HoonDing

Will the Reapers even have a chance of winning this time around if Shepard wastes too much time?

I'd pay only for Full Throttle 2, Loom 2 and The Longest Journey 2.

I'd donate maybe for an oldschool RPG, but for an adventure game? More than sixty adventure games alone are slated for release this year so far, not bad for a supposedly dead niche genre.

People needed buffs in NWN2?

Shepard is the dumbest video game protagonist ever, eclipsing even Serious Sam and Duke Nukem. Shepard's sadly even dumber than Roger Wilco and doesn't even get the chicks to compensate.

Well, I take back what I said. The Skyrim devs apparently had some free time and came up with this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYOFLqItuW4

I recently discovered I can no longer play any pure action RPGs where one spends 95% of one's time in linear corridors or small to big maps just killing things or fetch various items for villagers. I tried replaying Loki: Age of Mythology and Titan Quest and got bored after ten minutes (strangely enough, though, I was able to replay Space Siege a few months back, it must've been the sci-fi setting plus the fact that the game can be beaten in less than 3 hours). I still appreciate an action RPG like Divine Divinity and Divinity 2 where the mold of endless grinding is broking by a large world to explore, lots of interesting NPCs to talk to, humour and sidequests that go beyond "kill X/fetch Y". Even Dungeon Siege 2 kinda had this, plus it had the advantage over other action RPGs that it was party based (while Dungeon Siege 1 had the advantage of a seamless world and fairly cutting edge graphics for the time). So, my question: does Dungeon Siege 3 have any of these aforementioned elements or is it just endless killing and looting?

That's going to take ages, since it requires new animations. Not really a fan of Steam workshop. The more... exotic mods are never going to appear there, so I don't see the point of moving. Steam is pretty cumbersome to navigate as well.

Thu'um Infinium mod is pretty nice.

Harvest THAT, Reapers!

Basically, the "old folks" are the personages upon which the idea of "gods" came from. They ran humanity and then (among other things) 2 human slaves (a man and a woman) managed to get away with one of the Pieces of Eden (the Apple, which is where the biblical eden story got it's start). Then a solar flare went off, and basically wiped out a lot of the life on the planet, leaving humanity to become the dominant species. Then the story just goes all Deus Ex and splits things down the middle with "control" and "Freedom" as the two sides. The unfortunate thing is that, as they work on the plot, it becomes more and more and more out there. The first was good, mostly stuck inside it's territory, and didn't go flying off the handle with sci-fi/magic.... the second had more magic, brotherhood was more, and finally Revelations just decided "you know what? F-it, let's just make it ALL technology!" Glad I never bothered with that series.

I don't really blame the Council. It was still more believable for them to think Sovereign was just a Geth dreadnought, considering it just looked like a big Geth ship, rather than Shepard's rambling about ancient space gods. Not to mention Shepard kinda started on the wrong foot with the Council in ME1 as well, with Nihlus dying on Shepard's big test and the whole bullcrap with the Protean beacon and Shepard's "visions". Shepard never really shows much intelligence or much argumentative skill, at all. But whok cares when you can beat up random civilians and push a pistol in their face, right?

Bard 1/Red Dragon Disciple 10/Fighter 12/Weapon Master 7 Enough to roflstomp everything, which is especially important against the endless hordes of epic gnolls in Mask of the Betrayer.

Who's Eli?

The best one was Shepard and Co taking a shuttle after getting the Reaper homing beacon so that the entire crew of the Normandy could get kidnapped and Joker have his moment of glory.

Nah. Maybe they just work harder because you helped them out with their drama issues, that could work. Or maybe they're just not much of an elite team if they let their own petty concerns get in the way of the mission. The least you'd expect is professionalism.The Teen Titans show more maturity than any Mass Effect crew member.

Voluptuous != skinny.

Recruitment missions != loyalty missions. Loyalty missions are all optional, in fact you can jump into the Omega Relay right after the derelict Reaper.

It's quite a stretch, thinking saving the universe would take priority over solving daddy issues. Well, in a BioWare game at least.

Catwoman should get more meat on her bones, like in the comics.

... Considering the amount of effort you had to put into getting Shepard killed, I'd think you'd be overjoyed with the result. Doesn't seem a lot of effort involved, considering you could only get Shepard killing by avoiding all loyalty missions and avoiding all upgrades (hence avoiding wasting time with planet scanning).

I'm just waiting for Dovahzaan

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