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Man, that's one seriously ridiculous 'Murica **** Yeah Cannon. What I love about Saint's Row is that after the first one they realized that if they continued to try to straddle the line between comically over the top and gritty realism they would just be another GTA knockoff and nothing else. So they abandoned any semblance of relism and just went for ridiculous over the top madness. Each successive iteration has just gone ahead and pushed the absurdity envelope further. I pray they still have the female Russian accent voice option in this game. The part where the protagonist and Pierce are driving down the road in Steelport and singing Sublime ~ What I Got in SR3 is so hilariously awesome with the Russian accent.

Still playing Neverwinter Online (I'm not an addict, I swear. No, really), but now that the invasion event is over I'll spend a bit less time in there. Gonna jump back into Mars: War Logs to finish the game off from where I left off when I get home. I should be right near the end, methinks.

I don't think they'd appreciate you sacrificing children or posting nude pictures on their forum, either. And pictures of sacrificed nude children will get you banned right quick... Not to mention a visit from the local (and possibly federal) authorities.

The level of voice acting definitely went up leaps and bounds between TW1 and TW2, so it looks like they are trying to continue that trend. The game is cinematic enough (if it's anything like its predecessor) that it's definitely a welcome upgrade.

Thanks LadyCrimson I got the message and the wards. That potion is indeed nice, but I can only imagine the rare assets it will take to make it. I'll probably still level alchemy up slowly, I'm just not focused on it. Now that mailsmithing is maxed out I'll focus on leadership. I guess I need to join a guild to do the Gauntlgrym stuff. I just don't know how often I'll be up for a 90 minute commitment, even if it is split up into 3 parts.

Haha, yeah. My character's name doesn't make it easy for you. I wanted a proper Orcish sounding name, not something like CrazyCuteGurl161 or ButterStick, thus Murzush Gro Ruhm. In other news, I got to mailsmithing level 20! Now I can make a purple shirt and purple pants for my character... once I get my hands on a couple dragon eggs. As a nice side effect, that opened up another slot too, so I can do 6 jobs at once now. I'm not particularly interested in alchemy. What I'm excited for is weaponsmithing which will come with the first expansion. With weaponsmithing I'll be able to make axes.

Battlefield 3 used Frostbite 2.

I think one of the reasons there is so much talk about Morrigan's looks is that they really didn't give us much (read: anything) else to talk about with that trailer. No gameplay and a bunch of short snipets with epic music. Which brings up the question, why don't they have more to show us at this point? In theory they've had almost a year an a half to work on the game and a two month head start on The Witcher 3. TW3 showed plenty of gameplay, both in the trailer and in the meaty hands-off demo. DA3 showed... not much of anything. E3 is the biggest expo for video games, surely BioWare would showcase more of the game if they had more of the game to showcase, right? So, why is there so little to show?

Isn't this pretty much how it happened IRL? In other news, I need to get back to building my Polish Empire, but when I do I know it will consume all my life gaming time again.

I got the first update in months for Tex Murphy Project Fedora the other day. #Texlives #MutantsRpeople2

But anyhow this to me is complaining that you can tell that Elrond Half-Elven looks older in the Hobbit than in LoTR even though the Hobbit is chronologically first or that Brandon Routh doesn't look like Christopher Reeve despite their Supermans both supposedling being the same character in the same universe. That's what I think too. I think

I don't think this version is prettier. Personally I liked the old look better even, but I'd say it's mostly a matter of taste. Anyway, I never did get around to playing the original, how does it play on the PC if anyone knows? Is it worth €10 on steam? Wait for a steam sale. It's a fun game when it lets you do what it was designed to do: run. The combat sucks, most of it is avoidable, but there are a few fights you just can't avoid. It's a very short game so I definitely wouldn't pay that much for it.

I think that they believed that Mass Effect was the way to go, and DA2 was an attempt to refocus the franchise around "fantasy Shepard". I think Zor and Gorth make good points about DA2's changes for the worse, they had a combat system that needed a fair bit of tweaking, but didn't need to be thrown out in favor of a terrible action/party-based system that doesn't work well as either. I do think that dramatic changes to the art style harm a series as a whole. I blame Morrigan's terrible look on the engine more than art style or artist ability, but IMO that doesn't really excuse it if they can do better. Gaider trying to blame complaints about how she looks on misogyny is intellectually dishonest at best and classless demonizing at worst. This isn't any different from people complaining about a badly drawn picture. On the whole I'm not very optimistic for DA, which I did enjoy the first title(even if it was more "fantasy KOTOR" than "BG spiritual successor" IMO), because instead of sticking to the original concept of the series, the devs seem keen on reinventing it with almost every title. I agree that it seems they tried to do a fantasy Mass Effect rather than trying to continue along the path that DA:O set, which was a perfectly fine path, by the way. The problem is that if you're going to make the move from tactical RPG to action RPG you really should go all the way. I can only speculate about their thought process, but it seems to me like they tried to straddle the fence and create both an action RPG and a tactical RPG, since going full action RPG would likely alientate their core audience (a logical assumption). I'm not saying it's impossible to make an RPG that's both a tactical RPG and an action RPG, but that's a really tall order and something that would take a great deal of time of careful planning, tweaking, retweaking, reretweaking, rereretweaking, rerereretweaking, and so on. Obviously they didn't have that kind of time. It would have been much wiser to either stick with the tried and true formula of DA:O or go full Shepard, they tried to do both and mostly failed on both accounts (not to mention how insanely lather rinse repeat every single and I do mean EVERY SINGLE battle, in the entire game is). It's too bad because there are some really good elements in there like the cool cross skill/class system of feeding off each others' status effects which was present in DA:O and expanded upon in DA2.

