Unfortunately, my game has become unstable recently. I CTD regularly, and it's REALLY annoying. I'm almost done...just the swamp left, so I may force myself to finish, but I'm not sure I'll play through with my 3rd character. Not for awhile, at least.

Sucks to hear about your CTD issues. Seems strange for a game this polished, but then we know better than to think any game to be above "ok" in levels of QA.

I kinda figured that was the case (second caster), but she had it coming. If she's just been a little more believing of my intentions and a less homicidal she would have lived. Or if I'd had conversation options allowing me to go "now I own your ass" on her.

heh, what a guy. :p

Did you ever complete the first game with more than one character? I remember when you were a real gamer... how many times did you play BG? With ridiculously difficult mods, on top of it. So sad what's happening to you in your old age.

Yeah I didn't manage to figure that one out when I did it...maybe I'll get back to it.

And my mage is still going through the original game ya bastard Rinox still cool!!

Nope, but I suspect that'll happen really soon now. I'll probably wax the mutha in record time anyway.

(*gets ready to eat crow*)

BTW, did you see the new DLC crap? It's gifts and pranks for your characters.... like...wtf. It's for-pay, too. Why the fuck am I going to spend money so I can make my party members love me more? This is the kind of stuff that makes me hate the DLC concept. Trying to monetize everything. Lamez.

Yeah, I saw it. Obviously didn't buy it, heh. And I don't know man...I don't mind shit like this. Sure it's crappy, but at least it just 'adds' to the game experience without hollowing out the original game. You know? I had the CE so I didn't have the bother, but in DA:O there was the whole mess with the guy standing there and offering a quest - but only if you bought the DLC. See, that shit is lame, because it makes you feel like you're missing out and the original game was just a framework to spend more of your $$$$ in. The holiday hats, meh, they're for saddoes (sad peeps) but they don't bother me. It's not like I run in some guy wearing an Easter bunny costume telling me I could totally look like him for 2 $.0 Or Oghren whining for a chocolate Easter egg.

So, summarized: paid DLC, though innately lame, is ok if there are people willing to play it, as long as it doesn't make me feel like the original game I spent 50$ on is inadequate or somehow "less complete" without it.

Well, I'm annoyed because crap like this would be free in the past. TF2 still shows that. I think it's sad that cute stuff they just add as bonuses for their loyal customers is now something they're trying to make money out of. I don't even know what 150 bioware points actually means in a dollars and cents, err, sense. But that whole thing is retarded, too.

Welp, completed my second run just now. I still didn't complete all the companion quests, but I did do the vast majority of the side quests this time. I also forged all the special weapons. Good stuff. I don't think I'll be playing my third character any time soon, however.