Eiger and Glory will put Coyote to shame by the time they get fully leveled up. You won't go into the final level thinking, "Oh great, my combat people couldn't hit the broad side of a barn with a tactical nuke."
(Well, unless you're trying to have Eiger use a sniper rifle up close. Those things are made for extreme long distance combat, they turn to garbage fast if anyone closes on your team.)
To be fair, the starfish-shaped nose pastie (can't really call that much of a mask) was a dead giveaway. =)

Ah.. managed to cancel my post... need more coffee :D

Good Morning!
gonna go traveling today, back in the evening... A family dinner in Helsinki and all that... :)
Thinking of grabbing Chroma Squad, even though there's no sale. I have a strange craving for this game :)
Also progressed in Albion a bit before falling asleep last night, but man there's a pile of grinding hours until I can beat another area, I just know it...

Alrighty... ah and final oldie tip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlmirVUPL2Y - Spin City! :)

Sorting through the spells available to buy in the early game of Dragonfall, I'm getting the idea that pure mages are going to be very underpowered. The only offensive spell that doesn't have a cooldown does a whopping 6 damage. the other offensive spells are fairly unimpressive anyway compared to their weapon counterparts, making the cooldown a killer. Yikes. Maybe I'll end up using a Rifleslinger build after all.

Oh hey wasn't I playing Risen 2? Totally forgot about that game...oh and Baldur's Gate too. Eek.

Hey there superstande! How do you like Albion beyond the grinding?

Good night,people of the forum and hugs for you all!

Good Morning, N2T3! :)
Don't Panic!

Ahm... I remember about that mages had some AP minusing spell at some point that was pretty effective...
When the enemies don't have AP, it doesn't matter how bad they are... Of course then there's that cooldown for the spell... And I never tried to play a mage character... but yeah I'd say keep that guy in the background and out of the range of powerful weapons :)

I like Albion in some ways. The graphics are very nice. The animal sounds in the outside world are kinda cool. There's a sense of almost being in an alien world: strange insects buzzing about. I only feel a bit annoyed that the whole future setting that got me into the game seems to have gone into the background: I got my first zap gun early on, and that's the only high tech weapon I've managed to acquire so far. There's some interesting alien weaponry, but I still wish there was more of some kind of plasma and laser rifle types. Maybe later :)
All in all: A strange game, but keeps me interested enough and enjoying enough to say it's a good game...

Odd I remembered being REALLY interested in mages in Shadowrun Returns, but I really neglected them (I might have brought along a hybrid mage a time or two but I used them more as a healer and pop shot type of character). Shaman was another class I thought would be really interesting but again in the first game I sort of let them fall by the wayside.

I have yet to fire up Dragonfall despite being super excited when I picked it up! Despite usually having a total sketch of the character I want to play, for Dragonfall I have no idea yet. I had a good time with my Drone guy, high "face" skills and a smattering of decking the first go around (I think I called him "Dr. So and so" and played him as an educated professor type - some decent diplomacy interactions and a focus on being a bit of an elder and sophisticate - ended up fitting REALLY well with the noir qualities of the first game - "elite college professor by day, plying his talents in the seedy underworld by night" sort of feel"). I'll have to start this one sooner rather than later...

I *think* I just finished up Van Helsing 2 tonight. I ended up having a love-hate-hate relationship with the game. Has anyone here finished it? I *think* I beat it, ended up with some credits scrolling along and then eventually found my way back to my lair. There doesn't seem to be anywhere to go from here, but just in case I want to send this character along through the game again (new game plus or some such?) any idea of how to do that? Also, how do I access the "bonus" content? My game implies I have access to something called a "pigasus" (LOL :) ) - how do I get to that? How do I properly reinsert or restart my game with a current character? My skill tree lists skills I never even came close to learning so I'm guessing the game is meant to be replayed a time or two to reach higher levels but I'll be damned if I can figure out how just yet! Any pointers would be welcome!

Also note to self, I have to stop making requests at odd hours of the night. The Europeans are all well in bed and 8 out of 10 in the Americas sure aren't on GoG just about now LOL ;)

I play mages as area of effect destroyers. They aren't going to pack the consistent punch of a samurai, but between haste spells on the samurai, a heal spell to put people back together in the event of a mishap, area of effect fire that does damage over time and area effect lightning that stuns enemies while hurting them, mages are still useful.
Good morning. =) Hope you have a safe trip and a good time when you get there.

It's okay. I won't judge you being in the mood to put on a brightly colored costume and act like a Power Ranger. ;)

Gotta love when that happens. That "the level is going to slaughter me" feeling.
Shamans seem to get the short end of the stick, power-wise. The acid spell is their bread and butter, so many things besides are specialty spells.

That does mesh well with the universe, since a lot of shadowrunners start out in legit jobs, but end up in their current occupation for whatever reason.

There should be an import button somewhere, or maybe try starting a new game at a higher difficulty and seeing if it'll let you start again with your old character.

Aye, I guess I'll have to just get used to being the "utility" person of the party, which honestly isn't that bad. Glad to hear you're enjoying Albion despite it sort of stalling with the tech. I'm really impressed by its graphics and just looking for general thoughts on it, I might pick it up someday down the line.

I'm still in the VERY early parts of Dragonfall but it's a lot more immersive due to the expanded writing and choices, in my opinion. Don't get me wrong, I thought the writing in Returns was very good and it was an immersive game, but Dragonfall (as far as I've played) has a lot more dialogue and it has a lot of branching in there so what you say does matter. Definitely worth your time, in my newbie experience.

Yeah I guess all isn't lost. I'm admittedly just not used to being relegated to "utility" person in games haha. As long as the companions can pick up the slack then it'll be a nice change of pace.

It'll change up as you progress. You'll start feeling weak, but once you're able to roast packs of enemies, it feels a lot better.

Damn it, I have got to stop looking at board and card games. They're expensive and there's no one to play them with anyway, so there's no point in buying them.

You could maybe find a forum or site for that kinda stuff to find somebody to play them with?

I live in the middle of nowhere. Not too many options. I do appreciate the advice, though. =)

Ehh thinking about it, I don't NEED Way of the Samurai just yet, I do have Shadowrun: Dragonfall on my plate currently, and an embarrassing amount of games that I started, got an hour into it and then dropped for no reason. I can wait until the next big sale to get a new game, it shouldn't be that far away anyway.

Unless it's something you can see yourself getting into right away, you're right. Bigger discounts always come around.
Two cases in point - bought Pillars of Eternity at retail, a few months later and it's already being sold for half off. Same with Shadowrun Hong Kong.

Phew, I've just finished! Its amazing how quickly a person can change their body shape from reasonably slim to titanically round...

The Straight Story is amazing. Such thought provoking music, and if you haven't seen the film its really worth a look. Sissy Spacek is amazing in it. Anything by David Lynch is good, though, including listening to him talk about Transcendental Meditation on YouTube. Such an interesting man.

I loved the exchange, too, although when it takes off like it did I worry that I'm gathering too much speed and steamrollering the other party. Like you, I have so much music in my head I could carry on for ages. I'm glad TSS made a good soundtrack to spend some of your day with :-)