Volourn

Call me a moron all you want and avoid the fact you can't really argue against my points. Over the eyars,a dults have proven time and time again that they ain't too bright either. HINT: World calamities have NEVER been caused by under 18s. Coincidence? I think not.

Under 18s can't think for themselevs and making reasonable and rational choices/ L0L That's one of the most hilarious things I ever heard. It cetrainly isn't 17 year olds who started world wars, use religion or race to mass murder. It cetrainly wasn't a 17 year old who murdered their duaghtered when she accidenally unplugged his video game. It cetrainly wasn't a 17 year old got so enraged at being smacktalked in an online game so hunted down the 13 year old perperator and choked him out until his mommy stopped him. It certainly wasn't a 17 year old who murdered their baby BECAUSE GOD TOLD THEM TOO. Need I go on? It's hialrious to me that 'adults' somehow think they're sooo much more mature, intelligent or suited to make certain decisisons because of some imaginary number that is utterly meaningless - espciially when it comes to soemthing as silly as a tanning bed. None of the Jersey Shore freaks are under 18 yet they obviously are abusers of tanning. L0LZ

Pop is awesome. Bottle water is disgusting. Only suckas buy that crap. Tap water 9f you live where water is clean) is friggin' awesome enough.

"Obviously, in KOTOR and NWN flanking goes out the iwndow because there is zero sense of positioning (how can you when people skate around the terrain half the time" Flanking matters in NWN. A lot more than it does in the BG games. Position is very important.

"Erik Christensen was the guy who claimed a spot over Avery apparently." I like Christensen, but hes's not as good as Avery. Not to mention, the lineup is fuilled with nobodies outside of their 3 big stars - Lundqvist, Gaborik, and Richards. The Gm is an issue. They both should be gone. Nicve of the Rangers to make the playoffs almost every season but what's the point if you cna't even get past the 2nd round? The players change but the results remain the same . Why same GM, and now the same coach for the past 2+ seasons. Avery is awesome. Plain and simple.

"Thieves seemed to have a LOT MORE involvement with the dungeon itself." L0L Thieves. Didn't need them in BG series. And, scouting/ Scouting is for cowards. Didn't need it either. All that can be done in BIO's other games. BG's gameplay is lacking. Big deal about spells since they exist in other BIO games as well and work as well if not better (NWN). "Is that all you did with your characters...NO WONDER you find it so dull." Outside of spellcasting, that's ALL you did. No power attacks, knockdowns, called shots, disarms, ewtc., etc. Just take your fight (or rogue) and fireaway. That's for 99% of combat. Only time I bothered to use magic was the actual challenging (ie boss battles and named adventurers) otherwise and it was just click party and get them to attack including your mage. That's not tatical. It exists in other games too but it's at its worse in KOTOR followed by BG1. "I can do that in any of the DA (simply click on an enemy and let all the party attack it like you describe how you played BG1) games as well...and actually they'll do better at surviving and progressing then you would in the BG series if you did that." Nah. You need to use your abilities in DA to surive more than likely outside of the easiest of battles. A lot easier to do so in BG1. Hell, I massacred the entire xfart village by doing exactly that. L0LZ "indeed, 'cause it's free" You still have to buy the actual game and I dunno if Botyher to do that. Still haven't purchased DS3 though I originally wanted to), F0:LV, or various BIO DLCs. "The point of a PC is to build up a character that can handle themselves; One that improves with experience, (and behaves in keeping with their personal ethics, goals, and moral world view). In the case of a fighter, one that fights and need not be micromanaged to extremes. If I send a fighter out to deal with a threat, they should be able to hold their own; I should be able to pick their target and move on to other concerns. (I should not have to babysit an experienced fighter sent to deal with goblins or kobolds; Nor IMO, need utilize special attacks and options... In general (unless they are very unlucky) the skilled fighter should mop the floor with them without supervision.) Part of the RPG gameplay (in addition to dialog) is building up the character so that they can do this; Improving their gear and combat skills in the case of a fighter... Improving their spells and power in the case of a mage. Why should I not be able to click a target for the fighter and let them fight? Why is that shallow in your opinion? I think a good fighter PC should do all the work ~that's what they are skilled at, and why you have them along; and this goes for thieves too... It is the thief's skill at locks & traps that should open the lock and spot the traps... not the player tinkering with minigames ~Doing so is a devaluation of the PC's role IMO." You missed the entire point. You seem to want automation. I want tatics and actual gameplay. Why can't that fighter disarm, knockdown, parry, calleshsot, etc. their enemy? You cna't do that in BG. The fuighter just swings his weapon like a maroon. Like I said, weak gameplay. Plain and simple. It's plain and shallow. The difference is that in DA whicle you can put your NPC fighter on AI (or your PC0, he's gonna a host of talents during combats while the BG fighter is going to do the exaxct same thing over and over and over and over. LACK. OF. GAMEPLAY. "Options and lots of them ~But its a different kind of game than BG1 or 2. " No. No, it isn't.

