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Re: Talking Point: What Games Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue Sixty Two

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Happy (belated)40'th @crippyd it's all downhill from here on in.

I shall be continuing my ESO Veteran play through where the XP bar moves a bit slower than it should (according to the ESO forums). You should get about 1 veteran level per area but that includes doing everything and this is quite diff as the vet areas are a tad underpopulated and world bosses and dolmens solo are a little difficult.

Re: pX Asks: What's Your Favourite Open World of All Time, and Why?

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Morrowind for lots of reasons, open world, great story, rubbish graphics but I sank soooooooo much time into it. The freedom (you literally could kill EVERYONE if you so desired and wind up in an NPC desert). The feeling of being an unwanted stranger in a strange land was almost palpable. The way you could wreck it by creating a potion to boost your intelligence which allowed you to create a better potion and go round and round that circle until you could create potions that lasted forever and did huge amounts of damage or reflect the damage you were hit with thousands of percent higher. You could basically nuke the place with a single spell. Great fun, once, only to find there was nothing left to do in that area because EVERYONE was dead so you decide to play properly. I loved it to bits and still do.

Re: Brace Yourselves, The Elder Scrolls Online: Tamriel Unlimited is a 54GB Download

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I played it loads on PC and have played the Xbox beta. It plays well and IMO it's a good game. If you buy it you-will get value for money if you invest the time. Yes it has its detractors but mainly due to expecting 'online Skyrim' and that's not what it is. I'm curious to see how it plays with some of the PC stuff missing (plug-ins) which REALLY help the game (craft timers, shard maps, book maps, recipes, dps indicators etc).

Re: Talking Point: What Games Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue Fifty Three

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@Red620Ti
I played 1 multiple times. Hard, yes, but always fair. You died because you made a mistake. DS2, IMO is cheap occasionally in the way it takes you out. I arrived in Iron Keep today, 4 invades, one after the other (npc invades) and when you're playing as a caster, your screwed, no casts left!

As to losing souls, USE THEM, go back to Majula and level up, go to traders and buy stuff. I never carry more than a level-ups worth of souls, if I have, I go back and use them.

Re: Talking Point: What Games Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue Fifty Three

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@A_BabyRed_Yoshi
Take it slow. Fights are about precision, not slashing and bashing. They can go horribly wrong very quickly. Enemies will hit you with a stamina draining move and then you are royally screwed. In a word, DS2 battles are about 'elegance', a dance, not a ruck. You have to learn how to dodge and when, learn areas, learn how to play the game. You'll still die a lot and each death makes you a little weaker, a little easier to kill until you reset that by reverting to human and regaining your health. It is one of my love hate games and I'm sure that many people may agree with that. Love playing, hate dying. DONT LOSE YOUR SOUL(s)