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I think it's been too long since most of us played it. Good path: snack on undead using eternal rest. There were always undead around, and you could last hit them with the power so they always dropped essences and filled you up. Non-aligned path: snack on undead or occasional regular spirits, plus regular and frequent use of suppress (summon something first!). Evil path: devour all sorts of stuff. You would have to use your xp to top yourself off at times, but there were of course benefits. IIRC only the last one would get you to the state where you could die from sleeping, traveling, etc.

Huh? The best and easiest good path involves no use of suppress at all.

L2P N00B!!!!1!11! Erm, actually, Charissa's Word of Faith = you win. There's always an exploit.

Well, I guess depth of field effects are in. Anyway... Why so limited? It may not seem like much, but players love the customization stuff.

Very clever. Heh heh.

OK, so it is more like ME. That's OK. There really is a minimum level of info that you need to make a choice, and the stance name doesn't get there.

The first one has a nice HDR look. The second shows the problems -- not lighting, but textures and normal/bumpmapping etc. The surfaces look unnaturally flat, not textured; the character's body itself looks blocky, and you can really see the polys in a way you shouldn't at this low resolution.

Actually I think Actiontrip et al. are right in saying that the screenshots look a generation or so too old, but given the JES statement that the game is on UE3 (yes, it IS Mass Effect set today...) I think it can all be straightened out by release.

I'm sure they have summaries or something, you'll just know which stance it is. No, that's how ME does it (investigate options on left, paragon top right, neutral right, renegade bottom right). AP is supposed to be different -- no summaries at all. I agree that this is a terrible idea.

Again: Glitterdust.

What, the classic Glitterdust counter doesn't work?

You're dreaming. With the Napster generation, the cat's out of the bag. Pirates are folk heroes; stealing is everyone's right. Read any board (including, depressingly enough, this one). What on earth do you think a "service-based" game is?

Uh, are unmarked ME spoilers here kosher?

Not true. Some part of the 4GB is used for system ressources and probably isn't shown to other applications, but you can address 4gb with 32bit. Yes, but a good chunk of that (1 whole gb, in the OP's case!) goes to video card RAM, not the system RAM he paid for. Unless you need specific (16-bit era) legacy application compatibility, going with Vista 32 and not 64 for a new build today is crazy.

They sold you 4GB of RAM and an operating system that can only see ~3GB of it? Very bad form. Demand an upgrade to the 64 bit version.