Volourn

NWN HOTU, LL, NHL 2013, and a few others. HOTU, btw, as mucha s I loved it before, is verily underrated. So many cool things being done in it. But, some head scratchers too.

"Morrowind's "photorealism" and that game looks, even today, like crap in comparison to FFX." MW alwasy looked like crap. This isn't new. FF8, btw, has some of the best FMV ever created. The opening scene alone is perhaps the best opening cutscene of all time. The attack at the beach, the dance scene, the academy flying for the first time, the parade battle, and a host of others are just pure awesomeness. And, the graphics even outside of FMVs are pretty good. Nontheless, MW sucks ballz graphically and every other way. FFX is a solid FF and the last FF that I even bothered playing (well except for tis sequel which I promptly stopped playing).

"Because the PC computer and console computer are two computers and there is only space for one in this town. " I own a console a PC. I'm better off for it. I just don't find graphics (oen of the biggest PC purist bragging points) for the PC really all thgat more impressive than the console. I play DA on console. I play it on PC. And, I don't any real difference between the two. IOt's the same game graphically. *shrug*

"What happened to people who had integrity, who did a job, got paid for their hard work, and just smiled afterward? Be happy you even have a job – let alone a job that pays you more than 98% of the people in America. I have a wonderful idea for all those whiners: They can give their 'unhappy job money' to a wonderful Elephant Rescue. It’s the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in Africa. I will match the funds they donate."" I tend to defend Bay from his usual attacker sbut here he is the one who comes across as a crybaby. What a toolbag. Integrity, to me, is not just about 'grin and bear' bad jobs but being honest about stuff which is all Weaving was doing. Grow up Bay.

"That said, I'll never understand why people who own both platforms would ever play big single-player CRPG's like Fallout: New Vegas, Skyrim or Dragon Age: Origins, or *any* shooters, on console. " Because I don'ty feel like spending hundreds and thousands of dolalrs to continuaklly upgrade my computer. Computer games are too buggy in comparison, and I like to see PC fanboys cry when you inform them not everyone is sucking the weinner of the PC. I played FO:NV on 360. It was good stuff. I tried DA on both PC and 360 and outside of the superior top down view, the 360 was the superior version. It doesn't lag, the journal was better, and it doesn't take up ridiculous amount of space on my ahrd drive.

"Um, well when BioWare made BG it had Black Isle helping them, so BW itself could have been as small as 15." Typical anti BIO dude answer. a) BIS was just the publisher. BIS is as responsible for the development of BG as Atari was for MOTB. BG is BIO's baby. Period. BIS did two major things for BG - FU reccommended using the Infinity Engine game for a D&D game and QA 9BIO also had their own QA IIRC even at that time and definitely by the time BG2 came along) which is what publishers do. Then again, you are liekly one of those who believe that BIO only published the IE games. L0Lz b) BIO had more than 15 employees for BG. RTFM. "Unlike most people on this forum, I wasn't using that as an example of a positive outcome. " The point is that BIO has never really been some rinky dinky small time organziation. Once they got their first taste of gaming, they were increasing the size of the company rapidly.

I remember when it was the Democrats who were the 'dying' party. This kind of thing goes in cycles. 10 years (heck 4 eyars from now) the opposite might true. If the Demos are so dominate and unbeatable why did the repubs win nearly 50% of the vote and have control of one of the major political power bases? R00fles! P.S. Grats to Obama. P.S.S. Can this put to rest the stupid 'Amerikans are racist against blacks' bullcrap. How many other non Black dominated countries have actully voted a black person into power? I doubt very many.

"we don't have cultural similarities with Europe" Nobody has claimed that we have NO simialrities. But, it's not as deep as the arrogant Europeans think they are.

"Your ignorance is as staggering as your inability to type or write coherent english. No mean feat considering you're supposedly speaking your "own" language..." oOOO.. More European butthurt mad that us little non Europeans aren't begging for your scraps any more,.

"Your entire heritage, social structure (family, language(s), religion, culture, traditions of learning and living etc) is derived from European tradition. Not from native americans living in teepees or living in Igloos. Your culture isnt Identical to the European tradition either, but then European culture is vastly differentiated from north to south. Even in an area with a cultural and sociological tradition as close as that of scandinavia, traditions differ quite significantly in certain aspects" Spamming your ignorance of Kanadian culture doesn't make it fact. NMEWSFALSh; Our culture is our own. Now, keep your culture of conquering nations to yourself, startingw orld wars, and kissing royal butt to yourself. Thanks But, hey, Kanada is into European 'culture' we call soccer soccer and REAL football football just like our Amerikan friends. Take that Euro 'culture'! "Really? How many Native american customs and traditions, sociocultural and economic structures do you retain?" Considering Indians (lol native lol stupid PC talk lo) are a sizeable % of our percentage quite more than the vast majority of European junk (see above). Not to mention, I'm part Indian (mostly French by blood thoguh I don't speak that gibberish), more than the vast majority of Euopean silliness.

