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It's not exactly a secret that Quebec gets rather large amounts of money (equalization payments and whatnot) from the federal government of Canada. How are Canadian's "strangers" to you? I lived with a guy from Amos, Quebec, and he had no problems relating. Though he admitted he was not a separatist.

Depends on what other people are doing. If 10 other players are putting up similar numbers, then no. Relative to the rest of the league, yes. He has to be such a dominating player, that when compared to his peers, there's virtually no equal. Maybe a handful of others, but not just in the elite class. You mentioned Yzerman, and if Crosby has a Yzerman career, then that means that he puts up impressive point totals, but all in all gets unrecognized because there are two much more impressive offensive players dominating the game in such a way that no one even really seems to realize you are putting up 140 point seasons.

i agree as a ds character i hated having to gain so mny ls bonuses wen gaining influence over handmaiden <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I think that that is the point.

It's been a while since I played, but are you even able to move while the Phalanxes are deployed like that?

Whoops, it is the Concordia. :"> Not sure where I pulled Ticonderoga out of. I am confident that the game you described was still WC1. Though it may have occurred at some points in WC2, I remember it being a much more story oriented game, with you bumping into Angel on the Concordia, and Paladin popping his head up etc. etc.

Whoops, it is the Concordia. Not sure where I pulled Ticonderoga out of.

Like I said, we have no idea what Bioware's actual expectation were, so we can't say if it's good or bad. All I said was that this was why people came to that conclusion.

I never said that games were not getting publicity, nor was I trying to prove that. But, resources are finite. Every comment about a booth babe is a comment that could have been made about something else. This cannot be denied. I'd rather make my own determinations as to whether a game is interesting or not, rather than some reporter that would rather discuss the hot woman he just saw. And Sawyer brought out an excellent point. This is not a consumer show.

To absolute pick the bushes around, and yes we don't know if it is true or not or whatever and I don't want to get into it, but I think Bioware's clear success with every project they have made is why people assumed Jade Empire probably wasn't as successful as they would like. But yes, we don't know if that's true and it was just us speculating so there is no need to go around picking it apart. It's more a compliment to Bioware, as they've clearly done quite well for themselves in such a short amount of time.

Baldur's Gate was their second game. EDIT: Though it seems you were corrected on this.

To be fair, I did add that Canada would probably be worse off too.

You should be careful with the "we's" Personally I think Quebec would be in a world of hurt without Canada. And I don't think Canada would be better off either.

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I know IGN has. And I'm pretty sure I've read about them in pretty much every news source.

Even the fact that you acknowledge that he has the "possibility" of breaking his records implies much more than just being the next dominant player of his era. I'm not saying that he is expected to break it. But he must be able to put up totals that can make you think it's a "possibility" that he could break a record...in your own words. If I read "way more" in to the hype, then so did everyone else. How many people point out the lacrosse goal and stuff like that. The kid has been receiving HUGE praise for a long time already, and is even known to non-hockey fans.

New engine for a Kotor-game... And I would expect Elektra before U3. U3 is still primarily a engine for FPS, and making a Kotor-like game of it would probably take some time, especially if you are one of the first devs in game-country doing it and thus not be able to lend from their ideas or ask Epic about how others did such things before... If it does use U3, I think we would see PNJ first, despite which company would made KOTOR3... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> What are you talking about? An engine is an engine. A home made mod team made an RTS mod out of the Unreal Engine. I wouldn't think a team of professional developers would really have all that difficult of a time adapting it. The important stuff in the engine isn't the perspective, but the actual data for the engine itself.

I've heard it's actually possible to avoid him just by running around outside.

I think it's clear that not many of you have been to E3. Even if you claim that you have no problems concentrating on the games, it's quite obvious you haven't even noticed the people around you.

It's obvious. There's a finite amount of resources to go around. Therefore, there's a finite amount of articles to write. Every article written about the booth babes, is not one being written about the games. Or worse yet, collectively a little bit less written about every game. Then this has zero effect on you. Yes, I am serious. If you're so interested in the games though, why is it a concern to any of you?

Yzerman has had an excellent career, and has been my favourite player in the NHL since I started watching it again in 2000. But you're fooling yourself if people aren't expecting Gretzky/Lemieux greatness out of him. For LeBron to be the next Michael Jordan, he does have to be dominating. In every aspect of the game, with an insane intensity and an ability to come through in the clutch. Yes he does. Not absolute numbers, but relative numbers. He can't just be "a little" better than the Kovalchuks and the Ovechkins. Again, it's all relative. If he's the "most dominating" player in the NBA, but not in the way that Jordan was, then he doesn't live up to the hype. He'll need to be dominating offensively, defensively, and especially in the clutch. As an aside, while I don't watch much basketball, LeBron doesn't seem to be that similar of a player to Jordan anyways.

If there's a new KOTOR it probably won't be on a new engine, but the Unreal 3 engine.

Yeah, but every article put out about the booth babes by the media is not an article put out about a game. Furthermore, how many "smaller" game studios have the $$$$ to bring out the booth babes to draw out a crowd. I wouldn't mind a bit more exposure to other games.

You are welcome to get back to your werewolves anytime. ) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> ROFL!

Why is that? I wouldn't be surprised either way really.