Recent content by Ian Kapsthan Frost

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    EA "Embarrassed" by How Good Its 2017 Releases Will Be

    I also originally believed that everything would be pushed back to 2017, but then I re-read the news and noticed: I suppose FY17 means fiscal year 2017, which would be from 1 October 2016 until 30 September 2017. So I guess a late 2016 release is still possible. Edit: I stand...
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    Slender Man: Birth of an Urban Legend

    Somehow Slender Man always reminds me of the Prince from Yahtzee's later Chzo games (Trilby's Notes and 6 Days a Sacrifice). They do seem to have a lot in common. I had previously only known Slender Man as the titular character of the game(s?) about him, and therefore believed that to...
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    Suggest improvements for Steam.

    Removal of regional restrictions. Whenever a game is released in some censored version here (in Germany), that will be the ONLY version that can be purchased via Steam. Even if the uncensored version is neither banned nor indexed (like in Bioshock's case). I can legally buy these games in any...
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    Massive Email Hack Hammers One-Fifth Of Germany

    According to the website they seem to have basically stumbled upon the data on some Botnet server, and a lot of the data just happens to be from German accounts. There are probably plenty of others that have data from other countries, but they just haven't been found yet. I have let the website...
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    The Last Of Us Multiplayer Censored in Europe, Naughty Dog Confirms

    The multiplayer censorship would be substantially less bothersome if they had informed people about it BEFORE they released the game. Despite really liking the game during my first 1-3 playthroughs, I still feel somewhat bitter about Sony/Naughty Dog not being upfront about this, and in fact...
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    Ubisoft: Assassin's Creed Has "An End"

    This does strike me as rather odd.
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    Burka Avenger Fights For "Justice, Peace, and Education"

    This does seem like a possible effect that I hadn't thought of, a very good point indeed. Girls reaching the age to wear a burka might really start regarding to do so as stupid. On the other hand though, if someone told me it would be okay to dress up like a superhero in real life, and that a...
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    Burka Avenger Fights For "Justice, Peace, and Education"

    Although the show appears to be well-intentioned, it still seems like it could have pro-burka effect on its audience, especially since the the main character doesn't wear it all the time. It seems to basically say: Hey, you can be a normal and boring person OR you could put on a burka and be an...
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    Full Steam Ahead: How Digital Will Kill the Disc

    Although I would generally agree that total system losses are very unlikely, I still don't see them as the biggest threat either. What if my account gets banned on cheating accusations, or because I changed my IP to get content not available in my region, or some other arbitrary reason? I really...
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    Full Steam Ahead: How Digital Will Kill the Disc

    I could not agree more. Just standing in front of my collections of games/comics/movies/etc. fills me with happiness. Especially so for games, where just looking at the side of a box and reading the name of the game conjures the most entertaining times I had with it. This has occasionally even...
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    Full Steam Ahead: How Digital Will Kill the Disc

    Although I will not deny the advantages of digital games, I still feel that the problem of region locks is much bigger than it is being described in the article. Good look trying to buy the uncensored version of any game via Steam from Germany, it will not work unless you use certain means to...
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    Broken Age Needs More Money

    If I recall correctly, then one of the big problem was the amount of money the rewards/shipping actually ended up costing. I think one of the early videos mentioned something around 400,000$ or more, although I can't recall this exactly. But as far as I know this was also why they focused so...
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    Crossing Spec Ops: The Line

    The following is the case: If you try to save Gould instead he still dies before being able to tell you exactly what his plan is, so the game is pretty much the same no matter how you decide at that point. Essentially the thing that bothered me the most about the white phosphorus scene...