HoonDing

At least the female Hawke looks good. They should use her as the token character, the male one looks and sounds like a douche.

Come to think of it, Oni already pulled off the 'transhumanism' and oppressive society/La femme Nikita shtick one or two years before DX came into existence.

I think Heretic had bows & dragon claws and such. Hexen had a wizard, warrior & cleric class to play with.

I see what you did there.

That isn't an actual in-game line, is it?

The game was completely overshadowed by Quake 2 at the time. On the other hand, Hexen also came out in the same year IIRC, and I doubt anyone remembers that game nowadays.

Sniper Elite: Grozny.

Nm.

I wonder whether trailers/previews featuring the female version of Hawke will be released.

It's funny how one of the devs mentions DA:O had a thousand possibilities in the epilogue slides. Not even Todd Howard went that far.

1 million sales for Two Worlds 2 in Old Europe

You mean there are already multiple threads exceeding 5,000 pages? Wow.

Hopefully CD keeps using the great engine. Legend, Anniversary & Underworld ran silk smooth even on my subpar computer.

How much did the publisher pay to get Rihanna into the game (see the trailer)?

You could add them to your quickbar and/or just use the sausages to make one or two health potions.

I always tended to believe it, given that you have a god helping you out. But I do like me some ambiguity. You mean Azura? Not exactly a god, and (s)he clearly had her own agenda, namely taking down the Tribunal for stealing away her people's worship and humiliating her. She created the prophecy in the first place, you're just the first "chosen one" of many that doesn't fail. In the game you're being played as a fiddle by the Emperor, a Daedric Lord, Vivec and even Dagoth Ur to a point. It would be rage-worthy, if you didn't become so awesome that Bethesda had to send you off to Akavir in Oblivion.

There's plenty of drama in Angel of Darkness & Legend/Underworld. It's good they're going back to the lone adventuring from the pre-2000 titles.

Everything's a RPG nowadays.

English voice acting is decent overall. But the subtitles of one major character stop corresponding with the actual voice-over someway half through the game. Basically, this character acts friendly & helpful in the subtitles, but as a snotty ***** in the voice-over. This made it pretty clear to me that at some point the devs did a retcon.

In Morrowind you aren't the chosen one, but you could be depending on which side you choose to believe.

Was there still communication between East and West Coast? Maybe the Western chapter simply didn't know about it. At the very least, it must take months for news to travel between East and West without vertibirds.

If by competent you are referring to Arkane Studios, I agree.

In the Witcher at least you can flip over enemies and manually dodge, which is occasionally necessary when surrounded. Melee in Risen is clunky and controlling Nameless One feels like trying to steer a cement truck. It's high time some action RPG developer copies Blade of Darkness combat, which was both highly tactical and fast-paced.

I disliked Legend, but Anniversary was pretty good. Underworld continued the rubbish plot from Legend and was ridiculously short, but it had Thailand & Mexico which were excellent levels. Angel of Darkness... is kinda the Alpha Protocol of Tomb Raider games.

Lara has a bow She kinda looks like Jessica Alba to me.