TheMightyEthan

That's badass that your overall bar unlocks both Paragon *and* Renegade options, rather than each score unlocking options separately. It will make my "do whatever the hell I feel like" schizo-shep more effective in conversations. It also seems slightly unrealistic, though. Like why would someone believe that a Shepard with a bar maxed out with Paragon points would carry out his threat to burn down an orphanage to stop them? Seems like the option should be there, but depending on your rep they should be like "Hah! You're way too much of a goodie-two-shoes to do that!"

You realize there are gay guys in the military, right? And that they kick equal amounts of ass as the straight ones?

Joystiq says it was "officially revealed", not leaked. If it had been up to me I probably would have picked French Resistance during WWII, but that might have seemed too much like the Saboteur.

I'm taking Tuesday afternoon off, starting whenever the UPS guy delivers my copy to my office.

Native Americans fought for both sides during the American Revolution, though you're right in that most favored the British.

Well, I have a new least favorite person on here. Congrats.

SC2000 all the way.

Yeah I'm unsure if I covered this before: If the developer is able to identify "that one terrible part" of the game, why are folks suggesting that they add in the ability to skip over that instead of....fixing it. "So in our QA testing we found there's a part of the game that's really awkward to do. Takes at least 15 tries, and for most of our QA guys it's by fluke they complete it. How about we just leave it awkward and spend the dev time on making a 'skip point'!". Does this not strike anyone else as silly? I'm not saying they should identify that one terrible part and allow you to skip that part, I'm saying they should let you skip any given combat encounter so that the player can use that feature to get past that one terrible part, which isn't necessarily the same part for everyone. It doesn't even have to be something you can just automatically do, I'd be fine with it being an option after failing 5 times or whatever.

@HH: I can't imagine they'll take away your unlocks when you prestige.

Jesus Christ the combat got stupid in the last couple chapters. Throughout the whole game I was like "hey, they learned from their mistakes in Uncharted 1, this combat is actually fun" but it's like they were waiting till to jump out and yell "fooled you!" I got sick of it and ended up turning it to Very Easy for the last chapter.

Well my main point is that it should be there not for people to skip through every bit of combat, but so people who are otherwise enjoying the game can skip that one terrible part.

Takes me back to the old days. Us against the unknown, killing it with big guns.

The favored response to someone disagreeing with you about something subjective (like how good a movie or something is) among my group of friends in high school was "Are you a communist?"

Clear a quarian's name from a pickpocket charge: war asset.

They said that ship upgrades from ME2 will carry over and have some effect on the game too (don't know if it affects the ending). I wonder what that might be.

The communion thing seems kind of dickish but not all that terrible considering Catholic beliefs, but the rest of it is pretty terrible IMO. Granted we don't know the whole story, maybe he actually was sick.

Yeah, I don't think making it unlockable is good enough. Sure it makes subsequent playthroughs nice, but it means that you have to suffer through the bad parts at least once before being able to use it.

I'd say it's probably worth $5, but only because just about any major game is worth that, almost nothing is so bad that it's not.

Oh yeah, that wasn't based on your comment. Somewhere I'd gotten the idea that this was supposed to be similar to Demons/Dark Souls, but I don't remember where. I've been waiting to get more details to see if that impression is accurate.

So, basically no one's going to preorder anything from GAME ever again, right?

Puzzle games often have hints that you can look at if you're taking too long to solve a puzzle, and the hints usually get progressively more obvious until it basically tells you how to solve the puzzle, I don't see how that's any different from allowing you to skip a combat section if you fail it several times in a row.

Is this game going to be ridiculously hard like Demon Souls/Dark Souls? That's probably going to be the determining factor of whether I buy it.

Good, I was worried you wanted the Collector's Edition and that's been sold out for months.

No, in ME1 you purchased a license which allowed the RO to stock that company's products, but he only stocked so many things at a time so whatever he happened to have on him at the time was random. It gave him the chance to carry that stuff, but he didn't carry it all all the time. It made it incredibly frustrating when you had millions of credits and wanted a specific piece of equipment but he may or may not have it. The only thing he always had was the Spectre Master Gear. Also, bad news Hottie: GAME isn't stocking ME3 or any future EA titles.