Orogun01

Why do you say that? Is like your avatar might turn awfully prophetic.

actually, we had assumed we would be included as a flatulent xvart or somesuch. the fact that we were included as a "paranoid" dictator who were proven ultimately correct, were far better treatment than we expected. HA! Good Fun! ps amentep were a mod from time to time. might be best to ask him if there were a biowarian or black isle directive to stifle openly homosexual posters. I kinda think that Dave was trolling you when he quoted you instead with "HAH! Good Fun!" and making it a half-orc... but again, it turned out better than we expected. dave had emailed to warn us that they were intending on including Gromnir in bg2. our response was, "do your worst." a mini-boss character in tob with voice-over who were tragically given the Cassandra role? far, Far better than expectations. actual, it woulda' been in biowarian best interest to have simple used Gromnir as comic relief. shoulda' realized that boards would react poorly to significant cameos. HA! Good Fun! It was obvious that the brown-nosing fanbots on the Bio boards (as was) would be furious that the disputatious forum contrarian won the honour of a cameo. Personally I think it taught them a lesson. Monte, why do I get the feeling that I will one day read about you on the news?

Has the mandatory "This game is misogynistic" review popped its head yet?

Upon re-reading the thread's title a question emerges; what's so damn progressive about equal representation? Could someone explain why is it that ideas that were penned centuries ago and have no direct benefit towards the advancement of the species (they do have other benefits) are considered progressive? Or is it that progressive has come to mean something different in recent years?

I like it.

That's what you get for putting your name on the Attractive women's thread.

I'm a socially liberal quasi-libertarian pagan / lapsed Jew with a fundamentally Hobbesian perspective on international relations. I occasionally find anarcho-capitalism especially appealing. I hope that clears it up for you. Mazel Tov.

I dislike the concept of "privilege" as defined by crazy SJW/Feminists, it seems to me that the thing that actually matters is inheritance where you directly profited from your ancestor's hard work. That's what I understand as privilege, not the implication that if someone white happens to be great then it must be because of a reason extraneous to him/her. If they want to excuse their failings as the world's fault, that's ok but I would really appreciate if they stopped dragging people in and they stopped shoving it on our faces. Go do something great and become great instead of complaining about how good other people have it because they were born into it.

I agree, I will probably watch it again just to see if I can figure how they pulled some of those shots.

I really want a game set in Evil Slaver Blood Mage Empire, but on a second thought, I can kind of understand why Bioware doesn't want to open the can of worms that portraying the human sacrifice-y-mindrape-y slavers as protagonists would mean. That's probably one of the things that's keeping the medium back, aside from the fact that if they did it would be written as a teenage boy's fantasy. Kinda like everything in gaming right now is.

What would a fake France be without a stereotypical fake French man; from now I dub Dorian sir LePew.

Remember those threads asking if SIS was romanceable? I do; I like this place, is the only forum I visit in large part thanks to the quality of the community. Even the trolls seem to have high class. I rather not risk a mass exodus from the BioBoards to here.

You're right of course and all joking aside I will try to put aside any expectations to truly experience the game as it was meant. Which I will achieve by sniffing enough paint thinner to reach the level of brain cells that a Bio Drone has. No; but seriously, seeing as companions in BW games fall under the same formula and usage I can expect them to be the same yet different. They will of course serve as framing device to point out what choices you have in any given situation; one for the evil one and one for the good one, and they will praise you when you come up(if you're allowed) with an eviler/goodier/all around better option. Its hard to get excited about the next round of special kids whose shoelaces you have to tie up; so I can look forward to the thrill and joy of helping some goon resolve their family issues, after I drill them (metaphorically, although in some cases literally) enough that they reveal what the issue is. Why doesn't BW just skip the whole Dragons and fantasy thing and just makes games where you're a psychotherapist with a loose concept of patient-doctor relationships?

A more pertinent question would be " Can you romance in tactical view?" or "Can you romance the tactical view?"

Of course it was, that's basically what Microsoft wanted. Although, if they did manage to make Crytek pick up part of the development costs A plus for Bill Gates. But I don't really think that there would be anyone dumb enough to think Ryse would sell, I certainly hope not Crytek. Cause if they did they totally deserve to go bankrupt.

