Eddy Webb

I'm playing through Geneforge 4, and laughed out loud when I found this in Rivergate Keep.

Originally Posted By: Death Knight Welcome to the forums. Yes gene forge may be a bit of a tough ride. However, i found gene forge 5 to be almost too easy compared to the other games jeff's made. If you start there you won't miss much regarding 3 and 4. Thanks, Death Knight! I'm several hours into my latest playthrough on G1, and it is SO MUCH EASIER with a Shaper. I mean, night and day. I think it also helps that I played a few hours of G5 and a lot of Avadon, so I have a better sense of how Jeff's games work as a whole. I'm going to try to play them in order, because while I know how it all ends up in G5 (more or less), I still want to go through the story in order. Until I ragequit, of course.

I had the exact same situation (got the Geneforge saga on Steam, played G1 and G5 as a Guardian, got stomped by lots and lots of poison damage). In retrospect, it's a bit "duh" to have not tried a Shaper, so I'm going back through G1 on Casual as a Shaper and seeing how it works out. As a side note, this is not only my first time posting here, but also one of the rare times I've signed up for forums for a game like this. I found I was constantly coming back here as I worked through Geneforge and Avadon (which I beat over Christmas), and the community just seems really positive and helpful -- a rare sight in game communities these days!