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I agree memorable characters make a huge difference, as mentioned by others for me having interesting party members is one of the reasons I make certain choices in the game. I enjoy there feedback and I consider what impact a choice I make may have around my relationship with them. It would be interesting to see a situation where a party feels betrayed by you and then leaves the party only to have to face him later in combat.

I'm waiting for a sale on the Zodiac Tournament DLC, hopefully it happens during the Spring Sale. I'm basically looking for any excuse to jump back into Sleeping Dogs. Hi Keyrock Zodiac is only $5, I did buy it. It adds about 3 hours of extra gaming. By the way I loved SD, and I only played it because of your endorsement so thanks for the tip Oh and the Controller makes a huge difference.

" burning marijuana fields " !!! Is nothing sacrosanct in gaming anymore ?

Err, I do understand how the system worked, and none of the dialogue options both in language or intent were particularly difficult to understand. That is, after picking one; the short descriptions on the wheel were not particularly enlightening, hence the guessing game. Now, I'm not a native English speaker but I understand the language just fine. I just didn't like the dialogue system. The options are too restrictive, trying too hard to entertain and losing sight of the goal which in an RPG is building your own story and character. They turned my character into their character by yanking away control both in customization and dialogue, and turned it into one I would never choose to play at that. Okay I understand what you meant now when you say you didn't like the dialogue

Wow, thats a serious indictment of DA2, the way you explain it I can understand why you didn't enjoy it. But are you sure you understood what the various dialogue options meant, maybe thats why you didn't understand how the system worked?

I never bought that DLC, but Zodiac is about 3-4 hours of extra gameplay. Whats cool about it is you fight enemies who use new martial arts. Like a kick boxing style and you can learn new styles of fighting. But to be honest those are a little wasted once you finish the main story as when would you use them as the DLC are very quick to finish

I don't believe that for a second. They're just using the most vague marketing terms and boasting about performance without backing it up. CNET are reporting that the 7A comes with an AMD R-Series APU with Radeon HD 7660G which struggles to run Arkham City and Metro 2033 at low resolution, let alone Battlefield 3, Skyrim, or Crysis 2, considering this isn't even out yet, it doesn't really have a chance at games released after it's available. The 5A as a desktop solution for general use is great, although it's slow and expensive enough that a Chromebook or Chromebox is going to be more appealing for just web use, and a laptop is going to be the better deal, even with a SSD added to it (I'm hoping manufacturers just switch). This is my concern, the Video card and its capability

I bought the the Zodiac Tournament DLC, you should get it if you enjoyed SD. Its lets you fight new enemies in a Blood Sport style theme

I second Aljazeera as a good news agency, although they do have blind spots. It really is, it as objective as CNN or Sky and I believe those provide good news coverage. In fact sometimes it has access to people and places that our normal Western news networks don't have so you can even see more insightful reporting. I watch it in South Africa and when I travel to the Middle East. There are a few versions but obviously I only watch the English\Western one.

Is there anyone that woman hasn't slept with? She was a beautiful little pirate wasn't she

Just make sure you make a high intelligence, wisdom and charisma character, they affect a lot on dialogue and that's all the game is about. Trust me, you get much more out from the game like that. I wish I could play it again for the first time too, you lucky bugger Thanks for the tip, I was going to ask for some non-spoiler advice as I want to play the game and get the maximum value

Some people have synonymised the dialogue wheel with the decline of Bioware they have percieved. They should be glad for it, the shortened responses (in the vein of "I want to be a dragon") it displays have provided them with endless ammunition for their trolling. Personally, I don't mind it, they've gotten a lot better with from its first implementation in Mass Effect 1. But then again, my French teacher described me as a classic intellectual subtype who's able to enjoy "stupid" pursuits because he had enough intellicredentials without positing an endless interest in everything "deep". Not sure how accurate he is, but he's always struck me as a pretty astute guy. The main reason people didn't enjoy DA2 is approaching it with a negative mindset. Everybody I've seen approach it with an open mind found it fairly enjoyable in spite of its faults. I agree with almost everything you have said, when I played DA2 I ignored all the nnegative press from many people and looked at the game on its own merit. It was entertaining, it wasn't fantastic but I didn't dislike it. As I mentioned before it had Isabella in it I know Bioware can do better and I am confidant they will

Thanks for the explanation. I am always fascinated by different cultures, another advantage of the Internet is that it is easy to learn about this global world we all live and thrive in. I grew up in a completely atheist family so I was never exposed to anything even remotely religious\spiritual.

