Volourn

Play NHL 09 to finish up my league's S8 playoffs, and NHL 10. "though in the online mode it seemed almost impossible to score" Nah. Harder than 09 currently mainly cause it takes time to get used to the new goalies and passing.

"What I intensely dislike, and borderline despise is their self promotion, (just compare AP dev diaries and DA presentation clips) which I could come to terms with if not for their attitude. Unlike Obsidian where devs openly admit their mistakes and the problems of their games, the guys at Bioware have an opinion of their infallability, probably strengthened by the rabid fan base, and they tolerate no criticism." FDalse. BIo accepts criticism. In fact, they've admited mistakes multiple times. You, obviously, just ignore it because it would disprove your point and show your hatred as the delusion it is. Self promotion? Every company self promotes including Obsidian? And, why shouldn't they? It be illogical if they didn't. Unless they want to fail. If you don't promote yourself nobody else will. As for their characters being 'repeats'. This is baloney. While characters share similarities theya re not the same. The closest to characters being the 'same' is Bastilla and Aribeth and even they have differences. It's also not like Obsidian or other companies are any better at this. NWN2, KOTOR2, SOZ, and others all have the same sort of stereotypes. Nothing wrong with this, imo. "For those reasons I bash them, and will bash them until they change their ways, and offer some f-ing innovation." So you gonna demand innovation when you are repetive? L0LZ "I hate to say it but there was, in fact, more innovation in Fallout 3 over Oblivion, than there was in any Bioware game after Baldurs Gate II." No. First off, you don't hate to say it as you love to bash BIO. Your hate on for them is incredible, and borders on psychotic. Why not simply move on, and ignore them. Second, there was NOTHING innovative about FO3 over Oblivion. And, guess what? There's absolutely NOTHING wrong with that. Plus, BIO's games continue to ad/twink things. And, most importantly, they are MOSTLY fun even KOTOR which is overrated and their worst game. Innovation, in the end, is absolutely overrated. Fun is what matters. If you don't find BIo's games fun move on. But, you won't. 'Cause bashing something you hate seems to be the in thing on the net instead of concentrating on thinsg you actually like. *shruG*

"but he'll also watch twenty go in because he's too lazy to backcheck." Nah. Simply not true. Sharks are gonna be awesome. And, Heatley is a proven playoff perform so this 'choking' nonsense should be stopped for the Sharks this season. They get to the 3rd round for sure (unless they get stuck with Detroit earlier which is bublikely unless DET gets lazy during RS).

"think the thing in Bastilas corruption is the same thing that bothers me in ME often. In ME, you meet people who are absolute sure about their cause, and then they change completely their minds when Shepard just says "Hey, come-on" and smiles" Actually, this happens pretty much in every RPG ever created or heck any game that includes some sort of dialogue that has consequences where you can 'convince' others on stuff. Time is, for the most part, ignored.

"90% of the time it was me against the enemies with my companions dead after a few seconds." Wow. You had bad luck. My companions rarely died.

Sees suspicious they would close it down so quickly without disucssing details. If he's innocent then shouldn't be charged with firing a false police report? Did he atcually choke her to 'stop' her from leaving his house? Did she exaggerate? Was she actually drunk? Was he drunk? What's up. It seems to clean, and lack of mess to simply say 'not enough evidence to prosecute'. The police have charged people with very little evidence before. In fact, often times people get charged simply because they're accused in 'domestic disturbances' cases. So what's the issue here? What are they hiding? Is it a case of bias of noble football player vs icky reality star? Hmmm....

Enoch wins.

"Except for Vol and others who have mastered the knowledge of the exact moment they'll need spells of a particular type. Common sense just doesn't make sense to me, but I'm happy that Vol has the common sense to foresee the future. " You didn't read my actual post therefore remain ignorant. Please read it again, and then respond to me instead of posting silliness about 'foreseeing the future'. Again, it should be a very rare case where you go soemwhere that you will have NO idea what you are up against. Tsk, tsk. "Yes, but the amount of spells you can memorize is ridiculous in lower levels. You

"And where exactly is the strategy in memorizing spells for an area you haven't seen yet?" Common sense, intelligence, foethought, research, and the list goes on. The same way you should plan holidays, trips, and even going to the theatre. This is how I do it: 50% general use spells that almost always have some sort of usefulness in almost all situations 25% utility spells (this can overlap somewhat in the above) that ar emore sued to boost the catser or/and their group. 25% for potentially journey/target specifc spells that you memorize based off what your mission/goal is. ie. If your goal is to go fight a Big Bad Dragon memorize spells for that, if you are targeting an Fire Giant Chief memorize spells to help you fight them AND do research (in character if in pnp) to prep, if you are gonna enter a wizard tower or an abandoned mage school then prepare spells that cna help counter magic or fight/oppose mage oriented stuff ie. magic traps, golems, and whathave you. COMMON SENSE. COMMON SENSE. COMMON SENSE.

