Are you referring to just the service or the butt pirating as well?
Well I guess you know what they say: The ARMY! If you don't sleep on your back, someone else will!
While it is indeed quite vague, they have understood what most of the community was protesting. They don't directly mention fixing the ending but it's quite obvious that they wouldn't dare release any DLC in fear of even more retaliation so by saying that they'll work on new content which "shapes the remaining experiences in the story" they must be referring to the ending.
While EA's management has definitely transformed Bioware, they still listen to their community. See Garrus and Tali in the transition from ME1 to ME2.
http://social.bioware.com/foru ... -Effect-3-10089946-1.html
WOOOOOOT!! WOOOOOOT!!! and some more wooot!! My respect for Bioware has tripled. They've actually handled this maturely and have more or less promised us the much asked for closure.
WOOOOOOT!! WOOOOOOT!!! and some more wooot!! My respect for Bioware has tripled. They've actually handled this maturely and have more or less promised us the much asked for closure.
This is truly sad. Had the pleasure of sharing a team with 5haz and spent a bit of time chatting. Thinking about those times makes me feel very uncomfortable and just plain weird now. My thoughts and heart go out to his family.
R.I.P.
R.I.P.
Oh my sacchariferous supernatural deity in which I deem to be credulous enough to believe in! A fellow escapist reader? I thought the likes of us were too up-nosed to hang around the LFS forum 
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Is the craziest son of a gun I know on these forums
Found something very interesting. It's worth a read: http://www.ign.com/boards/thre ... g-big-spoilers.250066288/
I don't think that your idea that most of the game is a dream from when Sheppard was initially blasted away during the tribunal is valid. It has no evidence and I'm more then sure that the writers wouldn't employ the "it was all a dream" gimmick because it just wouldn't work.
We should also remember EA's part in this. The company is known for trying to squeeze the biggest profit it can. Look at the From Ashes DLC. They claim they've made Javik very late into the development yet the leaked scrip shows that he was planned from the beginning, a notion backed up by the fact that he has interactions with the rest of the crew. So they just pulled him out at the end and released him as extra.
For all we know, this might be EA's plan to get an even bigger payout from another DLC. If this is the case, I'm utterly disgusted by their actions but also impressed at the sheer Machiavellian business plan that it is. They know the majority will purchase it.
But as said earlier, Asia is getting the game at a later date than the rest of us. I still think that Bioware will allow the "true" ending for free download after the final release date so as to prevent datamining or any spoilers.
We should also remember EA's part in this. The company is known for trying to squeeze the biggest profit it can. Look at the From Ashes DLC. They claim they've made Javik very late into the development yet the leaked scrip shows that he was planned from the beginning, a notion backed up by the fact that he has interactions with the rest of the crew. So they just pulled him out at the end and released him as extra.
For all we know, this might be EA's plan to get an even bigger payout from another DLC. If this is the case, I'm utterly disgusted by their actions but also impressed at the sheer Machiavellian business plan that it is. They know the majority will purchase it.
But as said earlier, Asia is getting the game at a later date than the rest of us. I still think that Bioware will allow the "true" ending for free download after the final release date so as to prevent datamining or any spoilers.
FIRST OFF WARNING: FULL POST SPOILER ALERT!
Ok, I have done some further research into this and I'm starting to think that Bioware might just employ one of the greatest and bravest marketing schemes I've seen. Mike Gamble tweeted "If you know what we were planning I'd hold on to my copy of ME3". Then I noticed that the game makes a very convenient autosave just before the citadel scene. What is interesting is that the save is completely seperate from the single self overriding autosave you get throughout the game, it stays there permanently. So it insures that if need be, you could go back and choose a different option to "continue" the game if a part would be latter added to it.
Adding to this, during the discussion between Sheppard, TIM and Anderson, we notice black mist, which might be a visual representation of indoctrination, whenever TIM mentions controlling the reapers and the benefits aka giving false hope seeing as they can't really be controlled and thus allowing them to terminate the cycle unchallenged. So the theory about all of it taking place in Sheppard's head is enforced. Even more so when you think that the scene up to the beam features slow motion, a trait shared only by the other dream sequences in the game. The pistol with infinite clips also suggests that it is all a dream
And then there is the child entity. I just realized that only Sheppard has contact with him. When Sheppard meets him for the first time he suggests getting the child to safety. The child replies with a cryptic "you can't help me" statement which is quite peculiar seeing as he's a 6-8 year old. He disappears when Anderson tells Sheppard to get a move on. Getting into the shuttle, no one helps him in, he struggles to climb in himself. Soldiers, who are trained to help others before themselves, are just standing there oblivious as this kid climbs in. Nobody else seems to react to or notice him except Shepard.
