Nepenthe

It's funny. I remember a time when I could buy 1,5 liters of coke for half of what a 0,5 liter bottle costs these days. Yet computer games cost more then than they do now. So that in some places, the prices have gone down even without adjusting for inflation... While, as mentioned, budgets have gone down. I'll admit that the inflated prices of the early nineties might have had more to do with small local retailers scalping in a closed market, but still... p.s. I don't think it's possible to treat all DLC as whole. Sometimes it's a blatant rip-off, sometimes it's cut content that wouldn't have been implemented within the regular game budget, and sometimes it's a team allowed to expand the game further later on. I'm not seeing much of the first group with RPGs, mostly with the "map packs" for certain popular shooters.

I'm talking about all the mimeing they do in that particular DLC. If it doesn't bother you, more power to you.

I like Kasumi a lot. IMO the best "loyalty mission" - the investigation part is reasonably well done and gives a nice tempo shift from the rest of the game. The new gun is also nice, I still prefer picking up guns as loot instead of having them just automagically appear in my cupboard. Which is what I got here. Possibly favourite DLC for the game. Shadow Broker is also very good. It both adds to the story pretty nicely, and the gameplay has minor shifts which make it quite enjoyable. Overlord adds very little, makes the fact that NPCs are unvoiced painfully obvious, and has the Hammerhead. My least favourite, and one I could skip. Still, overall a pretty enjoyable experience, and like the Shadow Broker, breaks up the recruitment/loyalty grind nicely.

I had nothing against the guy until he misquoted me into saying I'm a pedo. Based on that and the follow-up, I'd say he's a turd of the first water.

Clearly one to develop. "Black romantic comedy" is a rarely-attempted art form. A useful thing for a mod to know - glad I could be of assistance.

Probably not. In the end, she kind of looks more like Alektra Blue anyway (if you google, it's probably NSFW). Still, "carved from the same tree", as the Finnish saying goes. Besides, we'd need to whack her new husband first.

Is the point to be a ****, no matter what? Sure looks like it! *Richard. A small one.

fixed I was talking in general, not about the character. No need to be a douchebag about it. In fact, I'd go as far as suggest that the only really inappropriately large tit in this thread is you, sir. It's not that they're big, it's that they look ridiculous on such a small (almost pre-teen) body. What I said above.

Right on the money.

You know the girl who broke my heart? The one who was a dead ringer for her? Do you understand now why I'm such a whiney bitch?

I've always liked big boobs, and have never felt a need to claim otherwise. Either that makes my tastes unrefined or a lot of people hypocritical. I know which one I believe.

But unlike Salvatore, he seems to have given up, if not in time, then at least in general. (Edit: Oh great, he just came out with a new book after ~5 years, didn't he? ****)

Par for the course. 70 % chance she never intended to show up, 29 % chance something else, like Eastenders, came up and distracted her. 1 % chance of being true - but then again, that applies to anything women say.

:D

Interesting read, but apparently a bit difficult to understand for some.

Those Green activists aren't exactly what I'd call organized crime. I am surprised the police would waste an undercover officer on them, you would think standard surveillance would be enough. Don't get me wrong, I think these environmentalists are usually crazy, but their intentions aren't exactly sinister. I think it's more a question of methods than intentions. Anyone who has seen 28 days later or that Fringe episode should know that sometimes these guys can do some major, unintentional damage on their crusade, even when they are more or less rational. Still, gives the impression the Met isn't hurting for resources if they can dedicate an officer to undercover work in a case like that.

For some reason, i didn't notice the trailer before. I seriously hope that is not indicative of the level of writing we are going to see in the game. Almost expected the guy to put on sunglasses in the end. >_<

So, apart from fixing Raithe's spelling, I spent another day writing a job application. To a "bread & butter" lawyer job. I was quite enthused writing it, but now feel like I've been hit by the dream crusher perk. Working 5 years of low-paid high-experience yield jobs to apply to a place where I could have gone... 5 years ago. Of course, I can now ask for twice more than I could have five years ago, but it's local, meaning gross is half of what I could theoretically get in a civilised country, while getting ass-reamed with taxes in the way only a single man in Finland can get.

Yeah, 'cept we generally refer to ourselves as "Finns", fins being the thing you see on a fish.

Yes they're using the ME3 engine for ME2 PS3. But I don't see any difference visually. Took Bioware a while to finally get their **** together aka also programming for PS3. Yeah, well, the UE hasn't exactly been a blazing succes on the PS3 so far. The (ME2) demo had some strange quirks, but remains to be seen if they are in the final product. It has potential to be one of the (if not THE) best UE games on PS3... OTOH the PS3 version of DAO was an utter turd (and no, I won't cut them slack for having outsourced the port). Going from Eurogamer's analysis, new lighting/shadows could be the major change from ME2 to ME3. The PS3 version also has occasionally better textures, but that could just be an engine issue as opposed to having freed up a little more memory for them somewhere.

I'm surprised none of you thought of the obvious, "the game is done and now we are going to spend the next year pulling content out into small pieces to release it as DLC!" conspiracy theory! I am disappoint! Assuming ther is an actual question here and you are not just being a petulant child, IIRC it's been pretty much confirmed that it's going to be a simultaneous 3-platform release.

S'yeah, the DLC char seems to be the similarly revenge-disposed archer from Awakening (Howe's son... CBA to look his name up) warmed up. I'm normally in the camp that says comparing reductions and dubbing them clones is silly, but come on. And yeah, I guess I could probably have written that more clearly, but that's too demanding now, as well.

Can't have 40k without Rowboat Girlyman's smurfs ruining it, can we?

I didn't notice it in ME2, not in any of the seven playthroughs so far. Obviously this is mostly due to the fact that I haven't ABd different dialogue options to find examples of it, but my gut feeling is that it's a lot less common than it was in ME1. Still, I consider this a total non-issue in any case.