@aegis_kleais The constant advertising is annoying. The old style was much better where you had everything on the first screen. I don't think the new one is smarter (does she mean it's more "intelligent" or tidier? Old one was better where you just saw the current offers.

It's about time. I have bought a number of older games on Steam and then realised they've not been optimised for a new operating system. It's just exploiting people's nostalgia. Before I learned my lesson I had always assumed that work would have been done to ensure they ran flawlessly via the Steam client on the latest operating system, having been caught out a few times I have learned never to buy anything that pre-dates my current OS. Although, like much online shopping, it seems easy to purchase and impossible to ever do anything about it once you've purchased.

The games are about the effects of urban decay on individual's lives. The relationships are infused with the effects of this process and elevate the game beyond many others for the gravity of the relationship they explore. Both games are worth playing in order to be exposed to the insight the writing expresses.

So, milk the loyalty of players who play because they've invested so much time into playing even further. Blizzard are obviously prepared to attempt to sustain revenue via a product whose demand is waning. Cannot think of a better reason NOT to play. What are you paying for? You buy the expansion, customer support has been largely replaced with automated administrative systems, you aren't even paying for any real support anymore, just try calling Blizzard over anything now.

There was a time when I understood what to do: turn down (or off) shadows; turn down (or off) reflections, turn down (or off) anti-aliasing and you can play great, then suddenly everything got very complicated. Now, I just look for shadows and abbreviations with AA in them and turn them down and hope for the best.

@BurningUp99 @johnwck90 If you read my post, I was saying that the price of the mounts was symptomatic of an instrumental relation to the player base. look at what they did with the Imperial edition for example.

I have been playing this since launch and it's extremely tedious. I find myself continuously struggling to find quests and having to fight mobs three or four or five levels above me. I have asked in public chat and I haven't missed any areas. The excessive phasing is appalling. I personally get sick of being in phased parts on my own where I have to kill packs of mobs alone with my healing staff. Sometimes you leave one and think "thank God that's over with" and then you go into another phased story part. It really is a grind to play. It's a beautiful world that, in time, with extensions might provide a great mmo but at the moment it's just a world of possibility. Personally, I don't play MMOs for great story anyway, I just play them as an alternative to how I used to watch TV, just to pass dead time when I am not doing anything else, they are just a means of associating which happens less and less in MMOs. Despite the problems with the mechanics in ESO it doesn't really matter because people don't group anyway. The combat is open to latency issues, I assume if you have very fast broadband then it's less of an issue but 60% of the time, I run or dodge to take the damage anyway and blocking often misses. I played the Wildstar beta last night and that was more engrossing than ESO. ESO has never been engrossing. It's an open world to level in if you are an MMO junky and like to play whatever comes to the market to see how it is. I didn't expect too much, my plan was to buy it with two months game time and play it which I have done. The subscription is a con because the support has gone the way of blizzard's it's all automated references to online mechanisms, nothing personal anymore which used to justify subscriptions. The game is enmired in instrumentalism which sours the relation with the player base. It's been obvious from the outset that Zenimax want to milk the player base and are incredibly ungenerous. You spend hours running because mounts are so expensive. If you want to play a new MMO then it's an option but it's extremely tedious and unfriendly.

I find it hard to believe this got the same score as Rambo and less than Castlevania. I think part of the problem is the reviewers play too many games, rather than playing episodically, particular genres. I only just played this for about five hours but it's a striking, engaging, immersive and compelling game with quality ideas well executed. This is a great game, marvelous attention to detail, superb integration of the different aspects of the game, great level and landscape design, amazing art-work and well coded, runs reasonably well on my cheap laptop. It's worth playing just for the vistas, some of the most memorable I've beheld in a video game. It's worth playing just to explore, it's a deeply engaging game, the mechanics have been well designed to make the banal interesting. I played the previous games, expecting this to be as boring but it's really shown the quality of the development team in elevating an intrinsically tedious range of practices, hiding and stealing, into something filled with suspense and concern. Writing is top draw and voice acting convincing. There are perceptive insights about rich and poor that elevate the game into something genuinely artistic.

I bought Aliens Colonial Marines long after release on Steam, it had the big patch included and after all the negative reviews it received, which almost deterred me from buying it, I really enjoyed it.

I just bought this for the PC on Steam. Does it include the original game or is it just the DLC? The description on STEAM is ambiguous. When I saw it on sale I immediately assumed it was the full game but now I am not so sure.