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I believe we already established you don't like the game. tl;dr

Ok Delfosse, we get it. You are not a fan of the game. I'm up to level 8 with my Asuran warrior. While the whole gnome angle doesn't appeal to me, the Asuran city is pretty amazing. It's a floating cube. The Sylvari city is less exciting to me, I've seen this whole nature grove thing before. I've been trying different weapon combinations as a warrior to get a feel for them, and ArenaNet did a good job making them all very different. You unlock specific abilities for each weapon. For example, a two handed hammer has an entirely different ability bar than a sword and shield setup. You even have different abilities if you switch to two swords. You also have combat abilities underwater that change, basically you use a harpoon and need to unlock abilities for that too. It gives a nice variety of options. Humanoid, as you level you unlock the 5 abilities on the right side bar, and then you spend skill points to get those. They become pretty important as combat gets harder. I also find myself moving around a lot in combat, so I don't get too bored with my autoattack going to town. One of the issues with beta is there is so many people around, the tactics you need to survive tough fights don't come into play as much, because you have a dozen people beating down the bad guys. It is odd having relatively few abilities, especially after TOR which really had way too many. But the diversity of the skills available have kept me engaged so far.

Thank you for being a champion of Obsidian.

If you enjoyed 1 face per race in the first gw, you'll like gw2's character creation process as well. Are you serious? GW2 has some of the best character creation options I've seen. The Sylvari face options are fantastic. Keep in mind you can then change the coloring, brow, lips, blah blah, until you have exactly what you want. Oh, the hair has some great options too.

I would think the future is going to be us plugging our phones or tablets into our TV's to run everything. Tablets are already syncing with the TV's and acting as remotes and guides.

It is bigger and better in every way, so I would assume so. It is fairly different though, so I can't guarantee it.

Crystal Desert here. I was very happy at how non-elf my Sylvari looks, and the Asura have a pretty swank city.

I think you'd be surprised, these cell phones are pretty dang powerful. Screen size is the real challenge.

What's going on with Colorado?

It doesn't look like the MMO kickstarter is going too great, but I think that is expected. Jagged Alliance is another cult property they are working with, and they haven't really won over that crowd with their choices. It's also good to see people aren't just funding everything without some caution.

It saves pretty regularly on the autosave spot, when you exit shops or your homebase. Yes, I also save it quite regularly on my own. Do you mean you can't save in the middle of missions? I've never seen that as a big problem, the missions are all pretty short.

I don't really get the point of the pictures you are posting Oby. Are these people you know? Are they picture you took? Or are you just posting pictures of strangers on the internet for no discernible reason?

Apparently they are the team that did Jagged Alliance Online. I don't know if that speaks well for them.

I'm guessing you're not really Alexander Tarasov.

You seem to have a lot of issues, obyknobi.

Both Jovovich and Beckinsale are very capable in the action girl roles. They might not have much in the way of range, but not many can look that good in tight clothes while fighitng stuff.

Agreed, I just don't get it. I looked at that picture for awhile and none of them interest me.

I watched Ted and thought it was good for some laughs, but the funniest thing was the old couple next to us that were clearly misinformed about the nature of the film. I can't believe they didn't just walk out, they were aghast the whole time.

Do you have a source for this? If this is true that would be pure AWESOME <3 Not too formal, but they tweeted it here: http://twitter.com/andromedaguys

The guys from Andromeda, working on a new Space Quest, just let out the word that Lori and Corey Cole are planning a Kickstarter for a new Quest for Glory game!

The NHL cannot afford a lockout. Hockey has really gained a ton of momentum in the last decade, and that would stop it cold.

critics loved it IIRC They loved ME3's "artistic ending" too. However I'd also call ME3's ending another debacle despite the fact that ME3 also sold well. Bioware at least tried to do something about it though, which is different then many companies do. I think you are placing your opinions, or even that of the vocal internet minorities, a bit too high here. Both Spore and ME3 are very successful both critically and in sales, which is all that matters to the game companies. Niether was a runaway hit like The Sims, but the word debacle really doesn't fit. My personal opinion? I actually liked the original ending of ME3 to a degree, but I understood where people were coming from. I thought it made sense, was cohesive, and I enjoyed it overall. What I stated didn't actually reflect my opinion, thanks for the accusation. debacles might not affect the current iteration's sales immediately, but eventually they tank the sales so that even if it sales great initially, it has no long standing in sales (which is why you can't find Spore as easily on shelves these as you can some other games that were released even before spore). Spore itself brought more debacle then ME3 in that it brought several class action lawsuits against EA, as well as forcing EA to back down on it's DRM ideas to the point of even releasing (or supposedly) a DRM free model on Steam. Some would say any press, even bad press, is good press, but I tend to disagree. I apologize if you think I was accusing you of something, that's why I included the bolded part in my post. I can understand what you are saying on some level, that Spore and ME3 damaged the intellectual property in some way. Spore still ened up with a couple expansions, so I"m not really sure if that is true. I guess we will see with ME3.

critics loved it IIRC They loved ME3's "artistic ending" too. However I'd also call ME3's ending another debacle despite the fact that ME3 also sold well. Bioware at least tried to do something about it though, which is different then many companies do. I think you are placing your opinions, or even that of the vocal internet minorities, a bit too high here. Both Spore and ME3 are very successful both critically and in sales, which is all that matters to the game companies. Niether was a runaway hit like The Sims, but the word debacle really doesn't fit.

My wife and I enjoyed it too. It really did a great job of lampooning the old TV show.

Awesome. Although Jalapenos are a new world crop, so you wouldn't see them for another 450 years or so.