People are selling pirated versions of games on the windows store.

http://www.destructoid.com/windows-s...n-288077.phtml

It's amazing how furious people get if you ask for the option of being able to do something. See: flight in wow

I know it's been said a million times before on Reddit but it's true that the smaller subs are generally much better than the defaults. Non-default subs have a lot less hostility and a lot more actual content. I unsubbed /r/gaming and just subbed to game-specific subreddits with /r/skyrim probably being the first I subbed to. It's by no means perfect but there is a lot of useful information in there.

So Far Cry 4 went on sale, I loved Far Cry 3, definitely worth the $30.

But who the **** at Ubisoft is so invested in this uPlay bull****?

1) Entering a username and password on a game controller is legit a dealbreaker. I have DLC that I got as part of a limited edition for games I've never installed because I can't deal with that ****.

2) There are guns that you buy with uPlay points instead of in game currency!

3) And after all that, I don't even know how uPlay is monetized. I'm getting ****ed over, but they aren't getting anything out of it?

All of these publishers want to be Steam. So they come out with some half assed platform that makes you download software you don't want and register for an account you don't care about. No, I am not going to buy games from your crappy platform.

This. I can't stand Uplay, origin, and the handful of other **** launchers I've had to download just to run a damn game. They should be optional, but lol at that ever happening.

I rarely pirate games these days with steam and all. But if you require me to uplay or origin...well there is a chance...

Yeah, the last game I downloaded (that I hadn't already paid for three times at least) was an EA game I damn sure wasn't installing lolorigins or whatever for

Probably played it less than an hour and got less content than I would have with a demo. Lol EA

Origin gives me free games, it's at least a pale shadow of Steam, I can deal with it because there are games I can't buy on Steam that I had to go through Origin for(ME3).

uPlay is more of a companion app than a proper storefront. I had to use it when I bought Blood Dragon, but I didn't buy Blood Dragon through it.

Honestly there is nothing to lol about Origin, other than making posts in bad faith and making up ******ed excuses to torrent a game. It's a good storefront that works well and has decent games and offers. It's also one of the reasons Steam has to step up it's game if it doesn't want to look bad with it's old clunky and slow interface (getting at least a bit updated these months) and abyssimal customer service and refund policies.

Don't think steam would be the great service it is today without the likes of Amazon, Gamersgate, GMG and Origin.

I'm probably in a weird minority, but Origin, uplay, GMG's launcher and the like bother me more from a security standpoint than having to deal with another account and storefront, though that's annoying and a deal breaker for me as well. These companies have no real incentive to worry about security, and their launchers all require admin-level privileges which opens up another potential attack vector. I'm just waiting until we hear about some big malware group installing a bot network or keylogger on all the customers of one of these things through some privilege escalation attack using a security flaw.

Origin got off to a real bad start and hasn't yet been able to shake that rep, but I think it will. The free games helps, that gets me to actually remember my username/password.

Right, because steam cares for us more for some non-defined reason. http://arstechnica.com/security/2012...alicious-code/

I don't have to run Steam as an admin.

Wait, you're telling me there are more games like this? Didn't realize this was a series. Might have to hook my 360 back up.

Edit: graphically Testament looks like an enormous step backwards

Testament was really fun. I've heard Crimes and Punishment looks better but is a step back everywhere else but still want to play it.

Yeah, I didn't know there were games like this besides Condemned (awesome) and L.A. Noire (meh).

Yeah the Sherlock Holmes games never really looked impressive but the gameplay is great.

Crimes and Punishment was beautiful. Felt like I was in a Holmes novel. And good voice acting.

Can one of you explain more about exactly what the gameplay is and how it's great? The idea of solving mysteries always sounds great in theory but every game that tries to do it ends up failing imo.

Frogware seems to have a ton of Holmes games - is there a list over which ones are worth playing and the order (if it matters?).

I'm not very good at describing this type of thing but basically the mystery solving is pretty well done. You have to mentally flip between zooming out to see the "forest" of the crime and also zoom in to see the tiny little "trees". There was a moment in one of the cases where i had gathered all the clues and made all of the possible connections (you have to explicitly connect Clue A and Clue L which leads to deduction Y, but Y may or may not be true. You have to look at the totality) and still couldn't figure out which of the possible suspects did it. I gave up and took a shower and while showering a tiny little detail that the game didn't even count as a clue came to me. It could only fit one of my guys!

I just bought Testament used for 360 which cost nearly as much as a new PS4 Crimes and Punishment. Will let you guys know how it is.

Edit: This is super-duper spoilery but it shows how the deduction map works. Every time there's a "node" that was made by connecting the clues. Whenever two nodes are together that means that only one of them can be true. For example, where there two criminals involved or three? Was it a robbery turned violent of a murder staged to look like a robbery? You can usually string your series of deductions together to implicate different suspects but it's up to you to figure out how it actually went down. It's hard and that moment when you catch the dragon is pretty rewarding.

That sounds awesome. I was thinking it would be more like LA Noire's Interview Simulator method, which was generally pretty crappy. I thought all those Sherlock Holmes games were shovelware, a public domain character and a genre that lends itself to Eastern European hackjobs like that teleporting Watson thing from a game in like 2007 that didn't have walking animations.

Speaking of licenses that were assumed to be entirely shovelware, seeing a DBZ game as top seller on steam is blowing my mind.

Early reviews are in: The Testament of Sherlock Holmes is not very fun. It feels like playing a scavenger hunt. It's pretty brutally unfun at this point and i'm not sure if i'm gonna finish. Sadness.