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 Topic: Dragon Age 2 |
till136
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 Forum: PC Games Arena Posted: Wed, 9th Mar 2011 18:29 Subject: Dragon Age 2 |
Is anyone maintaining a list of DLC (ideally with direct download links from the BioWare servers), as someone did for DA:O?
'Cause that'd be awesome. |
| Topic: Civilization V |
till136
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Forum: PC Games Arena Posted: Wed, 22nd Sep 2010 23:57 Subject: Civilization V |
| The Cheat Engine trick for the demo works great. I froze three values at 15. The turn counter always flips back to 15 and the date is stuck, but otherwise the game seems to run normally. I'm probably ... |
| Topic: Assassin's Creed 2 |
till136
Replies: 4844
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Forum: PC Games Arena Posted: Tue, 9th Mar 2010 22:33 Subject: Assassin's Creed 2 |
I made a short video about a bug i met with in Florence.
Not a bug. His foot is just very firmly stuck on the roof  |
| Topic: Assassin's Creed 2 |
till136
Replies: 4844
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Forum: PC Games Arena Posted: Mon, 8th Mar 2010 13:10 Subject: Assassin's Creed 2 |
Ubisoft confirms! Their servers got DoS'd for seven hours...
Apologies to anyone who couldn’t play ACII or SH5 yesterday. Servers were attacked which limited service from 2:30pm to 9pm Paris time ... |
| Topic: Silent Hunter 5 |
till136
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Forum: PC Games Arena Posted: Mon, 8th Mar 2010 01:52 Subject: Silent Hunter 5 |
Just about the only interesting detail one can deduce from a cursory inspection of strings in the EXE is that their system (DRM, savegame storage) seems to be called Orbit.
Oh, and here's a handy l ... |
| Topic: Silent Hunter 5 |
till136
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Forum: PC Games Arena Posted: Mon, 8th Mar 2010 01:42 Subject: Silent Hunter 5 |
I'm glad that a couple method signatures tell you everything you need to know.
Did you bother checking to see what they actually do? Do they make socket calls?
Did you check what calls them? Set ... |
| Topic: Assassin's Creed 2 |
till136
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Forum: PC Games Arena Posted: Sun, 7th Mar 2010 22:14 Subject: Assassin's Creed 2 |
| You could have at least faked an IRC log to make it remotely plausible. |
| Topic: Assassin's Creed 2 |
till136
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Forum: PC Games Arena Posted: Sat, 6th Mar 2010 18:36 Subject: Assassin's Creed 2 |
Grey market keys are typically purchased in Asia and resold.
They work fine, until they get [url=http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1031758]banned... |
| Topic: Assassin's Creed 2 |
till136
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Forum: PC Games Arena Posted: Sat, 6th Mar 2010 03:32 Subject: Assassin's Creed 2 |
Who burns stuff these days? You can get a 1.5TB drive for $100. AC1 is still $30 on Steam, so I'd vote steal it.
Fun fact about AC1: no subtitles. None. Not an option. Deaf or hearing impaired, or ... |
| Topic: Assassin's Creed 2 |
till136
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Forum: PC Games Arena Posted: Fri, 5th Mar 2010 18:46 Subject: Assassin's Creed 2 |
From one perspective, it's pretty stupid to require an internet connection then do absolutely nothing with it (except backup save games).
It's only a matter of time before nearly all games effectiv ... |
| Topic: Assassin's Creed 2 |
till136
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Forum: PC Games Arena Posted: Fri, 5th Mar 2010 16:01 Subject: Assassin's Creed 2 |
Well, there's the problem of 15th century Italy = totally awesome, modern era = meh.
That's the only reason I want to play AC2. Reviews of the console versions indicated they put a ton of work into ... |
| Topic: Assassin's Creed 2 |
till136
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Forum: PC Games Arena Posted: Fri, 5th Mar 2010 04:53 Subject: Assassin's Creed 2 |
doesn't seem like there's any progress.
Progress? Scene crackers don't work in public. We have no idea how far along they are. |
| Topic: Assassin's Creed 2 |
till136
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Forum: PC Games Arena Posted: Fri, 5th Mar 2010 01:34 Subject: Assassin's Creed 2 |
| As long as it's cracked before the US release date of March 9, I'll count it as a total fail for Ubisoft. Still quite a bit of time left. |
| Topic: Silent Hunter 5 |
till136
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Forum: PC Games Arena Posted: Thu, 4th Mar 2010 22:21 Subject: Silent Hunter 5 |
I just can't see why they disrespect their customers so much.
