HoonDing

Why not just call it "Euro RPG"?

I looked at that E.Y.E. game on Steam and it seems like a more modern and sci-fi version of Hellgate: London. I'm not sure whether that is a good thing.

Morrowind was on console too.

More designers should base game protagonists on themselves. Imagine how cool DA2 would be if Hawke looked like David Gaider or Mike Laidlaw.

How significant is the lore that the DLC adds? Anything earth shattering?

This calls for extreme measures.

After The Witcher 2, Skyrim UI looks like heaven.

They're very different. I tried replaying the first game a while back but it's very hard to get back into it, River of Time is so much better in every way.

Wait, if you have enough friendship points with Isabela and she returns the relic to the Qunari, is a peaceful solution possible with the Arishok? The bitch left in my game, and I only had the option to fight all Qunari, or duel the Arishok depending on Fenris' presence in my party.

I wonder what DA3 will be about. It seemed to me everything was being set up for a war with either Tevinter or the Qunari.

I wouldn't call it boring. You can actually create pretty much any spell you want in TW2, and completely crazy spell combinations at that, but I was never patient enough to collect all the necessary cards. As far as action RPGs go, I can't think of any game that did it better, it's miles ahead of Gothic series/Risen and even the Elder Scrolls series (except for Morrowind).

At higher levels, depending on party size, the vampire chamber in Firkraag's dungeon can hold around twenty vampires, and there will be at least two Greater wolfweres (with friends) in a corridor later. I only ever encountered Iron golems, though. All golems can easily be killed with Melf's minute meteors, anyway (even though it shouldn't, but the game doesn't strictly follow P&P rules).

I blame Purkake.

Woman goes into labor during Skyrim presentation

I picked up the 2008 Prince of Persia game from eBay a while back. I might be playing that after finishing my replay of Space Siege.

That quest where you recruit Mazzy is probably the first one I do after the slavers quest, the Thief Guild quests and the serial killer quest. It's clearly the easiest of all exterior dungeons, I'm surprised someone would need 'cheating' to get through it. If memory serves me right, Haer'Dalis requires a romp through an Illithid dungeon and then a quick visit in a planar prison that counts a few demons among its jailers. Definitely harder. Trademeet & Windspear Hills aren't much harder than Umar Hills right after Irenicus' dungeon, considering the aforementioned level scaling and the fact that you can bypass fighting Firkraag (just like with the Shadow Dragon). What can be tricky about Firkraag's dungeon is that party of (evil) treasure hunters outside the maze.

Haer'Dalis is pretty efficient in combat, but useless as a thief (though he gains access to spike trap HLA). Come to think of it, he'd probably be the gay romance option if Baldur's Gate were to be developed today. R00fles!

I finished the game. It's a pity the game suffers from the same boring extended endgame that Origins had, where your party needs to fight through half the city to reach the endboss level. The final bosses are quite nonsensical as well, and the aftermath is disappointing. It's a decent game overall and I liked it, but there's not much incentive to replay because one of the two factions you are forced to choice from is so over-the-top and excessive (particularly their head honcho, who's clearly completely bonkers from the first moment you meet her) that you'd have to roleplay either a complete idiot or total jerkface to side with them. FO:NV had the same problem, with Caesar's legion.

Yes, and then they'd get sued by Marvel Comics

Make that 1.99 and we have a deal.

I pre-ordered the special edition for the price of a regular edition. Not a bad deal.

I don't know who they are, but so far Haste + Death Hex + Cleave = win. If Merrill had access to Creation tree, things would even be more broken.

Nope. Dragon Age 2 is a fun game, The Witcher 2 (despite its stellar graphics, entirely different second chapter depending on choice and interesting setting) just isn't. And in the end that's all that really matters.