Volourn

"The problem is with weak uninteresting characters and endless repetition of the same personalities and similar dialog. Bioware games are full of uncinematic wankers like Carth Onasi and Jacob with mild, boring personalities." I don't like Carth but like Jacob. Neither one of them are 'boring'. And, there are plenty of crappy/boring characters in BG series. *cough* Minsc *cough* The newe characetrs are more interesting, deeper, more likely to grow, have more of a mind of their own (Minsc only had one such instance in BG1 where he really showed a mind of his own), and come with a lot more C&C. Morrigan and Isabella are much deepper, more complex, more interesting characters than the 3 romances in BG2 9though I really like Jaheria too). " I can't make a choice without a companion butting in and telling me what to do and boiling everything down to 2 clear moral choices." What you meant to say is you don't want npcs, you want robots who do whatever the P wants them to. I loved the fact that lelina would stand up to you if youd efiled the ashes, I love the fact that Morrigan has a lot to use the PC against her mother, I love the fact that isabella will flat out leave the PC in the lurch if she doesn't trust him, I love the fact that Anders makes his hatred for mages known and that he'll stand against you at the end even if he respects you because the decision you make is wrong in his view, etc., etc.

The writing quality was the same.

Mine neither 'cause if we had any we wouldn't waste our time on the intrnetz. P.S. Read Jaesun's posts for your answer.

"The Saudi regime is at least as bad, if not much worse yet I don't see cries for democracy or intervention. " What does that silliness have to do with what i quoted? Anyways, I'll bite at your hilarious smokescreen: Oh, Mr. judge, I may have murderd only one perosn but Joe Blow down the street murdered two.. so whya pickin' on me?

Does this really need to be explained in full detail or can't you figure it using common sense?

Religion will not become extinct in Kanada for a long time if ever. Do these punks even do proper reearch? LMAO That alone makes the article AUTO FAIL.

"terrible, Gadafi regime" I like how put this in brackets like there's some actual doubt.

"If I call a man's wife ugly, even if she is, knowing it will make him angry, then there is some blame at my door. " This doesn't make sense on so many levels largely covered by Grom's post. These savages didn't even attack the perpetrator. They murdered random people. I guess everytime someone is mean to me Obsidian Forums, I should go kill some random person in real life... and myd efence will be because you guys were mean to me. Does that make sense? Not at all. And, no, someone calling your wife ugly doesn't give you the excuse to kill people or even get physical. That's silly talk. There is no excuse whatsoever for what they did and the pastor (as much a s asilly goose he is)is not responsible at all for their actions.

" Whatever happened to BW actually writing stuff, cool characters like hk-47. " HK is funny but he's absolutely one note. Not a good example, sorry.

"Obviously Bio heard Volo

Action RPG.

If you own the book you have the right to do what you wish with it. The fact thats cumbags use that as ane xcuse to murder innocents is what's really sick. The barbarains (that's people who do this, not all muslims btw) should get into the 21st century and get over themselves.

Murder over burning books. I wonder if I burn both a koran and a bible, made sure it was publicized which group would attack me first...

"I HATE it when people say, Bio included, that Dragon Age was a descendant of Baldur's Gate. If anything it was a descendant of NwN. That isn't intended as a slam, it looks and plays like NwN with D&D rules replaced by MMO cool-down powers. Comparing DA to BG shames BG, and it was just thrown around by Bio to get old RPG fans excited." You made a fundamentla error here when styating this because NWN plays like BG so you actually shame yourself by being wrong. Sorry. DA is a superior version of BG.

I also believe you miss out on the Finding nathaniel quest if you do the 'find 3 dwarf explorers in deep roads' quest in ch2. I spared both Architect and Nathaniel in Awakenings and didn't get the quest because of that supposedly.

"That's a negative?" For the people who hate DA2 and ME2 it is.

