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If spoiler #2 is true, I'm gonna be -like. So much left to do!

Well you don't have to go through with it until you're ready. When I got that mission, I only had like half of the team members and upgrades.

I didn't know they could die, thankfully I've been feeding them all along. And you don't have to feed the hamster (there isn't an option for it). And I agree about the bachelor party, its worth the two minutes to stand there and listen to the entire thing.

Speaking earlier of the reveal, I assume you are talking about

the Protheans

?

For those who are past the

derelict IFF ship

, is there no "going back" at that point? When the mission came up, it gave me the option to go do it, or recruit more people (I didn't have the Justicar yet).

I haven't gotten past spoiler #2 yet, but I have heard that no, there is no going back once you do it.

Oh and if you talk to Kelly a lot, there's a way to get her to feed your fish for you.

I'm...a sizable chunk through the game. I've just been wondering one thing, does anyone know the best teammates to pick for each mission, just based on the dialogue? For some of the loyalty missions, people have had a good back-and-forth, but for other ones the second person was pretty much silent.

Pretty neat little tidbit about ME2, not spoilery at all.

You will be able to totally customize the look of your armor, everything from helms, shoulder pad design, camo pattern, material it's made out of and color. This will appear in all cutscenes and is applicable to any armor you acquire. So your Shepard will always look exactly like you want, while making the choices you want as well. Pretty freaking awesome if I do say so.

Oh I like this. Now I don't have to wear something rediculously bright orange for an hour until I find a better armor.

So I think I'm stuck in Denerim.

woohoo, high dragon down!

Awesome! I blew the horn right when I got it and the high dragon on the mountain proceeded to wreck me. So I reloaded my save and simply left without summoning it.

Tried Morrigan's personal side quest again---still not strong enough. Maybe level 16 or 17... (I've read people did it at 12, but I think that's mainly luck---I almost did it on 12, but have never gotten that close again--I'm at 15 now)

I did it at around 12, or even 10 i think. It wasn't actually that bad. Use ice arrows and put cold runes on everyone's weapons (since you don't have Morrigan to cast Frost Weapons) and make sure you bring a lot of potions. Wynne being able to heal everyone and bring back the passed-out is a huge help.

Also I don't remember where, but I found a rune that gives you a small chance of paralysis with every hit and gave it to my main character's sword. The thing is the BEST. Every now and then it kicks in, and it seems to be often against big scary opponents like Revenants.

Yeah, DeLoreans were slow, but it was 1982. Everything was slow. You could get a Camaro with a 90-hp four cylinder.

I've heard of some people doing crazy black magic engine swaps with Deloreans. Like Honda 4- or 6-cylinders, or even a Northstar V-8 out of a Caddy.

I found an armor called Effort, which says it's part of a set of gloves, boots, and helmet called Duty. I know that I saw one of them before (I think the boots) but I forget where. Is this the Legion set?

Do they have a Lancia Delta (I think that's Ozma's car...I know it's a Lancia of some kind)?

As far as I know, the super high-end cables, the ones with insulation wound by Buddhist monks in a temple in Tibet for their exacting precision, sheathed in rubber from one specific grove of trees in an unspoiled valley in Brazil, with gold-tip connectors forged from recovered Nazi gold?

Total rip-offs. HDMI cables are pretty much all good.

Is that the only benefit? In that case, screw it. I have 4 gigs already.

OK. I have a (probably dumb) question.

I have an AMD x64 processor, so I know I should be able to run a 64-bit OS, but when I bought my computer it came with Vista 32-bit. When 7 came out, I upgraded to the 32-bit version of that.

Is there any benefit to running 64 vs. 32? Is it even possible to go from 32-bit 7 to 64-bit 7? I was pretty surprised that Microsoft supplied a disc for both versions.

You know if you do the mage tower before redcliff you can go back and bring mages to the castle to perform the exorcism thing on the kid. Pretty much everyone approves of that outcome with the exception of Morrigan

I downloaded and finished Warden's Keep. You are locked out of the fortress after you finish it, so there's a sidequest or two I didn't get to finish, but the courtyard around it is still available. There's a couple merchants there. The guy who asked you to pay EA for it sells you stuff, and his brother sells weapons and armor.

