That cheered me up, thanks! :-)

Argh... That kind of direction giving is irritating... Glad you found him though.
Was there a dialogue option on the lines, "Dude, seriously! I need a few beers! Tell me you have beer! I've been looking for you for weeks!" ? :P

Hm, I'd disagree on DA:I being the better game. DA:O is the best in the series, in my opinion. Sure, characters and story are pretty darn awesome in DA:I, I really enjoyed those aspects. Everything else sucks big time, though. The whole game feels like an offline MMO. They tried to go open world but in my opinion it did not work out. There are whole swathes of land with hardly anything there, or just boring fetch quests and such. I think the game would have been much better if they'd cut the maps in half. And don't get me started on the combat ... You can only have 8 abilities mapped at a time. 8! The rest is unusable ... I liked the story missions and such, but it felt like I was just struggling through a swamp of boring stuff to progress the fun parts ...

Great :-D

Any plans, once you are feeling better? Any good games calling your name to play them? :-)

No plans but I think I'll finally give Mass Effect a shot.

Sounds like a good idea. ;)

Hi Fearful! Is that a recommendation for Mass Effect?

Yep, it sure is! In fact I've recently started another playthrough of the game myself (probably my seventh or so). :P The opening mission is a tad boring but after that it's a pretty gripping game. Depending on your interests you might not want to bother with all the sidequests, though. The ones that require you to travel to other planets can be a tad boring and tedious as well, since the vehicle you have to drive in does not control that well. :P But you don't really miss out on much by skipping them.

The game had some pretty magical moments for me though. I'd say it's well worth playing.

Sounds fun, thanks. :-)

Argh...
*conflicted feelings about the sequel* :)

Sounds like they wanted to streamline stuff and failed a bit there.

Thanks for the good details, I'll be critical about that game, then.
Been thinking that Obsidian rpgs might be the safest way to go, with Pillars bought and never tried, and Tyranny coming hopefully in a month or so... Also read that Obsidian's involvement with Paradox has been a good one, in general.

No problem, hope you enjoy it. :)

I have very conflicted feelings about Bioware in general. I don't like the direction they've been headed in lately, and they've done some pretty annoying things. But on the other hand, no other developer quite caters to my gaming likes the way Bioware does. I really really love the atmosphere of their games and the characters ... but I'm really not pleased with some of the other aspects. :P But yeah, I'm enough of a sucker to keep buying their stuff day one anyway, because their games just have that special something I adore.

I really liked Pillars. I feel like Obsidian have been doing a really good job lately, and I'll definitely grab Tyranny at some point. Depending on its price I might pick it up as soon as it comes out.

Okay, sure. Things are not simple with games anymore :) Or were they, ever :)

Happy to hear Pillars is liked by you and others :) Hopefully Obsidian will keep developing a wide variety of original games. And be an example to other developers.

To steal your thread for a moment if I may; you played Albion didn't you? What's your final opinion?

Hm, I'm sort of tempted by SOMA in the sale, but it's still kind of expensive. Has anyone played it?

I enjoyed it for a dozen hours or so... Then things got a bit difficult, with bigger areas on the map, very strong monsters appearing and then trying to figure out how to solve the quests... A bit messy game, but quite funny and interesting other times. I read somewhere that there was some bug the developers never fixed that can cause the progress to become impossible or something like that. Would advice to check out tips about avoiding the bug(s). I don't know if I can recommend it or not :) I gave up because of the hard challenge somewhere around halfway. Might try it again some day.