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FF8-FF6-FF4-FF10-558-FF1-FF7FF5-FFT The enwest FF is supposed to literally a linear run through linear hallways with absolutely no towns, and what not. Sounds extremely crappy.

"the fact that vol likes it is a more scathing criticism o' the me2 resource acquisition scheme than any argument Gromnir could hope to devise." I agree! On that note, the factr I like games like BG2 or PST proves they are very, very sucky! Right? LMAO I wonder if Mr. Boo would agree with your assesment. R00fles! For a lawyer, your 'logic' can be very illogical and pedestrian.

L0L The dark talk is just plain silly as it's just a flashy word that in the end means nothing important. DA:A seems to coming together nicely so far as talents, classes, and what not. Though the whole lacvk of DLC and the huge turnover of joinable npcs is still lame. It's also sucky that the new talents/skills/classes are not useable in the original game. BOO!

I like the scanning mini game. It's not perfect and can be improved; but it's more fun than other things. And, if some silly goose comes in and claims that I'm just being a 'BIo fanboy'; they obviously have skipped out on ME2 threads. R00fles!

I can see an expansion by then, but a sequel would be really really quick turnover if it comes out about a year after Awakening.

That's the spirit!

"wouldn't negotiating with another group be a breach of contract in and of itself thus nullifying the contract?" Don't matter. You can't arbitrary stop paying money owed for soemthing already done. This is why if you hire a contractor and he does a lousy job you still have to pay him for his work before you hire a new one. They did their job on the game, and they are owed what they are owed period. If they breeched the contract by 'negoiating' with other companies you can fire them. That's it. You can't withhold money owed them for their work when you made money off that work. Of course, a contract dependent on how it's written can call for all sorts of things. Who knows. That said, it all deopends how legal the contract is. Contracts can't be enforced if the contract itself is illegal.

And, prostitutes.... yeah, I went there...

Thatb weapon sounds kinda cool. Reminds me of chain lightning. L0LZ

Oh, please guys,s top the bigotry. Koreans aren't the only ones who do dumb/sick things ebcause of games 9or anything esle so elt's not blame games). There been stories of people from other countries that have done the same thing ala that Amerikan dad who killed his little daughter because she unplugged his system. It sucks and it has nothing to do with the country; but the individual.

"No. R00fles!" What's so different about it? And, no, Enoch's explanation doesn't cut it. It looks the same as before. Move around a lot, dodge, and shoot the enemies pew pew style. *shrug*

"Looks more fun than the Mako, that's for sure." Huh? The game play looks basically the same. Which is a good thing. Justn proves that it was silly of BIO to take the mako out if theyw ere just going to put mako 2.0 into the game. L0L

"These would be the obvious ones:" Says who? You? L0L "So, isn't it funny that Sandra Bullock got both a Razzie and an Oscar?" Can't take razzies seriously. They're to be taken as a joke. Why do you think they gave Bullock the Razzie? Because of the press. "However, the point is that she didn't win the Oscar because her performance deserved it, she got it because she has a long Hollywood career, the movie was a schmaltzy human interest story, because she played a character against type, and because the other four nominees were never going to get the Oscar this year. Two of them didn't get it because they had won it already and the other two didn't get it because they are too young and the Academy usually feels that in those cases the nomination is recognition enough." Nonsense. Does anyone bashing/praising the Oscars even know who vote? It's not some uniform organization that fall in line just ebcause they are told to.It's a bunch of random movie people that come from all sorts from the most famous tio people who you've never heard of. Heck, they have a 12 year old voting on it. Do you really think she cares about the silliness I just quoted? HA! P.S. Bullock has always been underrated as an actress. *shrug*

"So he didn't really want an Oscar?" Actually, he was cheering his ex wife on, so no in some ways he didn't want an Oscar. There are plenty of reasons why Avatar didn't win. *shrug* And, i don't think money was the only thing he wanted out of Avatar espicially since there is no way he could ahve known it be making billions of dollars espicially since some were predicting Avatar to bomb and plenty were hoping it would. Whether you agree or disagree, Cameron had a vision for Avatar which is he waited years to make the movie and he managed to deliver what he wanted.

KOTOR2 (like all of these games we talk about) is no more dark than your typical RPG. 8shrug* There is nothing inherently darker in KOTOR2 than there is in KOTOR1 for example. "I appreciate what you're doing, but you really shouldn't feed the local troll." Don't belittle yourself like that.

