Volourn

"Dave G said that the game is the biggest thing Bio have attempted since BG2." I'd like to know how considering what NWN was. I don't see DA doing any bigger than that oustide of, possibly, the origins... "I do remember DG mentioning that there a no sidequests at all." L0L Did you read that misquote in someone's sig on the BIO baords? You got hoodwinked. Of course DA has side quests. Gaider has even said so, repeatedly. But, DA is a BIo game so don't expect the side quests to be the most important part of the game. Anyways, DA looks to be awesome. hwoever, to throw in something negative - their regenerating mana an dhelath system looks to absolutely suck and will hurt the game's challenge level. BOOOOOOO!!!!

"Dungeon Lords sold over 1 million copies worldwide! That's more than Jade Empire (according to rumours)." Kinda doubtful. JE sold a minimum 500k copies in the first 6 months in NA only and that was just for the xbox. The 'rumours' are just that - rumours.

"NWN2 (nor 1) isn't very good sounding anyway *shrug* After PS:T and IWD1 (all sounds, including music) and IWD2 (only the voices)," NWN series music/sounds/voices > IE games. Period.

"Too bad they all decided to leave when Volourn signed on." Huh?

"NHL 09 is coming up quick! Hopefully we'll get some sweet 6 vs. 6 games going on." Gonna be awesome. No doubt abhout it. My NHL league is gonan even be better than it already is as it goes into Season 5, and the team absed on it is filling up. NHL 09 = NHL 08 + 1 million points of awesomeness. Less. than. a. month. to. go. P.S. I have it reserved, and prepaid. WOO HOO!

Same crap just different body part.

"Remember Rule One? My beef with new D&D is the corporate sameness of it. " Then your beef is silly because all Rule One still applies. It always applies. Nobody is gonna knock at your door, and tell you to play a certain way. L0L "tell you what, go through and dredge up posts by obsidian developers on the matter..." You make it sound like just because Obsidian thinks a certain way it must be true. Which is funny consideirng how you spend your time mocking them for their decisions in game development. Besdies, I doubt every single Obsidian employee believes the exact same thing. That's 100+ people. They're not all going to agree on every issue.

"So much for the promised moral ambiguity." L0LZ FO wa smostly black and white. Nice try, though. As above, the vast majority of characetrrs in FO were black and white. That espicially includes the Master.

"I could perhaps understand why people are so eager to side with Georgia though, since it's such a cute and small country at war with the vast Evil Empire Russia." Russia is still Butthurt over Cold War. Heck, they've already threatened Poland with a 'strategic preemtopive nuclear strike'. L0LZ And, let's not forget that Russia invaded Georgia; not the other way around. And, yeah: Georgia > Butthurt Russia any day of the week. Georgia may not be 'innocent'; but it's not the failure known as Russia that was so full of itself it had to change its name L0LZ from USSR/Soviet Union to Russia or whatever. HAHAHAHA! Because, multiple countries including georgia had enough being Butthurt like Russia is. R00fles!

"US 'got away' with Iraq, I wonder who'll they gonna get away with next" US didn't go into Iraq alone. They had quite a bit of support. Meanwhile, Russia had NOBODY. *shrug* Nope, Russia didn't win any 'democractic' or 'political' war. Russia did the invasion because they are still butthurt over them losing the Cold War and losing territory because they have too big an empire they couldn't keep the country together cause they FAIL. But, that's okay. Revenge for Cold War Butthurt tm is cool. Then again, Russia has already threatened a 'strategic premeptive nuclear attack' on Poland. LMAO Them Russians! FOR PEACE.

L0L I'm just thankful the Mets got rid of Old Man Glavine when they could. He won't be choking away a division title for them this season on the last day. R00fles!

"runs a 2 party presidential sytem" Not true. They have more than 2 parties - the other ones are simply unpopular. HUGE difference.

It's ok. Russia may 'get away' with their attacking Georgia; but they keep it up they'll be back where they started after the Cold War. Heck, they've already started not so subtley threatening Poland with a 'strategic preemptive nuclear strike'. But, Russia is cool, I guess. *shrug* L0LZ

If they are good at what they do, they'll find jobs. Look at the BIS guys. Most, if not the majority, of them found employ somewhere. *shrug* Companies closing does not mean the death of the employees.

"And what is wrong with that if I may ask?" Well.. the alst Cold War certainly didn't work to Russia's advantage the last time. Afterall, the country it sued to be got cut into multiple pieces. It was so bad for them, they even changed their name from USSR to Russia. *shrug* But, hey, if they want to suffer through that again, go ahead.

L0L, Guys, get over yourselves. We're talking about busienss thate xist to make money. They're not charity cases. I ahve no mercy if they get taken over, or go out of business. They're not some poor bum on the street, or some penniless guy who'd I would ahve no problem out. That's what REAL charity is about not propping up money making businesses.

"Way too removed from previous editions to be even considered Dungeons and Dragons." No.

"Russia is just taking back what was theirs to begin with? Georgia was part of the USSR after all." L0LZ!

"I do hold the US government, as a whole, responsible for the treatment of the native populations, so yes." I blame Europe. And, yeah, China likes to fake stuff. But, that's ok. It's a tradition they share with all governments, and peoples so I forgive them. To bad the Olympics in general are so boring with the so called 'sports'. Meh.

"Well, we had less justification in invading Iraq so we might as well start yet another war." Um? The war was alreayd started. But, yeah, both the Russians and Georgians should be ashamed. They're both at fault here.

US won't do it. They're cowards like the rest of the world. Just like when Russia and other coutnries whined about the US invading Iraq yet did NOTHING; the same will go on here. The US will pout; but NOTHING will be tone. Which is too bad. People should grow ballz, and stand up for what they believe in.

"Ever heard of hostile takeovers, Volourn? EA is still out to "kill" Take 2." If a 'hostile' takeover occurs I blame the oen taqken over. they failed. They killed themselves by letting themselves be pathetically weak, and hence don't deserve toe xist. I got no mercy for companies in the business to make money. Sorry. If Take Two dies; it's their own fault.

I blame the 'ol geezers who brag about how the days of Hilter, hippies, and Korea were some kind of sign of greater intelligence. L0L Besdies, if it is a 'fact' that kidies nowadays are 'stupider'; I blame the 'ol geezers who thought it was cool to get high or aid their lovers get high while pregnant. Not to mention the inbreeding that was more common back then. It's called evolution coming back to haunt us. Eitehr way, any problems todaya re 100% on the old geezers' heads. Sorry, but it's true.

"Over course EA destroys companies that they purchased" No, they don't. The moment those companies 'sell out' is the moment they are destroyed. They commit suicide. There is no 'company' for EA to destroy.. just an EA division for them to remove when they feel it's no longer worthwhile to keep. Don't blame EA for the owners' killing their company.

"Mask of the Betrayer was great despite it being short)." MotB was about 20 hours. Heck of a lot longer than 6 hours.