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What game company from your childhood do you remember with fondness? (reddthat.com)
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I was thinking about how I remember Maxis fondly, and I got to wondering what other people's experiences were like!

Is your favorite still around? Are they still the same, or did they "change directions under new management?"

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[–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

The 3 Bs, baby. Blizzard, Bioware, and Bethesda.

Blizzards dead to me, Bioware fell off after dragon age 1, and Bethesda refuses to take its limiters off anymore (no drugs)

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    I'm enjoying heavily-modded DA:I, but I do feel like DA1 had some better writing and direction.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    The only thing I can remember from inquisition is trudging through some high level desert looking for high level rocks (which very blatantly cut their drop rate from earlier zones) so that I could make an armor and weapon that still sucked and looked like pajamas.

    also that the party loves to litter

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Any recommendations for mods? I'm putting together a new build for it ahead of my semi-annual replay of the trilogy

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 2 years ago

    Yeah, definitely!

    I'll skip the skins, because I assume you'll want to pick your own that fit your tastes, but you can find all of these at NexusMods. Some of my favorites are:

    • Speed Launch
    • 60 fps in cutscenes
    • No fall damage
    • Infinite Respec Amulet
    • Party At The Winter Palace
    • Shorter War Table Missions (75%)
    • Party Banter Time (5-10min)
    • All Bard songs for CC Music
    • Stay still in CC - Natural Edition
    • Face Ash Begone
    • Bugs Be Gone
    • Skills Enhanced by NinjaReborn
    • Inventory Capacity

    You'll also need Frosty Mod Manager to set all those up (they seem to work for me in the order I listed) and Frosty Fix.

    • Set up the mods and load order in FrostyMM, and close.
    • Launch Frosty Fix.
    • Choose the profile/pack you want.
    • Mash go.
    • FrostyMM should open back up.
    • Open the pack you created.
    • The game should launch automatically with the mods correctly enabled.

    All these mods feel "vanilla-ish" and shouldn't spoil the original experience to any significant degree.

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