Recent content by Pontifex

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    BioWare Gives Out Dragon Age: Inquisition's Tavern Songs For Free

    You can also download the French versions of the song from Bioware's French language site. Just scroll down and click the image. http://www.dragonage.com/fr_FR/news/inquisition-tavern-songs-giveaway
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    The Big Picture: Scarlet Unity - What Assassin's Creed and Batman Have in Common

    I absolutely adore the Scarlet Pimpernel, particularly the 1982 film. He's been around long enough to be in the public domain, so I'm really hoping that one of the Assassins in the game is Sir Percival Blakeney (Baronnet).
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    The Big Picture: The Big Spoiler: Iron Man 3

    I don't always agree with MovieBob, but damn is he on the money this time.
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    "Dream of the Sky"

    Seeing "Dream of the Sky" described as an overture makes me really want to see Gavin write a Bioshock Infinite musical.
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    Escape to the Movies: Oblivion

    Elysium is by the director of District 9. It would be a mistake to write it off prematurely.
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    Religion in games. What games are worth playing?

    Dreamfall: The Longest Journey does this, to some extent. It takes a somewhat broader view of "faith" than purely religion, but it is unarguably the central theme of the game.
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    Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition Review

    What was the omitted line of dialogue, out of curiosity? Also, there's a mod going on to port BG2 to Icewind Dale II's engine, which uses 3.0 rules.
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    No Right Answer: Most Depressing Series Ending

    It's not a TV series, but I think the pre-Extended Cut ending of Mass Effect 3 would qualify has horribly depressing.
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    Blue Rose of Illium

    Wow. This comic was amazingly well-done, and I would love to see more of them in the future. Maybe a Kal Reegar one?
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    Have you ever played through a game and completely missed a game play feature?

    A friend of mine played the both of the first two ME games as a soldier before realizing there was a pause function or that you could use powers.
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    Miracle of Sound: Crucible (Mass Effect 3)

    Great work, Gav. You really captured the feel of the Mass Effect series. If Bioware releases DLC, I hope the music for it is something like that.
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    Mass Effect Fans Stand By Child's Play

    No, it says that they couldn't tell how many of the refund requests were related to pissed off Retakers, but that the number of refunds given was around the same level as it usually is.
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    The Big Picture: Hercules Part One

    I watched this with some friends after it was referenced by one of Bob's earlier videos. Amazingly bad. And there's a sequel.
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    Escapist Podcast: Bonus: Mass Effect 3 With Spoilers Part 3

    From the Codex (Reaper Capabilities): "Weapons specifically designed to overcome shields, such as the Javelin, GARDIAN lasers, or the Thanix series, can bypass the barriers to some degree. The difficulty is getting close enough to use them -- the surface-mounted weaponry on Reaper ships...
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    Escapist Podcast: Bonus: Mass Effect 3 With Spoilers Part 3

    Thanix weapons were present, they're just not effective at long range as per the Codex. They do more damage against the Reapers, but are still far from instant kill weapons. The missiles you were defending at the end were a variation on Thanix design.