"Canada has its own unique culture, but it still has its roots in Europe, much like the USA. Canada has has very same unwritten constitution of the UK, and also has its own system of governance modeled directly after the UK. Canada also gives is allegiance to the queen. " None of that is culture. Liek you said, those are our roots. Not our culture. We also have our roots in NA with our rather large Indian population. 'Unwritten constitution'. LMAO I piss on the Queen and so do many Kanadians. Can't wait til the day we can metaporphically chop off the Queen's head. She and her stupid GG are a blight on our otherwise free nation. You still haven't proven our cultture is the same as yours or more importantly that we got our culture from you. L0L

"Bioware Edmonton 15 guys again?" Whenw as BIO just 15 guys though? Probably their very first game and that's it. They definitely had more than 15 when making BG.

"I mean look at your politics." If you can't fundamentally get the fact that I'm not Amerikan you are fundamentally lost. You keep arguing like I'm nome silly Amerikan whose been brainwashed by the Amerikan brainwashing system. I have enver even stepped in Amerika. Stop making such disgusting accusations. "Since we are at the ridiculous stereotyping, I can recommend the movie 'Eurotrip' It's awesome. " Heh, i love that movie, but yeah it feats on steroetypes but in the funny way. But, it ain't meant to be takens eriously.

"I'd also ask myself if I was a bit crazy when the rest of the world was laughing at something I like." I agree. I always wodnered what was wrong with me not liking Justin Beiber. I'm so ashamed. The world supports mass murder of children so I tend not tot ake the world seriosuly. Sorry. "But Europe is also a contintent where very much of our Western culture comes from." Totally disagree. Can you evend efine what 'western' culture even is? I doubt it. "That's why we don't think that we are in any way more important than every other country. I think we're a lot more humble than the USA." Kiddin' right? European arrogance is second to none. I ean you guys still have a royal family. How about letting go of the past? You still think you are the best at everything and anyone who doesn't think you are merely brainwashed peasants. The arrogance of Euopeans is hilarious espicially now when Europe's time of domination is long past. At least a country like the US (or other current countries that matter) have a reason for feeling the way they do. Euopeans have no reason to be arrogant or think they are better. "Nobody has accused the USA of being the most racist of all countries. Though I am thoroughly worried that anyone would elect a crazyperson like Romney. He wouldn't stand a chance in most European countries" Yeah, nobody like Hitler could come to power in Europe. It would never happen. L0L That kind of delusional thinking is why Europe is so passe. Euope has cool people but there is a fundamental arrogant self congratulaory self importance that just comes off like enver ending stink. Like whenever someone mentions something negative about Europe the attitude is 'uh that ain't us no more' but if it's positive there's a we are so cool. My values and culture do not come from Europe. And, that is a good thing as far as I'm concern. L0LZ Soccer L0LZ

"As a human full of doubt I'd ask myself if my country was a wee bit crazy if the rest of the world was laughing at us. " That's wonderful, but I'm not even Amerikan. "I'd suggest ignoring Volourn. He is a laughing stock around here." L0L Krezack L0L Europe is a cute continent where some of the most majority of travesties has occured and many world travestys have been caused by europeans. the fact Euopeans actuaklly think they matter more than other countries like the US is laughable. You guys decided to group up solely ebcause youa re intimidate dby the US yeta re still in the US' shadow. Bitter etarz bitter tearz. But, hey, enjoy your Holocaust cuasting slavery making ways all the while pretending you are better than other countries who created better ways to live and then you proceeded to leech off of their ways. L0L ie. Accuse Amerikans of being the 'most racist of all countries' (what a joke)n how many people of 'colour' have any significant power in Europe? L0L But, hey, it's not all bad. Euiope has its good points too.

L0L Europeans L0L

Trust me. As annoying as you may find my posts, you'd be the one begging for help if you got stuck listening to me sing. :D

Great Gatsby is awesome. 'Nough said.

, "Mitt Romney is regarded as a laughing stock, a backwards cult brainwasher who is inches from legalizing slavery, and it took America electing a black man to finally lessen the image of "all americans are the dumbest rednecks on the planet" that Bush created." This is why I cna't take European and Kanada opinion seriouslyn on this matter. Do tyhey really ebleive that Romney would make slavery legal? L0L Then again, these are the same peons who claimed that Bush was setting himself up to be 'dictator for life' and all that extremist bull. Then again, out of all the white dominated European countries.. how many have had a black leader? L0LZ

I'm the arrogant one? I'm not the one who calls someone a piece of crap merely beause he dislikes my precious toy. That was YOU Drowsy. And, it's hialrious now consideirng youa re now on the console bandwagon.

