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Seems to work since you keep buying/playing their games. And, their games keep selling more and more with ME2 and DA being their most successful games to date. *shrug*

It was Atari's choice. Not Obsidian's or BIO's. If I were BIO, I would have told Atari no since BIO pretty much gets niothing out of the relationship anyways.

"It's same with darkspawn - They are very similar to orcs. I'd say they are extremely similar to LotR orcs" No. But, hey, dragons are now considered orcs. So are ogres, so are those sneaky guys that pump up from the ground. People have weird defintion of orcs. L0L "I think the main reason I enjoyed it was the old-school RTS hybrid combat where I would pause, issue orders, unpause, and repeat," PC version should be staying basically the same, and even the console version you'll be able pause and select commands. The basics of combat isn't really gonna change. Ignore the silly hype diahherra.

"They do, after all, outrank the President of the United States by a not inconsiderable margin. " Huh? How so? US is an independent coutnry which swears no fealty to any other power in the world. The US President is outranked by nobody outside of the country or inside the country though even the president still has to follow the laws of the US. Leader of any country shouldn't be bowing to anyone, anyways. Bowing is a sign of weakness and subservience; NOT of respect.

"There is an occasional anti-British vein in American politics" Yeah, because that kind of attitude is uniquely Amerikan. There's plenty of anti-Amerikans from many governments including Britain plenty. Heck, one of the main reasons for the creation of the EU is to oppose and overpower the US through sheer number of member countries. "The Americans seem to favour non-reciprocal relationships." All countries do if they have the power to get them. Britain, btw, is one of the biggest sinners in this regard. The only difference is the US is one of the few coutnries to have that kind of power nowadays.

" Sure, SK with USA backing would win, but there would be enormous casualities. I certainly don't want to see 30,000 American soldiers wiped out in the first wave. " Even with a flat out nuclear strike that is guaranteed to happen. Afterall, the US and allies bombarded Iraq with almost unlimited missles with 'Shock & Awe' yet the casualties were rather minimal considering. Still, yes, a lot of people die, but hey that's war. Sometimes sacrifices need to be made,. Afterall, sin't that why we celebrate WW2 soliders for their sacrifices? Because, sadly, those sacrifices had to be made because of scumbags?

"You can't go around insulting it just because it makes you feel good." You thjink i spent $70 on a agme just so i can come on the geeknet and waste my time criticizng it? L0LZ I buy games to enjoy them. I didn't enjoy AP 'cause it's not a well made game. It's not even in Obsidian's top 3 games and they've only made 5 games (2 of which are expansions). Sorry, but I wanted to like AP. It did not deliver. Don't blame me. Blame AP. "1. Where do you get that? Seriously do you have numbers? Or are you taking that thing out of your ass (sorry for the rude language) The only thing that I can say about AP is that it has the most choice and reactivity than all other games I've played in its playtime. I don't know if theres other games that have overall more, though. . Completly different dialouges only to name the simplest. Your allies that come to help when you need it or provide you with Support like the mixed cocain in the brayko fight. The way how different things can end." Tons of games have as good or better C7C than AP including Obsidian's own NWN2 OC, MOTB, and KOTOR2. Then there's the FOs, BG2, NWN, HOTU, JE, ME series, DA, BL, ARC, TOEE, and probably another 100 or so I didn't mention. AP's C&c is simply nothing special. "2.I gave my reasoning why its not. If you decide to actually speak about the scene instead of gibberish I'll be here to discuss your pont -"It's poor writing W

Poor preview. "The narrative shift to a single character has allowed the team to craft a long and single narrative around a defined person like Hawke (who can be female as well)." The narrative shift was always focused on the PC, dumbnutz.

"Volo mad, Volo BASH! Take a deep breath and fix those typos :D " Nah. that post is harmless. You wanna see me bash? Go to the Codex. "What I wanted to say is that that the story was as linear as stories in bioware games. No real choices and no real consequences except for those two I mentioned." L0LZ BL has tons of C&C. Wayyyyyyy more than AP does that's for darn sure

Don't like it quit it.And, if it goes too far, have the guts tio take it court. Otherwise, go cry elsewhere. Game companies are not unqiue to this kind of experience.

"Bloodlines doesn't really have C&C" yes, it does, and it has way more of it than AP does. "How was that an insult?" Oh, please. It was an insult made to make fun of the guy's 'job'. 'Yuk yuk, I thioguht youw ere the janitor, yuk yuk!" It's menat to put the guy down. Not exactly fitting with the so called 'professional' line of dialogue. Very poor writing. "Unless we develop technology that lets us see into the future, you can't form an opinion of something you only saw a small portion of." Ridiculous. People make these kind of judgements all the time, ansd it's called using common sense and paying attention. We all do. It's how we decide what games to try out, what movies we watch, what books to read, what tv shows to sit down infr on ot the boob tube. How many people here have read a Harlequin romance novel? How many here who haven't yet have labeled them simple trash? I bet quite a few. I've played AP, I've read the reviews, I've read spoilers, I've read posts from both pro and anti APs so I have more than enough information to thumbs up or thumbs down it. P.S. Labveling someone a troll for having a different opinion is hilarious. Then again, i find it much easier to label someone than actually discuss things. Apparantly, you guys to do. P.S. I've been on the Obsidian baords for eyars, and I'm not goiung anywhere sinc, overall, I like Obsidian just fine even if AP is a subpar game. *shrug*

