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Well, looks like it will officially have Weaver back and ignore Alien 3 and Resurrection.

All of this is beginning to ring of 'too good to be true' though. I really hope it all works out and it's awesome. I want nothing more than another great Alien film. But we have to be really careful not to let our expectations get too crazy on this.

Yeah, they need some concrete explanation there. The previews kinda make it seem like we'll be getting it soon though.

Loving all the episodes so far. Been consistently great since the premiere.

His face on the billboard stole the show though. Laughed every time that stupid wig was on the screen. lol

You mean they're going to announce a game with no cohesive story but a world so big with so many tasks that you have to buy their guidebooks (for the same cost as the game) to finish them?

Well that's what the internet is for.

If they do this whole thing and then NOT show fallout 4, I'm pretty sure it will be the greatest gaming troll of all time.

Totally expecting it though. Show that and Dishonored 2 and I'll be happy.

I'm interested in it, but not at the full price. I'll pick it up on a sale down the road. Has nothing to do with the negative-ish reviews it's gotten but because I've got a few other games on the slate first.

The premise alone is enough to interest me. Glad you are liking it though, that makes me feel a bit better about not buying into all the hate.

Nice to see 3 getting a little bit of love in here. I like it for what it is, and when I see it on TV I usually stop for awhile.

3 feels a whole like like they were trying real hard (too hard) to make a sequel to the first film. To the point that it almost completely disavows Aliens. Which is just bizarre. But I can appreciate the attempt to go back to more straight horror.

I WANT this to be great, so I'll stay optimistic. Elysium and District 9 were fine. Not great but they were fine. The visual effects in them were fantastic though. Blomkamp is clearly an Alien fan who has sci-fi chops. You could certainly pick a worse guy than him to try and bring this thing back to relevance.

While I don't want him to die, it's probably best for the film. That and it would actually be more shocking if Ford agreed to do all three movies.

It was the same guy who voiced Tarkin in a couple of Clone Wars episodes. He was even better this time though.

I thought that the first two episodes are off to a fantastic start. To me it FEELS Breaking Badish, but still completely different. If that makes any sense. I'm glad they are not going over the top with the Breaking Bad tie ins. The ones that were there felt organic and made sense. Also if you have never seen Breaking Bad at all, you wouldn't even know they were there. Worked on every level for me.

like when SHE went to the scientist dude with medical problems. And speaking of him-- I liked the actor-- but every week what type of scientist he was (physicist? engineer? geneticist?) seemed to change, along with his dysfunction (agoraphobe? social anxiety? sadz0rz?).

 

 

That part was by far the apex of her stupidity. The way it was done was in such a way that she seemed to have almost no medical knowledge at all at that point.

I liked the scientist guy too. Set him up well in Season 3 and then promptly destroyed it by using him as the Exposition Scientist in season 4.

Shadow, a death of one of the Masons would have went super far in establishing some credibility with the audience.

FIVE of them are captured at different points in the series and the other one was taken over by an alien worm. And all of them are fine. That tells you all you need to know about how serious the stakes are in this show.

(FYI Tom, Ben, Matt, Anne, Lexi all captured. Hal of course with the worm)

Probably my favorite episode of the season. Lots of nice little character moments in there and an actual plot that felt like it meant something.

I've been watching since the start and I feel like I have to stick with this last season to see it through.

The first and second seasons were so good. 3 and 4... not so much. Now, it's not Heroes level of drop off, but it's noticeable. There are enough good elements still to keep me from throwing in the towel. Interested to see how they decide to wrap it up.

I never really compared Falling Skies to Walking Dead before.

The key thing that separates them to me is that Walking Dead seems to have a real tangible weight to it. Anybody could die and at any time. Whether that is actually true or not, I don't know. But they've done a good enough job selling it that I believe it.

Falling Skies doesn't have that weight. You know Tom and his family are going to be fine. I never once thought any of them was in real danger.

If I sat down and thought about it I'm sure I could think of some other key differences, but to me. Walking Deads weight give it a sense of realism, whereas Falling Skies lack of it, make it feel like a cable tv show.

Edit: The thing that pissed me off most about the last season of Falling Skies was Anne. For 3 seasons she was the goddamn doctor. Season 4 she is some sort of commando all of a sudden? It was laughable whenever they tried to make it work and completely took me out of it. You are the doctor. Do doctor things.

I'm in. Saul always stole the scenes he was in anyway, so the premise alone is interesting to me. Usually can't say that about most spin offs.

Fallow Mire was easily my least favorite. Hard to pick the favorite though. Maybe Emprise Du Lion Or Crestwood after the weather passes..

So excited for this to come back.

Richard Armitage as The Tooth Fairy? Yes please.

Hera is the best character in the crew, by far. Criminally underused so far.

I liked this episode better than most of them so far. Lando felt like Lando and that's all I can ask for.

The toughest one, I thought, was in Emprise du Lion. Highland Ravager. That one gave me a lot of trouble until I tailored all my armor and weapons to it.

I ended up getting 85 percent or so on PSN. I don't have the difficulty based trophies or the one that involves making a bunch of potion upgrades. Got all the rest, I think.

Cassandra is straight, yeah.

Good luck, UK!

Good Luck! I'm sure you'll probably be fine though. I was level 21 when I finished the final mission and it was too easy, probably.

Just the fact that you can sum up the characters personalities in a couple of lines speaks to the mastery of Bioware on this game.

Well deserving of all the GOTY awards it's getting. And it's encouraging to think that pretty much everybody from this fantastic team moved over to work on Mass Effect now.

I loved the whole scene on the way to Skyhold. Didn't mind the song either and I was fully awake.

Seems I'm not alone in my Dorian, Sera and Iron Bull love. Dorian and Iron Bull have some fantastic banter later in the game if you meet certain criteria. (no spoilers from me)

I think the Red Lyrium is connected to Varrics sidequest stuff. So in that case, it's worth finding it.

As for Sera, I looooved having her in the party. Not really so much for the combat, but all her idle banter was fantastic. But then, I romanced Sera too. Seems like you either love her or you hate her. Her and Iron Bull together had a ton of great stuff. I didn't use Cole once either and don't regret it. Think he is the weakest of all the characters.

Whenever I play it again, I feel obligated to bring around some other people just to see the banter, but man it's going to be tough. I feel like those three are MY people.

And don't feel bad about spending the gold. I rarely ever bought anything all through my playthrough. I recommend the mystery box in Orlais though.