Microsoft now packages the wireless controllers with the wireless dongle adapter together for about $50 at Best Buy. You don't need to buy it seperately if you are buying a new controller anyways. They even keep them in the PC section with the keyboards and mice.

Firefall looks to be the next potential good one right now. But if your looking for a fix right now I'd recommend you try Global Agenda.

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I think your worried is all here, you found a universe that you highly enjoy, and probably should be somewhat worried. Gaming has a trend lately to take something great, and then completely ruin it for the sake of sales only, forgetting about what made it great to begin with. Just take any Tom Clancy title's de-evolution over the last 10 years.

Mass Effect has been said by many to be the new Star Wars or Star Trek. That's a pretty group to follow, however I've just finished ME, and almost done with ME2, and honestly even after being a Star Wars fan for the last 30+ years, Mass Effect is my new favorite Sci-fi property, so I get it.

You just made a round-a-bout explanation to your concerns I think.

One last point, now that I have learned to love this series and respect that it was a trilogy from the beginning....I hope they are not done with this universe and give us more content with other stories and main characters. I'd even be interested in some kind of Star Wars: Empire at War ****RTS game. Mass Effect also has enough species and worlds to become a huge MMO. I know the books will carry on some stories, but I already want more and ME3 isn't even out yet.

I think Bioware is smart enough to realize the impact this universe has, and it's versatility, and they won't stop with Shepard. I just hope they don't over do it like Assassin's Creed has become. I also don't see them conforming to what's cool, they do best when they do it their way and they know that.

As far as the engine itself goes....after playing ME2 for the last week, KOTOR came to mind. They know the fans want it, and the ME2, or even ME3 engine would fit perfectly with very little modifications, making an easy and fairly cheap KOTOR 3 game to make......

You know it's coming.

FelipeInside

BioWare has stated that ME3 is the end of Shepard, but not the end of the Universe.

It's called SWTOR (sorry had to say it), and before people start flaming me... I'm having as much fun with SWTOR as I did with KOTOR, and there are a LOT of similarities apart from the universe.

SWTOR is alot like KOTOR 3 true, but I still don't see it that way. I haven't played the full release yet, just was in two different Beta's. I found the story interesting and the art is good and unique (except for the horrible body size options when creating a character). However I have no interest in MMO's much anymore unless they can be played solo, I don't care about end game, raid, or Guild content...I dont have enough free time to care.

But the biggest difference is the combat system. KOTOR had a real-time/pause based combat system and SWTOR has a turn based WoW system where people shoot through walls and get hits outside of their range. KOTOR and SWTOR are very different. The combat system that WoW and SWTOR have bothers me every time, and is the #1 reason why I haven't bought it yet. I don't see the similarities in gameplay at all.

I think your worried is all here, you found a universe that you highly enjoy, and probably should be somewhat worried. Gaming has a trend lately to take something great, and then completely ruin it for the sake of sales only, forgetting about what made it great to begin with. Just take any Tom Clancy title's de-evolution over the last 10 years.

Mass Effect has been said by many to be the new Star Wars or Star Trek. That's a pretty group to follow, however I've just finished ME, and almost done with ME2, and honestly even after being a Star Wars fan for the last 30+ years, Mass Effect is my new favorite Sci-fi property, so I get it.

You just made a round-a-bout explanation to your concerns I think.

One last point, now that I have learned to love this series and respect that it was a trilogy from the beginning....I hope they are not done with this universe and give us more content with other stories and main characters. I'd even be interested in some kind of Star Wars: Empire at War style RTS game. Mass Effect also has enough species and worlds to become a huge MMO. I know the books will carry on some stories, but I already want more and ME3 isn't even out yet.

I think Bioware is smart enough to realize the impact this universe has, and it's versatility, and they won't stop with Shepard. I just hope they don't over do it like Assassin's Creed has become. I also don't see them conforming to what's cool, they do best when they do it their way and they know that.

As far as the engine itself goes....after playing ME2 for the last week, KOTOR came to mind. They know the fans want it, and the ME2, or even ME3 engine would fit perfectly with very little modifications, making an easy and fairly cheap KOTOR 3 game to make......

You know it's coming.

Your either overthinking or underthinking this.

The reload ejection was simply a thermal tube that absorbs heat. By ejecting it when it's full helps keep the weapon cooled down, then ejected to disperse the heat completely.

As far as physical ammo based firearms....why not? It's not like their technology isn't there, and for organic targets without shields they could penetrate armor better then light based weapons. I'm sure they'd have the tech to limit recoil on a rifle shooting automatic .50 cal rounds.

It's not like Star Wars where the entire universe is basically established, yet in SWTOR lightsabers now cause bleeding.

Just saying.

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[QUOTE="CHANCESUNDANCE"]Dragon Age 1 and 2 battlesystem sucks on pc imo.

real-time battles ala Skyrim twoworlds2 are much better imo

CHANCESUNDANCE

Well technically KOTOR, ME, and DA are real time, but with a tactical input because your responsible for party members as well. The pause is necessary to control all aspects of your party, otherwise you'd never attack yourself and be playing an RTS game.

Elder Scrolls, Two Worlds, Gothic etc are pretty much just you the entire time so there's no need for the pause option. Otherwise the combat is similar.

There's really only Real-Time and Turn Based. It's the turn based combat that I don't like. It's what turned me off from WoW and SWTOR. It appears to be real time but it's not. Well that and the fact once combat is engaged distance and LOS mean nothing.

thanx for clearing that up.

but under wut category falls Fallout 3 then ?

i mean , i like the game , but the battlesystem i don"T like.

Well for me Fallout 3 was real-time. I hardly ever used the pause-target system. That's the one game where it annoyed me, and I felt cheap using it. In that case I will agree it isn't needed and hurts gameplay IMO.

Dragon Age 1 and 2 battlesystem sucks on pc imo.

real-time battles ala Skyrim twoworlds2 are much better imo

CHANCESUNDANCE

Well technically KOTOR, ME, and DA are real time, but with a tactical input because your responsible for party members as well. The pause is necessary to control all aspects of your party, otherwise you'd never attack yourself and be playing an RTS game.

Elder Scrolls, Two Worlds, Gothic etc are pretty much just you the entire time so there's no need for the pause option. Otherwise the combat is similar.

There's really only Real-Time and Turn Based. It's the turn based combat that I don't like. It's what turned me off from WoW and SWTOR. It appears to be real time but it's not. Well that and the fact once combat is engaged distance and LOS mean nothing.

[QUOTE="Recon19D20"]

I've played and enjoyed all of the Elder Scrolls, KOTOR, ME style games and like them all.

RossRichard

You should like Dragon Age then. As far as what style it is, I would say dark fantasy. Kind of like The Witcher, if you have ever played that. The Witcher games are excellent too BTW.

And no, you don't have to play DA2 if you don't want to.

Thank you, and I do have the Witcher in my backlog yet, want to get to that also as I heard the Witcher 2 is amazing. And yeah I will have to play DA2 lol....it's like an OCD thing that if I watch/play something I need to finish the story unless it's absolute garbage.

I can't play #2 without playing #1 first. Been that way all my life for some stupid reason.

It's a triple AAA rated RPG, what do you think? DA2 isn't that bad either, it's just unfinished and rushed. But the gameplay is stellar.

ShimmerMan

Thank you for your absolute useless input. You probably don't even know what Dragon Age is. You can thank me later for my report for your spam btw, no need to right now.