"Also AP's writing is very. VERY good. Especially dialog and e-mails. " Example of AP's 'very VERY good' writing: Dialogue Choice: Professional = making fun of characters' professional = lolz for all "Bloodline's C&C sucked. It's true, I heard it on the codex once." Not all Codexers are created equal. Codexers are just random interent geeks, anyways, nobody special. Just like us peons here.

Yes, I'll quote Codex posters. More trustworthy than other sources. That's for darn sure. Espicially, since Codex posters btw, post elsewhere. In fact, I'm sure many of them post here, and I'm sure many of them enjoyed AP just fine. P.S. I didn't use him to say he's 100% right but it disproves that theory that by playing the game multiple times that it'll magically be better or the C7C will be magically awesome. This is a guy who played the game 3 times yet criticizes it, and all I can think of is he's a tool who played a game he bashes 3 times. That's a ridiculous use of time.

"Consider that the game's tag line is "Your weapon is choice". Very frustrating that the game is not be rated based on the one thing that is unquestionably (trolls need not respond here) noteworthy." Oh, I judge it on its C&C. It's just nothing speacial. It's not noteworthy. AP's C&C pails in comaprison to other games including other Obsidian games. And, the 'decent' C&C doesn't make up for all the crappy aspects of the game including but not limited to story, characters, writing, combat, etc., etc. P.S. There's a guy on the Codex who played the game 3 times and explains, in detail, why AP's so called 'aweosme' C&C sucks. *shrug* "- Bloodlines: Rememberd for dialog, the rpg elements, not for the combat system (there were also numeros complaints about shooting) etc." While I personally liked BL, it's a poor example since it failed popularity wise as well. "- Kotor II: The dialog, certain parts of the story, not the combat system which was sadly just as broken (due to bugs mostly though)." Majority of KOTOR2 fans ennjoyed the combat just fine. "- Motb: The dialog, the story and and and. Again, while it has some nice gameplay elements there is a large controversity about them and there are many players that hate for example the spirit meter." MOTB had good a combat system, and it is just an expansion so no excuse not knowing how the gameplay worked. Who cares if peons disliked the spirit meter. Bottom line is AP's C7C and overall is simply not as good as those 3 games.

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All you have to do is look at the reaction AP fanboys (which is not the same as AP fans as AP *fans*a re kewl dewds) have when these review threads come uop with negative reviews on the game. It's all about putting people down who dislike the game. I see AP exactly for what it is. It's a RPG. Just a very poor one, imo. Definitely no MOTB, NWN2, or KOTOR2. That's for darn sure.

" I hope they learned how to do dialogue wheel properly from AP." L0LZ Consideirng how poorly AP did it in comaprison to the MEs, I surely hope BIO doesn't learn how to do the dialogue wheel from that SOZZY game.

The right choice isn't always the easy choice.

Heh. I was replying to your statement as if it were a question because you had 'have your..' at the start. btw, Anyone who thinks that DA2 will only have struictly 3 dialogue ioptions ar ebeing fooled by a horrible preview, BIO has flat out said they lied . And, I quote: "We put up to 5 choice options and 5 investigate options per dialog node. There is also a difference between choices (where you are actually deciding something) and giving you the opportunity to express yourself in different ways (which I think is quite cool, but not something I believe we have released any details on yet)."

"Have your NPCs run into the bonfire in the first attack, have them run outside of the circle in the second attack, have them separated in the dungeon in the infiltration when the skeletons get triggered." No.

Plenty of companies treat their employees fine in the game industry. Mya dvice to people who don't like how they are treated is to quit, and find another job. That's common sense.

Actually, he did insult people. He insulted Amerikans, he insulted reviewers, he insults anyone who disagreed with him. The only difference between him and me is I'm more unfront and honest. At least the people on this baord whoa re pro AP ar ehonest - they believe anyone dislikes AP is dumb. Fair enough.

How can anyone be massacred at Redcliffe? Easiest part of the game no matter what difficulty you are on, or your party composition is. Easy easy easy.

"But I don't know what to think. Thankfully, this game was released a bit earlier in Europe, so when bad reviews started to drip from the US, a lot of people already knew that the game was much better than what they were being told." This line is a perfect illustration of the arrogance of European and those who like AP. Very hilarious. He might as well just stay 'only stupid dislike AP' or 'Amerikans are dum dum'. Pretty much gets his point across.

Don't forget the Redcliffe also had another decision to make as well once you entered the fade that could screw up your plans as the Sexxy demmon offers you awards to let her go. Unless you are rle-playing a goody two shoes, that could be a nice decision with potential C&C.