During the ending, the child presents the option of controlling the Reapers as a better alternative to destroying them seeing as the later option would also destroy the geth. This more or less is a contradiction of the grey presentations that show Anderson (who represents the paragon) choosing to destroy while TIM (representation of renegade) choosing to control. Seeing as indoctrination failed during the conversation with TIM (remember the black mist) this might be the Reapers attempting to have Sheppard auto-indoctrinate himself by making him believe that the best option is to control the reapers (remember that not more then 5 minutes sooner, TIM presented the same option to which Sheppard reply that the humans can't control them and that they'd be controlled by the Reapers). So if you go past the child's indirect suggestion, choosing to destroy the reapers is the only option that sees the commander waking up under a rubble on Earth.
Leaving the "true" ending to be shown later is not something new. A few movies have done it in the past to assure that there wouldn't be any spoilers for those living in a zone in which the release date is put latter. Remember that release in Japan is on the 15th of March.
So I'm keeping my fingers crossed until then. If I'm right, I'll applaud Bioware for a very ingenious marketing strategy as soon as I'm done calling them CAPITAL ASSHOLES......JUST ASSHOLES for toying with my emotions like that
I cried at the end you know 
Ok, I have done some further research into this and I'm starting to think that Bioware might just employ one of the greatest and bravest marketing schemes I've seen. Mike Gamble tweeted "If you know what we were planning I'd hold on to my copy of ME3". Then I noticed that the game makes a very convenient autosave just before the citadel scene. What is interesting is that the save is completely seperate from the single self overriding autosave you get throughout the game, it stays there permanently. So it insures that if need be, you could go back and choose a different option to "continue" the game if a part would be latter added to it.
Adding to this, during the discussion between Sheppard, TIM and Anderson, we notice black mist, which might be a visual representation of indoctrination, whenever TIM mentions controlling the reapers and the benefits aka giving false hope seeing as they can't really be controlled and thus allowing them to terminate the cycle unchallenged. So the theory about all of it taking place in Sheppard's head is enforced. Even more so when you think that the scene up to the beam features slow motion, a trait shared only by the other dream sequences in the game. The pistol with infinite clips also suggests that it is all a dream
And then there is the child entity. I just realized that only Sheppard has contact with him. When Sheppard meets him for the first time he suggests getting the child to safety. The child replies with a cryptic "you can't help me" statement which is quite peculiar seeing as he's a 6-8 year old. He disappears when Anderson tells Sheppard to get a move on. Getting into the shuttle, no one helps him in, he struggles to climb in himself. Soldiers, who are trained to help others before themselves, are just standing there oblivious as this kid climbs in. Nobody else seems to react to or notice him except Shepard.
During the ending, the child presents the option of controlling the Reapers as a better alternative to destroying them seeing as the later option would also destroy the geth. This more or less is a contradiction of the grey presentations that show Anderson (who represents the paragon) choosing to destroy while TIM (representation of renegade) choosing to control. Seeing as indoctrination failed during the conversation with TIM (remember the black mist) this might be the Reapers attempting to have Sheppard auto-indoctrinate himself by making him believe that the best option is to control the reapers (remember that not more then 5 minutes sooner, TIM presented the same option to which Sheppard reply that the humans can't control them and that they'd be controlled by the Reapers). So if you go past the child's indirect suggestion, choosing to destroy the reapers is the only option that sees the commander waking up under a rubble on Earth.
Leaving the "true" ending to be shown later is not something new. A few movies have done it in the past to assure that there wouldn't be any spoilers for those living in a zone in which the release date is put latter. Remember that release in Japan is on the 15th of March.
So I'm keeping my fingers crossed until then. If I'm right, I'll applaud Bioware for a very ingenious marketing strategy as soon as I'm done calling them CAPITAL ASSHOLES......JUST ASSHOLES for toying with my emotions like that
I cried at the end you know
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Long fanboy rant ahead
So I just finished the game yesterday night (or should I say very early this morning) and to be frank...I feel disappointed. This trilogy has been of epic proportions with a capital E. The storyline, the characters and their evolution, the Universe and the entire lore are unlike any other done in a game before. I might just be a fanboy when I say this but I have always praised it as being the defining sci-fi opera of our times as was Star Wars back in its days. It could have been a defining moment in history, one that might make people realize that a video game is a veritable art medium. But then I reached the end...It just seems it gave all of that away in the last 5 minutes.
I won't give any spoilers. The ending has plot holes, errors in continuity, is vague and most importantly doesn't offer any closure.
