Wrath of Dagon

Meh, this is what you guys should be getting: http://www.battlefront.com/community/showthread.php?t=94178

He's explaining why the first half of the year was unusually warm, and the second half is likely to be unusually cold. Whether that has anything to do with global warming or not is a matter of opinion.

The guy is clearly a paragon of democracy: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101222/ap_on_...elarus_election

This is funny: http://kotaku.com/5715889/sad-but-true

They'd have to redo a lot of stuff to support the wider zoom, and since 360 is where they sell the most it's not worth all the extra work to support the PC version.

KLA was intentionally trying to provoke Serbs by committing terrorist acts against them, and they and other Muslim groups in the Balkans received support from both Al Qaeda and Iran.

Hahahaha I was waiting for something like this. Cheers for the laugh. The reason I referenced global warming is that whenever there's unusually hot weather somewhere or some kind of catasrophic weather event it's invarialbly used as proof of global warming. In fact the warmists were going on and on how this was going to be the warmest year on record because the first half was unusually warm.

Global warming on the rampage : http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-super-la-...-coming-winter/ http://www.smh.com.au/environment/weather/...1221-1945a.html

There's no fundamental difference in the two situations, in fact it's even worse in Serbia as Kosovo has always been internationally recognized to be part of Serbia, including by US and NATO countries. At least with Ossetia I don't think Russia ever recognized it as part of Georgia. In both cases it's a case of might makes right, and there's no question US/Nato acted illegally and without justification. Also the stupidity of helping Islamic terrorists against people who have always been at least friendly, if not outright allies.

I need to add my most important bit of feedback on NV. The ability you get with Rex to highlight all the valuable stuff when zoomed should be the default. It would make looting dungeons so much less tedious. Also something should really be done about maps and multi-level dungeons. I've wasted more time being lost in those mazes than I'd ever care to admit.

Probably something we won't know until the game comes out. Also you forgot the dialogue with the 3 amazing choices at the end of all that.

Too bad the game was so unfairly bad-mouthed at the start that a lot of people who would've enjoyed it gave it a pass: http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/JoshBycer/2...ol_Analysis.php

Well, OK, I'll take your word for it but I found it uncomfortable to aim with the center post being almost the same as the flanges and them all being so close together. Btw, I would've really loved to have the Garand in the role of the Brush gun with 30-06 instead of 45-70. Anyways, despite the nit-picking, awesome job on the guns and the entire game.

I think there are jaded grumpy cynics. I remember on Black Isle there were a number of posters who seemed to hate or have major issues with *every* game that came out; would over analyze press releases and accuse companies of lying based on vague statements made early in the development cycle of a game. If those aren't jaded or grumpy cynics, I don't know what is. That said not liking a game is certainly no reason to dismiss the opinion of another poster. I get that you didn't like ME1; I liked it - easily as much as I did KotOR. But that's me, I certainly wouldn't expect everyone to feel the same. Heck I liked Jade Empire and I seem to be in the minority on that too. I agree with you, some people just hate everything and are exactly as you describe. But just because someone hates a game doesn't make him one of them, again as you say. And yes, I did like JE also, although to me that's where the problems first started. Yes, I was hyped, but the KOTOR games were my favorite, so why wouldn't I be? But yeah, you're right, I am jaded and grumpy, I forgot there for a moment. That's not the reason I hate ME though, that was my point.

So you're not a jaded grumpy cynic, because a game didn't mach your unrealistic expectations? So what are you? Why do you say my expectations were unrealistic? I was expecting something like KOTOR, except with a new IP and real time combat. And before others pipe up, ME is nothing like KOTOR in quality. Surely this can't be true. It is true. To be fair, I usually have pretty good instincts or luck to avoid playing bad games.

Great, my YCS gun is already an instant win button. But they better not have nerfed it. Boone is my favorite character too. But in a manly, brotherly way of course. Reminds me of Canderous, and they're both war criminals. Edit: Btw, on the subject of guns, the Brush gun is awesome, but the iron sight sucks, it blocks way too much peripheral vision. Why can't it have the hunting rifle sight? That's the best, most realistic sight in the game, but it's almost useless because the hunting rifle becomes useless quickly, and you're better off putting a scope on it anyway. Also, all the M16 sights are done wrong, the center should be much shorter than the two sides. I noticed Black Ops got it exactly right.

Accusing people of being jaded grumpy cynics is bull****. I can honestly say ME1 was my most anticipated game ever, I spent an incredible amount of time on the Bio forum before the game came out. ME was incredibly disappointing, the most amateurish, half-baked effort I've ever played.

It was pretty horrible on the xpox as well. Also the console interface wass piss-poor, lousy button management resulted in stuff like not being able to give individual orders to team mates etc. - stuff which I believe was all in the PC port. It was in the PC port because the 360 players beta tested the game for them, and they improved on some of the complaints.

It'll be a travesty if they don't. Then again it's Spike TV.

Well, actually he can. But it has to be a combatant.

If EA is getting out of SP, then good riddance. A long inteview with Yu Suzuki : http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3182648 http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3182650

I don't think there's even an install option on the 360, it has to load from DVD, which is why it's so painful. Not that I have room on the tiny HD it came with anyway.

Fetch quests mixed with more complex quests are OK, especially if it's a way to direct exploration as is often the case in NV. But fast travelling to all the locations just to hear a sentence was ridiculous, the whole thing was just a long sequence of loading screens, especially painful on a console, drove me nuts. Also if you're going to have me run 10 times between the Kings and the Followers of Apocalypse, why the hell not at least put them right next to each other?

Saying Bioware's graphics are better than AOD is like saying some mediocre modern movie looks better than Snow White because it's more realistic. AOD graphics are superior to Bioware's if only because Bioware's graphics are nauseating, no matter how shiny they try to make them.

China is not about to start a war with the world over a country that it knows is clearly in the wrong. It values its own stability far, far too much. And nuclear weapons would never be involved unless North Korea decided to launch the single nuke it is known to have (but not known to have a launching device for). That makes sense, except China's unwillingness to put an end to this very dangerous situation and their own multiple provocations makes me question how rational they really are. Besides, they may not want this situation to escalate, and we don't either, but things could easily get out of hand. I don't think China will do nothing should we be forced to take out NK's artillery. After all, the Cuban missile crisis was very close to starting an all out nuclear war, even with both parties being fairly rational.