Josef, no offense but I'd rather you give it a rest. I get the impression that KvP isn't a huge fan of bioware these days too, but that doesn't mean his opinions aren't worth having around. Everyone has a bias and I don't really see why confronting him over his beats just taking it into account. I mean, really, he has a point when he says that there's scant evidence to believe this will be particularly convincing. Videogame romances haven't progressed terribly far since their introduction, after all. So far they work well if you keep it light and aim for the level of fidelity you find in action movies (Sands of Time being a great example,) but so far anything beyond that has treaded some pretty wonky territory. For example, I find it telling that PoP:SoT worked in large part because you don't have any input on it. You're being told the story of two people from the angle of one person. It's never really given a chance to go off the rails, and this rivalry system gives me the impression that in DAII you're going to be able to go right ahead and push the cart off yourself.
