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@Mordukai: Some people use headphones exclusively (like me), i bought a pair of ad-700s a 5 months ago after reading so many positive reviews. Headphones are: easy to setup/plug, make no compromise in terms of sound quality (given the right purchase and research), convenient in terms of space and excess noise. Your are right about surround headphones, they totally defeat the purpose of having them, the feature often makes sound echo-y and fake, we have two ears and so most audiophiles only take stereo headphones seriously. Mine were $120 off amazon ( I live in Australia). Not all pc games will support surround sound, just a thought. Good luck with your new rig, I bet its pretty exciting!

chess is the new coffee

a preferred party size of one? thats pretty lonely. 4 seems to be the magic number, it worked well in dao and most old school rpgs.

anyone who buys this deserves it

dark all the way, milk chocolate just tastes predominately of sugar. Cocoa is naturally bitter and I like it.

hmm tactical party turn based rpgs? how about disgaea?

liara, tali and then tali again.

brilliant!

This is great news, i loved fallout 1+2, a $50 investment was a no brainer.

I didn't like it, but on the other hand I don't have a problem with bioware's ending. At multiple points in-game you are told that the reapers are stronger and more numerous so they cannot be defeated by conventional means even when you max out the war assets bar, thus the necessity of the crucible. This fan ending makes building the crucible pointless (which successive civilizations have been improving on making their input and sacrifices pointless as well). You could argue that they could have invested the resources and man/alien power into building a bigger military force if they could be beaten conventionally rather than gamble on the crucible. Not to mention a big battle where the galaxy prevails over the reapers is rather predictable, unoriginal and could perhaps be called lazy writing. I liked the bioware ending (I picked synthesis) because it was surprising, emotive and provided closure to Shepards story (though I do concede that the post credits cut-scene is pretty lame). To each their own I guess.