That feature is kind of overrated a lot. Yes, quite a bit of stuff caries over, but all that means is that you get an mail every now and then or an extra line of dialog. It basically doesn't change anything important in the game, as all the the big decisions you made in the first game are written out of the story in the second one (doesn't matter if council is alive or dead if it has no screen time in the second game).
Not entirely true. You cannot get the discount on the weapons upgrade supplier on illium if the asari sales rep does not have access to the terminally naive Conrad Verner to try and con her way into the Eternity bar into selling her the deed. Without Conrad's identity theft, she has nothing to blackmail the bar owner and thus give you leverage into backing off.
It becomes all too easy to track down a suspect and wait until he's moving his laptop around to arrest him then and search his computer without that pesky warrant procedure.
Great observation, those rules clearly apply to another great example, Mass Effect:
1) Only 2 years from the original to the sequel.
2) Complete game mechanics overhaul. While retaining the third person shooter aspect, the game drops clunky and tedious inventory management also streamlines skill leveling. Addition of heat pack "ammunition" is a case of YMMV over the use of weapon overheating, though it is rarely cited as a negative beyond in-game physics.
3) Bioware kept control through and through, with Casey Hudson as lead designer on both games.
4) The game is still essentially story-driven. While focusing on the Collectors rather than the Reapers, they are still Reaper puppets and the initial story from the first game continues. Better yet, a multitude of decisions from the first game return to either help or haunt you if you import your original Shepard save file.
5) All of the changes did not modify what was at the core of Mass Effect - a space opera about Commander Shepard who discovers the horrible truth of an impending galaxy-wide omnicide and being stuck as "the Jor-El" whom authorities in charge refuse to believe. And yet he/she must stop the incoming apocalypse somehow.
Our US and EU politicians are no different than Chinese politicians - they all have avarice and ambition - love of money & love of power. They'll censor the porn off the net and justify it as "protecting the children".
I'm certain the multi-billion dollar porn industry will gladly accept the curtailing of their business with a smile and just go back to minimum wage jobs without a fuss.
But herein lies the problem. These pants wil NOT be worn by a nerd. Nerds know they are 100% useless and wont work, Only rich yuppies with no IQ or education on the subject will buy them.
So they are "rob me" indicators.
I think thieves have a little more fashion sense than stealing pants that ugly. And a little more common sense than wearing blood-covered solar pants in front of the cop investigating a rash of solar pants robberies.
Just like everybody who wants less government, or who is worried about heaping trillions of new debt on the bonfire that is our economy is... a racist who actively wants, as their goal in life, for poor people to be sick and die. That is, if you listen to Al Franken and MSNBC, right?
I'm not that short-sighted, of course. I'm perfectly aware that conservatives aren't actively working to kill off all the poor and underprivileged. Who would be left to work factory jobs in abject conditions for minimum wage (or worse)?
Why bother opening your mouth with D&D 4th edition rulings or fun fact about the merovigian kings? Let your PANTS tell the football players at school that YOU'RE the person they should be beating up!!!
The right-wingers have one point though:
Liberals usually work incrementally. It starts with simple net neutrality rules. Then later on, they add some more rules. And more. And more. A Killswitch and some hate-crimes legislation later and before you know the government is all up in your intarwebs.
Is it just me, or do the right-wingers always claim the slippery slope argument whenever they can't provide valid arguments? Everything seems to lead to death panels when you listen to Rush and Fox.
If a link is publishing, then is a link to a link publishing the link which published the original? Does any website that link to google, or to a website that links to google, in effect publish the entire internet?
My parents don't want me entertaining myself on the internet either - except it's not about copyright issues, they're just afraid I'll turn deaf or blind.
Clicking on the link in the summary brought me to the google translated version. Here's a fragment of the headache inducing result:
The arguments put forward by all parliamentary groups except the PSOE, passed from the doubts about the constitutionality of the text, in the case of CC, PP and ERC-IU-ICV, to consider the provision "a Pepe own fudge and Otilio Leak "as said ERC spokesman Joan Ridao, or" the law of the kick to the modem ", as stated by the deputy of ICV Nuria Buenaventura.
Yeah... most of my email spam makes more sense these days.
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That feature is kind of overrated a lot. Yes, quite a bit of stuff caries over, but all that means is that you get an mail every now and then or an extra line of dialog. It basically doesn't change anything important in the game, as all the the big decisions you made in the first game are written out of the story in the second one (doesn't matter if council is alive or dead if it has no screen time in the second game).
Not entirely true. You cannot get the discount on the weapons upgrade supplier on illium if the asari sales rep does not have access to the terminally naive Conrad Verner to try and con her way into the Eternity bar into selling her the deed. Without Conrad's identity theft, she has nothing to blackmail the bar owner and thus give you leverage into backing off.
