Jacob, jacob, answer my DAO question: My party members. Do I need to read up on leveling them up myself? Or do I just automate it?
DON'T auto level, whatever you do!
For the warriors, just pump their STR and DEX and give them maybe 30 total willpower (here's the deal: constitution gives hitpoints, which sounds good for a warrior, but not very many hitpoints, while every point of dex makes you harder to hit in the first place. Alaistair with 45 strength and 45 dex is basically a god.)
The mages, just magic and a bit of willpower erryday.
Rogues do dex and cunning. Be sure and make sure Leilana takes the lockpicking ability at every opportunity. Also her archery tree doesn't work the way it should, so level her up in 2-weapons instead.
Here's how all the NPCs break down in terms of what they do best:
Alastair - sword and shield and all the best heaviest armor.
Sten - second-best heaviest armor and the best two-handed swords you can find
Ogren - third-best heaviest armor and the best two-handed axes you can find
Dog - build him like a warrior; he can tank pretty well.
Wynne - spec out her healing and her special unique tree that lets her resurrect dudes
Morrigan - shapeshifter is bullshit, move her into something else like blood mage asap
Leilana - archery is borked, give her two weapons and all the stuff associated with stabbing
Zevran - ditto
Shale - you can actually build Shale however you want; all its trees are useful.
*bookmarked*
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nah it's fine, although yeah shooting and driving is kind of a pain
it's easier with a mouse and keyboard obviously, but then driving is terrible, so I stick with the controller and just wing it on the shooting
usually I can compensate for the bad shooting with awesome driving so I'm like sticking the gun in their driver side window filling their stupid stupid face with all the goddamn bullets
Also one really stupid decision Noire made that really killed any desire I had to replay it. You can't skip any cutscenes or dialogue at all. I have no idea why especially since you'll probably fuck cases up and have to redo them, and so you are locked in to their wonderful dialogue everytime. SO OBNOXIOUS!
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I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
went to my local and watched the bruins ruin what would otherwise probably have been a perfectly lovely vancouver evening
(it was probably raining)
i'm still excited about my scooter. it was so fun to ride around on! like, i was absolutely dreading taking it back to cambridge from southie, since i meant that i had to drive through boston (which i absolutely hate, even in my car). but it turned out to be fun and just delightful!
also i like to think that i looked fly as hell on my little orange scoot in my tie and sport coat.
China is a great thing to look at with regard to intellectual property.
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a lot of people are like "Saint's Row is back to what GTA should be"
I don't know that I agree with that. GTAIV had problems but it also had some stuff that I really loved, and I hear that the two expansions kind of minimized some of the sucky stuff and doubled down on the good stuff.
I guess I'm cool with two competing series of sandbox crime games that have different levels of what we jokingly call realism.
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Also one really stupid decision Noire made that really killed any desire I had to replay it. You can't skip any cutscenes or dialogue at all. I have no idea why especially since you'll probably fuck cases up and have to redo them, and so you are locked in to their wonderful dialogue everytime. SO OBNOXIOUS!
a lot of people are like "Saint's Row is back to what GTA should be"
I don't know that I agree with that. GTAIV had problems but it also had some stuff that I really loved, and I hear that the two expansions kind of minimized some of the sucky stuff and doubled down on the good stuff.
I guess I'm cool with two competing series of sandbox crime games that have different levels of what we jokingly call realism.
GTA4 took a turn into semi-serious territory which was not traditionally what GTA was really about
I think Rockstar's more serious games are very fun and i like them very much, but to test it out with an already established game series was a bit of an oversight as to what exactly kept people playing it.
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a lot of people are like "Saint's Row is back to what GTA should be"
I don't know that I agree with that. GTAIV had problems but it also had some stuff that I really loved, and I hear that the two expansions kind of minimized some of the sucky stuff and doubled down on the good stuff.
I guess I'm cool with two competing series of sandbox crime games that have different levels of what we jokingly call realism.
GTA4 took a turn into semi-serious territory which was not traditionally what GTA was really about
I think Rockstar's more serious games are very fun and i like them very much, but to test it out with an already established game series was a bit of an oversight as to what exactly kept people playing it.
I liked that they attempted to be less silly, (even though they still have a pretty hard time not being silly).
a lot of people are like "Saint's Row is back to what GTA should be"
I don't know that I agree with that. GTAIV had problems but it also had some stuff that I really loved, and I hear that the two expansions kind of minimized some of the sucky stuff and doubled down on the good stuff.
