RPGmasterBoo

Wait, Jade Empire, with 3 skills and a simple rock. paper, scissors fighting mechanic makes Baldur's Gate look shallow and dumbed down!? I'll leave Mass Effect be, as I actually enjoyed it. I actually agree with Boo on a number of his problems with ME, but I was able to overlook them and find a good game. Notice I never said it wasn't fun. Bioware games manage to suspend bitching about their flaws until the credits roll, which is a quality of sorts. I felt cheated afterwards, (the same happened with KOTOR and Jade Empire) but not while I was playing. That said I wouldn't go through KOTOR, Jade or ME (NWN OC ) again at gunpoint but I wouldn't for a great many games so... That's the primary reason I won't play Dragons Age, I suppose.

We must have played a different game. I encountered the game over screen and more than a little text during my numerous playthroughs. Perhaps these are changes made to reach the average Serbian gamer? The first must have something to do with your gaming skills. I don't recall being killed more than once or twice during the entire playthrough at whatever was the standard difficulty. The game was a pushover. The only text the game has is the uninspired fiction in the log that tries to cover the fact that the entire setting is made up of a dozen character models and a handful locations. What I was actually referring to however was the stupid, stunted dialogue system made for people that are too lazy to read. Though, considering what the characters actually spoke perhaps this was for the best. I can't forgive Bioware for sacrificing everything to make a tech demo for the console crowd "ooooo look at what my new XBOX360 can do", and including a merely functional game in the background. If they spent as much time on the story, gameplay, quests and characters as they did on the graphical design, it would have been twice as good.

Justice is one thing, vengance is quite another. Shes obviously distrubed and needs help. Besides you know when they kill someone in death penalty they do it in your name, your hand is on the injection just as much as anyone elses so I wouldn't be so quick to dole out death penalties. Its easy to hide behind formalities and executioners, but if you aren't ready to cut her head off yourself than there's no use calling for someone else to do it is there?

So you do have some redeeming qualities.

Why are we still talking about ME's voice acting? As if the game could be saved with better VA, or writing, or better combat, or a functioning inventory, or better characters or appealing gameplay or... etc. Well, actually having all these things might make it a decent game, but that's pure fantasy. Its a western rpg simplified and dumbed down for the consoles so that every fat kid with room temperature IQ could play it, without such taxing things as a game over screen or text to read. It would be a step above the gameplay horror that was the Jade Empire if the latter didn't have writing and a story that at least demand attention. BTW its also an excellent argument against the "21st century of gaming".

I remarked the white messiah thing the moment I left the cinema, but there is one redeeming moment: SPOILER!!! He did integrate his conciousness into the Na'vi body permanently at the end of the movie, so that kinda redeems him from all the racist accusations since he did abandon everything from his previous life, including his race. Now no one can tell he was ever different from them, and that shows some serious commitment on his part. Plus the fact that he led the Na'vi kinda makes sense in the context of the events on screen: 1. everything happens in two battles and in a very short time period 2. the Na'vi arent familiar with human war machines > logically in the first battle they get slaughtered while they could learn in time how to fight the humans, the only one who can give a quick solution is Jake 3. even so, his attempt is unsuccessful , the final battle was lost until the planet itself intervenes Thus I'd say while the white messiah thing was there, it wasnt as bad as previous films, and certainly not enough for such wild accusations.

Whoza third?

God, now there's two of them.

That doesn't do it for me I'm afraid

Until you actually hear him and the rest speak, and start wishing you had it all written down so you don't have to sit through it. Him? Jennifer Hale is awesome. Lulled by the promise of interspecies sex i opted to retain my pecker not knowing the full extent of my error until it was too late.

That's when it turned from a minor annoyance to tragedy.

Well they do inherit the hosts DNA, but anyway - Gigers work is a piece of art portraying nothing in particular (it was just a painting he did) and by itself I think its the best. However they ditched the transparency later because its not really suited for the film (as you noticed) and because its scarier if you dont know where its looking.

Perhaps I'm being captain obvious here but the first one is from Alien 3, included in the AvP games as the "runner". The second and third are derivatives of Cameron's version. You don't have the original (and perhaps best) on offer. It has a flat dome without the ridges, and its slightly translucent, and if looked from the front you can make out eye sockets behind the material (because the front part of the head is a human skull).

Sorry, does that stand for non-disclosure agreement? As for the rest, each installment had a different look for the creature. The heads are different as is the number of fingers on each hand, the tail, the tubes on its back and other details.

Until you actually hear him and the rest speak, and start wishing you had it all written down so you don't have to sit through it.

I never actually said that, its just my nick on this forum. You however have that sig Its only second to the comment from a local forum where some guy who just started to play BGII said: I like it, it reminds me of Icewind dale.

I gotta spam cos the devs are sleeping. Out of curiosity which creature model was going to be used? (from which film)

Every Cameron's story is weak for Christ's sake: a robot sent back in time to kill the mother of a yet unborn resistance leader, followed by the father of said leader *head explodes* Titanic is even dumber, a love story that plays on the class card: love crosses all boundaries even between the rich and poor yadayadayada Taken that way all his movies are sh!t. Where they shine, is the top notch presentation, which is why they are all successful, including Avatar. They're pure commercial cinema, but of the extremely watchable variety. To expect anything more or profound from Cameron is not knowing Cameron.

You mean, anymore? >>Myth 1+2

Not being a hive mind is more unique than being one? I was alluding to the scare factor of the thing.

Let me tell you about ME's dialogue system:

No it doesnt. The novel its based on does, but you have to remember the hive mind thing wasnt a part of the original Alien, it was introduced in the sequel and watered down much of the creatures uniqueness.

They would, and lose. Did it? Didn't the original The Thing come first? How about a certain famous zombie movie that was set basically at one farmhouse? That's just a couple of examples. I never saw a farmhouse with hexagonal corridors and pressurized doors but okay. I didn't say it invented claustrophobia, I said it invented that particular sci fi setting, obviously in terms of visuals. That said, none of those movies, even Carpenters remake of the The Thing are half as good as Alien in direction and cinematography.

Plus it (Alien) cost 8 mil $, which is peanuts and it still managed to put in scenes like this:

Alien invented the bulkhead/corridor as horror setting, based on the works of top artists such as Chriss Foss, Moebius, Syd Mead, Giger (for the alien designs) with Scott adding much of his own work. Alien invented what is now the "generic sci fi base/complex", and the first movie is especially an example of superb visual artistry. The plot and concept were generic, but nothing about the execution itself was. And you forget the Alien itself which is the most iconic movie monster of all time. how much more originality do you need?