"The toolkit is protected with a layer of digital rights management and appears to be sold mainly in China. "
this is why I don't believe in "Tusted" computing. When software or hardware are used to take control of a computer away from that computer's owner bad things will happen.
Coming into this topic a little bit late, so I'm sure this comment will be pretty well buried but if your mainly looking for games that are not all about killing monsters and gaining power, points, etc you should look into adventure games.
Take the DS game hotel dusk for example. No one to kill, no monsters, no competition. It's a story, and you lead the main character through the events of that story. You get to the end of the story and you win.
If you looking for something multi-player and cooperative things get more difficult, but if you just want something different from the standard RPG grind or mindless FPS, games that are interesting, with a story, and where your success is due to thinking, creative reasoning, learning, exploration and a small amount of social skills (where how you treat others in the game does matter) adventure games are just the thing.
They are not so common anymore (however there are few good ones for the DS), but the adventure games of old are worth looking into (like books - when the story is what matters, age doesn't matter much) although the amount of fighting involved might vary a bit with some. I suggest a copy of dosbox and a few of the lucus arts classic adventures (loom, monkey island, zak mccracken, etc). If your not put off by the concept of violence in general, and just don't want that to be the whole focus of the game I'd also look into games like the first gabriel knight, and the first phantasmagoria. For (relatively) modern PC games check out the longest journey, syberia, and even fahrenheit (the censored US version is called indigo prophecy).
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"The toolkit is protected with a layer of digital rights management and appears to be sold mainly in China. "
this is why I don't believe in "Tusted" computing.
When software or hardware are used to take control of a computer away from that computer's owner bad things will happen.
Coming into this topic a little bit late, so I'm sure this comment will be pretty well buried but if your mainly looking for games that are not all about killing monsters and gaining power, points, etc you should look into adventure games.
Take the DS game hotel dusk for example. No one to kill, no monsters, no competition. It's a story, and you lead the main character through the events of that story. You get to the end of the story and you win.
If you looking for something multi-player and cooperative things get more difficult, but if you just want something different from the standard RPG grind or mindless FPS, games that are interesting, with a story, and where your success is due to thinking, creative reasoning, learning, exploration and a small amount of social skills (where how you treat others in the game does matter) adventure games are just the thing.
They are not so common anymore (however there are few good ones for the DS), but the adventure games of old are worth looking into (like books - when the story is what matters, age doesn't matter much) although the amount of fighting involved might vary a bit with some. I suggest a copy of dosbox and a few of the lucus arts classic adventures (loom, monkey island, zak mccracken, etc). If your not put off by the concept of violence in general, and just don't want that to be the whole focus of the game I'd also look into games like the first gabriel knight, and the first phantasmagoria. For (relatively) modern PC games check out the longest journey, syberia, and even fahrenheit (the censored US version is called indigo prophecy).