"I clicked stuff far, far less in KOTOR than BG1 because everything happened by themselves, because thats the only way that combat system can work with that camera. I clicked and mashed more buttons in Jade Empire, but I was bored half the time because there was no thought involved. At least in BG1 I had to think about what I was doing more. But good job selecting a single means of comparison and then running all the way to China. " Don't get me started on KTOR. No way will you ever see me defend KOTOR's combat. JE's combat was a lot betterb gameplay wise than BG1 since you actually had options in combat. Plus, if you felt trhe need to 'mash buttons' in JE, you wer eobviously playing it wrong. I certainly didn't have to smash it. What was to think about in BG1 in comparison? Everything was obvious in comaprison. BG1 has subpar gameplay comapred to JE. p.s. As for the new Neverwinter.. it's almsot likely gonna bomb. It has FAIL written all over it. I won't be buying it at full price and I'm a (former) DnD geek.

" I love that many of these places have started to diversify sides, it's nice to have an option other than fries. " There's always been that option. I woudlw ager since the existence of the restuarant, people have always had a choice of varying offerings - healthy, unhealkthy, expensive, inexpesnive. There is absolutely no reason for stuff like this to be forced on anyone.

" There is a LOT of gameplay, and overall I think the BG series (in fact the entire IE engine set of games) has deeper gameplay overall than most of the recent games by Bioware. " How so? In BG1, all you cna do with warrior types is choose to fight . In DA, you multiple different ways to attack. You also have dialogue skills that can influence questions/npcs 9and, yes, dialogue *is* gameplay). BG1's game play is severely lacking comapred to BIO's newer games. It's gameplay is pretty damn shallow. You do nothing but click attack then watch your character do all the work. In DA series (and ME toa lesser degree and NWN to a larger degree as NWN is their best combat/character system by far), you have sorts of options in combat. People who try to claim BG1 has deeper gameplay than BIO's newer games really don't know what gameplay actually means - it doesn't mean clicking on an opponent once and watching your character sdlaughter them all as you watch.

"The tweet doesn't definitively clarify that, but Sega owning the lot has always been most likely as it's pretty much industry standard for the publisher to. " Wouldn't really call it a standard though. It depends on the company and contracts involved. BIO (EA) had and still has the rights to JE and ME despite MS being the publisher for those games. BIO didn't even have ther ownership of NWN yet manage to finaggle the rights away from IPY for Atari to step in. Other developer companies as well seem to own rights to their games. This situation is 100% in the hands of the Obsidian negotiators.

"Volourn, do you age backwards by any chance?" Nope. My balding head (loss of hair has nothing to do with eating habits but internet surifing habits, r00fles!) suggests otherwise. Fact is fact. People shouldn't be trying to tell me what I cna eat. That's more disgusting than a 1000lb fatso.

"What RPGs do you mean? If BG2 is #1, then IMO BG1 is #2 by default. Nothing from Bioware that I have seen has been interesting since. I have seen nothing from them to match BG2, and were it an ultimatum I would choose BG1 over any other Bioware offering since [bG2]." Disagree. Engine aside, these two games are different in most neaingful ways. BG2 has better graphics, betterw riting, better characters, better combat, better music, better C7C, etc., etc. The only thing BG1 has going for it is that it's the game that got BIO their big break. That's it. All of BIO's future RPG games, even ones like KOTOR which I personally don't prefer, are vastly better RPGs than BG1. I don'tg et why BG1 is 'defualt #2) just because BG2 isa ssumed to be #1. Justb doesn't work that way. They are seperate games.

Tortello is a piece of crap. Rangers would get anywhere with him in charge. They'll be like they've been - barely playoff material and that's largely because of their goalie. NY does NOT have 12 or 13 forwards better than Avery. That's nonsensical. He's never liekd Avery and has belittled him and trashed every chance he got. Avery only had his sport because he's liked by Ranger fans and management. Plus, Rangers were a better team with him in the lineup and not out of it. Tortello makes the team worse. Why isn't this loser gone already/ Blueshirts have gotten WORSE with him charge not BETTER. Avery is known for trxhtalking but at leats he trahs talks the opponents not his own team. Piece ofc rpas Tortello. Avery will probably be back next season with another team with a cheaper contract most likely.

