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[FordGT90Concept]

Ultimate Edition has everything except Collector's Edition content (a helmet, a staff, and a usable book). Ultimate Edition is actually licensed for Collector's Edition if you download it off the internet and install it but EA won't acknowledge it in the Dragon Age Keep. If you want 100% of rewards in the Dragon Age Keep, you'd have to buy Ultimate Edition AND Digital Deluxe editions of the game. Not really worth it I'd say so just go with Ultimate Edition and be happy.

Worth it? Definitely. Awakening adds at least another days worth of gameplay to each character. The other DLCs, combined, take about a day to finish on the easiest difficulty. I would advise waiting until it goes on sale though. Another Steam sale should be coming soon. You can also sometimes find it for sale on Amazon or Origin.

You can import an Origins character into Awakening and several decisions carry over. Alternatively, you can play it without importing and you'll be an Orlisian Grey Warden. You can also import the Awakening character into the Agmongakk DLC and the Agmongakk DLC save into Witch Hunt. All of them (would recommend the one after finishing Witch Hunt) can be imported into Dragon Age 2.



Finished Mass Effect, moving on to Mass Effect 2.

 

[Arjai]

So, Basically, I can buy the Ultimate and be all caught up to 2010!!

Also, would a 7850 Twin Frozer be up to the job? Including 2? Perhaps Inquisition? I can not find them on Steam and I am currently looking for quick easy answers before pulling the plug on this card!

OK, well, I just pulled the Plug on the MSI 7850 Twin Frozer, for "Karen." One of the New-to-me computers I have crunching.

From what I can tell, it should run Dragon Age, even Inquisition. They're website recommends a 7870 for Inquisition but, it is a minor step up and should handle it fine.

 

[HossHuge]

Finished Valiant Hearts the other day. Not ashamed to say that I cried like a bitch at the end. Such a great story.

 

[rtwjunkie]

I am considering Dragon Age: Origins and STEAM has this, also:
Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition includes Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening and all nine content packs.

Is it worth the extra $10? Isn't Awakenings a separate release? It's a good deal, no?

Yes, good deal. Get it!

 

[rtwjunkie]

I'm playing Witcher 3. 13 hours in and have barely scratched the surface. THIS is what I call content!!

 

[manofthem]

Finally got around to Alien Isolation. After playing about 15-20 minutes in November and letting it sit til now, I started anew the other day. Now I've played about 6 hours and I'm loving it, just not making very good/quick progress. It's definitely a very tense game that makes me go slow and freak out quite a bit. I hear it's a long game and for some it wears out its welcome, but I can't comment on all that just yet. Looking forward to more of it when I get the chance.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

Also, would a 7850 Twin Frozer be up to the job? Including 2? Perhaps Inquisition? I can not find them on Steam and I am currently looking for quick easy answers before pulling the plug on this card!

Don't know about Inquisition but my 5870 is more than sufficient for DAO and DA2. Neither of those games are particularly hard to run.

DAO UE can often be bought for under $10. Remember, all DA2 DLC is still purchased via Bioware Points. The DLC will easily cost you more than the game because they never go on sale.

 

[rtwjunkie]

Inquisition can run very well on a 660 Ti, so take it's AMD equivalent (7870?) and you should be more than fine. I'm assuming it all scales downward from there.

 

[RCoon]

I am considering Dragon Age: Origins and STEAM has this, also:
Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition includes Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening and all nine content packs.

Is it worth the extra $10? Isn't Awakenings a separate release? It's a good deal, no?

Ultimate edition is definitely worth it. It's the best value for dragon age that I managed to find, unless you want to spend 30 dollars extra on bioware points

 

[RejZoR]

After I finish FEAR 2, I'm thinking of re-playing System Shock 2 again, this time strictly only with Psi Amplifier. No cold weapons, no ranged weapons, strictly only psionic powers. It'll be like a sci fi Lichdom Battlemage lol At least I'm imagining to be this way, just not sure how it'll actually look like. But I guess it might be fun considering I'll have to entirely change the approach on playing the game.

