HoonDing

Didn't play many new games. 1. Divinity 2 2. Drakensang 3. Dragon Age 4. Risen 5. Venetica

Where is that Miranda character trailer? I think I've already seen that Grunt.

+1 Also, playing Drakensang: River of Time demo & replaying Venetica/Divinity 2.

Those romances are completely borked. When my female PC suggested some tent business to Zevran and it didn't work out since his approval wasn't high enough at that point, Leliana still suddenly started to scold my PC about "what had happened with Zevran" and my PC found herself faced with a choice that shouldn't even have existed in the first place. A similar thing had happened with Leliana on my first playthrough. After telling her ten times that my PC had chosen Alistair, near the end of the game she still scolded my PC for "playing with her feelings". WTF?

"Sisters" as in jail slang?

I would say either the Zabrak Heavy Blaster or Micro-Pulse Blaster.

If I can't shoot polyps with a lightning gun, I'm not playing it.

I dislike both. Remaining neutral was ultimately most satisfying for me, and the only way to remain true to the witcher code (not to mention, fighting a zeugl together with Triss was awesome). It's also very telling that no matter which faction you choose in the game, in the end everything turns out to the same old anyway.

Is this coming out in 2010? If so, ME2 can go to hell with the Drakensang prequel also coming out. If those 'assassins of kings' are the Nilfgaardian agents they appear to be, sent to assassinate all the Kings of the Northlands in preparation of a new invasion (Witcher takes place a couple of years after the Battle fo Brenna), the story could be quite interesting. In addition, hopefully the whole "Personal History" questline of the first game will be continued... and Geralt's miraculous return to the land of the living will be explained.

The mind boggles...

That should stir up some controversy.

Gothic 3 & Risen are other examples. Aside from Risen's evil horde of doom, all factions in those games are as bad/good as the others as well.

It's a fun action/adventure game with lite RPG elements. Only really disappointing thing is that you get to make lots of choices throughout the game, but the consequences of those choices are never shown. The game's ending sucks royally, in true German developer style. Warriors are boring, man, Amazon is the way to go: Drakensang's Imoen Chick:

Is that the Japanese version of Sesame Street?

Thanks for posting this. I'm going to give it a try. Drakensang was my favourite game of the year after Divinity 2.

Good old pot & kettle.

Demo availible as of today.

This beats a Mabari wardog. This NPC is voiced by Kirill Pokrovsky himself

That exploit is why it is possible for people to solo the game on Nightmare. It's simply bad AI. In Divinity 2 or Drakensang stuff like this doesn't work, attack one enemy and the entire group comes looking for your blood. But a nice thing about Divinity 2 is rangers get a special stealth skill that allows them to lure enemies away one by one without aggroing an entire group.

All those delightfully rocky planets are all out there, just waiting to be rolled over again.

Beyond Good & Evil 2 Dreamfall Chapters Syberia 3 Divinity 3 TES V Drakensang: the River of Time Demonicon: the Dark Eye The Witcher 2

In the Wheel of Time, channeling magic gives magic users longer lifespans, while retaining their good looks. Maybe it's the same in Dragon Age.

When a two-hander attacks I always have the feeling one could read through War & Peace before the attack lands.

^Wouldn't that be up to Bethesda?