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[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="7" id="2904034"]Makes me wonder if you'll be nice and change that white print to black. Pretty please? [/quote] Sorry, Doc. If I make it black it won't show up on the Elemental forums here, at least not easily. For some reason when I copied it last night it messed up and I tried to make it as close as I could to the normal colors here on this forum. [quote who="Heavenfall" reply="8" id="2904035"]Cosmology? That's your answer right there.<

Interestingly enough, I found some "drama" following some of those book links there. Check this out: Journal of Cosmology, 2011, Vol 13, JournalofCosmology.com March, 2011 Fossils of Cyanobacteria in CI1 Carbon

[quote who="Vandenburg" reply="3" id="2903975"] If true, then this proves without the shadow of doubt that life is possible outside of the planet Earth. It's not true. It's a sham article in a sham journal. The main writer works for NASA but the article itself isn't supported by NASA at all. Wait journal... it's not even a journal, it's a website. Well, at least it has the modern geocities standard of web design... with dozen of amazon links to book

Remember a while back I mentioned in another post about scientists thinking they found fossilized microscopic bacterial remains in an asteroid? Well, now a NASA scientist is saying he's found some and is asking the rest of the scientific community to confirm his findings. If true, then this proves without the shadow of doubt that life is possible outside of the planet Earth. The article in question is reported on this ABC News website here: <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/

Man, that's just f'ked up, plain and simple.

[quote who="Savyg" reply="114" id="2903754"]I'm on the expedition myself and I can't get past the second giant creature. I even turned it to Casual difficulty and I still can't. Doh!!! [/quote] If it's the same one I'm thinking of (let's call it a certain kind of golem so no spoilers), it got me too the first time I encountered it. I got it on the second try though :). Pro tip, when it's about to explode that energy all over the place, tell your party to hold

[quote who="RogueCaptain" reply="10" id="2903708"]*checks professional reviews* *checks honest reviews* It's times like this I'm glad I subscribe to Raven X for my reports. Without it I could easily have become another consumer casualty. [/quote] I appreciate the confidence there, Cap'n :), thanks. I thought I should clear up a general impression I might be giving off. DA:2 is Not a Bad game. It Is a pretty decent game and i

[quote who="kenata" reply="111" id="2903736"] Unless there is some kind of bug that broke something I don't know about, I don't think I did. I's say what all happened but I don't want to give anything away for those going through it atm. When I was in the Deep Roads area though, I talked to everyone I could and did every quest I could get, which weren't many. Maybe something messed up? I thought it seemed Way too short. Hmm, I'll browse the official forums and see if there's any mention

[quote who="Krazikarl" reply="108" id="2903608"] Quoting RavenX, reply 102 Also, I just got to part 3. Part 2 was Incredibly Short. It took me 2 and a half nights at about 4 and a half hours a night to get through part 1. Part 2 I finished in about 4 hours total. I only hope part 3 is a bit longer. I think that you missed some quests or broke the quest chains early. Part 2 took longer than part 1 for me. [/quote] Unless there is

Also, I just got to part 3. Part 2 was Incredibly Short. It took me 2 and a half nights at about 4 and a half hours a night to get through part 1. Part 2 I finished in about 4 hours total. I only hope part 3 is a bit longer.

[quote who="FadedC" reply="99" id="2903158"] Companion inventory basically boils down to companions having 7 equipable inventory slots instead of 10. Not such a big deal either especially given that they have alternate means of getting upgrades. [/quote] 7? I think you miss-counted, my friend. They have 5 mostly , except Varric who has 4 because you can't change out his crossbow. They don't have multi-pieced armor, so no gloves, boots, or helmets/hats/hoods. Companio

You see man, rednecks and technology just don't mix :P hehe j/k brother ;) Though, I'll bet if you changed your forums name to "CoolCityDude" the problems would magically fix themselves. [e digicons]B)[/e]

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Before I get into a detailed review, I know many of you don't like to read overtly long winded reviews and for those of you like that, here's a quick, short, TLDR version. TLDR: On it's own as a game (if you pretend there was no such thing as DA:O ), Dragon Age 2 is a "decent" Action RPG. It has it's good points, and as long as you don't know about the depth of the original game then you won't feel cheated out of what should have been a much&nbsp

