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Exalted is fun, but if you play with a powergaming group, combat will be a mess. If you play with a group that is more on the roleplaying side, it's great fun. Our group still plays first edition, because the combat in second edition had too much book keeping for some of our players. We rarely buy the perfect defense charms (only if it would fit the character), but combat isn't really what our sessions are about anyway. The setting is a bit more grim and dark than you'd expect though. You are hunted and hated, the world is being attacked from every possible angle and everything is basically going to hell. And as a player you're cursed. It certainly doesn't have to be played like that though, it can just be good fun.

30 fps on consoles is fairly standard, no?

GT isn't a rpg by any stretch of the imagination though. You have no control in dialogue and there is no character customization. You do level up, but you only get access to a certain set of abilities. It's like a humorous version of ff tactics I think (haven't played ff:t) so can't say for sure. Personally I thought the humor was a bit monotone, just the same jokes over and over. It was cute at first, but got old after a while. The actual fights were decent though, so I think the gameplay makes it more interesting than the dialogue. But the lack of choices in character development kinda killed it for me. Has that been added in the sequel?

Om the iPad perhaps? That would be awesome. It would be great on the pc too of course. Must-buy either way.

A question, anyone here has the collector's edition? When I registered my game I could upgrade to digital premium or something like that, and I was just wondering if the ingame stuff was worth

We got our games today, but with no early access codes, I guess we're not getting in until the 20th.

I finished it last night (and by finished I mean completed the main quest). And I think I'm done now. I've completed a fair amount, although in the end I skipped a few quest lines because I just wanted to finish the thing before the burnout took over completely. I found the difficulty level to be decent, partly because I switched fighting styles twice (due to reaching caps). When I switched back to the bow for the endgame though, it got a lot easier. Thankfully it didn't drag out much.

If you're looking for a CMS and want to stay on the .Net side of thing, I can recommend an open source one called Umbraco. You are using Visual Studio after all

I don't even think it was bad planning. It's a more like a crappy executive decision (get a sequel out there as fast as possible), leaving the development team with very little time. Doesn't magically make the game better, but I don't think it's the developers that should be blamed.

He probably played it on xbox. Don't think it's as bad on consoles.

Besides, you don't usually play games for 20 hours straight. The series was still funny 40 episodes in (and possibly still is I just haven't watched it in years). So if you play an hour or so at the time, it shouldn't be a problem. besides, South Park isn't a comedy as much as it is a satire, so I don't think it's an issue regardless.

You only need one. My character can make dragon armor, but not daerdra. Which is why the Nightinggale bow is the best I've got available so far. I can't enchant better than what is on it (a lot worse in fact) and I can craft a better one myself.

I find archery to be much easier than anything melee orientated. And I have the nightingale bow, which is pretty good. But the last perk in archery is just amazing and triggers on almost everything apart from dragons.

You can smith higher quality items than legendary? Since that is what I am doing right now. Even so, capped in that regard just meant skill @ 100. Well, there are still plenty of perks I'd like to get. So that's a reason to keep leveling up. Switching to one handed + shield has decent results for me at the moment, so there's that. I mostly just find it annoying that I need to switch to another playstyle to keep getting perks at a somewhat reasonable rate.

I am smithing and enchanting. I craft all my own gear, including enchanting it, so while enchanting helps a bit it won't be enough, especially not when smithing caps. I also level some in stealth and lockpicking, but it's still much much slower than combat skills. I also do random potions, but I find that so tedious (and since I'm not good enough at alchemy, everything I make is worse than what I find so that makes it worse). As for going with magic instead of swords, I actually tried that at first. Do you know how many firebolts it takes to kill a random mob when you're level 33+? Especially without relevant perks? A lot more than 100 or so magicka will allow, that's for sure (I actually have it up to 180 or so now, but I'm still not killing anything beyond low powered mobs). I've also used restoration some, but mana is again an issue. Anyway, thank you all for the advice. Another question, has anyone had success with the throw voide shout? For me it's utterly useless. I want to be able to use it when stealthed to make all mobs run towards a certain direction, but anytime I've tried that I just get revealed and they all come charging at me instead.

I must say I've enjoyed Skyrim a fair bit so far. I'm at level 36 and have about a million open quests (if you count the misc ones). The game does suffer from one problem though (which has been tru for all ES games I have played, which is this and Morrowind). I have now capped Archery (and will cap Smithing soon), meaning that my main avenue of gaining levels has stopped. So in order to keep gaining levels I have to go from my preferred playstyle (ie most fun) to one that is less so. And I will be severly gimped. For now I'm switching to sword and shield, and pull up my bow when there are tougher fights. It works, but I just wish I could keep using the bow while still gaining levels. I guess I could find a trainer for a skill I have barely used, and spend gold to level up that way (at least to a degree), but that's even worse. Just wanted to get that out of my system.

