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I have a RAID 5 setup. 4TB. It has an Intel Matrix manager that never needs defragging. That's probably why I have few if any graphics issues. UI sucks and controls are obscene tho. It definitely decompresses everything as it wants.
Time will tell if disk problems appear I guess
Welcome to the group!
So, I was considering doing a video review of a tactical god-sim I found on steam awhile back to coax you guys into playing it. Would/wouldn't watch?
Hello everyone! Surprised by the invitation, surely this needs a proper introduction but for certain i´m going to make a mess of this
My name is Ivan, i´m from Argentina (m i the only spanish native speaker around? Just courious) I´m 28 years old, work as a freelance translator and i´m a writer. Poetry mostly. Have one book published and close now to get a grant from the National fund for the arts, that´d be amazing and a life changer for this type of career, allowing me to do research jobs and publish a proper bilingual book, since i can manage decently both spanish and english. Also the chance to travel all around the globe doing what i love.
K, nuff of that.
Been in gaming since my... well, memory is fuzzy, but i remember playing randomly and get definitely amazed by videogames thanks to Metal Gear Solid narrative. I saw there what videogames were capable to deliver. So i started playing all kind of games with deep and strong stories, etc. Then my brother found a new game that just mesmerized him. And me. That game was Dragon age Origins. Since there, all my attention was on the RPG gendre but always looking for experiences similar to what Bioware delivered. Fan since then, played all their games and expanded to RPG in general. The witcher franchise, Dark souls, Diablo, Bethesda games, and a long etc. The only console i had was the PS1, then moved to PC cause all the beautiful anarchy in his community. Free (well, not entirely, but you know what i mean) of big companies leashes, a community always helping and making extra games from the existing vanilla ones, with graphics vanguards, innovative ideas, and a long list again. So, here i am.
Nowadays i have a a not really great rig but well, is what i have for now. Upgrading soon i hope.
Aaand... that´s it? Idk, i feel like i wrote a lot but didn´t introduce properly. Well, we´ll get to know each other i guess, so, just glad to be part of the sect
Love and peace to all of you! Just leaving this here cause Cormac McCarthy is my favourite US writer now and this movie was at the level of the book and cause random stuff is just cool
And a heart-felt welcome to you too.
Thanlk you all for the warm welcome! 
I have a RAID 5 setup. 4TB. It has an Intel Matrix manager that never needs defragging. That's probably why I have few if any graphics issues. UI sucks and controls are obscene tho. It definitely decompresses everything as it wants.
Time will tell if disk problems appear I guess
The RAID is useless to use for 1 single HDD, right? Just wondering.
Essorance
Looking forward to the videos :-)
Same here, as Cyan would say.
Test the banter fix last night in hinterlands, doesn't work for me. Then again I'm still using patch 2, and my savepoint is just before the siege of Haven. Wonder if it's a condition there that stops banter during that period I don't know, or if banter is exhausted for now.
Jackal, I asked on the page before: What is this fix and can you please link to it? Thanks in advance.
Thanks. Well...comes bundled with the actual cheat table. That's pretty much a downer for me. And since my banter is okay-ish I think I'll leave it be. ^^
Welcome to the group!
So, I was considering doing a video review of a tactical god-sim I found on steam awhile back to coax you guys into playing it. Would/wouldn't watch?
Reus?
No news of a new patch afaik.
Today I explored the last "bonus" map and have slain the last dragon. Despite the lack of story, these maps are fun.
The only downside is when I think about a replay. I don't see this happening anytime soon and while I'm usually not the fast-replay-type anyway I think it'll be worse for DAI because of those huge maps.
It was fun exploring them for the first time for several reasons: Getting to know their architecture, finding lore, finding gear, battling dragons. But now I know almost everything. A good story can be told multiple times but this...not likely.
Yeah, once you've seen all the areas, the replay is not there. Nothing really changes the outcome anyway.
Gad! It's such a chore of a game! I spend so much time trudging around 'exploring' that the entire point of the main story is lost. At least with Skyrim you have enough freedom to do something with your character that the openess of the world is empowering. With Inquisition there is still a very linear story, so the immense amount of time you waste building power and travelling through a beautiful-yet-utterly-monotonous-in-its-emptiness world sucks all the urgency and point from the plot.
It's reminds me of reading a self published novel that drags on for 600 pages when the story is just interesting enough to make you hang in there but you know that a good editor would knock it back to 400 and make it a gripping read.
I want to finish it, but it's just so... so...ugh!
Oh, well done! I thought about taking it back to the store and asking but the store in question is a small local place and in my neck of the woods retailers like that are under enough pressure to keep their doors open as it is. They probably would have refunded me, but it most likely would have been them bearing the cost and since over the years they have supplied me with many bargains I figured I might as well take this hit for the team. *shrugs*
This is, however, the last time I pay full price for a game from a physical store. If I ever pay full price again (and bear in mind that this is the first full price game I have purchased since the first Assassin's Creed lol!) it will be from GOG (30 days moneyu back guarantee!) or like you, Amazon.
Because, Boo! Hiss! This has been a very hard lesson well learned.
Sales are fair game, of course - I'm currently d/l The vanishing of Ethan Carter, half price on Steam right now. 
Oh wow, that's very generous of you, but I already have TW 1&2 from the GOG end of year sale. Got them both for $AU30 which was awesome. Thank you for the kind offer though.
Have you seen Origin has them at the moment? I lol'd, why would you buy them from origin when you can have them DRM free? (says she who bought TVEC from Steam, but it was $10 cheaper there than at GOG and frankly I have spent way too much on games trying to rid myself of the bitter taste of DA:I of late).
Speaking of DA:I, can someone who has finished it please tell me if there is any plot significance to the Dog
In The Sky?
Because WTF? Is it an Ancient Aliens (or Elves) thing? Will I have to finish it to find out, or is it just another pointless bit of scenery?
Oh I never finished DA 2 either lol! Got about halfway through the third act (on my second attempt at playing) and just stopped caring.
Much like I stop caring about 1/3 of the way through DA:I - this is my fourth? attempt to play it now, the other three times I thought it was the character that put me off, but now I have a character I love but am still bored as hell. Conclusion- the game sucks hairy goat balls, end of.
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