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Legacy provides the basis for Inquisition. So if you plan on playing DA:I and only want to get one of the DA2 story DLCs Legacy is the way to go - but Mark of the Assassin was more fun (but much less relevant to the lore of Thedas). Plus it had Felicia Day voice acting which is always a huge plus.

I like the creative number interpretation that's going on. Sure Microsoft has lost some ground recently and Windows Phone has a hard time on the market (which I personally find rather sad because after having used iOS, Android and Windows Phone I can definitely say I like WP the most) there is absolutely no data to indicate that there is any large scale migration towards Linux going on. In spite of all the privacy issues, Windows 10 has, a mere month after it's release, three times the desktop market share that Linux has. Just let that sink in for a spell. If anything, casual users tend to use their tablets or smartphones intead of PCs these days, but none of those are likely to actually care for games that much. Aside Angry Birds and Candy Crush Saga, obviously. So perhaps Steam OS will shake things up a bit, but honestly, it's not the opinion of Brandon holding Linux gaming back, it's the lackluster support of certain companies regarding drivers that will REALLY be a problem (or already is one) - even for Valve and Steam OS. Can't quite shake that much up if half the graphics card market decides that they don't want to play ball. But yeah, whatever.

I think DA:I could have profited a lot by having more areas like the Frostback Basin and Emprise du Lion. They were nicely done and focused on a particular quest with a few sidequests here and there but none of the utter inanity that some other areas turned out ot be. Somehow all the low-levle content is kind of... bad. Bland. Oh, and boring.

Not liking Voyager or Enterprise isn't a real reason for such drastic measures. Not liking TOS however screams for more than just a divorce.

Oh, I totally forgot that Trespasser came out today and with it being set two years after the main game it only makes sense for not being able to go back. Guess that means I'll be playing DA:I again this week.

That depends on your level and what you mean with moving the story along. Jaws of Hakkon is a bit more difficult than the base game, there's a reason it drops gear and crafting schematics that are leaps and bounds ahead of everything else.

There is at least one scripted interaction that only checks your character's stats and equipment - the very first one during the prologue.

Oh my, why do people get butthurt so easily these days?

Yes, there are. And actually two missions start from the docks, so... missing both kinda means not talking to your companions much I guess.

The sale containing System Shock 2 is back. To quote myself from the last GOG thread: Respect the will of the many. Glory to the flesh. Glory to the mass.

Ever since Team America: World Police, all I do when I see Matt Damon in any movie is yell MATT DAMON! at the screen.

Yes, and that's also why GOG's patches are really very small compared to their Steam counterparts. The first patch downloaded almost 2GB on Steam while it had 80MB on GOG - because the patch on GOG was simply a delta patch, something that used to be much more common. That is also why, years ago, sometimes patches came out specifically for updating one version to the next, or a much larger one that contained all prior updates - but that was way back in a time when bandwidth was an issue for everyone. Good old... times, and all.

Low, based on Steam stats anyway. Of course "boot the game" is like 60% on avarage for games, so... it might just be really disproporiate numbers all by itself. Any VET know if BG also got this ****storm in 1999? And personally I think ToB just absolutely sucks, TotSC was much much better. Atleast it's not like The Witcher II that added DLC to act I while there are 3 acts and you can't get back once you finish one. Must have been hell for our current forum members... Not that I would remember. TotSC was pretty well received especially since it focused more on the strength(s) of Baldur's Gate. It became somewhat of a template for Baldur's Gate 2 in terms of more and more meaningful dungeoneering and much less traversing empty wilderness areas. That was 16 years ago though and players generally weren't the prissy little entitlement bitches they are these days. I wonder how much whining and grating BG2 would get if it would be released today. Damn. All those bugs that were never fixed by Bioware and the utterly horrible balancing and not a single balance pass in sight.

Nice hardware.

Shadowplay is a bit less fiddly than FRAPS is, but both get the job done well enough, assuming you have the computing power and hard disk space necessary to get decent results. Especially given how terribly SW:TOR is optimized. Silly thing eats resources like there's no tomorrow.

I just finished Satellite Reign. The ending, while not completely terrible, isn't exactly well done. The map is semi-interesting if a bit nonsensical for a skyscraper, but the enemies are all a joke, especially the final boss. I had more trouble with the first few missions in Downtown. And that was without bothering to research the final pieces of augmentations, gear and weaponry. Hrm. Still, recommended for every Syndicate fan.

I liked the point he made about Hong Kong not looking Chinese enough. Because Berlin was totally super German in Dragonfall? Riiiiight.

PoE creates an Autosave for you at the moment right before you jump. So unless you deleted it use that as a base for the expansion.

Not saying that it's an elaborate feature compared to what it could have been, but sometimes it pays to wait and not take the first offer. I've had relatives of the imprisoned coming by and offering much more than a 3 digit sum. Well, that never happened for me. I built the prison early and took some people in Defiance bay prisoner, but I only got exactly one offer from an animancer until the very end of the game. The 300 pand were the first and - only - offer I got. I ended up freeing them all before entering the final dungeon.

Not sure if there's a direct equivalent, but I think there's a I-Can't-Believe-It's-Not-Arabia in the game, which is where one of the main antagonists from the first game is from. A game set there would be pretty great, I think. I've only read Last Wish and Blood of Elves from the books so far, so not sure what they have to say on it. Azar Javed must have come from somewhere, after all.

The entire prison feature is just plain bad, which is sad because it could have been interesting, but you lose the loot of the person you imprison and at best you can sell them to an animancer for experiments and a paltry three figure sum of pands. Which is kind of strange because you can imprison some people so they can avoid going to prison in worse places. Right. Because being beaten sure isn't any worse than having your soul messed up by some whackjob that offered me 300 coppers for a test subject. Hrm.

Don't bother with the tactical mode on the PC. That never worked right and it among the most glaring issues the game has due to being multi-platform. That and the silly 8 active abilities limit imposed by not having enough buttons on a controller. Feh, and then the console peasants are annoyed and won't understand why the PC master race belittles them. *sigh*

Take your time, things don't look so well on the raiding front anyway. The new SoR raids were fairly boring and uninspired, and the tuning was off considering it was only a hard mode. Combined with lacking time to play and the changes to Operatives (some of which were re-tuned only recently, go figure) Bioware made it easy for me to stop playing actively. So in essence I don't have a single Revanchist character, but my guild made server first so I'm just assuming I would have it if I still played actively. I'll be back to look at Knights of the Fallen Empire but I won't do any operations. I was involved in every server first nightmare clear on our server since Explosive Conflict nightmare came out and the idea of having to go back to Denova, Asation, Darvannis - or worse, the Oricon operations - makes my skin crawl. The Terror From Beyond and Dread Palace rank amongst my favorite raid instances of all MMOs I've ever played, but I don't want to do them again. Not for a farming run and certainly not retuned so as to pose a challenge again. Ugh. I'm done with those instances and since I have all my characters on a server with a rather small population (and even less decent raiders) everything took a lot more effort than it should have, and I'm pretty burned out.

Ah you know, what does that matter anyway. Real men go for Revanchist anyway.

I'd venture to say that most expansions simply add to the main game in some way, with some exceptions here and there, like Throne of Bhaal (which originally started as a planned sequel) and I'm surprised that this is an issue for players - outside of simply not having a savegame before from delving into the final dungeon.