Tanuki

if GoG had closed down WITH NOTICE and I didn't get my games off their servers it would be my bad, but had this been a real shutdown without notice (so I couldn't grab my shit) I'd be sitting on a plane to Poland right now with a pitchfork in one hand and an unlit torch in the other. the ting is that lots of people never download the games they buy from gog. who really buys 5/10/15 year old games for the entertainment value? there have been a few game's i've bought from GoG where they were "new" to me in that I missed them when they came out for various reasons (mostly my PC dark ages when I didn't own a computer between 1998-2003), but by in large the games I buy from GoG are games that I had and loved but lost. as such, I simply buy them for nostalgia. truthfully: I'm probably never going to fully re-play fallout 1&2 + tatics, acranum, and freespace 2, but I still bought them. I should be backing them up, but if I was diligent I wouldn't have lost the game disks in the first place. so, yeah, I'm stupid in that I leave 1/2 of my games on GoG's server for when I get around to not being lazy and back them up. if this stunt is any indication, most other GoG users are just like me so that's why everyone has a major inflamation of the nerd rage gland right now. I'd mourn GoG if it did close down, but only if I had prior notice so I could grab my games off their servers before the end.

I'm sure that GoG will be back too but I can't help but feel that after all this drama it's just not going to be the same. I can deal with DRM, hell it's not like I didn't grow up in the day and age of disk in the drive to play ... even experienced the tail end of riddle tests from the manual ... just so long as I'm not renting the games and watching a youtube video of myself playing said games.

I get the feeling that when they (gog) comes back they will be using a cloud based streaming system like OnLive or something. I'll be damned if I give them another drop of my money if that happens. in the future I think that most of the big name companies will either ramble on over to producing game box exclusives or switch to a purely online (mmo-ish) publishing format. inde designers like Wolfire will just replace them, and we will all be the better for it with a few "big name"releases furthering engine development but most of the actual gameplay releases being perpetuated by enthusiasts like you guys. uhh ... that's kind of a complicated way of saying it (and pretty far off topic, I had to check what topic this was because I got carried away and forgot) but I think things will shift to the UDK style format. where we will have a few people putting out game engines, but most of the PC game releases will be from non-professional teams.

HI guys! (I used to be active here a while ago, but kinda got busy with other things and stopped posting. I forgot my user ID and password as well as what e-mail account I had this place set up to use, figured it would be easier to start anew). also sry for the bump, I found this interesting enough to comment regardless of if it's too old to respond to. feel free to ignore me i'm just throwing in my 2 cents. I like the models, but the cleavage is a little much. the whore works, but with the rouge it's a bit off. it's one thing to have a low cut dress if your a hand servant in a rich house, or the owner of the rich house and can lie around all day (or if your whoring and gonna be naked half the time), but it's not such a good idea if your going to be partaking of vigorous activity. #1 realistically, her chest is going to pop out of that thing the second she takes anything more than a dainty step. something of an awkward state of being when perusing a fleeing thief. #2 it sure doesn't look like shes wearing a sports bra! so as soon as #1 happens those baby feeders are gonna be smacking her in the face as she runs. not only will that obscure her field of vision but it would also cause immeasurable pain! you said yourself that getting the flesh to match up correctly was a pain in the ass, so why not ditch the cleavage shots? at very least you cold give her (it?) a choker to cover up the seams with the neck. needless to say, i'm on the full armor/no slutmail bandwagon, and even then you dont need to go over board with emphasizing breast mass under the armor. A "C" my represent average on the grading scale (with "D" being the norm in publick schools) but it's not quite that way when your talking about the female form. truthfully you could make all the females flatter than a sidewalk and I would still be able to tell what character is what gender simply by the hips (if done correctly).