The armor set you get is pretty sweet-looking, and that's really the main deciding factor for what my character wears. It is really, really lame that they make you pay actual real-world money for a storage box, though.

yup.. I haven't played through to see if there's any difference in how the dad reacts but nancy boy throws a conniption either way

What exactly are the differences between SDFM and The First? It would probably be cool if they made that into an OVA, kind of like Hellsing Ultimate. I love the story of SDFM but the animation is just sooo bad. Like worse than Mobile Suit Gundam (the original one) at some points.

I wouldn't mind seeing something between Plus and 7, or between 7 and Frontier. Maybe with a fleet that found a planet to live on and now has to deal with some stuff or something. Oh, or maybe the fleet that founded Eden.

and to digress even further off topic

Bad guy gundams vs Hero Gundams Visual electronics design

Why would the baddies insist on using a mono eye. The two eye design with rear camera makes so much sense.

According to the MS08 Team the Gouf would have to continually sweep back and forth to refresh its cockpit image.

I always got the idea that the red eye was just a special targeting sensor, and there are other cameras providing a regular view. I know the scene you're talking about. As the eye swept over the picture, a white box went across the image, it looked like it was searching for a target. There's all those scenes where someone is ambushed by a Zaku, and a its eye suddenly lights up. It would be kind of pointless for him to be sitting there with his cameras turned off if he wants to be able to see anything.

I hope you know you're calling something illogical and impossible, while posting on a website about an anime featuring transforming fighter planes, 40 foot aliens that happen to be the same as us, and magic songs that can end wars. Lighten up a little.

Yeah, the combat is starting to get annoying. Especially when the Darkspawn start having a mage or two at every encounter. I just have Morrigan and Liliana take out the mage at range ASAP and have my tanks beat down on everyone else.

Also I got my page thing to work, finally. linky

I have to say that I absolutely LOVE Dragon Age. I'm not that hardcore into RPG's so I don't mind the slightly-lacking AI system. My favorite part of the game has to be the characters, everyone is such a smartass. It's great.

I'm having a problem getting the social club thing to work, though. Apparently the CD key I got through Steam isn't valid. But if it only updates when people look at it like you said, that's kind of pointless. I have the PC version so I can always just take screenshots if I want to show someone my awesome metal pants.

Not only that but it's an alternate future based on if the '50s basically never ended

New Las Vegas isn't an expansion of Fo3. It uses the same engine but is being worked on by more of the original crew who headed the first two Fallouts (which hopefully will shut up the "Fallout needs to stick with 20 year old technology or it's not a "real" Fallout!" uber-fans ) and of course is set in a completely different area. It's been described as more of a Fallout 3.5.

Vostok 7

Vegas is a lot closer to California, where 1 and 2 took place. So maybe it will include some people and stuff from that.

speaking of that, you US folks who live in or know DC well, did it trip you out playing this game? Even I had a bit of deja vu with some areas like the whole Washington monument and lincoln memorial area, just thru sheer exposure to news like presidential inaugurations and the like.

Oh yeah, definitely. The first time I came out of the subway on the Mall and saw the Washington Monument looming in front of me with big chunks missing was a trip. The entrance to Arlington Cemetary is pretty similar to the real-life one, too. I think Bethesda got it so right because they're from the DC Area.

The map isn't perfect, it's shrunken a lot so things are closer together and the Mall isn't really that urbanized, but hey, it's 160 years ahead in an alternate future.

And the Monster, itself, is a reference to the RX-75 Guntank.

Rediculously huge cannons on the shoulders? Check.

Missile launcher arms? Check.

Abysmally slow? Hoo-boy, check.

Holy crap, you're right. I never noticed that.

My new work again!!

But I can't remenber this machine in Macross animation.....

It was in one of the REALLY early episodes.

I think the Zentradi blew up all of them, along with the ARMD.

In Macross Plus it was really cool the way it fired and the sound it made--that was one way to get Guld off Isamu's back.

I'm pretty sure the sound was exactly the same as one of the Rebel laser cannons in Star Wars.

Also about the feet. The soles of the VF-1's feet really don't look very substantial. It basically stands right on the edges of the exhaust ports. There is very little of the actual "foot" in contact with the ground. Later designs like the VF-11, VF-19, and so on, have feet that look more like ... feet. They are probably a lot better at spreading the VF's weight when it's standing on the ground.