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There's a lot of different camera angles in that particular scene IIRC.

Us Kanadians celebrate this a month before those Yanks.

Sten and Morrigan have some fun ones too.

I found there to be a lot of possible banter points. I can think of two specifically in Lothering, as well as several in Redcliffe right off the top of my head.

Siding with , and can greatly change Orzammar's Epilogue.

A guy at work picked it up but didn't get it downloaded until this morning, so he hasn't really looked at it yet. He enjoyed Empire Total War, so we'll see how that goes.

Zee natives were nice and helped people out once upon a time, and they repaid the favour with a big banquet or something similar. That's the not so remembering version >.>

Every time I see that picture I can't help but laugh haha.

I had never heard of the chap before today, but those two links do not indicate a particularly intelligent individual.

Hahaha I never thought of that.

That first link does a wonderful job at already making me look at Beck in a particularly poor light. Haha, he wants to talk about Propaganda hahaha.

Bizarre title aside, I'm a bit intrigued of the idea of a Total War style game with RPG elements Can't afford it at the moment, and the fact that this popped up completely out of nowhere is a small cause for concern, but I'll probably pick it up in time should I suddenly become rich! http://www.kingarthurthewargame.com/main.html

WAIT!? AP HAS BEEN DELAYED?!

I wonder if the gay romance for Mass Effect was stripped due to the style and story of the game. While I'd still consider it a roleplaying game, the narrative is less flexible than other RPGs I have played, so I found there to be a bit more "hand holding."

That's fair. When I realized I was backstabbing Cautherine for 1 damage, I was like "hmmmm" because it seemed a bit surprising. But the sequence is not transparent at all.

I agree with Gromnir's assessment of 2H warriors. I took on the Revenant in the Broken Circle and did very consistent damage to him, and good damage all around. I imagine this could go up by quite a bit with Two Handed Sweep as I don't really have any AOE. This was with a PC 2H warrior with pure strength and will power dumps for level ups. I certainly wouldn't tank with my character, though I imagine indomitable combined with more constitution could make a 2H warrior a passable tank.

I find rogues and warriors a wash, but mages the most powerful by a fair margin.

In case anyone is interested, Steam as a sale going on right now that has some pretty nice discounts. http://store.steampowered.com/early-holiday The one I got was the THQ package since it's an assload of games, most of which I don't own. It also gets me the CoH expansion packs so yay.

Like I said I'll have to play around some more. I can't think of any spells that I'd consider "useless" (though rejuv/regen seem the closest) off the top of my head, but I definitely had spells that were my favourites and others that weren't seen to be as useful. There's a lot of spells to choose from and BioWare may have been better served either cutting the spells, or making some of the level ups be passive upgrades (kind of like Virulent Walking Bomb is an upgrade to Walking Bomb. Though the current way has both spells still being castable which someone might find useful).

I was referring to all writing, including literature. I'll agree that Dragon Age and Bloodlines both have excellent writing for computer games.

Agreed

Shale also couldn't be directly included because we had effectively ceased work on the PC version as the consoles needed to get done.

Yes that is definitely a concern, based on past actions. I don't know how much $4.5 million is to a guy like Polanski.

I think a lot of it might just come down to application. I haven't used all the spells, but I actually found spells like Death Siphon/Death Magic (mostly Death Siphon though as I liked the mana regen), and found Earthquake to be quite useful at CC, and was a spell I routinely had Wynne cast in my first playthrough. She also kept Spell Wisp on, but I agree that the Mechanics made me wonder if it was worth the mana cost. I also liked to combo drain life after vulnerability hex, and it works really well if you've gone Arcane Warrior and is a decent damage spell as blood mage (though the healing you get from it is mitigated by having Blood Magic active). Though it's usually my "other spells are on cool down" damage spell. The reason why I like it is because sure, I can drink a potion, but this lets me still hurt a target while healing myself. The guy in my room has talked about Miasma a lot. He seems to like it. It's hard to say how effective it is due to combat mechanics not being obvious. I agree that Shapeshifter was underwhelming. The only time I ever used it was when Morrigan's mana was dropped and I didn't want to use a mana potion. Even then I never got past Spider form. I don't have any real experience with the later abilities in that tree but I wouldn't think they'd be significantly better. I think a big difference between us is our willingness to use potions, so I probably appreciated the spells that would regen mana and health a bit more. I typically found myself saving my health potions for Alistair, and in general did not have a whole lot of mana potions so I always saved those for bigger fights. I imagine Death Magic is good for an Arcane Warrior that is tanking, but I liked Death Siphon for draining up bodies to keep spells going with Morrigan. I agree that Drain Mana does not seem like a useful spell (especially if it's not instant like entrerix says). If I'm out of mana I prefer to just staff attack while I regenerate. You'd have to drain a load of mana doing this but I suspect you probably don't. I haven't really paid much attention to the rejuvenation spells, but they don't seem to rejuvenate very much at all the times I did look. I think stamina regen is being looked at in the upcoming patch. I'll take a look at some of the ones I'm less familiar with if I get a chance tomorrow. I'll also see if I can talk with someone about some of these spells like Mana Drain and the regen/rejuv ones.