The following might contain semi-spoilers. I believe the reason for this is the same reason for how they handled Tali's face reveal. It was rubbish, superficial and awkward at most. I realize some might have issues with how she looks but what bothers me is how they handled it. They showed it for less than 10 seconds through the use of an edited 2d picture. It's extremely frustrating when the proper way to have done it is so damn obvious. When Sheppard and Tali were both sitting next to each other on the retaken quarian homeworld, Tali could have said something meaningful while taking off her mask and then end with a powerful phrase about regaining her home, at the same time turning towards the camera to finally reveal her face. Instead, in the respective scene, Tali pulled a Master Chief.
Now I don't believe they handled this due to graphical limitations, they've done far more complex things with the engine. To me it shows a lack of time in making decisions, further backed up by the fact that they postponed the release date. This also explains the bad dialogue at the end between (SPOILER ALERT) Sheppard, The Illusive Man and Anderson as well as the endings themselves. (SPOILER ALERT)
BUT and there is a major "but" to everything I've written above, two of the three possible endings (SPOILER ALERT) are cliffhangers that show Sheppard under a rubble starting to breath which might indicate that the endings were just a figment of Sheppard's imagination resulted from Harbinger trying to indoctrinate him. So the true ending might take place in a DLC. I personally hope that this is the case.
Sorry for the long rant.
So I just finished the game yesterday night (or should I say very early this morning) and to be frank...I feel disappointed. This trilogy has been of epic proportions with a capital E. The storyline, the characters and their evolution, the Universe and the entire lore are unlike any other done in a game before. I might just be a fanboy when I say this but I have always praised it as being the defining sci-fi opera of our times as was Star Wars back in its days. It could have been a defining moment in history, one that might make people realize that a video game is a veritable art medium. But then I reached the end...It just seems it gave all of that away in the last 5 minutes.
I won't give any spoilers. The ending has plot holes, errors in continuity, is vague and most importantly doesn't offer any closure.
The following might contain semi-spoilers. I believe the reason for this is the same reason for how they handled Tali's face reveal. It was rubbish, superficial and awkward at most. I realize some might have issues with how she looks but what bothers me is how they handled it. They showed it for less than 10 seconds through the use of an edited 2d picture. It's extremely frustrating when the proper way to have done it is so damn obvious. When Sheppard and Tali were both sitting next to each other on the retaken quarian homeworld, Tali could have said something meaningful while taking off her mask and then end with a powerful phrase about regaining her home, at the same time turning towards the camera to finally reveal her face. Instead, in the respective scene, Tali pulled a Master Chief.
Now I don't believe they handled this due to graphical limitations, they've done far more complex things with the engine. To me it shows a lack of time in making decisions, further backed up by the fact that they postponed the release date. This also explains the bad dialogue at the end between (SPOILER ALERT) Sheppard, The Illusive Man and Anderson as well as the endings themselves. (SPOILER ALERT)
BUT and there is a major "but" to everything I've written above, two of the three possible endings (SPOILER ALERT) are cliffhangers that show Sheppard under a rubble starting to breath which might indicate that the endings were just a figment of Sheppard's imagination resulted from Harbinger trying to indoctrinate him. So the true ending might take place in a DLC. I personally hope that this is the case.
Sorry for the long rant.
Mass Effect 3 [CONTAINS SPOILERS]
Well I searched the forums for a mass effect 3 thread and noticed that there wasn't any. Just got the game today, downloading and installing went smooth but then something far more cruel happened. It seems that it doesn't want to read my MS2 import save. So I'm pretty much stuck here as I really don't like to start with a standard shep 
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I'll be honest, I wasn't expecting THAT! It was great, new, unexpected and it had some very interesting camera angles. The first half was simply outstanding but it seems to have lost its breath a few times during the later half when it momentarily became generic.
I'm sure we can make an exception this time seeing the quality of the vid. Besides, the guy promised he'll get a license so I see no harm done
I'm sure we can make an exception this time seeing the quality of the vid. Besides, the guy promised he'll get a license so I see no harm done
It is and for a very good reason. With Westfield, you have the option of paying them to register the car for you and get it MOTed for a couple of months. I did this for two reasons: I wanted to drive it back home, which I did (during last winter, now that's a story to be told) and registering it in Romania would have been an absolute nightmare otherwise.
The car is basically brand new, it doesn't have more then around 2000 miles which is the initial ride from Kingswinford to Romania. It has stayed parked for almost a year now (another story worthy of being told) hence why it still has the UK plates. Unfortunately, they will be gone in about a week or two. I would have preferred to keep them for the sake of authenticity.
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Will someone please tell me why I scaled down my pictures in photobucket to around 640x440 yet they're still big? I feel like an utter technophobe.
Way too many BMWs lately in this thread. Seeing as I owe BigPeBe pictures of what I have under the hood, here's a few of my Westfield
Edit: WHY WON'T U SCALE DOWN?!?
Edit: WHY WON'T U SCALE DOWN?!?
