Of course you're not, there's plenty of people who don't like the Beatles music or Chinatown as a movie.
I'm sorry but I don't get why people love the Beatles. They're not a particularly interesting group. If someone were to have such a group in this day and age they wouldn't even make it on the TOP 40. The production style is technically impressive but the overall the lyrics are derivative and boring. I haven't been surprised by anything they sang yet, other than my group casually accepting of a FUCKING ASIAN WHORE IN THE GROUP.
Anyways, I'm still holding out hope John Lennon to make a come back with new tracks.
Anyways, I'm still holding out hope John Lennon to make a come back with new tracks.
Add in a spoonful of Song of Fire and Ice and yeah, agreed. I still liked the game a lot though.[DOUBLEPOST=1367011385][/DOUBLEPOST]Also, playing Poker Night 2. Someone has gone all in on every single hand so far. It's ridiculous.[DOUBLEPOST=1367011474][/DOUBLEPOST]
Mass Effect 3 was basically Dragon Age Origins in space. Almost exactly.
You could say that about Bioshock as well. What works in a video game doesn't necessarily translate to book format. Would you want to read pages and pages of how Jack kills splicers in different ways and never says anything? The storytelling was structured to fit a video game format. Part of what makes Bioshock's twist so brilliant is that it plays off of being a video game.
DA:O's plot set-up works well for being a video game. Of course it would make a crappy book. Much like many books with good stories would not make good video games. I know you were probably just using it as hyperbole for saying you don't like the story, but it's just a bad example because there's a core disconnect.
Incidentally, I'm sure one of the many Dragonlance novels has a story like this, but I wouldn't know.
Frank - A word of advice. Don't buy the Venture Bros felt. It's a bright bright annoying yellow.
It's great that it has a monarch symbol but it's blinding.
For the record, Sam is my least favorite character. Nothing annoys me more than keeping him in the game. I have a great time when he's eliminated early.
It's great that it has a monarch symbol but it's blinding.
For the record, Sam is my least favorite character. Nothing annoys me more than keeping him in the game. I have a great time when he's eliminated early.
1. Bioware definitely recycled their favorite tropes for Dragon Age. This isn't necessarily a bad thing though. The whole game is meant to be a love letter to the fantasy genre, so the familiar can be comforting to players.
2. If you're a minmaxing player, then it's true there isn't much room for character development, and the classes aren't very balanced. Mages dominate all, while archers are pretty weak. Warriors are best as sword-and-shield tanks, but a properly built mage can out-tank a warrior. And warriors are also outperformed by other classes in other roles, whether it's as a dual-wielder, DPS etc. Having said that though, there are generally no useless classes or skill trees. Yes, a dual-wielding warrior is going to be outperformed by a dual-wielding rogue, but that doesn't mean a properly built dual-wielding warrior is going to be dead weight.
3. Choice in this game usually refers to quests. Almost every quest has at least two possible resolutions, oftentimes more. (Dealing with Connor's situation immediately springs to mind) The different resolutions have different consequences, such as how much your party members like you, how the end-game plays out, etc.
4. Sten is only one of many weird members of your party. It can also include
5. Morrigan and Leliana are both unspeakably hot.
Honestly, I can understand the criticisms. But, at the same time, the things people dislike seem to overlap pretty significantly with the things other people like. So... different strokes and all that.
2. If you're a minmaxing player, then it's true there isn't much room for character development, and the classes aren't very balanced. Mages dominate all, while archers are pretty weak. Warriors are best as sword-and-shield tanks, but a properly built mage can out-tank a warrior. And warriors are also outperformed by other classes in other roles, whether it's as a dual-wielder, DPS etc. Having said that though, there are generally no useless classes or skill trees. Yes, a dual-wielding warrior is going to be outperformed by a dual-wielding rogue, but that doesn't mean a properly built dual-wielding warrior is going to be dead weight.
3. Choice in this game usually refers to quests. Almost every quest has at least two possible resolutions, oftentimes more. (Dealing with Connor's situation immediately springs to mind) The different resolutions have different consequences, such as how much your party members like you, how the end-game plays out, etc.
