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Were you unable to figure out how to remove it, or was it a life style choice?

Yeah I liked that my Blue Stripes tattoo is still there LOL! You kept that ugly thing? Let me know if Yen ever teases you for it. Oh man, now I might have to go back and play W2 and 3 just to see.

When you have a trilogy of games, from a direction standpoint I think you have two extremes to choose from; 1: the Mass Effect way, an over arcing story that forces players to play through the whole series (and in ME's case all the DLC too) to get the best endings, or 2: the Witcher way, where each game is self contained and the over arcing story is of a personal note rather than an epic. I'm glad CD went for the latter, but it would have been nice to get some good starter armors at least for importing a save.

I like class systems in party RPGs, but flexible or nonexistent classes in single person dungeon crawler like Elder Scrolls.

Ohh, yeah . . . That was one of my biggest gripes about the game, importing is entirely irrelevant. I don't know if you play the first game, but importing from 1 to 2 has a little impact while 2 to 3 has none. Side note: did you kill Letho?

Ah, I see that now. I believed you, but I just reloaded an old save and poked around to verify. Perfect example of why I should lurk and read while informed members post! Don't be too nice to Junta or he will put on airs!!! Personally I like how the game does this, if you want "pure" min max it is totally available to you VIA hiring people at the various inns. The story companions should have some kind of trade off, they make up for less than perfect stat spreads in tons of ways. Some of them have unique features like Caroc, and they all include you know... story, bonus quests, and actual dialog. Makes them well worth the trade in my opinion. I'm not on the total respec bandwagon (mostly for role-playing purposes), but I do think we should be able to change the first ability. It sucks that Eder is stuck with Defender when nobody in their right mind would use it. You have Defender, a no longer viable ability, staring you in the face the whole game as if to taunt you with that wasted level. In a game with a level cap of 20 or higher, I wouldn’t mind, but that's not POE (nor should it be).

Even with 600K+ sales, I'm amazed anyone ever thought to try this. At least it never crossed my mind.

Wrong thread. Sorry.

Are you talking about Dragon's Dogma? It is Japanese made, but lacks the cross dressing, harems, and crazy hair of 'traditional' JRPGs. All the better, IMO.

While I agree with the statement that stopping piracy doesn't translate into sales, I'm not convinced the above statement is correct. I look at digital piracy as magpie-like hording that has nothing to do with whether or not the persons involved are without financial means of purchasing games.

I preordered it too, because DD has been out for several years and is a known quantity. I haven't played it yet (I have a 360, and from all accounts it runs better on PS3) so I'm super excited to try out this remastered PC edition.

Did either play it on PC? The 360 port has extra walls and doors with loading screens to make it run on a weaker machine. The dawrven city is only confusing at the beginning on PC. As for the mines, now they were confusing.

I liked Iorveth's (not sure I spelled that right) path more, although I like Roche more than Iorveth. Minor Spoiler: chapters 2 and 3 are completely different depending on whether you took help from Iorveth or Roche at the end of chapter 1, giving tW2 more replayability than the other two games.

Dare I say he's just little big boned?

Has there been any confirmation of how high they're going to bump up the level cap? I assume its going up to sixteen (the base game went from twelve to fourteen in tWM1, so plus two more levels sounds right).

Never has facial hair let anyone down.

You can meditate outside IF your not in the immediate area of a monster or a location where monsters frequent. Example, you can meditate inside the rundown village outside of Flotsam, but wonder south into the forest proper and you can't. But I agree about the potions. You can drink (if they're equipped to your armor) potions during combat in the first game, and you can drink them during combat in the third, but for some reason you can't in the second. There are several mechanics that existed in the first game and didn't in the second that CD reintroduced in the third (food is another one).

Can you access the area where you killed Maerwald? If you can't the only thing I can think of that might cause that is not having re-entered the stronghold main keep and speaking with the statue again. Otherwise, go back down to the first level of the dungeon and the access point down to the second level (which was magically closed off earlier) is located on the bottom right hand corner of the dungeon.

LOL. I love playing as a rogue, but this is so true. Unless it’s something super weak, you don't want to fight anything head up with a rogue.

Yeah, that was cool. The most impressive bit was the villain tho. I opted out of taking on the main villain. I wasn't entirely sure if killing him would really, you know . . . kill him.

Did you fish shoes out of the pond? I grabbed all of them and Shani's response was hilarious.

Yep, as a lifelong Oklahoma Sooners fan I still say Bradford, when healthy, is okay at best. There are lots of other Sooner fan who have been claiming for years that he just needs a supporting cast, but he's six or seven years into the league and has had one good season (rookie year) where he was health for more than two thirds of the games.

@Humaniod: Assuming that when you say the Witcher Saga was "unexceptional" you are referring to notoriety and not personal taste (in which case I agree with Sakia that you should at least give the first book a try before making a definitive statement like that), you would wrong. There was a movie and TV show of the IP long before there was a video game. It wasn't popular in the US because the US market (publishing houses, not buyers) doesn't like licencing foreign works. It's easier and cheaper to publish a book from an American author than it is to license and translate a foreign novel.

I don't think there was anything to gain from giving the Aen Elle more screen time. At the end of the day, the Witcher series has always been Geralt's personal quest. Epic events happen around him, but usually he doesn't start it, doesn't end it, and isn't the target of these events. The Witcher 3 is about finding your daughter and making sure she's free to live her life the way she chooses.

Did you get burned by Jade Empire too? :DI liked almost every BioWare game pre-DA2, and I've hated all (aside from DAI which I thought was alright if underwhelming) post DA2, but bought them anyway because of the company logo (before I knew the games weren't that great). Many have high hopes for ME:A, but not I.