Everything in the Primeval Forest is trolling me

[gungadin22000]

This has to be the trolliest area ever in a fantasy game that doesn't feature trolls. Let me elaborate:

1. The wolves, or should I say the DICKWOLVES! These sonsabitches have a reaction time that would put a jedi to shame and leap right into your face from hiding the second you walk within 300 yards of them, taking off a third of your HP bar. They do big damage, come packs and spam leap attacks, making them a nightmare to fight early on.

2. The black flames. If you gently brush against any, you will likely die. "No problem, you will just walk slowly", you think, only to be ambushed by the aforementioned dickwolves, lose half your HP in a second and panicdodge into the flames. F9 time once again.

3. Roarke's shop. I was jubilant to find somebody selling a better sword than the crappy one I'd been using for hours. Its cost of 1100 gold was steep, but manageable. Until I realise Roarke doesn't accept gold, only bartering. ♥♥♥♥ that.

4. The whole hippie camp questline revolves around piggies and how piggies are cute and awesome and great and you should release piggies into the wild to grow up and be happy. Walk 10 seconds into the woods after that and be forced to kill grown-up magic pigs in self defense. Who's the conservationist here?

5. And last and worst: after completing the questline for the chief hippie, you are awarded a piece of weak armour that makes the animals of the forest not attack you. Not a bad gift. Except at this point I've had to murder every single wolf, bear, piggy and squirrel in the woods just to complete his questline, making it essentially useless.

Don't get me wrong, I really like this area, I just feel the devs are deliberately ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ with me now.