Volourn

"But Wizards shouldn't have armor in the first place" Why? "so in one fell swoop I have: 1) rewarded microsoft for making a faulty console by purchasing a second one 2) bought something from walmart 3) rewarded EA by succumbing to their ridiculous pre-order mandate for DA 2." *shrug* 1. Isn't your 360 under warantee? heck, when my 360 did a red ring of death last year I got a new one and I didn't even have to show them a 'proof of purchase'. 2. Nothing wrong Walmart. And, no, i don't shiop there foten since I'd have to go to other side of city to get there. 3. Nothing wrong with EA's 'pre order mandate'.

Doubtful. INDY is the defintion of one man team. Two if you count their kicker. L0L

"Black Isle for instance. or Squaresoft, Enix, Atlus. or, I don't know, Microprose, Sir-Tech?" L0LZ

" it wouldn't work because Bio doesn't know how to do tactical combat. they have trouble designing encounters as it is, making them turn-based would destroyl it completely. " Wrong. And, as the other V suggests, comapred to wholm? Very few if any other developer even comes close to BIO in these terms. certainly not Obsidian ior Betehsda or the guys who made the turd known as The Twitcher. Even the Fallouts, which I love, have limited tatical combat options comapred top more than a few BIO games. *shruG*

"too slow for the modern gamer. also, the party's too small. while I think mixing strategy with role-playing is a great idea, giving orders to 4 characters and then waiting for a whole regiment of orcs to make their turn isn't very exciting. " The fact that the possibility players may not like it does not mean it could not work. Besides, this is a BIO game we speak of. No doubt in my mind that if BIO makes a turn based game it would still sell a lot.

"full turn-based wouldn't work in a game like this. " Why not? With all the different combat options, turn based combat would work perfectly in a game like htis.

Likely a very low, neglible percentage though. *shrug*

Great movie, but nah. I see appearnace in games the same way i do in real life. An annoyance to get done with as soon as pssible. Get it down ASAP and go live life/play the actual game.Barbies are for little boys (in modern times) and girls.

The greatest writer of all time while largely considered a 'master of horror' has written tons of great fantasy/sci fi books. Most notable The Stand, It, Green Mile, a billion others.

"(Bio fans spend many, many hours" I spend less than 5 seconds on appearance. R00fles!

*shrug*

YES! Deep Roads are vastly underrated. Best 'dungeon' in the game.

"what's there to giggle about? " It's a sexist concept. I could just imagine the over the top bashing if a group was calling itself 'Boy Gamerz'. R00fles! As for the game, meh, as long as it is 2/3rds as good as DA was, it should be a fun little action game, but I won't be hjolding my breath...

"Why do DA2 previews inevitably have to be as derogatory of DAO as possible? " It's not personal. It's about hyping DA2. You loved DA1? Don't worry DA2 is way better than it. DA2 makes DA1 look like POR2. If you liked DA1, you'll like DA2 even more! Get DA2 now for just 99.99. It's marketing 101.

"What about dyslexic people?" Tough ****.

"i can deal with that. it sounds totally different than what they were claiming a few months ago though. Maybe they realized that alienating their entire fan base was a bad idea. " More likely people overrated to certain hype. Anyone who truly thoguht that DA2 combat would be vastly different than DA1's combat are fooling themselves. "I don't think the "BG Crowd" can be so easily dismissed, the games sold well and have been supported for a decade by a very dedicated community, and the games themselves have achieved a high level of cultural... thingy. Obviously what Boo means by the BG crowd is a bit more exclusive." No, it isn't. The Bg crowd dimisses themselves as they buy, play, and enjoy the JEs, KOTORs, MEs, and DAs. *shrug* BIO has been caterinbg to the Bg crowd for the past 10 years+. L0LZ

"I'm sure they'll do it right, but I doubt they will." Say what? This doesn't even make any sense. P.S. Antyone who claims BG wasn't successful, popular, and genre defining simply ebcause they disliked it fail big time. Of course, they missed the point as well. the claim was one shouldn't try to do something they never did before as it is destined to fail. The medical doctors proved that theory wrong 10+ years ago. R00fles!

"I seriously doubt that. GoW was made Epic, a company that's been making MP games since 1998. It's sort of like expecting Dice to release a great RPG." Illogical. Before BG, BIO had never made a RPG so going by your idea BG was destined to suck yet BG is one of the most popular RPGs ever. Lack of doing something previously does not mean insta fail. Or else the medical docs would have mega failed making their first game and they would have remained nobodies. *shrug*

"but I think it only had FF for one of them on the consoles." No.

"homosexuals usually take excellent care of their body, so they make physically topnotch soldiers." False streotype with no basis in fact. Just like non homosexuals, homosexuals come in all sizes, shapes, and health. Anyways, about time this was repealed. 'Twas a dumb law.

"was the leadup for dragon age 1 like this? the only major gripes i remember hearing about that one were the cheesy heavy metal marketing and blood spatter effects" It was much worse. people were claiming that DA1 would bomb. L0LZ

"I'd instead be worried of how your country is perceived by foreigners. " Who cares what bigoted foreigners think. I surely don't. They're bigoted.

R00flescopter!

"I don't get to do this often, but Volourn is pretty much right. The Bioware doctors were, post acquisition, moved to key positions within EA. It's safe to say that on some levels, EA became a part of Bioware, instead of the other way around." Not exactly what I claimed but , anyways...

Or NE since their road to the SB will more likely need to go threw the pats not the Dolphs...