RE: Witcher franchise...
April 23, 2015 at 6:43 pm
(This post was last modified: April 23, 2015 at 6:45 pm by Ravenshire.)
(April 23, 2015 at 5:42 pm)abaris Wrote: The first part goes for 7.99 Euros on Steam and the second part is 19.99. That's not that much actually. Just try them first, since the games are notoriously hardware hungry. And I'm sure there's a sale for the third part at some time within the next few months. You only have to look or weekend sales and opt for following the particular game.
Just picked up "The Witcher: Enhanced Edition" on PC DVD-ROM for $10.
If it plays well, I'll look into the others as well. Hardware is not an issue. I've got a 3D CAD rig that blows most gaming PCs out of the water.
(April 23, 2015 at 6:16 pm)bennyboy Wrote: Elder Scrolls died with Oblivion, IMO, when they made scaling mobs.
1) Go to beginner area. Carefully kill all mobs.
2) Go back to beginner area. Kill mobs matched to your level, sell their glass armour.
3) Go back to beginner area again. Kill mobs matched to your new level again, sell their even more expensive armour.
What fucking bullshit that is. I didn't max out my character's level to have an ongoing challenge. I maxed it out to become godlike, so I can go back and lay waste to those low-level mobs in an act of unforgiving revenge.
The scaled opponents is basically a requirement of the open world gaming style. It allows the player to finish quests in the order he discovers them instead of scripting them one after another. In Morrowind, you could get your character killed very fast by going places where the non-scaling bad guys could basically explode you with a single hit.
At the end of the day, it's RPG. I want to take off running and see what's over that hill, not follow something so scripted that my only choices are which weapon to kill this guy with so I can go on to kill the next guy. Had enough of that with Baldur's Gate.
If you really want to do the godlike whoop-ass on the puny opponents, you can always use cheat codes and/or mods. Careful with the mods though. My current Skyrim installation is broken due to mods I added in a rather helter-skelter method. Now I'm trying to figure out what conflicts with which...
I see the reviews for Dragon Age: Origins are pretty good. Anyone think the Ultimate Edition is worth $20 or so? Or is it one of the highly scripted ones like the Baldur's Gate series?
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