Yeah, I'm not offended, the point is to let people know about the game as it's a moderate investment in time and money for many, thanks for helping, obviously I could only flail a bit on some points:)
I had found what I thought were "investigation missions" previously, when I wrote that. I thought they were the "go find out what happened to these unaccounted for townsfolk" during the zombie outbreak and I couldn't figure out why this was a big deal.
But they're not, for those who know what an ARG is, the investigation missions are ARGs. The idea of TSW is that it's happening right now, today, in our world, while leading up to the apocalypse I guess. So at times we have to research on the web, one character mentions "hidden forums that don't show up on Google". This is pure ARG stuff as far as I can tell. There is an in game browser, just hit "B" to bring it up. This is the first time I've seen ARG stuff in a mainstream game I've been playing. There was ilovebees and a few others, I've just never been lucky enough to be involved when it was going on.
I didn't know that you could get so much AP and SP that you could do so much. Note SP is gained at 1/3 the rate of AP (so 1 SP for every 3 AP), so you have to be a hair choosey where you spend it. Longtime players have stated that point for point talismans give a far better return on investment and will allow you to alter your load out far more.
Also, I forgot to mention a rather pervasive crafting system. You can break down unneeded gear (or sell it). I hear you can even break down Tacos (a healing boost) into Nachos, which makes me laugh.
So I guess the moral is, don't sweat your initial choices.
Finally, I did realize I could select clothing at creation, I just found it to be all so similar it didn't matter, e.g. no glasses, thin rimmed glasses, and 8 colors of thick rimmed glasses. 4 colors of hoodie or 5 colors of bomber jacket. Here's 6 colors of slacks, or you can have khacki shorts or jeans (one choice of each). Perhaps you can buy more than this and it seems like there's vendors that sell really expensive looking clothing (like stuff that costs 500,000 of whatever currency, PAX I think).
Yeah, I'm sure there's people who play girls not in bikinis, I just saw a lot of red bikinis last night. I was being snide more than literal:)
BIG MORAL OF THE POST: Don't sweat your choices (except maybe SP allocation) very much because the other resources are plentiful and it doesn't much matter. If Blood Magic sucks and you'd rather use a Shotgun, you can. If that sword swinging gets old and you'd rather use a sledge hammer, it seems like that's no big deal either.
uqblf: Also I just bought
Might & Magic Clash Of Heroes at Amazon for $2.54 (83% off, Steamworks) - think that's about the cheapest it has been, only matched by Nuuvem's recent sale.
This game is very fun and I highly recommend it as a take on puzzle strategy that I have not seen before and found very fun (even though I don't normally play many puzzle games). If you have XBLA there is a demo for it, not sure about on PC, but it gets much more complex and fun than the demo, even, but it's a good taste. There's DLC if you want to up the difficulty to 11, after beating the game, even at full price the DLC is only 2-3 bucks, so it's not big deal either. There's plenty of game w/o the DLC though.
Foxhack: FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK.
I refuse to pay $10 for the original Alice though. Fucking EA!
CymTyr: You're probably not going to find it cheaper anywhere else. Every time I check ebay it's listed at 20-25 for a cd copy.
If Madness Returns is 5 USD and the Alice is 10 USD you have relative value to the quality of both games as well:)
Yes, the sequel was drawn out suckitude, if pretty. The first one was amazing.
amok: Defender's Quest is the daily on Steam -66% (£4.07 here)
Oooh this looks fun, any recommendations?