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Alice: Madness Returns

Morghus — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:51:43 +0000

Mukker rundt på kjøkkenet igjen, finner meg litt internett for å få tiden til å gå, og jaggu detter eg over traileren til oppfølgeren til eitt av mine favoritt-spel, American McGee’s Alice. Og jaggu meg jobber dei visst med ein oppfølger til Beyond Good & Evil også. Lat oss håpe neste Elder Scrolls spel blir bedre enn Oblivion, så har me eit helsikes tre-kløver.

Starcraft II – Wings of Liberty

Morghus — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 08:38:14 +0000

Så eg sitter no her og venter på at frukosten min skal bli ferdig, suller rundt på nettet, og plutselig detter eg over denne trailere.

Som ein seier på nettet; Oh Emm Gee! :D

Prototype, Steam & Pricing (& Impulse!)

Morghus — Sun, 31 May 2009 12:30:10 +0000

Edit: And we have a winner. Impulse at 308 NOK. With a -20% coupon I just got it’s even cheaper, 245 NOK. So there you go, Norway’s cheapest Prototype store is Impulse.

Prototype for sale on Impulse

NOT! Guess what? Activision has limited this item to North America only, so there you go, fantastic. Stardock can in all likelyhood not do a damn thing about it, yet chances are that they’ll get all the fallout for such a decision. Activision are a bunch of fucking assholes. Yes, really, you are. Now go shoot yourself in the foot a few more times. Please.

Been looking forward to trying out Prototype (I’ve been waiting for what, 2-3 years for this game?) when it comes out seeing as it’s the closest thing to free-running mayhem game with superpowers you’ll get for PC these days (and everything else ending up on a goddamn console).

So here we are, getting insanely hyped about this game, and the calendars tell us that we’re not far from release now. That’s when we see a Steam News popup telling us that we can pre-order the game 1 1/2 week in advance. Excitedly I click the button to actually do what I’m told I can do, pre-order this bad babby.

60 Euro = 533 NOK

I hit the ‘Add to cart’ button in a hurry, and upon arrival to the next screen I actually look at the price tag and ask myself “Wait a sec… wtf? That can’t be right”. Because really, exorbitant amounts of cash asked for a digital copy with no physical equivalent coming in the mail, no pre-order bonus or bonus materials, and not being a collectors edition kind of kicked the alarm bells in my head into action. I headed off to check out other stores available to me, namely cdon.com

399 NOK = 44.70 Euro

For this whole “Check out the prices on the purchases of the physical medium” thing I did, I used Kelkoo.no. Imagine that, using kelkoo was a complete waste of time because I remembered I’d used gamezone.no in the past. Lo and behold, for there I saw the best price so far.

359 NOK = 29.02 Euro

Adding 27 NOK in shipping we get 386 NOK (43.25 Euro) total from gamezone (who had a 2 NOK cheaper shipping than cdon.com! Madness!). That’s a difference in 147 NOK (16.47 Euro).

And if you can’t wait for the physical copy to get to you by mail before playing I’m pretty sure you can in good conscience download the pirated version off the ‘net (search Google for ‘prototype torrent‘ or something).

Really Steam/Activision are you fucking retarded, or do you assume everyone else are retarded and think this assumption is a good long-term move? I prefer shopping through Steam, but it seems gamezone + thepiratebay is a better option this time around.

Imagine a kid that really likes using Steam and rarely uses anything else for his gaming purchases, and assume that he doesn’t have those amounts of cash right there and then, does anyone think he’ll overlook the piracy option? Does it surprise anyone that people pirate crap anymore, or does it only surprise those who compare piracy with terrorism and similar fantasies?

Zeno Clash – Torrented (& Commented?)

Morghus — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:45:45 +0000

I subscribe to a number of dubious feeds to simplify my life, the kind of RSS feeds that tells me when something new and awesome has arrived at my closest tracker of choice. Just today I discovered that one of the latest games (and one of the most interesting) to arrive on the market, also arrived on the closest tracker, in this case Mininova. Zeno Clash (Wiki) is, as you can see by the comment from the developer, developed by a minor indie company that’s perfectly aware of the activity level of the filesharers of the world, and has decided to tug our heart-strings in hope of us loosening our purse-strings.

To be honest, I think it’s a great idea to do it this way. Not only does it serve as a reminder for the everyday filesharer, but they also appeal to consciences in a number of ways. Chances are it’ll work. Well, we can hope.

As for me, we’ll see. I’m gonna try it soonish. It looks awesome, quirky, and weird. If I like it even a little bit the chances are fairly huge that I’ll be buying it just to support them :)

BioShock – Third Time, Still Rocks

Morghus — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:24:39 +0000

This is the third time I’m playing through it, and I’m currently at the point where I’m going after Fontaine after fixing the scrambling of the Plasmids, and I started thinking about this in my (surprise!) car.

Andrew Ryan is depicted as one of the most brilliant men of this generation. He might not be a genius statesman per se, but he was a fighter, a survivalist, a man of incredible willpower. Brilliant in almost every aspect. That’s why I can’t help but find it inconsistent that he’d let himself be killed by his son in the manner that he did, that he just gave up.

That’s why I’m thinking Ryan didn’t die, he just rezzed at the closest Vita Chamber. I mean, noone said anything about them being restricted or anything, did they? Yes they did, but all it’s said is that it’s restricted to Ryan’s genetic code, which the protagonist had.

In any case, Bioshock rocks. A bit too easy, even on hard, but one of the most fun experiences in a FPS ever. STALKER might be fun, but it’s not amazing in the same way. They have far too few abilities for that!

So, all we need to do now is wait patiently for the second one to come out…