Glad that I stumbled upon an Australian here, because that's where I'll be migrating (already submitted my application to ACS for skills assessment)! And yeah, I have heard about the ridiculous censorship laws over there. So is it any better after getting the 18+ rating, or do developers still need to cut/modify parts of their games to get them classified? And do this insane censorship laws apply to movies as well?

Cut out the sarcasm already. I'm talking about 'REGION LOCKING', for heaven's sake. I stumbled upon this.

Ok, this hadn't really occurred to me until now. I reside in a third world country, and currently have a large library of games on Steam. I will be migrating to a first world country within a year. In that case, would I be losing my entire Steam library? Or would I still have access to them if I set my region as the original country (where I reside now)? Of course, this will not be possible if Steam tracks the country with the user's ip address.

Did you manage to get that game to work? I never could. I really like that game and still have its disk, but there's absolutely NO help on the internet about running that game on modern PCs. probably because it was not popular.

Thanks for the heads up, I'll play it with keyboard/mouse. I'm with you on this one. The only games I play with a controller are those that don't involve a mouse, such as racing, platforming or side-scrolling fighting games. Just began the massive download of Ryse on Steam (although I had purchased it earlier). It may take ages due to my slow internet connection, which happens to be among the 'fast' ones available in my third world country. :(

Alright then! I'll try it with the controller, but I hope the camera locks behind the playable character automatically. This is one reason I avoid playing some games with the controller. Manually adjusting the camera with the right analog stick is is a lot more tedious and cumbersome than doing it with the mouse.

Yeah, I got your point. But I was asking you which would be better to play Ryse with, among keyboard/mouse and XBox 360 controller.

@FelipeInside

I did buy Alien Isolation, finally! On a side note, what would be the best way to play Ryse on the PC? Is it with keyboard/mouse or an XBox 360 controller? I'd like to give this game a go, since you mentioned its not that bad.

Ok then, that's great! As for the Evil Within, I have my doubts in spite of the console commands. The game is getting great reviews, but the technical aspects of the PC version is being universally panned. Besides, I usually buy games only after all its DLCs are released, so that I can get the complete experience in one go. Since there will be 3 DLCs for The Evil Within, I'll buy the game along with the DLCs later. ALien Isloations upcoming DLCs are only survival mode additions, so it doesn't matter much to me.

I bought Ryse on the PC like an idiot in spite of knowing how crappy it is. Don't know what came over me, a discount coupon tempted me. Haven't started playing it yet. I think I'm in for tons of eye candy and nothing more than that.

Thanks for the feedback. The thing is, it already is a 8-hour game stretched to 15 hours using unnecessary fillers (that's the general opinion) and I wouldn't want it to be stretched by another 5 or 10 hours due to the try-fail-wash-rinse-repeat cycle. They should REALLY start making demos of games again, like in the 90s. I think I'll take a chance with this one, and buy it. Either this or The Evil Within, but that seems to be an unoptimized load of crap on the PC.

Thanks, I'll go for it!

Nice to know that!