Orogun01

I don't think you'd need to. It's not like the Mass Effect series where it's just one big story. The most important part of DA:O is that you prevented the blight from spreading across the land. DA 2 showed the mages splitting from the Chantry and the Templars starting a war against them. The Templar/Circle war isn't the main conflict of DA:I though. It's that the Veil has torn and demons are spilling into the world. But they often do cameos and returning companions and their stories are not really touched upon since most of it develops over time rather than in a single event.

After seeing The Avengers last week, I have to say: You've no idea what you're talking about. But hey, even if it was bad humor, it'd be still better than the I'm-so-zany/meme-bait referencial stuff everyone is doing nowadays. The Avenger was Joss Whedon, not a Joss Whedon imitation. BW is to Joss Whedon what Tofu is to meat.

Luck is for dumb people who can't find the pedal.

I'm more hopeful after seeing the video but i'm still a little concerned about combat and the consequences of your actions. Combat seems a little slow, probably by design since they don't want to make their game a hack & slash I'm afraid that it will be less of a challenge and more of a bother. The storyline and the possibilities remind me a bit of Awakenings, where the Warden was tasked with the defense of the keep and had to fend off an great evil, the darkspawn replaced with demons from the Fade. The thing I disliked about Awakenings was that the game was cutoff before you could reap the rewards from your actions. Every questline related with leadership ended abruptly, a fight on the streets or in a farm, with no real sense of closure. Without more word about what the plot will be and how much will your choices affect it, I can't say for sure that i'm totally into this game. But I will probably give it a try.

Thanks for all the goodies.

I just watched a few gameplay videos on youtube (haven't played DA:O in a long time ) and yeah I guess it had third person, but you could zoom out to tactical view and click with the mouse where you wanted your character to move. So in essence it still had that point and click feeling. where as in DA2 that is completely gone. DA2 was definitively optimized for consoles so its no surprise that they have gone with more of an action route with DA3, not necessarily a bad thing but it's not for everyone. Unfortunately with hybrid games that have no real leaning for one genre but rather try to put too much of both, they end up with mechanics that feel more like a gimmick. Such as scanning planets in ME2 became a replacement for exploration. They need to figure out what the core mechanics are and scrap the rest instead of putting a half arsed effort towards something that plays out like a mini game.

Since we're on the subject, is it true that cosplayers are awful people? Most of the ones I've met are but they were seriously way too into it, so I just wanted to confirm if this was just my experience.

Or Avatar's

He is totally being tsundere and on a side note i'm going to kill myself for using that word, maybe I'll repost this on the Last Words Workshop thread.

I had a business meeting today, I'm going to be doing a bit of product development for while. Strangely enough I didn't became nervous until after the interview, usually normal people get nervous before. What is wrong with me?

Girl. Yep, she is a brick house indeed. On another point, why the hell all threads about BW degenerate into the same thing? "Who is romanceable?" "Is the game going to suck?" " [insert BW game here] sucked so this one is going to" "No that game didn't suck this other BW game sucked more" Vol spawns and says something crazy. Is like if a vicious cycle had an affair with infinite regression.

"Yes, that dress does make you look fat"

No, it means that when you're 30 you finally get your priorities straight and don't sweat the small stuff. (Unfortunately most of those priorities are bills)

Its the same girl on all pics, and she is not showing any of the signs of steroid use. Also, women can gain definition and some bulk it just more difficult for them to have muscle gains. The girl in the pic seems cut not bulky.

ME1 guns all had recoil, so be they future guns or not, they worked on the same principle. ME1 had a more complex gameplay design, which was fun to a lot of people including me, ME2/3 stream lined all that out and what you got was a generic shooter. It's basically the same thing people complained about in DA:O, that it was nowhere near as complex as BG. They were railguns that worked on the mass effect principles, technically they shouldn't have had recoil. Still I enjoyed the system as it was, it lent itself to a futuristic feeling because guns didn't work the same way.

ME2 had better combat imo because it was more responsive and frankly lifted the cover mechanic from GOW that it needed. Great combat. But ME1 is the better game. I don't know if I can enjoy the wack a mole style of ME2, to be honest I thought that ME3 did a better job of creating a more dynamic cover environment so you weren't restricted to a stationary strategy.

But its not the sharpness of their claws that is dangerous, from my experience wounds caused by fingernails tend to fester badly if not threated immediately and correctly. Lots of nasty germs under those fingernails, personally I prefer to get hit by a strong punch from a man than getting scratched with poisoned fingernails. I guess i'm lucky I still have my scrotum then.

Then how would you handle hardware upgrades, by sending the console to a store so they can change the parts? Also with complexity comes more problems, with the PC a quick search on some forums will usually yield results. But with closed box it becomes more complicated to fix, so basically this console pc hybrid would essentially be a Mac. The leap from current gen to next gen isn't so big that they couldn't have developed their architecture with backwards compatibility. They just don't want to support it. But whatever, I can still play BG2 on my PC which by now is 3 gen old (BG2 not my PC). No skin off my back if consoles don't want to prolong the life of their products. Edit: It just occurred to me, point of clarification: are we talking about consoles playing games in its hard format or just the software?

The major appeal of consoles over PC is that they're meant to be less complicated (e.g: pop in the disc and play) I don't think that they would be willing to actually deal with choices, much less deal with manual installation. Although as consoles become more and more complex I see them eroding, as they are a bad PC and faced with two choices of equal loss but one that has more gains players will no doubt choose the one where they stand to gain more. (Unless publishers all out refuse to support PC) On backwards compatibility; it is very possible now since all it takes is a simple shader algorithm to update the graphics. There are no major changes in a console generation that would prevent them from playing previous gen games but then publishers wouldn't get to re-release HD packs. For a second there I thought that you were talking about mixing the pc and xbox online gaming, they actually tried to do that but desisted as it was unfair to console peasants who could not survive against the superior mouse and keyboard. Edit: A little light on Microsoft and their views on backwards compatibility: http://www.polygon.com/2013/5/22/4355984/xbox-one-backward-compatibility-backwards-thinking-don-mattrick

Me too, which is why I don't get the hate. People have differences of opinions

When you say unified xbox/PC, what exactly do you mean?

I'm at the same time afraid and curious like hell thinking what kind of book Bethesdas writer/writers could make Can't we worse than the Fable 3 novels, as if the game wasn't bad enough.

If you want a book that will make you swear off reading try "War & Peace" or anything by Dostoyevsky, with any luck you won't need counseling afterwards.

She can beat my mountain. (gently) She could joust with my wood. She could sheath my longsword. We could cross blades

Are you familiar with Sturgeon's response to that same claim about science fiction? I will admit some ignorance of fantasy writing, most what i'm familiar with comes from D&D or some other similar source. Whereas I'm more familiar with science fiction and can name some great works of the genre. For fantasy however, the great names are not the ones that come first to mind probably because their work usually is not high fantasy. But Gaiman, Pratchett and Martin are good fantasy writers whose work I enjoy. I still think that high fantasy is crap.