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[AlanC9]

Acharnae wrote...
Well you don't always have the luxury of having chaotic commands available for all your party members. And if you choose to have them and use them at all times you weaken yourself considerably on many battles. So in no way this is standard practise.

Weaken yourself considerably? How so? Flame Strike isn't all that great. Sure, you can deliberately court risk by refusing to take this spell or by only having one cleric in the party so you can't put it on everyone, but you can do the same sort of thing in DAO by not learning Mana Clash or Cone of Cold. Or are you seriously telling me that leaving party members vulnerable to mind blasts, charms, confusin spells, and so forth is good strategy?

Actually, I've stopped buffing in ToB for precisely this reason. 

An amulet of power can protect one character. If you have 5 vampires running at you somebody is going to get beaten. Or not?

Like I said, you have to manage the aggro. And even if someone loses a level, you just use Restoration. Anytime you're jumped by more than one vampire most of them are fledglings anyway, and they go down fast.

You had to be prepared.

Right. That's why you put Chaotic Commands on everyone. Then you're prepared.

World Cup's starting . Later.

[HoonDing]

AlanC9 wrote...

Or are you seriously telling me that leaving party members vulnerable to mind blasts, charms, confusin spells, and so forth is good strategy?

If only there were enemies that used such tactics...

[joriandrake]

Lord_Saulot wrote...

In the Baldur's Gate series your origin/background was a fixed feature of the plot.

Sorry, but having a somewhat fixed origin doesn't make the game less like BG2.

but atleast the character was the same as in BG1

Modifié par joriandrake, 11 juillet 2010 - 06:51 .

[Talonfire]

reflir wrote...
Your name and race and voice are set so that Bioware can tell the story they want to, in the way they want to, with (part of) the character and the voice they want to.

Your last name is set, but it was also set in Origins even though you didn't have one in Baldur's Gate... so I'm not sure what the big deal is here. I'm sure you'll still be able to customize Hawke's first name, so I doubt that will be any different from choosing whether or not you want to name your Human Noble Cousland Binky or Bob. Since there's only Hawke I'm sure that the surname will be acknowledged more than the surname of the Warden was in Origins, but that's not that big of a deal in my opinion. Just because your character's surname wasn't brought up in Origins much didn't change the fact that he or she had one.

I don't see race as much of an issue either. Admittedly I prefer humans since that's what I am, and so that's what I can connect to more, but being able to choose your race wasn't a major component in Baldur's Gate. In the Baldur's Gate games it didn't matter whether you were a human, elf, dwarf, gnome or whatever since most races were pretty much treated equally in the Forgotten Realms, and I didn't notice much of a difference in the gameplay mechanics either. I noticed even less differences in the story, you were rarely even acknowledged as whatever race you chose thus it made no real difference to the plot, and no matter what race you did choose you were always Gorion's ward. In the Dragon Age world your race is a big deal, in the Forgotten Realms (at least the Forgotten Realms I saw in the BG, IWD and NWN games) it doesn't seem to matter all that much.

Modifié par Talonfire, 11 juillet 2010 - 07:16 .

[Herbert West]

reflir wrote...

And this makes me sad.

It makes me sad too, reflir. It makes me sad too.

[Selene Moonsong]

Don't res year-old topics.

[Ahriman]

Necromants. Reviving dead just to tell how they are sad.