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EA's essentially doing this already. And not just in the multiplayer games, also DAO and ME2. Frankly, I don't mind, or really care. I'd never buy a game with somebody else's germs on it, but I guess I'm just special that way.

I know it's only wikipedia, but this article actually seems well-documented enough. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States...2%80%93Iraq_war The British article is a lot less... informative.

Well, technically, since they are paying for it, they'd be the graphics johns...

What? They sell other products than booze and cigarettes in Estonia? Why was I not told You'd probably be unhappily surprised by all the stuff you can get from Estonia you can't get from Finland. I know I've been You have Mountain Dew, so we're even Looks like I can be surprised by the stuff you can't get in Estonia, either.

No, but the infra (training camps, operations manual) was built with Operation Cyclone.* Kind of like Saddam's forces were built with the U.S. aid during the Iraq-Iran war. In fact, basically all the **** we have to deal with now is the result of pumping money into 'cold war buffer zones'... Sigh. *And AFAIK a lot of the key players were already around back then... Who cares if the mooks were born later, just shows the lasting damage

I think the core of the problem, is that they don't, actually, 'boogie'. And the fact that people once thought that giving weapons and training to the Mujahideen was a brilliant idea.

What? They sell other products than booze and cigarettes in Estonia? Why was I not told You'd probably be unhappily surprised by all the stuff you can get from Estonia you can't get from Finland. I know I've been

I'll have to print that and frame it somewhere.

Then you should love the hammerhead. Everything is a credible threat to it.

I revoke your right to hold opinions. *shrug* I think it was quite good on Virmire and Ilos, and not too bad on Therum, Noveria or Feros. It was terrible on all the smaller planets. Of course, you lack the reference point of the Hammerhead.

Is it that bad? I haven't replayed ME2 since before the Hammerhead was released, but I never imagined... Some people think it's way better than the Mako. I'm in the school of thought that there was nothing wrong with the Mako, just the uncharted planets and the last thing the game needed are 90's style platforming bits with a 'tank' than can be killed with a pulse rifle. So YMMV.

That's obviously because he's an official Forgotten Realms character you silly thing! Yeah, he's had his (good) fun already!

Well, whatever one's opinion of the content of Blizzard games is, they've always known how to optimise an engine.

Yeah, I think that my only issue with BG1 is that the XP rewards are pitiful... which results in very slow progression. Coupled with the attempted nonlinearity and the fact that at low levels you basically double in power every time you level up, scratching that xp together from a multitude of areas while avoiding the encounters that would decimate you... shiver.

I dunno, this is the way I've had to play most games in the last ten years. Probably why I pretty much play CRPGs exclusively, they generally have the structure where you can do a major quest or two in an evening. Baldur's Gate II can take a while this way.

I woke up at seven. Got out of bed at nine. Had Ben & Jerry's for breakfast (Fairly Nuts, fittingly). Got to work after noon. I've probably gained 25 lbs after getting dumped in March. I don't think it's the "dumped" bit any longer, it's more like starting to think that I'm going to be alone for the rest of my life, because I don't want to live with a domineering entitlement-complexed hag like so many of my friends. Ie. I don't have the fear of being 'alone' that makes a lot of people do stupid things, but it still doesn't mean I particularly like it. Anyway, renewed my gym membership, hopefully I'll manage to dig enough from my mental reserves to go there this week, and then start regularly again.

When the lens you look through is blurry enough. Of course, a lot of the "all bio games are the same" involves intentionally blurring said lens. But OT. So far not seeing much that will make me go grab DA2. It wouldn't be a first for me, I only got Jade Empire and ME when they were in the End-of-Life sale. In the case of ME, i regretted it, though.

Generally gaming companies tend to aim for the old grognards, who will generally have a lot more disposable income than the MMO kiddies. But whatevah. My stint with the MMOs was done in the 90s, when they were text-based and called MUDs. Yeah, we had multi-player online RPGs when some of you kids were still in diapers.

Maybe, but it'll be interesting to see how it pans in the long run. I can only speak for myself, I gof about, oh, 4 meters of D&D stuff on the shelf, and 4th edition is the only one I don't own a single book from.

And resulting in the puppy that they kicked by suddenly yanking all their licenses, Paizo, in laughing all the way to the bank. Assumption on my part, but it would appear that going from doing the legwork for wotc into creating a better 3.5 D&D under the name of Pathfinder seems to have worked just fine for them.

And I went with IWD2, and personal favourite M&M2, of which I have a lot of fond memories from the pre-internet era. All I remember is that the ending told me that 'I was one of the best players around' Wonder what the metric for that was?

If you thought DA:O was bad to begin with, why would there even be a possibility of you liking DA2? Same company, same team working on it ... I mean, I would have figured it wouldn't even need saying that you'd pass on the sequel to a game you didn't think was good to begin with. But it gave him the opportunity for a dramatic [exit stage left]!!

No naked Monte Carlos, please. Some of us plan on eating before we die.

They hold a massive IP portfolio, and the best thing they can do is try to make a quick buck from an already established CRPG franchise? How is that not worth getting bent out of shape for?