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There's going to be another massive patch with new content in another month (Apr 17? I think) coinciding with the XBox release. I went with Roche on my playthrough and I think on reflection I marginally preferred it. It's not as long - apparently in its original state you wouldn't hit the level cap unless you took Iorveth's path - but I think it's a tighter story going with Roche. By that I mean the plot gets driven with a bit more urgency, and it feels like the stuff you do directly relates to progressing it unlike the alternative which feels like a more traditionalist sidequest format. Plus you get exposition on the other side of the story - as in what happens to your quarry and his merry men.

They make public servants look efficient, and for that, I thank them.

And yet she was on the cover art for the first game. Still, not as anonymous as Thane being on the cover of ME2 when I imagine most players just left him in his room all game for the most part.

Annoyingly, you can't keep all of your previous partners as love interests. Jack is really just a "OH HAI! *kiss* I've moved on!" And Miranda just seems to be "Get your clothes off for one more time... for memories sake" An improvement, surely, on ME2's continuation of romances in which your former partner behaves like a total jerk to you the one time you encounter them (right after saving their lives to boot).

From three, to six, to ten; all in the course of three games. What does the next decade hold for us? Arguably more than that, it's gone from biologically compatible squad members, to any given squad member, to pretty much anyone on the ship - where's the next frontier? Probably find out soon enough.

They should have made the writers in that article anonymous, would have been much more honest - and fun! As it stands it's mostly a case of being diplomatic and saying nothing at all.

But Prey 1 was also semi-cancelled for a long time - we'll see the sequel in a decade then.

Started process of setting up another placeholder email to try a second weekend of TOR on the other faction but decided against it. Still playing a mish-mash of short sessions of a few games. 1) One is slogging through ME2 slowly but not enjoying my adept - tempted to do the savegame edit to change my class. 2) Slowly getting to the finish of Return to Zork (knowing the solutions mostly but never actually playing it) - unfinished business for a game that scared me silly as a kid. 3) Installed KOTOR2 and am trying to piece together information on getting it in the most playworthy state before starting it with regard to patching and modding - I never got out of the starter dungeon first time around which was right around the time my 7900GT decided to blow up as I recall. 4) Trying to decide whether to play WC Saga now or wait a bit for the first wave of guinea pigs. 5) Checking up on Skyrim mods to see if there's anything interesting that might induce me to want to finish it - no luck thus far.

No requirement to have FS2 since the basis for the project is that the FS2 engine was open sourced quite a while ago. ...not that you shouldn't buy FS2 for its own sake anyway.

Not a fan of the setting either but would consider a low-key game set in it, without the stuff like wardens, darkspawn and deep roads. DA2's more personal story premise is closer what I'd like to see moreso that DAO but the gameplay, not so.

Try running it in Exult if it feels any better. http://exult.sourceforge.net/ I think Richard Garriott did his own voice-work for Lord British back then - particularly notable in the Serpent Isle intro.

But Broken Sword 4 wasn't meant to be the end of the line as far as I know - doubly so now that Broken Sword 5 is likely to be released this year thanks to the success of the remastered predecessors. Further, BS4 was outsourced for the most part to another developer I think.

It'd be like the little post-credit scene in certain movies that plays when everyone except the janitor has left, only worse.

oops, mispost

$15 isn't so big as to trigger much in the way of buyer's remorse though, unlike buying a full price title.

I didn't really see Kaidan to be whiny enough to fit the stereotype, indeed he was mostly anonymous. Not ideal of course but that just leaves him as a boring character instead of an annoying one which is marginally the lesser crime. Until ME2 of course when he goes all angsty, but I am told that's because there was no script prepared for the character and he just read Ashley's script word for word (haven't verified myself though). I've been trying to resume my second ME2 playthrough but it's a harder slog than I thought as an adept, just feel incredibly ineffective. I hear it's much better in ME3 so it should be worth persisting with, but I can only stand playing one mission per session before feeling burnt out. Hmm. Also noticing the plot stupidity more for obvious reasons.

Seeing that they're going all Hollywood on us, maybe it's a good idea to take the present Hollywood preoccupation with reboots to the series. Gotta be darker and edgier though, so when you land on Eden Prime, Shep takes one for the team and dies. You play Jenkins.

Can't you send them a self-addressed envelope and have them send you the files on floppy disk? Oh, wrong century.

My top wish is the same - that hopefully the WC4 delay is due to trying to get the rights to the Creative-bundle-exclusive DVD edition with non-interlaced video. I'd also take the Prophecy DVD edition if it was offered of course, though a bit tired of the space squid/bug theme at the moment....

Random thing I forgot to mention - kids in the game have the exact same body as adults, only scaled down. It looks freakish.

I can overdo it even more if need be. e.g. "DA3 will probably be a cover-based shooter based on traversing the Deep Roads."

In other words' date=' EA figured the time and money spent on making an expansion is better used churning out the next full installment in record time. [/quote'] Or reading between the lines, time and money is better spent on doubling the price of the expansion, removing the requirement of owning DA2, removing the part of the title after the colon, and appending the number '3' to it.

If they designed ME3 around any intention to be able to continue the universe past the ending, then it'd be an almost unrecognisable gameworld. It's basically designed with the opposite of that intention. And as much as I don't like direct comparisons, there's that other fixed-protagonist recent CRPG which seems to deal with the limiting nature of that format much more elegantly and got unprecedented praise for it's C&C. At any rate, I have no real emotional investment with the ME series since I'm a latecomer who played the games out of order (ME2 mid-2010 and ME1 a couple months later), but I can definitely see how much more I would have been disappointed by the series' direction had I played things the right way around. I imagine I had far less issue than most into being railroaded into working with Cerberus in ME2 than veteran players would have been, because all the information I got would have been "these people resurrected you, how nice of them." Most of the plot inconsistencies and wild character redesigns would have slipped right past me.

Didn't notice that on the final boss of the smuggler line - had to go away and get some new gear to kill it.

Nah, haven't played, but in general for me, "Cinematic gameplay" is a dirty phrase.