HoonDing

I interpreted it that the Exile uses the Force through connections with others (and especially the bond with Kreia). Whether these connections were harmful to those others and/or the Force, was only according to the Jedi Masters. Atris fighting the Exile is because "she came to hate the Exile for the choices she did not make", to quote/paraphrase Kreia.

It had to happen

That should've been red immediately. But the referee clearly prefered to give the yellows...

Lulz, and so the match is decided by the last linesman blunder. Typical.

Fouls like that really show that some footballers really have a pea for a brain. It reminded me of

Many of D. Gaider's posts on the Bioboards are what Michael Thorton's "suave" dialogue options should have been.

This match sucks.

They would fit in right next to Harry Potter & Twilight, though.

This looks caption worthy:

In my experience, NWN2 & MOTB were most fun as bard, who gets all dialogue skills + Perform and combines decent fighting & spell casting abilities. ... Stop while you still can, or be in for one major disappointment.

So if I import my 'left Sten in his cage' save, he may be there in in DA2?! Maybe even as a jnpc?! Nooooo! D: So if you leave Leliana behind, she'll return as a Broodmother boss fight?

I never imagined there could be a Hollywooder nuttier than Tom Cruise.

Be sure to copyright this before D. Gaider takes notes.

A lot of times picking a dialogue option in DA:O lead to the same NPC response anyway,

Thomas Covenant RPG would be nice. If developers are going to use a pre-defined protagonist, why not take a good one? Covenant starts out as an annoying, whiny brat that eventuallly comes to grip with himself & his condition and becomes a great hero. Sounds as perfect BioWare material.

I guess we'll get the same amount of political intrigue that was in DA:O. I.e. a few rants from Simon Templeman.

Cruijff & Beckenbauer should get married.

From what I remember from Witcher 2 previews, though, the Order of the Red Rose was destroyed (nullifying one ending of the Witcher if you went the Order route) and the fact that Triss is with Geralt in Witcher 2 nullifies another ending (where she becomes Foltest's court sorceress if Geralt went the neutral route). But I can't exactly imagine the Scoia'tael route to be canon either...

I hope the Witcher 2 won't have the importing of saves, since I lost all my Witcher 1 saves when I had to format my HDD. Wasn't there talk about a canon ending for the game anyway?

I'll tip my hat to BioWare if they actually dare to completely overhaul Dragon Age's combat system and do away with the party-based RTwP. Maybe they'll return to the system of NWN, where it was basically a solo playthrough but with various henchmen to be picked up along the way.

Immersion demands it.

With the Advanced Tactics mod, I only micromanage the mage in Dragon Age. In Baldur's Gate, I simply gave all characters missile weapons, set their script to ranged and micromanaged the mage & cleric to occasionally buff and throw an offensive spell. The reason why Baldur's Gate 2 came up with those ridiculous thousand-and-one spell protections, was to prevent for the game to be played on autopilot. Both games are far from the paragons of tactical combat they are presumed to be.

People shouldn't be worried about combat system, they should worry about encounter design & dungeon design. Fighting the same identical mobs in the same neverending corridors (Deep Roads, Temple of the Urn) using the same tactics (Cone of Cold + shattering, the only way to bypass the level scaling and get things over with quickly) is no fun in any combat system.

Mike Hawke requires a same-sex romance.