Assassins, Bullies, and Messiahs

Some interesting news for a few upcoming game titles. Firstly (to no one's surprise), Assassin's Creed is coming to the 360. It will also be available for the PC. Secondly, Valve and Ubisoft have announced that Dark Messiah is coming to Steam when it releases in October. Chris Grant's commentary: "Ubisoft is acknowledging the demand for digitally distributed AAA content and using the largest platform they can find to promote it. We're still waiting on government-distributed protein pills and personal submarines, but the third pillar of our future vision is now realized." Finally, Rockstar appears to have partially bowed to public pressure over their 'Bully' title. In Europe, at least, Bully is now known as Canis Canem Edit, which means 'Dog Eat Dog' in Latin. To which I respond: Semper Ubi Sub Ubi.

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What does it mean?

[IHSW]

Semper ubi sub ubi is a pun based on the English gloss of a malformed Latin phrase: "always where under where." The motto is used as a joke by Latin students and others to mean "always wear underwear."

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semper_ubi_sub_ubi

Can someone explain Steam to me?

[syrinx]

The first I heard of "Steam" was when Half-Life 2 came out. I never bought HL2 (not into FPS), and so my association with Steam was "something that came with HL2 that nobody liked". Now I'm reading about various games "coming out on Steam" or something, and so I've been trying to figure out what it is. Apparently you download games on it, which sounds pretty good (although in the old days we used something called "FTP" to download things), and then whenever you want to play your game that you purchased, you have to connect to Steam? How is this a good idea? What if you don't have net access when you want to play? Am I misunderstanding it?

Re:Can someone explain Steam to me?

[Brothernone]

Steam is an on-line contenet dilivery service. You downlaod and play games through steam. Each person is assigned a sepcific ID taht keeps track of what games you've purchased. If your local copy is deleted, steam knows that you have payed for the game, and simply lets you redownload it. Steam does not need to be connected to the interenet to play. Your games that are used through steam cannot be accessed any other way. If you use the icon to open say HL2 or CSS it will open steam, then launch the game. Many third party titles and mods are available via steam. Steam is a free service and does not directly cost. That said, I like the service and don't experience the lag and latency most people seem to complain about. I do however don't like the fact it's almost impossible to get information about teh games from steam itself. A lot of people like to use the terms Valve/Steam interchangably.

Even non-Latin Students can translate this:

[fujiman]

Osibili si ergo
fortibuses in ero
Nobili demis trux
Vatis enim?
Covsendux!

That was on my 8th grade Latin exam. ;)

The answer is....

[fujiman]

Oh see, Billy! See 'er go! Forty busses in a row

No, Billy, them is trucks

What is in 'em?

Cows and Ducks!

Re:Fun with latin

[wed128]

I think the joke went over your head. He reorded it to "I saw, i conquered, i came". A little innuendo there.

Re:OT: Translation Request

[WilliamSChips]

In deliberately incorrect Latin, Omne tuum castrum sunt insunt nobis. In correct Latin, Omnia tua castra insunt nobis.

How unfortunate.

[Fallingcow]

I've been hoping that no other companies would start using Steam. I decided to give them a chance, and didn't jump on the "it's DRMed to hell and you don't really own the game" bandwagon (though I see where they're coming from). I bought HL2. It's fun, and so is Counterstrike:Source, but dicking with Steam is WAY too much work for something that I just want to play every now and then. I occasionally want to play a round or two of CS:S, but since my last format+reinstall, I've just not cared enough about it enough to install Steam. I *know* that, if I could just pop in a CD and install it, I'd have done so months ago, and gotten hours of playing in. Knowing that, I'm beginning to realize how much of the value of a game Steam destroys.

I've been eyeing those HL2:Episode 1 boxes at the store, and I'd kind of like to play it. The reason I haven't picked one up and taken it through the checkout? Steam. I don't want to install it again. It's just too damn annoying. I don't know how many other people feel this way, but I'd bet that they've lost a fairly large number of sales--people like me, who'd pick up the game and buy it at the store, don't do it, because Steam makes it feel like the process of purchasing their product is continuous and never-ending, rather than being a 5-minute wait in line at the store that you never have to worry about again. Maybe they're still making more money this way, selling through Steam, in spite of this kind of thing. I don't know, but I hope they're not.

I like the ability to get some mods through Steam. That's about the only thing I've seen in it that I like, but a similar system could be made without most of the other crap, and without making it a requirement to play the game at all.

I fear that, if Steam takes off, it'll offset all of the great things about PC gaming. That may force me to go 100% console. What a dark, dark day that will be. :(

(Not hating on consoles, I like them, but almost all of my top 20 or so gaming experiences have been on the PC, and many would likely not have been possible or not been as great on a console, for a number of reasons)

The irony...

[LordEd]

Rockstar has renamed its Bully game due to bullying from the public.