Maria Caliban

Now run out and get Invisible War. I got Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic. I managed to kill my first hero and all his men because I forgot I could cast spells during combat. Oops.

There was a flashlight?

Am I the only one who thought this would be about dating in MMOs?

The only game where I can think of where you don't play the hero is Dreamfall. You have to save April Ryan because April is the hero. I wouldn't consider Zoe a Lancer through.

Yeah, I

That's not a Lancer. A lancer is someone who plays an important role in the story, but isn

I was agreeing with you.

Interesting.

It's true that the protagonist doesn't have to be a Grey Warden. Heck, in the early stages, they didn't know what continent they'd use or what the main conflict would be. There's also Bad Stuff happening in the lands the qunari emigrated from, for instance, where there are no Grey Wardens. Saying there

Guild Wars.

I'm not sure where you're getting the claim that they've done it all. In the last trailer I showed, it had Mike L saying that DA is a game about having a series of cool battles, Mike D saying that it's a return to BG days, and David saying that the followers were three-dimensional and would react to what the PC does. In the last article, it talks about choices and consequences, and then shows how this game differs from previous BioWare offerings. Even the 'sex and violence' trailer people like to rag on is nothing but footage from the game plus music. Go to the official website and it says Dragon Age is the spiritual successor to BG and an epic tale of violence, lust, and betrayal. It doesn

I do about 85% soloing in every MMORPG I've played.

I read it and found it very informative. I'm not sure what discussion, if any, you're looking for.

That answer is available at all good bookstores.

I thought that was fine. It's a different style of gameplay. For one thing, there's no need to play the beginning over and over again unless you want to see it. In ME, you're encouraged to try the various classes, both genders, and paradon/renegade, as well as the new game +.

I like it. I like that too.

It came out for the Xbox360 in 2007, and the PC in 2008. Apparently there will be unskipable cutscenes in ME2 as they're used to hide loading screens and position characters. Playing Morrowind. It's a good thing that the game is first person, as my PC's face makes me want to cry.

I was doing research for an article and had to create a dudeShep in Mass Effect. I spent as much time watching the unskippable cutscenes - there are seven - as I did running through Eden Prime.

There's a bruhaha at the BioBoards over a bit of information that's been dropped about the nature of the Grey Wardens. A number of forumites believe that this forces a 'bad ending'

Okay. One-third of all teenagers who commit suicide are gay, but gays make up at most 10% of the teenage population. If you were a teacher at a high school, would you let your students call a gay student a ****, or talk about how homosexuals are unnatural and will burn in hell? I believe in free speech. I also believe that people have a right to a living environment where they

It strikes me a bad satire as it assumes a person talking about their own group is the same as someone talking about a group they're not part of. It's a bit like that one guy from Seinfeld who used the term **** to parody a racist remark by a different comedian; he caught heat for it because no matter how he tries to frame the joke, he

I talked before about how nice it would be to have an RPG without XP or loot, and I think this village might show the consequences of those two systems. Does the player derive any benefit from letting it fall? You lose out on the XP you

It's a good game. I think in the sea of complaints about writing and not being 'fallout' enough, people miss this. I'd suggest that you play Fallout 3 for another two hours and then crack open Oblivion. There are a number of similarities between the games, but I find in almost every aspect, Fallout 3 is superior.

No way. People will whine about the same old things whether or not games are art. The "art" label isn't going to get rid of the sense of entitlement folks have. I'm not sure how what you said is a response to what I said. Art snobs have a sense of entitlement, yes. Regular slobs have a sense of entitlement, yes.