Matthew Rorie

www.alphaprotocol.com I told you stuff would start happening in October.

I'm fine with you guys discussing the effects of piracy, but specific discussions of how to pirate games will be edited and moderated.

I've got it. Llyranor's right, the orignals were pretty linear in terms of where they wanted you to flank, but in this one it's a bit more difficult. They put in like 2 tank missions which are sort of annoying but they do provide a good break from the squad control missions. I really want to try this game out - the reviews have been really good. I might wait until I can get it from Blockbuster, though. I did play the first BIA but it's been a while. I'm curious why Pandemic never made another Full Spectrum Warrior. Similar gameplay mechanics to BIA, but set in the modern world. Really fun, for the most part.

I've been playing through Mercenaries 2 and Force Unleashed lately, and neither seem to have the option to enable subtitles. As a mildly hard-of-hearing guy, this bugs me to no end. And that's the end of my rant!

Tim Ernst is a king amongst men.

Some of the new enemies are undead, and one of the new classes (the Doomguide) specializes as an undead fighter, but the main enemies in the game are the Yuan-Ti. You will see a fair amount of undead, though, especially on the Sword Coast.

Yup, it's a white. Er, a wig-it. I never know how to say that word.

Sorry, it's been quiet while the game gets up to alpha. October is looking like it will have some good information released, though, and the process should accelerate from there.

I think it's gotten to be a little bit more expansive than just "devils". There are some neat things you can summon (although you never know what you're going to get).

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Trust me, this gets old pretty quick. I don't think it's rained once since I moved down here in April. I like a little rain now and again.

System Shock and System Shock 2 had a pretty devious AI in them.

AP is scheduled to come out before Aliens is. So far as I'm aware that's always been the case. And no, no screenshots have been released of Aliens.

Generally DRM is more of a publisher concern than a developer concern, so we're not necessarily the ones to ask about it. But I wouldn't get all indignant about it in the same post in which you admit that one copy of the game made it into the hands of three people... Why did you give an activation to a friend "which you wanted to play it with him" when Mass Effect has no multiplayer? And I would add that no one is forcing you to pirate a game. The "DRM forces me to be a pirate!" logic is loopy at best.

It's a typo, I think. We don't have any plans to work with RTS's at the moment.

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This question has been responded to on the NWN2 forums.

What Xard said; I was asked that in a thread over there (which was mostly about Storm of Zehir) in a casual manner, so I simply replied over there. No slight intended. So can the community expect to see some gameplay videos at E3, or just more article coverage? I don't think I can answer that at the moment, mostly because I'm unsure what Sega will allow. Sorry!

What Xard said; I was asked that in a thread over there (which was mostly about Storm of Zehir) in a casual manner, so I simply replied over there. No slight intended.

Keep it civil, guys.

Guys, I hate to say it, but I think the answers already given are the ones you're going to have to live with for the moment. You may want to know every single thing about the game right now, but that's not going to happen. There'll be plenty more info on the game coming out in the coming months, but for now, as mentioned, the game is still a long way away from release and there's plenty we can't and shouldn't talk about. I'm not saying this discussion can't go on, but let's try not to take the tone where answers are demanded. We love our forumites, but we're not going to be able to tell you everything about the game, regardless of how much you want us to, or even regardless of how much we would like to.

I don't believe that that preview was written based on any interviews. The quotes in there were taken from the announcement press release. I'll contact them directly and see about getting the "MMO" bit changed, at any rate.

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The character designs are one of my favorite things about this game, honestly. Can't wait until we can show you more of the friends and foes.