I guess I'm cool with two competing series of sandbox crime games that have different levels of what we jokingly call realism.
GTA4 took a turn into semi-serious territory which was not traditionally what GTA was really about
I think Rockstar's more serious games are very fun and i like them very much, but to test it out with an already established game series was a bit of an oversight as to what exactly kept people playing it.
I liked that they attempted to be less silly, (even though they still have a pretty hard time not being silly).
Yeah, it's like: San Andreas was a fantastic game, I loved it very much. But there was a point past which I was starting to cringe at the wild shift in tone between the main story, which wants you to be - if not invested in your dude's plot, at least entertained by it - and then starting a mission and have someone tell you "Hey take me to the Vagina Burger on top of Titty Hill"
Maybe it's me, maybe I'm getting old and calcified, but more and more that stuff was making me go "...really? Really?"
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edited June 2011
The joys of trying to explain the importance of the title of "professor" to people who live in a country where normal lecturers use the title. Fun.
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ElldrenIs a woman dammitceterum censeoRegistered Userregular
edited June 2011
it deserved reallies
meanwhile, saint's row maintains a more or less even tone
Also one really stupid decision Noire made that really killed any desire I had to replay it. You can't skip any cutscenes or dialogue at all. I have no idea why especially since you'll probably fuck cases up and have to redo them, and so you are locked in to their wonderful dialogue everytime. SO OBNOXIOUS!
you can on the ps3
oh how, I couldn't figure it out
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I don't think I've ever seen anything so utterly 80's.
One major change is driving and shooting is way easier. The game also plays more arcadey than gta 4 by a longshot.
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oh snap is the steam info page right and I can co-op the whole story?
PSN/XBL: Zampanov -- Steam: Zampanov
*bookmarked*
yes
360.
nah it's fine, although yeah shooting and driving is kind of a pain
it's easier with a mouse and keyboard obviously, but then driving is terrible, so I stick with the controller and just wing it on the shooting
usually I can compensate for the bad shooting with awesome driving so I'm like sticking the gun in their driver side window filling their stupid stupid face with all the goddamn bullets
PSN/XBL: Zampanov -- Steam: Zampanov
co-op makes everything better, no exceptions
PSN/XBL: Zampanov -- Steam: Zampanov
pleasepaypreacher.net
yep!
it looks like this one:
i am more a negative one child policy kind of dude
This is why I haven't been able to bring myself to replay ME2 despite losing one of my favorite characters.
Going to make the Reapers pay for that shit.
Do copyright Quid.
China is a great thing to look at with regard to intellectual property.
I don't know that I agree with that. GTAIV had problems but it also had some stuff that I really loved, and I hear that the two expansions kind of minimized some of the sucky stuff and doubled down on the good stuff.
I guess I'm cool with two competing series of sandbox crime games that have different levels of what we jokingly call realism.
you can on the ps3
I need to make a save with jack dead
because jack is boring
Will is plotting to murder some poor kid
I like jack a lot because of the mayhem
even if there's less of that when she's actually doing things, her story mayhem is great
PSN/XBL: Zampanov -- Steam: Zampanov
GTA4 took a turn into semi-serious territory which was not traditionally what GTA was really about
I think Rockstar's more serious games are very fun and i like them very much, but to test it out with an already established game series was a bit of an oversight as to what exactly kept people playing it.
I liked that they attempted to be less silly, (even though they still have a pretty hard time not being silly).
PSN/XBL: Zampanov -- Steam: Zampanov
I'm not especially familiar with it other than its basic nonexistence.
PSN/XBL: Zampanov -- Steam: Zampanov
that "poor kid" is stealing my future food
i will not stand for it!
backstroke of the west
chinese piracy
Yeah, it's like: San Andreas was a fantastic game, I loved it very much. But there was a point past which I was starting to cringe at the wild shift in tone between the main story, which wants you to be - if not invested in your dude's plot, at least entertained by it - and then starting a mission and have someone tell you "Hey take me to the Vagina Burger on top of Titty Hill"
Maybe it's me, maybe I'm getting old and calcified, but more and more that stuff was making me go "...really? Really?"
meanwhile, saint's row maintains a more or less even tone
"Do you believe Christianity is under attack in America?"
"Yes, I---"
"How so?"
"Well, um..."
Oh Ron Paul, you cad.
are you professor bob now?
Nope. Not even "Dr. Bob" yet. Hopefully that will happen next Easter.
oh how, I couldn't figure it out
oh
ok
Well, hopeful preemptive congratulations