Kaftan Barlast

Female Shepard is the most awesome PC char voice ever. If you stay away from some of the renegade(jerk) options, she's a pro through and through. Thornton on the other hand is completely intolerable unless you ONLY click on professional options and pres mute when he throws out some annoying adlibbed remark.

Mike Thornton =

The one thing that bugs me about this game is how all your dialogue basicly makes you out to be a massive douche. Your choices range from rude, childish, smug, obnoxious, patronising to just plain asshatt-ish. I dont know what the script guys were after here, but somewhere down the line it went massively wrong.

So I missed the thread, no sweat Ill just pretend the last 50 or so posts didnt happen. Here's my stance: EVERYONE plays games nowadays so please just shut up. It's like you meet someone at a party and you go like: -So what do you do in your free time? -Uh, lie on the sofa and watch TV. -No way! I totally watch TV too!! -Really?! Oh my god thats incredible, we have so much in common! (I think I may have stolen that from somewhere, but I cant remember)

In socialist Sweden, the curriculum changes YOU.

Community and 30 Rock are the funniest shows on TV right now. Scrubs went on one season too far, good riddance. But why the hell did they cancel Better off Ted?!?! It was friggin' genious! Was it simply too clever for the american public to enjoy?

Ive played both multiplayer for months and I have this to say: MW2: + extremely well designed and balanced in almost every aspect to make it as playable as possible + fast-paced non-stop action all the time, you can just log in and have instant fun + will run well on older computers + You are free to use watever combination of weapons and equipment you like. Sniper with grenade launcher? You can do that. + Levelling up is quite fast and you get access to very good guns from the very first level. - odd hit detection - very dependant on high FPS and low ping - highest frequency of cheaters of all online shooters (although theres plenty of cheaters in BC2 too) BC2: + enormous beautiful maps with lots of different strategies possible + vehicles are fun + netcode is quite good in terms of hit detection and it isnt as ping-dependant as MW2 - Weapon design is broken; all guns are terribly inaccurate and do very little damage. Dice admits this to be one of the major flaws of the game, the reason why they did it like that is in my next line: - Levels are not thoroughly tested and designed for gameplay. There is just an abundance of camping spots and its even possible to kill people in the spawn zones. If you has the same type of damage as in MW2, you would spend 99% of playtime being dead from being picked off by snipers - Restrictive class system with poorly balanced classes. As a sniper you get both kickass sniper rifles, C4 to take out tanks AND mortar strikes that can destroy both people and vehicles.. while as assault, you only get a rifle and grenades with no ability to destroy vehicles whatsoever. - Levelup is very slow and you are severely disadvantaged against more experienced players which have access to much better weapons and equipment than you. It is a system thats designed to punish beginners. +/- Battlefield is not designed for casual public play. Its meant to be played with a group of friends or a clan and its only then that you actually get the proper experience. Public games tend to deteriorate into a chaotic mess where everyone is just out to grind experience points. On BC2 I had a long talk with a guy from DiCE that told me alot of stuff about the internal design process and why they did this and that. If you're wondering where my knowledge comes from.

What do you mean by that? 3D is 99,9% Windows/linux and its getting to be the same for video editing. Advertising people seem to prefer apple for the looks mostly, or because of the old "before 1992, only apple computers shipped with 256 color graphics chips" thing which is the whole basis for the whole graphics is better on mac tradition/misconception.

Lies! Sweden used to be full of volcanoes, but we plugged them up. To make Sweden cleaner. True story. Yeah, 60 million years ago. I see your bragging rights flying away. It's called being proactive. And maybe you guys should have tried some of that, and we wouldnt be in this mess right now.

I fear it may make me less cool through negative association. (also: dont google the individuals of this roleplaying group while at work. bad idea)

Volcanoes totally counts. Spewing forth a poisonous cloud of ash and chemicals large enough to cover an entire continent does not qualify anywhere near clean. Its like having a cow in your kitchen and insist it isnt unhygienic because cow poop is a naturally occuring phenomena.

Lies. We are superior to all neighbouring peoples. Tall, humble, handsome and we dont speak funny.

I take it you havent seen 'Loaf gaggers' or 'Whole wheat whore' yet.

The Lake area? Thats like saying "the sandy parts of sahara".

Not to mention he wants to take the bread right out of the mouth of the world hard-working porn stars.

Dirty foreigners. We are number one, everyone else is number two or lower.

I both like and dislike that they're using my fav stoner band "The Sword" as a soundtrack, because its awesome but makes me less cool

Id say its more like buying a TV and finding out you can only watch what sony/panasonic/whatever deems appropriate. I bought the damn thing, I should be able to do whatever the *** I want with it.

My laptop was actually faster with Win7x64 on it. Hewlett-mothefrakkin-Packard dudes...

I will only say this: if I CAN have porn on it, I WILL have porn on it. ...my calculator in highschool could spout dirty limericks yall

This is very tricky because Im mediocre at a lot of things, but I wouldnt want to suck at some things to do others better. Would it be worth it to zero mediocre music skills to up mediocre drawing skills? And would it be worth it to gain expertise in mathematics, if I had to forget everything I know about history?

The thing is that the engine can do non-realtime renders using features like global illumination, that are impossible to do in realtime. So alot of what you see in those screenshots will look quite different in-game.

I was disapointed that kasumi doesnt have proper on-normandy dialogue, but the "tells short story when you click on stuff in her room" like Zaeed. But that would take alot more work to setup and animate so maybe its not surpising.

"My Lord Hamlet, may I use your bathroom?" -Winston Churchill to Richard Burton

They have a bigger budget than BoB? Ive only seen two episodes but it feels much cheaper to me, I hope it gets better later on. And that John Seda dies soon, he's such a douche