MrBrown

I prefer Civ5. As for Civ4, Huyana Capac beats everyone for Science and Culture victories. Pure math, really. Other strong Financial civs do well too, like Elizabeth or Mansa Musa. As for Military victories, it's a bit more varied. Every Civ with a strong early-rush unit does well, like Persia or the Mongols. Rome is good as well, because of the Praetorian. I'm not sure who is the best overall, because I usually get too bored to play optimally in the latter parts of Military games; just too much stuff you have to do, even when the winner is clear.

Well, it is a leveled item. Unrelated, but: http://ps3.ign.com/articles/121/1214016p1.html

Really? I thought the College-line was a boring dungeon romp. Got really bored of Dwemer and Falmers. Thieves Guild has been the best, in my opinion, though I've yet to play the MQ or Dark Brotherhood.

I've been using a Storm Atronach for most of the game, and the only annoying part is when it runs away to shoot lightning from a distance, hence making all the enemies group up on me. I've almost maxed out Destruction, so I started playing support-mage. I just cast buffs, heals (for Lydia, of course) and summons.

I think it's impossible to setup a quick button for _two_ weapons (or two of anything really). You can either select both through the inventory, by using different mouse buttons. Or, when switching from a two-handed weapon to a one-handed weapon via the quick buttons, the game remembers what you had in the other hand (the one not tied to the quick button).

Too bad you can't team up with the Thalmor :/

Opponents stagger from power attacks quite often; normal attacks don't do much. The PC can also stagger, but the effect isn't that big I think. Enemies can definitely interrupt your power attacks though.

How did you get such a high %? It seems no matter what I do, my enchantments are always really weak. I'm still low level though, I guess I just need a really high skill, lots of perks, and better soul gems? As a side note, is there reason to wear armor on mages or not?

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Gun_Runners%27_Arsenal It's nice enough. Adds more variety, mostly. Some of the stuff is really powerful, some really weak...

Anyone played with the Skilled -trait? Does it slow down levelling so you won't reach 50 halfway through?

A character stereotype in anime, and other Japanese nerd-stuff. It's a somewhat common term in anime fandom. More common among the Japanese, being a word in Japanese. And yeah, groups tend to develop their own terminology.

There was some talk the low metacritic score was a machination by 4chan, in response to some early bad rep DA2 got. I didn't dwell too much into it, though. Don't really care about reviews.

Mark of the Assassin came out earlier this week. Did anyone get a chance to play it? I'm too busy watching SC2 tournaments.

Are they going to be done with DLCs and patches soon? I'm looking to replay once the game is complete.

They also did Arrival for ME2. Yes, they're going to do it.

ME2 squad members weren't really very interactive outside of their specific missions. DA2 took a different route; the companions take part in conversations the whole game and have an effect on the outcomes. Sooo... they probably don't want to make a new NPC that isn't as interactive as the rest, and they don't want to put the resources in to make a full new NPC in this DLC. That's my read of the situation, anyway.

So... is she? I don't think we even know if she can be used outside the DLC quest.

Considering all the online registration stuff, Bio probably has a good idea of the type of crowd that would buy DLCs to DA games. I would have no trouble believing that yes, this is what the customer wants... At least the potential DA DLC customer.

New story DLC announced: http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/260/index/8334842 Sounds like Kasumi to me. (Another item pack DLC was also released recently)

I can think of several that would fit the description. 20th Century Boys maybe?

Accuracy is so overpowered there's no point in having anything but archers. Well, I guess you can have a tank and an utility mage if you want.

In market speech, it means it'll keep the elements you liked, and remove the ones you didn't... it'll be just right.

I study statistics. If it doesn't have p values calculated, you might as well show a blank page. EDIT: Anyhow, according to Blizzard, the races have been balanced for some while; they're just looking at individual units and some match-ups these days. And maps, of course, which they suck at if the internet is to be believed.

You guys are so behind the times. It's Zerg being overpowered everyone is complaining about these days.

Blizzard is supposedly going to keep different ladders for the 1st expansion and the base game. Even if you have the expansion, you're supposed to be able to play the base game ladder. That might change in the future, but we'll see.