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Ostentatious posted:bioshock 2: misunderstood game that's better than infinite or just straight up bad game? both
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Apr 5, 2016 20:25
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Ostentatious posted:bioshock 2: misunderstood game that's better than infinite or just straight up bad game? Bioshock 2 is the best Bioshock game. Its gameplay is the most focused and best refined, taking advantage of the wide assortment of abilities you can use. The hacking system is vastly improved, more streamlined and you can use it without pausing the action, which itself is much better with waves of enemies attacking from multiple directions. The Little Sister system is much better as well, with the ADAM collection areas being custom-built for fending off ambushes. You often have environmental objects like turrets or water pools to set traps in, and you can prepare well in advance to make the ensuing conflict better. Melee feels more satisfying, the levels are more self-contained and loop nicely in and around themselves, making exploration fun, and the only real weakness is that the plot is a bit less novel or interesting, but the ending is WAY better, particularly that they do away with a final boss to instead make a dramatic climax that actually uses the moral choice system in the game to have a satisfying conclusion, either for good or evil. The ending is an actual CG movie instead of a lovely slideshow. It's better than either Bioshock 1 or Infinite.
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Apr 5, 2016 20:25
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2 is the definition of love it or hate it, because I hated it. I do still need to play Minerva's Den though, I have to, Gone Home is one of my favorite games. I still love 1 despite its flaws and I never played Infinite because its poo poo.
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Apr 5, 2016 20:27
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But come on, the beginning of Infinite when you ascend and walk through the candle water area up to your eventual entry is just loving amazing. The guitar scene too. That poo poo never gets old.
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Apr 5, 2016 20:27
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sure, some people say slavery is bad, but then some people say slavery is good. perhaps the truth is in the middle???
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Apr 5, 2016 20:28
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Blind Rasputin posted:But come on, the beginning of Infinite when you ascend and walk through the candle water area up to your eventual entry is just loving amazing. I liked the beginning of Infinite back when it was the beginning of Bioshock 1. The guitar scene was nice. It's a pretty game. Elizabeth's personality is nonsensical but it's pretty.
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Apr 5, 2016 20:30
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i played 1. it was alright. i borrowed my roommates copy of 2 and i tried playing it but it didn't really grab me so i stopped playing. never played infinite
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Apr 5, 2016 20:33
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Apr 5, 2016 20:35
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This. 2 is the best bioshock game. None are good games though.
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Apr 5, 2016 21:03
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The ending to Mass Effect 3 is some Evangelion poo poo.
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Apr 5, 2016 21:06
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Josh Lyman posted:The ending to Mass Effect 3 is some Evangelion poo poo. it's true, because evangelion was also blatantly unfinished
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Apr 5, 2016 21:09
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I played 1, enjoyed it a lot even though the combat was janky, tried 2 and couldn't get into it, played 3 and overall enjoyed it even though the narrative became schizo in the last act and the Vox Populi were handled very poorly.
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Apr 5, 2016 21:11
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Josh Lyman posted:The ending to Mass Effect 3 is some Evangelion poo poo. You might have something their since Shepard also jerked it all over a sleeping Tali.
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Apr 5, 2016 21:12
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How many more years have to pass before the Fallout/Bioshock/Mass Effect haters finally get tired of posting the exact same thing every time the offending game is mentioned.
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Apr 5, 2016 21:14
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Heat death of the universe
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Apr 5, 2016 21:15
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corn in the bible posted:it's true, because evangelion was also blatantly unfinished
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Apr 5, 2016 21:16
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bloodychill posted:Heat death of the universe You laugh.
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Apr 5, 2016 21:17
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Enter the Gungeon looks like a mashup of bullet hell, Binding of Isaac, and Nuclear Throne, so extremely my jam. Downloading now...
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Apr 5, 2016 21:31
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So apparently an expansion to Baldur's Gate... 1 came out. And it has  womz and a trans person in it so big ol' dummies who haven't played it are bombarding metacritic and such sites with negative reviews because the dreaded cultural marxists have gotten to Baldur's gate and ruined it.Incidentally, on Steam it has a pretty good critical score, because you need to actually play the game to vote on it there.
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Apr 5, 2016 21:41
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Lurdiak posted:So apparently an expansion to Baldur's Gate... 1 came out. And it has Isn't Baldur's Gate like...really old? How is there a new expac?
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Apr 5, 2016 21:42
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8-Bit Scholar posted:Isn't Baldur's Gate like...really old? How is there a new expac? I have no idea how this poo poo works.
