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Pretty stupid not to set a tree to fire. Or let Morrigan shapeshift into Paul Bunyan.

There was an easy way to cheese out of it. Suppress, travel from Mulsantir to for instance Ashenwood & rinse and repeat until both your spirit meter was full and your hunger meter empty. Drawback of this method was watching an eternity of loading screens.

I can't watch that video due to it not being available in my third world country. But since I surmize it's the Europe song, I guess that's a good thing. I'd rather get rick-rolled than listening to that.

Carrying around spare weapons wasn't really necessary with so many human enemies around. Kill them, take their weapon and repair yours on the spot. I also had the impression weapons degraded less fast with high repair skill, though I could be wrong. Most of the unique weapons all have a very high durability, too, compared to their lesser cousins. Especially the unique plasma rifle & lincoln's repeater.

"You fiend!" Strangely enough, I didn't mind the constant need to soul-sucking in Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver. But that's because it was never a problem with the constant barrage of enemies thrown at you. In MOTB there are large areas without any soul available... and if you've gone chaotic evil and been sucking every available spirit in the game, increasing your hunger to the max, it means you're pretty much screwed until the next [Devour Spirit] dialogue option. Of course, it hardly matters since your henchmen can solo the game anyway.

Crime doesn't pay.

I don't like role-playing as Elric of Melnibon

The only thing I can think of that is more immershun breaking than that, is a BSOD.

There are Yao Guai & Deathclaws at level 1 in the western part of the map. I don't think there's level scaling, only area scaling.

Is it possible to play this game as a mage?

KOTOR runs worse than KOTOR 2 on Vista for me. It tends to crash every five minutes sometimes. On XP, though, it's a no-brainer. The HK factory in the restored content has great dialogue, but the gameplay itself is horrible there. Shooting thousands of HK-50s in RTwP. Yey.

Elves weren't tree-huggers in Tolkien's stories, in LOTR they basically represented stasis. Their Rings' power was to render their realms invulnerable to the ravages of time. Tolkien created the Ents to represent the struggle between technology & nature. I prefer Tolkien's archetypes over the way the majority of Jordan's characters evolve into whiny, insufferable emo kids. Mat's the only one whose character basically stayed the same... and ironically only Nynaeve evolved in a positive way.

Same reason for why in most fantasy stories the Gods don't simply come over and whack the bad guys.

Drakensang/Venetica/Hordes of the Underdark

Story & characters aside, MOTB's combat is disappointing. Just letting Gann & Kaelyn spam high level druid/cleric spells is enough to easily win every fight. Or just putting Okku in front and have a Kit-Kat. I only lost a fight when I entered the Vault of Myrkul too early & unprepared. SoZ's combat required some tactics here and there, and like in BG if you entered some areas too early you'd get clobbered. Especially the end fight required some good tactics in order to win.

Heh, Jordan eventually turns all men into pussies under the thumbs of the girls... it even happened to Juilin (sp?) & Bayle Domon, lulz. The whole shtick between Tuon & Mat was brilliantly written, though.

I didn't know about this. Excellent news. I absolutely hated the book that didn't have Mat in it... I think it was book 7 or 8. Mat's plotlines were the only thing that saved books 9 & 10 for me... Mat's probably the only major male character that doesn't turn into a whining pussie. I had a really hard time not skipping the plotlines of most of the girls in the book. Jordan really turned an epic (books 1-5) into the fantasy version of Dawson's Creek. I was really surprised & glad that there were actually things happening in book 11 & the most tedious plotline in the entire series wrapped up. That's a huge can of worms you're opening, mate...

I wonder when the NPC action figures will be released.

This reminds me, where did RPGMasterBoo disappear to? RPGCodex?

That's why in FO3 you shoot first (mini-nukes, by preference) and ask questions later.

I thought it would be something like "Whack the Elf!" or "Outdrink the Dwarf!". Disappointing.

If Oghren cannot be tossed in the middle of a group of mooks and do a insta-kill roundhouse attack with his battle-axe, I will be sorely disappointed.

The CE is all sold out here. I blame Marilyn Manson.