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ThatNickGuy

ThatNickGuy

Surgeon Simulator

Wow, I suck at this game. Can't even grab anything. Had some fun making different hand symbols and getting achievements for them, though.

You could say, I just can't grasp this game.
 
bhamv3

bhamv3

I really need to remember I don't have regenerating health in Mass Effect. Kept dying on Eden Prime. EDEN PRIME.

Also, I really need to get rid of the muscle memory that makes me hit the "R" key after every burst of fire. That's not reload, that throws grenades. There is no reloading in Mass Effect.
 
Ravenpoe

Ravenpoe

Zero Esc said:
Just mentioning Mass Effect 2 recalls that amazing final mission.

And then Mass Effect 3 recalls hollowness.
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I was just discussing with a friend earlier today how amazing the opening sequence to Mass Effect 2 is. It really is brilliant.

And yes... the final mission... goddamn.

In my mind, I like to think that the 'bad' ending is the true end, with Shep sacrificing him/herself to warn the council that the reapers are coming, and the story ending with Shep's death, hoping it was enough.

And then everything after is crappy fanfic.
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

bhamv3 said:
I still maintain that the addition of thermal clips is the dumbest thing Mass Effect 2 ever did.
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Mass Effect 2 has some EA-ing in there, but it's a solid game. The amount of impact your choices and work leave on the suicide mission is amazing and is what should've happened on a galactic scale for ME3.

Ravenpoe said:
I was just discussing with a friend earlier today how amazing the opening sequence to Mass Effect 2 is. It really is brilliant.

And yes... the final mission... goddamn.

In my mind, I like to think that the 'bad' ending is the true end, with Shep sacrificing him/herself to warn the council that the reapers are coming, and the story ending with Shep's death, hoping it was enough.

And then everything after is crappy fanfic.
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That's not a bad way to play, though I don't know

how to get an ending where Shep dies without killing off most of the crew.
 
bhamv3

bhamv3

Zero Esc said:
Mass Effect 2 has some EA-ing in there, but it's a solid game. The amount of impact your choices and work leave on the suicide mission is amazing and is what should've happened on a galactic scale for ME3.



That's not a bad way to play, though I don't know

how to get an ending where Shep dies without killing off most of the crew.
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Oh I absolutely agree. Mass Effect 2 is a 10/10 game for me. But I consider it a 7/10 sequel to Mass Effect, because it starts ignoring quite a bit of the lore and logic of the original game.

As for your question (major spoilers ahoy):

You can't. The only way Shepard dies is if every other crew member dies too. At the end, when Shepard tries to jump to the Normandy, he slips and hangs on the threshold. A surviving crew member and Joker will help him up, with one shooting at the Collectors while the other pulls Shepard into the ship. If there are no surviving crew members, Joker can't pull Shepard while shooting at the same time, and Shepard falls. Basically, if any one of your team survives the mission, then Shepard survives too. You need to work really hard to screw everything up enough so that Shepard dies.
 
Zappit

Zappit

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Cannot wait for Shovel Knight to drop on Thursday. Grabbed Steamworld Dig on the eShop to help pass the time, and it's quite good.
 
Ravenpoe

Ravenpoe

There is a little bit of EAing to make Mass Effect 2 into more of a shooter, but this is a rare event where I feel like it actually benefited. Yes, suddenly having heatsink clips goes against the technology established in the first game, and the different armor and inventory management is cut out, but it actually tightens the gameplay and makes for a better experience. I'm ok with handwaving some of the finer details if it makes the game play better.

The bad EA stuff that started to creep in, like a billion different dlc costume packs, can be ignored without affecting the game at all. Too bad the same can't be said for ME3, where EA dug in deep to destroy the story.

If anyone reading this hasn't played ME3, don't. Turns out the reapers came to earth for some Mountain Dew.
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

bhamv3 said:
Oh I absolutely agree. Mass Effect 2 is a 10/10 game for me. But I consider it a 7/10 sequel to Mass Effect, because it starts ignoring quite a bit of the lore and logic of the original game.

