HoonDing

Who needs Orcs when there are hordes of deadly porcupines & swarms of killer moths? Eh?

In addition to Canada, Australia, and Poland (first as a sovereign state, then as a exiled government). You should probably also include South Africa and New Zealand, but they wouldn't have seen any troop deployments until after the Winter War so I won't be as picky about them. Yugoslavia?

I'm 9th in queue on the fileplanet site. I couldn't connect to the BioWare server for some reason. The anticipation is killing me.

Alternate question: why do dragons fly around in random directions and attack the non-hostile environment (in this case snow and ruins) instead of their enemies? Might as well ask why the bad guys are just standing around waiting to be pushed off a cliff or until an arrow hits them in the forehead, or attacking the power-armoured generic Hero Dude one-by-one in Pterry fashion.

I never went to the bandits in the swamp myself. I figured I would have had to do a lot of fighter related quests there and hence dump a lot of skill points in sword fighting & strength while I was trying to become a mage... I considered that with the lesser scope of this game compared to Gothic 3 one would not be able to acquire enough skill points to be able to become proficient in everything. It was an interesting choice right in the beginning, and offers replay value. I don't think 'jack-of-all-trades' would work very well with the unforgiving combat.

It was funny when my n00b character tried to take on a normal vulture after wading through 'hungry' vultures. I took away about 1 millimeter of health with each strike and had to run away like a little girl in the end. But I did manage to kill 3 normal moths after twenty minutes of blocking & riposting... gave me a boatload of XP. This game rocks.

Have you seen the Brood (Blood?) Mother trailer?

Has anyone already managed to do a succesful counterattack? I tried this for half an hour against a moth but it never worked. Is it only possible against human enemies?

Hey, I watched this on TF1 around 17 years ago. The princess of Mercury was pretty cute, wasn't she?

I think Putin was mostly wary that the missile 'defense' system would accidentally manage to malfunction (highly likely, since it wasn't made in Germany or Japan) & all those nice defensive rockets/missiles would come plummeting down on Russian cities.

Viru: In your Drakensang game, specialize in two-handed axes/maces. Trust me, you won't regret it. Not only is the game's "uber" weapon the best when you choose the two-handed mace form (3D + 2, plus strength bonus of 15/1) but you'll get and unstoppable two-handed warhammer way before that (Dragonslayer's Warhammer) sporting 1D +7 damage with a strength bonus of 14/1. These x/1 strength weps are awesome! When you boost your strength above 30 (with equipment, buffs, and character points) you can be dishing out 30+ damage plus wounds on every strike! I'm a sword + shield guy all the way, especially since an uber shield comes rolling your way in the game pretty early anyway. And with the uber sword (1D+10 with 10/3 bonus) the damage is comparable to a two-hander, and one gains access to Stormblade talent.

Luckily the red-head in the trailer is pretty hot, or she'd get frostbite on her ass. Even Legolas was smart enough to wear at least pants when hiking on the Caradhras.

... I had to look that up on the Dragon Age wiki. Interesting...

Risen/Drakensang/NWN

Divinity 2 also uses Gamebryo and that game runs flawlessly, even with all the graphical bells & whistles set to max. Then again, that is of course a case of German Belgian grundigheit.

This game gets massive influence points for using Emperor, Enslaved & Dimmu Borgir songs in its soundtrack. And loses about the same amount for also using Dragonforce.

A brood of Darkspawn?

What is a 'brood mother' the mother of, exactly?

Example... It's not that bad with my game, but still noticable and annoying. I don't think it has anything to do with codecs, just something inherent in Fallout 3's engine that messes up the sync. People have been reporting this since Morrowind/Oblivion, but I've never run into it with those games. I can't use the supposed "iFPSClamp=60" solution for there is no way my computer can run FO3 constantly above 60 FPS. Apart from this, in the past I've had audio problems (stuttering) & freezing problems, but I've managed to solve those somehow. This "Buggy Mess" makes me weary about FO:NV...

Maybe upon the main character's death, the game should automatically uninstall itself from the player's computer and also lock the game from any new installs. "One strike and you're out". That would really give those hardc0re RPGers something to play for.

IIRC you can block those lightning balls with a shield. Best thing to do with the Death knight is collecting as many weapons from fallen knights and just throw them at him.

It is possible to suffer debilitating wounds during combat?

The Gamebryo engine is... horrible? I've reinstalled FO3 for some reason and reloaded an old save, and now I've run into the notorious frame skipping problem that renders the game unplayable (and gives one a headache after 10 minutes of play)... I don't remember having this before. New engine, Bethesda, please.

... Then how did you get through the early levels of Divinity 2? Then you should try Ninja gaiden sigma 2. It so easy now that anyone can finish it, even if they forget to block and dodge. No way, Onechanbara is the way to go.

Back to Fallout 3 - nuka grenades are hilariously awesome. Bethesda really went overboard with the custom-made weapons. Even the simple dart gun can turn a super mutant behemoth encounter into a trivial matter.