Sturek

I don't think this will set a precedent. What would set a precedent is a mediocre game selling okay at 1200 spacebucks. That would be a problem. Or stuff like Lumines with all its packs. This would have set a precedent. Braid is a good 10 hours long if you really want to find all the secrets and about 6-8 hours for one playthrough. I'm sorry, but CoD 4 Singleplayer wasn't longer than that and I essentially paid 30 real bucks for that and on top of that, Braid is an even better game. So, $15 is very reasonable, in my opinion, $20 would have been the limit. The PA game was shorter, less amazing (while still very good) and even more expensive. The problem is, I think, if you only played the demo, you can't really judge if it is worth 15 bucks (which is a problem for a demo, I'll admit). It's a bit like Rez, if you haven't played the last level, you haven't experienced half the game.

I get the feeling that Fallout 3 is not for me. I did not enjoy Oblivion (liked Morrowind up to the point where I lost track of my quests and where the hell I was) and what I liked best about the original Fallouts was turn-based combat. I think Kevin hit the nail on the head when he said that F3 is just Oblivion with a skin slapped on it. Maybe it will have great atmosphere and story and I will play it for that, but Bethesda have to prove that they are good at that sorta thing first.

PS: No, I'm not from NMA, thank you very much. I just like old-school western RPGs and turn-based combat.

I don't know. Nuka-Cola ? The skelleton ? It's all a mighty bit off for me. Just look at the original Fallout intro linked above. The eree scilence after the TV breaks down. It's just far more effective and yet subtle, than a funny looking skelleton.

I will have a look at that, as Connect360 stopped working for Music after the last update and I have not received an answer to my support request from January yet. Might have to spend some money on that yet again, but the custom soundtrack is just such a great addition to any game.

When I read that Disney Channel stuff is coming to Live, I was happy ! I like Mickey Mouse cartoons, Ducktales and stuff like that. Too bad I forgot what Disney is all about nowadays. I have to say that I am proud to live in a country that has not yet heard of Hannah Montana....

I am honestly already excited for whatever he makes. Read an article about game design from his point of view a while back and he was just so right about most stuff. Plus, as the picutre states, he made Deus Ex ! I'm still hoping for an awesome Treasure Planet game. I know nobody else does, but a man can dream :P

I just want him to make a game out of one of his TV projects. A decent CSI, Cold Case or Without a Trace DS adventure would be awesome.

@11: I don't know, nobody has tested it yet (or filed a beta report) not even a report for the Linux version of CrossOver (which is like version 6 or 7 now), but you can try. 12s guess was wrong, you can easily install apps that are not officially supported and a lot do work pretty well. Just install the demo and try it out, it won't make a mess on your HD. Put in the disk and CrossOver should recognise the installer and you can do an express install and see if it works. Though CrossOver has some trouble with USB devices.

No, because the program is restricted to its "bottle" and there's no real Win kernel running, it's virtually immune. I used beta1 for Steam (HL 1 and all mods I tried worked pretty well on my MacBook and HL 2 ran ok, besides the crashes ;) but Steam is high priority for the guys at CodeWeavers it seems) and I am VERY happy with this app. But it seems my demo just expired yesterday :/ Now I gotta find 40 bucks :/

Yeah real words, but the unterhaltungs... is usually referred to as the USK. But Veröffentichungsdatum is a real word consisting of two words Veröffentlichung (publication) and Datum (date), so the date of publication. Yeah we love to combine many words into one huge word ;)
The game is not banned though ! Capcom decided not to release it. But it will be avaiable in game stores. The original post is a bit contradictive (from: http://www.gamefront.de/), but Germans (above 18, that's what the lack of approval means [http://helliwood.mind.de/~usk/main/show.php?id=1] Keine Jugendfreigabe means 18+ only, though it sounds like a ban) will be able to buy the Austrian/Swiss version with German subtitles.
I think Capcom has done this, because the game could've been put on the "Index". If put on the Index, a game is basically treated like porn and dead.
Not sure how it will work though, do the game stores import the game ? First I thought it will still be released in Germany, I've personally senn and bought lots of games that weren't approved/had no Jugendfreigabe (Far Cry, Resident Evil 4) in an ordinary electronics store. But gamefront.de is usually a reliable source and they should know the German laws...strange that Capcom decided to do this. On the other hand we still don't have Phoenix Wright, though it's out in the rest of Europe, so who knows what is really going on in the German games industry....