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Oh that's right. Out of the 12 games developed by Bioware they have made, ONE of them has a Male/Male romance. Sorry. I forgot.

I hope so as well. If not, there's always Dragon Age. Wait what? I have not been following DA that much.. but did they confirm Male/Male romance possible in DA?

Please don't jinx Bethesda obtaining the Torment license. *kills himself*

I really wish I could find that damn article that explained why they did this change. But basically what you said above was the very reason they implemented the "stance" system. (Ignoring the Paragon/Reneage thing in ME, as there is no such thing in AP) When reading a dialogue reply you sometimes do not know what that means in effect to the conversation. NWN2 had the [Diplomacy/Bluff etc..] so with that it was very clear. With this new system, you are basically getting what you wanted in the first place. You KNOW what "stance" you can reply with. (You do not know however the outcome). I may be missing your point, but there is no difference between the "guess the stance" and the "guess the dialogue" that was in earlier games? You should be able to play "suave" throughout the entire game to your hearts content. It may however, not work on all people. From watching the video's.. you just need to guess what stances each NPC is responsive to. Or don't, and have a completely different experience.

If I remember correctly a few tweaks here and there could achieve the desired result -be it female-on-female or male-on-male- although I cannot tell you the specifics off the top of my head. IIRC a characters sex was tied specifically to their model not a variable (like say how you can make a gay character in BG etc...). And I don't want to hax0r my game when I load my ME1 save. Just hopefully they will add a male/male romance option. But I doubt it.

I just hope my Gay Shepard can finally get a romance.

That would be massive quantities of WIN.

Awesome! I hope they do a good job of it.

Nothing would change. The prime demographic for video games remains unchanged. Sadly. We need more half-naked men in RPG's. <3

VO budget is a bit more complicated. Rob mentioned (for NWN2) the Audio budget includes:

We won't find out anytime soon. Besides, Blizzard has a fifth project in development as well. I'm more curious about that (SC Ghost pretty please?). I too wished they had continued with SC Ghost. I really was looking forward to that.

I'd have to agree with you. Its not really agreeing. This is pretty much what the basis for her character was and probably what the Bioware devs wrote down as an idea first. Have you played Mass Effect? It is perfectly explicit she is a Xenophobic Christian. I do have to say, who ever wrote her, did a fantastic job. <3 I really really hope they continue to write for her in Mass Effect 2.

Ashely is a Xenophobic Christian.

Checks the URL for this message board.... oh... I thought this was the codex for a minute.

I think VD did a stellar job of showing the strengths of MoW (such as what *most* of us RPG players enjoy in a game). It was a much better review than most of the other reviews out there for it.

Agreed. I really enjoyed her lines and her character in the game. Her and Talia are my favorite 2 characters in the game, based on how they were written, and thier back story. The first time Carth/Kaiden/Anomen opened his mouth I wanted to stab him in the face. Thankfully Bioware game me an option to deal with him. <3

I'm curious what the setting will be. So far they have: Fantasy (WoW) Gothic..... Fantasy? (Diablo) Sci-Fi (Starcraft) so... Gothic Sci-Fi? hehe Actually if it IS Sci-Fi I might be a teeny tiny bit interested.

I don't believe there will be a text option, IIRC the entire point of the new "stance" system was to replace text replies with the new Stance system. There was a dev quote (I think it was Mitzoda) somewhere explaining why they did this. I forget where that is though.

(NON Spoilerish) NPC BIG CHOICE! QUEEN BIG CHOICE! HUMANS vs COUNCIL BIG CHOICE WREX CHOICE! That's pretty much all I can think of. They did confirm your NPC BIG CHOICE and WREX CHOICE will for obvious reasons show up in the game. HOW Bioware chooses to play out these choices.... we have to wait and see. Unless they do the typical Bioware..... no matter what you choose... they all lead to the same conclusion. I'm still looking forward to this. I am SO SICK of Fantasy RPG's and I <3 SciFi. And there is not really that much to choose from *cries* Actually I prefer the V:TM setting but that choice is even MORE limited. *cries more*

Do you honestly think Obsidian would continue something like that?

Please do. I am just curious if they *finally* added 3D support to it. Would be awesome if they did.

So Good even the codex likes it! (Link is for the codex review).

Is this the same Windows 98 emulation that is available for Virtual PC by Microsoft? If it is, it was a great idea, except (at this time) it does not have any 3D support. For example Grim Fandango plays perfectly on Virtual PC.... except the 3D mode does not work, so you just have the emulated 3D mode. Which still works fine, but 3D would be nice.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1249406/fullcredits#cast VO list there.

seconded. Thirdid. Didn't Mr. Grizzly mod them back into FO3 in a couple of weeks? And put environment descriptions back in as well, both the area descriptions and for certain items, buildings, people, etc. This could be implemented maybe as a key or button that you can hold down while the target of interest was in your crosshairs and within a certain proximity (dependent on your PER). "You see Dinkle. He is still staring at his hands and is profoundly smelly." "This rusty metal lean-to is what passes for a house in this village." You could add some other uses, such as identifying tracks with Outdoorsman, or picking up clues with a high perception/intelligence. This. Oh gawd yes please this!