Volourn

"Certainly there will be people to whom such a game will be one driving force that will lead to real acts." Nonsense. No game, movie, or another silly thing has driven people to do anything. You sound like those anti D&D nutters. "Paul Britton discusses at length what goes into the minds of the 'average' rapist. And yes, they are young, male, and suffer from feelings of powerlessness. But a _KEY_ enabling factor which he dwells on is the use of violent themed pornography. It appeals to the pre-rapist character by salving their power-needs. But in time, and bearing in mind these men often live almost all their lives inside their heads and without contact with women, the logic of the porn takes over." He's wrong. Countless studies, and theories show otherwise. Heck, other links in this thread show your theory to be in error. The bottom line there is no surefire way to pin point the 'average rapist'. It's dangerous to suggest otherwise. Again, rape has existed FOREVER. And, isn't the domain of one specifc group. Embarrassing to suggst otherwise.

Only thing required for the escort is loyalty.

"Considering that your average rapist is a youngish male, often lonely, insecure in his "manhood" and a general failure in life (i.e. no control over their lives). " I doubt this is true. I'm sure there is no real such thing as your 'average rapist'. Afterall, the most well known group of racists team to be priests who tend to be of the old. Even to simply write off the average rapist as 'male' is pushing. It's betetr to say the aevrage reported rapist is male. I'd also say that many rapists aren't lonely or all that insecure since most rapists are known before hand by their victims (often times a family member in fact). I'd say most lonely and insecure people would even have the guts to rape someone. Anyways, as far as the issue goes, it shouldn't be banned. It should be up to the individual on whether or not to play. No game should ever be banned. For violence or boobies or yes even dispicable rape. Rape games do NOT make people turn into rapists which is what the implication and is the same silly argument for people trying to ban violent games. There's simply no connection whatsoever. Rape and violence have been around well before the invention of video games. Also, I don't describing the main characetrs in these games as the 'hero' is actually appropriate. Protaganist probably is - ie. the story is focused on them. It's the same with any movie/book that is focused on the bad guys. They're not heroes. They're protaganists. ie. Tony Soprano was not a hero but he was the protaganist on his show, and those who opposed him weren't neccesarily villains but antagonists.

"My feelings were hurt. Nothing could console me' ................ LOL It should be easy to keep Oghren alive. Just play smart. A is really easy compared to O.

"You're confusing totalitarians with people who believe in helping others and using the government as a positive institution." Except, Chavez doesn't believe that. He belives in his his own pursuit of total domination and power. He is the very defintion of a scumbag. He doesn't care about the Venezuelans. The man has no morals whatsoever.

Pronger played well in the Oympics thoguh noteably he had had the same bad games his teammates did. *shrug* He's played well in Philly oevrall; but obvioussly the team was expected to be improved with him and they've been lacklustre espicially since Emery got injured. Philly likely will make the playoffs but they're gonna face PIT or WSH most likely and barring their top players playing perfectly, they're gonnaa be squashed. Pronger has never been blessed with super speed; but he doesn't need. He's a tank both offesnsively and defensively and outside his soemtimes questionable dirty play he doesn't have too many flaws in his game. The fact he dragged the Oilers all the way to the Cup Final 8and* winning an MVP award (was it STL or EDM for that?) as a defensemen says it all. 53 points this season shows he still has it too. He's also +23 and consideirng the so-so team he's on, that's pretty darn impressive.

It's easy, and not as garbagy as the PC version. I know I tried it, and I had to throw it in the trash. heck, I upgraded my PC to be able to play DA oin PC but that was a waste of time. DA PC version is simply bullocks.

Don't think anyone should be forced to join the army, and kill be. For any reason. Morally, it should be a personal choice to take such a risky undertaking.

"It turns out that Bio disabled the importation of DLC items. " Yeah, and they announced it weeks ago. It sucks; but it isn't news. I haven't had much bugs but that's because the 360 > PC. The most common irritant is that some chests end up having no loot in it. L0L "Vigil's keep wants to be Crossroad Keep, but it doesn't have nearly the depth." Yet, it is more effective in the end ebcause of the choice you have to make, and the upgrades make a real difference. In that way, it's more akin to the Normandy in ME2 than the CK (which I also enjoyed).

Aliens? Huh?

Evolution and creationism are not neccessary at odds anyways. Evolution - the theory that states that lifeforms adapat to their surroundings to make their surviveability more likely - can exist where a God 'created' the world/universe/whatever. *shrug* they aren't neccessarily. I'm not super religious anything, but I think the delusional believe that the universe came to be out of nothing (big bang theory) is poppy**** and has more holes in it than religion does. To create something out of nothing is completely garbage.

