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That was the Purple Clan, not the aliens!* *Indigo Prophecy reference.

I liked the skill books since it was clear & plausible how one would learn something by reading it and put nicely in context of a story. In a way it was very similar from how skills are learnt in Gothic 3, where one needs to talk to a trainer that shares some of his wisdom, except it is put in book-form. Collecting books was one of my favourite pastimes in Morrowind - their point is largely to make players that are interested more acquainted with the lore & history of the world, so it's logical that they wouldn't be short & succinct. Oblivion... totally fails when it comes to books. Only interesting, new book I can remember is one dealing with vampire lore. I think an entire new ES game could be made based on "The real Barenziah" or "History of the Wolf Queen". Oh, and I want the stuff that the guy (Michael Kirkbride) was smoking when he wrote "36 lessons of Vivec". I can only thing of one other game that allowed the player to read books in such detail, and that's The Longest Journey. As for Fallout, I would definitely want item descriptions back. It really helps fleshing out a game world. I'd even go one step further: make FO3's skill books like "Duck& Cover", "Dean's electronics" and what not, actually readable like in Morrowind. I was disappointed first time I clicked a skill book in my PipBoy that there merely was a lame message popping up that said "Your skill increased 1 point"..

But, but, how then are we supposed to enslave nations with necromancy?

Very much depends on the character one plays - saber attacker, unarmed fighter or gun user.

Eh, it is possible to play as a female human noble, right? I'm curious to see the city elf origin. I'm wondering how a servant who skewered some humans (at least, that's the impression I got from reading about it) would be appointed grey warden.

To lighten the atmosphere even further, there should be the occasional appearance of the

What's up with all you people? It's like four hours long and it's also awesome. If you can't get past something watch that part on youtube. Hey now, I've played & finished the Myst & Schizm games without looking at game guides. Some of those puzzles take days to figure out. I simply forgot about it.

I should've thought about the Fremen, but it's 29

They seem to be the quintessential warrior race that are big about honour, inherent to any fantasy/sci fi setting. Like the Klingons from Star Trek or the Aiel from Wheel of Time.

To rephrase, what we know is that the amount of energy involved with destruction of the Earth would be the one of large galactic events like (super)novas & black holes what I meant to say is that from observations, those events are highly unlikely in our part of the galaxy - therefore I did not mention them. Of course, I acknowledge that I don't know nearly enough about astronomy or cosmology to make a fair assessment.

I should finish Portal one day. When I got it, I played it through until I got stuck on one of the last rooms and haven't played the game since.

DA's Elves seem a knock-off of Sapkowski's ones, locked into 'ghettos' and others rebelling against the human tyranny like the Scoia'tael in the Witcher, and humans building their civilization on the ruins of the Elder Races' cities. This is unlike most high fantasy, where the Elves & Dwarves are at friendly terms with the humans, but usually estranged due to humans breeding like rabbits. DA's Dwarves seem to just stay in their mountain/underground realms as in all high fantasy (neglected as always, even Tolkien's history of the Dwarves was perfunctory at best). As for the so-called "Darkspawn", I guess they'd be corrupted Elves like Tolkien's Orcs or specially bred villains like the Uruk-hai or Jordan's Trollocs? That'd be typical for the setting.

The world could be literally destroyed at any moment if it'd be hit by one of Hawking's micro-black holes and the thing kept venturing to the Earth's core. Or if the CERN would create one. Other than that, there's not much that can destroy the Earth beyond a journey into the sun or a Death Star.

Global warming seems the only candidate to end the world within our lifetime.

No ascerbic preview is going to change my mind, I've already marked October 20th on my calendar. I even got myself a special piggy bank marked with "I luv Dragon Age" that I need to get filled until that time.

I'd like to see her handle a firehose.

I do use the unique .32 from the Pitt called "Wild Bill's sidearm" to kill petty enemies like radroaches, dogs, mole rats or raiders. It's a fun weapon. Besides, there are two bugged perks introduced in Point Lookout that permanently increase all weapon damage by 5 points, so suddenly even Chinese pistols become decent.

Lift even works on a Geth Colossus, IIRC. Very Master Yoda, that. The combat would be more fair if enemies could use lift & singularity on your party too. The few challenging fights in the game (for me, at least) are when one is posed against biotics and those only use Throw. Not to mention, enemies making better use of tech abilities (especially damping) would even things out quite a bit too.

^What is that person doing with a radiator?

Some information about that on the wiki: Spells

Only problem with their previous games (especially Gothic 3) is the chronic scarcity of human females. But I guess in an island setting, at least, that isn't so much a problem.

The guy's getting whopped by a boar doing insane amounts of damage. Must indeed be a Gothic game. I like it.

Giants: Citizen Kabuto from Planet Moon Studios was divided into three parts with very different gameplay, each played with another character. It worked really well. EDIT: spelling

I'm surprised nobody has yet mentioned an eruption of the Yellowstone Caldera or a gamma ray burst.

For laughs, acquire the Mysterious Stranger's unscoped Magnum - it does 9,000 damage.