"Final Fantasy 8 might have been mostly crap," Disagree. Highly underrated game. " but its opening theme kicked all sorts of ass" Agreed. Best opening sequence for a game ever.

"So... you admit it? " L0LZ "On the - side, less tactical than bg1 at higher levels on normal difficulties (at least)" Nah. BG1 wasn't all thatbtatic. Tatics in BG1 = cheese ala wands of summoning vs savorke and the like.. "BG1 beats any post BG2 Bioware game in terms of exploration, atmosphere and aesthetics." No, it doesn't. Not even close. Exploration = mostly unrewarding and involvesd endless combat with ahrdly any real interatcions or discovery Atmosphere = what atmosphere? Aesthetics = exactly what do you mean here as it could mean anything depending on context? Graphics and art style, BG1 is a laugh. It's a gob of goo in comparison.

"Hardly." Nonsense. Don't be ignorant. I love fast food because it tastes good. Eating 'healthy' is for losers or for people ALREADY in poor health. I eat what's good. I'm not going to live forever (nor am I sure I want to) and I'm gonna have to eat something 3 times a day I might as well friggin' enjoy . Why do you think people read in the bathroom or have sex in the shower/ It's sop they can otherwise get some enjoyment out of otyherwise boring activities. And, no, i'm not fat. I could probably eat fast fioodm 24/7 and still not get fat. So HA! Nor have I needed to go to the docvtor since I became independent. Not that I'm perfectly healthy but an issues I have nothing to do with the food I eat... and I happen to get a goo havit based sickeness then so be it. I SHOULD EB ALLOWED TO CONTROL WHAT GOES IN MY BODY! End. of. line.

"How exactly is DA2 better than BG2 or 1? Could you elaborate a bit on one or more examples of this?" I expalined why DA2 is better than bg1. I don't need to elaborate. I never claimed that DA2 was better than BG2 9in fact I hinted at the opposite) so I don't need to defend a statement I didn't even make. Seriously, anyone who claims that BG1 is a better game than DA2 is just seeing things properly or have poor taste.

"Anyone who has ever cleaned out a grease trap at a fast food joint will never eat fast food again. Trust me on that one." Lie. "I have experience of both rich and poor and it's the rich who most often need their noses wiping!" Another falsehood. It's beyond silly how people feel the need to insult the rich to make the poor feel better because they are poor. That's ridiculous.

"I can't bring myself to play it, and have, in fact, only beaten the game about three times." Does. not. compute. You can't play the game.. but you beat it 3 times... L0L, Mr. Visceris, L0L!

"If a modern gamer is playing BG1 & DA2 for the first time then they might enjoy DA2 more. If you judge them for their time, however, BG1 was a far superior game." No. no, it wans't. DA2 pretty much does everything better. BG1 is only memeroabale to me because it was BIO's first game I played. But, tyoherqwise, DA2 is vastly sueprior to it. It's no contest. BG1 is not sueprior to DA2. That's HUGELY lauaghable. The argument can be amde for BG2 9and I'd actually agree) but BG1? Bah. BG1 is really overrated 9and I overrated too). B G1 doesn't stand the test of time. I'll remember DA2 more fondly 20 years from now - more interetsing characters, better story, better combat, better C&C, better writing, better graphics, better music, better everything.

Freedom. A thing of the past. This is soemthing a dictatorship does - telling others how to live thir lives based on whether they approve it or not. Disgusting. Smoking + Fattening food (lol, I wish) > Wannabe Dictators

"Bringing war and destabilization to muslim countries in the middle east creates suffering, and eventually refugee camps, emigration etc. The more we stir it up over there, the more they come over here and take advantage of our freedom and welfare system. If you don't want them around, the best thing to do is leave them alone." Oh, please. Muslims/Arabs don't flee their home countries to other coutnries liek the US, Canada, and Europe because Western coutnries happen to bomb them. They flee their home countries because their country's gov'ts treat them like crap. And, that's putting it mildly. You are basically parroting what Iran's leaders want you to beleive - blame the West for every problem you face even when its you are creating it. Organizations like AQ, and the Iran gov't are very likely responsible for more Muslim deaths and despair than the US cna ever hope to be.

" don't think I've said a single one of those things, but you're obviously enjoyng yourself. Crack on. " Nobody claimed you did.

Nice try , docs, but since the two of youa re actually EA suits .. EA doe, in fact, tell BIO what to do. R00fles! DA2 > BG1 This is fact.

Well.. if the immigrants are causing 'endless trouble' that tends to imply 'criminal activities' so why not arrest them and throw them in prison? That way they get to stay in the country and get a nice home in jail for their troubles.