So I just got this game as a gift but mine didn't have the Warhammer online codes in it, just the ones for Shale and ME2. Anybody have a Skaven code left that they wouldn't mind parting with? 8-)
It's almost like this is not in fact the new shit
but rather the old shit dressed up in pretty clothing with some makeup
Come on you loved it when it was called "Baldur's Wind of Might: Torment" you'll love it now.
In all seriousness, its more like "Kotor: but good".
Apparently this game will basically run on a toasted ham sandwich. Even with my 8800GT out of commission, my 7100 is playing the game just fine (on extremely low settings mind you, but playing).
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I'm going to have to replay this a million times just to get all the character interactions. Right now I'm rolling from the Wynne-Alistair line, where he acts like a spoiled grandchild.
And hell yeah, this game runs smooth as hell. I don't really have a top of the line system anymore, and even with everything maxed out, no problems at all with stutter. Did have some trouble with the memory leak during the Redcliffe battle, though.
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Apparently this game will basically run on a toasted ham sandwich. Even with my 8800GT out of commission, my 7100 is playing the game just fine (on extremely low settings mind you, but playing).
Hmm.. I may have to install it on my g/fs laptop then and do a rogue playthrough on that while at work :winky:
So I just got this game as a gift but mine didn't have the Warhammer online codes in it, just the ones for Shale and ME2. Anybody have a Skaven code left that they wouldn't mind parting with? 8-)
It's almost like this is not in fact the new shit
but rather the old shit dressed up in pretty clothing with some makeup
Come on you loved it when it was called "Baldur's Wind of Might: Torment" you'll love it now.
In all seriousness, its more like "Kotor: but good".
Well the simplistic love/hate slider scale has neatly replaced the light/dark side interactions with your party members, yes.
It's always a ponderous moment when you're sitting there wishing that your digital companions could be more like real people.
Part of game design is hiding the "false" choices, since there's now way they could really flesh out every single decision you make. I should be playing a completely different game if I'm a human noble, a city elf on the run, or a dalish hunter.
But I'm not, and like Yatzee nailed it's only reflected in a few conversation options.
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Judge-ZTeacher, for Great JusticeUpstate NYRegistered Userregular
So I just got this game as a gift but mine didn't have the Warhammer online codes in it, just the ones for Shale and ME2. Anybody have a Skaven code left that they wouldn't mind parting with? 8-)
It's almost like this is not in fact the new shit
but rather the old shit dressed up in pretty clothing with some makeup
Come on you loved it when it was called "Baldur's Wind of Might: Torment" you'll love it now.
In all seriousness, its more like "Kotor: but good".
Well the simplistic love/hate slider scale has neatly replaced the light/dark side interactions with your party members, yes.
It's always a ponderous moment when you're sitting there wishing that your digital companions could be more like real people.
I'm probably the only one, but I don't care about the character interactions beyond the amusing remarks between battles. I did the Morrigan romance in my first game because she's so easy, but I haven't even bothered with one in my second.
I don't play these games for interactive friends.
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So you play for the combat? Weirdo.
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Judge-ZTeacher, for Great JusticeUpstate NYRegistered Userregular
I downloaded the game from steam and every time I try to fire it up, the program "fails" and it doesn't start. I tried running it as an admin, but it doesn't work. I am using windows vista 64, anyone else have this problem or know a work around for it?
Having just played the Dwaven Commoner Origin for the first time, it is definitely my new favorite Origin. Mage retains it's vaunted position at dead last.
Having just played the Dwaven Commoner Origin for the first time, it is definitely my new favorite Origin. Mage retains it's vaunted position at dead last.
Still on my first playthrough and I picked this origin on a hunch that it would be fun. Suprise! It is. My only problem is that
Playing a noble/good/decent character makes going back to Orzammar really rough. Trying to rise above my upbringing and do the right thing when able is all well and good until I find out my sister is playing baby mama to the obviously degenerate king choice. After much hemming and hawing I decided to side with Harrowmont cause he seems like the wiser choice and isn't a family killing prick. I then avoided my damn videogame sister like the plague cause I felt guilty.
