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[JEMC]

Wow, one day without coming over and lots of posts to reply.

Zkuq said:

JEMC said:

Congratulations!

Does it have any memorable songs or "put the lime in the coconut" is still THE Alan Wake song?

...OK, I did not know about Coconut, and I think I was happier when I didn't. I was going to say Herald of Darkness - it even made it to The Game Awards - but clearly Coconut is in an entirely different league! There's also one other song, but I'll refrain from naming it because I don't think it makes a ton of sense when taken out of context. In general, I think the game does have a lot of good music though, some of it more, some less memorable.

I forgot to mention, but with the Remedy universe or whatever, the game also has connections to Control, so... now I'm finally playing Control as well, so I can fully enjoy the Alan Wake 2 DLCs. Having fun so far, although the environment is still the weakest area of the game, just like I suspected based on what I had seen of the game before starting it. It's less bland than I feared, but at the same time it's still definitely the game's greatest weakness.

For me, the Coconut song was the point when I fully realized that whatever was happening was bigger than I thought and it affected the whole town and not just your character, with those two old rock’n’roll musicians in the cafe talking about the song.

I didn’t know the Herald of Darkness song, I cared too little about the game and franchise at that point. But let me tell you that as someone that suffers from what in Spanish we say “vergûenza ajena” (kind of cringe, being embarrassed for what someone else does) that video was hard to watch. The song is great, tho.

HoloDust said:

JEMC said:

After asking here I gave Dragon Age Origins a go and... it didn't go too well. For starters, the game crashes a lot. There are supposed to be several fixes you can try to do but none of the ones I tried worked. I know the GOG version of the game is updated and should work fine, but then comes my other problem with the game, the difficulty.
You see, I played my character's origin story, became a Grey Warden, did my part in the battle and reached a town after it with little problems besides the crashes. But after that the difficulty spikes a lot and randomly. I tried to do two different missions (the tower of mages and searching for the Arl) and while both started of well, at one point I would find myself facing one group of enemies with no big problems only to be obliterated by the next group. It was frustrating and coupled with the crashes, I decided to try something else.

That's bit odd, I don't remember Origins as difficult game - I remember back when it released I've played it and really liked it, but not as much as BG1/2 - so, wanting to scratch that itch, I went back to play BG...and oh boy, did I found BG to be way, way more difficult that Origins, though at the time I've played BG I didn't find them too difficult.

I’m not used to the genre so, to me, there’s another step of difficulty compared to the experience some of you may have had.

Bofferbrauer2 said:

JEMC said:

**no need to quote this part again**

With Arl you mean Redcliffe, right?

You really need to do all the side missions to get everyone on board and upgrade their equipment, otherwise that battle will get difficult for sure.

Also, little hint:

Spoiler!

Put some traps on the hill where the darkspawn come from during the night. This can make those battles much easier

I found Redcliffe to be relatively easy back then, but I also naturally made all the sidequests up to that point and was maybe a bit more balanced than your team. Also, like Pemalite says, abuse the pause button to adjust your tactics.

Yes, the Arl of Radcliffe.

I survived the night with the monsters/possessed/whatever. It took me three attempts, but I managed (I tried to make all my characters survive, which let me to restart it a couple of times).

My problem is once you enter the castle, because you enter one room or corridor and the fight will be fair, and then enter another one and be completely obliterated (I was traumatized by a room with four or five hounds. that ripped me appart in no time).

When it comes to the other mission I tried, the Circle of Mages, I managed to beat the first two or three floors with relative ease, but then you have a secret monster hidden in a fallen column that beats me every time, and if you skip that monster there's a room with a succubus and a knight that, if you decide to fight (as one should!), are way to strong.

Not having the equiment at the right level may one of my problems, but I no longer remember what I did with it.

When you talk about side quests, what do you mean? Because in both the camp while trainign to be a Grey Warden and then the city of Lothering, I did all the side quests available, recruiting the two companions in the city. Do you mean those of the ones that you get after leaving Lothering, with the dwarfs and the human asking you to do certain things? Because I didn't do those thinking that my level wouldn't be enough.

Darc Requiem said:

JEMC said:

**again, no need to quote this part**

How are you playing Origins? Are using the tactical mode? The later Dragon Age games shifted to more action based combat but Origins was played better in tactical mode. 

I used the tactical mode. Both at the beginning of the fights to tell each of my characters who they shoiuld attack, but also during battle either to direct them to a new enemy once they had killed the one they were fighting, and to use some of the spells/habilities.

I may not be the most efficient player with it, but playing the game without using it feels like a really, really bad idea.