HoonDing

Arcade is better than Boone. At the times he decided to use the laser rifle I gave him, he vaporized Fiends from further away than Boone... and now he's using the Gauss rifle I picked up from Brewer Beer's bootlegging, and one-shotting cazadors with it. He's an interesting character as well, not the autistic version of Carth Onasi that Boone (currently) is.

You need to use power attacks in melee to win battles. With default swings you barely hurt the enemy. Wait til you meet Orcs or ghouls. Dark Messiah is really fun if you don't abuse the kick cheese like the game wants you to. Use fire traps, charm spells, telekinesis to liven things up. Sniping with the bow is the best tactics against undead.

It's better to ignore the plot completely, like with FO3. There's just too many "WTF??" moments... like suddenly being forgiven for all your sins by Caesar, not to mention even being invited into Caesar's tent even if you had previously done everything in your power to sabotage the Legion, e.g. wiping out Cottonwood Cove, Nelson and generally killing every Legion clown you come across. It's on the same level as Dad from FO3 mildly chastising the main character for having blown up Megaton. Or Moira Brown's reaction to Megaton's destruction.

Two Worlds 2 may be mediocre overall, but the game looks absolutely stunning and runs silk smooth even on my subpar computer. If a small Polish developer can pull this off, what is a AAA developer like BioWare still doing with a rickety engine? Do they spend all their resources on celebrity voice-over and "writing"?

Yeh well, I'm still waiting for that Cass & Veronica Romance mod. Although, in case of FO3 modding, "Romance" obviously has a completely different meaning than for the average BioWarian.

Anyone know the history behind the Yangtze Memorial? Did the US invade China during the Great War?

What I really miss, is my friggin Chinese assault rifle. The assault carbine is a pathetic peashooter in comparison.

Drakensang: River of time is a good game, much better than the first... and the only non-indie traditional RPG released this year.

Speaking of piracy: CD Projekt is out for blood

188 Trading Post, Gun Runners or Crimson Caravan is your best bet.

Venetica is action RPGish as Two Worlds 2, and has better combat than Risen, Gothic 3 or Arcania.

Really big spiders are rarely dangerous. The Brazilian wandering spider (the one that likes to hide in banana crates) is the only huge spider that is extremely deadly to humans.

A scoped hunting rifle with better criticals is enough to drop them in one shot. You really only need the AM rifle to one-shot the legendary deathclaw.

Your weapon is illusion of choice.

I'm now using Cass, Boone, E-DE & Veronica. Veronica doesn't really get to kill much outdoors. I'll still pick up Lily for some more close-quarters support, and Arcade for his questline. I also installed the Richer Casinos mod, just because I love playing blackjack so much. The Strip casinos having a limit of 1,500,000 earnings, though, may be a bit excessive.

Mazzy Fentan is Hale's best voice performance by far.

I actually pickpocketed the activation code from Cpt Curtis right away, but had no option to confront him about it, nor could I report to Boyd or Hsu. I also tried sneaking up the stairs in the tower numerous times in order to overhear Curtis, but each time he went to [CAUTION] immediately even with 100 in Sneak. It's a pretty badly designed quest.

Do companions actually use stimpaks during combat if you put some in their inventory?

I wouldn't waste much time with any McCarran quests. Especially the monorail one, heh. Reload 20 times to make it to the monorail in time to defuse the bomb, only to see it *still* explode ten seconds after departing? Yeh sorry, Colonel, but I'm outta here.

This was the voice actress for Deus Ex 2? Interesting... she also voiced the protagonist in Bloodrayne.

How powerful is melee in the end? My mage's fireballs did 6000+ damage at the end of FoV, one-shotting pretty much everything, but the final boss still took me a while.

Couldn't you really post a pic of Aribeth in her cleavage armour?

I'm replaying and frequently encountering a glitch where my character is frozen in an animation, making the controls stop responding completely... the only way to fix this is quicksaving and quickloading. Very annoying, I'm guessing this was introduced by the new patch (I also don't have the impression that Boone got nerfed). But I am also playing with the Multi Companion mod, so it shouldn't be that much of an issue. Later I'll add Arcade, Cass & Lily, so I can nicely get to all content I missed in my first playthrough without having to lift a finger in combat.

Mage in DA:O was the most fun for me, except that the origin contains probably the most annoying character in the game, and has the gall to make this character your best friend (then again, the female City Elf is forced to marry someone who looks like he stepped out of Deliverance).

I finished 6 of the 8 chapters of Gray Matter, and so far it is the best adventure game to come out in years. It starts a bit slow and the story seems cookie-cutter at first, but just as I thought I had everything figured out, after three chapters the story really starts to twist and turn and now I really don't have an idea anymore how it's going to end. Atmosphere & music are brilliant, and the voice-acting is very decent as well (especially the male protagonist). Puzzles aren't that easy for a modern adventure game either. Really nice work.