Raithe

Arrived in Baldur's Gate in my first re-play of BG1 in nearly a decade.. Not sure if any of the Tales of the Sword Coast stuff is worth the bother... Of course, I've got to run through and then work on BG2 and Throne of Bhaal as well..

Hm, I wouldn't say things were that out of character for them. Wrex used to be a leader of sorts within his clan, and he originally was a lot more..upbeat about things (at least if you listen to his stories it seems that way) it was only when his father betrayed him that he went off into the ultra-cynical, who gives a flying-crap-about-the-krogans... and depending how you played through ME1.. you could see how Shep brings Wrex back into less cynical way of thinking.. and Wrex goes back in an attempt to provide a "better" way of life for Krogans then just the "mercenary blow **** up". Garrus was always close to the edge of vigilante behaviour.. the constant complaining of red tape, the admiring of Spectres ability to act out side the law.. nothing really shouts out against him becoming a vigilante even if you encouraged a less "shoot 'em on sight" attitude. Lliara - Well, think how much people can change from their late teens/early twenties to having quite different world views by the time they hit the 30's. We meet her at a time she's still considered by most Asari as fairly childish, and she's the quiet type who's spent a lot of her time alone on archaeological digs (although, she has experience in stopping pirates/raiders at those dig sites). She has a close friend (Shep) , and she develops a friendship with someone else (the drell informant) and the Shadow Broker does some stuff involving them that hits the "I want Bloody Vengeance!!" buttons .. that's going to change someones attitude a bit.. but again, it can make sense... Ashely / Kaiden - That's the least likely out of it all. Sure, they tend towards the whole "Cerberus is Evil" viewpoint, and to them it might look like Shephard faked his death and didn't tell them..and now has turned up working arm in arm with the Evil Organisation . But you'd think they'd have more trust for Shep then to blow up and not really listen. Especially after the events at Horizon..

Yes, I mean you had some of the logs you could find suggested that the Doctor had become increasingly disalusioned, mostly because he kept striking out on hitting on Miranda... and he saw all this money pouring into the project but didn't consider that he was getting enough.. But nothing to really say who he sold out to, or much of a reason except being spurned by Miranda...

Well, Shep has a private toilet and shower.. The benefits of command.

Well, the main places where they had crew working did have doors that clamped shut.. the big area of the main bridge.. okay, that was wide open'ish. And the mess hall.. again, wide open'ish. But even on modern warships, those two areas don't exactly come with ways to make them small or seal off areas within them.. They'll seal the doors leading to them, but that's it.

Ah, but look at the diagrams of the ship during the loading sequences.. There seems to be a lot of volume around the rooms. I mean sure, that's all the pipework, electrics, space avionics and such go, but throw in the technobabble twinkie talk of material engineering....

Hey, it's "comfortable" warfare. They've spent several billion on getting Shep back.. and probably about as much on the ship. They might as well give it a few luxury moments.. like the leather seats If you're going to send someone on a suicide mission, make sure they have first class flights... Why go economy?

I had one bug happen once. Some point in the first.. hm , 2 or 3 hours of gameplay I had it crash out back to windows when it was about to start one of the cinematic points. Never happened again. Pretty sure the trash compactor is a twinkie humerous thing just for the background...

If you look at the New Game+, all saves you make after finishing the game are available to use.. So I'm guessing they'll do a repeat of the import feature with ME2 for ME3 with those saves.

To go with my favourite quote when life feels rather crappy.. "You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be so much worse if life *were* fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe."

Legion - almost comes off as a zombie movie with angels instead of zombies when an out of the way diner becomes the battleground for the future of the human race... Although Paul Bettany as a renegade archangel Michael is some entertaining...

It's one of those things that's always bugged me about those consoles.. the games are always silly high priced. I mean sure, the used console game market is a lot bigger then that for PC's.. but they've nearly always seemed overpriced and damn short. But console gamers just keep going back for them.. I guess the console games are like the popcorn for the brain in the gamers market... I'm a pc gamer through and through.. maybe I'm just prejudiced.. but dang it all.

There's also one with Krogan during the Grunt Recruitment mission. The platform caverny place , if you just hunker down behind cover they keep spawning, it's not until you wind your way through the whole route that they stop turning up.

But when has harder DRM encouraged sales? Now it might be a touch stereotyping.. but pc gamers are a touch more inclined to be technical geeks then console gamers. They also tend to react to imposed software hoops much more then casual gamers..

"Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast."

"As soon as I find the right small group of girls, the seven or eight women who are right for me, my wandering days are OVER buddy! "

Trying out the BG EasyTutu... seeing how much is still in my memory after all these years...

So I can buy a game, and if weather or anything causes my phone line/internet to go down.. I'm not going to be able to play the game. If my router acts up.. I'm not going to be able to play the game. If my wifi messes up.. I'm not going to be able to play the game. My, this sounds like ubisoft games will be a good investment for single-player game time...

It's the "one more turn" phenomona. No matter the Civ... I mean hey, I know I'm a pc gamer, but I never understood why all those console-jocks got so into the repeated same variations of Mario / Zelda / Sonic games done to death...

as long as they make sure to throw in a Sarah as well... "Don't puke on the C4.."

You don't have to do anything. Literally. You have to stand there not doing any actions and after a short pause, he'll start doing "The Robot".

Although I'm tempted to give it up as one fragging bad idea now. I just keep getting asked to put in CD 6 to run the game. the BG dvd doesn't work for it (and checking on that it just has data for CD1-5) the Tales of the Sword Coast disc doesn't work for it either... Dammit, if they're going to repackage it on dvd you'd have thought they'd have at least done something about that crappy disc checker.

Ah gracias. I'd just figured out it was something to do with the Tales expansion..

My impression was that the whole "You have failed, we will find another way" was being said to Shepherd .. Kind of like the big bad doing the "Mwah-Hah-Hah Hah, you think this has stopped me? You fool!" monologue .

Well I would be playing it.. but every time I try to run it it gives me the "this game will only work in canada or usa.." and shuts down. Hm, which is bloody strange since the BG Compilation has the pegi european rating and such...