4601

It’ll be interesting to see how many copies are pirated on the 360 vs. the PC, given a 3 week head start. I imagine the PC will still win, but by a much smaller margin.

Then again, it’s not the final version, so maybe not. I certainly wouldn’t download it, and I have no moral qualms about doing so as I already paid for my preorder.

4602

I am shocked that you dislike it. Really, just shocked.

4603

Gay bear porn is exactly what this thread needs.

4604

Weaksauce.

4605

Doubt it since you have to mod your 360 drive to run the copies, as far as i know. EDIT: the pc will win by a large margin, that’s what i mean ;)

4606

Correct. Piracy on the 360 is a drop in the bucket next to PC piracy numbers, and Fallout 3 will no doubt reflect that. It’s a lot harder to convince yourself you’re not doing anything wrong when you have to jump through all the grey market hoops 360 piracy requires.

4607

As seen in such 360 launch titles as Peter Jackson’s King Kong, a game where the achievements are all about achieving things!

4608

How nice of you to give up on a game that you pirated just so you could tell us that you hated it. Never saw that coming.

4609

I don’t think PC pirates really believe they have the moral high ground.

What I find interesting is that this is an ideal situation to explore just how widespread console piracy is today. We’re looking at a highly anticipated AAA+++ title, multiplatform release, leaked 3 weeks early on the console version only. Come the end of the month we can compare the numbers of seeds/peers to the 4000-odd we have today (or tomorrow, whenever the peak is) and see what’s what.

4610

Does DLC work with pirated versions of a game on 360? If not, then I wonder how much, if at all, piracy will affect sales of Fallout 3 on the 360 so long as Bethesda supports FO3 with great content like it did for Oblivion. The DLC is a great incentive to have the legit copy of a game, again, assuming the DLC doesn’t work with pirated versions.

4611

Yes DLC works, until they ban you off Live.

4612

You know he actually did not play it, right ?

4613

I suspect that your computer would run the game reasonably well. The 2.4Ghz minimum is based on a single core processor. That the game recommends dual core tells you it can use more than one, so two processors that are less than 2.4 are probably fine. Note that there is no processor minimum listed for the dual core recommendation and there are a lot of sub-2.0 Ghz processor dual cores out there. Also, the reason AMD uses names like “3800+” is because in some ways the processors run faster than their equivalent Intel core speed units.

Since there are no plans for a demo, it’s going to be had to say for sure, but if I was in your position I’d feel comfortable buying Fallout 3 for my PC.

4614

Yeah, even if I was inclined to pirate 360 games, which I’m not in the least, even the threat of a perma-ban from Live would keep me from doing it.

4615

Why do you keep defending him? The guy’s a prick.

4616

There’s already a long thread on NMA on how the videos one of the pirates has posted “prove” that Fallout 3 is a failure.

I think that’s why Draikin gave up. He can’t be the “hero” now.

:-)

4617

The safe bet might be to install a borrowed copy from a friend and see how it plays. I’d rather be forced to play it on a gamepad and get HD than get my mouse and keyboard but have to dial down the graphics (I had to turn the Quantum of Solace demo down to 1024x768).

Thanks for the explanation though, I was unclear on how dual core affected the clock speed readings, and you never know from game to game, right?

4618

I want a post-mortem of this leak, truth be told.

4619

He can still be an hero.

(I am so, so sorry for posting that.)

4620

You know what? I’m looking forward to this getting leaked for the PC. First of all, yes I will be buying it when it comes out, but there are just so many must play games coming out that week that it’d be really nice to get a head start on one.