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I was at Sonisphere yesterday. Damn, i am beat.

No tool-set either? LAME Even Bethesda releases a tool-set for their games.

They look pretty good actually as long as you accept that different races have the same (human) beauty standards. The marketeer that wrote the text below probably was out of catch-phrases at the time.

Saw it earlier today. Not a single soul in the audience even had the "this is BULLSH..."-frown. The girl performing was an idiot too. The whole damn thing was just another testament of the decline of the western civilization.

The other game took 7 years to be made (which translates in a gigatastical budget). This one is going to be published in march, next year. It will probably be just as successful. .... Draw your conclusions. Somehow, i do not think that the end result of DA was the product of 7 years of development. I bet that the project started from scratch a couple of times. I would even guess that the latest iteration took probably 2-3 years to do.

I hear you, but why cut so much costs when the formula they used before proved to be the most successful yet? Shareholder demand? Laziness?

Nah, i haven't even been near Godwin's Law yet.

I mean, the problems with Dragon Age was more about the tomato being cooked for too long, the pepper being to bland, and it had too much oregano for most people. By changing the time to cook it, getting a better flavour of pepper and lessen the amount of oregano would be awesome. But now we are sitting and drinking it like milkshake when it really isn't. I see no point in that.

actually, am not too concerned on the gameplay improvements. for instance, reducing the number o' spells and allowing for modified spells is sounding like a good thing... particularly as we recommended doing such many years ago when da were still in early development. there will, no doubt, be many gameplay improvements both noticeable and hidden. sometimes a significant gameplay improvement needs only be an alteration o' behind-the-scenes numbers crunching. if bio has a fault regarding gameplay improvements it is that they typically tries too hard to improve that which needs not be improved. bio's attempts to streamline ME2 character generation and development choices along with their desire to infuse more of a shooter "feel" to the game were improvements we coulda' done without. Gromnir enjoys cooking. one o' the most useful skills in cooking is the ability to do nothing. so often the desire to add salt, stir pot, and/or peek in oven will only serve to futz up foods that not otherwise need futzing. biowarians developers needs to better learn when Not to stir the pot. HA! Good Fun! I do not mind some of the changes like the ones you mentioned + rogues being more ninja and less warrior in terms of combat. But i do not understand why they have to remove things like dialogue-text in favour for dialogue-wheel. If were going to use the soup analogy, then it is like they are changing some of the spices, but also removing ingredients to boot. Our tomato-soup that was previously served in a nice saucer and eaten with a spoon made out of stainless steel, has now changed by tinkering with the amount of pepper, removed the oregano in favour of basil, changed the saucer to a plastic cup and the spoon is replaced by a straw. It is easier to pickup and eat, and the taste is more concentrated and direct, but why? The previous recipe worked pretty well. In fact, it was an all-time seller. So why change the very foundation of it?

Considering the rumors of removing features, what is going to be added in DA2, gameplay-wise?

It would be awesome if they would say exactly that in that very tone at their forums.

Huh, what did i miss? //EDIT: Nevermind, found it.

My four week vacation is over by monday, and i already hate the idea of going back to work. HALP.

Those names are "normal". Just outside of Turku, there's a village named "

In Vaasa Still funny how for example in Kauhava, it was 33. In Kroonopyy, it was 34-36. In Kristiinankaupunki it was 32. In northern Lapland (Salla), it was 25

Finland recorded the highest temperature ever today: 37,2 degrees Celsius near Joensuu. We have our own climate at my local town: - 60km north of us: 34 degrees - 60km east of us: 33 degrees - 60km south of us: 32 degrees - 60km west is in the middle of the ocean, so i dunno At our place: 21 degrees (but with a humidity of 82%) The only place colder than that is in northern lapland, where they had snow last week.

Yeah, i have the same problem. The only entry for FOV in the APEngine.ini-file is for the editor. Any other takers?

This worked for me: 1. Download and run ALCapsViewer 2. When you run it, check the ID String of your sound card under "OpenAL Devices". For example, my third party soundcard had the following: "Auzen X-Fi Audio [DF00] 3. Open your "My documents"-folder, there should be an Alpha Protocol folder there. 4. Open the following file: \...Documents\Alpha Protocol\APGame\Config\APEngine.ini 5. Under the [ALAudio.ALAudioDevice]-section, there should be a line that goes "Device Name = Generic Software". Change it to whatever the ID string was in the ALCapsViewer. In my case, i changed it to this: "Device Name = Auzen X-Fi Audio [DF00]". 6. I also changed the number of channels in the same section from 32 to 128 (this depends if it is supported by the sound card). 7. Close and Save. By doing this, i managed to get 5.1 audio on voices and other sounds, except for the soundtrack. For some reason, it is stuck on 2.1.

Yup, looked like an updated version of NWN2 for me.

Okay, you don't like it... But why? It's not funny because it is true!

Considering that the IGN-reviewer thinks that one is too nerdy to know the difference between ogres, orcs and goblins, i wouldn't be surprised either. All in the name of "broadening" the audience.

Some people do not feel a thing until several months, some times even years later. Call it an emotional shock or something.

Fire this sorry excuse of a turd already. Try to act all jock by celebrating ignorance in order to keep in tap with the "urban market", while being a condensenting jerk to the very consumer base that you are supposed to write for. What a sorry excuse of a human being. In what other field of journalism is this kind of unprofessional conduct accepted except for "gaming" journalism? I can't think of one.

(Shutter Island spoiler ahead!) I have seen Shutter Island, and i would actually prefer to be to spoonfed on the ending, since that would be more or a surprise than an ambiguous one