WDeranged, you got New Vegas in that as well? I just bought all DLC for

If you're writing the HTML yourself, look at Notepad+. It's a text editor but gives you syntax highlighting, which is very nice. No autocomplete that I know of, but that isn't necessarily a drawback. It's also free. If you want a wysiwyg editor, it is hard to go wrong with dreamweaver, if you don't mind the cost. It also has a very good text editor mode, but I find it hard to justify the cost if that's what you want. It has a 30 day trial I think, so there's that. It does have the whole site manager things which makes it easier to organize your files, and deploy them. Still don't think it's worth it. Personally I would go with Notepad+. Well, personally I would go with Visual Studio, but when we're talking about not worth the cost, this is the prime example. There is the free version in Visual Web Developer Express (or something along those lines), but if you're not writing code (ie Asp.Net) it is probably a bit complex. You certainly can use it to just write html, and it will give you autocomplete options and tag suggestions. It will also make it easier to organize your site, although it will add a few unneeded folders to your project (because it assumes you're doing programming as well). So yeah, I think there's where I would start.

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Hardy drives here have recently have their prices increase bt a lot. As in several 100%, due to the floodings in Thailand. An even bigger problem is availability, there are no new shipments coming in for the foreseeable future. Sure, SSDs are still mor costly per GB, but, the margin is smaller. Here, 1TB mechanical is about $200 and 120Gb SSD is only slightly more costly, with a 160GB going for roughly $280. But it's comparing apples and oranges. One is a storage drive, the other is a performance one. Getting yor first SSD is the most notable upgrade any computer can do. It just has such an impact across everything. When I bought mine, the reviews said it was appropriate for a os with built in trim, since it didn't have support itself. So those said an os with trim would be fine for a drive without and vice versa. I don't know enough to verify this.

While Mages have access to both combat, healing and utility spells (I don't recall any summoning spells), a mage that tries to to everything will be a very weak character. The DA system encourages specializing, at least to a degree. You want to build a combat mage that can have some healing, or a healer mage that can also do some utility etc. They are also fairly weak when it comes to being attacked. In my experience the tank is the most important character in DA, but the most powerful party you could make was one tank with three mages. So yes, they are powerful, more so than warriors and rogues, but not enough to make the other classes unplayable. Also flavor.

I have good experiences with the SSD cache from the Z68 boards. You have a mechanical disk, that gets boosted by a SSD. Files you access frequently get copied to the SSD and are read from there instead of the mechanical drive. It isn't quite as fast as going with a straight SSD but it does take care of the space issue. I have a 64 GB SSD and while that was enough fro OS and programs, most games had to be put on another drive. Now I can just not care and count on my system optimizing after my usage. I think it works very well so far. Besides, given how much mechanical drives are skyrockering in price right now (or soon will be if they haven't already in your area) SSD:s aren't that expensive anymore. Or they are, just not in comparison. Anyway, an SSD is well worth the cost. In regards to TRIM, most drives have that built in and thus work on all OS. Some (like mine) doesn't and are best used with an OS that has it's own TRIM support. Like Windows 7 (uncertain about others). I think, but I'm not certain, that AHCI is not required if you use TRIM through windows. I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong about this.

I would certainly get a Z68 board if I was getting one today (and since I built my computer just three months ago with such a board, I already did). In regards to gen 3, I'm not so sure. I guess it depends on the price difference. If it's marginal, then I would go for a gen 3. The main selling point for me with the Z68 boards is the ability to use a SSD as a disk cache. It's not as fast as using the SSD for just programs, but it is very nice and removes concerns about space. So thumbs up for the z68 boards. I have an Asus board and can definitely recommend them. And yes, the 2500k is definitely the best value you can get right now. The price difference down to the 2500 is so low that even if you're just theoretically interested in overclocking, it's still worth it.

Battlefield 3 is out soon (tuesday int eh US I think), if that's your cup of tea. That's about as pretty as it gets these days. Otherwise maybe Deus Ex? It's at least very pretty and a very good game to boot.

Yeah, but the 580 is a shorter card. But if there are hd cages or stuff in the way I can see how there is a problem. Although that would have been easy to figure out with any ruler. But I'm sure the 590 will be fine, when you get one (there is a shortage worldwide, apparently nVidia underestimated demand and didn't produce nearly enough of the higher end cards).