RPGmasterBoo

I'll just have to get torchlight. *sigh* To all those who have played it: what difficulty should I pick?

Welcome back Gromnir, good post. I didn't doubt DA's value for money as far as longevity is concerned. My doubts were on the merits of its storyline as well as some questionable choices on part of the Bioware team to indulge requests of certain obnoxious groups in the community. Especially the former however. How do you judge the atmoshpere of the gameworld in general?

I can make the origami unicorn from BR and put it on Bio office doorstep, does that suffice?

The eternal question: Is Shepard a replicant?

They are ordered in more or less the way the novelty of Bio games wore off for me. Its not really easy to prove that any one of the middle three is substantially better or worse than the others, but they get the BGII wannabe achievement . If DA doesn't pwn them all and reach BG levels of excellence, which was the general hype behind the game then I'll just settle down for being Until I can resume killing my brain cells with the replicant Shepard.

But you'll never be disproven!

So where does it rate in the Bioware scale of things if its like zis: BGII/ToB/BG>KOTOR>Jade Empire>Mass Effect>NWN

Cynic. Cynic = Realistic.

mech-Shepherd??? I'm on.

What happened with this game? My buddies who all like Bioware games, (even the ones I hate) are saying the game is underwhelming, boring etc etc. The major complaints are: *the main quest is crap *theres too much travelling in "tunnel like" areas where there's only grinding *the story doesn't make sense (don't know the particulars) *the level scaling doesn't work well *the game is full of bugs (one friend had to pull the console down and fix something??) *the ending is meh ... Overall its the first game that got no recommendations from anyone, and that's from people who wholeheartedly recommend ME... On the other hand the reviewers are saying its the second coming. So what is it?

I've nothing better to do, and nothing else is being discussed.

BGII > all.

Or maybe no one gives a sh!t.

It can't be more canon than having the same PC all the way to the end.

Is anyone playing STALKER: Call of Pripyat? I cant find a decent review of it. Wait, I'm getting some good buzz from a forum - the gamers are pleased http://forums.bf2s.com/viewtopic.php?id=131034&p=1

You don't actually need to point out particular sources to know that Avatar's story is a rehash of old scfi fi concepts. There's even a comic called Aquablu with almost exactly the same plot. But that doesn't really mean anything since sci fi concepts are essentially free for all to use. He just mixed up some well known works and made a movie of it, no harm done.

The fan that cools the card is fubar. I guess it could be possible that there is something wrong with the drivers and they arent allowing the fan go full speed, but I wouldn't hold my breath on that. I suggest you open the case and check if the cards fan/rest of cooler is full of crap -> vacuum cleaner to the rescue. If not, turn the pc on while the case is open and see does the fan work at all. If it doesn't, get a new card or get a new cooler for the card. Did that, it looks fine. It runs fine as well though I've no idea if its actually at the speed necessary to cool the card. Probably not. I keep the case open for a small temperature drop,but all in all I'm gonna need a new card or a new fan it seems Thanks.

I've always had the same drivers, but at some point the graphics card started showing artifacts and shorting out during any game more graphically intensive than Counter Strike. I've found out its because the temp rises from 45 to 110 in under 15 minutes, and the card restarts... Hopefully its still covered by a warranty, its less than a year old. Sigh. Ill try to switch the drivers though, thanks for the input.

The same thing has crossed my mind now that my previously low expectations hit rock-bottom. It might actually be more tolerable now that it has quit pretending to be an RPG.

Will they be saying it has other priorities when we're leading the paddle Shepard in ME3: Pong?

I can't play anything because my graphics card keeps overheating for unknown reasons.

I agree, and I've said so many times. Obviously it makes perfect sense, not just in games but in just about everything. Game sites live off publisher adds, get games earlier, are invited to preview events etc. in return they give as good a review as possible which is thus biased by default. Only if the game is total trash, or hasn't the backing of a strong publisher is it likely to get a fair score. To hide the obviousness of this, recently most major sites have been giving favorable reviews to various indie titles (World of Goo, Braid etc) which if you look carefully very conveniently don't disturb the segments of the market that is covered by major publishers. I'm not saying those games don't deserve the grades they get, I'm saying that they are an obvious ploy to retain an image of fairness whilst not questioning the equally obvious hypocrisy of major game reviews.

The Lewis Carrol poem wasn't bad as well. L.C. is the only person in the universe apart from my BGII avatar who is badass enough to wield the vorpal sword. You gotta respect that.

With anything related to FPS or action adventure/sandbox games he's usually spot on.

I just watched Terry Gilliam's movie of the same name. But that's.... completely unrelated.