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I'm sure the difficulty slider does other things too; hit chance, damage, etc. My point is that the intrinsic level of difficulty is set by the availability of items, the effective gating of certain areas and the lack of resources. Making me spend more time killing enemies and creating the need to slowly creep through a battle to avoid pulling aggro does not strike me as a fun gameplay style and doesn't change the base difficulty built into the game. Especially when the time spent killing enemies is the single most frustrating thing about this game.

I suspect you will indeed be interested to watch through when the episodes come out. The final battle was indeed interesting - again you will need to watch through to find out. I did complete it on normal difficulty though. I explained my reasons back in the first episode and the idea of increasing enemy HP to make battles go on longer is not my particular idea of fun. This sort of game has a standard of difficulty that is intrinsically built in and is not possible to just be tweaked simply with a difficulty slider other than through changing stats (and that rarely scales well). I'd have probably switched to easy if I thought it would make the end game battle grind go any easier. (I didn't)

Finished the game after a marathon recording session. What a fantastic feeling. I've been playing this game since I started youtube back in October last year. A phenomenal accomplishment to have completed the thing since I so rarely complete games in my own casual play. Will likely be another weeks worth of episodes as they keep going up daily. After that I will have to fill the space with something else. I do hope that some of you will stay on for the ride, I've had great pleasure talking in the forums and having people to bounce ideas back and forth with.

Tek's spectral dirk for sure.

To be fair, I've been bulldozing fights since I killed my first unbound. There is a line that seems to get crossed and apart from a few issues with status effect bosses or me getting lazy I just seem to bumrush through most fights. I think my most difficult one in recent times was when I charged right into the middle shadow road and fought the respawning waves without realising that they respawned until part way through. But I've not felt the 'lets finish this' mentality just yet. I've been loving this game and was mentally torn when I needed to choose a faction to start progressing things further. Been a fabulous game so far.

High forties. Could be around 47 or 48. I forget the exact number.

Since alberich seems to sub to the channel and you are so far behind it seemed more reasonable, now that they are coming out daily, to just post them in bulk every few days. Otherwise I'm just going to clog up the thread with unproductive posts.

Well, I'm set on a path now. Wonder where it will take me.

I used to almost never buff the core stats. I'm testing it in this game and I love it. I think I've realised that I can never have enough intel. Cost is the only barrier. I think I even end up taking intel buffing equipment that drops other stats just because it is cheaper to buff those other stats up to compensate. But I am aware that this is in no way an optimal build. I just want my shaper to do everything, especially magic stuff when I should probably be specialising a bit more. Alberich, No planning goes into these cliffhangers. And yes, this is indeed the $6 million drakon.

Haha, nice link. Never seen that one before but you are correct in the point I was hinting at. Most of my episode titles have some sort of link like that. Sometimes I wonder if any of the viewers will ever actually pick anything up. I was actually most impressed when you got the Ella Fitzgerald one some time back (but you've missed some of the other Ella ones). And Alhoon, I've started doing it for some of the lengthy 'rinse and repeat' battles in a few episodes when I have non 'boss' battles. Very short ones stay in because it takes more effort in post edit than it saves you guys and the boss ones (and other strong single characters) stay in because they are marginally interesting. But fighting three consecutive rounds of shredbugs and battle alphas for the 100th time is being sped up for brevity and so I can cram more into an episode (uploading times and all that). It also does wonders for my voice. I do hope I've struck a good balance but ongoing feedback is always appreciated. Finally, the music. I believe the music is 'Carefree' by Kevin MacLeod. Super free and super common. I like the light-hearted swing to it. I think it contrasts nicely with the fact I am murdering big beasties in the background. I had thought about something a bit heavier but didn't like the feel; was too serious and I'm not a serious person for the most part. As always, this LP is a work in progress and there will be some more experimentation in future.

Worry not, it is almost at the point where I realised the actual problem. I'm playing the game and recording on a solid 800mhz which is clearly not powerful enough to do both. Once I fix my cooling issue in a few more episodes it goes beautifully smoothly. I'd quite forgotten about how bad it all was. The image quality improves as well since I can set the settings higher.