DA:0 - Back to playing the better 360 version,a nd am even trying the DLC. NHL 10- Club, and my league is starting its S10 playoffs by end of week. NWN - Stuff.

Anyways, on to actual DA stuff. I've got to say this. The PC version is horrible. I cna't believe I was planning to give away my 360 version when I bought my PC version as now it's the other wya round. i simply can't stand the PC version. From the mega slow load times (akin to ME2 360), the absolutely retarded way they handle the codex entries, the easy combat compared to to the 360 on th same difficulty level, etc., etc. Hope my brother enjoys his free PC version as I'm back to the awesome 360m version. P.S. "I mean what would you think, a "dark" game is?" My opinion of 'dark' is as meaningless as everybody except to me. The moment I gave an example of what I think 'dark' is no doubt 1 billion people will post their meaningless opinion of 'dark'. Like almost any game, DA has its moments of 'dakr', and its moments of 'kinda dark', and its moments of 'happy happy joy joy'. *shrug* Hell with it, I'll justy post some DA examples of 'dark'. 1. The choice of killing a child possessed by a demon to save others. 2. Having to choose which is the 'better' king: a power hungry murderous brocide commiting family betrayer or a more 'goodly' person who is a bigot and a weak ruler. 3. Making the chocie to either have sex to save yourself and possibly having that blow up in your face or sacrificng yourself or worse sacrificing someone else 4. Siding with a betrayer of the GW annilahting one of your closest allies to the popint he leaves. 5. Broodmothers 6. Howes' betrayal of his 'friend'. 7. Various origins by and large can be considered 'dark'. &cough* dwarf and elf commoner ones*

"Nice that Avatar didn't win." I'm no fan of Avatar, but it already won where it counts the most.

"That's not just one guy, that's pretty much the whole neocon base." Simply don't believe you.

"Too Human seems like the perfect example of developer does what they want without any form of publisher input or control, and it turned out to be a bland, boring mess of a game." 'Perfect example'? More likely you took an example just to prove a point. Not to menion it's just your one person's opinion. 8shrug* Counter example ism BIo who probably have very limited EA involvement at the development level. And, whether one eprsonally likes them or not, it seesm to work out well for them. *shrug*

WUT? No you demanding money from me? Toop bad for you, you ain't seeing a penny of my money. Want examples? play the games. Want examples? Read this thread or ehck any thread where 'dark' comes up.

"This. I'm not a big fan of socialism, to say the least, but even I admit that some socialistic elements (public education, roads, military, and police) must exist. " I bet most anti socialist lenaing people including the vast majority of Republicans agree with you. I can't see some republican farmwife down in Texas believing that roads, military, police, and at least some sort of education should be suppplied by the gov't in some way. It's all a matter of degrees.

Or better yet? How about the Iranians themselves? The Iranian governemtn murdered Iranians because IRANIANS disputed the result. Forget Fox, CNN, or other Western media. That's asmoke screen. The Iranian people themselves proclaimed the election a fraud INCLUDING high ranking members of the religious order. These are the guys who support the Iranian mode of rulership and they disputed the results. But, hey, some people woudl rather believe the dictator lackey than the actual Iranians. L0LZ

"From the little I remember, BG2 had darker themes." Silly talk not based in fact. Then again, the argument of what constitutes 'dark' is silly to begin with. Just klook at some of the example sgiven here by people in this very thread of what they consider 'dark'. L0LZ Hilarious stuff, indeed.

"Then all the designers of cars should have complete creative control over their car? And they should tell toyota, honda, ford, and chevy to shove it because "the car doesn't need a cupholder! or upgraded crumple zones! that ruins the aesthetic!" While I understand where IW is coming from, going out and trying to sell a game to another company WHILE they were still under contract (and owned by) Acti is a move DESIGNED to anger Acti (Imo) and to me smacks of trying to trigger something like this. And the "has total creative control over any game made in CoD post-vietnam" thing strikes me as quite specific for what was going on." Depends what the contract says. Seems to me that Activision wans't upholding their end of the contract. Also, the potential of them holding various employees PRISONER goes beyond a contract squabble. Sorry, if eveyrthing both sides are saying is true, Activision is more in the wrong.