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You like Divinity II? Never paid much attention to it. What are its strengths?

It sure appears to be when he's talking about RDR. He's running around depopulating towns trying to be an offense to man and god. Not simply evil, but killing everyone. He mentions getting a failed mission for shooting random people in the tutorial. If that's not "I think evil is random acts of violence" then nothing is.

An old one.

So my car's making a noise. Thought I had a flat, but that isn't it. Don't know what it is. 2 days out of the shop and already a new problem.

It does when you're the kind of guy who equates evil to "complete sociopath on a killing spree." Don't murder someone the moment you lay eyes on them, you're being good.

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Found a cheap hardcover copy of And Another Thing..., so I'm rereading my Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide collection. More people should write like this.

So I found out that Georg Zoeller is working on The Old Republic. I loved his interaction with the Dragon Age community and I credit him with the fact that I love Dragon Age. So I now have to be looking forward to The Old Republic.

Is this the 90s? I have some stocks to buy.

It's not an advert for DA2, either. There's only one thing that's potentially relevant to DA2 and we practically gathered that information back in origins. It's a slight nostalgia fest. It references the Mage origin, Dalish origin, and lets people have resolution on the Morrigan relationship. But you're right, the advertisement is an outright lie. It says "FIND MORRIGAN'S SECRETS."

My car is repaired. It's been in the shop for a week and a half. They couldn't figure out what was wrong with it. So they rebuilt the starter today, found the bushings were bad, and it now works. Week and a half in the shop, $75.

No disagreement there. It was tacked on. Honestly, I think they saw that it was the final Origins DLC and wouldn't be able to do anything with Morrigan for DA2, so they threw something together and added her onto it. Because fanboys like me demand it!

I just purchased Halo Reach- Limited Edition over Amazon.com. I know this isn't "what are you buying" thread, but this is odd. Release day shipping. GET IT TUESDAY THE 14th! $0.99 for the shipping. Fastest shipping for only 1 dollar. wut

The companions were fun, though. I thought it was almost worth it just for them.

The thing about it that bothers me is conceptually it's more akin to pick a path adventure books than RPGs. "If Shepard threatens the barkeeper, turn to page 25" vs "[intimidate] Just give me the damn drink!" Functionally, they're identical. But the former perpetuates that Shepard isn't you or your player avatar, but instead a distinct character you're simply guiding. In practice, I'm unlikely to care in the short run. But I wouldn't want to see it be an ongoing trend.

I was just reminded of something, Is everybody expecting dialogue wheel text to not match up with spoken dialogue? It's amazing how much I overlook that in Mass Effect. But am not wanting Hawke to be another Shepard. I'm sure I'll completely overlook it in DA2, though.

I think the new ones make more sense. Darkspawn from Qunari stock were Ogres. These guys look like Ogres.

Apparently the three masked Qunari are mages.

It doesn't really clear up anything. But here's the ending in a nutshell. Really, that's it. Nothing at all of importance.

How can you romance that which has no mouth? Awkward.

I can see where people come from with that perspective. Now that they're making a few changes for Dragon Age 2, I've had to consider how the establishment of a default and even somewhat forced identity such as a name and appearance can potentially (but not necessarilly) take away from player ownership and investment of a character. But I still think anyone who considers ME2 all that different from ME1 in regards to roleplaying is a bit batty.

You may need to refresh your login information. At least that's what I did. It kept not connecting when I started the game up, so I hit connect, put in my info, and it worked find after that.

Because it's fun.

If we don't like a game, we can reclassify it? I like that idea.