Seems so. Too bad, I liked Faith's look in the original, not that she looks bad here or anything. The one thing that put me off in that trailer was that it seems that Dice took the route of "we'll fix the horrific combat" rather than "we'll get rid of the combat entirely and let the people do what they really want to do, run". Hopefully with the game being "open world" that will mean every single battle will be avoidable if you're creative and perceptive enough.

Sure, if you really don't want it. I'll save it for fusing something really good like several mid level enhancement slot enchantments into a greater or something. It would seem like a waste using it one fusinf shards into lesser enhancement slot enchantments or fusing together some rank 6 enchantments. I'm glad you finally got some blue dogs. They're really not all that special or anything, but it's cool to get them anyway. I have the one I got first bound to my character and the other one I'll trade to a future character if I make one that would stand to benefit more from an offense oriented companion moreso than my current GWF. I'm not making another character until they come out with another class, though. I just have no desire to play any of the other classes and I only have 2 character slots and have no plans to purchase any. I see a guy up toward the very top of Protector's Enclave that sells bags of holding among other things "reward claims" or some such thing, but he's not selling anything at the moment. Is there an event coming up that will drop things that I can use to buy from him? I could really use a bag of holding. My entire inventory is filled with enchantments and runes. Edit: Also, I'm extremely close to lev 20 mailsmithing. I might reach it today. If not, definitely tomorrow. Got Rufus von Marrowstein up to lev 15. Still no glowing skin. 10 levels to go to max him out.

LOL, I logged on and entered the game in the midst of an invasion with NOBODY else around me except a bunch of zombies and unhallowed wights. I had to fight the whole army by myself. Now THAT was fun. It was crazy frantic. Near the end I had 3 Unhallowed wights attacking me at the same time. Oh, and 'grats on the mount.

I think I'm for the most part burned out on the invasion event. I have nearly 250 bones, 10 rank 5 savage enchantments and many lesser ones, and I got a second blue dog drop, which I'l save for a future character or sell in AH if I think I can get a high enough AD for it.

I'm around 9k, but that's with almost no enchantments on any of my gear because I don't want to socket anything into my good gear until I have at least rank 6s, and preferably rank 7s or 8s, of the type I want. Removing enchantments is just too expensive for me to keep switching it out, it's one time and that's that. I imagine I'll be around that 11k mark if and when I get a full Titan set and when I socket everything (read: not any time soon). To me, "good" gear is whatever fits the character build you're going for. For me, it's all about critical strike and life steal. Recovery, defense, deflect, power, etc. they're all nice, but they're all secondary to critical strike and life steal for me.

I just assume that's hair on their face. I don't think it's wrinkles.

While I have lost much faith in BioWare, my outlook isn't nearly as bleak for the game or BioWare for that matter. While I have come to terms with the fact that the BioWare that made the Baldur's Gate games is gone forever, I do think they can still make good games. With that said, I'm firmly in "show me don't tell me" and "let others be the guinea pig" modes for DA3, or anything else BioWare puts out for that matter. If after it has come out people are singing its praises (and not just paid off "reviewers" like IGN and such, but people I know and trust that have similar tastes as me) then I may well get it. Until then, I'll remain cautious and weary.

In my Anjali playthrough I died fighting Rajani twice. I died fighting the Corrupted Creator once, but that was only because I got overconfident and sloppy, I beat him EASILY the next time. I must have died at least four times, possibly more, before I finally defeated the Daeva statue. Man, that fight was brutal. No other deaths besides that. No deaths to speak of when playing rifle Katarina. I just steamrolled through everything with her. It was so easy that the game ceased being fun. I still need to do a Reinhart playthrough someday.

I have heard this said before. I can't remember that battle though. At all. So for me it must have been easy with Katarina kitted out. Decked out rifle Katarina makes everything easy. It's not even fair, she's a walking death machine. As an aside, I liked playing as (mostly) human Anjali the best, which is far from the most powerful character/stance combination.

Rajani is probably the worst part of the game. I think she is part of the reason why I didn't get far on my second playthrough. I found Rajani to be the second hardest battle in the entire game, maybe not the best idea to put that difficult a battle that early in the game. The Daeva Statue battle in the Treasures of the Sun expansion was the hardest IMHO.

I'm really considering snagging Unepic, on account of my torrid love affair with Metroidvanias. If I see it on a daily for 66% off or more I'll definitely get it.

Dang, I really love the Wild Orlans models, they look fantastic. As for the paladin, the mechanics sound really promising. It sounds like there will be quite a few classes that can provide various buffs to the party. I'm all for that. I especially like the Shake It Off mechanic of the stamina gained being partially temporary.