I do appreciate a jovially rotating spigot. I shall remain unruffled and composed until August.

Cool. If I could offer a grammatical suggestion without seeming rude: [You have to rely in part on the works of a particular Shaper who, in contrast to the usual paranoia and secrecy, liked to record everything; except, as it turns out, his or her name. They are known only by their initials: "Blxz".] I've tried to keep your style of writing but there were lots of pronouns floating around and I simplified it a bit. Feel free to use or ignore as you see fit. And thanks for the honour of being part of your creation.

Nice. Checked out the thread. Looks like a lot of fun. Will install it when I start playing through the alternate endings. Will keep everything 'pure' for now so that I can get the original experience for my first run-through. In G5 video news: I've also recorded past episode 100 just today. Somewhere between episode 94 and episode 100 a choice will be made that will decide the future of the war. No spoilers just yet but make sure to watch and find out who eventually wins me over.

Nice! I'll test this out once I complete G5. I fully expect it to be savegame compatible but am nervous about introducing a mod when I am so close to finishing. I will, however, put it in as I replay some of the alternate endings and would be happy to check out how the story evolves. I'm very interested. Good job!

Well my interest is piqued.

I've had a look at that game. Sadly I don't like it very much. It is billed as an open RPG but in reality it is a puzzle game. You need to select the right skills in the right order to go through properly as opposed to building a character and roleplaying them. So thanks for the suggestion but not this time. Now, I realise that the last episode I linked through was 87. So here are all the ones that have come out since then including today's episode: And a bunch more are recorded. In case you've missed my most recent channel update, I've decided to spend the time I was normally at work doing productive things such as recording. This will let me release twice a day. One of these will always be a Geneforge 5 game since I absolutely adore the series and consider G5 the centerpiece of my channel. The release time is generally 10am AEST so that may actually be the day before for some of the americans who watch the channel. (midnight for any of you from the UK) [shameless plug] Hope you enjoy the content and keep smashing that thumbs up button. And watch without adblock if at all possible. That extra 0.1 cents that your view equals might buy me an extra day of survival without a job. [/shameless plug]

Thanks for the thought guys. Nearly done shredding paper, 2.5 tonnes done yesterday, then after that I'll be free sailing and recording. Appreciate the patience.

More results coming? Been a week and my curiosity is tweaking.

Not been posting much since crunch time in the Australian election came up. In good news, I am now jobless having lost that election so I will have more time to record videos. Watch this space for the rest of the series.

I have the half read final book sitting on my shelf. After 15 years of reading the series I think I just sort of lost the flow of it sometime between the authors death and the other guy finishing the story (although I think the new guy is a damn good writer). Maybe I'll get to those last 500 pages in the future sometime.

Carsta'Arl was thoroughly unlikable. He got in my way when it would have been better for him if he didn't and his lack of reasonable co-operation led to his fall from power. He is like the Saddam Hussein of the Avadon world. Glad he makes this list, he deserves it.

The drops are almost always totally worthless in the majority of the games. As Triumph said, the loot in crates is the good stuff. As for luck, I am under the impression that it has no effect on item drops from monsters. So Zero luck vs 5 luck drops were literally unaffected and may have been your human brain trying to find patterns in the chaos.

In G1 they talk about how the pools survive from sunlight. Many have lasted the ~100-200 years that the island was abandoned. Was this retconned in a later game so that they need feeding?

All this talking and I still don't know Taygen's mad plan. It can't be that bad can it? If I had to guess, build an army and kill the various leaders. Probably due to his shaping aversion it might involve a raid on the citadel to destroy some plot MacGuffin that is like the 'geneseed' or whatever for plans to shape more creations, etc. Worst case scenario might involve setting up those control pylons/torture devices that were used in G2 to mind control everything. I don't expect to be shocked at anything that Taygen throws my way. Still, I am curious. ------------------------------------------------------------ "Be prepared for the groan-inducingest pun in a Blxz title so far... " My best work