[quote who="Gaston_DAoust" reply="87" id="2902618"]Dragon Age 2 judged on it's own merits is a very good game. I think that most criticism comes from the fact that it is not streamlined enough for the younger CoD crowd, while not challenging enough for us older hard core guys. I believe the majority of the people who play the game will be somewhere in between and will enjoy the game just fine. [/quote] [quote who="Krazikarl" reply="88" id="2902659"]Yeah, I think that judged on it

[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="77" id="2902421"]I actually appreciate the new style, it's necessary to make the game feel fresh I think. The departure helps, but the game is still a disappointment. Edit: I downloaded the high-resolution texture package and I dare say it's a must have. No more shitty graphics, makes the numerous cutscenes (75% of the game) a lot more enjoyable. [/quote] Agreed. The High Res Texture pack is a MUST have. Still, even with it, if you look c

P.S. For once, GameSpot's review is pretty honest. Still, they gave it a higher score than the game actually deserves. When it comes to "professional review sites" though, Luckmann is %100 right when he says: [quote who="Luckmann" reply="62" id="2902252"] The upper-echelon review scene (for lack of a better word) is either suffering from an enormous disconnect from the actual market, or is quite simply corrupt. We've seen this pattern of "Criticize everything that can't fight bac

There are some pretty accurate replies on the game here. Annatar, Heavenfall, and Tydorius's replies all have merit. That said, I'll be doing a proper "Raven Reviews" some time tonight or early in the morning going into detail about the Few things the game does right, and more importantly the Many things the game does Wrong... I'm not a normal reader of the Metacritic site so I don't really know if there's always such a big difference between the sites review score a

[quote quoting="post"] http://cgi.ebay.com/Starcraft-2-Account-Leveling-Master-League-/280636826529?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item41574223a1 These people are either hacking accounts for some reason or are actually charging $35 to hire a top 200 player to level up your account to masters. Now what the hell is the point of this? Have someone else lvl your account so when you get back on it and play you get crushed like 200 games in a row and plummet back to bron

[quote who="Unknown924" reply="36" id="2901434"] RavenX, while you have a very good point, I think the issue here is not consolization but eaifaction (Command and Conquer 4 was PC only and look what happened to it). [/quote] Indeed, I think you're right. Also, I'm pretty pissed off atm. Why? Because I dragged my-self out to the midnight release, waiting in the cold, had to go through a bunch of other BS I won't go into here, and then when I got home and installed my game

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="28" id="2901407"]I think DX10 will largely be skipped over completely, since DX11 just builds off it and already there are probably more (or as many) games with DX11 support than DX10 [/quote] [quote who="Savyg" reply="29" id="2901409"] Most DX11 games support 10. Hell, Lost Planet 2 is the only one that doesn't afaik. 11 and 10 are similar to code for afaik. [/quote] I have to go with Annatar over-all on that repl

[quote who="Unknown924" reply="23" id="2901391"]I have my Signature Edition fully pre-loaded on Impulse, but it looks like console players have been screwed over. Auto-attack option for consoles was added in to the games late in the development cycle after the initial certification build was sent. The auto-attack functionality was sent to be added to the game for testing and approval. This was why staff said it was in game. Due to an error during mastering, the auto-atta

[quote who="Savyg" reply="22" id="2901385"] Quoting Annatar11, reply 20 Not really.. I've got a pair of GTX 285s in SLI and there's not been a single game that even forced me to turn SLI on Will see how it looks, I'm more concerned about the particle effects (spells) than textures atm. The demo's fire effects were rather lacking when compared to DA:O I know I love MLAA, I'm sure Nvidias upcoming counter to it will look awesome too. But

[quote who="Hawawaa" reply="6" id="2901036"]Ya I have to agree with you, I will miss the old camera from DAO. I'm not too bugged about the wheel but, I did like to knowing what exactly I was going to say. I don't like how the darkspawn look... well the swordsmen, archers and ogres ie their faces... Also I don't like how in some environments or the backrounds are very empty. In the demo if you look out in the wastelands there aint much too see... These are just minor things to me thoug

[quote who="Savyg" reply="1" id="2900982"]Seemed like a huge improvement in graphics to me...and the DX11 stuff wasn't even enabled. I can't wait to see it with the high res tex pack. http://blog.bioware.com/2011/03/03/the-technology-of-dragon-age-ii-–-part-2/ [/quote] The screens in your link there Do look like a decent improvement. I just didn't notice a difference in the demo. Mostly likely, because as you already pointed out, there was no DX11