Originally Posted by Recurring Villain
Check out the reviews for it. I haven't seen one below 9/10 yet. Crazy.
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I've seen.
Originally Posted by Recurring Villain
I agree with Danny. They're both very good games, but they're also both very different. It's difficult to compare them, really. Oblivion is wide-open and epic, Bioshock is claustrophobic and sinister. It's not so much a matter of quality as it is a matter of taste.
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Exactly... I realized I should have said as much in my original post after I made it... that's exactly what I meant.
However, I'm afraid I now want Bioshock considerably less than I did before. I spent two hours last night researching Bioshock, but instead of reading about Bioshock itself, I ended up reading about the heinous copy protection scheme the game uses. I've heard reports that the game installs a rootkit to mask its SecuROM copy protection engine. (Even the demo installs SecuROM. WTF? There's no f*cking disc for the demo -- it's
FREE!!!) In addition to that, the game comes with an activation system that only lets you install the game a limited amount of times, ever. I reformat my computer all the time, and with this kind of copy protection, I am essentially renting the game. I absolutely will not endorse a copy protection scheme like this. Copy protection should prevent piracy of a game, but be transparent to legitimate buyers of the game. This is the opposite. I can guarantee that it will be cracked, but it's a nightmare from hell for people who actually pay for the game. In my opinion, Steam is the perfect copy protection system. It's absolutely rock-solidly uncrackable, but legitimate users (99% of the time, barring Steam issues) couldn't have an easier way to get to their games. I still want Bioshock, but I don't want to have to deal with their overly aggressive copy protection scheme, which is why I'm tempted either to just wait for the crack, or
maybe to buy it through Steam, so even though I'll still have to deal with the activation, at least I'll be spared the SecuROM BS.