Maria Caliban

Did Valve develop Portal? I thought they funded the development... I expect a new IP as well. Diablo III - this year MMO - 2011 New IP - 2012

I realized I had Assassins; Creed still installed, and so I restarted it last night. I only got to part 2 before, and the game is just so repetitive, I can't believe the people who made the Sands of Time trilogy did this. Despite what people say, I think all parts of SoT were excellent games. Yes, in Warrior Within, the Prince gets laughably angsty and the music can be annoying, but the gameplay is still absorbing, the environments are great, the combat is an improvement over the original, and the story works, though it's not as good as the other two games. Assassins' Creed has elements of mature storytelling. Yes, it's science fiction, but it's more Philip K. **** (edit: famous sci-fi author and obscenity it seems) than Star Wars. Ultimately though, I found it failed to challenge or enlighten. It opened the door to big questions, but never bothered to explore them. I haven't finished yet, but my hopes are low. You won't need to - devs will probably start coding every romance opportunity possible before release, soon. I expect the original campaign will have heterosexual and same sex romances for both PC genders. After the NYC showing, a couple of posters who attended PMed me to say the developers were strongly hinting this was the case. Which is both very sweet (they just took the initiative) and somewhat strange (I must come off as obsessed as they all decided to tell me.)

WHy are they working on another MMO? Are they planing on killing WoW in the future? Just my thoughts, but if they see the MMO community is large enough to support another one, why not? MMOs are here to stay, and assuming that WoW will always be number one is foolish.

I don't know how you feel about 4e, but WotC has revamped the way they do settings. Each setting gets one campaign book, one player book, and one adventure, and those books come out once a year. Forgotten Realms - 2008 Eberon - 2009 Darksun - 2010 Ravenloft - 2011

Aww, I love you Purkake. *hugs* Anyways, I've decided to play the BG trilogy, even though I find the first game endlessly boring, and the last 'game' horribly munchkinny and devoted to combat. I've downloaded EasyTutu and BGNPC w/ music. Then I searched through the gazzilion or so mod and found not one 'Viconia likes girls' mod. First off, Viconia would have sex with a good looking woman in a minute. She might not fall in love. She might decide the next morning to insult and belittle that woman for chuckles, but she

That's some kiddie Lost stuff. Oh no! My sudden mental image doesn't measure up to HP Lovecraft!

I didn't know you lived in Los Angeles.

I suddenly pictured a group of Brotherhood of Steel paladins walking by a pool of glowing green toxic waste. Just then a black tentacle whips out, grabs the one in back, and pulls him under. A few minute later, the group pauses and wonders where the hell Sally disappeared to.

I found it painfully boring and quit at the beginning of act II. Hope you enjoy it more.

I'd like to a Big Daddy on new years 1959 when the fighting breaks out between the two factions. Everyone is trying to abduct little sisters and you solve the problem by killing everyone.

I have MEPC. While I can understand why you might object to the DRM, suggesting it's 'TERRIBLE!!!!,' is inaccurate.

And it's done. End ending was ok, but considering there's going to be at sequel (or maybe more than one) that will most likely be fixed. As long as there's not a KotOR II type cliffhanger... It's a trilogy. There will be a cliffhanger ending for number 2.

I hate your realistic possiblity.

This is what I'm hoping as well.

I saw the armor options for female warriors and hit the back button.

I thought you could only do the blue one... Maybe it was because my character was female. FemShep gets Liara or Kiaden DudeShep gets Liara or Ashley

You're an insane addict, just like everyone else. Your motivation is to survive while getting your drug of choice.

Is he like that one guy whose claim to fame is his abilitiy to say f--k a great deal?

Can I make a console gamer joke here. Please? Rapture was founded in 1946, the first game took place in 1960, and the second takes place ten years later. If the Big Daddies were *made,* how old were they in the first game? 14?

Save often. Save in many different slots.

It's not the DM's job to keep track of the PC's powers. Anyways, it's not that different from World of Darkness or Exlated where each PC gets different powers. Heck, it's not as 'bad' as Mage: The Ascension where PCs can make up powers on the fly.

About 90% of the games i've played, I never finished. And i've played a large number of games.

Yeah, that's the thing. Most PC's don't have much personality anyway. Still the Big Daddy as portrayed in Bioshock was such a zombiefied automaton that it is hard for me to picture playing it as a character. It's similar to the Bioshock 2 devs announcing you get to play the game as a laser turret. Wheee! Remember the little buddy laser turrets in Portal? Those had more personality than the PC in the original BioShock. This could be a step up!

Yeah. Its hard to picture playing a Big Daddy since they don't really have much of a personality. It seems like it would be kind of like playing a refrigerator and falling over on your enemies or hitting them with the door. It would be like playing Dead Space! Did the PC in BioShock have a personality? How is playing a nameless/faceless/characterless human different from playing a nameless/faceless/characterless mutant in a suit?

Does that mean I can play a girl? Will it have sex cards? How about deep, moral choices, like killing innocent puppy-dogs for the upgrade slots they drop or not?