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Huh, I'm not really sure what to say. I'm pretty skeptical, although I never thought a South Park movie would really work, and that turned out great. My biggest concern is South Park seems pretty over the hill. I'm at a loss.

Everything alright at home Volo? The personal attacks seem out of character for you, particularly one so off the topic. You can talk about it with us if you need to, you are among friends.

It used to be a much smaller deal, but now that we are dropping a huge amount on childcare and struggling to get out from an underwater property, we are both a lot more cautious about every purchase. The carefree days of dinners out and weekends playing games are long past As for what I'm playing, I'm having trouble staying motivated about Skyrim. I really am just bidding time for TOR to be released, I don't want to spend anymore time testing it.

When your finances are tied closely together, it is important to have a good dialogue with your partner about purchases. It keeps the relationship healthy. I don't run every $10 purchase on Steam by my wife, but dropping $60 is something I talk to her about. She does the same when she wants a manicure.

Yeah, I made very little headway in crafting. It seems pretty complicated.

Yes, some people play an MMO for about 300 hours and then proclaim it is garbage Raithe gave a great summary. There was an option in an earlier beta to match all armor color to your chestpiece. They didn't have it enable in the latest build, I have no idea why. I'm hoping it will be back for release. They have done a good job of keeping the armor somewhat coordinated, rather than the fashion nightmares you get in many other MMO's.

I suspected as much. Your courageous sacrifice means I shan't watch it . After I got over my disappointment that they didn't focus on the fairly hilarious other bridesmaids, I thought it was a decent romcom between that Target lady and the guy from the IT Crowd. Did you stay long enough for the conversation on bleaching? That was pretty funny.

I love the lore objects. I'll probably wander around doing them all at release.

I'm tempted to play it. I was really too young when it came out and never grasped the gameplay.

Fallout 3 didn't really have a billion sidequests like Skyrim. I think that might actually be better for me.

I'm pretty sure I've clicked on people and gotten little responses out of them. Maybe I'm misremembering, but I don't think they are all ghosts. I know they have little conversations with each other that you can overhear. I remember enjoying a drill sergeant laying into a group of imperial troops on Dromund Kaas as well. Also, the voice work is remarkable for me. Aside from an annoying person here and there (just like real life!) I've found everyone engaging. Some of the Imperial snark is just fantastic and has me grinning like crazy. I can understand the concerns with not having a real impact storywise. It's a very tough situation for an MMO. I've been happy with the phasing though, and while the world around me doesn't alter dramatically with my actions, the reactions and conversations with NPC's do respond well to my reputation.

Wait, you can replay dialogue? How? I think Holocrons might have been disabled, there were some issues with them in a previous build. There is a really easy to find one on Korriban, that was the only one I ever found.

So I'm curious what those of you non-MMOers think of the game so far? I knew I'd love it because I enjoy MMO's, but I wonder how it stacks up as a story driven RPG experience. It seemed to be pretty solid to me, I could see playing it for a month or two just for the storylines and then quitting.

Love is a fickle master young padawan.

You can earn those points you get for sleeping with the Twilek right back by confessing to your master about it, so obviously it's not too dark

Those are some pretty harsh statements about Tigranes.

If you make it past chapter 4, you can tell me in a few short words how it ends (I gave up on it a short ways into that) Edit: Installed it and tried it for 5 minutes last night. Between steamworks, GFWL DRM and limited activations I'm fairly happy not to have paid any money for this game (it came free with my EVGA card). It plays like a watered down Tombraider, even if the textures are a bit higher resolution WoW, that's really the opposite I've heard from anyone about the Batman games. Granted I prefer to play those types of games with a controller on a console.

I didn't give them to the soldiers either. The way it was stated was you were just going to get a guy sleeping at his post out of trouble. Compare that to a woman in the refugee camp trying to help the sick, and it's hard to make the soldier choice, really. It seems clear that the Republic has a pretty large inventory of this stuff, and it's just bureaucratic tape that is keeping it out of the hands of the refugees. That anti-government stuff may not sit well with Cant, but it's just a video game folks. The big thing is there are just tons of these choices, and making a few DS ones isn't going to turn you into the Emperor. I found my Jedi toeing the line quite a bit, flirting with the ladies but still trying to do the right thing.

WTF? How are either of those shiny good guy? Or evil, come to that. The sick refugees pull at your heartstrings with a sick kid. As a dark alternative, you can even threaten the kid to get the refugee to tell you were the drugs are.

I went and looked at some new houses the other day, and I was surprised at how expensive they are. They were $600,000 for a nice 4 bedroom/3 bath setup, and apparently they are selling at that price. It surprised me in this market. We also sold our condo a few months back. While the price was sickeningly lower than what we originally paid, we received multiple offers after just a couple days on the market. So the housing market is far from dead.

The future may look bleak, but I spend the majority of my days studying the past. That place sucks in comparison to where we are today.

I wouldn't have minded if it was that... but this was "Oh honey, bribe him so we can be together!" And the implication was that the simple fact of HAVING that loving feeling made those two become selfish unrepentant dickholes who'd watch the world fall for their own desires. On the same token, it's not like you are killing them. You are just reporting their relationship to their masters.

Quite a few of the dark options aren't really evil, they are just more emotionally based. I actually liked that. It doesn't kill you to take on a few dark side points.

I still see them on the shelves at Target, so your best bet is to just keep an eye out for it.

Wait until you get off the starter world to make that full judgement. Dromund Kaas and Coruscant really impressed me.