As for your question (major spoilers ahoy):

You can't. The only way Shepard dies is if every other crew member dies too. At the end, when Shepard tries to jump to the Normandy, he slips and hangs on the threshold. A surviving crew member and Joker will help him up, with one shooting at the Collectors while the other pulls Shepard into the ship. If there are no surviving crew members, Joker can't pull Shepard while shooting at the same time, and Shepard falls. Basically, if any one of your team survives the mission, then Shepard survives too. You need to work really hard to screw everything up enough so that Shepard dies.
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You mean "she".

:p

Zappit said:
Cannot wait for Shovel Knight to drop on Thursday. Grabbed Steamworld Dig on the eShop to help pass the time, and it's quite good.
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Steamworld Dig is fun, but I'm right there with you on Shovel Knight. Hoping to get out of work early on Thursday to play.
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

Cheesy1 said:
Mass Effect 3 is still my biggest game purchasing regret of all time. I became quite a jaded gamer after that.
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That and Dragon Age 2 got me wary about paying full price for games based on company. I pretty much just do it for Nintendo now.

I'm amazed my wife pre-ordered Dragon Age 3. I really hope she doesn't regret it.
 
Ravenpoe

Ravenpoe

I pre-ordered Dragon Age 2 -and- Mass Effect 3. Collectors editions on both! I mean, what could go wrong? Dragon Age was fantastic, and Mass Effect 1 and 2 were so mind bendingly awesome that I would have sold my mother to get the third one. And they were from Bioware, a developer dear to my heart, they couldn't possibly do wrong.

I had to learn that the world is a cruel, cruel place.
 
LordRendar

LordRendar

I too bought the collectors edition for Mass Effect 3. Never finished it and now I dont even know where I placed the CD case and truth be told, I dont really care to find it again.
 
Terrik

Terrik

You guys, really. ME3 wasn't that bad. No on liked the Krogan homeworld mission? Asari homeworld defense? The actually decent DLC? No? The ending could have been better, but jeeze.
 
LordRendar

LordRendar

Thing is, you can take me to a fancy restaurant, serve me te most delicious meals but if your desert is forcing me to eat a shit pie, I am not gonna remember that evening fondly.
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

Terrik said:
You guys, really. ME3 wasn't that bad. No on liked the Krogan homeworld mission? Asari homeworld defense? The actually decent DLC? No? The ending could have been better, but jeeze.
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There were other problems with ME3. A big one is that if certain characters died in previous games, instead of that affecting the ME3 missions, that character would just be replaced by a stand-in nobody. The husks are turned into the darkspawn essentially. I had some ammo issue that I can't remember. Chopping out the Prothean into DLC. There are more.

However, had the ending not been an issue, I think people would've let that stuff go.

I didn't play the final DLC. It came too late. I'm sure if I cared still, it would be awesome. But I don't care now. EA and Bioware saw to that. If ME3 had been this thing that blew me away like ME2, I probably would've bought the last DLC and cried like a baby. But if I bought it now, it'd just be another round of dialogue. I'm done with this new Bioware.

However, I do love the cast-offs from Bioware. I'm behind Stoic 100%. They can jerk me along chapter by chapter so long as The Banner Saga continues to be excellent.
 
fade

fade

Staff member
I post order games. Usually at least a year after they come out. If it ain't a year old I ain't playing it.[DOUBLEPOST=1403703744,1403703714][/DOUBLEPOST]Dammit. I know I need to prep the Elvis picture for that one.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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Ravenpoe said:
I pre-ordered Dragon Age 2 -and- Mass Effect 3. Collectors editions on both! I mean, what could go wrong? Dragon Age was fantastic, and Mass Effect 1 and 2 were so mind bendingly awesome that I would have sold my mother to get the third one. And they were from Bioware, a developer dear to my heart, they couldn't possibly do wrong.

I had to learn that the world is a cruel, cruel place.
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Well, hopefully you learned your lesson about preordering.
 
