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If you have played the 1st version of this medieval era like game then you may want to try out the 2nd on switch. I thought it would be worth sharing. Recently they released the 2nd's trailer on switch.

75,000 forum posts by the end of July? That would be very impressive. I must say the forum has been quite active the past 2-3 weeks. Thanks all for your contributions and continued support!

Seriously, those photos are really well made in such a way you wouldn't know it's from a game. I'm thinking of getting one for my gaming room as a wallpaper.

Exactly what I had mentioned. Getting another life after death. Like we save the checkpoint, and when we die we can resume from where we left. It would really be amazing.

How about having more than one lifespan? I believe that it's the best and greatest thing in game that sucks in real life.

He's right @skyfire. You could generate a list of "indie" games and include Skyrim, Grand Theft Auto 4 and The Witcher 3 and it would be perfectly valid.

No, independent only means that they are operating without a third party publisher. CD Project Red is an independent studio and they have hundreds of employees. It's a common misconception, the term "independent" has absolutely nothing to do with the size or scale of the business.

I actually started writing this post on a topic that @Patrik entitled Fixes that make no sense, but still fixed your game, but I soon realised that it was going a little to far off topic. I still think this is a killer story that apparently few people know about, especially for some of the older gamers and retro gamers like @The Blackangell, so I decided to finish the post anyway and share it as a new thread. This is the story of how I believe censorship forced Nintendo to downgrade thier console to some of thier customers. The world is divided in many ways. In terms of technology, one of the ways the world is divided is by the Analogue Colour Encoding system engineered for television sets and video recorders. This splits the world into three regions, PAL NTSC and SECAM. Any gamer around in the 80's and 90's will know this system all too well, but is not as immediately prevalent with the more region free gaming world we have now. The map below shows what countries are set to what. I live in the UK, so as you can see that is in the PAL region. Back in the day, without having the right game copy for the right console to go with the right TV in the right part of the world, it simply wouldn't work. There is a lot of stuff to say about this system on it's own, but with the basics covered I'll just get to the point. In the 70's/80's (at least where I grew up), most game consoles connected to your TV through the same kind of connection you would use for an aerial (Called an AF Socket). The NES was like that, for example. In the 90's, things moved on to other types of connections such as AV, SCART and Super Video that would offer stereo sound and a better, more stable picture. The SNES had such connectivity, more specifically an AV slot (The rectangular port near the middle of the console). This is a step up, as you would expect with a next generation console. For reference sake, this is what an AV cable looks like. The slim, black connecter at one end to go into the console with the three other cables to connect to the TV being Right Audio, Left Audio and Video. This is where things, and by that I mean Nintendo, get weird. The next system was the Nintendo 64, one of my very favourite consoles ever and I'd defend it to hills, but the process of connecting it to your TV was a bit bizarre. It had an AV slot, just like the SNES (The port numbered 1 in this picture. The massive recess containing port 2 was to hold the power brick. I guess Nintendo didn't want a brick on the power cable itself but still wanted it easily removed from the console for this design, but whatever); And this port was thier on the PAL version of the console, but you couldn't connect it to your TV with as AV cable like you could with the SNES because it wouldn't work, Instead you got this fun little bugger included with your console; And what was it for you ask? To convert the AV socket so you could plug in an AF Aerial cable into your console then plug that into your TV. Like we were doing with the ATARI 2600 and NES over a decade earlier... yeah... As far as I know, this "feature" was exclusive to the PAL version of the console. Everybody else got to use an AV cable akin with the SNES. In fact, it was literally the exact same AV cable. This is like if PAL region PS4 owners were forced to use a SCART cable to connect thier PS4's to thier TV's whereas everyone else got to use HDMI. Why did they do this? Well, look back at the map I posted and you will notice that Australia is part of the PAL region. Australia was, and in many ways still is, something of a nanny state when it comes to video games. The Australian authorities weren't very happy that games and versions of games that they didn't approve off were being played in that country. People were able to buy these games simply by making trips oversees to the likes of America, Japan, the Philippines and Indonesia to buy them during the life cycles of the NES and SNES. These places were cheap to get to and/or were frequent travel spots for Australians anyway, so this was economical. It didn't matter the games were region coded, people found ways to break them quite easily on those consoles despite Nintendo's best efforts. Fearing this happening again, not to mention fearing the Australian authorities, Nintendo came up with a cunning idea. The messed around with the video output of the PAL console so it had far less electrical resistance as the other versions. This resulted in a video signal that would oversaturate your TV, showing as almost entirely white screen, making the AV cable useless. The converter box itself was also designed to not let the 60Hz signal from an NTSC or SECAM game pass through it, only the 50HZ signal based tech' of a PAL copy of the game. So even if the console or game was cracked so a non PAL version of the game could play on said console, it still wouldn't work. You have to admire how clever this really was. So the naughty Aussie gamers with thier naughty foreign games had no choice but to only play the games mummy Australia approved off, and ruined the lives everyone else in the PAL region in the process. Years later, this makes the PAL version of the console a nightmare to hook up to modern TV's. AF signals are just too weak to transmit to them. The signal being transmitted to the screen refreshes slower than the screen itself creating a "flash" between static and the game signal. You still can't use the AV cable either because of how the console was tampered with. An AV cable that's been specifically modified to have the same electrical resistance on the video output as the audio outputs (only the video output was tampered with buy Nintendo) will allow the console to actually work. I learned this the hard way trying to get my N64 to work a few years ago. So that's the story. I can only imagine what would happen if Nintendo or any game company tried to pull this shit today. I actually believe that the only got away with it back then because the internet, at least as we know it, didn't really exist. I did successfully verify this a few years back but I remember it being a nightmare to do so, I can't remember how and I just can't be bothered doing so again. But of course, if any of the things I've said are incorrect please tell me.