Now that is fucked. Good job Bioware for making me feel guilt towards code
Having just played the Dwaven Commoner Origin for the first time, it is definitely my new favorite Origin. Mage retains it's vaunted position at dead last.
Still on my first playthrough and I picked this origin on a hunch that it would be fun. Suprise! It is. My only problem is that
Playing a noble/good/decent character makes going back to Orzammar really rough. Trying to rise above my upbringing and do the right thing when able is all well and good until I find out my sister is sugar mama to the obviously degenerate king choice. After much hemming and hawing I decided to side with Harrowmont out of personal integrity and cause he seems like the wiser choice. I then avoided my damn videogame sister like the plague cause I felt guilty.
Now that is fucked. Good job Bioware for making me feel guilt towards code
Perhaps.
I think if you're calling Bhelen a degenerate King choice, you may not be looking at it from all the angles. Orzammar is not as simple a choice as it might first appear.
Harrowmont seems a good guy, and that's great and all, but if you read into the Codex it becomes more and more apparent that Bhelen's political ruthlessness is pretty much just how the game is played in their political world. It's ugly, but having acumen for it isn't necessarily a bad thing.
More compellingly is the issue of the Casteless. To be blunt, the dwarves are a dying race that because of traditionalism won't even let a huge portion of their population fight the enemy that's been grinding them to dust over centuries. Instead they hem and haw and occasionally fuck a Casteless chick and hope she gives them a son who can fight. Occasionally. Boy fucking howdy this sounds effective!
Bhelen supports changing things there. Harrowmont is a traditionalist. How much more traditionalism can Orzammar survive?
Harrowmont seems a good guy, and that's great and all, but if you read into the Codex it becomes more and more apparent that Bhelen's political ruthlessness is pretty much just how the game is played in their political world. It's ugly, but having acumen for it isn't necessarily a bad thing.
More compellingly is the issue of the Casteless. To be blunt, the dwarves are a dying race that because of traditionalism won't even let a huge portion of their population fight the enemy that's been grinding them to dust over centuries. Instead they hem and haw and occasionally fuck a Casteless chick and hope she gives them a son who can fight. Occasionally. Boy fucking howdy this sounds effective!
Bhelen supports changing things there. Harrowmont is a traditionalist. How much more traditionalism can Orzammar survive?
Well that depends on the Anvil hurr durr, but Bhelen's ending wrt the anvil
where if you don't smash it (you monster what the god damn fuck) he's pretty on the level. Harrowmont is just crazy, especially with his "I'm going to shut orzammar off from the outside world" possible ending
Harrowmont seems a good guy, and that's great and all, but if you read into the Codex it becomes more and more apparent that Bhelen's political ruthlessness is pretty much just how the game is played in their political world. It's ugly, but having acumen for it isn't necessarily a bad thing.
More compellingly is the issue of the Casteless. To be blunt, the dwarves are a dying race that because of traditionalism won't even let a huge portion of their population fight the enemy that's been grinding them to dust over centuries. Instead they hem and haw and occasionally fuck a Casteless chick and hope she gives them a son who can fight. Occasionally. Boy fucking howdy this sounds effective!
Bhelen supports changing things there. Harrowmont is a traditionalist. How much more traditionalism can Orzammar survive?
Well that depends on the Anvil hurr durr, but Bhelen's ending wrt the anvil
where if you don't smash it (you monster what the god damn fuck) he's pretty on the level. Harrowmont is just crazy, especially with his "I'm going to shut orzammar off from the outside world" possible ending
True but
Orzammar spoilazzzz
Even if Bhelen is on the level with the Anvil, the Anvil just doesn't seem like a reliable fix. There's just so much potential for the next King to be a fuckwad with or the King after that, all it takes is one to send things epicly down the shitter in a frenzy of atrocities.
So it goes when discussing artifacts that imprison and enslave souls by their very nature. My pet theory is that the dream Caridin received the vision for the Anvil in was sent by a sleeping Old God.
