It seems that the most common problem is that the game cannot create a certain registry entry the first time you play, and therefore you need to run as an admin, but that is only needed the first time. You will probably be good with just this.

It seems that another possible problem could be that some packages weren't installed, and you wpuld have to run an installer from the disk yourself. This is less common than the former.

You got it all wrong. It is clearly dying.

- Insert random facts and fanboyism to support previous statement

- Insult PC gamers by saying they are all soulless and lifeless because they all play WoW. Clearly.

- Spout random nonsense about it being more expensive than console gaming

So, the exchange rate made them think that they weren't profiting enough. Fine.

I guess that when european sales drop to the depths of the abyss they will blame piracy too, right? Right!

This sounds nice but I'm considering not to buy it because of DRM.thusaha

Count me in.

Honest maybe, but good? Really? He rarely makes legitimate points (the glaringly obvious stuff notwithstanding) and his newer stuff isn't very funny.fatshodan

I agree with this. I can't stand his reviews, not even drunk.

It's not a NMA review. And most news on NMA are positive anyway.

The guy that translated it has omitted some parts though. The author likes a part of the secondary quests - which, incidentally, are the best part of Oblivion too.

You should care because, unlike the other articles, it shows what's wrong with the way Bethesda handled the game.

As another poster said, the screenshots looked bad, but that was because they were static?

The videos looked bad, but that was because it wasn't actual gameplay?

The actual gameplay looked bad, but that was because it was being played by console junkies who just wanted combat and didn't care about the dialogue or plot?

Now, a review is bad, but that is clearly because the reviewer is being too negative?

How much bad, upon bad, upon bad, do you need to see, hear, and read, before you can accept that some people think this just isn't a very good game? Nothing to do with sequels, or fanboys, or any of those other red herrings thrown out by Bethesda's PR department and their apologists.

And as a conclusion: this pre-review actually matches what I've seen watching live feeds. A lot of the other coverage I've seen has not.

It's fairly simple logic: if what someone says matches what I've seen I'll be more apt to believe him then when it doesn't.

Baranga

I didn't say it was an NMA review, that part was extremely clear. My point was that NMA (and others) have declared war on Bethesda ever since they took over the Fallout IP because they were going to bastardize the game they loved and all that crap. So I stopped paying attention to their forums, as I stopped paying attention to the official forums. And shortly thereafter, I just stopped browsing both pages. By the by, what did the reviewer say in the omitted parts?

The review itself... Retarded teenagers and moronic fans? Lambda players? Us? Well, I'm sorry your Highness, I just can't understand you here in the mud, while you stand on your high horse. Try again later, thank you. I'll just try to improve as a person. I promise. That paragraph was terrible, the rest of the review I'll take into account despite the insult.

As to all that italic text, well, I guess I'll just have to accept whatever anyone tells me. By the way, that simple logic stated is flawed.

As I have said before, people will trust whatever they want to trust (or believe). Good thing I trust noone, even less when it comes to this game.

So, let me get this straight. Not that I care about reviews anymore but: why should I care about a review that puts like crap the game and not care about the reviews that say it is good? Why does this review "destroys" the game more than the rest "constructs" it? Because NMA says so? Why should I care about what the sworn Bethesda haters say?

I suppose that trust depends on what we want to be said.

This goes in the line of SecuROM. Everyone is a criminal until proven right.

It would start as something that you volunteer for, so you can gain some benefit. A couple of games later, it would be mandatory to be able to play. Guess what would be next.

The main problem is that you can download and use cracked software very easily with little or no risk at all of getting into trouble. Lowering the price won't do much (heck, the price for games hasn't changed for the last 20 years - relatively speaking, games keep getting cheaper !). Downloading something for free is always better than having to pay a (small) fee.

I believe the most effective way is to dsitribute pirated versions of games with a nasty virus. People would learn very quickly to avoid using pirated versions if they lose their PC/data because of it. Of course, this would be illegal as well.

Gog

Even though you are mostly right (in my opinion), there is something I would like to add. I've been a gamer for all my life, and it is true that PC games are about the same price now than they were 10 years ago, at least in my country. What is not the same, is the "novelty". Whenever I play a game nowadays I get the feeling that it is another rehash of the same, with prettier graphics and less options. I'm sorry but with this point of view I can see games as getting more expensive (in a twisted way, yes).

I'm tired of Omaha beach and the damned nazis. I'm tired of slaying dragons and demons. I'm tired of massing units to ground and pound some bases. I'm tired of the same old puzzles and the same spooky sequences once and again. I'm tired of it all. I've almost stopped gaming and buying games, and not because of the price, but because I'm tired of it. Maybe I'm just too old or I have played too much.

As for the virus distributing thingie, I think it is a bit more complicated than that. If I remember correctly, there were some tries with MP3s, and its success was slight at best. Moreover, P2P is legal (some of its uses might not)

hmmm wtf anyone can pirate in consoles just by chip the console so what is all that pc piracy crap?thenewau25

Of course not! You know, there is no such thing as a 'chip', nor 'flash', nor SD card nor anything that allows piracy in any console platform. You must be sadly mistaken and misinformed by those damned PC pirates. No, seriously, there is no such thing as piracy on consoles.

I said it before. Piracy is just a scapegoat to mask their incompetence in making good games so they can enforce abusive measures upon legitimate customers who, in time, get sick of all this nonsense. I sometimes wonder if they have any kind of wicked pleasure when they unleash pests like SecuROM and StarForce.