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What's different in Deus Ex: Human Revolution Director's Cut?
What are the differences between Deus Ex: Human Revolution and its Director's Cut version? Is it the same version with all DLC included or does it contain more or different contents?
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Can I save my weighted companion cube in room 17?
At the end of room 17 you are asked to toss your cube into the fire before it will let you complete the level.
Without using cheats, is there a way to save it?
user1246
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Can I filter my Steam library by tags or features?
I can look through the "Store" portion of Steam using tags, and I can also do an advanced-search on certain features like local co-op support. But for some reason, when I do this I can't tell which games I already own, and I don't seem to be able…
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Where can I safely store my stuff?
I'd like to find a place to store stuff while I'm out adventuring, without spending 5000 on a house (at least, until I can afford that...). Where can I safely store items without worrying about them disappearing?
There are two possible places that…
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Can I cook a fairy?
Fairies are listed in the same section of your inventory as food and other things you can cook with.
I've received a pink-shaped elixir in a bottle shaped like a fairy, and its recipe says it was made with just one fairy.
Can you use fairies in any…
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How can I level water?
It may be my inner OCD, but situations like this annoy me to no end. Sometimes, a patch of water is "ruined" for no apparent rational reason and all attempts to restore it to normality are met with failure.
My latest attempt was building dirt where…
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What are the differences between the different anti-aliasing / multisampling settings?
I'm tweaking the settings in DiRT 2 and I'm presented with these choices (in order) for multisampling:
2x MSAA
4x MSAA
8x MSAA
8x CSAA
16x CSAA
8x QCSAA
Using the nVidia Control panel I'm presented with
2x
4x
8x CSAA
8x
16x CSAA
16xQ CSAA
32x…
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Legal ways of playing old games that aren't for sale any longer
There are a few old games that I want to play again (mostly Earthbound for the SNES), however I am finding it REALLY hard to get hold of a copy for a good price, as well as the requirement of purchasing a SNES to play it on...
I'd absolutely love to…
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Can I ride the unicorn? If not, can I kill the unicorn?
I'd like to ride the unicorn as pictured both in the ad on the right as well as in the game main menu:
The unicorn seems to be an unkillable monster and I am unable to defeat it; I have to either dodge or use the photon blaster to set him back a…
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Should I play Portal before Portal 2?
I've looked at several videos of Portal 2 and am interested in buying it. The problem is that I've never played the original Portal, the first game of the series.
Should I play Portal before playing Portal 2?
Will I understand Portal 2's story…
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How can I make a villager have an... "accident"?
I have a populous village now but I am not interested in the villagers' trading options. I'd like to make sure some of them have an unfortunate "accident" so they can be replaced.
Obviously CSI: Minecraft can't draw anything back to me lest I feel…
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Why do pro gamers use two pairs of headphones?
Why do they use two pairs of headphones?
If I didn't know how professional they are, I would say it's cheating (someone could tell what the opponent is doing by watching the big screen). But obviously during such prestigious tournaments the reason…
user12002
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How do I make money efficiently?
In Oblivion, I had two favorite money-makers:
Dump all my stuff except some basic armor and potions, and raid an oblivion tower. The armor and weapons was worth lots, and selling it in Anvil made a lot of cash fast.
Harvest an entire farm's worth…
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Can I permanently kill important people?
In Morrowind, it was possible to permanently kill NPCs who were involved in the main story. This would result in a message basically informing you that you had broken the world and to reload a save if you want to make progress. In Oblivion, this…
user9983
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How do enemies and monsters level up?
I remember that Oblivion implemented a behavior that level up monsters and enemies at the same time as main character. How does it work in Skyrim? Is this behavior still partially or totally present?
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