When I heard that I thought that they were blowing it out of proportion. I'm pretty sure they can get investors on board, and they will get more support if they change their subscription plan. But if Nintendo has managed to make terrible decisions and stay afloat so can Crytek too; although that's mostly due to competition being dead.While Nintendo has certainly made some bad decisions, they've also hit some massive home runs. Past runaway successes, like the DS, have given Nintendo quite a healthy cash reserve to fall back upon during hard times. I don't know if Crytek has ever had that type of crazy money making success, or if they'd been smart enough to sock some money away for a rainy day.Quite frankly CryTek seems to be one of those companies that you don't hear a lot from, they just seem to disappear for a while.Still, I doubt that one blunder(Ryse) is enough to make them go under. Plus they still have a few major contracts (Ubisoft for example) they don't make enough games that would justify a massive expenditure. Its quite possible that they are able to break even. Did Ryse suck? It was literally the only next gen launch title that looked remotely interesting, so I'm surprised it bombed. You need to remember that we live in the age when not selling 800 million copies is considered bombing.

The reason he looks dead-ish is because he's some kind of Fade entity (probably) weirdly bound to the body of a dead mage. And he won't be romanceable in the slightest, because he basically has the mental outlook of a child and Gaider has explicitly said multiple times that a romance involving him would be foul and repellent. Just to dispel a little bit of the ridicule. Is a Bioware game, if they reveal a chair companion the first question always is "Will it be romanceable?" I'm starting to get the feeling that Gaider is overly protective of his characters which kind of compounds with the point that Grommir made about BW games being very safe. So their "dark" characters have the same edge as a cartoon villain. Which is not an accurate depiction since I've seen many cartoon villains that manage to be evil, creepy,ect without wearing a baby's skull around their neck (although if they could pull that off major props, since a baby's skull isn't fully formed and whatnot) It all just feels as when that kid who hasn't gotten all they way out of childhood tries to project his/her problems onto cartoons and we end up with a drawing of a Goth Sonic the Hedgehog. So knowing the self imposed limitations that BW places on themselves I can't feel all that excited about edgy characters reveal, specially when I know they are going to try and make them likable even when they're just psychotic. Is like trying to make Ramsay Bolton likable.

IDK, Vince Vaughn did a pretty good job as a villain in "Domestic Disturbance". I can't count him out as a serious actor just yet.

Sometimes I wonder whether someone should point out to BW that they should really stick with a tone throughout the story rather than going from G R R Martin to Josh Whedon. But then we get hilarious cringeworthy characters like these that is like telling the "special" kid that he's just a retard. I just don't have the heart.

When I heard that I thought that they were blowing it out of proportion. I'm pretty sure they can get investors on board, and they will get more support if they change their subscription plan. But if Nintendo has managed to make terrible decisions and stay afloat so can Crytek too; although that's mostly due to competition being dead. While Nintendo has certainly made some bad decisions, they've also hit some massive home runs. Past runaway successes, like the DS, have given Nintendo quite a healthy cash reserve to fall back upon during hard times. I don't know if Crytek has ever had that type of crazy money making success, or if they'd been smart enough to sock some money away for a rainy day. Quite frankly CryTek seems to be one of those companies that you don't hear a lot from, they just seem to disappear for a while. Still, I doubt that one blunder(Ryse) is enough to make them go under. Plus they still have a few major contracts (Ubisoft for example) they don't make enough games that would justify a massive expenditure. Its quite possible that they are able to break even.

When I heard that I thought that they were blowing it out of proportion. I'm pretty sure they can get investors on board, and they will get more support if they change their subscription plan. But if Nintendo has managed to make terrible decisions and stay afloat so can Crytek too; although that's mostly due to competition being dead.

Some stuff is in Polish; as evident by the prefix PL, But a lot of it is in ENG.

I know, I downloaded all that stuff yesterday. Research purposes really, I happen to be of the opinion that sharing techniques to make game will make for better games across the industry and it will allow others to refine said techniques. If only publishers would stop treating game development like if it was a national secret, I mean is not like they're doing anything new or like they don't copy each other with zealot devotion. Is like the same guys meeting week after week at a public bathroom to jerk each other through glory holes but they pretend that they're doing it to random strangers. A circlejerk is what i'm saying.

as a far fetched conspiratorial nut I wholly support that list.

And for our next product I-Ran. Love that skit.