MechanicalLemon

Regarding Stannis... I'm tearing through Guy Gavriel Kay's books. Finished Tigana and thought it was pretty good. I'm working through A Song For Arbonne and really enjoying it.

All right, I'll see if I can grab a copy after I finish DX1. Maybe that's why. So I met Juan Lebedev and decided to kill Anna. Using the GEP gun was so satisfying. Time to side with the NSF!

Playing Deus Ex for the first time. So, I had originally planned to do a stealth/non-lethal playthrough for the first few missions. I didn't kill anybody. After completing that warehouse mission right before Paul leaves, Anna Navarre says that she appreciated my enthusiasm for the slaughter in Battery Park. UNATCO soldiers are praising me for supposedly killing the NSF terrorists. WHAT?! /rage Now everyone thinks I'm a murderer. Despite this, I'm really enjoying it. For future reference, is Invisible War as bad as everyone says it is?

The comments make me sad. Gamers in general prefer a more "epic" story over a personal/subdued narrative (e.g. FO3 fans arguing FO3 had a better story than FNV because of "epic" moments like Liberty Prime). It's the same reason why the Transformers movies are so financially successful.

There's an extra scene after the credits. Very clever of you, Eidos.

And here's femShep... She reminds me of a mouse. Maybe it's just me.

Ripten: One Hour With Skyrim Finally Made Me a True Believer (Hands On) Pretty funny and enthusiastic preview. I think most people are impressed because 1) the faces actually look decent and 2) after Oblivion's inflated faces, anything's an improvement. Looking at the pictures more closely...it looks like the people of Skyrim haven't heard of bathing, or at least, bathing regularly. They look like they haven't bathed in weeks/months/years.

This. I still haven't had a chance to read his latest book "The Heroes" although I've heard good things. His next book "Red Country" is going to be a fantasy/Western mashup set in the same universe. Can't wait to see how that turns out.

Bethblog: The Races and Faces of Skyrim

Finished The Sarantine Mosaic by Guy Gavriel Kay. So good. I can't believe I hadn't heard of him until recently. Now off to City of Thieves by David Benioff. Really loving it so far. His portrayal of Leningrad during WW2 seems to be pretty accurate.

I hope there aren't any cliff racers.

YES..... I'm really digging the music. Kinda reminds me of Daft Punk's soundtrack from Tron Legacy.

Part 1 and Part 2 Very good read. So I assume Sis was the fifth romance option?

Same here. Neogaf has a thread up with all the new screenshots. I need a screen of a Redguard nao! (I hope Beth makes them look visually distinct and not just dark-skinned humans.) EDIT:

Looking good.

Anyone else get a chance to watch the 40 minute Skyrim demonstration from QuakeCon? There's a video floating around that Zenimax is trying to take down but some people have the 720p version already. I think it's the stuff from E3 again. From the video: -Game looks incredible in motion -MUCH better animations -Combat looks improved but still seems a little clunky -UI is slick and consolized -Crowd is annoying

Skyrim CE announced. So...$150 for the CE and the dragon's made out of PVC. PVC.

Playing Morrowind GOTY unmodded as a Dunmer assassin. I couldn't get into it my first time through (didn't make it past the starting town) but coming back to it now, I admit that I'm hooked. I'm heading towards Vivec and find myself far more enthralled in this game than Oblivion. I really hope Skyrim is more like the former and less like the latter.

OOO is definitely better than vanilla Oblivion but yes, the initial difficulty is ridiculous. Slaughterfish were the bane of my existence.

They've actually said she could be anywhere up to 23. News reports that she looks to be 16, but your dossier info puts her as possibly being safely older. And besides, sequel = not necessarily 5 mins after the first game. For all we know, she could become a playable character if a sequel shows up... Ah, so we're safe then. I would love to see her backstory expanded beyond the St. George legend we got in AP.

Although New Vegas clearly had some Western elements, it was still predominantly post-apocalyptic. Would you be interested in developing a full Western RPG?

Kevin VanOrd has put up his review for OWB: 8.5/10 Although short, it sounds like he really enjoyed it.

I didn't get very far in Oblivion, but I didn't notice a substantial difference in maxing disposition with other NPCs. Heh, it took me a while to "get the mini-game." I'm glad Beth ditched it. They confirmed it uses Fallout 3-style speech checks. So it will be percent-based? I would prefer FNV's hard-cap skill checks but at least it's an improvement from Oblivion.

Season 2 casting here and here. Carice van Houten is Melisandre, Stephen Dillane is Stannis Baratheon, and Liam Cunningham is Davos. The only actor of the three I'm familiar with is Stephen Dillane. He was fantastic as Thomas Jefferson in HBO's "John Adams." Really looking forward to seeing how he portrays Stannis.