Wrath of Dagon

Would be a rare stand on principle. Let's see if it happens.

how does that make them any better exactly? they're pretty obviously just the republicans pr channel, of course they'll report news that might harm their opponents. just because left wing media self censors doesn't make fox news reliable or good. At least you get the whole story, I always take political reporting with a grain of salt and don't jump to conclusions until I see multiple sources. I don't think she's an idiot, just typically ignorant and provincial. Besides if Glenn Beck hasn't embarassed them, no one can. And Beck has been both very good for ratings, and bagged a couple of Obama's sacred cows. Certain segment of the population adores Palin.

Yes, Fox News can be biased, but it's pretty obvious when they are, and it's still better than other news outlets trying to ignore news stories unfavorable to Obama/liberal agenda. But I agree the whole Mass Effect episode was disgraceful. Edit: I guess this is a good place to link the article about the past presidential campaign I saw yesterday: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0110/31302.html

For me, the main "innovation" of the wheel is that you only had to pick the intent, and then the PC response would be voiced. This actually changes (I won't say improves, as that's debatable) dialog quite a bit. It was very noticeable when I took Morrigan into the Veil in DAO. To have her put things her own way was quite a contrast to selecting PC lines as usual.

Halo: ODST. Surprisingly good, the best Halo since the original. I've regained my respect for Bungie, of course I'm not finished yet.

Yes, should be quite a unique experience in the story department. I think this year is quite reasonable, but with their history of overshooting targets I don't think they'll ever comment on a release date again. The main thing now is to encorporate all the combat changes which resulted from the demo feedback. Once all the back and forth over the combat rules is done, they just have the balancing and the polishing left, the content is all done already. But all of them working in spare time and not willing to release something unfinished makes it hard to predict the release date. To give you an example, they thought they might release the demo last spring, but had to rush to do it by Christmas.

AOD wallpapers: http://www.irontowerstudio.com/media.htm

It's the new and improved Cerberus, now ready for prime time.

Btw, by "every kind of media" I didn't just mean news media, it would include movies, TV, magazines, music, what have you.

In the demo I did nothing but run around and mind read everyone. Unfortunately no one was thinking anything dirty.

Canada doesn't have the same social problems US has. Compare yourself to Minnesota. US does not have a culture of fear. There should be fear of going to certain areas, but that's based on fact, not culture. if we don't have a culture of fear why is every message we get "Don't do this because X Y or Z happens!" Like our "don't have sex because you'll get an STD" or "don't talk to strangers because they'll kidnap you, do horrible things then kill you" or "If we don't act now we'll all die in the fires of a nuclear explosion/horribly of weaponized influenza" etc etc. When your motivations for your people and the way you teach them lessons is based around fear, you're culture is based on fear. There's a difference between living in fear and using common sense. And yes, that's totally every message we get, we don't get a message "You should have sex every minute of the day" from just about every kind of media, talk about selective observation.

Yes, Saren was laughable more than scary.

No it wasn't. Neither KOTOR nor JE had an unending stream of fighting. It was always interspersed with other types of content. I would say DA bad guys are nowhere near as charismatic as Nihilus.

The writing in DAO was far superior to ME for the most part. Unfortunately the same tired old plot that was beaten to death in NWN2 was trotted out again. The rest of DAO design unfortunately hews too closely to Bio's new paradigm of fight, fight, fight, talk a little, then fight some more. Overall DAO was a bit better than ME, but that's only a small step above mediocrity.

Have you seen the videos?

I know the dialog will be bad, but I'm hoping for laughably bad for that extra dose of entertainment.

Both are horrible (the animations), but nothing beats Drakensang, well nothing I know of.

I think it will have better combat.

But what's with the epileptic convo animations? Is that just a German thing?

Fixed and QFT. You're suffering from amnesia. I distinctly recall male posters on the DA boards linking to pictures of Morrigan and speculating how her big lips might improve certain acts of physical intimacy. Not to mention creative uses for her shapechanging ability. Note that in your original quote you said man, not male.

Canada doesn't have the same social problems US has. Compare yourself to Minnesota. US does not have a culture of fear. There should be fear of going to certain areas, but that's based on fact, not culture.

Fixed and QFT.

JE wasn't crappy, just not fully realized. It was really 1/2 game. They had a world map, but only one other city to travel to, heh.

We don't count people who are born here as immigrants.

Mafia isn't mostly immigrants so far as I know, though that might have been the case a century ago. Granted there are organizations like the Russian mafia, which are immigrants.