Patrick of GAMElitist.com - "Piracy affects our beloved industry greatly. Hell, I could fire up a few websites right now and grab copies of games that I don’t already own and be playing them tomorrow, if not this evening. I don’t though, and not because I feel a moral obligation not to, or because I am terrified the law will come sit on my face.
No, I don’t because I have a better offer."
Blindfolding myself and clicking a Steam page at random would serve me better recommendations than Steam’s algorithm
Hmm, not sure I agree with that. The recommendations I get are usually pretty good, but then again I have pretty large library of games on Steam and hundreds of them in my wish list, along with lots of curators I follow for it to build recommendations off of. On occasion it will throw me a random FIFA game or something I've never bought or shown interest in, but mostly its decent IMO.
Replaying Skyrim after 13 years is a reminder of the progress made in western RPGs over the last decade, but also what's been lost.
RPGs are often huge, sprawling endeavours. With limited playtime, we have to choose wisely, so here's the best western RPGs available today.
"I started playing games yesterday" the List... Meh!
How about a few RPGs that deserve some love instead?
1 - Alpha Protocol - Now on GOG
2 - else Heart.Break()
3 - Shadowrun Trilogy
4 - Wasteland 2
5 - UnderRail
6 - Tyranny
7 - Torment: Tides of Numenera
And for a bonus game that flew under the radar:
8 - Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden
Not only glorious jank, but the idea that the story can completely change depending on what you do, or say, or side with, makes it one of the most forward thinking games ever. The amount of story permutation is the equivalent of a Hitman level but in Story Form. And it wasn't just that the story changed, no, it was that you met completely new characters, or missed them, depending on your choices. Made Mass Effect feel static in comparison.
Alpha Protocol was absolutely glorious, indeed. And it was, and still is, more Next Gen than most anything out there these days. In this regard at least.
Pity.
kill it, they closed megaupload, kill them, kill them all for doing this without SOPA can you imaging if this abomination passess
Piracy most definitely hurts the industry, but the problem is that their going about it the wrong way. If anything megaupload getting closed is proof that SOPA/PIPA is not needed.
The kind of knee jerk reaction from RIAA , MPAA and the law enforcement corps such as the fbi (wich would rather waste valuable ressources on harassing the general public , based on some presumption of guilt , as seen with the closure of MU today) ... kinda proves how idiotic it would be to let such a law pass .
It's tantamount to giving loaded firearms to kids .
SOPA would literally shut down the Internet and put many people out of buissiess
Man that sucks that the government shutdown megavideo despite the fact the consumer needed to pay in order to use it. Yeah 72 minutes of freeview was not enough and it was a hassle to bypass the freeview. Well this prove how retarded this law is going to be if it passes. Hopefully not and if it does and affects STEAM in any way piracy will double if not triple due to this law. I just send congress a letter in regards to this issue.