Er, whats her face goes insane and makes off with her golems if you leave the anvil and have bhelen IIRC so it's a moot point really. the act of creating the golems is so monstrous that anyone who bothered to dig up the lore background who supports their creation should think long and hard abotu who is the bigger evil here, the darkspawn of the people who support drowning people in molten ore and holding their soul forever in a construct prison
Er, whats her face goes insane and makes off with her golems if you leave the anvil and have bhelen IIRC so it's a moot point really. the act of creating the golems is so monstrous that anyone who bothered to dig up the lore background who supports their creation should think long and hard abotu who is the bigger evil here, the darkspawn of the people who support drowning people in molten ore and holding their soul forever in a construct prison
I know, I'm talking in hypothetical terms. Branka ain't gonna last forever unless she gets golemified, and if she did I suspect she'd come around to Caridin's view mighty fast. In a post-Branka world, there's just more and more possibilities for fuckery with the Anvil.
Oh and don't forget it's not just molten ore but molten magic dream ore which we know unsettlingly little about.
Don't blame you if you're playing a Dwarven Noble. Too much bad blood there, which is unfortunate.
Really any person who
double crosses you during your origin is pretty much dead.
I played Human Noble and well I was already out to get Howe after he slaughtered my family, and him being a complete ass didn't help anything.
Then I also remember finding the Arl of Deneiem's son locked in a prison. I stabbed him because he was an ass, but it wasn't until the city elf origin that I appreciated how big of an ass he was.
Harrowmont seems a good guy, and that's great and all, but if you read into the Codex it becomes more and more apparent that Bhelen's political ruthlessness is pretty much just how the game is played in their political world. It's ugly, but having acumen for it isn't necessarily a bad thing.
More compellingly is the issue of the Casteless. To be blunt, the dwarves are a dying race that because of traditionalism won't even let a huge portion of their population fight the enemy that's been grinding them to dust over centuries. Instead they hem and haw and occasionally fuck a Casteless chick and hope she gives them a son who can fight. Occasionally. Boy fucking howdy this sounds effective!
Bhelen supports changing things there. Harrowmont is a traditionalist. How much more traditionalism can Orzammar survive?
Well that depends on the Anvil hurr durr, but Bhelen's ending wrt the anvil
where if you don't smash it (you monster what the god damn fuck) he's pretty on the level. Harrowmont is just crazy, especially with his "I'm going to shut orzammar off from the outside world" possible ending
it actually sounds like harrowmont is just more of a pushover than bhelen is.
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hold your head high soldier, it ain't over yet
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
Don't blame you if you're playing a Dwarven Noble. Too much bad blood there, which is unfortunate.
Really any person who
double crosses you during your origin is pretty much dead.
I played Human Noble and well I was already out to get Howe after he slaughtered my family, and him being a complete ass didn't help anything.
Then I also remember finding the Arl of Deneiem's son locked in a prison. I stabbed him because he was an ass, but it wasn't until the city dwarf origin that I appreciated how big of an ass he was.
Harrowmont seems a good guy, and that's great and all, but if you read into the Codex it becomes more and more apparent that Bhelen's political ruthlessness is pretty much just how the game is played in their political world. It's ugly, but having acumen for it isn't necessarily a bad thing.
More compellingly is the issue of the Casteless. To be blunt, the dwarves are a dying race that because of traditionalism won't even let a huge portion of their population fight the enemy that's been grinding them to dust over centuries. Instead they hem and haw and occasionally fuck a Casteless chick and hope she gives them a son who can fight. Occasionally. Boy fucking howdy this sounds effective!
Bhelen supports changing things there. Harrowmont is a traditionalist. How much more traditionalism can Orzammar survive?
Well that depends on the Anvil hurr durr, but Bhelen's ending wrt the anvil
where if you don't smash it (you monster what the god damn fuck) he's pretty on the level. Harrowmont is just crazy, especially with his "I'm going to shut orzammar off from the outside world" possible ending
it actually sounds like harrowmont is just more of a pushover than bhelen is.
He is. He's a reactionary traditionalist.
Edit: Disruptor, he also shows up in numerous cut scenes as an advisor to Loghain. After each main quest component completion.
Don't blame you if you're playing a Dwarven Noble. Too much bad blood there, which is unfortunate.
Really any person who
double crosses you during your origin is pretty much dead.
I played Human Noble and well I was already out to get Howe after he slaughtered my family, and him being a complete ass didn't help anything.
