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I dunno, I thought they looked ok, but now that I have seen Morrigan's (smoldering) inspiration, I think the character model looks like ****e. Inevitable comparisons to ME1/2's Vanderloo-Shepard and what we've seen so far of Strahovski-Miranda are not flattering to DAO. Also still facepalming about showing PS3 gameplay for the first time in gamespot's blocky 1fps stream. GNNH.

That's called maintaining a reserve. And they'll never ever go with you. If they break up, they'll find an outlaw biker in quick order and still keep stringing you along. Now, on the other hand, if you ARE that outlaw biker... You do what Krezack said. There's also a window of opportunity when a girl gets dumped by a guy (instead of doing the monkey-branch thing from MI2), and that's where the real possibilities lie if you're not an outlaw biker, but I'm running a fever again and am more interested in ranting than making a structured argument... ...

Who cares whether they have previous commitments if they want to be with you?

I must have taken a blow to the head, since I suddenly find myself agreeing with everything Purkake says. I'll be talking to miniature giant space hamsters next, ffs.

Yes. As for the rest:

Sigh. In theory, I'm ecstatic, in practice, this is a direct continuation to a [redacted] day: it could be the PSP version with the stream compression I have going on. Reminds me of the 'could you look blockier?' comic on xkcd.

Securom disk check. No limited activations. Supposedly copies made before the release date will have an online activation in that it phones home to check the date in order to prevent pre-release copies being playable. Any discs made after the release date will not have this limitation. Steam version just has Steam itself. Nothing extra. Information from here. Also supposed to have single disc LAN capability. No activation limit but we DO still have to activate it? **** it, no more Securom activation bull****, I'll just buy it on Steam. Given the exchange rate it'll probably be half the price anyway. "Just a disc check" is the info. The BG2 version of Securom, if you will.

At least we've read the thread. We'll wait for the game before we start to complain about it.

Yeah, I demand we change the title to Dragon [R]age. I don't even know why I read this thread anymore becuase 90% of this and last has been a constant source of complete irrelevant nothing-arguments. QFT.

I agree. Anyone who goes through the hoops of maxing their skills in FO3 with an int 1 character needs a couple of more.

As someone who has done some investigating for Congress, I'm crying foul here. The Constitution requires an appropriation from Congress for the expenditure of funds by the government. (Art. I, sec. 9, cl. 7) It doesn't matter if these funds are drawn from sources other than the general fund of the Treasury, funded by tax receipts. (E.g., Nat'l park charges admission, but it can't spend that money unless Congress passes a law saying that it can.) So there has to be a statute somewhere saying that AP agents can acquire funds in the field and spend them in support of their operations, or the agency is illegal. And if there is such a statute out there, oversight comes with it. (Note: Temptation to register a twitter account and point this out in a reply is high. But not high enough.) Clearly, Obsidian needs to hire an expert on federal appropriations law to check this stuff for them. I'll send my resume in momentarily. A black ops organisation that IS ILLEGAL. Call Ralph Nader, now!

Huh, I had to relisten it just to hear that. I'm not picking that up, with the distortion effect, but if you're right, my hat's off. Of course, I've been mostly hearing him in the Emirates terminal ad on Eurosport (that I'm sure is him). Let's all imagine another universe were Bioware leading men were voiced by Sean Pertwee and not Raphael Sbarge.

It's less 1337. And these guys are so 1337 they sh*t binary.

It's Switzerland - the demons are the original inhabitants.

*goes reinstall deux ex*

Nope, you just got to read the 'what makes an rpg a rpg' arguments that pop up every few weeks, then there's a lot of masterbaiting over BG threads, hating of Bethesda.(Hmm that sound familiar...) It's just the romance fans are quite often louder or to put it correctly, post mad. That being said the bio boards probably wouldn't be worth visiting without them. I'd say the major difference between here and there is they have less supercilious geek elitism and a younger average age. Both are insufferable in their own way.

Mmh, probably mostly that, as well as no longer off-loading the dlc development costs/returns expectations to the console side. OTOH my decision to not pay the full price for my (console) copy of this game is becoming quite firm.

Let's not forget that most people in this forum have more hours in CRPGs than 99 % of paid reviewers.

Oh that mission was great. I still remember failing because I shot a terrorist with FMJ, so it went through his head and into the hostage. Of course, since the bad guys in that mission wore body armor, you were really supposed to use full metal jacket ammo, anyway

In the US Summer starts June 21st, unless I'm mistaken. Probably a good idea to let the dust settle after Mass Effect 2's january release (and I'd say lucky it's a couple of months earlier than I anybody guessed, I think). np: Tillman Uhrmacher - Springtime (June mix)

Mass Effect to ship January 26 2010. http://blog.bioware.com/2009/10/16/bonus-c...of-mass-effect/

Hm, I disagree, I found them challenging and fun, not way too unforgiving or dull. Then again, I really enjoyed the planning aspect. You wouldn't get the "epic" firefights you do in Vegas, but Rainbow is supposed to "move silently, and strike like a thunderbolt" or something to that effect . The AI was bad in that it didn't really react to your presence as much as it should so ambushed were pretty easy, something the later ones are still guilty of. The whole appeal of the games was that they were unforgiving and realistic. The later ones sort of trade that for COD-esque non-stop action. The AI was bad to the point that rainbow operatives were more likely to grenade themselves than the target room when breaching. Loved the game, but hated the stealth missions. And I probably occasionally do the opera mission in my sleep, God knows I spent enough time massaging the timing on that one.

I've been hitting the Fallout 3 DLC over the past few days. Picked up Operation Anchorage, Broken Steel and Point Lookout. Broken Steel was kind of meh, but with the boosting of the level cap makes the other dlc less of an exercise in futility character improvement wise. Operation Anchorage I really liked, mostly for its look (and the Gauss rifle), I have to admit. Currently in the middle of Point Lookout, and this is probably the best, most atmospheric chunk of Fallout 3 I've played. I've also had a single crash in about ~10 hours of gameplay over the past few days (PS3 version), which, based on the reviews, makes me a lucky guy.

It's the American way The capitalist way! (That thing is contagious).

Well, if it gets (yet) another six months on the production cycle, I'd sure hope the marketing picks up, certainly in the demo way (I can't count the games that would have languished in store shelves if I'd not gotten to try them out with a demo - starting with Deus Ex...) Here's to hoping it becomes an early summer hit, like we had 1-2 surprises this year, just because they managed to hit an empty spot in the calendar. (for the record, this is - still - a day 1 purchase for me.) p.s. what the hell's this with cash up front preorders?! Is it really a standard over there? I don't think we have anyone but Gamestop even try anything like that around here, it's either cash at pickup/charge when posted all the way.