Well, there are two basic strategies most any company can take. I'm talking about PC games here, but most of it applies generally.
... |
| Topic: Silent Hunter 5 |
till136
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Forum: PC Games Arena Posted: Thu, 4th Mar 2010 19:08 Subject: Silent Hunter 5 |
Game seems to be super shit:
Here a german review from a very good site: 3/10
http://www.gamersglobal.de/test/silent-hunter-5?page=0,1
Ouch. There was only a brief mention of the DRM, to say the ... |
| Topic: Avernum 6 - RPG |
till136
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Forum: PC Games Arena Posted: Thu, 4th Mar 2010 18:43 Subject: Avernum 6 - RPG |
I think Exile III remains my favorite; the Exiles had that immensely satisfying Fireball spell that would obliterate a group of goblins with a series of *boom* *SQUEEAK!*
But yeah, it's hard to rec ... |
| Topic: Avernum 6 - RPG |
till136
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Forum: PC Games Arena Posted: Thu, 4th Mar 2010 14:37 Subject: Avernum 6 - RPG |
The first three Avernums are remakes of the Exile series, but 4 - 6 are brand new.
I'm less than thrilled with the latest installment...it feels a little too disorganized. I think I have to start o ... |
| Topic: Assassin's Creed 2 |
till136
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Forum: PC Games Arena Posted: Thu, 4th Mar 2010 04:35 Subject: Assassin's Creed 2 |
just to clarify, you guys all get the shakes and start sweating if games are available without fully working cracks, right?
That, and the sooner a crack is available, the more it screws Ubisoft. An ... |
| Topic: Supreme Commander 2 |
till136
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Forum: PC Games Arena Posted: Thu, 4th Mar 2010 02:07 Subject: Supreme Commander 2 |
I only played the demo, but...
You forgot to mention the voice acting, which is beyond awful. Chris Taylor strikes me as the type of dev who thinks he's being TEH FUNNAY when doing an over-the-top ... |
| Topic: Assassin's Creed 2 |
till136
Replies: 4844
Views: 965840
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Forum: PC Games Arena Posted: Thu, 4th Mar 2010 01:46 Subject: Assassin's Creed 2 |
| Would be hilarious if Ubisoft is panicking right now. There's not much you can hope to change in a day though, unless there's a bug that makes it easily crackable. |
| Topic: Silent Hunter 5 |
till136
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Forum: PC Games Arena Posted: Thu, 4th Mar 2010 00:11 Subject: Silent Hunter 5 |
Well if somebody forgot to do an integrity check before redistributing, oops...
Can anyone confirm that it's playable? For, say, the first ten minutes or so, past any potential triggers? |
| Topic: Zero Punctuation Reviews |
till136
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Forum: PC Games Arena Posted: Wed, 3rd Mar 2010 23:54 Subject: Zero Punctuation Reviews |
| Monkey Island 2 as an example of a bad sequel = fail. |
| Topic: Assassin's Creed 2 |
till136
Replies: 4844
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Forum: PC Games Arena Posted: Wed, 3rd Mar 2010 18:24 Subject: Assassin's Creed 2 |
do you still need internet connection to play the cracked version?
same question here?
There is no cracked version yet. But a proper crack shouldn't need to touch Ubisoft servers...the whole point ... |
| Topic: Assassin's Creed 2 |
till136
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Forum: PC Games Arena Posted: Wed, 3rd Mar 2010 18:18 Subject: Assassin's Creed 2 |
| Not surprising. Big question is whether it's actually loading data from the server, or if it's just doing more checks that need to be patched out. |
| Topic: Assassin's Creed 2 |
till136
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Forum: PC Games Arena Posted: Wed, 3rd Mar 2010 14:20 Subject: Assassin's Creed 2 |
11 hours. And the Steam version will still have the same additional DRM.
On Steam:
A PERMANENT HIGH SPEED INTERNET CONNECTION AND CREATION OF A UBISOFT ACCOUNT ARE REQUIRED TO PLAY THIS VIDEO GAME ... |
| Topic: Assassin's Creed 2 |
till136
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Views: 965840
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Forum: PC Games Arena Posted: Wed, 3rd Mar 2010 01:14 Subject: Assassin's Creed 2 |
| I can't imagine that many other publishers are eager to spend lots of money running the necessary servers while pissing off their legitimate customers. If nothing else, the inevitable DDoS will put an ... |
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