Orogun01

This is a touch too sensible for my tastes. I love how on the one hand, games are art and BioWare are artists and they have heart and soul and they really know how to write characters that speak to you, and they are transformative experiences!!! But on the other hand, I guess if you do some voodoo demon-nerd-wizard algebra sorcery and divide up your life into discrete parts of time and equate them into a dollar amount then all that other stuff doesn't matter because hey, you got your money's worth didn't you? Sheesh, what more do you people want?!? Games, like most major film releases, are commercial art. They represent a view, they can have depth, a message and integrity in delivering that message, but there are also constraints on the process of creating them and on the types of art/product that can be released. They exist with one foot in the art world and one in the world of consumer products. The validity of games as art is another matter entirely worthy of its own thread (I think we once had one) I would say that BW writing style focuses more around the companions than the overall themes of their story. In fact their stories usually end up being weak whilst most companion interactions are what gets praised. As for games being art, I've settle on the fact that most game art falls under the category of being applied art and that everyone seems oblivious to judge games artistically for what makes them art, which is the mechanics.

Justin Bieber sells a lot of records. 'Nough said.

I would put DA2 at the same level of quality of AP, whereas I enjoyed AP immensely I didn't like DA2. I can however, conceive of someone else having enjoyed it for the experience that it was.

Who's now in control of the Bioware division after Greg and Ray left?

We'll have to agree to disagree around whether Russia's attempts to broker a peaceful solution make sense in regard to Syria. It may seem like I am flip-flopping on the armed intervention in Syria but I have followed many new perspectives and I fail to see how at least allowing the Russians to get Assad to destroy his Chemical weapons is a bad idea? I'm not a great chess player, but you must be one lousy chess player! Because it's not good if the chemical weapons are removed, leaving Russia strongarming Eastern Europe, and resurgent in the Mideast when the US is apparently backsliding and impotent. Because Russia is presently under the control of the most rapacious oligarchical kleptocrats in human history. As oby would confirm, if oby was actually Russian, and could remember and be consistent in her spelling and grammatical errors. I consider Russia at this moment to be a necessary evil, only to keep the US and their NATO lackeys at bay. Also, how much different are their "rapacious oligarchical kleptocrats" from ours?

Because "it provokes the desire, but takes away the performance" so its commonly held that a man too drunk cannot physically commit rape.

You forgot that he was a liar.

If someone is so drunk they can't made informed decisions then they can't consent to sex. Exactly how much alcohol that is varies from person to person. When in doubt, keep your pants on. It may be a thing of misreading signals, a common trope in courtship is buying a girl a drink which if she accept its indicative of her interest. So it is implied that they have taken the first steps towards sex, if she however becomes drunk beyond cognition then all that the guy is left is with the initial implication. Something that some may interpret as consent and have no doubt in mind. It is wrong when someone misunderstands and thinks that they are entitled because they bought a drink, or that they willfully take advantage of a situation. However, I feel a better preventive measure would be to not drink with strangers you don't want to **** in the near future.

To be fair, all men have a hard time understanding what women mean. However, judging by the questionnaire consent was never asked by these men.

Did you question the people on whose house the car was parked?

Robocop is to Detroit what Rocky is to Philly ... and the tattered, bankrupt city (in real life) could use a morale boost. A new movie might help the tiniest bit. There was a successful Kickstarter for a statue of Robocop in the city. Because they do need an android that shoots evil CEOs.

It was okay, beautiful graphics and environments but the gameplay and story is nothing to exalt. All in all it was a fairly average game with the production values of a AAA game and the usual design faults.

How cynical, specially considering that it will get dropped once they see how useless "feedback" is. On the other hand it probably gives better results during testing, specially if the testers are particularly daft.

Layoffs are pretty common once a portion of the project its done, no use paying artists when all the game art assets are built.

Pretty much the entirety of my time at PAX was chatting with fans that gobble up Dragon Age stuff. Had a couple people that were more clearly less impressed with BioWare's direction as of late, though it was literally only 2 (that bothered to talk to me about it, in any case). Did those 2 gave an actual valid critique or was it just a matter of personal taste? and more importantly; are you allowed to talk about it?

A medieval FarCry sounds interesting, closest I've seen to that was Mortal Online. They won't say the truth because no one in publicity ever says the truth, after all is their job to sell you their game.

**** Citizen Kane and **** all those people that are using it as a goal who don't even know why Citizen Kane was relevant to film. Hint: "its not because its a good movie." Having never seen the film, why is it note worthy? Its one of those films that are relevant to film students because it first used many of the shots, camera angles and generally filmography techniques that became commonplace after. The film is kind of like the Aristotle of films in that Aristotle defined the scientific method for all generations to use, but instead using visual language. But as for being entertained I particularly wasn't, I can appreciate the value of the film but it kind of requires one of those weird mindsets when you're in the mood for something dry serious. Hopefully Ametep will pop in soon and answer your question way better than I can.

**** Citizen Kane and **** all those people that are using it as a goal who don't even know why Citizen Kane was relevant to film. Hint: "its not because its a good movie."

In the land of Thedas people take their after school clubs very seriously.

A book can too, either way it's dead trees doing magic because stuff. Or more specifically because they wanted an excuse to give mages a weapon slot item. I kind of like the floating book, its a refreshing change from staves everywhere.

Have the rebels asked for assistance? I'm of the opinion that the US should not intervene in other countries policies or conflicts and judging by how it has in the past come back to bite them in their asses I would recommend that they learn from their mistakes. Seriously, I'm starting to think of the US as the most buff guy at a bar that needs to keep picking fights because he feels insecure and has to continuously assert their authority. The sooner they stop this nonsensical belief that they are the overlords of the world and keep to themselves the better it will be. Unless of course all the conspiracy theories are right and the US government is the tool of someone else.

And thus.. we know he's a a Lawyer.. Yeah, if I clung to preconceptions contrary to evidence in the contrary I'd be lawyer's client... Or an engineer :D This post made ask myself a very important question: " What job would be easier to do while drunk, engineer or lawyer?"

There's nothing Celtic about Skyrim. Celtic culture is rarely, if ever, represented in RPGs. Or video games in general. I don't think you even know anything about it, given you believe Norse culture to be Celtic culture. Celtic culture is vastly different from Nordic and Germanic cultures (which are related.) Finally, looking at the poll results, it seems that a clear, though not large, majority of respondents prefer the status quo, which of course explains why the status quo persists. The fornsworn, hags as priestesses of the Old Gods, rituals related to nature, sounds very Celtic to me. Albeit a corrupted version of the Celts which serves well to represent them as having been consumed by their struggle and having gone to extremes to regain the Reach.

There is auto-attack. The dodge is a skill with a cooldown. There seems to be an action queue. I'm not sure why the guy playing used it so much as I noticed he rolled even when he wasn't under attack. There will be a tactics menu, which means you can get your characters to do things without your input. A simple one is something like 'if health < 30%, drink a potion.' 'if attacked, dodge and cast freeze on your attacker.' So tactics work the same as in the previous games? What about attack combos, dual striking or chaining abilities, has there been any word on that?