For me I think they have learnt lessons. You can see from this blog that Mark Darrah, Executive Producer of DA3, that they are listening to fans and there feedback. http://blog.bioware....ii-inquisition/ So I expect a markedly improved game to DA2. I will be supporting them financially as I do still believe Bioware can deliver entertaining games. I don't think Bioware has learned their lessons, it is more customers like you who haven't. I say this based on how little it is required for you to already be decided upon tossing money at them when this title launches. The two things confirmed, dialogue wheel and voiced protagonist (that can only be one race) is not what I would call lesson learned. But I don't have an issue with the dialogue wheel, in fact just remind me again why its a bad design? Don't get me wrong I prefer the traditional response options like BG2 but its not enough of a reason to make me not buy DA3. Also surly the dialogue wheel wasn't the main reason people didn't like DA2. I thought it was more the laziness in the design around factors like the reused dungeons and creatures just appearing from air. I may be wrong?

First that Crhis Avellsomething person hasn't played Arcanum. Now you haven't played Planescape Torment. I am waiting for the person on this forum who will say "I am playing Hide & Seek for the first time. I am excited to try the playground classic for the first time" You funny Melk To be honest I also haven't played IWD1&2, Fallout 1&2 and BG1 So I have some exciting times ahead before PE gets released.

The one thing I am concerned about is real performance with the Xi3, for example I have 2 GB of memory just on my video card in my gaming PC. How much memory with the Xi3 have in there built-in video card? I know this is a huge factor in the excellent graphic settings I can enable in my games? Does anyone know anything about this

I am about to play Planescape for the first time, I bought it on GOG and will be installing it today or tomorrow with all the recommended Mods from GOG. I'm excited to be playing this classic that people always talk about

For me I think they have learnt lessons. You can see from this blog that Mark Darrah, Executive Producer of DA3, that they are listening to fans and there feedback. http://blog.bioware.com/2012/09/17/a-blog-from-mark-darrah-dragon-age-iii-inquisition/ So I expect a markedly improved game to DA2. I will be supporting them financially as I do still believe Bioware can deliver entertaining games.

Whoops. I think you may be right. I now realize that this technology isn't going to replace the PC, I made an incorrect assumption. It just allows you to play Steam based PC games on HD TV screens, this is actually a good idea. I will be following this concept. What would be the negative with this type of technology from a PC gaming perspective?

You have raised a very valid point, how do you eat such a large burger. What I do is use a knife and fork, I generally don't eat every ingredient in one bite but cut it up in smaller bites and try to put as much as possible in one mouth full.

That sounded interesting. Its always great to catch up with family, nice one. I assume you are talking about Buddhism. I have always been interested in that religion. I am not religious but more spiritual.

I agree, what is wrong with him saying he is an American senator and his first concern is the USA and not Israel? Also I think that many lobby groups have too much influence in the USA political arena . How does this make him anti-Semitic? Anyway I see that Obama has nominated Chuck Nagel. Interesting development, I assume the Republicans will filibuster the decision?

Personally I think that Valve has made an egregious mistake in investing in this type of technology. They should have stayed with what they know and are good at, the distribution of games for the PC. I think they have underestimated the support for PC gaming, people don't want another console mutation gaming platform. So lets see how financially successful this adventure is.

Okay, I'm not sure?

Wasn't CDPR supposed to have a couple of quirky "smaller" titles in the making too (I seem to remember some talk from last fall about an "AA" and/or an "A" games being in the making)? What happened to those, or do I misrecall? Yes they are also making the Cyberpunk RPG, but thats going to be at least 2 years. http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/05/30/cd-projekt-reds-new-rpg-is-cyberpunk/