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I still feel sad that the Icewind Gate project never finished. Would have loved to play them on the Icewind Dale II engine.

Isn't that always going to be a challenge in a series of games? How do you explain that Marvel Comic hero Shepard, saviour of the universe suddenly is as weak as a wet paper tissue at the beginning of the game? They could of course have him wake up in prison cell, suffering from insomnia... Seriously, that kid and those dream sequence are cringe worthy. I thought I could get away with the tacky facepalm moment at the beginning, but it seems like a recurring thing. Give whoever came up with that idea a desk job somewhere else and put the guy who came up with the nervous wreck "can I have a gun now?" Asari the job of portraying the horrors of war instead. Currently getting embroiled in the Quarian/Geth conflict.

Maybe it's going to run on the GemRB engine?

Exactly how I feel. Its not that I didn't enjoy playing the rest of their games, its just that they were like most other games - play, uninstall, forget. Not their fault you have unrealistic expectations. It is and it isn't and that's the most diplomatic reply you're going to get. Some other developers did manage to meet them (my expectations) later, so its not all about my "impossibly" high standards. The same developer creating classics for the ages more than once is already highly improbable. In Bioware's case, they did it twice. It's just how creative work happens, never heard of a band than managed to keep making awesome for more than an album or two, either. You are obviously no Queen fan

They are twelve a dozen. Checking places like Gamersgate, Strategy First, Matrix Games etc. is rather depressing sometimes. 19 out of 20 games that calls themselves "Strategy" is just rts games (not an exact count, just an impressionistic version).

Multiplayer would have been an obvious DLC candidate IMHO. Then it could have been more effectively ignored.

I guess that explains why we are stuck with the stupid MP stuff Found a jellyfish for my fish tank, yay

Amen to that If by 'modern' they mean QTE's, Minigames, Checkpoint saves, Crappy UI's build for people operating the game with two thumbs, then good riddance. If it means compatibility with 64 bit, multicore processors, configurable keys, decent choice of screen resolutions etc. then I'll happily cheer them on

Just finished the "Shroud" mission on Tuchanka (sp?) Made me sniffle a bit. (I'm playing an uncompromising paragon Shepard)

I'm sad they lose a project and the people working on it. In a competitive environment you need success stories and a positive "I can do this!" spirit, not the doom and gloom in the lockerroom after your face hit the canvas I don't even feel like making jokes about what people can do with next gen consoles.

What *is* a tactical shooter?

Sounds like a deadline for contract negotiations with potential publishers for a project came and went.

I did guffaw when Javik told they used to lick their eyes

There's nothing random in the suicide mission deaths. The most one often assumed to be "random" are the "hold the line" deaths, which are actually based on a fairly simple mathematic formula, where some crew members are better at holding a fortified positions (Archangel, Grunt, Zaeed), some are bad at it (at least tali, mordin and kasumi). You just have to make sure that the big guns are at the line and preferably send one of the weakest ones to accompany the crew back to the Normandy. Of course, it's possible you ran into some kind of bug I've never heard of, but by design, there are no random elements in the suicide mission deaths. I think some of the confusion stems from not being the "obvious" one that dies from a less than optimal choice.

Yes, you could. You just needed a truck load of renegade points to pull it off.

1. On release, the PC version was crappy. Couldn't start the game because the font size on larger resolutions made the play button unselectable. 2. No idea. Gave up after yet another QTE and constant button mashing. Lacked the special atmosphere of it's predecessor. User interface is horrible. Cold, ugly, sterile and unpleasant to use. 3. Boring action intermingled with QTE's. Corridor shooters has nothing on its linearity. Just my 0.25 of course and I'm fairly sure there is a large number of people who likes that kind of game. I found the first one infinitely more fun though. Uninstalled W2 after some hours play and wrote it off as a loss of money.

Pretty close. Of course, Matrix Revolutions sucked all the way through, this only comes apart on the edge of a crater. I should probably have elaborated a bit more, but I thought about WTF endings petering out a bit into technomysticism and weird stuff. Heck, Battlestar Galactica did it too So far, I'm enjoying it. A bit over the top at times, but it wouldn't be space opera if it wasn't. I like some of the new crew members, not too fond of the ME1 ones. Heck, I even got my own pet reporter on board that I can send out of the airlock if I feel peevish.

It beats running around at night wearing a silly cape. Not to mention, you could actually get hurt if not settling for yelling obscenities from behind the safety of internet anonymity

I'm still working on a backpacker repellant spray. The formula must result in some kind of classy, stylish odour that is anathema to them and drives them away. Non-lethal solutions are often preferable.

I haven't finished the game yet (not even close, only a handful of hours into it), but judging by the ongoing discussion it sounds like it got the "Matrix Revolutions" treatment?

Did you manage to find the super secret space fish? That almost makes me wish that I had cared enough to buy the fish for sale in ME2. I eventually gave in on the ship models-- the couple that I had found looked lonely, so I bought some more. But I saw no reason to take more living beings than I needed along on what was hyped up as a suicide mission. Nice fish, I have to find one of those Took me a while to figure out what the Squeek was down in engineering. Took a bit to work out how to catch it

Bought some quite expensive life support system for my fish. Those guys better appreciate the sacrifices humanity is bringing for them. Managed to find a single fish species so far

Thats a rather incomplete picture Win 2000 was actually quite Ok. Win ME was a bad joke and Windows NT was nothing to write home about (i.e. not Ok).

In 30000 years the Emperor will commence the Great Crusade to unite the scattered human colonies and liberate them from the alien, the mutant and the biotic.