29th October 2008, 5:49 PM
Signed? What does that mean? As in, your signature? You could just set one up, but we know who typed it, because there's your name right there. What?
So yeah, I have this game now, and rather than use it as some weird kind of... attack?, I'll just say that so far I'm impressed. Graphically, it's pretty much just like Oblivion actually. Maybe the effects are better, but I'm basing this on how it runs on my machine rather than artistically, and it runs at the same speed Oblivion does. The character creation is done in a very unique, and literal, way. Learning to walk for example... is done at 1 year old. Ever seen Rugrats? Then you know how effective those play pens are :D.
I only played through the initial starting zone, and I have to say they do a good job of not just plopping you right into "gritty dark depressing angst ridden main character" mode. There's a touching family and life you get to attach yourself to first. You know, human interaction, the things people do aside from war, like have birthday parties and talk to your parents and friends.
So yeah, I'd say this game impressed me more than I thought it would. Mind you I don't want to set the world on fire...
Joker: BUT I DO!
So yeah, here's the things I have to complain about. Securom. It's even worse here than it was in Bioshock. Mind you Bioshock eventually patched out of it's limited install nonsense, but this one on top of that also does a system scan for "emulator software", which in this case means anything that emulates a CD/DVD-ROM drive, like something called Alchohol 120% (what a weird name). The two it listed, I don't have on my system at all, so it was annoying seeing me denied an install because of a false positive. I used to prefer buying a hard copy of my games, but at this rate I'm really starting to prefer buying my games off Steam. They don't do this nonsense. So anyway, to get my game to install the website informed me of a way around this detection in case of false positive (umm... yeah that's a crack team of geniuses you have there if circumventing the detection is as simple as running setup directely instead of through the autorun batch program, WHAT is this for exactly?), and after install I had to replace the program's main launch with an updated version from their web site, again bringing me back to what was the point of that? Easing shareholder's concerns? Screw that, try actually easing CONSUMER'S concerns! Seriously, screw share holders. What do they do anyway? Piggyback off the success of others? Bunch of parasites...
Anyway, that's really about it as far as my complaints go. They also don't include a built in contruction kit for mods, but they do still allow you to load mods through a menu when you are starting up the game. It'll just take longer for people to get those mods made.
So yeah, I have this game now, and rather than use it as some weird kind of... attack?, I'll just say that so far I'm impressed. Graphically, it's pretty much just like Oblivion actually. Maybe the effects are better, but I'm basing this on how it runs on my machine rather than artistically, and it runs at the same speed Oblivion does. The character creation is done in a very unique, and literal, way. Learning to walk for example... is done at 1 year old. Ever seen Rugrats? Then you know how effective those play pens are :D.
I only played through the initial starting zone, and I have to say they do a good job of not just plopping you right into "gritty dark depressing angst ridden main character" mode. There's a touching family and life you get to attach yourself to first. You know, human interaction, the things people do aside from war, like have birthday parties and talk to your parents and friends.
So yeah, I'd say this game impressed me more than I thought it would. Mind you I don't want to set the world on fire...
Joker: BUT I DO!
So yeah, here's the things I have to complain about. Securom. It's even worse here than it was in Bioshock. Mind you Bioshock eventually patched out of it's limited install nonsense, but this one on top of that also does a system scan for "emulator software", which in this case means anything that emulates a CD/DVD-ROM drive, like something called Alchohol 120% (what a weird name). The two it listed, I don't have on my system at all, so it was annoying seeing me denied an install because of a false positive. I used to prefer buying a hard copy of my games, but at this rate I'm really starting to prefer buying my games off Steam. They don't do this nonsense. So anyway, to get my game to install the website informed me of a way around this detection in case of false positive (umm... yeah that's a crack team of geniuses you have there if circumventing the detection is as simple as running setup directely instead of through the autorun batch program, WHAT is this for exactly?), and after install I had to replace the program's main launch with an updated version from their web site, again bringing me back to what was the point of that? Easing shareholder's concerns? Screw that, try actually easing CONSUMER'S concerns! Seriously, screw share holders. What do they do anyway? Piggyback off the success of others? Bunch of parasites...
Anyway, that's really about it as far as my complaints go. They also don't include a built in contruction kit for mods, but they do still allow you to load mods through a menu when you are starting up the game. It'll just take longer for people to get those mods made.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)