Volourn

"So basically you play the game on autopilot." Not my fault the game is dumbed down and opeople will defend its dumbdownedness. Your pathetic attempts over what dififuclty I'm on is sueless and don't impress me much. It pretty myuch shows how desperate you are to try to make people believe ME2 isn't dumbed down when it very much is so you gotta make lies about other people. *shrug* P.S. It has nothing to do with how 'easy' or 'hard' the game, its dumbed down. Period.

You miss the point. Jagr losing the puck didn't cost the team a goal. The poor defense by the defensemen did. He cost his team chance to enter the offensive zone. Period.

"Whole topic should be renamed to Volourn's epic battle against all critique aimed at Dragon Age: Origins without using the quote function." Except I have criticized DA. Multiple times. *shrug* So, if you are to be believed, am I battling myself too? Interesting...

yeah, Liara's change was kind of dubious after just 2 years. That's a short amount of time to go through that change and make all those contatcs and somehow actually become a viable threat to both TIM and the SB. Just not buying it. The less said about the Ashley debacle the better. Garrus and Wrex make a lot of sense though consideirng their backgrounds, and what occured in ME1.

"No actually, unlike you I'm pretty straightforward with my opinions." Uhuh. I'm not striaght foward. That's hilarious! "You pose as objective and critical of Bioware, but when any other company's work is mentioned you bash it - because its not Bioware." O RLY? You must missed my posts a) on the NHL series which I love. Not a BIO game. b) MOTB whicvh is an Obsidian game which I praise c) NWN2 OC which I have defended multiple times d) Arcanum which I love as well d) FF8 which still has the best FMVs ever. Have you read any of the ME2 threads at all? I seemed to remember quite bashing its combat, character system, and the like as 'dumbed down'. Why do you act so ignorant, and you remember things that 'prove' yourcrappy lies? LMAO "You're a more die hard fan of Bioware than any other person on this forum, and you do practically nothing else other than replying to the posts where I criticize them." Haha. Your arrogance is astounding. My posts are rarely directed at you. Sorry. In fact, you rnak quite low amongst those I reply to. Don't be so full of yourself. Guys like Grom and Numbersu would laugh at you. And, Hurlshot will be the dissapoint since he's got it hard he nows stalks me in private messages just to tyell me I'm a bad, bad man who has no live and should just end it. *shrug* Also, I only post about BIO? Must explain why I post alot about sports and political issues in off topic. Seriously, why do you lie? "And while I am prone to excess, you never actually have anything meaningful to say, except jumbled up combinations of LOLZ, awesome, yes, no and unexplained opinions. I don't even see what purpose you find in all of it other than to irritate everyone else and raise your post count." Why are you so concern about post count? I'm certainly not. If I was I wouldn't post in off topic. As for 'meaningless' posts; that defines yours. since they're almsot all about bashing BIO or insulting those who like BIO games (outside of BG2). I have no problem disucssing *and* praising non BIO games. "Like you bashed the Witcher, despite it being at the very least three times a better game than NWN." No, your OPINION is wrong. I bash TW because it sucks. Plain and simple. The gameplay sucks, the combat requires no thoguht whatsoever, the characters are aweful, the writing is poor, the game is immature. btw, You should do some research. Prior to TW's release, I was looking forward to it. I praised it, I defended it, and was kisisng its butt. Not my fault, TW didn't live up to its hype.

Of course, Jagr 'owned' up to it. He's awesomethat way. But, sorry, while he made a 'mistake' the defensemen's poor play is what led to the goal. Jagr didn't cost his team a goal against, he cost them a chance to enter the offensive zone. That's it. On top of that where were his teammates tow arn him such a hit was coming? Losers. That's what they are.

"how much impact they truly have on the storyline." Considering your origin can determine if you can become royalty, yeah, it does impact the storyline. "In DA, the PC visits the elves in their forests, solves their issues, the dwarves in their "halls of stone", solves theirs as well, the mages in their tower (need I say what he does there?) and the knights in their medieval castle (again, rectifying everyone's general incompetence). After that he goes all out in a final battle against the orcs and kills a *gasp* dragon. To DA's credit its not as bad as it sounds, there are a lot of fine twists in it." You described every RPG ever created INCLUDING BG2. Go to various places, help random people, and advance the main plot.

"Your lack of Leliana love is disturbing. " What's to love? She's one of the weakest npcs in the game. That said, his lack of love for certain other npcs is disturbing... Hurlshot: He's the kinda guy you'd find on the Codex - bashes BIO to high heaven but will play the game and enjoy it in secret. He'll repeatedly bash them and when you call him on it he says they're good games andn that he like sthem but the he continues to bash them. Because no npc will ever top Boo. L0LZ

"So, what is, according to you, the point of picking an Infiltrator over another class?" Nothing. Class is irrelevant in ME2. It all comes down to the same thing - play hide n seek with the enemy and shoot them to death with your gun. *shrug* "He's getting rid of Shepard to weaken Anderson's position on the council and eventually return to power himelf. With Shepard gone Anderson loses a powerful and influential ally." Yeah, I guess that's a possibility but Udina doesn't seem that cold blooded. Even when he was berating Sheaprd in ME1, it never came across as 'do as I want or I'll find a way to kill you'. Plus, don't forget, Udina might be on the Council...

