David Hingtgen

Hey, some of us have a heck of an eye for color differences. And it's just plain weird that there'd be an effect like that. I mean, what if the "pure black" hair option was a different shade depending on if you imported vs created new? It really "shouldn't be" and is pointless---yet it's in the game. I started a new character, and was fiddling around to see if I could "tweak" things just a bit, so I recreated my original ME 1 character (I have all the original numbers). Yet I couldn't match the eye color to the imported version! Everything else was utterly identical, down to the most subtle differences for all other color options. So every other "color" option is the same, yet for some reason ME 2 will render "eyes imported from ME 1" a different shade that it will for "eyes made in ME 2". (actually there's another slight eye difference too, but I won't get into that) (also, someone was asking on the Bioware forums how to get violet eyes, and it seems that "importing from ME 1" may be the only way)

I just discovered that imported characters can have eye colors you can't get by starting a character from scratch. (at least for one of them) Imported on top, the same color on the bottom. Both are "6 taps from the right" and the brightest blue option the game offers. I could perfectly recreate my imported character from scratch, all the settings are identical between games--except for the eye color. Should be identical, yet they're different. I recreated this situation several times, and could swap back and forth "live" in-game, so it's not a lighting/TV/memory issue---the game would "hold" both simultaneously until you actually chose, and they're obviously different when playing too. And most importantly--if you cycle through ALL the eye colors in the character creation screen---you won't get the color my import Shep has. It seems to only exist as an import--but how/why? An ME 1 and ME 2 version for each color? I'd need an ME 1 save with a different custom to compare if other eye colors have the same effect, but I don't---my only other ME 1 Sheps are default Sheps.

25-27 hours first time for ME 1, 39 hours second time (did EVERYTHING, never again), 21-22 hours on other ME 1 runs (doing MOST things). 38 hours for ME 2, doing almost everything.

Technically, a Flanker is longer than its nose-to-tail length. An Sv-51 is too, but not by much.

Guess I'll have to take Tali and Garrus to the Citadel then. There's been VERY few dialogues between party members that I've found. PS---keep talking to the game salesman. He's got a comment about how "RPG's now are more focused on big decisions and fast action combat". PPS----very glad I waited until I had won before cracking open the collector's edition (what a pun) artbook. The biggest spoiler in the game is only like 6 pages in. Also, I like every other concept for that spoiler better than what the final design was. Final design was derivative, the others were much more unique and disturbing. PPPS---I expect/hope ME 3 isn't THAT far away. From the artbook, and what has to happen to tie up loose ends from ME 1, a decent chunk has to have already been written/determined. Also--yeah, it seems I'll need to make a quick ME 1 run just to setup a Paragon save like I want, since canon Shep is a renegade.

Video games in general are the great untapped Revoltech/Figma opportunity. Instead it's just "idol singer anime after idol singer anime", etc. Even when they do, they screw it up. Where's the Cammy/Bison/Vega/Sagat Street Fighter figs? They did Ken/Ryu/Chun, and a couple people nobody knows. They didn't even bother making Akuma when they already had 95% of the parts.

I could have made GI Joe a lot better than that. I'd have started by casting a Baroness that wasn't skinny and blonde and not making everyone in Joe and Cobra related to each other.

Yeah, China actually uses the tooling/jigs of other planes for their "new" designs. And of course, there was the infamous Chinese order for a bunch of 707 engines and windows, when they didn't have any 707's at the time... (they were building their own knock-off, and the design was so close no other engine would work)

Anyone heard anything on how different the endings are? Because I may have to keep avoiding ending spoilers until I beat it with a Paragon who takes an un-upgraded Normandy with just a few disloyal people. (luckily, that should make for a short playthrough) (I still haven't won, but should have within 24 hours) PS---what's the "starting from scratch" canon status on Wrex? Man, ME 3 is going to have to have like 9 different endings to account for stuff from ME 1, especially with some choices you make in ME 2. (I don't know if I doomed a certain species or it'll lead to their salvation---or possibly war with the humans)

Ouch, shipping+handling costs more than the book itself.

Heretic! You shall be forever shunned!

Is it Mylene?

