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The dialouge was very weak from a choices perspective. The Achilles heel of all CRPGs, but the mini-game quality of it removed any sense of defining Adam or the path he was taking. Instead you chose whatever would 'win' the discussion and moved on to the next. No wonder it felt so compartmentalized. We also get more than a few cut scenes where Adam comes off as rather stupid and slow to react.

Intelligent design is the logical conclusion of believing in god surely, nothing wrong here. Just don't pretend it's science, or try to jam it down school children's throats.

That's the one. PS: I don't get the point of age verification that anyone can bypass with ease. I want those 20 seconds of my life back.

What was the name of that Japanese movie that was a take on Foucault's Pendulum. Friends from school, world domination conspiracy theory.. this time with giant robots of course.

The entire game is like those stealth missions I hated in the Command and Conquer / Red Alert type games. What the hell were they thinking. Massive collective brain seizure mayhaps. I kept wondering when the game was going to start and you would get something else than the tutorial units, another strategic layer would surely emerge...

It doesn't hold a candle to the spy drone with the EMP attack from DX1.

Pikeys are slavers as well. I you learn something new every day.

Dead Space 2. Thin line between scary/challenging and annoying. Dead Space 2 is annoying. Maybe it's my new humongous screen but the view-bob is making me dizzy. Also with all the so called immersion and realism it's really tiresome to die because you were defeated by a crate blocking the path.

She's basically Amanda Woodward from Melrose Drive. Able to turn any situation to her advantage.

Uh, that seems pretty reasonable. I doubt that is their only evidence, but I don't think I know any woman that carries around a bunch of condoms. Of course maybe I'm just not meeting the right girls The first concern should be public heath, there are enough special interest groups seeking to curtail condom distribution already. If this does indeed keep prostitutes from carrying condoms for fear of getting searched that is a much more serious matter than selling sex. Official policy is encouraging behavior which increases the spread of AIDS. One has no choice but to be smart about this and think about the bigger picture.

It's all entertainment business. I'm sure the greater part of the consumers out there would find Eco a bit long winded compared to Brown.

I used to do something similar while playing the BG series. If even one character in my party died during a battle I would reload and try again until everyone made it through. I must have fought the Firkragg and Staff of the Magi fights dozens of times before everyone lived. That makes perfect sense. Unless you are not talking about party members who were permadead.

there's a book ?

Eastenders is a TV series about the East End. It went on forever, wasn't very good, but was supposedly realistic, or true to its subject or whatever.

A story for a CRPG usually has too many restraints placed on it to be any good if viewed out of its specific context. It's never going to compete with any kind of 'proper' literature. I don't know why anyone would expect that.

Who are we talkting about now, really...

Might be disk fragmentation I suppose. I'd say my load times are 15-20 seconds.

A mate that loves doing the washing up. I just had to cancel a dinner get-together because my mate's kitchen was so foul he couldn't get it presentable in time.

Load times are so horrendous you don't want to risk entering a new area by mistake. That said a little X on your map would have been just as fine, no need to clutter the HUD with it.

ohh and nukes are as good as worms since they have a capture time of 1

it took me a while to realize something obvious. There is no limit to how many takeovers you can do at the same time other than what paths are open. Same goes for fortify. So the minute the alarm triggers you should attempt every open path at the same time, and then fortify whatever nodes are not captured. it requires some fast mouse clicking, but you get used to it.

Traders. Or you could just hope to remain undetected, abort if you are detected right away. You can get through all hacks in the game with capture 5 and hacking stealth 3.

Feels like encroaching deadline pressure in that last mission, which was probably what it was.

I would have liked to have seen lock picking, melee and another city hub. That would have made it as good as the first one. Well apart from the fact that the plot wasn't as interesting, but plots are overrated anyway. It's how you get there.

Well that was all before micro transaction dlcs and reliable broadband connections. A dlc type pioneered in part by Morrowind on the xbox.