WILL THE ALMIGHTY

If Bioware does this, I'm sure they'll do it right, but I doubt they will. Most of ME's dialogue, even the second one, always includes a secondary dialogue tree so you can ask more questions about less important stuff. It wouldn't work if it was timed.

So your idea for a DLC is a remake of FO1. No offense, but that's a bit big.

It's pretty damn far from decent.

I didn't even know Bioware had a studio here in Montr

They usually hire another studio for multiplayer on games like this. I know Bioshock 2 did, for example.

Yeah that's... that's not going to happen. I'm ready to bet there'll be more Deep Roads in DA2.

I'm kinda hoping for a spinoff of SC that isn't an RTS. With a name like Pheonix the best case scenario is a flight game like Crimson Skies, but I doubt it'll be anything that big.

SC2... Pheonix? Already two more expansions lined up for WoW? And a... WoW movie? The hell?

This. I was really hoping it would play like Fable with a bit more RPG in it, or what Dungeon Siege 3 seems to be doing, but this just looks like DA1 with more flips and bland art design. What are the controls for the action RPG part anyway? How does that mode work?

I would really like a first person Mass Effect game. It's just remind me *more* of Deus Ex. ME3 won't be like that, though.

Oh we don't all think they're terrible games. We just notice the flaws more.

I am inclined to agree that Mass Effect 2 was superior to the original. I can understand arguing that it was a worse RPG, but not that it was a worse game. Maybe the writing was better, but the story got really stupid with all the retconning and plot holes. I'd point them all out (again), but you can easily just read Shamus Young's take on it.

Honestly, it's near impossible to tell who this guy actually is or what his goals are without playing the actual game. I'm optimistic about this, the story seems a bit more adult than most games released recently. I can't explain why, it just seems more emotionally engaging. But hey, there's about an equal chance I'm completely wrong and it winds up being all Batman-angst.

I wish the whole game was about gathering allies, but the more time you take and the more allies you gather, the more casualties there are on Earth. So if you get everyone to help (Paragon path, of course), you realize sacrificing Earth was necessary to unite the Galaxy and take down the Reapers. If you just rushed in (Renegade, maybe with the aid of Cerberus and the Collector Station/other MacGuffin) you'd wind up beating the Reapers. Two things could happen here: either the Reapers decide to go after other unprepared races and there are many, many casualties while Shepard and Cerberus gradually take out all the Reapers with whatever MacGuffin they picked up (Collector Station, maybe) or the Reapers would be truly defeated at Earth. In either case, humanity proves it's superiority (and in the first scenario all the other races are weakened) and establishes some sort of dictatorship lead by Cerberus/Shep. The Paragon path seems easy enough to implement, but the Renegade path might be too much to ask for one game.

You know his wife/girlfriend got (probably) killed, right? Losing his arms isn't the real drama, I think. If anything it's adding insult to injury. Consider that he's also been made a cyborg by what I assume is an evil corporation (it wouldn't be Deus Ex if he was hired by the good guys at first) and it sortof looks like he's wearing a weird company logo on his forehead, whatever that means. Maybe he wanted to stay dead after what happened to him. Maybe he was part of the anti-aug movement, I doubt he'd be overjoyed to be in the other camp all of a sudden. Or you know, maybe he just wants to be Batman.

As long as I get to dual-wield axes and wear horned helmets, I'm happy.

Not everyone enjoys being a ruthless killing machine, ya know. Although I doubt Adam has this much depth to his character.

Should I hope for vikings?

This pretty much was the only thing keeping me away from Skyrim.

A depressing end game from Bioware? Never. If I put 100 hours into a game series, I expect a happy ending. I'd really be ticked off by anything else. Well some of us were kinda into the whole mecha-cthulhu thing ME1 had going. I gotta admit I don't really care for saving Earth - I don't have a particular attachment to my entire planet.

Can anyone tell me why this game (or anything Highlander after the first one) was a good idea?

I don't get it, if anything engines these days last longer because the next generation of consoles is still years away unlike the previous generations which were every 5 or 6 years. Unreal 3, for example, has been used for a pretty long time and I'm sure it'll keep being used until the next console lineup comes out (or whatever's planned after this generation). There's also a lot more middleware used nowadays (I think, I'm not sure), so making a new engine isn't such an excruciating task when you can just add in Havok physics and Scaleform and etc... But really, Gamebryo is insanely old to the point where the animation quality and physics can even hinder the gameplay (flying Grizzly Bears, oh joy!). I'm also willing to bet idTech5 has much better/easier tools, so switching to another engine shouldn't be that much of a stretch. EDIT: Saw the previous post. ****.

Whining might actually make things better, so yeah. I mean, criticism is still criticism, and even if it's excessive it's better than blind fanboyism. Don't get me wrong, I like Bioware and I like Jennifer Hale. I just don't like how she plays Shepard and (personally think) there are much better voice actors out there.

For some reason I got really annoyed at how long it took for the main title to appear. Dunno why. ... So uh... this uses idTech5, right? They scraped Gamebryo? ... please?

So it's like a good RPG for once? GASP. I kid, Blizzard's been getting much better with their quests recently.