No. Especially not for your reasons. I find them completely immoral.

If the game is good. I will show support for it with my money. Depending on it's quality, I will purchase it at full price or wait until it devaluates. Anything else is nothing but subjective and I feel fanboyistic.

If the game is good and doesn't come with negative things (rootkits, whatever), I will purchase it. I won't do an action detrimental to myself (not enjoying a game, or doing something illegal like theft) just to punish a company for being good at what it does. It actually baffles me to think that some people do this.

It's a pretty good list.

I believe #5 will help PC gaming more than all other ones put together.

Actually, I'd like a standarized performance benchmark (say, 1024 x 768 with all effects turned to medium at 30fps, with a certain amount of programs running in the background), and make the cheapest way to achieve that be the "minimum system requirements", and kill the "recommended requirements" tag.

I'd love to see a numeric score (Vista was supposed to make this standard), but I'm still iffy as to it's viability, especially when you've got games that might require vastly different balancing between the elements on your computer.

have you played the retail version of lair? i have. honestly, with this type of game, you can tell if it's going to be terrible from the demo. i thought the combat was boring and uninspired and could not possibly be deep, the story was nonexistant, and there were many glitches. that all turned out to be true for the retail game. sometimes, the opposite is true, but as long as the core gameplay is the same in retail as it is in the demo, i will never ever touch too human again.

mistervengeance

Yet it is acceptably deep. Quite a lot deeper than what's normal for a hack-n-slash of this kind.

I really hope they do. Too Human is sort of a diamond in the rough. The very, very rough. I think really well pressed coal would be a better description.

Incremental improvements to the game could easily make for an impressive, memorable game - so I really wish they do keep on with it.

And when motion sensing is revealed for 360, it will be praised as the second coming right?DanteSuikoden

Not really, no. Are lems hyping this like crazy?

It's gonna be a nifty addition of little to no consequence. Thing is, nobody really cares, unless they come up with some sort of game that's three kinds of awesome.

Subjectible

DanteSuikoden

No. It's been ceintificallyprovenized that it will be eleventeen times betterer than the sixaxis.

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Sometimes. Rather often for titles I like.

My game store of choice usually has a cool promo on preorders - stuff like you can only preorder the collector's, but it will cost you the same as the regular edition once it's released (so if the prices are $60/$70, you can preorder the collector's and pay $60 for it).

The__MCP

Which store does this? That's a great deal.

Gameplanet in Mexico. If not, they usually add a poster or some swag (like a baseball cap for GTA4) for stuff that's high on hype. So no Bad Company stuff, for example.

But that does not make the trophy concept any worse than the achievement concept

spidadragon1

No, it makes the executionsignificantly worse. Not only in amount of games supported. Basically every facet of Trophies is poorly implemented if we take into consideration what existed before.

Sometimes. Rather often for titles I like.

My game store of choice usually has a cool promo on preorders - stuff like you can only preorder the collector's, but it will cost you the same as the regular edition once it's released (so if the prices are $60/$70, you can preorder the collector's and pay $60 for it).

Isn't there currently a law against that?
I heard aroudn the grape vine that comcast is in hot water becuase tehy have been capping peoples internet.
macabalony

The problem wasn't that the action is illegal per se - it's not. The problem comcast was in was because they advertised unlimited internet. 250GB, while a large amount, is not unlimited.

My opinion on the system? It's terribly obvious Sony wasn't thinking of the end-user. They were thinking of bulletpoints. Everything in the console reeks of that.

Why aren't HD cables in there? Why do you get such a ridiculously short charging cable (seriously, it's pathetic)? Why do you need to install the things you've downloaded? Why can't I use my system name as my gamer name? I could go on. Even after the updates, all they do is keep adding things, and never thinking of them. Why on earth is the clock behind the gorram battery charge icon?!

Despite this, I do enjoy the system. It's not bad - and it's relatively quiet oftentimes (just don't let it get hot - then it will scare even your 360). Blu-Ray looks awesome on my 57" 1080p, and I like that I can connect my own bluetooth headset.

However, once you compare it to what the 360 brought to the table a year previous in interface and end-user friendliness, the PS3 is a machine with serious shortcomings. I purchased it mainly for blu-ray playing and the ocassional exclusive, and that's exactly what it has worked as. The only multiplat I've gotten for it is Stranglehold collector's edition, mainly because I didn't have Hard boiled on DVD.

well i have both and my 360 gets probably 95% of my play time :)HawtHawt