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A lesson is drudgery. It seems blizzard made a decision before starting to 'design' this expansion... "Lets waste peoples time". The drudgery here is palpable. Huge areas where you can only walk, high enemy health pools and constant overlapping patrol paths make getting around anywhere an absolute slog, they even removed the flight masters whistle... Everything is gated to the point where you are constantly forced to do things you dont want to like 'Torghast, the tower of drudgery' or world quests just to get to the things you actually want to do. I just cant help but feel like I'm totally wasting my time here. I give it 2 points for the nice visuals, story and world building seem cool at first but its done in a way to force you through it, its 'on rails' and makes everything feel forced, there is no free will here -you have to do the zones in the order offered for example. The prospect of leveling an alt after doing all this drudgery on my main is frankly daunting.

The game has gone through many problems, a period of total pay-2-win, but what is the game currently? It's a battletech deathmatch simulator with micro (and not so micro) transactions. Combat is good, prices are high, and the grind is long - but there is fun to be had.

I will keep this as concise as possible, I have spent quite some time with the official game on pc (yes I purchased it despite loathing Origin and EA with a firey passion). Character creation - Visuals:- The character creators options and sliders are good, there are many new things here that I havent seen in other rpg's. And other things that are much improved, especially Jaw and Nose options - It is very enjoyable to create a character you like to look of. Many of the textures are bad however, beards clip very badly unless you make your characters chin and jaw as small as possible, and eyebrow and stubble textures are horribly made (as they were in previous games). Character creation - Story:- While the option to choose other races is very welcomed as we missed it in Dragon Age *pukes in mouth* 2, there are no different origin stories. If you are a dwarf you are a surfacer criminal, for example. This coupled with the fact that there is a lot of forced dialogue means that Inquisition DOES NOT HAVE BY ANY MEANS the personalised experience of Origins. The ability to choose an accent for your character is a surprising and welcomed option - yet underwhelming considering what I said a few sentences ago. Performance:- This game runs like crap. I have a fairly good system and have even turned the graphics down. I dont mind doing that, I'm not one of those overclocking fps hounds. But this game has a kind of slow motion 'stutter' that happens every second or so (just go on twitch, you can see it on EVERY stream) - it is hard to describe but the game does not feel fluid in the slightest. It is obvious that the game is in need of a huge amount of optimisation, or perhaps the devs thought the engine was capable of more than it is - it is a shame, the game COULD look wonderful but the constant immersion breaking slow motion, frame skips, stutters and texture pop ins are just awful. I expect more from a game in 2014, and more scalability (this is a bad console port - explains everything). Modding:- Obviously, as this game is made in the battlefield engine modding is going to be incredibly difficult. In my honest opinion this is a HUGE mistake. I know dozens of people that have moved to PC, purchasing games a second time just for modding. This is a complete lack of vision by EA (Yes, EA... not bioware). Origin:- Origin is a piece of ****, you can't even take screenshots. And for me personally as an english speaker living in south america I CANT CHANGE THE LANGUAGE OF ORIGIN. I braught this up in TWO THOUSAND AND ELEVEN on the EA support forums along with many others. They said back then it would be fixed. EA is a moronic and completely incompetant company - what the hell are bioware doing chained to such an idiotic bunch of cretins? Mouse and Keyboard support:- It's funny that I should have to title this section as mouse and keyboard support as I am reviewing the PC title. Its bad. Moving a character around is passable, but everything else in this game is tailored for a gamepad and nothing more, it is just unintuative and clunky. And it's even clunky on the gamepad! I am NOT a hater of the gamepad, I love them in fact - Arkham City is one of my favourite games on the PC, but after trying the gamepad in inquisition I didnt like it so went to M+K - I was horribly disappointed with both control mechanisms. M+K is just bad, in the character creator pressing W moves the camera AND changes beard options, for example - it is terrible and no thought has been put into it - this is obvious. For all their boasting of PC support, they have delivered nothing. Behaviours/Tactics:- In Inquisition 'Behaviours' take the place of Origins 'Tactics Screen'. yet you only have 5 options and they are limiting and simplistic. In fact it even seems like the feature has been thrown in just so bioware can say that they haven't removed the tactics screen. Posturing. UI:- For me, on either an xbox controller or mouse and keyboard the UI in this game is terrible. It is clunky and unintuitive. I simply dont understand how bioware can do so badly after a game like Mass Effect 3 that had a down-right-inspired UI. Overall:- Bioware has tried very hard to mix the best of Origins and DA2 (DA2 had nothing of worth other than writing and acting btw) and what we have ended up with is a brown muddy mess. IF they make the game run better and more fluid the experience will be better, and perhaps the game will start to shine - but I am SICK AND TIRED of IF's with developers. Every game these days is "They'll fix it" or "This is coming next month in a patch" and I am sick of it. And for all their posturing about catering for Origins fans, Inquisition DOESNT deliver. Muddy, mish-mash **** that is barely held together by.... well.... I dont know what.

This game, while relatively simplistic in it's approach manages to pull off something quite unique. It's styling gives it a really refreshing feel over other survival games that does it great credit, I feel like I'm in a Tim Burton movie, and there is even an Edward Scissorhands mod. I don't think that the games feature are groundbreaking compared to other survival games, not in the slightest, yet the art, sound and visuals make it really enjoyable. I just wish that things such as the building of a fortress were better developed. Currently it's really quite simplistic... walls. But I can't help but wish that I could build a house with a ceiling. The soon to be released multiplayer element will breath new life into this very endearing game, perhaps new features will come along with it to make it a truely fantastic survival game and worthy of a top score

Hundreds or even thousands of hours of grand strategy gameplay. Emperor Edition is one of the best Total War games to date. Yes it had a rocky first year, but it's time to forget the past and move on. 15 patches later and there is still more content on the way - don't miss out.

Beautiful, terrifying, tragic and delicately human. Eidos had something to teach and tell us, a warning, and Deus Ex HR did it perfectly. A must have title and experience. One of the greatest experiences in the history of virtual entertainment. It raises questions about our race, individuals and business that I think we all need to ask ourselves as we plummet into the 21st century - and it does it's predecessors proud. I don't think any fan of the original Deus Ex can complain about Human Revolution - it is a wonderful game. I never rate anything with a 10, but I couldnt find a reason not to with Deus Ex HR. As for the 0 rating a few weeks before mine - the only people that would not appreciate the sheer brilliance of this game are mindless drones with no heart, Deus Ex Human Revolution is an evocative and touching rollercoaster ride of emotion.

An aesthetic masterpiece, outstanding challege and balance, fantastic and moving story - Homeworld is one of the few masterpieces in gaming history and is an absolute joy to play, and offers impeccable accessibility - I will never forget this game.

On legendary Caesar in Gaul offers a much more balanced campaign than Rome II's grand campaign. Problems that effect the grand campaign in a negative way, such as player income skyrocketting after around 100 turns leading to a boring and easy steamroll dont exist in CIG. Overall it is a much more challenging experience than the grand campaign - and I dont think that this is by design, but more a lucky coincidence due to the size of the map. It still of course suffers from the completely broken sieges that we all experience, but the campaign as a whole is a good one.