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I should load up BG2 again some day. It's been a long time. I'll put it at the end of the queue, involving HOI2, and Rome: Total War. Unfortunately, both those games can take up months of my time, and my "break" from Civ4 can end at any time. I could probably squeeze in some time around 2008

I wouldn't be too surprised about that.

Given the retarded amount of exposure he seems to get from the media, if he has a Steve Yzerman career, he will not have lived up to the hype. People weren't calling him "The Next One" for no reason.

I always shake my head with a smile when I hear about signs things such as signs that have to have the French part twice as big as the English part and all that sort of stuff.

I'm trying to figure out why we should care.

I think you did a fantastic job of not really reading what we're writing.

Fair enough with my QMJHL numbers being incorrect. It's hard to ignore the 133 goal season he had, in addition to the insane improvements he had each season in the QMJHL. Compared to his first season, Crosby's progression was not nearly as good as Lemieux's (doubled his rookie performance in his second year, and tripled it in his third year). The thing I never liked about many media "experts" is how they would jump on the gun with players like Daigle and Crosby, indicating that they scored more points than Lemieux did in his rookie season, when looking at the stats it's clear Lemieux was just starting to tap his potential when he entered the league. You may not have been saying Sid will or will not be better than Mario, but you should not be surprised to have people challenging the comparison as soon as you point out their respective rookie years. I'm curious how well Sid is going to do, now that both Mario and Palffy are out of the picture.

A lot of love here for the NDP. I'm not so sure why. I'd personally be terrified if they came to power.

I don't like the insta-feedback, unless we have some sort of ability to have premonitions. Jade Empire had the same thing, which was just irritating.

For some reason I can hear Imoen saying that

The thing about the World of Darkness is that humanity waaaaay outnumbers the vampires.

Alexander Daigle scored more goals his rookie season in the QMJHL than Mario did (and total points). If anything, I'd say Mario's rookie season in the QMJHL is the anamoly. It's quite clear he was just starting to tap what was his game, as indicated in his next two seasons. I don't know enough about minor hockey, but the people I know that do "claim" to know about the CHL feel that the QMJHL isn't as strong of a league as it once was.

It would be easy enough to make sure that the humans wouldn't last.

It'd be interesting if Masquerade Violations affected EVERYONE. THough you'd get some dink on a server that would ruin it for all. So maybe after a certain level and therefore time commitment or something.

It was actually Wing Commander 1 that had your branching paths. The success/failure of the Tiger's Claw depended on how well you did your missions. Every two failures, put you down another "setback" so to speak. Wing Commander 2 focuses on a much tighter story involving the characters on the TCS Ticonderoga. But I'm just in a nitpicking mood

I know. But I see Ovechkin's performance being similar to Mario's, rather than Sid's. Even if Crosby has similar point totals. And even if Lemieux isn't playing on the same line, he's still going to require defensive focus (well, until people realize he's sucking...but even then he'll always get respect). Crosby and Lemieux have shared icetime though, as they've assisted on each other's goals. It's probably not very common (mostly PP IIRC). Though I wouldn't expect otherwise, as Lemieux's QMJHL stats still blew Crosby's out of the water. I just brought it up because I don't think it's that good of a comparison.

I was thinking, and I think it's a bit of a misnomer to call this "replayability." It's certainly longevity, but you're experiencing different stories </nitpick>

Because the conversation involving the turn was very well done. Unfortunately, I was never able to meaningfully speak to him again.

Just to make it clear, I'm not saying that a timer should mean that a failure to make it in the time means "game over."

The 80s were insanely higher in scoring. Though Lemieux didn't have players like Palffy playing on his wing. Or a Lemieux.

That's the real kicker. I suppose the fact that I have no problems replaying a 100% linear game (if it's good) makes it much less of an issue for me than for you. True the first time is always the best, but at the same time it's also cool to learn about new things that you didn't even think existed before.

Well, your character became more powerful with full lightside or darkside. They'd get bonus attributes if lightside, and other effects if darkside. As for turning characters, I think my favourite conversation for Jedi conversion was Atton. I was hoping there was sooo much more to it though.

Hahaha, that was a good one too actually. I loved the game, but the ending was definitely bizarro. And that's even considering I was expecting bizarro given the nature of Lucas' experience at the beginning.

I actually felt kind of bad too. As I said in a different thread, any time a game can illicit an emotional response from me is something special indeed.

At the same time, wouldn't there be more exhiliration for completing the task? It also helps to define what "rushed" is. I enjoyed the experience in Fallout when I was literally days away from Vault 13 dying as I scrambled for a solution. Whenever a game can illict an emotional response from me (which is typically quite rare), it automatically becomes more enjoyable. At the same time though, I never felt "rushed" through Fallout.