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That would be like a midwife that had never given birth. It can't hurt as much as they say, right?

In other words' date=' EA figured the time and money spent on making an expansion is better used churning out the next full installment in record time. [/quote'] Record time would indicate that it's going to be released in the next month or so. With day 0 DLC Maybe they realised that data mining couldn't give them all the answers?

The worst part about exercising is that it's mindnumbingly boring.

Wouldn't they more likely be in the ship that best offered them situational awareness combined with survivability? In the days of sailing ships, it made sense to put an admiral in the middle of the line (for the overview and easy signalling to other ships) and give him a big ship to make him stay afloat for a while. It would make sense for a modern admiral (or general in a landwar) to stay out of the firing line while having access to as much sensor and communication equipment as possible. Big guns tends to draw enemy attention.

That is one of the 20. Will end up in my basket next time I go on a shopping spree there.

Mission accomplished indeed More old goodies here

Start of old thread End of old thread Well, I still got 20 or so games on my wish list. I wonder if they ever considered expanding into pre-PC gaming and offer games for emulators...

Hi Nick

I was... My only "pet" is a 400 million year old fossilised trilobit in a display casing Well, that and a fat gecko living on the window glass next to my front door, catching insects there at night and an oversized, feral huntsman spider hiding under the dishwasher where I can't get to it.

I think it's a case of badly managed expectations. BG1 and BG2 were not really advertised as "all your choices r us" or something. I haven't followed the ME3 development nor read any of the ads, but jeebus it (the banners) was all over the internet on every website, including sites not related to video games at all. If those ads promised some kind of "your choices matter to us", then I can understand the outrage. Maybe ignorance really is bliss sometimes? Edit to add: As it was, I mostly got the game and played it to satisfy curiosity. The ending was poor, but not worthy of "nerd rage". Biggest disappointment was the feeling of linearity and the lack of party members from ME2 (some of which were infinitely more interesting than the ME1 ones imnsho).

Volourn hijack your profile? Doubtful. There was no NWN in there.

Well, I don't have a spouse and if I had, I probably wouldn't dispose of her in the rubbish bin (nor go shopping for a new one the day after)

My mouse died on me yesterday. It was my right hand man during more than a decade. Funeral will be tonight at 20:00 Now I have to start researching the market for an adequate substitute. Haven't bought a mouse intentionally for that last decade.

How dare you?

Entirely subjective of course, but in years to come I think ME2 is the one I might dust off on occasion, whereas ME3 will be archived and forgotten after my second playthrough. While individual combats in ME2 may have been more linear than a linear particle accellerator, ME3's entire plot is "railroaded", even if individual set piece combats are more varied.

Just finished the game. Honestly, not sure what the fuzz is about My main beef with the ending is waaay too much grind. Same problem as with Kotor really (except it doesn't seem to be endless respawns here). My goody two shoes Shepard picked the green ending. Maybe it's now time for another Shepard to chose all renegade options.

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