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They are the long lost Asari males! So asexual. It's the breasts isn't it. Oh and by the way, odds are she is crazy.

This girl Miranda seems to be the most popular on the ME boards: Then there Thane (Purkakes Fishboy) Jacob (the lead for the iPhone game): Grunt (Wrex replacement), A Clint Eastwood like Salarian, Tali, Liara and possibly Garrus. The other 4 anyones guess. My guess, a member of an all new race, which is all male. And....

And I'm supposed to get between 10-15mbps.

I don't think a game focuing on choices & consequences, is easy, in fact I think it's damn hard. I think it's easier to evoke emotion from a player then focusing on C&C, every RPG dev have hyped this aspect of their game and so far everyone of them has failed to deliver on a large scale. Sure some have done some good things on a small scale, but noting huge. C&C is far more then just the initial effects, a good C&C should be felt a long way through the game and writing/scripting that is IMO far more work/time/money, then evoking an emotion from the player. So because he has a few followers on the codex that agree with him it's fine? Is that you point? I hope not. What does that have to do with what I've said? Why would I care that DG is looking forward to AoD? And what does Mitsodas rpg have to do with this? (Apart from the fact DB is using the AoD engine ) My mistake. I do occasionally make them.

Molyneux is far more likely to achive his stupid hype (with his almost unlimited resources), then a small budget indie Dev. I'm also not seeing any more substance to VDs Aod hype, then what Molyneux had with his Fables. Who's taking thing personally here? It just strikes me as unprofessional. I can't remember Saywer, Gaider etc ever singling out others games as bad to hype their own game. My stance would be the same, if either of them singled out AoD/IT as bad. Really, Aod= everything else = I can't see much of a grey area. If he hasn't said this, that's fine and my bad. But that's the general impression I've got from his posts and others comments on his comments on the codex.

I'm 100% sure it wasn't. In fact I'm 100% sure it was pretty good game. To be fair, Wrex is the only choice that we know of that that seems represented in a inconsequential way. The other choices haven't really been mentioned. However that could be taken as a bad sign, which IMO is fair enough. But at the same time, do we really want to know all the effects are choices made, before we play the game. I personally don't.

Homeworld is not a game no one has heard of, hell we might even get a third if Relic have any goodness in their hearts.

Agreed, if there is no Wrex, then that decision is quite meaningless, same goes for Ashley/Kaiden's lack of appearence. So far the only two that seem to reappear are Liara and Tali. God I bet they read all those Tali romance threads and decided to make her romanceable..... Hey maybe that the big decision in ME2, do the deed and kill Tali or have an emo love triangle with a pregnant Liara.

No, a lot more, and lot more comprehensively. Besides which, lots of people *did* cut Beth a lot of slack on the Megaton hype and the Dog on Fire hype (Oblivion) because what they saw was promising. Those who didn't would probably have, if it weren't for Bethesda's track record of Molyneuxian hype. So... you have no point, here, at all. Hype is hype be it from Molyneux or VD. I've got nothing against it, just don't expect me to believe it. And I say he should concentrate on AoD and not on other companies efforts. If AoD is so much better, we will come to that conclusion ourselves.

Republic: The Revolution

No they don't. But seriously, anyone remotely interested in FPS would own most of them by now. Scary thing is, it's 2nd on there top sellers list.

Yes and Yes. Power to the (former) Commies! Pity the west has an irrational fear of Communism and believes Democracy is the ultimate form of government. Therefore are chances of getting something like that being slim.

Who doesn't actually own most of this pack? Someone who just came out of their cave?

What of 2 or 3 different situations, sort of like FO3 Megatown hype? Hasn't he basically attacked/ridiculed Beth/Bio/Obs for what they do with there RPGs, then claimed his AoD is a true RPG. Which is all I wanted to point out. The belief that is great before it's out is not something I agree with. Be it Iron Tower or Valve. A few pics of conversations, and a few supposed writing excerpts doesn't equal proof. It's hype and there is nothing wrong with hype, just don't expect those that aren't fans to be impressed by it. There is no demo out yet, and the demo coming is a combat one right? Not the best way to judge a RPG in my view. Pffft. Pessimism is the way to go. Remeber the glass is half empty!

I own two collectors edition and that's because one was the same price as the standard and the other was clearence price. Not big on CE, as for dl, it depends on value, but I do prefer to have a physical copy of a game I really want.

I know, didn't mean to sound serious. Well my point is, that so far, AoD is not looking like the Jesus/buddha/Skywalker of RPGs it supposedly is. It's hype is no different from the stuff that comes out of Howard/Molyneux mouth.

http://daforums.bioware.com/forums/viewtop...m=135&sp=45 No offense but what do people expect, there is only so much you can do with console hardware. This is why all games should be made with PC first in mind and the consoles get the port, but hey that's in a parallel magical fantasy world.

So far all AoD is offering is hype, with low production values. You know the same hype we boo 'mainstream' devs for doing. So they want to charge $25 for a 10c dvd, a box and a manual. Congratulations, you listed hype that I've read from soooo many others devs trying to get people interested in their game. Please tell me what makes this any different. well, a manual for starters. Most mainstream games assume gamers can't read and don't even bother with a manual. Funny, I'm pretty sure NWN2 came with a manual, let me go check...... Yep and at 177 pages. Next let me check Crysis Warhead... Once again I'm seeing a manual this time at 32 pages so it smaller, although if you need a manual to tell you to point and fire...... Next let me check a personal favourite of yours Oblivion... Again I've got a manual at 51 pages. So now I must assume you must mean 360 games, so hang on let me check... Fable 2 manual, check, ME manual, check, Force unleashed check, hell Fifa 09 has a bloody manual. I'm not seeing a lack of manuals here.... Unless you are talking about Valve made games..... Which by the way do have manuals, they're just online. Same, although can't say Drakensang was a game worth playing with or without a manual.

I actually felt ME was her weakest performance, normally I think she is great, but there were times where I felt she was trying too hard in ME.

So you want a geth eating Rachni?

Hype is hype. VD is exactly the same as Molyneux, just someone trying to sell his game. Well how long has VD been making/talking AoD, 5-6 years, so he is half way there. So they are charging the same for AoD, as others games that actually have high production values. $25 for the dl version is far more reasonable and quite frankly appropriate. Even then I only paid $19 AUD for Mount & Blade an indie title that AoD would hope to match, in both quality and success.

No that would be the Witcher.

FFS. Another game I import.

What Deraldin said. Which is surprising because Bio is usually good with Q&A and after release patching. Maybe it has something to do with Demiurge, I don't know, but the reported problems where enough to put me off getting the steam PC version.