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Misreading Australia for Austria is a pretty simple mistake to make, and I fess up to that. But Krezack thinking I don't know the difference between the two countries is a bit disheartening

Nah, it's just all you convicts have built up a stronger tolerance to bacteria living in the the real world equivalent of Mad Max's world. He's *Austrian* Hurlshot... not Australian Ooops! Is that a suburb of Germany?

These are all true. I'm looking around the room and I see 4 cups, and I know there is at least two in the bathroom.

Nah, it's just all you convicts have built up a stronger tolerance to bacteria living in the the real world equivalent of Mad Max's world.

That's why those bottles can be recycled again. Maybe one day it will come to the US too. Seriously, not only do I reuse bottles all the time around my house, they are pretty easy to put in the recycling bin when they've been around too long. Given that I'm out in the boondocks and our water supply has been contaminated multiple times, bottled water makes me feel a heck of a lot more comfortable. Oh and we don't have flouride in the water, so I buy special bottles for the kids to help their teeth.

I'm playing through the Thieves Quest storyline and I feel a little bad about it. I think I remember Morrowind and Oblivion have a bit of a more noble thief aspect to the guild, The Skyrim quests make me feel dirty.

I will say this, TOR is an MMO, and you shouldn't fool yourself into thinking otherwise. But it does one thing better than any other MMOs, and that is tell an individual story. So it might be worth the price of admission for you just to experience that. It's also set in an awesome universe. They have taken the great vibe of the KotOR games and expanded it into this gigantic play space.

I decided to start a fresh thread, since the old one is bloated and testers are no longer censored. I'm going to break my posts up by the class that I played, so there will be a couple. First off, I need to send a huge huge thanks to Oblarg. About a month ago he sent me his account to use, and it simply made my day, as well as the subsequent weeks. It was extremely charitable and I owe him a big one, I was dying to get into the beta. There are possible spoilers here, but only stuff from the first ten levels of play, so chill out. Also, one of the big arguments was about unique content. Understand that even though many classes may share a combat area, they are often there for different reasons. The reasons for finishing quests are varied nicely for the different classes and play to the personal stories very well. For my first character, I felt obligated to try the Jedi Knight. You start out on the planet of Tython, and you are apparently a bit of a prodigy and already have a good amount of combat training. As you arrive at the academy, you find out that the native humanoids have become hostile. They also have started to use energy weapons, whereas they were strictly a sticks and stones race in the past. You go out to save padawans and solve the mystery. The quests are pretty standard RPG stuff, but every one is delivered via a cut scene. These are well done, and they make the NPC's more engaging than the standard MMO. The jedi combat is also fairly standard sword swinging stuff, but it feels good. It's a decent pace, I'd say a bit faster than WoW. This is just for the jedi, the other classes were remarkably different in feel. As you progress through the quests, you get a few dark/light choices. Some of them are standard spare the enemy stuff, but some of them are cooler. One very funny sequence allows you to flirt with a Twilek who runs an outpost that you have been helping. Eventually you have a choice to 'seal the deal'. You get dark side points for this, but you can actually get them back by admitting it to your master. The whole scenario was handled well, it was one of the better done Bioware romances, actually. It was also easy to avoid by not flirting in the first place, so don't go crazy about that. I took my Jedi Knight to level 10, which basically was the end of the time on the starter planet Tython. The quests were great and I received a lightsaber at the end. I boarded the shuttle to the space station with the goal of reaching Coruscant. Getting up to the space station was simply amazing. I found walking through the hangars and looking at ships to be a jawdropping experience. This is a gorgeous game. Space Stations act as hubs for each side, so when you go from planet to planet, you go to the stations first. I think this changes when you get a ship, but I'm not sure. As cool as the stations were, Coruscant was even more amazing. Traffic zips through the air all around, and you actually join it when you take hovercars to places. I only scratched the surface of the quests on this planet. I actually felt the Jedi Knight storyline was a bit too goody-two shoes for me, so I decided to try some other classes. My next write up will be for the awesome Sith Inquisitor.

So there won't be an Ex2 movie then? Only posters? Tell me more, loser. *Looks into his crystal ball* You're unimaginative, and ... yes.. dullwitted. Ah, and you suck at reading comprehension. Hey, let's not get all personal. Under his negative nilly exterior, Morgy is a cuddly teddy bear and I'm happy he is around. And calling anyone on the forums a loser is ridiculous, we are all wildly attractive and successful here.

It looks like they migh tbe overdoing it a bit, but I still think it will rule. I thought Lundgren died in the first one?

So are the Serious Sam games failures because they don't sell as much as the old school shooters it is based on?

Faster - Revenge flick with Billy Bob Thornton and The Rock. It wasn't terrible, I guess. There were some fun parts, but there was a lot of odd stuff too. There was an assassin storyline that really didn't seem to fit in at all.

It seems like they are really rolling out the invites for this last month before release, I think I saw them on Fileplanet as well. I really recommend giving it a whirl if you can handle the 20 gig download, it's very polished and worth seeing in action.

Major movie studios do not strictly release super expensive to produce blockbusters, so I'm not sure why gaming studios are expected to do this. Everything points to DS3 having a small team, small production cycle, small advertising budget, etc. There is nothing wrong with that, and apparently Square Enix was satisfied with the sales return.

It's hard to have sympathy for you guys when I have two kids waking me up throughout the night to get them a bottle, rub their back, tuck them in better, take them to the bathroom, etc.

Well it's pretty easy to avoid finding out, just don't be an internet ****wad. edit: decided to censor myself so I don't get banned

Did you ever go to the doctor for feeling 'light headed?' I did. I actually did a blood test earlier this morning before I got sick. It's gotten a lot worse today, but I think that's because I'm getting hit by something else too. Bleh.

After taking off yesterday to watch my son, who was sick, I started feeling not good in class today. I made it through my first two classes, called in a sub, and made a beeline for a bathroom. Now I'm home feeling messed up.

Obsidian redefined the way choice and consequences worked in Alpha Protocol, and that didn't turn out great for them. Maybe safe bets like Skyrim are a good choice for them. And you need to buy like 80,000 copies to really help their numbers, 100 aint gonna cut it.

It's funny, we've had all these security breaches lately with Steam and SOE, but when Bioware tries to be proactive in upgrading their system to be more secure, people whine about the emails.

I wouldn't worry about not playing previous ES games, the story is generic enough to sound familiar to anyone who has read a fantasy book series.

That is concerning about ~Di. I'm really grateful that we have Fio keeping us up to date with Tarna, I wish we had a way of doing that for all the regulars in case something difficult happens in their lives.

That's actually kind of awesome. But it was clearly a glitch that they worked on fixing.

I was impressed at how many of my middle school students were playing Skyrim. It still isn't close to the boys blathering on about MW3, but it was good to see the younger gamers are recognizing it.

http://www.swtor.com/media/trailers/choose...itor-vs-trooper If you can get past the nerdy developers gushing, this video highlights the two classes I find the most intriguing in the game.