It becomes all too easy to track down a suspect and wait until he's moving his laptop around to arrest him then and search his computer without that pesky warrant procedure.
Great observation, those rules clearly apply to another great example, Mass Effect:
1) Only 2 years from the original to the sequel.
2) Complete game mechanics overhaul. While retaining the third person shooter aspect, the game drops clunky and tedious inventory management also streamlines skill leveling. Addition of heat pack "ammunition" is a case of YMMV over the use of weapon overheating, though it is rarely cited as a negative beyond in-game physics.
3) Bioware kept control through and through, with Casey Hudson as lead designer on both games.
4) The game is still essentially story-driven. While focusing on the Collectors rather than the Reapers, they are still Reaper puppets and the initial story from the first game continues. Better yet, a multitude of decisions from the first game return to either help or haunt you if you import your original Shepard save file.
5) All of the changes did not modify what was at the core of Mass Effect - a space opera about Commander Shepard who discovers the horrible truth of an impending galaxy-wide omnicide and being stuck as "the Jor-El" whom authorities in charge refuse to believe. And yet he/she must stop the incoming apocalypse somehow.
Hey guys, we got the satel- Assuming direct control.
Our US and EU politicians are no different than Chinese politicians - they all have avarice and ambition - love of money & love of power. They'll censor the porn off the net and justify it as "protecting the children".
I'm certain the multi-billion dollar porn industry will gladly accept the curtailing of their business with a smile and just go back to minimum wage jobs without a fuss.
This is how the internet ends. Not with government censorship or technological breakdown, but with corporate sponsored spam suffocation.
who said that monopolistic corporate greed and paranoid government spying on citizens had to be mutually exclusive?
What is it with copyright lawyers consistently suing kids ten years old and younger?
Maybe if it gets ridiculous enough people will notice.
What do you mean, "gets"?
Dwight: It's called 'Second Life', it's a game without losers.
Jim: Oh, there's losers.
Hope your mandarin is up to par!
But herein lies the problem. These pants wil NOT be worn by a nerd. Nerds know they are 100% useless and wont work, Only rich yuppies with no IQ or education on the subject will buy them.
So they are "rob me" indicators.
I think thieves have a little more fashion sense than stealing pants that ugly. And a little more common sense than wearing blood-covered solar pants in front of the cop investigating a rash of solar pants robberies.
Just like everybody who wants less government, or who is worried about heaping trillions of new debt on the bonfire that is our economy is ... a racist who actively wants, as their goal in life, for poor people to be sick and die. That is, if you listen to Al Franken and MSNBC, right?
I'm not that short-sighted, of course. I'm perfectly aware that conservatives aren't actively working to kill off all the poor and underprivileged. Who would be left to work factory jobs in abject conditions for minimum wage (or worse)?
Why bother opening your mouth with D&D 4th edition rulings or fun fact about the merovigian kings? Let your PANTS tell the football players at school that YOU'RE the person they should be beating up!!!
The right-wingers have one point though: Liberals usually work incrementally. It starts with simple net neutrality rules. Then later on, they add some more rules. And more. And more. A Killswitch and some hate-crimes legislation later and before you know the government is all up in your intarwebs.
Is it just me, or do the right-wingers always claim the slippery slope argument whenever they can't provide valid arguments? Everything seems to lead to death panels when you listen to Rush and Fox.
They should give ample business to the attorneys at the reputable firm of Dewey, Cheatem and Howe.
If a link is publishing, then is a link to a link publishing the link which published the original? Does any website that link to google, or to a website that links to google, in effect publish the entire internet?
The answer is of course 'Kevin Bacon'
I rest my case.
The race to shave yet another hundred of a thousandth of a second when launching your Minesweeper game.
My parents don't want me entertaining myself on the internet either - except it's not about copyright issues, they're just afraid I'll turn deaf or blind.
The concept of the uncanny valley is a well known one: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/UncannyValley
Clicking on the link in the summary brought me to the google translated version. Here's a fragment of the headache inducing result:
The arguments put forward by all parliamentary groups except the PSOE, passed from the doubts about the constitutionality of the text, in the case of CC, PP and ERC-IU-ICV, to consider the provision "a Pepe own fudge and Otilio Leak "as said ERC spokesman Joan Ridao, or" the law of the kick to the modem ", as stated by the deputy of ICV Nuria Buenaventura.
Yeah... most of my email spam makes more sense these days.
So does this mean that any copyright lawsuit payments made to the RIAA by defeated defendants will be blocked by Mastercard?
I'm just waiting until the WTF creates its sister agency, the Operational Management Governing Bureaucratic Branching Queue.
I remember a time where I was forbidden calculators in class at ANY time, not just during exams.