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Why not both? DLC can be awesome. Awesome. And, it can't be worse than Obsidian's last 'expansion'. LOLZ

"And by the way, the Japanese were ready to surrender by the time the bombs were dropped." L0L I find this argument weak. 'Ready to surrender' means nothing. You meant surrender under THEIR terms. Anyways, defending the mass murder of civilians isn't cool. I din't bring that up to say it was a cool thing for the US to do or it should happen more often because we all got lucky and it worked out in the LONG run. "Japan and Germany were both doing extremely well prior to American dickery. Japan was competing with the British Empire in textiles in 1914 without tariffs. Germany had enough industrial and military power to damn near crush the French and Russians in WW1 (and, to a lesser extent, in WW2)." Germany certainly wasn't. Afterall, that's a major reason why they were still so butthurt over WW1, and how Hitler managed to finangle power. And, no Japan wasn't doing so well. Not if they were willing to join up with a country that had plans to eradicate or ensalve anyone not the same as them. LMAO The point is, Japan and Germany managed to recover and regroup despite the ahrdships they face both pre and post war. Japan had to deal with the aftermath of nukes, and Germany had to live with the stigma stink of the Nazis. Not really easy things to do and they did it. With the heklp of the Amerikans in nation building. Sorry, 'nation building' should not be the first option but it's not auto failure either. "Japan attacked a military target." Who, btw, they weren't actually at war with at the time. You don't start bombing a not quite enemy capable of counter attacking not expecting them not to do so. Don't start something that you can't finish.

Dissing Obsidian's best game. Bah.

"Yeah, everyone talks real tough in safety behind their keyboard and... uh..." P.S. DLC sound scool.

"They are just a bunch of fouled mouth gamers stuck in the 80's and 90's." Thank you for the compliment. If thios were the Codex I would have added half a dozen swears to that thank you as well. "<3 you Volo." wut?

"when we talk about forcing a national identity from the outside (ie. Iraqis and Afghans)" Um.. Nobody is trying to force a 'national identity' onto them. Iraqis and Afghanistians already have a national identity. "another undemocratic and corrupt (puppet) regieme." Welcome to Western politics!

Sure, it would have been cool for this to be allowed; but either way MOTB is awesome. That's all that matters.

It says a lot that Japan - the only victim of a (two) nuclear bombs are also amongst the US's closest allies, andn one of the most successful Western nations. *shrug* And, last I heard, Germany ain't doing so bad either.

Just so us Kanadians don't get too full of ourselves due to our dismantling of the Russians this should keep our arrogant egos in check: http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/7062/xmfdcanadan.gif

Except Iraq is improving. Slowly, sure, but it's happening. Hecjj, just last week the Iraqi gov't was focused on pushing the major cell phone companies to improve services after the 20mil (btw that's about 2/3 of Iraq's population) cell phone users moaned about horrible service.. just like Western countries. L0L

Screens look nice; but Sega's arrogance is hilarious.

"Box Art is Dragon Age ripoff. But really nice." Nah. It's a rip of ME box art/cover. Though, 'the Espionage RPG's is uneeded. Do you really need to tell people want genre is right in the title. Wasn't cool for FO to do it nor is this cool. Super Mario Brothers: The Famous Platform Game or Gears Of War: The Ultimate Shooter "at least this one feels like it corresponds to the game inside." So did DA. Anyways, game looks to be fun. If it smells like ME, if it looks like ME, if it talks like ME, it means it will be likely good.

"member of their setup without batting an eyelash." A. Who says they did? B. Look at who your foster father is? Like the villagers would get up in his face about it. LMAO

Man. It reeks of a ME ripoff.. which means the game will be lots of fun. Good trailer overall. However... "your weapon is choice" has got to be the lamest tagline ever. FFS

Which means its awesome because 'Chateau Irenicus' was awesome.

Grobnar was simply boring. I never used him. Just a plain forgettable npc. Khelgar, on the other hand, was awesome. He's a way a dwarf should be unlike that punk in DA.