Then I also remember finding the Arl of Deneiem's son locked in a prison. I stabbed him because he was an ass, but it wasn't until the city dwarf origin that I appreciated how big of an ass he was.
He's a terrified traditionalist who believes the stone is as important to being a dwarf as being a dwarf. He's sort of like an ulta-orthodox dwarf, a fanatic of the dwarfs religion. I viewed Bhelen as more a Vetranari figure, equitably ruthless.
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In all seriousness, its more like "Kotor: but good".
And hell yeah, this game runs smooth as hell. I don't really have a top of the line system anymore, and even with everything maxed out, no problems at all with stutter. Did have some trouble with the memory leak during the Redcliffe battle, though.
Hmm.. I may have to install it on my g/fs laptop then and do a rogue playthrough on that while at work :winky:
Well the simplistic love/hate slider scale has neatly replaced the light/dark side interactions with your party members, yes.
It's always a ponderous moment when you're sitting there wishing that your digital companions could be more like real people.
I don't know why, but the one time I tried to side against the elves I couldn't fucking do it.
Seriously, like it was a facade of choice that all lead back to the elves.
Elf guy: Kill witherfang.
Werewolf:Bring the elf guy here and help us end the curse.
Elf guy: I don't want to end the curse.
MC: End the curse
Elf guy: Okay
Sided with elves! Fuck you game, fuck you. The only way I could see would be using the persuasion option, which of course I failed.
But I'm not, and like Yatzee nailed it's only reflected in a few conversation options.
B-b-b-b-but they have TUVOK!
Seriously, Tim Russ. Just because they have pointy ears doesn't mean you have to read for them like a Vulcan.
I made it my goal in life to make sure every single member of Voyager's crew died a horrible death
EDIT in dragon age, please don't arrest me!
I'm probably the only one, but I don't care about the character interactions beyond the amusing remarks between battles. I did the Morrigan romance in my first game because she's so easy, but I haven't even bothered with one in my second.
I don't play these games for interactive friends.
Sooooo... what would you call those of u... er, just those who play for armor upskirts and Wynne's naked toon's cameltoe?
Captains of Industry.
Damn. I was hoping for Paragon.
The nude mod and new romancable companion industry, right?
I was going to say Doctors of Journalism but I wasn't sure anyone would get that. I like Paragons.
Hell, Alistair jokes about her romantic prospects once (and gets more than he wanted to hear).
Old PA forum lookalike style for the new forums | My ko-fi donation thing.
calling morrigan an airheaded zealot is pretty mean, even is she does take her crusade against sidequests pretty far.
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Uh,
Even more
I don't know if you're being sarcastic or not(because of your lack of silly face emoticon), but reverse them.
Still on my first playthrough and I picked this origin on a hunch that it would be fun. Suprise! It is. My only problem is that
Perhaps.
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Is the better choice over the long term.
More compellingly is the issue of the Casteless. To be blunt, the dwarves are a dying race that because of traditionalism won't even let a huge portion of their population fight the enemy that's been grinding them to dust over centuries. Instead they hem and haw and occasionally fuck a Casteless chick and hope she gives them a son who can fight. Occasionally. Boy fucking howdy this sounds effective!
Bhelen supports changing things there. Harrowmont is a traditionalist. How much more traditionalism can Orzammar survive?
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True but
Orzammar spoilazzzz
So it goes when discussing artifacts that imprison and enslave souls by their very nature. My pet theory is that the dream Caridin received the vision for the Anvil in was sent by a sleeping Old God.
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So well done bioware.
On my dwarf noble though? Hell no.
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Oh and don't forget it's not just molten ore but molten magic dream ore which we know unsettlingly little about.
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Really any person who
I played Human Noble and well I was already out to get Howe after he slaughtered my family, and him being a complete ass didn't help anything.
Then I also remember finding the Arl of Deneiem's son locked in a prison. I stabbed him because he was an ass, but it wasn't until the city elf origin that I appreciated how big of an ass he was.
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
City elf.
He is. He's a reactionary traditionalist.
Edit: Disruptor, he also shows up in numerous cut scenes as an advisor to Loghain. After each main quest component completion.
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I know...I changed it.