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Thanks for the reminder >_ Remembering many a late night programming LISP for EMacs. List Processing my butt, it stands for Lots of Idiotic Single Parentheses. For a nice challenge (and if you love old HP calculators), try Forth. First commercial programming language I purchased for my C64 way back (came in a nice cartridge).

Maybe it's just my imagination, but the guys who write the "ambient" stuff seems to be doing a better than job than many of the character writers. It was the same thing in ME2. Things like the advertising, background chatter, store keepers, etc. are mostly excellent done, from the PTSD Asari, the refugee teen girl waiting for her parents, the human that is driving the Batarian refugee up the wall with his incessant chatter and one of my favourites, the human girl that sold her car to buy her Salarian friend new armour Apart from Vega and Javik (the Jamaican crustacean DLC), the party members felt like an afterthought. Not sure why they needed to give EDI a new body, as most of her interesting dialogue happens aboard the Normandy anyway. Facepalm moment... using flares to signal the shuttle that you are ready for pickup,

I've mentioned it before, but one of the sad things about the ending is it steals the attention from the games other problems, which are unlikely to generate any feedback (constructive or not criticism). Bad pacing, uninteresting characters, limited non-combat locations, too much walking to find pointless fed-ex quests, bugs (software bugs, not monsters), uninterruptable cutscenes, long and boring intro, Kai Leng (which for is to ME3 what Jar Jar Binks is to Star Wars). Plenty of things that could use a review and is unlikely to ever get it.

Lets just say I'm an absolute disaster in a kitchen and anything involving machinery and/or heat is considered a serious challenge. If frying it on the pan, it's going to require my full attention and micromanagement from start to finish, or it will end up in blaze, as charcoal or other unimaginable horrors. Thats versus opening a can and eating it, putting it in the microwave and waiting elsewhere 5 minutes for the 'Ding!' or even better, go out and order it at a restaurant (which also requires less cleaning up afterwards)

I think you're right. I'd recognise those Xvarts anywhere. Took me 5 years to realise BG2 had a tutorial

My South African colleagues swears Biltong is the best thing since the invention of beer, but I generally prefer my meat at least slightly cooked on the outside. I don't mind it being red and juicy to the point of going 'Mooh!' when I jab it with my fork, but uncooked? Not so sure.

Well, that throws the previous list a bit in disarray

Didn't really feel any attachment to most of the characters this time. Possibly exception being my "romance" option from ME2, but then she was the only one who ever cared about my Fish (and she didn't want to go back to the Normandy)

If there is justice in the world they will be 70 nerd virgins. "After his death, Osama bin Laden went to paradise. He was greeted by George Washington, who slapped him across the face and yelled angrily, "How dare you attack the nation I helped conceive!" Then Patrick Henry punched Osama in the nose and James Madison kicked him in the groin. Bin Laden was subjected to similar beatings from John Randolph, James Monroe, Thomas Jefferson and 66 other early Americans. As he writhed in pain on the ground, an angel appeared. Bin Laden groaned, "This is not what I was promised!" The angel replied, "I told you there would be 72 Virginians waiting for you! What did you think I said?" -- Very old joke from rec.humor.funny (from shortly after 9/11-2001)

Beer and sarcasm is fine. Beef is often too much work. Unless somebody else prepares the meal of course. Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease. No matter what you do, in the end it will get you killed. MIght was well enjoy the ride, as you won't get refunds. I'm having a helluva time finding a store with any decent Cognac anywhere here. Thats more whinging than depression though

EA Lawyers? Hey, it said 'speculate'

This... Never cared much for the setting, but the first game had other things going for it. If they return to that, I might be able to muster a bit of interest.

Not likely to happen soon, unless they start doing fan funded console games... Now, how about a kickstarter publisher? Lets raise money to start publishing games

Heh, time for heads to roll

Danger 5 is like Vegemite.

I think it had some good parts and some very good parts, but it also had a lot of not so good bits, not just the ending. All the stomach acid about endings just make people overlook the other annoying bits, like long and boring intro, frustrating slow "dream sequences", mostly boring and annoying party members (James and EDI being possible exceptions, Javik if you've got him), tedious, boring "side quest" system (fly around and scan planets to find 'x' for somebody on the citadel) and while the citadel was nicely made, it was about the only non combat location you got to set foot on when off the Normandy. Only redeeming factor for the combat was the improved enemy AI, otherwise it's as boring as ever and there is a *lot* of it. That's just from the top of my head. The story? Some of it was good and some of the characters delivers outstanding performances, but the overall story has more plot holes than a sieve. You feel it was written by a committee rather than a visionary.

Evolution Edit: Seriously, the (my) trick is to take constant micro breaks. Get up, go for a short walk. Grab a cup of coffee. Meet a colleague and discuss something while standing. Never sit down for more than 30 minutes without getting up and move around a bit. Working 60 hour work weeks every now and then wouldn't be survivable otherwise.

Ehh, Harbinger? Where did you see that one in the game?

One of several things that never made any sense... However, at that time I was just getting bored by the constantly increasing grind you had to go through to get there, so I didn't pay too much attention beyond breathing a sigh of relief that the grind had stopped. Edit: In hindsight, the green option was really the most ludicrous option, as it can't be rationalised in any way, no matter how generous your suspension of disbelief is.

Thoughts? I think you are trying to re-align story elements that were never meant to be coherent. If I remember one of the recent interviews/quotes, they (Bioware) pretty much told that they made it up as they went along, game for game. May have something to do with their strategy of fan pleasing, always trying to change the next game according to current feedback. Woe to them if they change from that particular pattern, as the "fans" seems to have come to expect to be spoiled rotten

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Start of old thread End of old thread Just for fun, BBC's coverage Casey Hudson: "This is not the last you'll hear of [main character] Commander Shepard." Alfred Tennyson on the subject: "Gone - flitted away, Taken the stars from the night and the sun From the day! Gone, and a cloud in my heart."

I see. Thanks guys

Their number would be insignificant to Bio/EA. I mean they made it so you couldn't get the best ending without playing MP. So obviously non-online players aren't important. I'm not saying the Indoctrination theory is correct, just that non-online people have little value to EA, since they can't milk them with DLC. I'm a bit curious, what is considered the "best" ending? In my game, I picked the green ending. I've never touched the multiplayer.