Orogun01

That statement made want to bash you on the head with a 9 iron, no offense or hostility intended.

Five bucks says that there's a thread right now on the BW social trying to make the fembot romanceable.

Tarna a real life Walther White, good to hear from you

That's the best disappointing game I've ever played.

I know the mathematical definition of it, but I doubt that is what people mean when using it on a gaming forum So which would it be a proper term to describe people who play games at the lowest difficulty and still find it challenging, Casuals? Less just call them the lowest point in the curve then. Shame though, LCD was catchy and I think I've the royalties on it.

I find myself a little to detached, almost pathologically so and on an unrelated note here's (not my actual "piece", just the song by Rammstein)

Orogun just can't help it though, the ladies throw themselves at him. If only it was just the ladies @Vol: grow a sense of humor @Nep: I fear because of ME2 combat system, they're simplifying the mechanics to reach a broader audience but those who want a harder challenge will see the whole thing unravel. EG: the dropped usefulness of most classes at Insanity/Nightmare levels. The story mode only suffers if they make the action too hard, but the reverse is also true because they are catering to a lowest denominator. Meaning that they will shape their lowest setting for the action based on that Story Mode, and I doubt that they will spend many resources on making the action more dynamic and reactive when they can just do a repeat of the ME2. Just buff up the enemies Health/Shields and have them run towards the player. At this point its pretty much speculation, but I have my reservations based on what I know of ME and BW's new market.

And remember how she was all over you on the first game and pissed at you one the second one? Well get ready for the make up sex, whether you want it or not. Thanks Bioware!

I've been wanting to read something like that for a while. Is it objective or is it another one of those pop psychology applied to gaming like when they put all MMO player into 4 neat categories? It's about an institution trying to decode player behavior to enhance game experiences, using a custom NwN module to test participants. Read it I feel that this line of research wont get nowhere because its a very narrow experiment. They're basing their research on behaviors based on one game, one problem, but the context keeps changing with every genre. Also they didn't mention any kind of control group, so its all pretty much interpretative.

Well, the problem is that democracy blows for minorities. So if the industry continues to risk nothing and perpetuate successful practices until they're spent we are going to be seeing a lot of this. I don't know your opinion but myself I think that games have dropped in quality since 2009, partly due to many failed business practices that have ended up stagnating the industry. This new "story" mode is akin to (quoting an earlier post) a coloring book that comes already finished. You take the gameplay out of a game and you're left with nothing. But none of this comes as a surprise since for a while now I've suspected that BW was going to begin doing the Western equivalent of visual novels, a "game" with no or little gameplay and false choices (the major ones being who's sex scene you get). Because apparently that's what their audience wants, romanceable everything, a guaranteed win, and story climaxes without buildup.

I've been wanting to read something like that for a while. Is it objective or is it another one of those pop psychology applied to gaming like when they put all MMO player into 4 neat categories?

Thanks I needed a confirmation. BTW anyone knows if Jeniffer "Hamburger" Helper has anything to do with this new feature? IIRC she was the one that started this fire back with DA2.

No it's a selling point like electrolytes in Gatorade, it doesn't do anything that water doesn't but the placebo effects works wonders. I wonder how they will handle the automatic responses? It just makes me think that C&C its not going to be the selling point of this game. I mean, will the guy who chooses to skip the story will automatically get the best result? Edit: NVM, I just remembered that you can't really lose or make a wrong choice in ME...Unless you really work hard it.

Well the army does tend to be accommodating in order to boost numbers, I guess the reasoning behind it is that there is a higher chance of women joining if the don't look like Butch Cassidy when they get back. Personally I love girls that can pull off short hair and a spunky personality. On BW new feature: it inspires me to try a new product, pre-finished coloring books. Just flip the pages and enjoy the pictures without ever having to spend hours coloring. It's the new thing I'll tell ya!

Stay classy Obsidian

Saw these guys on the Colbert Report, they're pretty good so I thought I'd share

A pig in your living room is more startling than a cobra in the forest. Doesn't make it more serious a threat. You obviously never had a pig on your living room. You've obviously never seen my living room. Touche BTW who was the pig in the metaphor?

You mean Jade Empire: The MMO?

A pig in your living room is more startling than a cobra in the forest. Doesn't make it more serious a threat. You obviously never had a pig on your living room.

I would have thought they would had been on board since ME2 which is highly reminiscent of GOW but then again I've met the GOW crowd and they're not particularly smart, or polite. That sounds strangely familiar... Oh, right.

I would have thought they would had been on board since ME2 which is highly reminiscent of GOW but then again I've met the GOW crowd and they're not particularly smart, or polite.

Woah, Bio/EA now are prostituting themselves to CliffyB and the angry nerd mob? Whowudhavethoughtdat? The guy who made GOW likes a GOW clone. Who would've thought?

Rewatched Papillon and at the risk of sounding like a snob, they don't make good movies like that anymore. It was good too, because I needed something to wash out the aftertaste that Priest left.

Coming back from school we ran into the trick or treaters. Should've ran them over

Well them maybe you're particularly privileged or i'm destitute, because my costs have been heavy when it comes to doctors. I still argue that there is no logic to leave medical care in the hands of private entities with little oversight, specially in a democracy. Haven't you played Resident Evil? Because of competition and powerful entities that monopolize their fields great ideas have been lost. Remember Tesla? Quite frankly, competition breeds corruption which is the rule of the free market these days it seems. I don't feel that such an important service such as medicine should be left in the hands of corporations without transparency or an oversight committee (although I don't trust those either) and since any fault by them is going to eventually reflect on the government, then the government should be responsible for what we hold them accountable for. After all we elect officials to protect our interests but we have no voice on the practices of corporations.