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I think it's ME. The rifle he's using looks like the lower level sniper rifles from the first game. Doesn't make sense to be ME, since the video shows ME and DA after they show Bioware's Logo. It'd be like verbally saying "From Bioware, the makers of Mass Effect and Dragon Age comes...Mass Effect". That said I could totally see it as a non-Sheppard ME setting story.

My first thought at the glimpses - with the sci-fi type look so similar to Mass Effect and the destroyed city scape outside the building the guy is in that it was either (a) an alien invasion game or (b) a game in the ME universe set during the "First Contact War" but not (directly) tied to the ongoing Mass Effect series' story.

What the guy is looking at:

It serves no other purpose than to tell you that your expectations have changed. It's (generally) impossible to play a game from the eighties today. Replay them now and they will feel like crap. That does not mean all games of the eighties were crap. Two great examples: Wasteland (1987) and Pool of Radiance (1988). At the time, they were both fantastic games. Now? You can barely tell you're playing a human in Wasteland and most people would never find their way out of New Phlan (starting city) in Pool of Radiance. I recommended them to everyone I met in the eighties, I would not recommend them to anyone today. I think anyone who never played the games of that time period would probably balk at the IE games, to be honest, much less earlier games. But I agree that it doesn't mean the games weren't good; just the expectations in games now is so vastly different.

Yeah the sniper in minefield would shoot the cars to explode them. Fun times. The raiders were mostly just about as crap at hitting things as I was. I haven't seen cars explode as much - I'm assuming they're harder to make explode (as I believe I saw one explode before in FONV).

She'll show up at your funeral after you...lightly toast yourself. I agree; I think that a lot of people do this. I have a bunch of friends who would rather date someone they don't like - even for extended amounts of time - than be alone for a few months.

Not only is it overpowered, it has a glitch that allows you wear it with a hat! I used the Chinese army hat, personally. It was fun! I do miss the exploding cars from FO3 to some degree. Finding yourself running from raiders only to realize you're in a drive-in theater and the raiders bad aim is hitting the cars second before it explodes and kills everyone involved (dismembering my arms and legs so my slow-mo death scene was my torso & head flying through the air) was a one-of-a-kind experience! I'm playing through Fallout: New Vegas though and it has its own charms. Massive exploding cars so far hasn't been one of them though.

For me I tend to use the "would I want to replay it" as opposed to COULD I actually replay it. There are a few favorite games that I have tried to play that I loved but find a chore to play through now (most of the IE games, to be honest) but that doesn't mean that I don't still occasionally say to myself "hey, I kinda want to play IWD again!). I love Xenogears and think I could play it again. It should have been on my list.

I liked Summer Games too (unfortunately my gymnast always landed on her head. ) Favorite games, hmm...well I'll probably forget something... Phantasie - C64 Street Fighter 2 - various Dragon Force - Saturn Tactics Ogre - PS1 Icewind Dale - PC Planescape: Torment - PC Jade Empire - 360/PC Mass Effect - 360 Mass Effect 2 - 360 Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines PC Fallout 1 and 2 - PC Golden Axe - Arcade Altered Beast - Arcade Streets of Rage - Genesis Spy vs Spy - C64 Eternal Champions - Genesis Soul Blade/Soul Edge/Soul Calibur series - various Resident Evil: Outbreak 1 & 2 - PS1 Final Fantasy 6 - SNES Chrono Trigger - SNES Knights of the Old Republic 1 & 2 - Xbox/PC Persona 3 - PS2/PSP Persona 4 - PS2 Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne - PS2 Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. The Soulless Army - PS2 Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner 2: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. King Abaddon - PS2 Bruce Lee - C64 M.U.L.E. - C64 Archon - C64

So was most of the stuff we consider to be early (or proto) science fiction stories. Science fiction, as a genre, was merely coined to group writings that already existed. However, in that Frankenstein (the novel) is a cautionary tale about science without moral boundaries and the ramification of science on its main characters it has all the hallmarks of science fiction. That it is also a horror tale is beside the point, IMO. BTW, Johann Konrad Dippel passed away 50 years before the process of galvanism was truly founded by Luigi Galvini and his exploration of "animal electricity" (it is Galvini's reports that are specifically mentioned in Frankenstein). While Dippel did indeed live at the real Castle Frankenstein and had a "reputation" (some of it - if not all - totally unfounded with evidence many stories were manufactured well after his death), its unclear how influential he was on the novel or if Shelly had even heard of him as there was also a town called Frankenstein at the time (now known as Ząbkowice Śląskie) **** I watched THE GREEN SLIME (crazy Japanese/Italian/US co-production - lots of fun but one of the main characters is so incredibly stupid its amazing!), MATANGO (moody Japanese Horror film that's part breakdown of society in small form in the face of looming death and part creepy 60s style nightmarish body horror) and HOUSE (Japanese Haunted House film and one of the weirdest coming of age films in which the main characters cheerfully go to their doom amid bizarre visuals).