"I'm not sure what you're implying. If Volourn is allowed to have as many posts as he does, I highly doubt there's a limit to how trolly somebody can be on these forums." That's because I don't troll. I don't need to. Just posting my honest opinion is enough to make those who hate differing opinions to cry. Unlike somebody on you has taken it upon himself to basically lie the last few post sn state things dishonestly *just* for laughs and get reaction. That said, anyone who thinks that KOTOR has better chaarcters than DA2 is drunk. Seriously? Let's take Batista. She's alright but she is a copy cat rip off of Aribeth from NWN. Batista is a cookie cutgter cutter. Isabella has more depth than Batista. yes, she likes sex, but she is much more than that. She actually grows as a character as DA2 goes on. That's what good writing does. Batista never grows. Never changes. She is the exact same person at the end as she is at the start. Even if she 'turns to the DS' she is the same exact person. And, there is no character as awesome as Varric in KOTOR. hell, Carth is nothing special. He's your typical leading man. *yawn*. Then we have the always popular HK-47. yeha, his evil funny lines can be funny but that's uit. That's his whole one dimensional shtick. Then Jolee, another well liked chaarcter amlongst the 'hardcore'. He's your typical old geezer spouting philosphocial nonsense aka Kreia except without the evil intentions. He's alright but again one dimensional. Majority of DA2's characters at least have more than one dimension and actually grow during the game. None of the KOTOR characters change during the game. They are the same people at the end as they are at the beginning. Do we really need to get into why DA2 characters are better than BG1 characters? I hope not since none of the BG1 characters have any depth at all. They're just character stats. The only good thing aboutn them is their inetractions with each other and even that is limited to linearity stuff. The two couples will eevntually attack each other. Period. That can't be changed. Minsc will eventually go psycho if you don't find his lady love etc., etc. But, none of them axctually grow. *yawn* P.S. KOTOR series combat is the worst combat system of any BIO/OBS series with the possible exception of AP and even that could be strtetching. It's an EXTREMELY dumbed down version of NWN series. Only thing it has going for it, is it looks 'pretty'. *puke* LONG LIVE DA2! DEATH TO KOTOR AND BG1!

"And I call BS on his attitude. I have read two of his books, and nothing elevates him from the cesspool of epic fantasy literature. In fact, the game was the best thing that happened to him and to his books. In some ways the games are even superior, like the characteristic atmosphere of the first Witcher (that is nowhere to be found in the books). The reason his books never got a worldwide breakthrough in the genre is because they aren't good enough (and they wouldn't be even if he was American). The reason the game succeeded is because it was (and still is) a great achievement in the world of computer games." L0L Bitter gamers crying because soemone doesn't like the same thing they do. Typical internet geek troll logic. And, the first thing you guys do, is attack him like little school children becsause he hurt your precious toy. Get over it. His books are a success because ofn him. To claim the games nmade the books a success is nonsensical sense if the book wasn't successful the games never would have been made in the first place for pete sake. Plus, while I never read the Twitcher novel. I played the Twitcher game (part 1 not part 2) and it's overrated trash.

"You appear to be defining "selling out" as "making a game using someone else's original intellectual property under license," something which your "BIO" has been doing for over a decade. D&D games, Star Wars games, Sonic the Hedgehog (lol) and MDK2? How is that not "selling out," given that definition? " Let's be clear. It doesn't matter to me what games a company works on. i don't consider it 'selling out'. All thats to me is if it's a good game I'll enjoy or not. I wa spoitning out hypocrisy of people claling BIO 'sellouts' because they worked on exisiting IPs by Obsidian fnaboys (I like Obsidian too - heck I paid $250 for PE lol) despite the fact that Obsidian has fcoused almost solely on others IPs.

"I think for ME2 that actually holds true though, while for DA2 it just does not." Sure it does. DA2 certainly is better than the overrated KOTOR and BG1. I hope you don't think those silly games are better than DA2 or as my thread buddy would argue, your opinion is invalid. :D ME2 does have one of the best ending sequences ever. It has that going for it and is far better than either DA or BG or KOTOR.

"Meh....I'd rather not....he decided to go to a complete sellout company that only cared about money and screwing the fans. I say leave him....Obsidian can do amazing things without such people....and good riddance. " South Park. Dungeon Seige 3. ,Like these games don't scream 'sell out'. L0L DA2 is a good game. Almost as good as DA1 and vastly sueprior to overrated shlock like KOTOR or BG1. You trahs BIO but BIO helped out Obsidian immensely consideirng they helped them get a boosting hand to make NWN2 and KOTOR2 which got Obsidian a solid launching pad. BIO is a respectable company that continue to make top selling game top selling game. Not too many copies can have their games sell 2mil+m and have them nonsensically considered 'unpopular'. L0L The list of games that have sold that many over the history of gaming is still relatively small. L0L And, they're as popualr as ever. Obsidian is pretty good (gotta keep it somewhat on Obsidian ;D) too.