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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Banshee16" data-source="post: 5077516" data-attributes="member: 7883">There are places where there are no vendors, and the Mage Circle is one of them.  Pretty much from the moment you get there, until you finish that part of the game.That's about the only place I can think of.  Even in the finale of the game, where you can't go back once you get to a certain point, there's a vendor standing in the middle of a bunch of enemy corpses, right before the end battle.As to graphics, I played on PC, and my friend played on 360.  He's got a high def TV, and I've got a monitor running at 1080p resolution, and the graphics on the PC version are infinitely better.  I'm even on an old computer.....AMD Athlon II 2.2 Ghz single-core processor, 2 GB RAM, and an NVidia GeForce 7600GT video card.  At times, particularly at the end, it *did* get sluggish, but I made it though 95% of the game without changing the settings.....so, a computer with 4 year old technology was still powerful enough to run the game.The only thing I can say is that, though the game scales according to your level etc. so that encounters stay hard, but not impossible, the amount of money you can get is really somewhat limited.  It's very hard to accumulate enough GP to buy the better equipment in the game.  In the end, before going to the final chapter, I had to spend time using the Potent Lyrium Potion gold farming thing to get enough to improve my equipment as I needed it.They say it shouldn't be necessary, and the trick is to save all your gold all game long and save it for the end, but when the difficulty is at a point where you have to keep either buying healing poultices, or ingredients to make them, it makes it very difficult to avoid spending a majority of your money on healing, lyrium potions etc.  Maybe I just suck at the game, or I'm not optimizing my characters correctly....but I also don't read books on "ideal builds" etc. and then spec my characters to conform.  I know my friend wasn't able to beat the final boss battle, and gave up, as did the guy at the local EB who we usually get to tell us the lowdown on new games.Overall, an excellent RPG though.  I thoroughly enjoyed it.   It took me about 120 hours to get through it though, and I did about 80% of the quests in the game, so I don't think I'm going to be rushing to replay it anytime soon.  There are others to try out <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Banshee</blockquote>

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