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TV commentary:

NCIS- That's how they write Ziva off?! ( spoiler cut )

ME blather- Hey, I broke the top 500 in the country! Like I said, gonna mop up the challenges I haven't finished yet. I've done every weapon and almost every power except for pull and biotic orbs, so now its characters. The only extract challenges I have left are the Batarian sentinel, the Asari Justicar, the Demolisher Engineer and the Talon mercenary. Waves, also have the krogan soldier and sentinel, the GI, Geth Engineer, all the Asari and the Turian Saboteur, among others. Like I said, a few month ago, I would've thought it would be a pipe dream to do all the characters. But I've gotten good enough that I can play any of the characters (except the Volus, screw them), so I want to prove to myself I can by finishing all of the ones I mentioned up.

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For all my talk about wanting WO3 ultimate to come out here, it kinda sucks that since its just a "special" version of WO3, it doesn't have anyone from DW8/XL since the game predates that. But they always stagger WO from DW/SW, so you can never play a version of WO that has every playable character in existence.

And DW8 added a lot of new characters- 10, 2 new Wei (Yu Jin, Li Dian), 2 new Wu (Lu Su, Hang Dang), 3 new Shu (Zhang Bao, Guan Xing, Guan Yinping) and 3 new Jin (Jia Chong, Wen Yang, Zhang Chunhua). And XL keeps adding more. So far, its one new character for each faction- as I've said before, Yue Jin for Wei, so both YJs are PCs. Zhu Ran for Wu, presumably so when you have to stop the fire attack at Yi Ling, you're fighting a true character and not some glorified scrub. And Fa Zheng for Shu, I guess so the original 3 all get a character. But since it sounds like XL is focusing on Lu Bu and his story, they're expanding the "Others" faction. Chen Gong as strategist, and now Lu Bu's daughter Lu Lingqi which seems awesome.

I mean, she looks cool, too bad she uses those damn cross halberds Lu Bu used in DW6 that are corny. But yeah, of all the new characters, she seems the most interesting, mostly because I want to know what her personality is going to be like. And given the Lu Bu story always played up the romance between him and Diao Chan, and obviously Diao Chan is not her mother, how will that go? Are they going to say he had a previous wife who gave him a child? And like how old is he supposed to be if he has a child that's grown up?

But I digress, that's 15 new characters lacking in WO3, not to mention they're developing SW4. So I guess in a couple of years, WO4 will have damn near 200 characters? Currently, WO3 special has 145, so with the 15 from DW8/XL, that's 160, I'm sure they'll add some more from SW4, as well as some new WO-specific characters and guest characters from other games. They did everyone in Ninja Gaiden, but they still have more people from Warriors of Troy and Bladestorm to raid, and whatever that game Nemea is from (which had some cool character designs). And Sophitia being in this brings a bunch of Soul Calibur possibilities into the mix.