 

[Cvrk]

It is a good deal. Look for prices on Origins as well.

I rediscovered DA. I added some mods. Makes the game look so much better. You must use DA_CharGenMorphCompiler & DAO-Modmanager. I got mods like these

And you can get more mods also. Just be careful. Some just mess up your game. Like a mod for lock picking everything. Don't use that it will destroy the game. It toked me 2 days to figure out all of the mods i went and tested them a lot! And i gaved up on many of them. it was to tiresome. You have to put it all in here. The folder does not exist so you will have to create it.

Be very careful with chargenmorphcfg. NEVER have more then one file like that in the folder. You use the DA_CharGenMorphCompiler to combine the config files ,as one. Pretty much every single mod comes with one of these files and you have to stack them all in one without overriding data. It's kinda complicated. Some mods overriding....you will need to figure out witch one you need the most, cuz you need to give up on some.

All this stress it worth it! The characters will look amazing. The in game light,some text is also modified (but in a good way). Vanilla weapons are very boring and look the same, you can also change that with mods.

The only dlc that it was kinda useless is Dark spawn chronicles . try to finish all the quests in the first story line. If you do Awakening and other dlc are much more rewarding.
Awakening is so beautiful! After building up the story and your character,it all kinda comes along as a new fresh breath of air. And they improved so much in Awa. i feel that Origins should have been exactly the same to make it really good.
After you get and install of the DLC's the order that you must play them is from bottom to top. Yes there is a order ...otherwise they don't make sense.

As an advise, play male character. At the end the story makes little sense with Morrigan, and it's kinda stupid.
Also if you want full controversy play as a elf mage. For me this is the second time around,and this time i went with a female human noble warrior/tank (shield and sword). It's the most "predictable" but it also has it's rewards. I really get to control the battlefield wile everybody else in my party just does damage.

 

[GreiverBlade]

played a lot of DA:O DA:A and DA2 i might re fall in it soon ... ahah

currently :

playing is a big word in some case ... i mostly do: "walking my hangar in awe" and "free flight asteroid dancing until someone lock me" (i am not the aggressor type ... i wait and retaliate )

and modded Skyrim with 0.266b ENB based RealVision (tweaked) and 142mods active just for fun ,,,

 

[Shou Miko]

gaming some GTAV and Wolfenstein The Old Blood when i feel like not in a rush to get them finished

 

[rtwjunkie]

@GreiverBlade because I love so many of them, I went for the limit. I've got a completely stable Skyrim at 255 mods, not including Texture mods.

I watched one of the main mod video reviewers, and learned something interesting. His testing and reviews of some other memory management mods really highlighted something. For every GB of textures loaded in VRAM, Skyrim loads about 800MB into DDR. This means if you go for insanely huge retextures of everything, no matter how stable your active mod load order is, you're going to crash fairly frequently, because you will quickly reach the 3.1GB RAM limit of the game engine. So I reduced most retextures to 1024 and 2048 size (most of them have numerous choices), and now it still looks awesome and has all the content I want, completely stable!

 

[Ahhzz]

I think for my memorial day enjoyment, I'm going to break out the new Thrustmaster Flight Stick, and dig into the latest E: D as well as Star Citizen.

 

[Tsukiyomi91]

currently reached lvl65 for my Castanic Lancer. Now building the most sought-after class: Gunner in TERA. =w=b *continues grinding & getting used to mechanics*

 

[Cvrk]

currently reached lvl65 for my Castanic Lancer. Now building the most sought-after class: Gunner in TERA. =w=b *continues grinding & getting used to mechanics*

I just don't have the time. But i also wanted to pick up Tera Rising, again...i stopped at berseker lvl 40 and sorc lvl 52 i think.
Tell me....elin reaper was 1000% OP,is gunner the same ? I expect it to .

 

[Schmuckley]

New Vegas with tons of mods.

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

Still not playing GTA V,............ buuuuuuuuuuuuuut, i am hoping it will be third time lucky.

Only 2 days and 18hrs to d/l at this attempt, excellent.

