HoonDing

It would be hilarious if those NPCs would turn out to be the final boss, or the vaunted romance option. "If you want to go all cuddly, first buy this DLC!!"

There's a few shields with very high durability near the end of the game, IIRC. I think you'll have to do with the ones you loot from enemy knights' corpses in the beginning. Not really a problem for the knight anyway, since he can eviscerate most enemies in no time with his combos.

Now that I finally have my new PC back, I'll be playing Risen soon after installing hundreds of Vista updates, game patches & mods (thank you, Bethesda). God, PC gaming sucks.

With the knight you'll have to block a lot with your shield, he stinks at dodging. His "northern/southern cross" combos are easy to perform and powerful IIRC... and can be easily be used in a sequence. But it's true that the knight's origin is pretty difficult... but at least you get a good sword at the end. Eventually when you get the game's "ub3r" sword he'll become unstoppable... its special attack does 14000 damage IIRC

This is highly recommended if you have a high-end system. The game has almost as many mods & custom patches/fixes as FO3.

Margaret the Technician > Three Dog

The terrible AI & wonky animations ruin the shooter aspects completely... if one has played STALKER it feels even worse. But then, combat has always sucked in Bethesda's RPGs. Only in their actiion games like Redguard it was very fun.

Imo the knight had the most interesting origin (heck, you fight a Death KNight at level 1) but I didn't really like the character & his fighting style. Too slow & ponderous (the Dwarf is even worse) for me... the Barbarian is almost as easy to play as the Amazon IIRC... very easy origin story too.

To appease Lord of flies, there should be more "People's Radio of America" types of radio stations.

This DLC (Warden's Keep) reeks of Battlehorn Castle EDIT: I just looked at the CE goodies. "Bergen's Honor = helmet that adds +2 to armor, 25 physical resistance and 6 to attack" "Final reason = adds to damage, fire power & fire damage" "Grimoire of the Frozen wastes = adds +3 to all attributes when read" Are those effects the items add as significant as they sound?

The game is extremely rare today... maybe try eBay? This game is like the Gothic of action games... even a single Orc & skeleton -- fodder in many a D&D game -- can whop your butt if you're going Kratos on them. Playing with the Amazon is pretty easy since she's so fast & agile and most suited to taking on groups of enemies since her "whirlwind" special attack was very easy to use with the keyboard. I should definitely replay it since I seem to remember to have missed the "real" ending of the game... and perhaps to prepare myself to melee combat in Risen.

Ubisoft clearly wins when it comes to celebrity voice actors. They used Monica Bellucci for WW... that puts them a few light-years ahead of Bethesda & BioWare. I'm replaying NWN. Still the best series ever!!!

I remember this game asking me arcane questions about audio during installation... I'll probably be replaying it again soon. This games from around 2000 are tons better than all the snot that comes out nowadays. Severance combat should've been a standard in action RPGs, yet the game went by largely unnocited. Oh, and the Amazon rules.

So... is the magic really powerful in the game compared to the melee combat? Is it slow to develop?

She didn't sound like Pep

As a mage, it's the reverse... the game is only tough at lower levels. At high levels everything save liches gets one-shotted after throwing a custom-made weakness & damage spells.

That pic is begging for a witty caption.

So even after killing some rats the characters are covered in blood?! In the world of Dragon Age I bet even swatting a fly would result in a pint of blood on your hand? It's like BioWare is daring people not to take the game seriously.

Only "a bit"? They have massacred the setting adding non-sensical stuff here and there! Didn't people used to say that about Fallout 2 with the talking Deathclaw and what not?

Funny how Sergeant RL-3 is probably the best written character in the game. Love his jingoistic taunts.

Are those agonizingly long cutscenes in jRPGs skippable? If not, they surely destroy the stereotype of the console kiddies with short attention spans.

12% unemployment in LA, huh? Brussels, capital of Europe & seat of the wonderful NATO & European Commission, has 20%.

It seemed more like a Dungeon Siege 3 trailer to me. I didn't even recognize most of the characters save Sten. The characters are all going Legolas in the trailer but I doubt whether in the actual game they will be able to jump over a pebble. EDIT: grammar

Link doesn't seem to work for me, but I guess that's a good thing.

I think it's mostly because they were used in civilian environments - subways, Super Duper Mart, factories etc. hence their lasers aren't really set to kill but merely cause some burns.