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All that right-clicking won't be very easy with a one button mouse, which many macs have.

I think the Jade Halberd looks fantastic, it and Demonslayer are my favorites.

I have always been confused about how being made of a green mineral allowed it to acid things though.

All of the top tier creations are pretty tank-ey, really. War Tralls and Drakons have nice high HP, and Gazers are heavily resistant to everything but hypothermia.

Sanity left us spiderfolk many eons ago; 'tis all that matters.

 

 

That makes me imagine everyone on this forum as a bunch of chattering GIFTs.

There are no genres that I totally avoid, including the much maligned rap. However, I dislike many things, including a substantial amount of rap. (And anything my sister subjects me to, as a matter of principle. ) Across the range of genres my favorite artists are; Fort Minor, TFK/Linkin Park, Disturbed, Nickelback (gasp), Blue Stali, The Script, Weird Al Yankovic, ROOKiEZ is PUNK'D (jpop), and Chopin.

Reminds me of a playthrough of A4 I did a while back where I killed every living thing that crossed my path... untill I got to the castle.

I also failed to kill those @# !*% ultra-shades in the cities.

Actually, three of the Geneforge games are the same continent, and two are on islands off the coast of that continent (with the PC visiting said continent in the endings).

Yes, but during gameplay the only area that gets revisited in a later game is possibly the former drypeak area in G5, and it's rather changed.

Having the previous game's protagonist be absent and extemely vague will be harder to pull of the in geneforge, where every game got a new continent, since presumably every Avadon will have significant time spent in... uh... Avadon.

[Edit] Just saw Triumph's post, and while I agree that the PC's actions don't make the biggest impact on the world in general, they very much affected the companion characters, if they're are still around (and I think they will be).

I believe that there are minor stat differences betweenthe shaper and rebel versions of the classes. Except for servile, which gets occasional extra dialogue options, the class you play as only affects your beginning stats and stat growth.

But...But... Robin Hood (the original) was supposed to be skilled at quarterstaff and sword fighting too.

. . . At least that's all I could think while reading your initial post.

Does he actually give you any potions if you ask, or does he stare like you've started spraying bannanas out of your nose? Big difference in feasibility.

I'm a totally new to roleplaying, the closest I've been is reading Order of the Stick. This sounds really intresting though.

Geneforge 1 Spoilers ahoy:

 

G1 has answers to most of this, I think. It mentions that making a new type of creation essentially involves taking an existing creation or animal and bombarding it with different types of shaping magic, to see what it does--even the ancestors of the Shapers used it offensively, to shape their enemies. The big breakthrough is that being able to see and eventually understand the DNA "scrolls" means the process won't be random. I seem to recall that the Geneforge is said to contain the genetic recipe for the "perfect being".

 

Presumably this is based on humanity, but it's at least concievable here that the design for this superman could have been "from scratch". At the very least, it doesn't seem that Shapers could simply design their own creations from the ground up WITHOUT the Sucia Island knowledge. So some rebel creations might be entirely "new" in this sense; maybe not the conventional creations, but the alluded to viruses and diseases and so forth could be.

I don't think any of the creations introduced in later games are "from scratch". In G3 rotgroths are called a kind of modified battle alpha, someone (I forget who) says they think gazers are some type of super-vlish, and drakons are obviously evolved drayks. In G4, war tralls look suspiciously like yet another variation on your basic Gorilla-Thing That Puches Stuff^TM , wingbolts are flying glaaks, and kyshakks. . . um. . . vaguely resemble roamers.

Also the "Shaping your enemies in battle" thing seems sort of inefficient compared to simply blasting them with fire.

It brakes my heart, for it's a really thrilling world with so many great ideas! But to reload so often and see no chance against so many enemies takes the fun...

 

Don't give up!

There are cheats you can use to make the gameplay less of a problem if you want to experience the story.

It's would be very confusing if you've played any geneforge first and then and then get a quest for hunting a gazer-lizard.

In G4 you can get a heap of XP right in the first zone, if you get in the killing blow on this Battle Alpha (or something) that Greta fights. I thought this might be similar, but I guess the point is that Shanti isn't actually very tough.

I could never do that. In fact, I almost never got any XP in G4 from any(non-boss) enemy that a NPC did much damage to, including everthing in the first zone. It left me with the impression that you needed to do the majority of damage in order to get XP for killing anything. How did you do that!?

Unless you're using cheats to be waaay tougher than you should be in that zone.

Do you even lift?

If you do a pullup you're clearly lifting something.

:3 :)

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Came here with sympathy, left with annoyance, came back for said Pokemon

Me too! . . . And probobly everyone else.

Who are you trying to find? Please clarify.

The web-blocked passages are opened by completing quests.

Someone did a (very funny) text & screenshot LP of Avernum 5 on the Giant in the Playground forums. Except it was all from the point of view of the characters, so

it might be more like role playing?

I don't mind the lack of music myself, there is ambient sound in most of the games (I can't remember if the first Geneforge has it), but if i would definitely say go for music without vocals. I recommend the Fairy Tail OST (vol. 1), especially the tracks "Tower of Heaven" and "Main Theme".

Have fun with the series!

Hi all. I've been reading the forums for weeks and I finally made an account. Took me way too long.

Anyway, I just finished reading the Night Angel trilogy by Brent Weeks and found it really good.