I have yet to see a helmet I want, especially as they cover up the face in conversations. I really want different leg armor that's not "giant bulky angular boots". And smaller shoulder armor---a lot of it has the problem that DA:O had in that there were serious polygon clipping issues whenever the arm moved. PS---I am glad to know now that the last possible spoiler I might have seen on some forum---was completely wrong. (though it could have been cool, in several ways) (I'm one of those people that hate people even guessing on spoilers, because someone's always right, and then it becomes a retroactively-correct spoiler later----yet people still start threads in the non-spoiler sections of forum with titles full of them) PPS----some of the best dialogue in the game is from the game salesman (salessalarian?) on the citadel. There's a zillion comments, I haven't heard a repeat yet. Best one so far: "Have you seen that Asari-Hanar porn game from the Akihabara colonies? It's just plain nasty". That's not a direct quote, but that's the gist of it.

Some fish just die easier. Or I wonder if OVER-feeding them kills them too? But regardless, the ones with the fancy fins keep dying. (the other ones died too, but they lasted a LOT longer--and I fed them EVERY time). Still annoyed at how few armor bits there are--and half are just modifications of the basic N7 version. I doubt there'll be many, if any, more before I win. Also--why isn't BLACK an option for the stripes? Sure, you can put any color of stripes on black armor, but I'd like to have black stripes or camo on colored armor, to kind of "cut" the amount of color. (with all the black webbing, gloves, etc you can achieve a 60/40 split or so). You can get some very cool effects by trying the "opposite" color choices, as the pattern and basic colors don't quite match many times, and make a cool effect. It's most noticeable with blues. You can make a billion different variations of blue camo by trying different combinations of base color vs pattern color. Also, I was very stupid and accidently "sent the salvaged item to Cerberus". I realized pretty soon thereafter that that was actually NOT the best solution, so I had to replay almost an hour to get back to that point from the last save and try again. That is a BIG thing you don't want to miss, yet it's very easy to. PS---yes, once I tried to make the girliest armor possible. Bright pink, with lavender and white. (and I fought Blood Pack mercenaries in it)

Just google "caprica s01e01" You'll find torrents, megaupload, rapidshare, etc. Plenty of ways to find whatever format you prefer.

Yup yup. Don't pay the pirates.

N7 side missions are few, and very few really mattered for morality points.

Yeah, the sad fact is that if you want authentic discs of Frontier, it will cost you hundreds and hundreds to acquire a full set. PS--the first ep is probably the most "violent" in the series, but pretty standard as far as how stripper-ish Sheryl's outfits are.

A 1/72 Flanker should be close to those dimensions. (though some of that length is the tail stinger) An Sv-51 should be slightly larger than a Flanker. Wingspan is obvious, but what exactly do you mean by "length"? Fuselage length? Overall length? Length excluding nose probes etc? A plane can easily gain or lose a lot depending on exactly what you're measuring. Some planes are much longer than they are "nose to tail" and some planes have a fuselage that is much shorter than the nose-to-tail length.

I totally agree with Knight26, have thought that from the beginning.

GI Joe way over-used CGI. How/why? Because they used it for things that could easily have been done in real-life, possibly even cheaper. Most egregious example was "Apache helicopters flying over a desert". They spent time and money rendering that? Aren't there like a billion free-domain clips of that from Desert Storm/OEF/OIF? That's like rendering footage of a sunset or a baby bird emerging from its egg---there's SO many out there that people aren't going to recognize that scene it wasn't filmed specifically for the movie. And it'd have looked better. Bad CGI tends to look worse than bad models IMHO. A LOT more models are used in scenes than people realize----especially when there's already CG in said movie, they still use a lot of models, and "the really good FX scenes" often weren't super-impressive CGI, that's where they actually built a model.

Like the YF-23 had, one in front of the other... (or rather, what a production F-23A would have had--they would have stretched the forward fuselage slightly to make room for a Sidewinder bay right ahead of the AMRAAM bay)

I just had a really cool choice. I was like "I can't believe they're actually letting me choose, and that my choice will actually affect the game this way". Let's just say I chose a very renegade option. Very minor spoiler: it was during

No. I've (accidently) seen that term mentioned on a forum, but have tried hard NOT to find out what it is. And until you posted it, I had no idea that "whatever it is" can be acquired by your party, so when it shows up, now it's spoiled that I'll eventually get it.

No one's posted these yet?