"And I'm glad that he came back to BIS" Huh? Hard to come back to a dead division of a company concentrating on a MMORPG and a lawsuit. Remember, Obsidian and BIS are not the same. And, that's good news for Obsidian.

NWN2 OC didn't suck. It was pretty good. There wa sno need for redemption. Besides, if MOTB was 'redmeption' what the heck was one of the worst games ever with SOZ? L0LZ Awakening will likely not be as good as MOTB because the scope and the goals for it seem to be ratehr limited. A kinda reminds me TOSC except its a direct continuation of DA. I simply epect more struff from it ntohing that will blow you away ala TOB, HOTU, or MOTB as far as expansions go. *shrug* But, there's no need for BIo to try to redeem themselevs. The fact that some people were dissapoiinted or dislike DA is completely and utterly irrelevant to the big picture. BIO most certainly don't care about them. Nor should they.

To each their own. However, ME1 gave you more useful combat options, the biotic power were actually of us, and it didn't always boil down to playing hide n seek. It's also not about dififculty. I don't think ME2 is all that 'easier' than ME1 overall. Afterall, if you leave cover for more thana few sec its insta death. the problem is that combat boils down to the same thing -fire a few shots then hide to regain health. In ME1, for examples, enemies could miss if you dodged. Shields were actually useful. Combat was also varied. Heck, vehicle combat was a big part of that. Who didn't enjoy running over enemies that would otherwise be tricky on foot? Seeing them fly was hella fun after you ran over them. I loved to use biotics in ME1, but they are just garbage in ME2. Much more effective to shoot your enemies. Don't get me wrong, ME2 has a few combat situations that are set up well and are fun; but those are few and far btween andare hurt by the absolute constant hide and seek. You want to know some of the best combat in ME2 was? Fighting the husks because it didn't requie you to always hide. You could shoot and run and even melee them as long as you don't get overwhelmed. THAT was cool.

Being very responsible. Way back when DA was fresh meat, Grom made it perfectly clear that he felt rogues were useless. He only changed his mantra when he was provenm wrong as people came out of the woodwork showing that rogues, are indeed, awesome. As for your other garbage, useless point to bring it up, as I never disputed that fact. I was, in fact, one of the first to bring up that the rogue CLASS wasn't actually needed. LMAO *shrug*

"You've just described every third person cover-based shooter's combat ever. Nothing inherently "easy" about it, ME2 just half-assed it." It's great then we are discussing ME2's dumbed down combat and not all shooters then right? Glad you agree with me!

"So I suppose breakaways should ALWAYS be saved by goalies because that is their job? "LMAO"" And, I suppose a forward should always stick handle perfectly around opponents perfectly, and always make the best at all times always and score goals on every shot because that is their job right? LMAO Bottom line is Jagr made a mistake and lost the puck. That didn't cost them a goal. The poor defense by the defensemen played it all wrong - one of which who was playing up way too much whcih led to the 2 on 1 btw - led them to the goal. LMAO Sorry, but a turnover in the neutral zone ONLY leads directly to a goal if its the d man coughing it up or the defensemen aren't playing their position properly.

Torment was a greta game brought down with its horrible version of IE combat. KOTOR2 was an average game no better or worse than KOTOR. That entire series is a joke. There is nothing deep about 'force is evil must be destroyed'. KOTOR2 characters were mostly forgetabble barring a couple that were great. L A M E MOTB was awesome, and easily's Obsidian's best. However, you forget Avellone's best work: FO2. Now that is sweet awesomeness.

":You make it seem so easy, I'm envious. (bashing Volo) " It's easy to 'bash' when you lie which Numbers likes to do a lot. I guess it makes one feel better when they need to lie to 'prove' a point. I guess he's still butthurt over everyone not like dumbed down easy combat ala ME2. *shrug* There's only one way to handle ME2 combat: Hide in cover and shoot. That's it.

Excusing poor defense by the defensemen. LMAO