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  1. Amentep
    Torturing someone wearing armor, that must be new (I'll give them the benefit of the doubt though and assume that's placeholder material) Remember in DA:O where Leilana goes on about Orleasian fashion and liking pretty footwear? They're torturing her by messing up her shoes.
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    No, what's done with is using the five Chinese elements for the sole purpose of not using the occidental four elements. What game has used the Chinese elements? I can't say I've ever seen Wu Xing in game form (Water, Wood, Fire, Earth and Metal) and often wondered how it could be used as opposed to the classic elements (fire, earth, water, air) or what typically shows up in games - fire, earth, water, air, light/life, dark/anti-life. Which I guess if you added time/universe to it would be closest to the seven chakras...
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    Haven't heard of power outages - hope things okay.
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    I guess it doesn't faze me; I can't expect the nuance I'd get in a P&P game in a video game so my expectations are hugely shifted playing one. I dunno, full-text is okay but it can't escape the issue that its never going to be all encompassing. In the end 7 well written text options that never quite match up to what I want to say is just as useless as four. But then I may just have a higher tolerance to narrative railroading in video games.
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    False. It just adds "love" to it. And love is not the pinnacle of emotions. It's just one of many that exist to be explored. And I'd argue that since PoE is a party based RPG, a deep party-based comraderie has the potential to produce a much deeper narrative. I think this is the crux of the matter. The important thing is to have relationships with the party member that matter. It might be that romance could be one, but it doesn't mean it has to be. And I think many who dislike romance dislike it because it exist to the exclusion of other relationships with the character (as opposed to in addition to).
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    I never did understand the problem with the dialogue wheel. Do I want to pick from three-five lines of dialogue that may/may not represent what my character would actually say if I was doing a P&P RPG or do I want to pick from three-five "mood" stances that may/may not represent what my character would actually say if I was doing a P&P RPG? A bit "Six of one, half a dozen of the other" innit?
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    I just got done replaying the Dragon Age: origins stuff again (except the stuff where the Warden wasn't the PC). Female sword & board warrior - Aveline Female blood mage elf - Merrill Cleavage pirate - Isabella Some other people -Anders Sebastion (DLC) Bethany/Carver Fenris Edit- Tallis (DLC)
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    Someone's been screening Good Guys Wear Black (1978), I see. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Yck1Zws3Z8
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    IIRC we've already seen (from the top of my head) Trolls, Wichts, Skuldr, Ogres, Cean Gulas, Animats, two of the development stages of Dragons, the Adra Beetle, Stealgar and a variety of other undead. Most of them feel to me like the type of monsters you'd expect in a fantasy RPG as seen through the lens of how magic works in the setting. Seeing more creatures that still fit the kind of niche's you'd expect in a fantasy setting doesn't seem surprising to me (or unwelcome in a game that is trying to be a tribute to an older style fantasy game).
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    Quinari guy - Sten Drunk Dwarf guy - Oghren Loghain Mac Tir - if you want to drive Alistair to drunkeness NEW AWAKENING COMPANIONS Anders Velanna Sigrun Mhari Nathaniel Howe Justice NEW GOLEMS OF AGMARRAK COMPANIONS Brogan Dace Jerrick Dace Runic Golem NEW WITCH HUNT COMPANIONS Ariane Finn (Not counting the other expansions where the Warden wasn't potentially the PC)
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    More importantly, can I ? Even more important
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    I'm curious about what Laidlaw says regarding the companion stories being influenced by the player choices Tactical view at 5:20 or so.
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    http://youtu.be/eak26ohx1Y8
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    As always greed? Its a best-selling book, if he wins he can collect a pay check... That or those alleged remarks closed doors for him, which he needs to be open. As I understand it, he filed the lawsuit while Kyle was still alive; death doesn't stop a lawsuit, it just means a loss would effect the estate.
