june gloom on 7/10/2011 at 18:05
Quote Posted by lost_soul
The whole "levels are locked unless you buy a new copy" thing makes me want to buy this title used just out of spite for them.
i'm confused, where are there locked levels
and if you had any balls you wouldn't buy the game at all
Volitions Advocate on 7/10/2011 at 18:24
They've got some DRM thing where if you buy a second hand copy there are small sections of the game that you can't play. Supposedly they aren't essential to the game, although I don't understand why this would even be an issue since the game uses Steamworks. Which means registering the game with steam before you play it, so there is no way to sell your copy of the game.
EDIT: I guess if you're buying it on a console you can sell the game again. I should've thought of that.
Forever420 on 7/10/2011 at 18:31
LOL I rented the game and it sux, is it just me?
Jason Moyer on 7/10/2011 at 18:50
Yes you suck.
Anyway, new copies for the PC are the Anarchy Edition, which means you get the double barreled shotty, FISTS OF RAGE, some buggy, some armor, and a couple of sewer missions. Actually I guess the sewer missions might just be a new-copy redeemable, I dunno.
mothra on 7/10/2011 at 18:59
the sewer mission is just a little hatch near the first settlement . a wave of mutants spawn, you kill them, you loot some corpses, you leave. it is just one room. still, such exclusive DLC is always bad,
no matter how trivial.
Vicarious on 7/10/2011 at 19:10
There are multiple sewers you can enter. Also, they're not Anarchy Edition exclusive, but hm, new copy exclusive.
Shadowhide on 7/10/2011 at 19:31
this game is even worse than i thought
Jason Moyer on 7/10/2011 at 20:02
FWIW, on a retail copy the codes for the anarchy pack and the sewer missions are printed on opposite sides of the same slip of paper.
mothra on 7/10/2011 at 23:01
Quote Posted by Shadowhide
this game is even worse than i thought
care to elaborate or is that just a reaction to the DLC thingy ?
which is pretty common nowadays, see DXHR and every other release since .... a few years.
lost_soul on 8/10/2011 at 02:31
Quote Posted by dethtoll
i'm confused, where are there locked levels
and if you had any balls you wouldn't buy the game at all
Remember Super Mario World? Part of the fun of that game was the metric tun of levels and secret exits from particular levels that led to other places (like the Special world).
I never imagined the day when developers would put code in a game to deny honest players part of the experience. Even if it is just a couple of small levels, that just isn't right. I played SMW until I had like 105 percent or something. If part of the levels were artificially locked out, I would have been pissed.
I'm not counting debug levels in games here because (most of the time) they are hidden for a reason.
And for those who say "it is just a sewer", Bafford's Manor had "just a sewer". Deus Ex had "just a sewer". The sewers were some of the most memorable parts of these games.
