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Playing a bit of HoMM4. It's not as good as the third, but has good potential with more rpg oriented campaigns you can download.

I've taken Recettear and The Longest Journey (I've lost the CD somewhere when Ive recently moved).

I'm playing heroes chronicles 'the second campaign). Good to play again a good homm3 campaign. Homm3 remains for me the best of the homm. I feel tempted by AC after your comments on it.

For the last formula, those are the coefficients that match best (in least squares sense) >> polyfit(y,interpLinDS,1) ans = 1.4258 2.4667

Playing Broken Sword. I will certainly go on with the following titles.

I now understand why we can see on microwave ovens that one should not put a baby in it.

ATI card, i5 processor, I'm at 50% CPU usage if the steam client is lowered.

After half an hour of playthrough, you get used to it.

Yep, that's because of friday european release. Downloading is very slow, though. I don't get why.

I'm downloading DS3. I'll play it when I will have finished Gothic 2.

After having played through Gothic, I'm replaying the second opus and its extension.

Well, CPU is ment to be close to 100% if the game is well optimised, but maybe not saturate. And the memory usage ? Sometimes only adding a bit of RAM can help.

I just don't have a gamepad and I'm not attracted to buy one. I play on laptop and don't want to have numerous extensions to travel with. So yes, I refuse to use a steering wheel for racing games, but it's easier since I don't play racing games.

Did you monitor your system at game load ? How are the cpu charges ? Memory ? If you are at system limit, there won be many things to do to solve the issue, to my little knowledge outside of closing all the background applications : web browser, anti virus, all the 'pre loaded applications' and so on.

What was really specific in the Dungeon Siege gameplay that would be required in a sequel ? For me, as far as I remember, the gameplay in DS was close to a diablo like action RPG. But well, I may be wrong.

Fun. I've never seen this franglism before, I had to google it to learn what was the english meaning behind it. In french, debutante is the feminine form of 'beginner', which is much different with the english sense.

Daggerfall was a good game with a lot of randomly generated content. On the other hand, Morrowind had very few random elements. I think that Bethesda is better in randomly generated content with added fun experiences (becoming a vampire or werewolf in Daggerfall) than in writing a proper and original story.

I'm currently playing the Black Mirror trilogy. Pretty good point and click adventure games.

What I'm interested in is - if their new stat system is not broken this time - if the leveling of the critters is limited drastically - if there are less tedious and repetitive tasks (like closing the gates) - if there is an interesting story. If all those points are ok, then I will buy the game, otherwise, I'll either pass or wait for a big price reduction. For the graphics, we all know that mods can correct that. For the other points, it will be harder to find something consistent.

Not only with Quen, it appears with other signs. When I had the issue, I dodged to another place and tried again, generally that worked.

Or import the equipment but loosing it at the end of the prologue. There is even a good reason for that story wise.

They put prayer rugs in many places and specifically in bordello. They certainly thought it wasn't appropriate and remove it. That would be like having bibles or crucifix in a bordello.

I would just give some names that are among my favorites : Herbert, Silverberg, D i c k, Zelazny, Barjavel, Van Vogt, Vance. Some french recent authors are more oriented to the way scifi was considered before (as in, with focus on concept and not really in 'TV serie' form) : Damasio, Bordage, Colin, Day. Some of them got the Hugo price if I remember correctly. For fantasy, this is tougher since it's already itself a trash subgenre of fables, tales, legends, epic poetry. But outside of the author style (I read mostly french translations) there is Moorc o c k, a few of the preceeding cited authors (Zelazny, Vance, Day, Colin, Bordage, Barjavel), Homer, Chretien de Troyes, Lewis Caroll, Rabelais... The last one being in an enlarge genre which keeps the same idea : comparing a contemporary society with a past one to illustrate some behaviors (or comparing gods and humans...) I'm not a fan of Tolkien because I think he is indirectly responsible of the evolution of the genre into what it is today : moslty crap. Edit : to pass censorshp.

Is it geek to read fantasy books ?

Yes, there is blood magic (Melisandre) and some magic that seems elemental with fire (Thoros) and ice (the White Walkers) and water (Drowned God) but the effects are not well known.