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In Vizima there is a gross old biddy called 'old lady' walking about. She's not all that easy to find again since there are so many like her (but not with her dialogue). I believe she gives you info that helps with the swamp monster quest but I can't get her to talk to me. She says "I've talked to much, my throat is a little dry' and the give gift icon shows up.

I've tried to give her bottled water, cow's milk, goat's milk, every kind of beer I have, every kind of wine I have, mead and she doesn't talk! Some items make her get pissed off and walk away and she doesn't take the item from my inventory. Other items, like Beer, she seems to take, at least they're gone from my inventory, but she just keeps saying 'what speak up'. I've given her more than 10 beers, which in this game is enough to knock out the fiercest drinking partners and her dialogue doesn't change. What is it she wants?

aah yes of course. I do know what the other boss is as I have finsihed the chapter. I went back and redid a lot of the last part of it as I missed out on some things by talking to the reverend too earlly.

Thanks for the answer to my question

I've done that, well I havn't taken the head to the hunter but it's in my belt.

Does going to the hunter to sell my second and last trophy somehow get him to send men to pickaxe open that other corridor? I thought there were no more bosses in chapter 1.

I'm not talking about the first wall you can't blast through with Aard, Mikul has already sent (now dead) men to do that and I have already opened the first long corridor with cells all up it. The second blocked corridor, that is marked as a corridor in floating text and is also on your map if you walk close enouogh to where it's blocked, is in the room where you fight that alghoul which gives you the other trophy head.

if that's the case, it really does show the game was released in a hurry as most ppl say it was.

How slack not to use a different scr shot.

if that's the case, it really does show the game was released in a hurry as most ppl say it was.

How slack not to use a different scr shot.

I believe that once you leave the Outskirts, you can never go back.

After fighting some Ghouls in the Crypt, go back to Mikul. Mikul mentions that he's going to send some of his d00dz to pick axe the caved in walls looking for treasure. Return to crypt... goodie can now get inside more. Go sploring in all the rooms. Last room is big and has alghoul Ozzer or something. Fight him, take his head.

Now, run around this room expanding map fully. What's that, another corridor with a blocked in tunnel. Aard isn't working (didn't expect it to as it didn't clear the same sort of blockage that the pickaxe guys had to move for me).

How to get in there? Can't find anything about it by Google searching many many different sources.

In the room with the Ignis granting stones there are some panels on the walls that have some kind of hyroglyphics or runes on them. I don't know if this is relevant or whether the map entry was just put there to tease us.

Need help soon as want to get on with finishing this level but don't want to find out later I missed some super awesome treasure or easter egg back there.

By this I think RPGs is the go for me. I like a little bit of action in there to reassure me that I really am a big hero, esp if the star character (moi) is a male in the game. hehe.

When I say puzzles, I don't really mean puzzles. Trying to rotate a dial to match up some confusing symbols based on a few lame clues I've uncovered in order to open a special door, frustrates the crap out of me. When I say solving puzzles, I mean storyline puzzles ie: talking to people and choosing answers that may or may not get them to tell me what I need to know (and could kill quests by pissing ppl off too so watch what you say) is fun for me.

I typed a reply before to the guy who said Silent Hill series was best ever but it seems to have got lost. In fact, no I don't really like that series. There was 1 I played back in 1999 or 2000 on PS that was either SH1 or SH2 and I really it liked it back then. I think ppl were turning into zombies and in the end I found myself in an alternate dimension, facing a mutant clone of myself that I had to put out of it's misery because it was too mutated to live in any real way other than being forced to power up whatever horrible energy was mutating everyone back in my world. I think that was a silent hill all though maybe it was a resident evil because although the gameplay was SH style, I could of sworn Umbrella (or maybe another big company) was to blame.

Either way, SH3 was one of a few games I used to have on Xbox and I found it very slow moving and frustrating at times when you have to walk back over the entire game's map trying to find a tiny object or clue you may have missed and to need to do that repeatedly without a walkthru.

SH4: The Room was one of the worst new games I've played! The multiple endings are apparently so varied taht I'd love to get them all but I wouldn't play this slow, boring game even 1 more time. (Sorry Iowastate).

BTW- I don't think your fear of clowns is abnormal. There is a recognised phobia re the fear of clowns. I myself never liked them, though I wasn't afraid. They wierded me out.

Thanks guys! Some great sounding recommendations here & a lot mentioned recurringly so I'll be sure to check them out. Right now the top of the list try try is Mass Effect if it's what I'm thinking. Is there talking in it like in Vampire & what's the battle loading/style? Is it clickity click like the Witcher (which is growing on me despite my intial hatred of the battle controls).

KOTOR keeps coming up so I"ll try that, and Morrowind doesn't sound too far behind Oblivion so I'll try that too as long as someone reassures me there isn't more dungeon crawling than Oblivion as that was the part I didn't really enjoy.

FALLOUT series particularly 3 seems to be Vampiresque style right? If so, that's top of my to do list too. Actually I'm sure I'll try most of the games that got a couple of mentions.

IN MY DEFENSE OVER ASSASSIN'S CREED- I probably would NOT have enjoyed that game if the movement wasn't so beautiful. I loved the ease of the controls which was imho very well programmed & the gorgeous athletic way you could vault across the screen & backdrop. The rest of the game was boring, repetitive, monotonous & lacking in storyline development. I believe it was slightly more interesting on the PC as it had a few extra quest types added in (although the reward acheivement system was removed for some unknown reason) & I'm hoping all that will be drastically improved on in the next installment of the AC series (& the more we talk like this, the more the producers will have to listen and fix it right?)

As for FINAL FANTASY, it wasn't released on PC after VIII (other than online) or else I WOULD be playing it right now. I almost resorted to emulators to play further into the series but I'm BIOS phobic unless desperate to do something and for now there's other games I can make do with.

Lastly, what is really meant by the term 'adventure' gaming? What's the difference between adventure, rpg, action rpg etc in the opinion of ppl here. Generally speaking I can't find many clear descriptions that agree, so what do the real games think? (esp what would you call Vampire TMB?)

Oops I'm sorry. I'm talking about Bloodlines. I picked it up for $14.95 (I said in about post $19.95 but it was reduced again, I missed sticker 2).

But you did give me an idea of something else to ask. Usually I avoid games older than around 2004 because I went through a phaze of replaying my old favorites such as Final Fantasy VII and VIII before discovering games made on the Source engine (like Vampire TMB, Oblivion I think, and games with people that look like people outside of cutscenes) and now never want to go back. However, Vampire TMB was made for me! I love more than I've ever loved any game, though I haven't played any Final Fantasy's after VIII as I didn't resort to emulators, and I think they could be up there if I tried them. So I'm wondering now, should I play the other Vampire game? What are the graphics like? How enjoyable would the gameplay be if you started with Bloodlines?