Drowsy Emperor

Your point makes no sense. And yes I have several gay friends, some of them are conservative around there sexual orientation and some of them are flamboyant. I have no issue with either mannerism as I believe people should be who they are. Its the same when I go out with my gay friends that I don't pretend to be gay. Why should a gay person not be who he is? But once again I am confused by what you are saying. Do you really think that optional gay Romance in Bioware games is "stuffing it down your throat" or "drowning me in there way of life". I assume you have played Bioware games so you know that any Romance is not mandatory. You must know this yet you still feel they are somehow forcing you to be part of something that you don't have to be part of. And you have an issue with it just because Bioware is choosing to be inclusive of there fan base And you still say " you have no issue with gay people". Really, because from where I'm sitting that's not what it looks like? So in other words, if someone isn't enthusiastic about party NPC's being homosexual he's Hitler's and satan's offspring?

I've suspected that for a while. They're so persistent at it over what's a now quite long period of time that it looks very much like the higher ups are actively involved. Certainly no other developer in the industry is so aggressive about it.

It sailed well over yours too. Gaider himself probably does have an agenda judging by how he intervened in my discussion on gay romances in BW forums - but that wasn't the point. The credibility talk is rubbish, I never said anything of the sort. The point was already made in the first post, role playing is a childhood fantasy thing for me and they're putting more **** in it than necessary. Btw the chances that, out of several travelling companions, lets say 5 - that one is bisexual or gay are so remote as to be non-existent. At this point non-straight characters are heavily over-represented in Bioware games (DA2 isn't even worth discussing in this regard.) Same goes for the actual fans of the game, by necessity, gays are such a minor percentage of the fan base that the whole persistence on gay romance is a purely political construct of Bioware made for collecting brownie points with the press and gay community. In fact, knowing how viscerally male teenagers despise their conception of "gays", I can easily speculate that they alienate more people with this policy than they actually gain. So, if that's not a crusade, I don't know what is.

Well then he's even more dishonest than I thought. Talking about inclusivity of minorities when he's actually doing it because of his own inclinations, the latter not being a bad thing if you're honest about it. "I'm gay and I want to write and create gay characters" - that's perfectly fine. Just give us a call when someone less gay gets your job s'il vous plait.

Maybe he's a closet homosexual? He'll stuff it down your throat and if you don't like it he'll actually go so far as to say that the problem is in you, not in his persistence. Because you're obligated to be thrilled when your favorite method of escaping to childhood for a little while all of a sudden features male companions that proclaim their love for your junk. Its like walking through Disneyland and finding Mickey and Donald Duck at it behind an ice cream stand.

I think that Dragon Age art in general is a failure ..that they seem to keep insisting on). The color schemes are unappealing (they're the worst offender by far) and the design is inferior to what other companies are doing. Everything else was decent for its time.

Mass Effect was as good graphics wise as Bioware games got. The first one was very pretty for its time. I think BGII looks great on a large screen with appropriate mods. The rest are ugly, blocky, 3D hell.

And when you constantly heckle in threads about games you (claim you) are not going to buy, I KNOW you're not getting any. Poor retort, take a -1 penalty to all further attempts at being a lawyer. But Nep scores a + 3 for a relevant and very humorous response No, because I am getting it. The facts aren't straight.

And when you constantly heckle in threads about games you (claim you) are not going to buy, I KNOW you're not getting any. Poor retort, take a -1 penalty to all further attempts at being a lawyer.

You know my friends, when I see you debate the features of a virtual space ship the most pressing question on my mind (apart from a cluster headache) is... are you getting any?

Yeah I distinctly remember family trauma. Its like the whole Bioware crew grew up in Dickensian England.

I didn't discriminate, I hated them all equally. Seriously, besides blue alien ass I'm having trouble remembering the rest of the characters.

Bioware can't resist even fictional affirmative action.

But it would be fun to have a protagonist who is an executioner. As the executor of orders other people created lends itself to a lot of strong moral conflicts, intrigue and drama... That or I just like Gene Wolfe far too much.

Yeah, the reality is always more boring than the fiction. Except if its Biowares writing.

So, you're in fact, a Jedi. *yawn* Next! Me no wanna play if I can't burn heretics.

Actually, I've been kissed by a man, have you? Pointless comment is pointless. The laws in Russia are made to target propaganda, and that propaganda isn't just about channeling money into gay rights but into other avenues as well, many of them working directly against the Russian state. The whole act is as much about pleasing Putin's voting base as it is about stopping foreign influence in domestic politics, because most NGO's are nothing more than a vehicle for influence from some country or other. Besides, russian society (like almost all societies in the world) is overwhelmingly against Pride parades and open displays of homosexuality. It would be political suicide to insist on it, which is why only fringe politicians (who collect their paychecks from foreign embassies) can afford to do so.

I look forward to seeing the only politically correct Inquisitor ever made.

I seem to recall a mention of cancer months ago. I hoped that would not be the way it ended and its sad to see I was wrong. Rest in peace.

As usual only Zoraptor and exodiark make sense, the rest are just trying to bully everyone else into their conformism and well tended anti-russian racism. Tolerance died even before the R of Russia appeared in this discussion. People need to keep in focus that Russia, or Putin, or anyone else doesn't need to dance to the tune of whatever is considered hip and modern in a few scandinavian and anglo-saxon countries. Accept that, and enjoy the olympics.

The question about creation. Do our creators want to destroy us? Were we an accident? A mistake? A random experiment gone wrong? Why did they make us in the first place? For what purpose? To play god? Simply to experiment? As some sort of desperate bid to survive? Introducing space marines into the equation doesn't make for profound discussion IMO.

What I'm annoyed with is Steam's poor download rate. I have a 6mps connection and its almost never the full 600+kb but varies from 300-600. The whole point of an online client is to take advantage of your internet speed (and mine is merely okay) but if it doesn't do half of that most of the time what are they spending the millions on?

They should invent some sort of quick trials for people who are caught in the act, the more it drags on the more pointless it gets.

I'm bored to death of dungeons as well. I like exploration but the typical enclosed area filled with predictable mobs of increasing power and masses of loot should be a thing of the past.