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Where on earth did you get Mass Effect for $2?
I looked it up on Steam, and it would cost me $39.95, plus a $9.95/month subscription. Here: Mass Effect (2007) on SteamAs usual when it comes to game prices, us Aussies get screwed. Sigh.
I've been playing The Bard's Tale 3 when I have the time. It's very chill and makes me think it was olden days. This reminds me of that Christopher Reeve movie where he time travels through sheer force of will. He dresses up like he's in a chautauqua, chants to himself that he's in another time, travels back in time and falls in love. Then he sees a penny from 1970 (wherever he came from) and it breaks his trance and he un-timetravels. I'm not making this up, haha. This is a Richard Matheson story, I believe.
I was reading some review online and the guy playing BT3 swore it was impossible and had a list of grievances against it, mainly regarding spellpoints. I don't think he knew what he was doing. This is the easiest Bard's Tale with regard to spellpoints. It's absurdly forgiving. In the old ones, you had to return to town to recharge. You'd be slaughtered on the way back. There were some mild workarounds to recharge in the dungeon, but they wouldn't carry you through.
I really thought Part 1 was the hardest. They didn't have an automap back then. (Part 3 introduces this.) You had to map everything by hand on graph paper, a 22x22 grid, and the game is designed to make that much harder than it should be. I finished Part 2 last year, I think. I managed to do it without cheating, though I'm playing the modern remake and it does put an automap in Part 2, which shouldn't have one.
Anyhow, I haven't cheated on part 3 yet. I'm doing okay. Cheating here is mainly about looking up the answers to riddles to get by Magic Mouths.
I was reading some review online and the guy playing BT3 swore it was impossible and had a list of grievances against it, mainly regarding spellpoints. I don't think he knew what he was doing. This is the easiest Bard's Tale with regard to spellpoints. It's absurdly forgiving. In the old ones, you had to return to town to recharge. You'd be slaughtered on the way back. There were some mild workarounds to recharge in the dungeon, but they wouldn't carry you through.
I really thought Part 1 was the hardest. They didn't have an automap back then. (Part 3 introduces this.) You had to map everything by hand on graph paper, a 22x22 grid, and the game is designed to make that much harder than it should be. I finished Part 2 last year, I think. I managed to do it without cheating, though I'm playing the modern remake and it does put an automap in Part 2, which shouldn't have one.
Anyhow, I haven't cheated on part 3 yet. I'm doing okay. Cheating here is mainly about looking up the answers to riddles to get by Magic Mouths.
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Where on earth did you get Mass Effect for $2?
As usual when it comes to game prices, us Aussies get screwed. Sigh.
He bought the Legendary Edition for $6 (all three games) when it was on sale. It's full price right now. The link you posted is just to the Steam release of the first game.
You don't need a subscription to play Mass Effect. That's an optional subscription to EA Play. It lets you play the game (and others) in lieu of buying it. Think Netflix.
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Ah, OK. (Whoops). Thank you, Stuart.
In my defense, it's 12:45 am here and I'm beat. 'Night ...!