4. Sten is only one of many weird members of your party. It can also include
a zombie Circle mage kept alive by a demon, an apostate shapeshifting mage who grew up in a forest and who's only after Grey Warden sperm, a bard/courtesan/assassin turned nun who has visions of God speaking to her, a foreign elven assassin who'll shag anything that moves, a drunken and disgraced dwarven warrior who has a problem with pants, and if you have the DLC, a murderous golem with ornithophobia.
5. Morrigan and Leliana are both unspeakably hot.
Honestly, I can understand the criticisms. But, at the same time, the things people dislike seem to overlap pretty significantly with the things other people like. So... different strokes and all that.
Archer is dead weight. It sucks, I usually like playing them in these sorts of RPGs, but you get like two decent attacks and there's barely any high-end bows compared to melee weapons and shields.
More awesome Poker Night 2 info:
If you deploy chips, a deck and the felt of the same type (BL2, Portal etc bought with Inventory Tokens) then the entire Inventory Bar is changed to that game's theme, the music and backround sounds change and the character from that game gets a different suit.
Very Very awesome.
If you deploy chips, a deck and the felt of the same type (BL2, Portal etc bought with Inventory Tokens) then the entire Inventory Bar is changed to that game's theme, the music and backround sounds change and the character from that game gets a different suit.
Very Very awesome.
I like Sam, FUCK Ash. Fuck him. Fuck his before the flop huge bets right in their ass.[DOUBLEPOST=1367048609][/DOUBLEPOST]Fuck, I swear to God, every time something is on the line, they have magic gifts on the river. Seriously.
My probabilities are XCom poor. 93% chance to win? More like -1000%.
This game can be as aggravating as real poker and has highs just the same too.
To be fair, The ace IS the highest card in the hand.
Yeah, but I'll tell you, losing to a pair when you have a straight hurts.
So, Ash is a fucking maniac and is super aggressive, often when he has fuck and all backing it up. Sam is super conservative, and seems to only go for it when he thinks he's going to win. Brock, I've never seen bluffing either, but Brock is easily the computer character that's easiest to bluff, he backs down really easily to aggressive betting. Of all of them, Brock is the one I most like in the final 2. Claptrap is right in the middle. He bluffs, he can be aggressive and he can get super conservative too and from what I've seen, he's usually the best player of the bunch. They all seem to get better or worse at random though.
I'm probably reading too much into it since GlaDOS doesn't know the difference between ace high and a fucking straight.
So, Ash is a fucking maniac and is super aggressive, often when he has fuck and all backing it up. Sam is super conservative, and seems to only go for it when he thinks he's going to win. Brock, I've never seen bluffing either, but Brock is easily the computer character that's easiest to bluff, he backs down really easily to aggressive betting. Of all of them, Brock is the one I most like in the final 2. Claptrap is right in the middle. He bluffs, he can be aggressive and he can get super conservative too and from what I've seen, he's usually the best player of the bunch. They all seem to get better or worse at random though.
I'm probably reading too much into it since GlaDOS doesn't know the difference between ace high and a fucking straight.
You were pretty close in your initial assessments, at least as far as I was concerned.
- Ash takes chances, goes big, and can't bluff. This is perfectly in his character from the movies. I usually see him go out first.
- Sam is very conservative and generally doesn't play his cards unless they are good or the buy-in is cheap. If he goes all in, he's got a damn good hand. He also generally doesn't bluff. He's basically Tycho from the first game.
- Brock is aggressive with his betting and can bluff pretty well, but he'll back down if he has nothing.
- Claptrap is completely random in his style, sort of like Max was in the first game. This makes him seem good because he doesn't have a style, but it's only because he's hard to predict.
All in all, I usually see Sam in the final round.
Paper Mario Sticker Star: I was about to go into the sticker shop in the starting town, when some guy outside tells me the store elsewhere would really appreciate my business. I felt he made a good point--the mountain store sells power-ups that this one doesn't. Still, the town store owner needs to get this guy off his doorstep; his business is going to be ruined. This guy's worse than Jay and Silent Bob hanging around your storefront; at least they aren't recommending competitors.
I can't even imagine playing much more of it. The dialog is already 100% repeats.
Also, the GlaDOS dialog is a far cry from the cleverness of the Portal writer's stuff.
