Shrug, maybe its my time in the Army that color my thoughts of him, but he just seems like a bad caricature/amalgamation of a bunch of soldiers I knew. Even his struggles with the N7 program echo similar life experiences I've had dealing with guys living selfishly that come up for promotion to sergeant and have to…

Is there a demand for this? Do people even like James Vega? I thought he was an awfully soulless caricature of a lower enlisted marine/soldier, myself.

I'm confused. The OP and I have been having a discussion on aesthetics, and you come along out of nowhere and try to tell me that he doesn't like mech games that are simple. I'm just... not going to touch that. The OP has been speaking for himself just fine.

First of all, let me start over. I am a pretty hardcore mech fan. You don't need to try to describe the allure of mechs to me, I get that part. I own most ACs, most Front Mission games that have been released in North America, Mechwarrior games, Heavy Gear, Steel Battalion, played Battletech tabletop (not the Wizkids…

I think you're misunderstanding me here. I'm not trying to argue that Hawken = AC. Hawken is by far the simpler game, nobody is questioning that. What I am saying is that the vast majority of mech games are arcade/action style rather than simulators and CAN be translated to non-mech games fairly easily, which makes me…

You realize that you just explained a bunch of visual effects to me and then ended it with "Those are the kinds of games I want.", right? I still don't understand how a few more strategic camera rumbles makes one game a mech game and one game a disguised shooter.

Yeah... Next-gen isn't exactly the right term for a set of consoles nearing the end of their cycles :)

So when you say next-gen, do you mean this gen? Or do you really have no appetite for mech games until the next consoles are launched in 2-4 years?

Agreed. I don't even know how those are supposed to work with the spring fully compressed like that.

I agree there. That's why My 360/wiimotes run exclusively on rechargable AAs. Much easier to replace, work about the same, and much cheaper. If you have a good battery recharger, they tend to last quite a long time, too.

The only real problem people have with the PS3 controllers' batteries is that there is no easy way to access them if/when they do go bad. You're fine now, but if one of those batteries ever decides to quit on you, you get to have the fun of sourcing a new battery from a specialist shop, prying the controller open and…

It's pretty simple, really. You guys released DA:O and proved just how much demand there was for AAA tactical party crpgs in the vein of Baldur's Gate. You got a lot of people who miss those types of games excited (as their beloved genre was under-represented in recent years), and then out of nowhere decided to drop…

Am I the only one who saw the mic placement in the gameplay video and was expecting a chocolate rain parody?

The Dazzler position was ALWAYS vacant at my arcade. ALWAYS. Even when there were people waiting to play. Not only was she uninteresting but she was in one of the corners, where you had the not-so-great view angle.

It's been said that since they are a third party studio, they don't get nearly as much time for completion / QA / polish that a studio that is tied to a single publisher gets. KOTOR2 was released like half-done, but reading about the stuff that was planned and canned due to publishers screaming "RELEASE NOW!" makes it…

"I'm willing to bet that a lot of the people complaining about ME3 had enjoyed the game for the entire time they were playing it and then just got so pissed off at the last ten minutes that they forgot the previous tens of hours. But like you said, it's just an ending. It's an important part of any story, but letting…

I played soldier in ME2, and I did it because I liked the tactical flexibility it offered. You carried one of everything and used them at full effectiveness. You were effective at all ranges in all situations, and your playstyle varied from encounter to encounter. ME3's weight system, while a good change for pretty…

I think you greatly underestimate just how many Chinese started watching the NBA just because of Yao Ming.

WOO THAC0!