Yeah they use some of the same themes throughout the series. The Tristram you see in this game is the destroyed Tristram thats a little outside of New Tristram in Diablo III. I *think* some events at the end of the first Diablo destroyed it, but it may have been something that happens off-screen between the first and second games. I honestly don't remember.

Or alternatively: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8rFnefnKhA

I'm such a sucker for speedruns, I always look forward to the various Games Done Quick events.

It's also worth noting that, like Skyrim, if you own these on PC already you'll get the remaster for free.

There's a Steam sale going on, what are you waiting for?

I'll also add, on a more personal note, that I count the original Bioshock as one of my favorite games. In retrospect I don't think Infinite was close to topping it, even though I also count Infinite as one of my favorites.

Yep! If you want the Minerva's Den DLC for Bioshock 2 you have to have the game and the DLC.

But there's actually no change for Infinite. It's not getting the remaster treatment, it's just being included with the others. It's already shiny enough apparently. So if you have Infinite on PC you already have everything they're shipping for that one.

If you look at the announcement page, the behind-the-scenes stuff is just for the original Bioshock.

https://blog.2k.com/news/bioshock-the-collection-announcement

Yes, I meant specifically in Jon's case, but should have worded that better.

Bioshock 2 is also sitting in my Steam library, with like 2 hours of play time. It's not that it was bad, it just didn't grab me the way the first did. I still owe it a chance I suppose.

"hyperbole can often get attention and start a discussion"

It's like the old joke about Linux forums. If you go in and explain your problem, you won't get any answers, but if you go in and say "Linux sucks, it can't even do [thing you're trying to do]" then you'll get a ton of explanations and fixes from people defending it.

Hyperbole gets attention and starts discussions for the wrong reason, but it definitely does get attention and start a discussion.

I have no strong opinion on the show though. I liked the first couple episodes and then, for no reason I can immediately convey, I just lost interest.

I've heard really great things about this. It's very easy to set up a Wiimote on your PC as well, with one of the cheap sensor bar replacements you can get at Gamestop in the bargain bin. That sensor doesn't need to be plugged in, just powered. The Wiimote itself is what sends the data back to the Wii or PC, so the battery powered ones work fine.

I just realized that was ambiguous: I meant that I've heard great things about the 5.0 release. I've used Dolphin in the past and it was already great!

Their model is, as you've said, very morally gray at best. However, they definitely get most of their money from money laundering from stolen credit cards. If this was any other kind of medium that dealt with something other than electronic goods, these services would have been shut down a long time ago, I imagine. Lawmakers still just don't know what to do with electronic goods.

I find it interesting that you both use the British "grey" instead of the American "gray"

That's off-topic :D

Gray markets definitely aren't illegal by definition, but there's a certain connotation with the term. And G2A's practices certainly support that connotation. It's possible that "gray market" isn't the right term to use here, but I don't know what the right term is. At its best it isn't money laundering with stolen credit cards, but it supports that. At its usual best, it provides ways for people to sell keys that they probably aren't authorized to sell.

And there's a certain point about ownership here as well. It's worth noting that just because you have a key to redeem a game on Steam, that doesn't mean you are allowed to sell it in all cases. Ultimately, with digital goods, you don't own the content, you are licensed the content, and the content owners can make choices that affect your ability to re-sell or do other non-standard things. G2A and its competitors facilitate fudging that concept of ownership.

As soon as there's a single player I'll buy it. Like the previous Battlefront games. Not until then, though. I understand that there wasn't a single player campaign because they ran out of time, so maybe one will show up.

+1 for single player.

Oh wait, I'm seeing this now: http://starwars.ea.com/en_AU/starwars/battlefront/features/single-player

How sizable is this? If it's like an hour of solo gameplay I'm not interested but if it's significant I might be.

I'd still be super bummed if the best stuff was locked behind multiplayer.

One of the nice things about games with "long tail DLC" is that you can get in on the action super cheap and the game is supported for a long time. Unless you get a Blizzard game, then it's supported for a long time without DLC. I kind of like that they are continuing on with the base game instead of jumping right into a sequel. One other part that can make this kind of DLC thing nice is if you wait you can get it all for super cheap later. Not sure people will still be playing it, as the magic of these games are in the people playing it, but waiting often nets a good result.

I'm with your scrypt, this DLC isn't needed but it seems so great it's hard to consider a world where you love this game, play it all the time and don't pick this up. NO CLOUD CITY? I don't want to live in that world.

Another thing worth considering is EA has a subscription service that looks pretty good. Currently it doesn't have Star Wars Battlefront but at some point it may.

https://www.origin.com/en-us/store/origin-access

I like this model because if you paid a monthly at some point maybe it could include all this EA DLC content for a sort of premium membership. If you were a big EA fan all your gaming would be taken care of and you would have to think much about it, which could be nice for some.

So far they have a fairly hefty catalog of titles and it's expanding all the time. I wonder what other companies will join here? Well besides Nintendo...

> "Currently it doesn't have Star Wars Battlefront but at some point it may."

Huh. I could have sworn it did at one point. That may have been wishful thinking :D

But yeah I've considered paying for the vault. $5 a month and you can play a lot of great titles, and you get a constant 10% discount as well. So, if you buy a single $60 game and get $6 off, you've paid for a month of it.