On the plus side my new (to me) Sapphire Toxic HD 6950 is in, installed and ace. I had a spin around Spa Franchorchamps in my Veyron in NFS shift 2 unleashed and in areas where i was getting 45 fps i am now getting a steady 70 fps so I am happy.

There was no manual in the box and i'm not going to flick the massive switch which turns it into a 6950 until i have done (and enjoyed) some research. It is a very long card whch required a slight 5 minute mod to the case but nothing more than taking a couple of rivets out to alter the hdd caddy.

I put the fan to 100% on CCC, Holy Moley that fan is shifting a lot of air but noisily, it doesnt run hot so i will let ccc manage that for me.

I put the Omega driver (14.12 ) on, seems ok.

So, the gpu is in, the CPU has a 20% o/c i,ve just got to wait for this ........again...
At least i know it is worth waiting for.

The HD 5850 will be going with an Intel Q6600 ( an amicable deal struck with @dorsetknob) ,Asrock HG41 mh usb3 (an excellent swapsie with @Knoxx29 ) and 4gb RAM, which should be a nice machine with a bit of an o/c.


It sounds as if my son is revising for his geography exam through the medium of playing his ukelele, he is driving me nuts but he did get the job at Tesco, he starts for the summer when he completes his exams. ( guess who got "volunteered" to drive him 13 miles each way each shift )

Spoiler

 

[Tsukiyomi91]

@Cvrk : Reaper class is quite OP on her own, but team fights it's lacking support. For Gunner, I'm still in the early phase so I'm not sure whether it's as OP as Reaper... I'll delve deeper into the mechanics 2morrow & see whether if Gunners are that good with all the reasons why majority of players are practically flooding the servers with that spanking new class in this decent Play2Win MMORPG.

News of the day: http://www.bladeandsoul.com/en/news/2015/05/20/blade-n-soul-is-coming/

 

[Jborg]

Tempted to buy the Witcher 3, however I have never played any of the Witcher games....

I am currently playing Dragon Age Inquisition, enjoying it very much.... The spell/attack animations are really cool looking especially pausing them mid sequence. I am able to run just about maxed out with a consistent 50-60 FPS....

If I am enjoying Dragon Age Inquisition, would you guys think I would enjoy the Witcher? I cant decide if I should get it.

 

[GreiverBlade]

News of the day: http://www.bladeandsoul.com/en/news/2015/05/20/blade-n-soul-is-coming/

oohhh ... (currently playing on Ru server ... and was on Cn quite a while before, not too hard to fit in with translation patch and a bit of logic, most of the party dungeon i did the people on Cn spoke english when i told them i was only speaking English)



got to pay attention to not get tempted again by BNS ... tho it will be hard ... i just signed for the newsletter

 

[peche]

Got injustice on humble bundle store, the game is pretty interesting, pretty decent graphics, also cool story mode,

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

Today, i will be playing the waiting game

 

[Cvrk]

reasons why majority of players are practically flooding the servers with that spanking new class in this decent Play2Win MMORPG.

It does have the feeling doesn't it ? You can play ,get good at it,build gear.Make in game money etc and eventually be a winning player. As the reason why i respect Tera Online is cuz skill will make a huge difference. All that jumping around,dodging , spinning around the camera to land a hit is all about skill (and a 9 button mouse ). I ca not pick any other mmo ,reason why there all mindless (select mob 1,2,3,4...kill mob,repeat). From this point and not just, Tera is unique to its core.
It can be a pay2win game. It has an item mall. Buy with real money items, sell them, get rich in 1 hour. Buy all the epic gear. Done.
In every game same thing happens. When a new class comes along,new players wanna try first the brand new class. Old players have a reason to come back to the game ,cuz of the new class. And all of the sudden you have a server spammed with the same class.

*I have played Blade&Soul on a rusian server with 99% of things translated to english. I do not like the game(i will not give more reasons). It's all....korean stupid voluptuous eye candy.

More from Dragon Age Awakening. Type in runscript zz_ds and this happens.

It's very cool! But DO NOT enter here unless you have finished the game!!