the best things in life are free 

Where a third part makes money without any compensation to developers while avoiding the "theft" issue. 

here in the States, the music industry tried to put a stop to resell stores with lawsuits and the like when those stores flourished in the CD era only to be bitched slapped by the Courts. 

Someone can charge you to look at a picture.
Someone can draw the picture

You can take a photograph of something beautiful and sell it for money

You can go and look at something beautiful for free

You can draw a picture and people can look at it for free and if it looks beautiful then they will love it, and you created it so they will love you too!

In the real world people have to suffer to stay alive 

not as polished I'd say as D3, but theres more detail and I am still liking this. 

http://www.locomalito.com/juegos_8bit_killer.php
great music 

http://armorgames.com/play/1871/totem-destroyer 

wow, that game has great art. where did you find it? 

usual web floating with brain shut off 

from irc:
<Lunaran> so, 8bit killer is in fact awesome
<Lunaran> but you can't save
<Lunaran> you can't even warp to a stage you've played up to before
<Lunaran> so playing through 3 and a half episodes and then dying is kind of the last I'll ever play
<Lunaran> because I really don't want to do all of it again

But, you know, try it, if you have a completely uninterrupted 3 hour stretch to burn. 

especially annoying because you're so slow in that game :( 

I have a serious love/hate relationship with this game. The game looks absolutely stunning and plays great. However due to some bug, I am forced to play the game in windowed mode. If I play it in full-screen, it ALWAYS crashes after 2-10 minutes. Looking at the forums, it seems that it's a common issue for many people and the few proposed solutions seem to only work for half the users, sadly I don't belong to that half. Game is patched, Windows and all the drivers are up to date.

Thankfully, there doesn't seem to be much (any?) of a perfomance hit for playing in windowed mode, but it does feel a bit odd to play the game in a 1280x800 window against a 1680x1050 desktop. 

but why dont you set the desktop resolution to 1280 x 800? 

That's a pretty nice game. 

temporarily apply a windows color scheme that turns everything black, and just center the window perfectly and pretend it's letterboxed.

I guess it would be kind of hard to get your old theme back when you were done though. 

About 4-5 hours into this game...

Pro's

+ Amazing city sizes / draw distance
+ Climb anything and go anywhere
+ Animation is simply amazing
+ The story "twist" (dont wanna spoil)
+ Great sound

Con's

- Combat controls are a bit wonky, takes time to get used to it (still not got it down 100%)
- Can get annoying sometimes when you need to walk slowly to avoid detection

Loving it so far though! Its great fun bounding over rooftops at breakneck pace to stab an archer in the face before he see's you. Its a very brutal game also with some adult themes (I don't mean porn!) that are dealt with quite nicely. The twist on the whole story is very intelligently done and adds a lot to the game, Im really interested in finding out where its going, but I dont want to say anything here in-case I spoil it for someone :) 

looked pretty cool on my friend's console, I should check it out now that I'm actually playing some games :)

Finished RoE, decent but a little disappointing. More of the same, which wasnt such a bad thing since I like D3 on the whole, but the Hell level was pretty disappointing and I was hoping they used some of the ancient ruins theme a bit more.

Fable's next. 

Some more infos about Quake Live
http://www.shacknews.com/featuredarticle.x?id=917 

Watched it today. While the movie (although good) in its entirety wasn't the 2nd coming the media painted it to be, Ledger's Joker is everything the hype says and then some. He absolutely steals every single scene he is on, almost to the point of turning it into a movie about Joker and his arch-nemesis Batman.

Watch in cinema. 

wrong thread 

http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=1792
He is a rhetorical genius. 

I totally agree with him :) im sick of spending a fuckton of cash to play games on my pc.

I think another good example of a AAA game that runs well even on older systems is call of duty 4, and that looks great too.

I probably would have enjoyed crisis more if the framerate was above 30. 

and half-life 2 of course, even when it was released it would run on older hardware, and look at all the money that made :) 

about Crysis justified not making it as scalable as Far Cry. I originally played Far Cry on a PIII 850 mhz with a GeForce 2 card, and it played well. Crysis is not that different in game play. In fact, I preferred the original game's interface more than Crysis. For instance, to climb a ladder in Far Cry you only had to stand beside it and move forward while looking up. In Crysis you have to use an interface. Interfacing GUIs should only be used for things that can't be done any other way to minimize the disruption of the game flow. However, I had the feeling these elements were added to make console and pc versions compatible. 

Anyone else heard of this XBox 540?
Google it...