So...what's your point?

There's using a Chekov's Gun.. There's using a Chekov's freaking Arsenal.. and then there's just widely beating the audience around the head with an obvious plot hook/item.. which happened an awful lot in those books.. What always bugged me with Harry Potter was just how similar the appearance and initial attitude was to the main character in Gaiman's Book of Magic. Gaiman's said he feels its a coincidental, so I've never let it bother me.

I felt ravenous when I came out of surgery. Had this insane and overpowerin desire to eat chinese takeaway. I was too sleepy to think of eating food, personally.

Okay, one of my companions disappeared. I didn't kick them out as I still have their associated perk. My random guess is I accidentally told them to wait somewhere when I was trying to access their inventory. I'm going to go back and look and see if they're around any of the traders I went to last but if they're not...how do I find them again?

I never felt nauseous under anesthesia either - but IIRC they also told me not to eat for like 12 hours before the surgery.

Hurlshot, man of steel ... dude, collossus isn't the man of steel! SUPAMAN MUTHA FU*KA! Superman stole the Man of Steel moniker from Steel Sterling: (Superman's original moniker was "The Man of Tomorrow" until they appropriated "The Man of Steel" after MLJ switched their line to chronicling the adventures of Archie and his pals) That'd be the Man of Tin (Tin Woodsman, to be exact). I'm surprised -considering it was a titanium rod - that no-one went for the accurate Titanium Man: Glad to hear the surgery was a success Hurl!

I wasn't meaning all to be all inclusive either. Must remember not to type in slangisms ("...and he was all up in my face, and I was like his stuff ain't all that and everybody was all like 'he went there' ") I still wouldn't say Frazetta is best know for non-magical fantasy stuff, but meh... What I've seen from DA2's art style isn't negative to my mind. Mind you I tend to have a high tolerance for weak graphical style if the gameplay is good, so maybe I'm not the best judge of things.

Well I've heard the legend that salt thrown after a suposed witch is supposed to keep them from returning, but not sure about throwing it on them...

Dunno, rock salt could hurt though, I guess.

Except that its Frazetta who defined much of fantasy in general. Most of what came after were copycats. So much for your knowledge of fantasy illustrators Which is exactly why your post didn't make sense. Dragon Age 2 art is pretty obviously inspired by Frazetta's work too. I don't know where you see that. Most of Frazetta's work is Conan like low key fantasy. Definitely not the high fantasy anime influenced stuff of DA2. In the long run it might take some notes from Frazetta but it has no specific visual identity of its own, unlike his work which is instantly recognizable. The man might have invented a set of ideas that became generic but his work isn't. Err...not sure where you got that Frazetta's work is all low key fantasy. I used to have a Frazetta painting on my wall of a wizard summoning a demon. Besides the Conan stuff he did a lot of horror/fantasy covers with all sorts of monsters and things (and he did science fantasy paintings as well).

They should go for clicking morse-code style. short click short click short click long click long click long click short click short click short click could be a last ditch all out attack, for example.

Has anyone actually managed to beat Lionheart? The same thing happened to me. I loved the Barcelona section but just got sick of the game once you leave. Yeah I did. It wasn't worth it, IMO.

"If we fight like animals, we'll die like animals!" - The Doctor, Survival

It was successful enough to spawn a sequel Champions: Return to Arms. I actually liked CoN pretty well, personally; it was like a better version of what Snowblind had done with Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance. The sequel delivers more of the same, but IMO if you liked the original there's no reason not to like CRtA (unless you were wanting something radically different).

Lionheart is great in Barcelona. After Barcelona itis a pure hack and slash game where the hackin' and slashin' ain't so fun (unfortunately I don't think they balanced the system very well so for my money the stuff outside of Barcelona is just an incredible pain in the rear. Mobs of enemies and for the most part no easy way to deal with them).