"^Actually I don't remember KotOR being claimed as being the death knell of Bioware." Musta missed all the 'BIO betrays their PC 'fans' by making a console game instead of a PC game 9after porting it). Remember that KOTOR was BIO's first game since SS/mdk2 (which most forget) that had a console version and all the talk was 'WAA bio betrayed their 'real' fanbase' etc., etc. Not to mentioned the complaints about the super easy combat, about how the C7C sucked, and a whole bunch of stuff. KOTOR was just another line of games that would 'doom' BIO.

BOO in The Witcher Thread; BIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! BIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! BIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! BIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! BIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! P.S. Graphics looks good.

I don't care about profesional reviewers. I don't care if they rate a game highly or lowly no matter. Go through the list of games reveiwed and tons of thema re jsut plain wrong - espicially how theyg et to said score. That said, the most 'fair' review I've read of DA2 is the Codex one. i don't agree with it but it's fair. The whining on the forums about DA2 is a joke since there was the same whining after DA1. And, ME2, ME1, J2, KOTOR, NWN, and even TOB. WAAWAA ! BIO betrayed their 'fans' (no such thing as fans, it's a myth), and all the otyher gobbleygook. Go to the DA1 forums and read up about all the whining about the Derp Roads, end of the game, the attacks on the whole 'Alistair twist', the crying about the gay/bisexual romances 9or romances in general), the writing, the so called lack of C&C, the crappy combat, the horrible character system, how it betrayed the BG2 fans, and all the other stupid stuff. or how DA2 is the death of BIO - just as TOB, NWN, KOTOR, JE, ME, DA, and ME2 were. So hilarious! Really hard to take such proclaimations seriously when it's been going on for over 10 years.

Actually, people complain no matter what. That's what the internet for. Just go BAck and read DA1 threads here or elsewhere. the same crying repeatedly.

The ending is fine and acceptable but it could have been betetr if SPOILER, SPOILER, SPOILER.

"Can't wait what stupid crap EA's/Bioware's marketing department comes up this time." How is your ME3 preorder coming?

"actually, the best thing about DA2 is that it makes AP look like a really good game now " nah. AP is still a crpapy game with no real redeeming features. The best thing can be said about it is that it proves its fans are delusionalm and that evena game that supposedly has C7C can be worthless when you just don't care. Anyways, the worst thing about DA2 combat is the waves of enemies but at least the combat is for the most part enjoyable. AP is just a horrible version of ME series. I will never understand why people continue to play a game or even finish a agme they claim to loathe. I play games for fun, if it's not fun i move on. If I want to be miserable I have work for that. It's like the people who watch a tv show for 10 seasons yet allt he while claim it's the 'worst ever'. LMAO

"I hate the characters, I hate the romance, I hate the art style, I hate the repetition in dungeons, I hate how enemies respawn in my face for no good reason, I hate the story (except maybe the Qunari and Varric's quests) and I hate the utterly ridiculous gore. Basically I hate it because it's a Bioware game." This is one of the best quotes ever... yet he still plays it. That says everything.

"Well, given that Fallout: New Vegas (Charting the rise to power of the Courier) beat Mass Effect 2 (Save the galaxy) to the WGA nominations for story and was nominated alongside it in the BAFTA awards, it would be somewhat awkward to explain if a reversal of focus [Dungeon siege 3 (Save the kingdom of Ehb) vs. Dragon Age 2 (Charting the rise to power of Hawke)] yielded the same results. " Do, we really need to have an awards war? I'm not gonna judge LV since I haven't played played but I don't think BIO or ME2 are worried about a 'lack of awards'. "Does that invalidate my claim to Volo being an ass?" For telling the truth? Harlequin bas been angry and wishing BIO's death for years. His little rants about how 'they are doomed' is not new. 2002 wants Harlequin back. the fact you referred to him as 'new' or some sort of 'innocent' victim of Big Bad Evil Volourn is hilarious. I'm nto even that scary anyways. L0L Harlequin can handle himself just fine.