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I’m a big fan of the series, but somehow I missed the release of what is supposed to be the last game. If you played any Avernum game, there is not much to say about it in here. There are no towns this time, and I can’t remember if there were in Avernum V.

Everything is one giant map, with a separate huge map of the various caves and lairs that you visit. This time, a savage tribe of Slithzerikai is threatening the Avernites, and some strange blight is destroying all of their food. People are leaving Avernum and fleeing to the surface. My party is just a group of soldiers whose job is to kill rats under the main food storage for all Avernites.

After investigating a storage breach by goblins and killing their leader, I find out that the Slithzerikai are somehow behind it. This sends me The Castle where I get my main mission. My job is to stabilize the situation in The Great Cave and try to find out as much about the Blight and the Slithzerikai as possible while doing this.

Long story short, I solved a few side quests, learned how to use the portals in various towns so I can travel faster, and resolved a food hoarding situation in one of the major towns. My characters got a few levels, and I already managed to acquire some nice gear, but the game is just starting. I just hope I will get the chance to play it some more before the exams start again.

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I started this one during my exams and played it on the train rides mostly. I managed to get my first 3 badges and got in the fourth gym town. The gym leader isn’t home so I have to explore a ruined tower and find him there. I managed to get a Dratini while playing the coin game so I have a pretty nice team, including an evolved Togepi, Dratini and a Bayleaf. I’m not in a rush to get any more additions to my team, until I start encountering something more interesting than Rattata. Oh, by the way, grass type better be awesome in the next few gyms, because it was complete and absolute rubbish in the first three. Well, the third one wasn’t that bad, but it wasn’t that good either. 

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This one got released recently and, since I loved the first one, I got it as soon as possible. I hope to complete it this week, unless it’s much longer than the first one. I don’t remember if I played the first one on easy or something, but this one feels much harder. I actually have to hide and carefully plan my strategy before engaging enemies.  It’s loads of fun to play like this so I consider the difficulty a big plus. However, there is no real penalty to dying as there is always a vita chamber nearby so if you don’t care, you could just keep rushing in over and over again and pass an obstacle that way I guess.

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Took me a while, but the game is completed. I loved every minute playing it, so I can confidently recommend it to any fans of role playing games, science fiction, or just generally a good story. I can’t wait for the finale of the trilogy. Before completing it, I did the loyalty quests for all of my team members as well as most of the side quests. At the final mission, everyone was loyal except for Jack, even though I completed her mission. She and Miranda had an argument mid-game and I sided with Miranda, so Jack really hated me from that point forward.

My first try of the suicide mission, I had all the ship upgrades and I tried to select team mates logically, but in the end, Tali and Grunt both died. Tali was the one going through the ventilation and Grunt was the leader of the second fire team. I completed the game this way yesterday, but I decided to try it again today with no one dying on me. This time, Jacob was the leader of both fire teams, Thane was the survivor escort, Samara maintained the biotic barrier and Legion was going through the vents. Although a few times it seemed someone was going to die again, in the end they all survived.

 I still have a few achievements left, and in time I might even try to play through the game again, but for now I will go play something else. I hear Bioshock 2 is pretty good, but I don’t have it yet, so for now I might try a new alt in World of Warcraft.

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After completing Dragon Age, I had to start with this one. It was collecting dust on my hard drive for a while, and I loved the first part. After playing for a few minutes and finishing 2 missions (?), I have to say, things have changed. The character development and the equipment looks a bit simplified, but it has potential to be interesting. I love the new Normandy and all the fan service that they subtly feed the player with. Also, the new female character – HOT! I can’t say that I don’t like the changes. It’s just new and different and I’m looking forward to explore it further. This one will probably be completed soon.

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I managed to save the queen and even thought I’ve convinced her and Alistair to marry and affirm their chances to claim the throne. Alistair and I got ourselves captured, bud trough some clever disguises and persuasion, we managed to escape and return to Eamon’s estate. After this, I went to the elven alienage and destroyed a slaving operation which was organized by Loghain. This was all the evidence I needed to get the nobles on my side. The Landsmeet started and, after being cornered, Loghain challenged me to a duel. I defeated him easily and then got the option to recruit him into the ranks of the Grey Wardens. Alistair made it very clear that if I do that, he will be gone, so I chose him and Loghain was executed.

With the nobles on my side and the army assembled, everything was ready for the final assault. The horde went for Denerim and, since the army, due to wrong information, assembled at Redcliffe, when we got back to Denerim, It was already under assault. I managed to kill 2 of the Darkspawn generals and then assaulted the tower where the archdemon was. It was a lengthy battle, but in the end I managed to defeat him with only Alistair and the protagonist left alive. Thanks to Morrigan’s ritual, I survived the final blow and that was it. Game completed! It took me over 60 hours, but it’s finally over.

