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Or the main protagonist looking like a complete douche.

There are different body models to choose from, apparently. For some reason, all those journalist insist on playing some beefy fighter type. I'd like to see morefemale (non scaly/furry) characters.

Playing a crappy rather mediocre stealth game

I tried replaying DA:O the other day, and it's very weird getting back to it after DA2. It's like everyone is moving through syrup and combat goes in slow motion. The only thing from DA2 I'm not missing, are those ninjas dropping from the skies.

Most badass Khajiit I've ever seen.

Blizzard had nothing to do with Lost Vikings. They did develop another platformer though, Blackthorne, which is a obscure but stellar game.

Space Siege > Mass Effect 2

With maxed out Quen, you can button mash with impunity until the adrenaline bar is full and you can press the magical X button.

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.