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YOU'LL NEVER BE BETTER THAN COMMANDER SHEPARD! 'Nough said. That's not gold, baby, that's mithril!

"a dedicated archer is a liability to your party offering little in the way o' offensive or defensive support." No.

Ex employees are poor sources hence the ex in the tag. Just like I hate the idea of references from 'ex employers'. There ex for a reason. LMAO

"Problem with Quebec leaving is its the source of 80% of our national identity, history, and symbols. Canada without Quebec is not Canada." Disagreed. That's a Quebecer myth. Besdies, Quebec would always be a part of our history whether they left or not. That isn't an issue. Identity? If anything, Quebec is the antithesis of Kanada's reputaion. Even though I don't enccessarily agree with what the world believes, but our rep is of being a nicer, more peaceful, and relaxed version of the US. The quiet younger brother if you will (of coruse, the whole 'younger brother' things gives many a Kanadian major butthurt) who has less violence and not as messily intervering in the rest of the world thoguh we're swamped by US culture even if that makes us cry on one hand while we lap it up otherwise. Kanada without Quebec is still Kanada - just smaller since it's our second biggest province. We would still have a sizeable French minority as well so we wouldn't lose that either. And, we'd get rid of the shackles of some majorly bigotry. Our country is over 100+ years old yet Quebec still has a hard time remembering the value and goal of Kanada. If Quebec can't even respect the country its apart of... why is it still here? Oh yeah I know. Even if it left, Quebec would be heavily dependent on Kanada's goodwill. Quebec is maybe 10% of our antional idendity. If you had simply said French Kanada was a big part of our idenity, I'd agree... but Quebc as a province is so irrleveant other than they bring bigotry to an artfrom. They're still stuck in the old Europe way of thing that settlers brought with them - we're better than anyone different than we are. It's taen NA years to shed much of that kind of backwards thinking.. even Europe itself has largely turned its back on that.. but Quebec hasn't. P.S. QUEBEC RAGING was not my intention. L0LZ "Canada has a national identity ? Seems it's just beer, hockey and trying desperately to be different from the US " hey, you have to start somewhere...

People have to realize that Quebec is one of the most bigoted places in the entire world, and I say this even though I'm French by blood. Quebec as a province (not neccessarily individual Quebecers) loathe anyone or anything different. It's also hypocritical as it goes on and on abotu the bigotry from other parts of Kanada despite the fact that other provinces bend over backwards for the French while Quebec does everything they can to make live as miserable as possible for non French speaking people. I really wish their vote to leave the country was a success. Finances stuff aside, Kanada would be better off without the Province of Governmental Sanctioned Bigotry.

"I have never said that violent regime change is not effective (in general, and in reaching the goal of toppling the current government), only that the more violence you use, the more likely a backlash will be. Persons of violent ideals will always be the most violent rulers as well." Japan. Germany. United States. 'Nough said.

"Considering that sequels in videogameland are often better than the originals" I haven't done much official research into the subject, but if I were to hazard a guess that most sequels tend to get ratedlower than the originals. This is doubly true for expansions. One clear example is HOTU which reviewers and most gamers agree is better than the NWN OC 9and SOU0 yet is rated far lower...

Unlike certain anti BIo posters... R00fles!

"Iraq was NOT in a state of revolution! Saddam, as evil as he was, was NOT ordering his attack helicopters to open fire on demonstrators!" Nah. He was doing stuff like that all along. From even before he got power he had no problem with mass murder. "But before operation Iraqi freedom, things were pretty calm." Just not true unless your defintion of 'calm' is different than what the word actually means. "Iraq was NOT in a state of revolution!" Because, Hussein made sure it with his mass murders. It's not like Iraqis didn't try multiple times. The Iraq war was based on truths.

"Nah, mages were invented to appeal to insecure teenagers with secret dreams of one day becoming more powerful than everybody else. Especially more powerful than the guys who gets all the girls. That will show them! (cf. 'Harry Potter fans' & 'Raistlin & Caramon')" The same can be said for kewl knight/warrior types who tend to get the girls that mages tend not to. "You didn't download the demo yet?" Who claimed I didn't?

Can't speak for DA2, but in DA1 the mage was eaisly killable in comaprison to warriors/rogues in physical combat. An ogre for example, could kill a mage in 2-4 hits no problem (barring any potential protective spells). That's how it is 'balanced'. A mage vs warrior one vs one would be quick in favor of the warrior unless the mage continually gets lucky with freezing type spells.

"If I can slam a sword on the ground and knock people off their feet, it's obvious I'm no longer working within the constraints of what real world swordsmen can do. " I never brought up 'real world' stuff since, afterall, magic doesn't exist in real world.

"Not really a hardcore gamer though." If you replay the same game over, and over, and over again youa re definitely a hardcore gamer. if you feel the need to post on gaming forums for YEARS about games, you are a hardcore gamer. Everyone who posts here is a hardcore gamer. There is no disputing it. Also, i don't go around reading my fvaorite books, watching my favorite movies, or even listenting to my favorite songs (though I'll listen to them if I hear them) non stop. Casual gamers play for fun, and they'll move on to the next kewl thing. People claim that WOW is for 'casual gamers' but it ain't. Casual gamers likely played it for a couple of months and moved on even if theyn liked it. Hardcore gamers who liked it are probably still playing it.