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I love how in the first link there is an entire paragraph stating that it was all a lie and has just one sentence saying "Other aviation writers accepted Coandă's story of his flight tests with the Coandă-1910". That's clearly not one-sided at all....
And the second article proves what? That others refined the concept?
That comparison of yours was rubbish and stupid. You might have not invented facebook but you would have actually invented the first socializing website. Don't be a proper ignorant and jump to conclusions that are not even proven by the "official" articles
Care to prove me wrong? He was the inventor of the jet and the one who discovered the Coanda effect.
And if you want to add to the confusion, Nikola is of Instro-Romanian descent which makes him Romanian at origins.
Also, the jet engine was invented by Henry Coanda, a Romanian inventor as well.
Also, the jet engine was invented by Henry Coanda, a Romanian inventor as well.
I know that now! When I was that young I didn't
Thanks for the reply. Just one more to go.
Question for the music boffins
So I am looking for two songs from the 90s. Both of them I believe are either techno or trance. I don't remember anything about the songs with the exception of the videoclips.
1. A guy drops his girlfriend to what appears to be a dessert resort. She is extremely stoic not even giving him a goodbye kiss, as are the other patients there ( All of them being hot and stoic girls) The owners of the resort are bald and I believe they are two or three in number (also wearing dark sunglasses). At night, they seem to play them a song that puts them into a hypnotic dance. They eventually start having emotions. The videoclip ends with the guy going back after her. She now smiles and hugs him, being extremely energetic and emotional.
The second is a little tougher as I can only scarcely remember it.
2. It's about a spy that seems to be carrying something important. He is constantly chased through the videos by the bad guys. I believe he initially jumps out of a plain and lands in a classic Corvette. The videoclip ends with him driving the Corvette into a cave hideout where it turns out that the important thing is actually a recipe for what seems to be a tomatoe sauce (for meatballs?)
Thanks in advance!
1. A guy drops his girlfriend to what appears to be a dessert resort. She is extremely stoic not even giving him a goodbye kiss, as are the other patients there ( All of them being hot and stoic girls) The owners of the resort are bald and I believe they are two or three in number (also wearing dark sunglasses). At night, they seem to play them a song that puts them into a hypnotic dance. They eventually start having emotions. The videoclip ends with the guy going back after her. She now smiles and hugs him, being extremely energetic and emotional.
The second is a little tougher as I can only scarcely remember it.
2. It's about a spy that seems to be carrying something important. He is constantly chased through the videos by the bad guys. I believe he initially jumps out of a plain and lands in a classic Corvette. The videoclip ends with him driving the Corvette into a cave hideout where it turns out that the important thing is actually a recipe for what seems to be a tomatoe sauce (for meatballs?)
Thanks in advance!
You're most likely a fat, hairy and bald guy that has to fight off bears and racoons everyday away from his shack and goes to the local internet cafe on a mule so he can post on the LFS forum before the dial-up connection times out.
Stereotypes, eh?
A MOBA game is just that, a massive online battle arena. Besides, in LoL you're not starting with a handicap since all the other players are starting just as you are.
Have you actually played the game? Stop talking about things you don't really know. You can't buy anything in LoL that will just magically make you stronger then the rest.
Yet again, stop telling rubbish. Every new hero is put into next week's free roster so you can try him right after he's been launched and decide if you want to buy him or not. You don't have to put "a hell of a lot of money in it" or "play a hell a lot of games".
Who said HoN's graphics are that good looking? And who claimed you can't see anything in team fights? That would be a pretty big flaw in a MOBA game and I'm sure people would have noticed it by now
And you're still entirely wrong... XP boosters just mean you level up faster. It won't give you any advantage since the matchmaking system will still just pair you up with players of your level. IP is what you need to buy runes and heroes. As said before, getting a hero won't automatically mean a win if you don't really know how to play him and you can't claim runes make you a little bit stronger since everyone else also have runes. But still, any slight advantage runes give you is far exceeded by a player's skills. To give you an example, I only have attack speed runes. It's all great when you're playing an assassin or any melee ad character but there are matches when I have to play as an AP spellcaster and as you can tell, that makes my runes completely useless. Yet, I don't feel any disadvantage.
Now honestly, please stop talking shit about things you don't know and I don't mean it just about MOBA games. May it be a game, biology, politics, news, science, technology, etc., all you're doing is spreading misinformation which is off-putting to people who don't know anything about the subject.
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Honestly that's what I was thinking. It just looks like a "What if Valve made DotA", no real improvement or innovation to merit the "2" in the name.
I still think LoL is the future, especially because they're actually improving the MOBA concept. Take the new Dominion mode as an example.
I still think LoL is the future, especially because they're actually improving the MOBA concept. Take the new Dominion mode as an example.
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