@leno40: Well played, sir. You made me pull out a dictionary.

I LOVE books, but unfortunately not (typically) this sort of book. My shelf(shelves) is about 1/3 Tolkien, and the rest is made up of stuff like: complete works editions of Poe, Milton, and Shakespeare; Faust, Les Miserables, A Tale of Two Cities, The Odyssey....

That's about the most hilarious scene I've ever seen in this type of game. I'm sold.

@[ZTF]Auspiciously Liminal: Hardly. But...thanks?

@Athena's Paladin: I feel rather the same. I was totally fine with it before...then came Mass Effect. Now I rather like it.

@Sakilla: That's the one thing that always bugs me. If a character doesn't vocally speak, I'm OK with that. When a character has NO dialog at all, but characters talk and respond to them like they totally do...it's really weird, and sort of screws with my enjoyment. Sometimes I'll just laugh because it gets so…

@skitzogreg: Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

Awesome ad placement

Stores probably won't order many for the shelves anyway. Pre-orders, plus a few extra. Display one, keep the rest in the back.

@Jennacide: Yeah, I knew it was supposed to be much longer. I was really disappointed there were only 3, because I quite enjoyed them. Well, I loved the first, and enjoyed the third...I wasn't real thrilled with the second. But together, I was really into the series.

@Shrewsbury: I'm not sure what you're trying to say. That there's no need to make trilogies, or there isn't a need to go beyond them? Perhaps you are not aware of these well-known, acclaimed trilogies (of various mediums): Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Phoenix Wright, The Godfather, The Oresteia, Der…

I like the idea of a trilogy, but if you need another game to tell your story, then you should make another game. Xenosaga suffered by cramming SO much crap into its third game. It really would have benefited from one more.

@OmegaChosen: The problem was I kept searching the Social Bioware site for a way to do it there. It doesn't exist, that I could tell. But as soon as I popped the disc into the 360, and ME2 booted up, it asked me to sign into the account, which I did, and badda-bing badda-boom, everything loaded up properly.

@StirringSibilance: I didn't need an EA account. I had a social Bioware account, logged in with that on my Xbox, and everything worked fine.

OK, here's a question. How do I link my EA account with my LIVE account?

@Laronvas: It's just an in-game portal that takes up extra space on my tiny 20 gig Xbox HDD. Boooo

@Shykin: I get all the big Bioware strat guides. I like to know all my options, and the outline of character interactions, etc. The cover on this one is really nice, and there's some sweet artwork in the back. The rest of the book, admittedly, is looking a little average. Which isn't always the case.....

@fuchikoma: I believe Apple Records actually tried to sue Apple Computers when iTunes was announced.

@carlmarssilias_returns: Why not? Just because he's a Specter doesn't mean he can steal everything. If you want, think of it as government credit he's carrying around.

Oh man, it's like a second Christmas for me today! I picked up Mass Effect 2 and the collector's strategy guide, my new cell phone arrived, and the second (and last) half of the Moribito anime DVDs arrived too! I don't even know where to start.