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    BioWare "Considering" Calls for New Mass Effect 3 Ending

    Yes, a video game and a painting are easy to compare since you spend hundreds of hours going through every detail of the painting, and its previous sister paintings, only to discover they were all secretly created using feces instead of paint. You want Da Vinci, not the works of Colin Mocherie...
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    Dragon Age Origins Lead Designer speaks out against ME3 Ending

    Aye. I mean, I would never say something is hopeless, but given what little destruction we see, the situation is still very, very bleak, even without getting into quite a few of the possible ramifications of other things.
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    Dragon Age Origins Lead Designer speaks out against ME3 Ending

    Over-population I mean the fact that everyone's stuck in the Sol system with little chance to spread out, at least right away. Even if the ships were functioning you've got potential problems due to now-limited resources since the closest available stops are in bad shape. Worst case every ship...
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    Dragon Age Origins Lead Designer speaks out against ME3 Ending

    Because of over-population, unclear levels of devastation, and one tiny planet with an unknown level of resources on said planet. I mean, even if they could build their own relay in a day, things would be bad. The fact that no matter what a perfectly good ship crashes is also a bit distressing...
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    Dragon Age Origins Lead Designer speaks out against ME3 Ending

    I just find the options you're given are all terrible and there's no obvious reason to have to conform to any single one. I can live with the sacrifice part. I don't need a happy ending, though don't get me wrong I would enjoy having one be an option. And yeah, taking the sacrifice element...
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    Dragon Age Origins Lead Designer speaks out against ME3 Ending

    It's story-writing 101 pretty much. I mean, unless you've got the talent to pull something off differently than the norm, hit the beats but tell them in an enticing and enthralling way. I mean, there's a term called the 'bioware RPG' because it hits its own general characteristics just right...
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    Jimquisition: Ubisoft

    Hey remember Assassin's Creed in 30 Seconds? They did it around PAX Prime 11 and even took people to a spot to film it? Yeah, I participated in that, was promised they'd post the video, and never did. So they wasted a half-hour of my precious, precious PAX time. Screw Ubisoft.
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    Why it is acceptable to criticize smokers, but not fat people?

    Best answer I can think of is regulation. A big problem for some people is their life just doesn't allow for the level of exercise to help with any weight issues they may have, though of course diet is also an issue. Hell I still manage to hit the gym in spite of working over forty hours a week...
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    Poll: Looks like Skyrim has some competition for GOTY

    Skyrim has got a lot of competition for game of the year. While I'm left doubting Arkam City will take that title in spite of improving upon Arkam Asylum, Skyward Sword, Uncharted 3, Saints Row the Third, Assassin's Creed Revelations and Dragon Age II are all still viable, and I'm more than...
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    The Top Three Contenders for GOTY

    As much as I'd like to say some other titles I've enjoyed this year, like Dragon Age II and inFamous 2, it's probably going to come down to Skyrim, Uncharted 3 and Arkham City. Two late-comers that might have a shot though would be Saints Row the Third and Modern Warfare 3. I'm skeptical about...
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    Poll: Mass Effect 3: Yay or Nay?

    My Shep's on my PS3 so I'm fine with it.
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    Jimquisition: Dynasty Warriors Is The Citizen Kane Of Gaming

    I greatly enjoy the series, as well as Samurai and Gundam. Not big on Legends of Troy or Ken's Rage. I absolutely love Warriors Orochi and I am sad that both Warriors Orochi Z and Samurai Warriors 3 forh te PS3 were not released in North America. More people need to buy Koei games, tell the...
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    Doctor Who Series 6.13: "The Wedding of River Song' [SPOILERS] + Series wrap up

    It was a pretty solid finale. I gotta say its been fun the past two seasons showing time slowly unraveling in the finales, both ways were pretty interesting. I know a couple of people who pointed out how it kind of rubs Waters of Mars the wrong way since that also featured a fixed point in time...
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    D&D 3.5 vs 4.0

    I really do like both editions. 4.0 runs with the current trend set by video games to make the classes more comparable and the adjustment between playing each a bit less jarring. Every class has powers, but the class's role and basic abilities are different, its just very easy to categorize...
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    The Big Picture: The Numbers

    Yeah it sucks that the pandering film The Expendables (not that pandering isn't a bad thing mind you, one could argue chocolate is just pandering to our taste-buds) killed a wonderful artistic film at the box office. However, the tragedy is kind of undercut by the studio really not thinking...