I've actually noticed they have lines that only unlock after certain things happen. For instance, during my first game Ash mentioned he was going to propose to Wendy. However, in my last game Brock brought up whether or not she had said yes and then Ash launched into the story of how he proposed. So I'm guessing new stuff unlocks as you unlock tables and stuff.
They made a joke about that. Claptrap says he's surprised that Sam was there and not one of those walking dead guys. Sam says they were being prima donnas and demanding script approval, so Tell Tale asked Sam instead.
Honestly, I think it would have been better if it was Clementine and not Lee. Then they'd have someone innocent to play off of the huge assholes in the room.
Frank - I cannot disagree with you more, I have over 8hrs into the game and getting new dialogue all the time. Also there's scenery and dialogue changes when you buy the sets of chips, decks, felt. Ex: When you collect the entire Borderlands set and knock out Brock, Steve pops out in tradional Borderlands style and does his patented HEYOOO! and shoots brock with a confetti bazooka. To which Brock walks over and beats the shit out of him.
It's pretty fantastic. I've finished unlocking the Venture Bros set and it's fantastic.
Oh and if you need help winning hands, buy your showdown opponent a drink.
It's pretty fantastic. I've finished unlocking the Venture Bros set and it's fantastic.
Oh and if you need help winning hands, buy your showdown opponent a drink.
It's even better when Claptrap gets knocked out on that set.
I'm almost sure that you get new dialog every time you unlock a new set and I've heard new stuff on each of the sets I've unlocked so far. I've unlocked up to Army of Darkness and won 3 of the bounties (The ORB, the Necronomicon, and Claptrap's 2012 Spike TV Award for Best Character) and I'm about halfway to unlocking the Portal set.
I'm kinda disappointed that Brock's Knife item for TF2 isn't an actual weapon and is instead something that clips onto your belt, but the Necronomicrown is pretty sweet on my Pyro.
You're still unlocking new shit but how many times has Claptrap repeated the creepy cards line, how many times? I honestly wish you could turn off dialog to speed things up.
I didn't realize how important it was to talk to people in Devil Survivor. At the end of the 6th day, you get a choice based on whose conversations and possibly battles you've participated in, and sadly I'm stuck between two shitty choices. I decided I won't go for the default one that you get even if you entirely fuck up, but I still would've rather seen where my options led with other NPCs' ideas on how to finish out the final day.
Oh well, that's what the New Game+ feature is for. Might as well ride this out and see what happens.
Oh well, that's what the New Game+ feature is for. Might as well ride this out and see what happens.
My choices were Yuzu's "run away! run away!" option, the default, and Amane "make the world an oppressive angel theocracy" option. Bleh.
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I picked up LA Noire for 75% off on steam. So far Kinda liking it... except
I played the Golden Butterfly mission yesterday and got my first ever 1 star (unbecoming) rating, and I looked up what I did wrong... and it bothers me that to get a good rating you have to basically pin a murder on the wrong guy, because "a kiddy molestor on the street is more dangerous than a guy who once murdered his wife in a rage and is unlikely to ever do it again," especially when you have to bend logic REAL HARD to get the motive and evidence to work against the patsy.
All the evidence I got pointed to the husband, clear as day, may as well have caught him in the act. But because of the police captain's politics and a misunderstood game dynamic, I got 1 star on the mission when I think I should have gotten at least 3.
All the evidence I got pointed to the husband, clear as day, may as well have caught him in the act. But because of the police captain's politics and a misunderstood game dynamic, I got 1 star on the mission when I think I should have gotten at least 3.
Finally finished Poker Night at the Inventory 2 by unlocking the Portal themed Inventory and all the bounty items. I'll probably play a few more rounds to see if I can hear the rest of Ash's story about him and Wendy (which has had 4 parts so far and I'm hoping it gets a conclusion) but after that I'm done. Still $5 bucks for an entertaining 8 hours isn't a bad deal. I just wish they didn't discourage you from using your tokens on drinks by making the prices for the table unlocks so steep.
... and my achievements are bugged. I should have all of them except "We are the 1%".
... and my achievements are bugged. I should have all of them except "We are the 1%".