Random Gaming Thoughts

[MrPopo]

Guys, the best DRM ever implemented was in Croteam's Serious Sam 3: the game spawns a super fast and invincible enemy at the start that follows you through the game. If you manage to survive it and make it halfway, the game then forces you to look at the sky and constantly spin your camera so you can no longer aim or see where you are going. Classic.

I love those fun little in-game DRM tricks. I can't think of another off of the top of my head but I know there are more.

Earthbound lets you get all the way to the end and then crashes at Gygas and corrupts your save file.

[prfsnl_gmr]

This is my favorite DRM method of all time. It is just perfect.

[Ziggy]

Earthbound lets you get all the way to the end and then crashes at Gygas and corrupts your save file.

It does more than that, from what I've read. There were a few things, IIRC, but the one I definitely remember is it making the game much harder by adding a TON more enemies around every where.

[MrPopo]

Earthbound lets you get all the way to the end and then crashes at Gygas and corrupts your save file.

It does more than that, from what I've read. There were a few things, IIRC, but the one I definitely remember is it making the game much harder by adding a TON more enemies around every where.

Yeah, but the end game piece is my favorite part.

[Jmustang1968]

Gog has some cool games, but most are or were abandonware or old DOS games that were easy(easier) to obtain free already.

That only used to be true. You might want to have a look at GOG's current catalog and constant stream of new releases that are actually new games.

Also, every Steam game that's decent is available pre-cracked on torrent sites btw. Steam's DRM isn't any better than Starforce or SecuROM insofar as actual security is concerned.

I spent about $80 in that last Gog winter sale, I am fully aware of their library. Mostly older stuff and new indie games.

And I acknowledge the general usefulness of the DRMs. It wasn't my point, and why I had easier in parentheses. Steam's set up though is an interface that grants benefits that you'd struggle to get without having a log in. And the fact there is some control over the licensing of the games gives publishers, especially big publishers that piece of mind, however fragile it may be.
Yet, it works. People are buying PC games now, a lot more than they used to and games are being released without draconic DRM.

[Erik_Twice]

Today I read an article saying that games are "implictely Republican" and I just...I don't know. It's not even the first article I've seen like that there are like billions of articles arguing that some part of gaming or gaming as a whole is basically Donald Trump and I find every single one of them to be beyond moronic.

Seriously, if I have to see another article comparing Bernie Sanders to Gamergate I'l poke my eyes out

[Sarge]

What does that even mean? I mean, most of them have Hollywood-style violence, and that's not a Republican thing, 'cause almost everyone in Hollywood is far left. I'd like to read that article.

[Gunstar Green]

This is my favorite DRM method of all time. It is just perfect.

Hah, that's pretty clever stuff.

Today I read an article saying that games are "implictely Republican" and I just...I don't know. It's not even the first article I've seen like that there are like billions of articles arguing that some part of gaming or gaming as a whole is basically Donald Trump and I find every single one of them to be beyond moronic.

Seriously, if I have to see another article comparing Bernie Sanders to Gamergate I'l poke my eyes out

Some people just can't separate their politics from anything. They're the type threatened by anything outside their own personal bubbles.

I'd like to see the article as well if you can inflict it upon us in good conscience.

[ElkinFencer10]

Today I read an article saying that games are "implictely Republican" and I just...I don't know. It's not even the first article I've seen like that there are like billions of articles arguing that some part of gaming or gaming as a whole is basically Donald Trump and I find every single one of them to be beyond moronic.

Seriously, if I have to see another article comparing Bernie Sanders to Gamergate I'l poke my eyes out

I love using the Republican "Democracy 3" to make a perfect socialist utopia.

[Stark]

I'd say games are usually capitalist, but I don't see the Republican angle.