IIRC Caen's frency parent company bought out interplay.

As for bethesda, true, its not like they've got experince with serious RPGs.
That said it wasnt new, as they claimed to be 'fans' of it.

That or they're big time liars, which also fits.

As for the Fallout Bible, yeah there was one.

It was pretty unoffical, one of the origonal dev's wrote it with backstory that the devs had kicked around to give the fans as much as he could.

Bethesda ignored it tho from what I've heard.

It looks like the fallout series have gotten beaten severely many times and had faced a lot of hardships. Basically its nearly dead but bethesda is trying to revive it from what it looks. F3 is a good game in it's own right, but I guess compared to other fallout games it didn't look too well.

As for bioware, Im getting my very overpriced m17x, Im not in the liberty of making a customized desktop, let alone a laptop. And from what I've heard the old republic(made by bioware) mmo is going to make a lot of games look pretty dumbed down(3 years in development jeeze bioware you guys love your work )

It's not that I hate Ea totally, I mean their development division(Ea Dice) is actualy pretty awesome, but who I never got to was their legal types and some of their ceo's and the board. Something interesting(interestingly bad a lot) about them would always have to happen. Their the ones who tarnish the brand name, I don't even need to go into detail about spore. I never owned it, but I have heard about the "really bad drm" software. I always hated traditional cd key though too, if you had lost your case or manual, your officially screwed until one day it turns up, but then you end up losing your disc

Heh, I tend to DL cracks for games I legit own even, just to not ahve to deal with the CD.

I actualy once got a cease and desist order from EA for one of the MOH series games, I DLd a crack along with soem mods.

My reply was a pic of the CD along side their letter, sitting on top of my arse, with a suggestion that they kiss it.

They never responded.

How did you get a good angle to take the pic?

Mirrors.

I'm still waiting on their response

mmm, cracks and such not a generally good thing to hear about even if you do legitally own the full game.

Anyways, I wonder if they kept it in their "confidential" section, and now they've got some hit squad on to you lol nah jk, but that would be pretty funny. All this for some video game

heheh nice Tokra.

Jjzero, the thing is cracks are only a bad thing if you do not legitmetly own the game.

If you legitimetly own it, they are perfectly legal as they allow you to use your product however you wish to.

Like I said before, even if you do own the game legitimately, people still don't like and get a little paranoid when they here the word "cracked", at least in most forums.