"I'm still curious, though. Is that not the case?" It's definitely easier by a long shot but if you enjoyed O combat you shoudl enjoy A combat. " it's just so.... familiar." Not this silly argument. It should be familiar. It's an expansion.

Finished Awakening. The crybabies are crying over the dumbest things. There are some things to complain A for but lack of romances and DLC items are not them. As for bugs, I saw 1 or 2 of them but no game breakers at least. Anyways, to go with the is A better or worse than O.... Let's find out... A > O --------- A. Its companions are better overall than O's. Says a lot that only one of the A npcs are worse than tyhe only holdover Oghren. Vehanna or whatever tyhe elf witche's name is is one of the worst joinables ever for a BIO game. She reminds me of whatever that giant moron from O. Nothing redeemable at all. On the other hand, characters like Nathaniel and Anders are pure awesomeness. B. The new and improved darkspawn. The issue has gotten a lot more complex. I though I had no doubt how I'd handle a particular choice... in the end, I couldn't do it that way and feel justified. C. New classes, talents, and skills. Awesome. D. Rune crafting. Yeah, it can be a compliocated mess to do, but still a nice addition. Now, they just need to clean it up in next expansion and sequel. E. The darker overall tone. A hilarious post on the BIO boards as the fellow literallyc rying how he hates A because it ruins his precious O 'cause it's so much darker. Good. That makes it better. So, take THAT. O > A ------- A. Combat is simply easier. Too much phat lewt combined with overpowering talents makes combat easy at least for my main character who simply can't be threatened with death. B. Length. Not a huge deal since it's an expansions and expansions are always short. O took me 60ish hours to finish -10 hours fooling around while A took me 22ish hours to finish -4ish hours of fooling around. Bottom line is A is an expansion of O, and it feels, smells, acts, and plays like it. 'Nough said.

Basically, they did exactly what the main part of the whole advertising was. They proclaimed how awesome they are, blah blah blah. Why use a secret message to say the exact same thing you said the normal way? Does not compute.

It's only overly gushy if you take it out of context. You DO realize how much I loathe the ES series right? Right? TW is a solid game. Not great, solid. But, compared to utter trash like ES, it's the bee's knees.

And, those coutnries are amoral for thinking that way so screw their stupidity. Yeah, I said it. They can take their judgments and shove them just as I judge them. P.S. That doesn't mean I have any intention of purchasing this service. I'll pass. But, if someone wants to, go ahead.

"quite as gushy about it as Volourn" Rating something 7-8 is now considered 'gushing'? WOW.

Two Worlds is awesome. It's the kind of game that Oblivion tries to be, but fails. TW's story is nothing special - gom rescue your sister. But, the complete and utter freedom you get explorinjg is awesome. The combat is fun, the character system is one of the best ever, the item system is pretty ingenious, and while th writing isn't the best, it's a lot more passable than the trash found in the ES series or FO3. The game is a very solid 7-8. To comapre, that's in the same realm as games like NWN1/NWN2 OC, KOTOR series, and IWD.

Why are you guys advertsiing for thiss ervice if you dislike it? Why pimp for it? I know I'd never of heard of this if there wasn't a thread about it here. Tsk, tsk. You guys pulled a Codex... hyping the crap out of soemthing you supposedly hate.

Oghren is by far the worst npc in Awakenings. No contest. "As for Two Worlds, someone had the best review quote for it "I give Two Worlds a 2, one for each world"." Here's my review for that review: "Even morons who have crap for brains have an opinion even if its beyond dumb."

"I assume I will get my bottom thoroughly handed to me with a warrior PC, as I won't have a similar sledgehammer and the console controls make micro management kind of like getting your fingernails pulled." Nah. Warrior PC - at least mine - is very easy. Enemies, even bosses, barely do any damage to me. This is the biggest weakness of the expansion, imo. With all the ph@t lewt it makes combat super easy. Too bad too. "Yeah I noticed that too. You would think there would be some similarity in design decisions, but everything is completely different." Different designers.

"If she is alive, then democracy is working in Iran and Ahmedinejad is not a fascist killing all of his oppponents. However I think the rude attitude of this lady is not appropriate as her opponent is an elected president who deserves respect. I wouldn't consider such a body language as awesome. I'd say 'nasty' instead." You'll defend him no matter what? 'Elected prsident'? Very doubtful. And, you earn respect. Obviously, the scum didn't earn the woman's respect - that's what happens after you murder people because they oppose you as he did exactly that. Ahmedinjejad is a facist. But, facist doesn't mean stupid. Tsk, tsk.

No, I mustn't.

"Isn't Volourn Canadian." Canada isn't France. On top of that, while I am 'French'; I am Ontarian born and bred, and better of for it.

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