It's largely in the pacing of the story and the connections with the supporting cast. Some of that is subjective - I found the companionsin DA2 more interesting on the whole, more conflicted and more invested in the main story than most of the DA1 companions. And for the other NPCs in the story, DA1's are largely…

I got them as a package deal during a sale a month or two back. I'm nearly through Dead Man's Switch and looking forward to Dragonfall, but also to checking out some of the great user-created expansions. Some of them sound really well crafted - the devoted mod-community was a major selling point for the game for me.

I'm on XBox, so I neither experienced nor cared about the overhead tactical stuff. And I'm well aware of the specific complaints against DA2 - you couldn't open a webpage that year without hearing somebody SCREAMING IN ALL CAPS about that game. But I honestly don't see it. There's no less choice or consequence than in…

All the Dragon Age games benefit hugely on PC from the Mod community. They've added major graphical updates, tons of new equipment, and even new characters and quests in some instances. It's amazing! It made me really sad to have been so committed to the franchise on my 360 - I finally have a PC baller enough to play…

DA:O is great, no doubt, but the pacing of the story is atrocious. Every time I reach a point in a quest where it nears a natural conclusion... I have to endure another few hours of arbitrary hunt-and-kill stuff first. You're enjoying the Orzammar story and it reaches a nice conclu-NOPE! First spend a few boring hours…

Honestly? I'm mostly playing old stuff. I'm replaying Dragon Age: Origins as the start of a replay of the series to warm up for Inquisition later this year. Playing it again all this time later is really sealing the deal for me that DA2 was the superior game, internet (and admitted flaws of the game itself) be damned.

People use this one a lot, but it doesn't actually hold water. Acronyms frequently use pronunciation that deviates from the words making up the acronym itself. Examples:

I'd be interested in seeing a report about how much of the push for GMOs is coming from corporate interests looking for patent control over agriculture. My major complaint about GMOs has nothing to do with health or environmental issues (though they are a factor), it's that I find it absurd that companies are allowed…

Yes. I think at least some of them should. It makes no goddamn sense when you look at Sonya in her ludicrous outfits. It's one thing for Kitana, Mileena, Jade, or the outworld royalty who have exotic, unusual attire, but Sonya is supposed to be a special forces badass and should dress like one. Characters should be…

Thanks so much for sharing our work! This piece was mine, and I've been really flattered by the attention it's getting. You can see my own "spoiler version" on my deviantArt page, where I'm keeping it up to date as the show goes on.

I'm with you on the character models. As much as I loved MK9, the characters looked like they were designed by teenage dudebros in their basement. Not only were the designs juvenile (why can't Sonya dress like a professional?), in most cases the execution was kind of ugly. While I grant that "beauty" isn't what most…

Y'think that's Harrison's Ford?

Behold! Dark Side Sansa! She's electrifying!

I've had 6 Shepards; none with these names. My guys were Kyle, Pike, and Guile, and the ladies were Nica, Dinah, and Viola.

It's absolutely the performances masking an awful movie. First Class had a solid first act, and Fassbender and McAvoy were undeniably charismatic as hell - I'd have paid double for a movie that was just Erik, Xavier, and Mystique hunting old Nazis or something. But as soon as other mutants start showing up, it tanks…

My head-canon for post-RotJ includes only the Thrawn trilogy, the New Jedi Order (especially for Traitor) and Legacy. I'm glad you included Legacy - it seems an oft-forgotten work of the EU, but it has such great world-building. Everything old is new again, and you feel like anything can happen. Nobody has…

I'm with you, and I have decided my answer is no. It's funny - I look at a game like Armello and I couldn't put my money down fast enough. But I look at this and... I dunno. Must be a style thing. It just feels so much like the kind of stuff I see when walking around the artist alley of an Anime convention; not poorly…

Unfortunately, you'll find that most artists wind up falling back on a "one size fits all" body type that they draw for all characters. Some artists do so with a body type you like, so maybe you don't notice as much. Some do so with a body type you don't or which causes people to wonder about the kinds of worlds…

Didj'ever notice how so many things men design look like dicks? Not for nothing, it's just so many of these designs are super phallic. After a while, it really... uh... stood out to me.

I've done this. I catch myself all the time, and my poor wife hates witnessing it. I'll tear myself to pieces trying to accomplish some excessively hard task, usually for zero practical gain—trying to achievement grind, trying to "do everything"—and I hate that impulse in myself. I am working hard to stop it, these…