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    To clarify things, Kickstarter is not a store. You didn't pay for a product that you are now not receiving. You paid for the game to be created. Obsidian has decided - unfortunately for you and me both - that in order to fulfill the spirit of the pledge rewards that they'll be going to a digital distribution for one of the promised physical items and adding in a bonus unknown physical item to make up the difference. I pledged for physical rewards simply because I don't have a good way to do anything online other than post to simple message boards anymore. And that's not going to change without me moving locations, it seems. So there were already certain digital rewards in my pledge that would never be accessible; in that sense I'm a bit disappointed that one of the physical rewards that I as looking forward to has now moved into that glorious "unachievable" state as several others. But at the end of the day, I paid to make the game. Having the game is my reward, the other stuff is just gravy. Not really, I have blank DVDs. A connection that would actually download a media file of any length is what I lack. If Obs can put that in my shipment, I'd appreciate it.
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    Nope, not everyone. Just the less-annoying ones. Specifically for DA1 Alistair and Morrigan were only romance-able by opposite gendered Wardens. Leilana and Zevran were romance-able regardless of Warden gender. Race was never considered, as far as I recall. In DA2, each romantic interest were always interested in the Champion in the primary game (Anders, Fenris, Merrill, Isabella) but DLC companion Sebastion is only romance-able by opposite gendered Champion.
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    Coca-Cola has received criticism from an ad campaign recently for Diet Coke where the tag line was "You're On". Because some of the ads read "You're On. Coke" and people complained that it was promoting a drug abuse life-style.
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    you had me until about here I agree with him that IWD is better than BG2. I really liked BG2, but when it came down to which one I was more likely to replay, it was IWD. Now obviously there are things that BG2 does really well (and the whole companion thing IWD doesn't bother with) and if those are things you prize highly in a game I can certainly see why BG2 would rate higher. But in terms of the actual gameplay, I rate IWD better to me. I think that when people assume that a corporate entity has an "attitude", they'll end up in the wrong simply because a corporation is not alive even though it behaves as a living thing. The great Leviathan and as one, made of people who are ultimately who decide and influence said attitude. Without being privy to the internal culture inside BW all we can do is speculate. If I had to point something out it would be the thematic differences in their works, BW has become more about the romances/companion based narrative driven games and Obs keep doing unique RPGs and being awesome at it. Organizations do have a culture, and that culture can permeate anything. I don't think its unfair to say that culture can foster a mindset that is projected to the customer via the employees. Thus an "attitude". Multiple factors create that - its a gestalt projection, of course, of organizational culture, employees, policy and procedure all meeting and mingling. But its there even if its an unintended consequence of group psychology. I think this is an easy way for them to tie their continuity together, to be honest (even if - based on the nature of the way the series develops, the continuity is fairly loose) Pretty sure that I've seen it in the E3 DA:I interview Mike Laidlaw did. I prefer History of the World Part 1 Inquisition jokes.
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    In a perfect world, there would be a main DS series that keeps close to the spirit of gameplay of the original games, and side games that can explore different types of gameplay (like DS3) did. I think, in many ways, the biggest flaw in marketing DS3 was it being named DS3 instead of Dungeon Siege: Subtitle. It just brings in too many expectations the game wasn't intended to meet.
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    Isn't it all kind of moot since the EU as a whole has been declared non-cannon by the new STAR WARS heads?
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    Bioware Obsidian Well, they both use the letter "O", "B", "A" and "I". Other than that, they're completely different.
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    *snorts* it does. But then it replaces blue with pink, not white with pink.
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    Weirdly I still like Bio games (even if I admit that many have varying degree of issues) but I left their forums long ago (even before the infmaous "romance Bethany" thread, my connection with the place was tenuous at best; I just never gelled with the community there after the very early days). So I'm looking forward to DA:I, to be honest.
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    Yeah Mage Hawke in DAII doesn't make sense with the setting realistically (but then again neither Bethany or Anders seem to make much of an impression on the Templars of Kirkwall - Bethany even using magic as part of the party when trying to get into Kirkwall infront of the Templars!). It makes even less sense when you can actually become a blood mage... I accept it as a the "gamest" part of the game allowing character creation, but it doesn't make a lot of sense, yeah. But then the only way to really have it work would be for Mage Hawk to have a separate storyline until the third year or so. That said, I think the "mages cannot inherit nobility" is specific to Fereldin, and Kirkwall is in the Free Marches.
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    Can't speak for all plans, but generally vision is broken into two categories. What medical insurance doesn't cover is vision correction (eyeglasses, contacts) but will cover medical related eye problems. My eye condition is covered by my medical insurance, despite me not having vision coverage.
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