Not much to say about the game. It’s a standard Bioware RPG. Not as much polish as the older games or Mass Effect, but fun, with a good story and an interesting system. Who knows, I might even return to it one day to complete the rest of the achievements. I recommend the game to any fan of western RPGs.

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Again I slack at posting! Sorry about that, I will do my best not to let it happen again. A whole bunch of stuff happened in the game since I last wrote here. First I went to Denerim and reunited Alistair with his sister, which didn’t go as he hoped. Seems his sister is a bit more on the material side, so he ended up promising that he will take care of her. I have also dealt with Marjorie, or whatever the name of Leliana’s old friend was. We didn’t kill her, but she did drop the matter for the time being. After that, I did a bunch of side quests and ended up in brother Genitivi’s house. His apprentice was there and said that the brother went to look for the urn based on a clue he found. After I tried to open a door in the backroom of the house, the apprentice attacked me, so I had to kill him. It turns out the body of the real apprentice was in the room.

The clues led me to a village all the way to the west. As soon as I entered, I realized the villagers are acting extremely weird. A few moments later, they attacked me and it turns out they are cultists, guarding the temple where Andraste’s ashes are kept. After a bunch of fighting, I realized they aren’t really fanatics that worship Andraste, but actually fanatics that worship a dragon posing as Andraste. I had to kill the dragon, and then, after solving a bunch of puzzles, I managed to get some ashes for Arl Eamon.

After curing Eamon, I did an extremely large amount of side quests, which got me an achievement, and then decided to go with the Arl to Denerim and call for a Landsmeet. This is where I am now. The late king’s wife asked for my help in freeing her from her father, so that’s what I will try next.

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I managed to get the dwarven girl accepted in to the magic school. Since dwarves really can’t do magic, theory is all she will get, but she seems happy about that, so I’m happy to. After that, I went on to explore one of the locations nearby that I haven’t visited before. I’ve found a soldier that fought with me in the first battle getting killed by soldiers of the local baron or something. Before he died, he told me he hid a key to the king’s chest in Ostagar which contained some important documents. This means I had to return to Ostagar to get those documents. While there, I killed some of the Dark Spawn leaders and managed to recover the king’s armor, weapon and shield, as well as Duncan’s sword and dagger. Alistair wears the armor now, and the dagger went to Leliana. We’ve also found the king’s body and gave him a proper ceremony.

After that, I decided to go explore Soldier’s peak, which is an old Warden fortress. It was haunted by demons, so I had to clear that as well as try to find evidence that the great grandmother of someone I met at the camp was a Warden. I didn’t manage to find any evidence, but my main characters got a few new powers, which also unlocked the Diabolist achievement, and I’ve found a Warden mage responsible for all the demons. He helped us close the portals and stayed there to research more ethical ways to help the wardens.

Even though there was no evidence of Levi’s grandmother being a Warden, we did find her body being possessed by a demon, so we had to kill her again. Levi decided to stay at the fortress and use it as storage for his merchandise. Pretty soon, I will be able to buy stuff from him there. Anyway, I have my own castle now and I think I did most of the outdoor quests that I’m strong enough for at this point, so it’s time to go find a cure for Arl Eamon.

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The Dwarves are on my side now. I had to go on a long trip through the Deep Roads to find the paragon Branka. On the way, I solved a few side quests and realized that Branka went a bit crazy on here expedition. I killed a Broodmother, and found Branka close to her goal of finding the Anvil of Void. She tricked me into passing the gauntlet of traps before the Anvil for her and then tried to convince to take the Anvil in spite of the fact that the golems it creates are made from dwarves that have to die in agony. I decided to not side with her, and go with Caridin, the paragon who originally created the golems and was now a golem himself. We defeated Branka, with the help of her husband (which I didn’t want because he sucks as a tank) and, after forging a crown for the new dwarven king, he threw himself into the lava bellow (or is it magma?).

I decided to give the crown to Bhelen, but now I’m not really sure that was the good choice, because he immediately decided to execute the competition. Still, he wants to move the dwarven society forward, and at least he didn’t cheat in order to get the advantage in the assembly.

After this, I left the dwarven kingdom and gave another shot at Flemeth. Off course, I failed so I guess I’m still not ready for that. Next up, more side quests and then maybe it will be time to go to Denerim.

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I decided to get the dwarves next. I got to their mountain city, progressed one of the mercenary quests on the way and managed to piss of a messenger from the “king” while entering the city. Seems the dwarves have a problem to, surprise, surprise. Their king is dead and now 2 guys are interested in the throne. I have to pick one of them to support so, after doing lots of exploration and side quests, I decided to go for the younger, “change is good” type of guy. Now I have to get to the Dead Roads and find some noble that is being cheated by the other guy. I’m not exactly sure how far I need to go, but I will see later today.