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Are humans really that different? Eat and breed and compete. The meaning of life (abridged Gorth version). There's a webcomic that ties arrival and me3 together, basically Shepard goes into the brig after nuking the batarian system (with Vega tasked to watch over him), while the Alliance grabs Cerberus's super frigate to experiment with. I'm pretty sure that there's another Normandy class scout frigate (or several) mentioned in ME2, but I can't find a reference for it. Arrival? I was probably hoping there would be an in-game explanation Wasn't the original Normandy an experimental prototype? Thats where I got the idea that they would be quite rare. I liked having Mordin and Zaeed along Didn't care much for Garrus, the disillusioned cop gone vigilante schtick wasn't convincing. He and Jack spent all their time apart from their loyalty mission on the Normandy while the rest took turns joining Gorth Shepard in saving the galaxy from its own ineptitude. Edit: I would like to say that I ignored the lizard man too, but I can't remember his name >_

Thanks mkreku. I've been considering getting a separate video and "still" camera, it just seems like a lot of bagage carrying around. Few things looks more silly than tourists spending more time trying to sort out there equipment than just enjoying their holidays I don't need it for a few months yet, so I'll keep an eye on the Sony HDR-CX740VE too. As for zoom qualities, it looks like most HD Camcorders comes with 10x optical zoom. Found one that did 12x, but otherwise you'll need attachments or professional grade equipment indeed.

Would go nicely to AC/DC's "Who made Who" (Maximum Overdrive soundtrack)

A few "footnotes" regarding the demo. Why does deep space vehicles have blaring horns? Seem to remember it from War of the Worlds (the bad version). Where did they hide the spare Normandy? A copy of the first one or did Shepard get Normandy II as a severance package from Cerberus? I noticed that health doesn't seem to regenerate magically anymore. A small blessing, but welcome none the less. The female Krogan made me smile. Poor Wrex None of my favourite ME2 companions looked to be available as team members. Ah well, maybe in the full game. Edit to add: Oh, and who got the clever idea of hiding screen resolutions under "Extras"?!?

It's effectively a copy cat of Steam and the Steam client. Not quite matured as a product yet, still it looks like they are trying very hard to emulate it. Amusing anecdote, the name and logo looks confusingly similar to the local energy company here.

It's true, for all our patriotism, the USA tends to treat soldiers as a disposable resource. We have a large enough underclass that we

Not that I know of. I managed to remember one of my EA logins though and could use that one as my Origin login. Tried out the demo. Not sure what to think yet, as apart from the humongous cutscene at the beginning, it was mostly showing off the "combat". Unfortunately that reminded me how much I hated corridor shooters. Positive was the lack of some horrible "bypass" minigame for locked doors. I'll probably give it a second chance once it has been out for a while and becomes available as a bundle with all DLC's (something I wish I had done with DA:O and ME2).

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Been playing through a few more battles in Gratuitous Space Battles. Bought one of the expansions too (Galactic Conquest) but haven't had time to try it out yet. Fighters seems obscenely overpowered.

Just thought I would emphasize this point...

I remember playing that one, the guys in our company would put up a beefed up server for the night and then we would slug it out against the guys at the city council. Good times.

Science behind ponytail revealed

I have a handful. I just don't remember the passwords anymore. When I reformat my harddrive some day in the near future, I'll probably not be able to play a handful of EA games

Ah well, I might create a disposable email address and sign up for that origin thing. Lets try it out on a virtual pc first and see what it does when installing.

Plans have a way of backfiring sometimes. The Germans did a similar thing when they put Lenin on a train and sent him to Russia to help destabilise the country and hamper Russian war efforts.

So, my old Sony Cybershot treacherously pulled me one over and ruined all my holiday pictures the last time I was visiting the mountains and fjords in New Zealand. Disposing of it responsibly (smashing it with a hammer), I promised myself that my next investment might as well be a video camera that also could take decent still pictures. Being completely new at this, I've only just started scratching the surface of the market and is struggling a bit sifting gold from fools gold. I'm currently having the Canon VIXIA HF G10 in my sights, but reviewers lament the lack of good still pictures. Anyone know of a good compromise between HD Video, low light handling and still pictures? Good optical zoom is a bonus, 3D functionality not desired (maybe in a few years time, but that time, that worry).

Wouldn't that be the exact opposite of original and innovative?

Doesn't make you the better ones, only the many ones. Dirty peasants... So, anyone figured out if you need that Origin stuff for the demo? I would still like to try it.

I didn't so much run out of steam (pun unintended) as I ran out of time to play. I did manage to finish Dead Money. Absolutely loved it, although I'm not sure it's a replay over and over thing. Not uncommon for story heavy stuff, once you know the story.

That's been bothering me as well. Wasn't it said somewhere that Obsidian burns through 1 million $ every month? Assuming you can get away with using fifth of the studio you still need around 2 million $ for a 10 months long project. He didn't really specify how much of that was variable expenses (salaries, contractors, commissioned work etc.) and how much was fixed expenses (rent, leases etc.). Some of it would probably be expenses regardless of them doing crunch time or sitting with their hands in their laps. I don't think they had AAA titles in mind either with this kind of financing

The prospect of becoming a net oil importer in the near future (having been an oil exporter for a very long time)?

Attack of the Crab Monsters. Good cheesy fun. Way better than Humanoids from the Deep.

...happens in the best of families Isn't that Valentine thing coming up soon? Demolished hearts seems to be a recurring theme that time of year.

Visuals are nice, cinematics not too shabby either. Music sounds like a copy of Vangelis' old movie soundtracks style wise (which is good). But Jeebus, whoever thought that combat system was a good idea needs a special Chinese Hell with all kinds of unpleasantness set aside for him I wonder if you need to create new EA account to play the demo.

It's going to be a random pick of a question from a selection of questions?