I remember that if i wanted to run Mad Max on pc, i had to change the time on my pc to the chinese timezone LOL, the game kept refusing to start and i kept searching in forums till i came across this solution that made absolutely no sense, but it actually works. did you encounter anything similar?

So true - just look at Bungie and the Destiny series. Everybody was blaming Activision for mishandling the game but now Bungie's staff are the same ones ignoring their own community.

Probably the alien in Destroy All Humans. I won't discriminate. 👽

Haha, exactly. I absolutely understand how you feel and it's an individual differences thing and there is absolutely nothing wrong with feeling that way.

Gas tank definitely. Gas is $2.88 per gallon here. I can't afford to get out much unless I have to. I would love to just get out and go for a drive, but it's too damn expensive. Granted, it's my understanding the Missouri always tends to have the cheapest gas in the United States at any given time, but that doesn't mean it's affordable.

A good portion of that was no doubt born out of pressure and frustration on the part of EA, but he has made some questionable creative decisions. Maybe without that pressure he can do better but won't know until we see what he and his studio can accomplish on thier own merit.

Any animal that doesn't cooperate with the Zoo staff. Let's face it, that's the only time Zoo animals are actually entertaining.

I wouldn't put so much faith in Valve. Remember the whole "Steam Machine" fad that fizzled away to nothing? That didn't catch on for many reasons, but what it mostly boils down to is when Valve designed the concept they clearly had no clue why people played games on console instead of PC's. They petty much assumed people played on console because they can't build PC's, wanted a box that would fit on a shelf and only played on controllers and that's about all thought process they put into it. This has been conceived with comparatively more common sense, but only because this isn't a new idea. There's other, similar devices out there, this is just the first one from a household name brand like Valve and Steam. This will not be a success if Valve underestimate the target audience again like the did with the Steam Machine.

Depends, Location where you are going, I might love it or not Work related, jobs and whatnot Family, I mean most want to be near family. Not always going to make your love one happy.

Crazy Taxi Classic

Yes Opera, firefox, Hola or hulu and many others. they can't recover the free giving unless they are selling the data. plus their ads network target you based on local network and not foreign network so that shows you are kind of open to the target website to track.

Am I the only one so poor at it? I had correct answer for only 6 times, rest all other characters that I had guessed were wrong. I think I should increase my gaming knowledge here. 😆

The intro and crypt keeper were the best parts of the show. I know the arm thing in the video is annoying as hell, and the music is really soft, but this was the best video of it I could find.

I can talk and piss people off at the same time.

Exploits by their very definition are aimed towards a weakness, almost always unethical or immoral. Gaming exploits (cheating) are players taking advantage of a glitch in a programmer's coding that leads to a result the developer never intended. Then again exploiting is pretty much discovering a way to do something in the game mechanics that wasn't implemented intentionally, like a bug. On the other hand, cheating is bypassing game mechanics to create disadvantage/unfair gameplay. BUt even so, looking at way to break and cheat is like wasting money on a game story and not even doing the story right.

I agree especially when you're at a younger age and you have the attention span of a goldfish, reading becomes really boring real quick.

To be honest I've never had a party like this .

In RDR2, people can attack you for no reason whatsoever, or just take off running screaming, and you are the one that ends up with a god damn warrant. Also there have been times I watched other guys fight, and I was the one the cops fucking came after. I WASN'T EVEN INVOLVED IN IT. Another time, I've talked about this before, and NPC went flying all the way down the main street of Valentine, level with the rooftops, and I got a murder charge. He came from out of screen where I couldn't even see him. The camera wasn't facing where he came from. You blink, you have a $500 bounty.