Answers Thankless Answers: Statement 19 Dragon Age: Awakenings is a strange one. Containing too many new quests to be offered as downloadable content but lacking the scope to be released as a full sequel, Bioware's latest instalment of role playing action is probably best described as an expansion pack. Providing owners of Dragon Age: Origins with a host of new specialisations, spells and talents, players will again venture into the world of Tedas in order to aid with the revival of the Grey Wardens and their investigation into why the Darkspawn weren't on the first bus home.

Regardless of whether you are a PC devotee, a Xbox 360 aficionado or a PlayStation 3 fanatic, any true Dragon Age stalwarts will be interested in the subject matter of today's Thankless Answer as it's a topic close to everyone's heart. Money money money.

Question: How Should I Purchase Dragon Age: Awakenings?

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Answers Thankless Answers: Exposition 17 As I continue to reacquaint myself with World Of Warcraft after a six month sabbatical, I find myself taking an inevitable trip down memory lane and reliving my experiences with the game in the weeks and months following its initial release. The 'Classic' edition of WoW had a very different feel to it due to third party add-ons severely hamstrung by a rudimentary API, a more determined attempt by Blizzard to stop patches from being data-mined and the absence of in-game aids such as the quest tracker. These were they days when Thottbot was king and Wowhead was just a glint in the milkman's eye.

I'm sure it will shock and appal a lot of players who have only recently joined the WoW community that due to these factors, general chat was often the best place to obtain quest information. What was the same back good old days though is the amount of people who can't be bothered to read their quest log properly and nowhere was this more evidence than the now infamous Barrens chat. One quest in particular, 'Lost In Battle' was the source of more than its fair share of queries and the specific question that kept cropping up time and time again was the same as the one tackled in today's Thankless Answer.

Question: Where can I find Mankrik's wife?

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Answers Thankless Answers: Revelation 16 I'm going to try and get through this entire preamble without droning on about Yakuza because too many more articles on the subject and I run the risk of turning this site into the internet's first Yakuza fan site. No, instead lets talk about motion controls. Call me a rickety old man if you will, but given the choice between using them and not using them, I would always pick to not use motion controls. Anyone play Heavenly Sword? Early on there is a bit where you were firing arrows at guys, and you can correct the course of the arrows mid flight using the six axis controls. Doing it this way was almost impossible and is highly frustrating, so it’s fortunate that they give you the option to switch them off and use an analogue stick instead.

To not just rag on the poor six-axis, which I should note is barely supported by anyone any more, the Wii has a positively stuffed catalogue of games that I think would be easier with more traditional controls. I believe it has got a lot to do with fidelity of the motions detected by the wiimote and sensor bar. For example in MadWorld I felt that it couldn’t work out what actions I was doing, so often when I was doing a vertical motion the wiimote was picked up a horizontal motion and I was failing to be beat a boss as a result (Which resulted in a 30 minute loss of progress. Didn't really get on with MadWorld). This wasn't really the MadWorld’s fault as much as it was the wiimote that just didn't have enough science in it to accurately determine how it was being moved.

The Wii MotionPlus came along and solved the problem briefly, but that thing isn't really getting supported. Also you had to set it down upside-down quite regularly to stop it from exploding or something. Now the Move comes along to take another stab at motion controls. It's a shame that the majority of what they showed off looked like Wii Sports Resort HD to me, but if it genuinely works like an HD version of motion detecting then it might at least mean a PS3 port of MadWorld that works somewhat satisfactorily.

Why am I talking about motion controls again? Could it possibly be to tie in with today's question? Surely not.

Question: whats with that ball thing on the playstation move?

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Answers Thankless Answers: Reboot 15 I am pleased to announce the long awaited return of our Thankless Answers feature! It's happening right here, the text you are reading is it happening! We thought it best to lay out a bit more structure to this section, so here’s what we came up with.

• We will do five answers a week, one on each week day.
• You can now submit your own dumb questions to be answered via electronic mail.
• We will try and cycle the answers between the editors.

This leaves one natural question that while hasn’t shown up via email or in any search term that I can psychically predict you are about to ask.

Question: What is the email address I can send my questions to?

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