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Just finished. What a ride. Looking over the back-and-forth on the discussion, I guess I'm in the middle. True, the destruction of a relay in "Arrival" destroyed a solar system. However, that doesn't mean that the destruction of a relay in this situation (which was, after all, desinged by its...

It's not so much luck, but rather more like what I was saying before about the balancing act between doing side missions and story missions. You saved the IFF mission for last, which ultimately had the benefit of saving the Normandy crew, but you also basically miissed out on chances to play...

Thing is, it's doing missions that opens up the additional dialogues. Have a dialogue, do a mission, seek new dialgoues, rinse & repeat. Much the same in ME3. IIRC, you have to do at least one side mission between IFF and Legion's loyalty mish. Of course, it's pretty unlikely anyone has this...

Speciically, what we're talking about is . In RPG's (or evena a game like GTA, Red Dead, or Saints Row), deciding whether to do main missions or side missions is kind of a balancing act. Side missions might provide some quicker and easier rewards that better prepare you for the big battles, but...

Especially when you're constantly having voices shout at you "not that way" and "hurry up, Shep, we're dying out here". One problem is that some stuff actually spawns on corpses, as a kind of loot. That's real easy to miss, depending on where you killed them. Second is that the red reticules...

That's another fine example. I remember be approached in Oblivion by an NPC who told me to meet him back around midnight. Of course, it wasn't necessarily midnight of that particular night. Reasonable window of opportunity. Oh, btw, speaking of completionism, here's a tip some might not have...

Allow me to counter your sweeping generalization with an equally broad swath. A good rule of game design is to find a way to communicate the implicit rules to players in some fashion. Since time is utterly abstract in a RPG, windows of opportunity need to be at least hinted at. That way, when...

I'm appreciative of that. I'll tell you one gameplay element that really surprised me: sniping. Back in ME1, the infiltrator was a bit of a joke. Scopes had such bad sway that they were all but unusable. Meanwhile, enemies would shoot with pinpoint precision. I remember one planetside mission...

I'll take your word for it, and hope you're right. There's one event in the game that effectively cancels a large number of uncompleted quests, denying a player bunch of war assets. I had to do quite a bit of backtracking, digging through old saves and replaying a couple of missions. Pretty...

This is especially true of the character added to the the party by the "From Ashes" DLC. He provides a very unique perspective on the ME universe, as well as a certain personality type that is otherwise lacking from ME.

I've read that the MP affects your "Readiness Rating", which is locked in at 50% unless you play MP or one of the other ME spin-off games, like Infiltrator. So basically, any war assets acquired are worth half value. Then again, I don't really get how the Galaxy at War terminal works, as I'm...

Look up the definition of "etiquette", and perhaps exercise it in some capacity. With regards to "common sense", knowing that some characters have a swan song isn't a spoiler. Knowing which ones and the circumstances under which they go out is a spoler. I thought about including that as a...

No thread on this, huh? It's a great game that serves up a lovely swan song for many heroes. I enjoy both the story and the combat. Haven't finished it yet, so it's been hard to dodge spoilers. Apparently, the ending is of a controversial nature. I hope I don't find out that you only get a...

Nice, meaty review. One of the love/hate things about Euro games is that their design mitigates the capability of other gamers to attack other players (which inevitably leads up to ganging up on someone). Using intrigue cards to "slow up the leader", for instance, concerns me, because I know...

Similar to what Learner said, Bootcamp loaded a bunch of executables on a thumb drive along with a Windows installer. So far so good.

Well, finally got around to this. Thought I'd pass along some warnings if you hadn't yet. My MacBook Pro (doesn't show a model number anywhere prominent, which is in line with the Apple way of doing things, I suppose), and it looks like once Windows is loaded, you can give up on...

Hrrmm. Whole long post I had crapped out. Fan-tastic. Anyhoo, it's cool that you got this stuff down pat. This is where we're at now with Apple's reps who are trying to strike up a partnership. We're a System Center shop, and that's a tough act to measure up to. We got hooks into Active...

In a very real sense, yes indeed. When virtual desktop infrastructure takes root, we'll essentially be back to the days of dummy terminals. OTOH, in the "walled garden" analogy, it's kind of implicit that the provider is dictating the lion's share of the experience for the user without their...

We're doing some POC's that entail the Apple Configurator. Is that what you're referring to above?

It does if you know what you need for a device to be of the enterprise caliber, which is not just about applications, but also centralized management and distribution. The impresion I get from you and the other responders indicate is that individuals in your organizations each use it in whatever...