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Hmmmmm, I'm not impressed. Where's my grumpy old Dwarf!!!

Sorry Spock. No advice, only sympathy. And why I will never touch Windows 10! My 2 machine are Win7 for everyday use and a WinXP machine for my older games that dual boots with Linux. I have lost all confidence in Microsoft I'm afraid ever since they decided to make their new OS act more like a virus than an OS!

True but handy for those who haven't got a copy yet or who are having compatibility issues.

Sorry if this is the wrong section, maybe somebody can move it to the right place for me if so. GOG just posted Titan Quest Anniversary Edition on their site for the introductory sale price of £4.49 or your regional equivalent. Restored and improved multiplayer functionality, including new features like a built-in voice chat and NAT resolving for best multiplayer connectivity • Support for more resolutions, larger camera distance and scaleable UI size • Improved performance and general stability • Complete balance rework with improvements to all Masteries, damage types, unique items and sets • Countless bug fixes and other improvements, including ten years’ worth of community fixes • Increased challenges and rewards for larger parties and on higher difficulty levels • Dozens of new heroes and bosses to encounter • Improved enemy and pet AI • Quality of life features like higher stack limits, quick item pickup, a larger stash and a speed setting • Reduced cheating with curbed exploits, removal of test items and mod comparison in multiplayer The normal price will be £17.99, so if you are interested then grab it quick!

Nah, NFL pre-season games for me. Get me wised up and ready for the season proper!

On sale on GOG as well for 3.89GBP or regional equivalent.

My wife works at the local police station and it seems that pokemon have made an appearance there, with idiots milling outside the building complaining that they can't get inside to catch them. And one idiot member of civilian support staff taken to hospital when she fell down the stairs trying to catch one. Serves her right!

One of our hospitals has had its Emergency Department swamped because it is a designated area for Pokamon, and in an article in a national newspaper only the other day a sex shop was turning away young kids because it was a designated pokamon site. The latest is complaints from a mountain rescue team because they are having to rescue totally unprepared idiots from a mountain top because there are pokamon up there of all places! I wonder who are the bigger idiots, the players or the idiots who chose where to put the pokamon? Wish I could have chosen where the pokamon go as I can think of a few places to shove them"

Sorry mate, perhaps you had better stick to e-sports from now on. Or maybe be like me and sit in your comfy chair with a blanket around your knees and moan about the young whippersnappers and how things were better back in our day!

Have you installed the Securom DRM correctly? That was always a problem for me and usually took a lot of fiddling before it would accept it and allow the game to work. I know that Securom has to be activated manually now and that involves downloading stuff direct from their website. http://www.sacredwiki.org/index.php/Sacred_2:Installation_and_Activation_Guide I recommend that you have a look at the GOG website and watch when they put the game on sale next, you can pick up a fully updated copy without any DRM for very little and it has none of the issues of the Deepsilver copies.

I had heard a lot about Canada and its government's dictatorial attitude. My deepest sympathies.

Yep it's still mandatory, although lots of people don't bother and the government don't enforce it the way they used to.

The last time I was expected to fill out a census form I never even recieved it until after the date it was due to be returned by. When they chased me about it I told them it was their fault for sending it by post since it is so unreliable! Nothing happened and I never heard from them again.

Carnach is just a big pusstcat! My seraphim scratched his belly for him with her twin swords and he just rolled over and played dead.

I think my favourite part of Sacred 2 is playing it in third person perspective rather than isometric, it makes it seem like a completely different game and the with the amount of detail that can only been seen when playing that way makes me realise the amazing amount of work that went into making this game.

You are not the only one. I would also add the problem with online games is that the developer can completely change the game mechanics in an update and you have no choice about updating your game. For example I play LotRO and for 6 years the skill system worked well, then Turbine decided to completely change the mechanics of the skill trees and altered the game beyond all recognition to a dumbed down and far worse skill system which restricts you like a straitjacket on your characters. Players were unable to choose not to update their copies and keep the old system, whereas with offline games like Sacred we could decide to not install the update and keep the game we love.

I think for most people the idea of some of the little conveniences for the tedious in town stuff is to soften the time spent outside actual combat like stash sorting and loot pick up. For instance the pick up all key and it's settings. We're not talking bot programs or anything. And for those of us who aren't hardcore gamers or have less than desirable free time to play it can make a big difference in how much hacking and slashing we get to do. The idea like you said is to play and immerse. That means not taking twenty minutes to organize your last batch of loot in your stash. At least that's our theory. Fair enough, what ever works for each individual. I don't expect what works for me to work for everyone and I used to take advantage of all the little shortcuts myself. It's only that the last couple of years playing MMOs and not realising just how much those games were making me sit back and let the game virtually play itself and lead me around by the hand that has changed my attitude. I now realise that I WANT to play the game with all its annoying little foibles these days, that I prefer older style games where I had to do it all and not rely on helpful shortcuts. I also realise that even in a Hack'n'Slash like Sacred combat is not necessarily the best part of the game. I'm just thankful that Ascaron made the Sacred 2 that they did, one that it allows me to experience the depths and intracasies of the game and that they didn't just make a Sacred 3 instead!

The thing is Flix, how many little conveniences before it becomes all convenience and all done for you? Where do you draw the line? It's the thin edge of the wedge and each of us has to decide how thick a wedge we want. Gogo, my chest is like my head........ pretty much bald these days, lol.

Actually I prefer it this way as it helps me remember that not all games are tailored to lazy players who expect the game to play itself and all they have to do is watch. I know that after playing MMOs particularly for a couple of years I went back to play an older game that I have always loved, Morrowind. It was a shocking experience! I hadn't realised how much I had become used to the kiddie style games. Morrowind doesn't have a radar with arrows pointing where you have to go, maps with big "x marks the spot" so you don't have to search for things yourself. I had to actually explore for myself, read the quest descriptions, think and work out where to go. It was a sobering experience and I now apprciate those older games that were designed for real gamers and not kiddie hand holding! Including things like have to move items manually instead of expecting the game to move things en-mass for me just to make it easy. I have come to think in terms of how I would have to move each item individually if it was real, so I can't complain about doing it in the game, it's part of the immersion.

Not rude just not verbose. I was in a hurry when I posted it, that's why it reads like a telegram, short and to the point. No rudeness intended.

Good luck then.

Because it doesn't and since the developers are no more, you can like it or lump it, sorry. Nobody can fix it now! You'll just have to jon the hundreds of thousands of us who have coped with it for all these years.

For me http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088846/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 this is one of the scariest films of all time, not while watching it maybe, but because I can see it as a possible future that seems more likely all the time!

I had wondered because at first all stories were refugees from war, then stories admitted 2/3 maybe more were economic migrants not refugees and were destroying their papers so couldn't prove otherwise. Then all stories stop dead, like "shut up, don't let truth be told because we politicians messed up and have made things worse!". After such a build up about the crisis to suddenly go quiet was very suspicious.

So chattius, how are things in Germany with the migrant crisis? I saw in newspapers that some areas of Germany close to civil rebellion because of pressure of so many migrants with no consideration for locals. That particularly young women advised to not go out alone, and various other problems. Then suddenly no more on subject almost like news blackout. What's it really like over there and are the problems real or just being blown out of proportion?