It's common in lawsuits to send what's called a "demand letter", which is basically "this is what I want, if you don't do this then I'm suing you." The article isn't horribly specific, but it sounds like that's what these letters were. So paying it isn't an admission of guilt necessarily, but it's still a binding agreement. Unless the law firm's conduct was so egregious as to invalidate the agreement (fraud, duress, etc), in which case the people who paid might have some recourse, but I don't have enough information to say if that's the case or not. *Edit* - That's also all assuming that settlements work the same way in the UK as they do here. I really have no idea if that's the case or not.

Well they might decide it's not worth it and drop suits over here too, or it could reveal evidence/documentation that would be useful in suits over here, but you're right that it's unlikely that any specific ruling in the UK would have a direct effect on suits here.

Gametrailers has their review up: http://www.gametrailers.com/video/review-hd-dead-space-2/709734 This highlights why I like Gametrailers' reviews: even though this is a positive one, they liked the game very much, it gives me enough information to see that I was likely correct in cancelling my preorder. I'll wait until it's on sale. Based on that review, though, I'm sure plenty of you will love it, and that's a good thing.

Maybe I just suck at the internet.

Oh, that's handy too. I googled the problem last night to see if there was a way to manually set the resolution like that, but all I found were threads with people asking, and no answers.

Well it's not in my dropbox, and the dropbox won't scroll. The only 16:9 option it gives me is 1280x720, though it does give me some 16:10 resolution options that are even higher than 1920x1080. *Edit* - Nevermind, I got it to scroll. I just thought it wouldn't scroll cause there's no bar on the side and every time I rolled the scroll wheel it closed the dropbox, but after I did that a couple times it somehow selected 1920x1080 anyway, so I'm okay with that.

WTF, they did away with 1920x1080 as a resolution option?

I haven't tried this on PC since early in the beta period. Is it any easier to actually get in a match?

And it was limited in the number of simultaneous threads? Apps had to wait to take turns getting processed?

Back when data was stored magnetically and transmitted/processed electrically, and you still had to physically connect components (monitor etc) to each other.

Fixed, maybe. The more I look at the original US one though, the worse it gets. Why the hell are Mal and Zoe apparently leading an army? The unification war is only briefly mentioned in the movie. And I'm not convinced that girl who's presumably River is even Summer Glau. I'm glad the bluray one is that cool grey cover.

lol, I didn't think the original cover was that bad But then I found the UK version, and yeah, it's pretty much the worst cover ever