Dei

Dei

My issue with ME3 was that your previous choices meant jack all. Even big things like killing the Rachni queen just meant she was replaced with a clone. What you did with the Reaper base at the end of ME2? Doesn't matter if you blew it up because pieces of it survived and did the same things. Etc, etc, etc. It just made me angry.
 
Jay

Jay

The biggest insult to me was the blatant lies and basically everything coming down to a red/blue/green choice... all of which were available regardless of what choices you made with set cinematics.

They made later adjustments but the damage was done.

ME3 was a disappointing game however the not welcome multiplayer part of the game ended up being THE BEST PART of the game by far.

Heck I'd replay the multiplayer again today if people wanted to play it.
 
Cog

Cog

ME3 wasn't that bad. Also it was inevitable.

I said it after the first trailer:

Cog said:
There is one thing I don't like about mass effect. You know that almost every playable character besides Shepperd is not going to do something very important for the story in the sequels because he might be dead depending of the ending. And the more sequels, less important the character is going to be.
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Fun Size

Fun Size

Since I'm going a long time between sessions on the Xbox, I put Costume Quest on my new iPad and fired that up. Thus far, it's highly amusing.
 
Espy

Espy

Ni No Kuni is starting to pick up. I still the combat is awkward and can't decide what it wants to be but damn this game is charming.
 
Ravenpoe

Ravenpoe

I hate Metal Gear games. I find them boring and highly incomprehensible. But since Platinum made Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance (not a word) I had to give it a try.


...

HOLY SHIT THIS GAME IS AMAZING.

In the first level alone, I've been able to deflect a barrage of machine gun fire with my sword, slow down time to chop an enemy soldier into 611 distinct pieces (a helpful counter kept track for me) and then RUN ACROSS THE TOPS OF A BARRAGE OF ROCKETS TO GET TO THE GIANT MECH FIRING THEM AT ME.

That should be the tag line to the entire game. "YOU CAN RUN ACROSS FUCKING ROCKETS!"

I still don't know anything about the Metal Gear universe, or why the hell these giant robots (which I assume are the aforementioned Metal Gears) make cow noises, but goddamn I don't care. This game is like if Kratos and Bayonetta had a baby and... I'm going to stop right there because I don't want to picture that.
 
Ravenpoe

Ravenpoe

I can stick my sword on my foot and kick-cut people!


WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWESOME.[DOUBLEPOST=1403724666,1403724560][/DOUBLEPOST]Also, this game runs at a rock-solid 60fps. None of that "30 is more cinematic" bullshit.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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I started up a new Gnomoria game to challenge myself last night. It's really tough. Basically, I'm playing with a self-imposed "above ground only" building rule - I'm only allowed to mine/tunnel for resources. I can dig up stone, mine for metal and gems, but everything I build has to be on the surface. This means I'm building a de facto village, with buildings for the various common workshops, and am building living quarters on the second floor of these buildings. IE, the blacksmiths live above the smithy, the farmers live above the kitchens/distilleries/tailor buildings.

It's much more difficult for a number of reasons... it causes surface congestion problems for things like farming that didn't exist before when I'd tunnel into the mountain to build my fortress. Also, it takes MUCH longer to build walls and ceilings/floors than it does just to mine out empty space, even in solid stone. So building is extremely time consuming - half my population is still sleeping in the dormitory-turned-hospital. And those buildings are very important, because it's guaranteed that every bear, honey badger and monitor lizard in the area will definitely amble through the middle of town at some point, and it's already caused several incidents which have lead to the deaths of a half dozen gnomes. I'm not even a year in yet and I've lost all my dedicated builders - I've had to give my miners secondary duties for being builders as well. It's the end of fall, and I just hope I have enough food to make it through the winter.
 
Bowielee

Bowielee

Ravenpoe said:
I can stick my sword on my foot and kick-cut people!


WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWESOME.[DOUBLEPOST=1403724666,1403724560][/DOUBLEPOST]Also, this game runs at a rock-solid 60fps. None of that "30 is more cinematic" bullshit.
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Revengence is pretty much the Metal Gear game for people who don't like Metal Gear.
 
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