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Finding the origins of the super-secret, long dead (or almost all dead) species that created the original Reapers back in the dawn of history... and the location of the mystical Reaper Ctrl-Alt-Del key..

I hadn't realised you were such an optimist Purkake.. Hm, I would go with the generic having a central character you can take the role of, and choose various course of actions during the story of the game, with your choices affecting the course of the story. Unfortunately, I also think that's kind of the "ideal" which doesn't really happen in most crpgs.

They didn't say if there's any more crates in it... But I do wonder if they've added the utility to use duct tape in missions yet...

The funky hyperdrive thing if you wanted to get the really "good" ending.. there was a handful of not so good, and fairly appaling "you screwed up" endings if you weren't careful...

Was more efficient if you had 6 level 1 research then 1 level 6 research.. But still was a dang good game once you got to grips with it...

There's just too little data about it to go one way or another... So we just clamour for more info and spin wild theories and speculation on limited knowledge.. But hey, that's what forums are for, yes?

Trying to give the guys the image of lingerie pillow fights?

I do get the feeling that the future of crpg's is going to lean heavily into the "main hero" and "two companions" style that they seem to be doing lately.... mostly because it's "easier" to set up games like that on consoles. And that seems to be the all important market for games development lately. Much as it sucks for those of us who love our pc's. There seem to be a lot of games developed for the console that will get "ports" onto pc's... and games developed for "console & pc" but which tend to be designed so the consoles can handle it, and thus even the pc version won't be that un-consolified. Mouse and keyboard work great to control larger parties.. but console gamepads.. eh, not so much.

Maybe I just had a glitch then Vol.. Because I told Jack flat out "no, I wasn't interested in her" and then every time I tried talking to her after she kept doing the dialogue spin of "i know you're seeing that other girl, make a choice or just leave me alone." and nada else but that.

Alien Legacy - developed by Ybarra Productions and published by Sierra Online back in the early 90's... Had an interesting mix of strategy, resource management with an almost.. adventure game style storyline.

"If there was a way to get magic for free, do you really think I'd have spent so much time sacrificing children to my dark gods? For spells, I mean. Obviously there'd still be sacrifices. A hobby's a hobby."

Tsk.. it takes me about 5-6 hours to read one... if I'm having a seriously quiet weekend feeling like lazing around, I can get through a three or four .. Maybe that's given me a different view point on them then all those people that seem to take a month to read just one.. but I find when you have them together that the story smooths out a whole lot better then when you take them piece meal...

Hm, one thing that did hit me.. Even though I told Jack i wasn't interested in a relationship with her, the next time I tried talking to her she went into the "I know you're hitting on that other girl, make a choice or stop visiting me" dialogue.. Which kind of makes me want to throw my hands up and do the whole " I don't need to make a choice. I told you NO!"

Legend had (now it's run by Atari) a book forum for WoT. It was quite popular back in the day, though now it's like a graveyard. I don't know.. Dragonmount is fairly active on the net for fan interest on WoT.. besides linking fans, it's the site that had a long running connection with Jordan's family as well.

Maybe it's just that it's a lot quicker with the mouse on the PC version then it is with the xbox control.. But yeah, scanning a planet was the hold the button and run the mouse back and forth quickly, then if you got a big spike , slow down center on the area, blip a probe, then return to the fast flicking the cursor up and down... Didn't really take that long. Scan a few planets like that every couple of missions and you had enough minerals for everything...

With Miranda, it felt like even Cerberus treated her more as a tool due to her genetic enhancements (and no, I'm not talking about the curves), but she was loyal to them because they protected her from her dad, and gave her a sense of purpose. Then along comes Shep and through the quick-n-easy hero therapy sessions, trying to treat her as a "person" rather then just some genetically enhanced wonder tool.. not even counting earning her loyalty and/or seducing her into the romance.. They could have made more of the whole process rather then shrink it down to a handful of conversations, but it's understandable characterwise.

From the limited news so far, I don't see a point to go mass-hate, or mass-love. It's obsidian involved in some way with a game (or possible several games). It's not been announced what sort of format or genre the styles of the games will be (although with obsidian involvement, the likelihood of some form of rpg is most likely). It's a rather extensive fantasy setting with a fair amount of detail out about it. Beyond that... as someone who liked the books, I'll be interested to see what gets done. But until more details come out, I'm not going to say it's going to be good or a horror show.

Yes, when you talk to the Volus in ME1 about the Shadow Broker you do get the heavy suggestion that the SB is heavily intwined in galactic politics, business, and crime on a lot of levels.... and everybody is used to it. Which suggests that the SB has been around a lot longer then the 10 odd years that humanity has been on the galactic scene... Although TIM comes across as if he's going to be pulling xanatos gambits and even some xanatos roulette. I get the feeling he's spread out through the alliance and used the whole.. "humans are adaptable" to get into the flow of info on the other races. There was some entry that mentioned how it was actually TIM who'd manipulated the Alliance/Turian agreement that created the original Normandy as an excuse to get a better look at Turian technology...

Yeah, a first person shooter type, set 1,000 years before the books. Played as an Aes'Sedai using channeling (the magic) to do the shooting. Rather then picking up guns, you picked up new "weaves" to use. A bit glitchy in places. But did have a rather good soundtrack.

That's the real reason for romancing Miranda... seducing her away from Cerberus to loyalty to you..

I do kind of wish that if they're going to let you troll around the universe after finishing the suicide mission... that there'd be at least some recognition by certain people that you'd just done that. I mean you just get the same old dialogue choices for Aria, Anderson... How much would it have taken to have put in something there? Apart from taking Legion around to see what reactions people get to a Geth... there just doesn't seem any real immersive flow to doing any missions or such afterwards..

Talk to the Citadel Security/Receptionist in the dock area when you have Legion.. Shep : "Why is security so heavy?" C-Sec: "We're cracking down to prevent Geth infiltration." Legion: "Geth do not infiltrate" C-Sec: "Please be aware that mobile recording units are not allowed on ..."

There are slow bits, and a lot of people don't like that the author introduces a lot of characters as the series progresses... But it really gives the detail and character development of the main "hero" types, that start out from the typical back-of-beyond-village.. and over the course of the series grow into positions of major consequence, influence and having to deal with the "bad guys". Throw in the politics, manipulations, countries going to war with each other, people not truly believing in the big bad, and thinking that the hero's are the big bad... It can go off the rails in way too much details of certain things, and following minor characters (but then, even minor characters cab do stuff that turns out to have serious consequences that affect the main characters 8 chapters later...). Personally, I found it a lot more fun then reading LoTR

ME2 Ending tweets : "The game is going really well and folks are looking forward to where the overall plot will go. Then Fox cancels the series" "Shepard discovers that the princess is in another castle." "Shepard discovers that he is inside the Matrix." "At the end of mass effect 2 you find out that Shepard was a ghost the whole time! " "Shepard wins SAG Award for his moving documentary "In the Belly of the Beast." Harbinger sues, citing defamation of character." "Joker makes the Kessel Run in less than eleven parsecs." "Shepherd discovers its all a simulation, Miranda is in fact an old insane German sounding scientist pretending to be a girl."

To be fair to Zaeed there, when he co-founded Blue Suns, he handled one side of the business, and his partner handled the other side.. The partner being one of those rather nasty individuals who developed a core group of nasty thugs loyal to him, and then pulled a coup on Zaeed when he got back from business.. Then after they thought Zaeed was dead, they proceeded to purge all mention of him in the groups history and started a major recruitment drive to push out some of the other "old core" of the group. So it wasn't as if he was shot by his own men for being a crappy leader.