Drowsy Emperor

I'm having second thoughts about this. When you look at inXile offerings, the fact of the matter is that they haven't made a good game for over a decade - or in other words, since the company was created. Putting nostalgia aside, what real guarantee do we have that this is going to be any better?

You know Morgoth NATO isn't exactly a single member club. European "leaders" habitually fall over themselves to support whatever errand the US elite comes up with (like Libya, for a recent example). But then, who are we kidding - its not like the EU leaders since De Gaulle can even get in office without keeping "good relations" with the US. They can kick and squirm, and pretend its all in their own (country's) interest in the long run but when the US says jump all we hear is "how high?".

I have none in either of the main Republicans. In fact I dislike them both, one more than the other. But I do have a very personal interest in Obama not being re-elected. And it is not just being opposed to his politics (you can bet I am). My home sits on the border of a Federal Management area and is a potential target for an imminent domain land seziure. The current administration has been more than heavy handed in dealing with property owners when it decides it wants their land. I (and the other land owners) do not have the means for a protracted court fight and small chance of prevaiing if we did. I don't know if either of the alternatives would be better but you had better believe they won't be worse. What's "imminent domain land seziure"?

Do you really feel you have a stake in any of the major players in the upcoming election: Obama, Romney, Santorum - whatever?

The only thing that's fascinating there is how indoctrinated some people are that Bioware can't fail. Actually they haven't even failed. They just made the same game for the third time, including the crap ending. People are making an effort to forget the immensely stupid final boss of ME2 and the silly final mission is because there was the holy third game that would magically make sense of all the nonsense that had piled up sky high at that point. The simple truth is that Mass Effect was made to be just as shallow, clich

...$65 sorry :/ International shipping. Anyway, I'm a backer! Wooooo! Really excited about the prospect. Hopefully it will be really successful. Chris Avellone will be happy to know that I'm willing to back an eventual Obsidz project too. Additional 15$ huh, yaay

Good luck to them and I hope it lives up to expectations. I think I'll break my depressingly slim piggy bank and hope to scrounge up 50$ for the box set.

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. A bit too confusing for its own good. Then there's the whole anti Russian bias, with them leaving corpses left and right throughout the movie. Otherwise its okay.

What are military bases without consolidated ground? - just outposts in hostile territory. The point of the fight against Taliban is to break them down and gain a pacified colony, so that US forces can be diminished or shuffled around without danger as needed. That is why the US can't leave, because the current puppet government wouldn't last a week - thereby rendering the whole war effort worthless. Also that doesn't mean the US isn't currently getting what it wanted - its the media who are playing up the whole: "war with a clear victory" angle. Its very opportune to hold Afghanistan even with the occasional dead soldiers. The overall cost is small compared to the strategic gain.

Every occupation of Afghanistan is always about its strategic position, a very important land route and crossroad through Asia. Real, tangible control over Afghanistan is every military strategist's wet dream. I don't know how important it is from a trade perspective but I imagine its far from insignificant. @Gifted: I'm very much aware of what US politicians said while they were preparing the invasion but it would be very silly to take those things at face value. From a military perspective terrorism is insignificant, the taliban irrelevant. No one cares if they set of a few bombs, more people die from the flu every day than from terrorist activity. The actual threat to the US is an exaggeration, fittingly used in the wake of Sep. 11 to gain support for the war, which as far as Afghanistan is concerned is always led for geo-strategic reasons.

I'm interested in DS only if it has real substance. If its only claim to fame is a high difficulty, then who cares.

Osama was caught in Pakistan, most of the Sept. 11 terrorists were originally from Saudi Arabia. So much for your Afghan Al Quaeda. Besides, I hope you don't really think the US mobilized its forces and such immense resources because of something as insignificant as terrorist activity, a few bums hanging out in caves with delusions of global jihad.

That's a bit silly. The ending is what it is, changing it now would mean they didn't have a clue what they were doing the first time around. But I still don't get why they (the fans) care so much. Its not 2001: A Space Odyssey, whatever ending they slap on it won't make it any better as a whole. But it does show they have bad taste when they automatically cry for a happy end. One could almost predict that a pessimistic ending would be epic fail after 60+ hours of sucking up to the player and telling him he's the second coming. I mean, Mass Effect, game of the generation? decade? the new "star wars"? seriously? If its a joke, its in bad taste.

The accident being foreign troops on their soil.

I just googled win 8 sys req and I must say I was pleasantly surprised! I took it for granted that it was going to be even more demanding than Win7.

Were you people seriously expecting a worthwhile ending to the ME trilogy, after it being obvious with ME2 that the story is the least of their concerns and that they're willing to tumble it around with no real regard to sense and continuity? It was either going to be Shepard riding off into the sunset or what you got. Consider yourselves lucky it wasn't the first (creatively bankrupt) option.

If it doesn't have quicksave its not fit for the PC gaming master race.

Good that the PC only guys will get to play this. Especially if your a masochist. If it gets quicksave it'll be much easier.

I tried out Odin's Sphere although I still have GrimGrimoire to finish and all I can say is: wow! The graphics are phenomenal and even the animation isn't bad.

Bite your tongue, Myth rules.

3.5 million suckers born every minute

I'm still on XP and I'm not changing it until the last possible moment. I hate Win 7 but 8 is a whole different story. Its ridiculous, sacrificing two decades of sensible development in favour of a few unnecessary visual gimmicks. Microsoft is trying really really hard to make it impossible to go under the hood of their OS and tweak things. As we all know that's the only way to get their software to work properly, unless you're willing to wait 3-4 years for them to sort out most of the problems they ship it with. I sincerely hope they crash and burn ASAP.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-03-04-retrospective-baldurs-gate-1-and-2 Lovely BG retrospective

Ultimately, it appears that Lucas had nothing to do with anything good in SW.

Nope, I wasn't even aware of it. After looking at the trailer I'm definitely interested, something nice to look forward to in the next few weeks. Thanks