"This isn't an MMO, classes don't need to be balanced." And, thank god for that. Balanced classes are a sure sign of poor development. Mages should NOT be the equal of fighters and rogues. They use friggin' magic. I'm sorry but anyone who thinsk someone who uses swords should be the equal of someone that CREATE fire out of NOTHING are just silly and not thinking logically.

"That's probably because most games suck and don't even reward the expenditure of time required for a single playthrough, let alone multiple playthroughs. If games were BETTER and rewarded multiple playthroughs, then people would play them multiple times." Nope. The averga egamer does not play games (barring sports games and other MP games) more than once./ It has very little to dom with quality of said game but more to do with time and looking for the next cool thing to play, and the majority don't finish it. As a fun example, I had a friend buy FO:LV, and he loved it yet didn't finish it. That may be anecdotal evidence, but it's backed up by game companies' research and hardcoded facts. Don't mistake your own 'hardcore agmer experience' with the 'average gaming joe or jane'.

"further cemented Muslim bigotry' Fixed. We get it, Muslims in the ME tend to be bigots when it comes to other people including other Muslims. Muslims killing muslims. More muslims wer emurdered in iraq by Muslims than muslims that were murdered by non muslims. Why is that? Why do Muslims feel the need to murder each other yet claim they do it to fight the 'barbarians from the west'? LMFAO Hopefully, the good people of the ME will get the freedome they deserve and want that most westerners don't want them have because they prefer to have Muslim countries be in crap shape so they can feel all superior. Thankfully, NA Muslims have seen the light and don't rely on violence to get what they want. btw, Iraq is better off without Saddam in power. The 'disaster' of Iraq was caused by an Iraqi called Saddam Hussein. No non Iraqi made the decisions that absolutely crippled Iraq's finances, power, culture, and infleunce that he did. Hussein destroyed Iraq. Nobody else did.

Only terrifying about Titanic how sorely underrated such an awesome movie is.

Tried watching it. Was one of the most overrated, and boring sci fi shows ever created. The fact you felt the need to compared to JS says everything that needs to be said about XFiles which its crappy writing, horrific acting, and garbage everyhting. I'd rather compare it to Fringe which is amde by the same guy and has been accused of 'copying' X-Files except in Fringe's case it does everything better. better acting (espicially better acting), better writing, better archs, better overall story, just plain better. L0L Jersey Shore L0L To answer "So, anyone else here like it?" No. Hell to the no.

"Comparing DAO combat to IWD2 is an insult, given the creativity behind many of the combat situations in IWD2. " An insult to DA, you mean, as IWD2 combat was dreadful and had noc reativty. Crappy combat is crappy combat. IWD2 was a failure. IWD1 was a fun dungeon crawl, IWD2 was not. DA is sueprior to it in ervery single way as is IWD1. As for the whining about 'too juch combat' in DA2, it's logical since every game has lots of combat... espicially when the people whining will go on to praise games like BG2, IWD2, PST, FO, KOTOR, BL, ARC, GBG, etc., which all have 'too much combat'. DEATH TO IE GAMES! "FIGHT > DIALOGUE > FIGHT > DIALOGUE > FIGHT > DIALOGUE > BOSS FIGHT > DIALOGUE." You just gave the defintion of every RPG ever created. L0LZ

"Meh. We know reviews are mostly rubbish, it'd be silly to believe them now. I'll wait for the demo." People believe what they want to believe. if you believe DA2 will be rubbish that's what you'll get from reviews, if not, you'll see the opposite. *shrug* 30 hours? I'm sure it'll be 30 hours for some, 20 for others, and yet 50 for another group. Then you'll get the braggarts who'll do it in 10, and the lsow pokes whow do it in 80. Big deal. Time is irrelevant as long as you enjoy it. One of the best RPGs of all time - FO - was 10-20 hours max if you took your time. Didn't lessen my enjoyment of it to be darn sure. "That's what you get for rushing the game out of the doors." Game wasn't rushed. Game was finished when it was finished. If DA2 is the worst game ever, it has nothing to do with length of the development. It be a cop out just like it was for certain other games. Afterall, NWN took 5 years to make, and a certain segemnt of punks think its a horrible game. *shrug* That's life. And, NHL 11 took a year to make and its an awesome freakin' game. IWD1 had a 'short' dev cycle yet was a solidly fun game. R00fles!

"limited class progression with fixed skilltrees" What exactly is that supposed to mean? Isn't, byt defintion, all class based or heck all character, based progression' limited'. And, fixed skilltrees? That's exactly how it was DA. Not, to mention most evry RPG in existence.

As long as IWD3 is better than IWD2, I'm all for it. Too bad it would be using 4th Edition...

DA was definitely more 'tatical' than BG. No contes. "How much do you want to bet the it will get golden reviews praising every single aspect of the game no matter how bad it (maybe) is? I'll be happily skipping this one. Looks like it has way too much Bio fanservice." How much do you want to bet the same 'ol tired anti BIO contingent will bash it repeatedly for eyars to come in every aspect no matter how good (maybe) it? Works both ways.

"Also, the new issue of German mag Gamstar has a review of Dragon Age 2. It's not online yet, but the headline says it's not as good as DA:O." So... this means it's a 9.1 instead of a 9.3?

Kaberle should ahve no, and just left Toronto at end of season with nothing to show for it. After how they have treated him so horribly, it is what they deserve.