Nals

Might and Magic Heroes 6 does this heavily.

Starts off with your father's murder, all the children get shipped off/move on/played a part/try to fix things. Each of the races campaigns focus on one of the kids attempts to figure out what happened, and do their own thing, lot's of missions have them reunite, so you get to see things from many different perspectives, including betrayals/differing motivations/reasons for pivotal events.

Warning though. It's something like 60+ hours long, and features a choice/consequence system. Depending on how you play the heroes, they'll go down two paths, Tears or Blood. If you want the true ending, you need to have some heroes be Tears, and some Blood, as the last two missions are a Tears mission, and a Blood mission, where you can only bring in the races/heroes you had of those kinds. So if you go super goody two shoes/super evil and have nothing but Blood/Tear heroes, you actually can't beat the game.

Oh, and it's a PC only oldschool RTS series, so that might also hamper your ability to play it.

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Hullo.

Back when it was an FPS, they put out a huge deal about how you had to choose squad members from a pool of recruits, and dead is dead for them, and how most of your gun/gear upgrades came from stealing alien tech and reproducing it.

That all had me excited.

Now they've pushed it even more down that route, so I'm even more excited.

My main worry is that it was already a second tier game, and then it got sidelined due to the negativity, THEN it was remade, so there is a very good chance it won't be any good. I'll have my $50 on hand for it though if the QL looks good.

So we have a company that has never made an RTS, headed by a man who has said in the past that story is the least important part of a game, making a heavily story focused RTS game.

I'm not even on the hate train. I just don't see it coming to pass well. Homeworld 2 was the end of the series. It finished the tale, it tied all the knots, it made the series complete. Everything was finished, and I can't imagine how a good writer could take it from there and make a whole new game premise. I'm even less sure when that writer is a Gearbox writer, judging from their past games ( mysterious aliens who don't exist in the fiction otherwise, a rewrite of some novels, and Borderlands. )

I'm cool with buying it.

Just please, for the love of everything holy, make it an upgrade. I don't want another "Mark of the Ninja" "Mark of the Ninja Special Edition" issue coming up with Steam. One game is enough.

@Venatio: Yes.

Direct2Play operates under the same branch as places like Intkeys. It's a reliable way to get Steam keys, as they buy them in bulk in nations like Poland/Russia ( where they are sold cheap to avoid piracy ), then resell them online.

In most cases they are just really business savvy Russian 20somethings, which is why the sites are often quite poorly designed.

The big issue is finding the trustworthy ones. There are quite a few out there that are outright scams, and you should obviously never enter your credit information into this, but thankfully almost all offer Paypal. The other issue is regional availability, many games can only be activated in specific reasons, but due to the response in this thread, it's safe to say DmC is not one of those games.

@Alex Just checked TRs past works, only thing that I remember being even alright is the 2009 Ghostbusters game. So yup, this'll be all you.

You know what you guys should do? Doesn't this game have coop? Why not get you and Jeff together, and do a QL of the entire game, start to finish, like uh, I think Gamespot did with Warfighter. Turn it in the Premium Content, and allow the internet to watch your sanity drop.

Just to add to this, pretty much anything can cook anything.

If you've only got a frying pan, cool, throw some chicken/potatoes/rice on top, add in a little bit of water, let it steam for a bit, voila. Same with most other vegetables just throw them in a pan of some sort that has water in it, then let them steam for a bit, you don't actually need a designated STEAMER UNIT to steam stuff.

If you want to stay sane, I'd suggest just going for the veggies/cheap meats. You can buy ground meat/chicken in bulk for $8-$12 that'll last you a week +, and a bag of potatoes/broccoli/onions tends to be in the $2-4 range. Constantly keep things fresh by mixing in different things, and you'll both be healthier, and suddenly be spending a lot less on food. If you want to get a bit less healthy, beans and rice are always cheap, and again, you can easily mix them with other vegatables/chicken for cheap easy food.

If this isn't abject poverty we are talking about, and you can afford some seasoning, I'd also recommend that, a little bit of seasoning on chicken goes a long way in allowing you to survive off it for several years, which I learned during my college years. Don't just keep eating plain chicken everyday, as you'll eventually get really tired of it.

Or you know, you could just buy nonstop Ramen.

@Ekpyroticuniverse: You are correct, and I am not. I assumed it was the other way around after a quick Wikipedia browse.

I apologize for being so angry, it's just annoying. Even if guns are the problems, gun control laws won't help. A quick look at Russia would show that even with the best intentions, not being an island nations immediately breaks all chance of that as an answer. I'm no gun nut, and don't think people need guns of any sort, but gun control is pointless, and just pushes attention away from the real issue.

And thats the mental health issue of living in such a large nation. Due to a number of things, from MACHISMO and Hollywood glorifying violence, low standards and quality of living, and low social focus, people in places like China, Russia and the US tend to have more mental problems then those of other nations, yet out health care structure is nonexistent. Going to therapy is seen as a weakness in most cases, having mental problems is handwaved away as not being strong enough to do things yourself, etc etc. So these things fester and are sparked off by cheesy Hollywood films saying this is how MEN handle problems.

The debate needs to be brought up, and things need to happen, but gun control alone is not the answer. All that will achieve is taking guns away, but the incident in China shows exactly what happens in a nation that manages to get the guns away, the social issues still remain, and the violence keeps going. It's an "easy" fix to a hard problem, and it's not really a fix at all. I wouldn't mind so much if both things got brought up equally, but no, look at the news now, all it is is people screaming about gun control again. How many more school shootings until thats passed, and then how many school stabbings until the heart of the issue gets fixed. Why not just focus on both now, and save a bunch of lives in the process.

Anyways, I'm leaving this thread, as the whole event just makes me angry.

@Bogitt: Regulate what.

The man used two pistols. Pistols are readily available not just in every state, but in every nearby country. Hell you can easily and legally buy pistols even in places like the UK.

Availability of weapons was not the issue. The issue was the man was fucking nuts, and took it out on children. If guns were 100% illegal, he would have used a knife. If you took away knives, he would have used a car, or a rock, or a dirty bomb, or a baseball bat.

Nobody in this thread is ready to debate gun control, so we shouldn't shit up the thread doing just that. Can you tell me whats the difference between a dangerous weapon a safe weapon? How about caliber sizes, and what should be legally sold? How about the effect removal of weapons in urban environments has had on the sales of improvised weapons, such as bats or knives. Maybe you could tell me why certain states with lax gun laws have very low gun crime ( 2-4% ) while states with very harsh gun laws have very high gun crime ( 50-60% ). Maybe you could inform me and the public why a country like Switzerland, which hands out fully automatic licenses to anyone over 18 like it's a candy, has the lowest gun crime rates in the world, yet places like Russia still have extremely high gun crime rates, despite harsh embargoes on guns/gun ownership. Oh, and before you mention the UK/Japan, realize they are islands, and that they are in full control of all imports into their nations, so they actually can keep weapons out.

If someone here is on the board of the ATF, and wants to talk about the subject, then fine, they can go ahead. As is, this thread is using dead children as a platform to spout their asinine political beliefs, with no actual scientific backing for such beliefs, just emotion. This country needs to bring up the gun control debate again, but nobody in this thread should be asking those questions. All it's accomplishing is threadshitting.