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Heh, it's a Paradox game. I already have my hands full with HOI3 and Victoria. And I can only take so much sleep deprivation.

Yes, by all means. Ignore the fact that strawman actually defines what you did (misrepresenting me so you could have a shot at what I said, or rather, didn't say). I didn't say NO consequences for ANY decisions. But from what we know so far, uh, that's what it is (0/1). And from the way they handled C&C in the first game, well, things don't bode well. But let's ignore that, too! The resetting of the character because of a blatant lack of foresight on the developers' part, for one. The setting, being one of confusion and chaos for the Council, regardless of how the player chose to deal with the Council in the first game. Didn't they make the Council a human-led one even if the player saved them? I think I remember reading that. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. And you assumed the rest to complete your characterization of me as your average rabid, cynical and jaded obsidianite. Great job. Well, excuse me if I'm not as wide-eyed about ME2 as you believe I should be. ME was enough of a letdown to have a favourable outlook on BIO's work concerning ME2. My opinions aren't set in stone, at any rate. Go ahead and show me how I'm wrong. I'd like that.

What do you mean you "can't". All it would take is cutting the head and pasting it on the regular sprites which do have animations. They made Myron wear combat armor. You're telling me you "can't" make the black vault suit-clad guy fire a minigun? Especially after you said you have introduced NEW graphics for creatures? About the mutants, I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree. I would really like to play a big, dumb, green guy with impaired grammar. Oh well. The host seems to be up again. I got the torrent but I don't think I'll be logging in until the lag has been reduced to manageable levels. I get terrible pings already with good servers close to me... if the server itself is experiencing traffic overload it could be too much for my nerves. I'll be keeping a close eye on this, though.

*is dazed* Wow. The logic is so, so flimsy in your poorly assembled strawman bait, that it actually took me a second to identify it as such. Congrats. Wrex's case is just ANOTHER example of the lack of meaningful consequences from choices made in the first game, from what little BIO has revealed. It's also a very telling example, since as I said the confrontation with Wrex is one of the most tense and dramatic moments in ME. And for some reason, they decided to reduce the impact of that to a cameo. A wink to the player. It doesn't get much more irrelevant than that. The reason, you tell me. I have no idea. On the other hand, applying percentages to something as unquantifiable as opinions is just... lol. But hey, it's what people call an "educated guess". You know, venturing an opinion based on what (little) you know? I'll admit, though. They won me over when they said about the mini-nuke: "don't like it? well, don't use it!".

bah n/m

"Black people are treated differently than white people" isn't necessarily something that would need to be implemented in a game. Perhaps a comment here and there, if anything. I'm assuming they simply wanted MT to be white. A writing thing. btw, didn't they ban you after the "death to Israel" debacle? edit: Tigranes is Asian, if I'm not mistaken.

You mean the one that appears next to the military dude in here? You should be a bit more specific. What about her, anyway?

Bull**** is the lubricant of human relations.

Dog food isn't that bad, actually. Much better than horse food, that's for sure.

Heh. If you know about and/or have something relevant to say in pretty much every topic discussed, that's what you get. His avatar wasn't just for show, you know.

What is that? It says it's "not available in my country due to copyright reasons".

Yeah, and that's precisely my point. Other than cosmetic, no real consequences for the decisions made. One of the most dramatic moments of ME reduced to just another footnote.

?WHAT? "Every time you bring real life physics into a discussion about comic book, God kills a kitten. Please think of the kittens."And other variations of this. Wow. I thought that was a reference to Schr

Yep. "How to FUBAR a perfectly good tactical squad-based shooter 101". Hammer & Sickle! Like SS/SS

Yeah. That's why "choices made in the first game will have an impact", right? C&C? Instead, we get "grunt", regardless of what we did in ME. *grunts* Either this, or he's just a poser.

Account suspended - Аккаунт заблокирован. Account for domain fonline.ru has been suspended для выяснения причины блокировки обратитесь в службу технической поддержки. From the news items posted in the blog, it also seems there's huge lag going on and stuff... for those who actually got their grubby paws on the client.

You mean "Andromeda", right? Yeah. Unless somehow the cosmological constant is blown to smithereens in three years and the universe somehow undergoes an absurdly fast contraction... no chance in hell. Why are you asking this again? If the world ends, it's going to be the Christians' fault, fyi. Also, we need a :shakehead: icon for this guy. I can't remember how long he's been asking for it! Yeah. They sucked at math, too.

The more pertinent question is, I think, can you play as anything BUT?

...as a gameplay feature? So the game only allows you to kill major characters when an alternative path exists that won't result in a "persist in this doomed world or reload" screen, right? I guess that's the best one can hope for in CRPGs. That would assume that any and all situations can be solved realistically through stealth, no? But yeah, I'd like to hear an answer too.

Be thankful you don't have to deal with the dreadful xbox load times.

Salvation.

Bloody idiot. /facepalm Exactly. This game is delivering some massive amounts of win and the morons in the masses just can't comprehend its awesomeness through their thick skulls. It's incredibly upsetting that when someone makes a deep interesting game and it becomes just too much for an average gamer. When did our standards sink so low? For good or ill they don't check your age when posting on the Internet. Or your intelligence.

Yeah. And then all that goes to waste thanks to texture errors or plain bad quality, and really wacky LOD threshold calculations. Woo hoo! I think I'm getting brain damage from shaking my head so much.

You lucky ex-commies, you!

What? You aren't even allowing use of the black and redhead characters? Is this final, or just out of the scope of the present release? Well, sorry mate but that just sounds like an excuse to me. I could understand if you said that at present it's too much work, or that you'd rather do other things first. But not being able to run as the rationale for a design choice just doesn't cut it. Considering the size of FO maps and the fact that in TB, action points is what governs a creature's speed, it's not really a deal breaker for me. Besides, you could always speed up the standard walking anim of the mutie a wee bit and make it advance a little faster for the "run" mode. Nobody said a 300+ kg mutie should be able to break any speed world records, anyway. Ghouls can't run because they aren't supposed to be able to... or that's what I gathered from talking to Lenny anyway. So, yeah. Choosing a ghoul or a mutie as your race SHOULD have its drawbacks. I don't think it's such a big deal. Uh, oh. Care to explain how this works in a little more detail? It's cool to have a crafting system and a functional economy that supports trading, but fun in the FO games came from exploration and roleplaying, mainly. Cool. Is the police force player-run or NPC? If so, whom do they attack if a firefight breaks out in town? Can you surrender? The stuff I haven't quoted sounds sweet. Thanks for the answers.