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"The fun comes from playing the game instead of pondering over which spells to choose every 10 minutes. " Selecting your spells, and doing so intelligently is part of playing the game and is fun.

Modern pnp games tend to suck. Espicially comapred to the better, original ones. I'm all for progress but it's not progress when you plainly suck. D&D style memorization make for a cooler, more logical, and intelligent style of mage and spellcasting. I mean, studying is the key and elarning. Not innate like with 'mana'. L A M E

"I declare Volo the longest-running and most successful troll ever." The only troll here is you with your constant attempts (successful as I don't mind getting into it with trolls like you) to get a reaction from me like a typical troll. I'd prefer to disucss the actual thread topics not posters. Unlike you, it seems. "Speaking of falsehoods... The old DnD system is in fact one of the worst. Having to constantly rest is bad enough for a PnP game, but in a cRPG it is just ridiculous." Nonsense. The DnD system is plain, old and new fashion fun. Everything else is simply lame in comparison. I mean mana? LAME

"Bioware finally realized that they have had the same ~5 characters from KotOR onwards?" Falsehood. "Maybe Volo is an alt of some other guy?" Maybe. Maybe "he" isn't even really a "guy". Just sayin'... P.S. D&D style memorization sia wesome, and the absolute best way to do magic. Any other way is half as good. Plus, the D&D style also has the added benefit of making it clear that mages have to study and it's not just lame innate ability like other medthods. P.S.S. D&D technically use multiple methods of magic as options including 'mana style'.

How are those any more 'new' than other characters? *shrug*

"Well don't forget people that DA is a heroic fantasy game, so making a choice to kill people deliberately is not in the spectrum of what the game has to offer." Eh? You should be allowed to make that choice. But, like always, there should be consequences - both world spanning and personal. ie. Choice to allow the town to be destroyed cna lead to one or a handful of villagers surviving. They blame you, and one of them starts to work at destroying you for letting their town being sacrificed. ie. Choice to NOT sacrifice the town can lead to being kicked out of your order, being branded by extremists, losing party members who think you are a coward for not making the 'tough' choice to sacrifice the few for the many. Etc., etc. Either choice can lead to lots of interesting consequences. The idea to 'force' the player down either path is weak, and cowardly and can only hurt a game's role-playing.Let the player CHOOSE and then let them face the CONSEQUENCES. Duh.

"So it's only an RPG if you get to be hero and every wave of your hand redeems a thousand souls and never have to do anything that has (negative) consequences for you?" Who said that? I certainly didn't. Don't make stuff, and stop being intellectually dishonest in your posts. I wrote: "And, it's a RPG, so you should be able to refuse.. and, there should eb cosnequences"

"The point would be not having a choice. The leaders come up with the plan and you have to execute it. You choose which people die, neither less deserving life than the other." That's illogical. The leaders make the chocie but you choose who lives and dies? You can't have it both ways. And, it's a RPG, so you should be able to refuse.. and, there should eb cosnequences... ie. getting thrown out of the order. (which won't happen).

There should be both a public and private option. And, taxes involved should be reasonable. Of course, that's eaiser said than done. I'm not a big fan of government 'stealing' people's ahrd earned money but I'm also not a fan of allowing people to die when they could be saved, either...

That be cool. I don't know if I'd choose the option. I don't like the idea of making the active chocie to allow people to die. probably why I couldn't be a ruler. R00fles!

"This thread is misleading. Bioware hasn't created a new character since KotOR. " Every character they created is new. No two characters are exactly the same. Period. Being similar does not mean same.

"The 360 is the loudest console I've ever heard." This is actually true for me too.. yet, it's still not that loud. When I'm playing the console, the sound of the tv easily drowns it out and it doesn't bother me. However, the PC is loud, and I can crank the speaker volume to drown it out. Thankfully, my computer isn't in my bedroom or I wouldn't get any sleep (unless I were to shut it off).

"Yeah, did you see all these people saying how quiet it is just a few posts ago?" Their experience isn't mind. the 360 isn't thyat loud for me. And, I'm sure that's true for many people. The PC, on the other hand, is loud.

Except, it's not loud.