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How is that not a cop out? Bioware has no respect for player choice in an RPG. When faced with a choice, the only available option is to take the one that's even against the archetype. Annoying DM pet that forces the player to explicitly abandon their objective to support. It's the most basic of DM offenses. It's not binary, chance to kill him and displease this group, make him mandatory and displease this group. It pains me to see things simplified in this manner. There are several other possibilities for how the thing could have been handled that didn't require a companion to die. Make the clone the companion. Have him not the target at all. Have a pop up warning that he could be a companion. Make him actually useful and with a good argument for saving him. Call the hunt off. Anything but what they did. They simply did not care. It's thoughtless and bad RPG design backed up by absolutely forgettable writing. It's cool if you can ignore it, but there's nothing to instead focus on. Nothing to redeem it. The entire story arc is a gameshow running yet a third or fourth interpretation of The Great Hunt (the Wookiees do it, no the Mandalorians do it, no the Jedi do it, no really the Wookiees and Mandalorians do it together for the Bounty Hunters?). Completely ignoring any relationship to the greater faction or setting. You're playing a mercenary in the middle of an intergalactic cold war and you're stuck chasing some irrelevant nobodies and arching a two-bit Mandalorian with a childish grudge.

I couldn't get mine past Tattooine on mine. Gault made me wash my hands of the game. This might get me to try Agent, but I have enough of a backlog for games that I'm not already prejudiced against.

Zoooooooooooom. That's a neat feature they're including. Doubt I'll use it, but it's still neat. Remember me if you ever consider multiplayer. I'll be with you on supporting it.

So what? The issue is that they shipped a ****ing rootkit in the first place. That is an issue. Not THE issue. If you equate active vulnerabilities to fixed vulnerabilities, then you downplay the need to ever fix them.

http://forum.baldursgate.com/discussion/1588/bgee-please-read-list-of-things-that-cant-be-done What this sounds like is that we can get new dialogue, but it has to be tied to one of the DLC packs.

The Hobbit has officially been extended to three movies. They've been putting in appendices material from Return of the King to help flesh out what Gandalf was doing around this time, so I think they have enough to work with.

They've already issued a fix, limiting the plug-in to only access Uplay.

I owe KOTOR some apologies. The past few years I've held that the twist was imminently predictable. On replay, I can see how it would be covered up. Bastila, upon first meeting the player, genuinely seems to have no clue who he is. Mistaking him for a member of a swoop gang. And it's never made obvious that the PC has amnesia, he just has no clue what he's doing on the Endar Spire. It still has all the other things I would speak negatively about, but they don't bother me as I claim they once did. How much could they have bothered me, anyway? I did play it twice through a long time ago.

Avadon: Black Fortress is supposed to be on Android. Don't know how well it plays on a phone, though.

Here's some fun news, all three characters have a romance. They don't list the monk and blackguard because they're not finalized.

I'm apparently not doing as well in ANNO as I thought. Easy mission they said. 5 THOUSAND residents they said... Oh man, this city is huge, we must be so close. What are the current numbers? 600 @#%@#^%@^%$&*%^* So I'm playing KOTOR in preparation for a KOTOR 2 run with TSLRCM.

Neera's a Wild Mage. How can you not? Edit: New cinematics? The purist is sad, but some of them were pretty awful.

Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition news. http://forum.baldursgate.com/discussion/2009/post-if-you-just-pre-ordered-countdown-spoilers 1 new adventure, 3 new characters, a monk, a wild mage, and a blackguard. Ready for pre-order, releases in September on the 18th.

They're also free to return their medals and remove their children from the organization. Which is what they're doing.

On Batman

Thanks for the update. I heard it came out recently, but the reminder here will be good. Maybe this is the kick I need to give it a play with the mod.

People like to say this, but I've seen no evidence. They were shipping out DVD copies in the past couple years and they're planning a collected edition with both 1 and 2 for this year that claims Windows 7 compatibility.

I bought this game collection off the Steam sale and started playing tonight. I only got through 3 campaign mission so far, so not too far, however am sort of getting the hang of it. Seems like there's a ton of depth to explore with this game and any game play videos for beginners have helped quite a bit so far. Can't wait to explore more into the game and its depth as I'm sure it'll provide better and better gameplay. The one thing that bothers me about it is they have limited unlocks. Like, you have to do the world event missions within a certain time frame or you can never get those upgrades. Unless you buy the DLC. Granted, the DLC is only a dollar, that still seems totally uncool.

Anno 2070. I'm really liking this game. I've played one of the world event missions and 3 campaign missions. I think I know what I'm doing, just need to plan my cities better.

He already announced the next ZOE, didn't he?

I enjoyed this playthrough of Alan Wake alot. All the gripes are still there, but given that I didn't pay $60 this time around, it's forgiveable. And the episodes at the end of it had far more variety than the main game. American Nightmare's disappointing, though. The writing is weak. It's just excuse plot.

I have a confession to make. I bought Alan Wake on Steam sale to give it a second chance. I have given in to peer pressure, everyone else seems to love it. Maybe I was too harsh, I don't know. And oh man, I remember these facial animations. In pre-rendered video, no less. Also hit up a little Alien Breed 2 that I got free from last summer's promotion. And Cthulhu Saves the World. Just looking to have something grab me.

Saw The Dark Knight Rises. Really good. Good, albeit predictable, character development. Perhaps a bit too busy. It does seem strange that two of the most important characters to the film were nowhere in the previous movies. It makes it feel disconnected as a trilogy, but it works fine as a single film.

That is absolutely incredible.

Pseudo on-topic. The premier of The Dark Knight Rises was shot up in Aurora, CO.