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The bits about enemies having different fighting styles and weaponry are fairly promising. Combat was one of the aspects that had to be improved from Fallout 3 and it looks like Obsidian is doing a fairly good job at it. Hopefully the final game will live up to Josh's promised awesomeness.

Well, little to nothing has been changed to the renderer, so I wasn't really expecting that anyway.

It works.

I can't see your second image Oner.

I subscribe to Josh's definition by the way (IIRC he posted it on formspring), and by that definition, Mass Effect 2 is an RPG, though definitely light on some elements (like character advancement).

Fallout : New Vegas + Dungeon Siege III are making me regain faith in Obsidian's animators. Also, from SomethingAwful (Josh/Rope kid): Guns, Repair, Survival is a very solid build. Endurance is the key stat for Survival.

Seeing New Vegas on the horizon IS AWESOME.

I think that's the first time that I've heard of a video game designer dying of a violent death. It's.. strange. I wish the best of luck for his family anyway. R.I.P.

As much as I like our dear Chris, it should be noted that he joined the project when the main plot was already set in stone and that he's just contributing to a larger team. I do sometimes feel that the other writers at Obsidian don't get the credit they deserve.

And no one really heard about it/cares about it. Make no mistake, Purkake is right. The game will have a spectacular launch, it's whether it will manage to keep an audience or not. That's Bioware's battle. *cue dramatic music*

The question is.. will they revert HK-47 characterization to KOTOR1 or keep his more psychotic KOTOR2 persona? Also, smooth framerate there, huh?

The fact that it's fixed with a mod doesn't really change the fact that it's a flaw. Especially since the consoles don't get mod. And especially since we don't know if Dragon Age 2 will be moddable.

In before Alpha Protocol derail! You've become what you tried to mock Worst. Can you still sleep at night? Can you? Just fine actually.

In before Alpha Protocol derail! Anyway, still playing Half Life 2. Apparently the designers really loved their half-assed driving sections. Good god...

Scars of War's Gareth points while Stardock CEO is a hypocrite. An interesting read overall.

There are Qunari mages. They are kept as dogs/weapons as far as I know but they exist. Plus, the mercenaries were probably Qunari who abandoned the Qun anyway.

Yeah. Since SEGA would so love to work with Obsidian again! I can already see them, putting a lot of resources on the team that already flopped them once!

Well.. lips too.

Almost finished? I recall Josh saying they still needed two years..

WHAT?

From Josh's twitter : we're not going to make the renderer double in efficiency but i know we've addressed various threading/stability issues.

Space marines. The world will be a better place when that clich

Second barrage of impressions/info from PAX cool glad you liked it! adding small bits of agriculture was an important (if small) goal. (guess who on twitter)

What do you mean? I disliked the skill allocation and that magic pwned all, but the combat was solid in Origins. Hated combat in Awakening. Lack of balance, poor enemy placement, an added layer of fake difficulty derived by the fact that you have to spend skill points just to set your companion tactics decently, misleading ability descriptions. None of that is inherent in the system, so they should all be fixable (I think at least the tactics problem was fixed) but it looks like apparently Bioware is pooling its resources into making awesome things happen when you push your buttons. A commendable goal, but that's not what I care about Dragon Age.

Transcript of a chat with David Gaider. So Hawke uses blood magic in the trailer. He's surprisingly evasive when they are talking about the combat. The game is shorter than Origins (hopefully that means less filler, not less core content), the empress of Orlais is hot and characters may reappear from all the Dragon Age products. Meh Q&A overall.