If Infiltrator was all about the sniping ability and cloaking, you would need to sue them all the time. I never used usec loak, and when I ran out of shutgun bullets, I just switch weapons no worries whatsoever. "I wondered about who, if anyone, hired Wilson as well. My money's on Udina." Udina is many things but a cold blooded murderer isn't one of them. Plus, I don't think he'd want to kill Shepard even out of anger over not being picked for the council.

NWN, ME2, and NHL 10 (my league is mid way through s10).

"Ammunition for the Mantis is 10. 12 for the Widow. Some encounters throw far more enemies than that at the player, so you have to maximize damage per shot AND move around to get more ammo, which is risky." Huh? Just change weapons.*shrug* No need to stiuck with one gun. Cloak is the very defintion of unneeded crap. And, flaming me like a crybaby doesn't change the fact that cloak is a useless talent that only wussies use. "The whole point of an Infiltrator is to use the sniper rifle." Nah. It isn't.

Nah. I disagree. Even bad voice acting can be entertaining in its own way. Plus, I've never heard voice acting so bad it would make me turn it off or get out of the game. *shrug* However, after playing ME1, and going back to no PC voice over in DA was really jarring and hurt the experience.

"the extra damage from cloak is pretty much a necessity..." Huh? Please define 'pretty much a necessity' to me as I played the entire game without using it once. Doesn't sound like 'pretty much a necessity' to me unless the defintion has changed since the last time I checked. *shrug*

"The way one is shoehorned into saving some backwater country is annoying. It's perhaps understandable for a Human noble or even a CIty Elf, but for a Dalish or Dwarf?" Eh. Do you think the darkspawn would just target humans. Wrong. Though, in regards to dwarves, they're being attacked anyways so I don't know why they'd be so concerned with helping the people who turned their backs on them and lets the dwarves deal with the darkspawn mess most of the time. As a dwarf, you should be able to say bugger off. "The world is neither as fresh" Riiiigggghhhhhhttt... BG2 was 'frsh'. A seuql, and a the 1 millionth game based on a well know IP. 'Fresh' indeed. DA is a superior game to BG2 because it has overall better writing (barring Irenicus being awesome), the origuins, more challenging combat, more combat options so you don't have to mass zerg in melee), C&C, characetrs with actual depth, and is more fresh.

"That was a thunderous hit that Ovechkin dropped Jagr with the other night. But good on him, he got right back up. Even though Russia scored on the play." Great hit for sure. of course, I like how the announcers tried to blame Jagr for the surrendered goal. That was poor defense by the defensemen not some turnover in the middle of the ice where they had plenty of time to play D.

"Geez, I just looked up a bio on Drury. He has a Hobey Baker award, rookie of the year award, a Stanley Cup, a silver medal at the Olympics, and he even won a little league World Series! What a loser!" Did you check out what he's done with the Rangers? I don't give a crap what he does for other teams. Completely, and utterly meaningless. 'Nough said. 20-30 goals? the guy has 10 goals in about 60 games this season. He's -11. 1 game winning goal. He's a joke. Plain, and simple. And, his SC. Did you see the players on that SC winning team? L0LZ The fact people try to give him credit for it is laughable. WS? That's baseball which is totally irrelevantin hockey. If you want? You can have him. Dumbest Ranger signing ever.

Leaders earn their money. Drury only made the Olympic team for 2 reasons a) past reputtation WITH other teams b) lack of depth for Olympic level Amerikan hockey players. Drury is a joke, and the Rangers would be better off without him. He's past his prime (and has been for years). The guy is simply a loser.

Redden > Drury Better player getting paid less. Yup, redden is the betetr deal. P.S. I wouldn't pay Redden 6.5mil either but it sure beats 7.5mil (or whatever Drury's exact deal is). Drury is a joke. He should be thrown in the trash like Gomez was.

"A lot of things in Dragon Age reek of NWN 2, actually. From general plot to influence, and having the middle game nemesis actually join you. Didn't the main scenarist for NWN 2 went to Bioware and worked on Dragon Age?" Doubt it made that huge of difference or had any real impact as DA was already well into development by the time he came on board and/or NWN2 was released. I'm espicially sure the story was pretty much set as well by then.

"Bioware has a few things to learn about designing spaceships meant for warfare." Normandy isn't supposed to be a typical warship. And, Normandy 2 even less so. So to expect it to be a typical spceship meant for warfare is silly. Oh, btw, how many real life examples of SPACEships meant for warfare are there? L0L

"I know but you don't even get a decent "FY woman" response, it was a prime moment for a Renegade quicktime event - say choking her or something. " Oh, I agree. BIO should add 'interrupts' to all their games. Heck, there's plenty of times in all their old agmes they should go back and add them in. L0L Just give me an interrupt to cast silence on Minsc next time he goes on about his rodent or an interrupt to choke out Maurgrim in NWN OC or, well.. you gett eh picture. Heh.

Just like manslaughter and murder are both wrong; but murder is obviously (to the sane) worse. *shrug*

Yes. Redden is underrated. He also isn't being paid 7mil+.

I loathed TW, but I might have to buy TW2 just for Triss! LMAO Hubba hubba!