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Apr 5, 2016 21:42
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Postal 2, Age of Empires 2, and Age of Mythology all got expansions in the last few years, why not Baldur's Gate?
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Apr 5, 2016 21:44
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8-Bit Scholar posted:Isn't Baldur's Gate like...really old? How is there a new expac? The people who made the Enhanced Edition created their own expansion that links 1 & 2. They just released it yesterday on Steam. Apparently the writing isn't as good as what was in the original games, though that's not a huge surprise.
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Apr 5, 2016 21:44
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I'd buy a PS4 up-port of BioShock Infinite
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Apr 5, 2016 22:01
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Guy Mann posted:How many more years have to pass before the Fallout/Bioshock/Mass Effect haters finally get tired of posting the exact same thing every time the offending game is mentioned. Games with huge glaring flaws have their flaws discussed when the game is discussed. News at 11.
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Apr 5, 2016 22:10
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Quantum break costs $70 bucks to play?!?!?! and you have to use windows 10?Nasgate posted:Games with huge glaring flaws have their flaws discussed when the game is discussed. News at 11. Lol nasgate you are like the champion of the whiteknights for fallout 4. Irony
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Apr 5, 2016 22:12
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The way game news outlets reacted to everyone hating mass effect 3 was the weirdest poo poo I've ever seen. It was like those dumb articles people have been writing about how people are wrong to dislike the Star Wars prequels, but even snarkier. YOU ARE STUPID TO THINK THIS IS BAD.
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Apr 5, 2016 22:19
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Some games I love to bits and am convinced they were made specifically for me. That somehow the developers got inside my head and thought "Hey, VideoGames will love this! Let's make it that way!". What I am saying is, Mass Effect 3 is my favourite and I really, really dislike Mass Effect 2. I know it's seen as a very strange opinion, but I played ME3 with all DLC many years after release and had the absolute most fun tying up my save game from ME1.
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Apr 5, 2016 22:25
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I concur, I played ME2 and ME3 on the PS3 and even though the DLC cost more than ME3, they are very fun games.
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Apr 5, 2016 22:26
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The ending for me3 is a lot better than it used to be
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Apr 5, 2016 22:27
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VideoGames posted:Some games I love to bits and am convinced they were made specifically for me. That somehow the developers got inside my head and thought "Hey, VideoGames will love this! Let's make it that way!". I feel this way about Remember Me, a game I cannot recommend but nonetheless thoroughly enjoyed and will probably replay.
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Apr 5, 2016 22:29
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Lurdiak posted:The way game news outlets reacted to everyone hating mass effect 3 was the weirdest poo poo I've ever seen. It was like those dumb articles people have been writing about how people are wrong to dislike the Star Wars prequels, but even snarkier. YOU ARE STUPID TO THINK THIS IS BAD. I don't remember too many of the specifics, but some fans really did go loving crazy over it, like, some guy wanted to sue BioWare over it. Personally I got bored before reaching the end, so maybe that's why I was and am a little bemused by people demanding a new ending to their silly space fantasy game. But this has been discussed to death already
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Apr 5, 2016 22:29
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Dr Cheeto posted:I feel this way about Remember Me, a game I cannot recommend but nonetheless thoroughly enjoyed and will probably replay.
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Apr 5, 2016 22:32
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Is the Mass Effect series still the face of good writing in western video games?
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Apr 5, 2016 22:35
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Level Slide posted:Is the Mass Effect series still the face of good writing in western video games?
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Apr 5, 2016 22:36
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Level Slide posted:Is the Mass Effect series still the face of good writing in western video games? No, that's Undertale.
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Apr 5, 2016 22:37
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The DLC for the Witcher 3 is insane, one quest has as much or more talking as the new fallout 4 Automation dlc.
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Apr 5, 2016 22:41
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Lurdiak posted:The way game news outlets reacted to everyone hating mass effect 3 was the weirdest poo poo I've ever seen. It was like those dumb articles people have been writing about how people are wrong to dislike the Star Wars prequels, but even snarkier. YOU ARE STUPID TO THINK THIS IS BAD. I actually remember some news outlets joined in. There were a few articles written by actual developers that boiled down to "the game is great but the ending is phoned in so hard it's easy to see why people are pissed about it. I'm pissed about it." Accordion Man posted:Lol, no. Especially when there's been games such as Witcher 3, Undertale, and LISA since. Eh, I'd still say ME2 was among the greats in terms of western writing for characters. Like a lot of RPG's western and eastern, the character writing is often stellar while the story is usually just decent at best.
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Apr 5, 2016 22:41
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My favorite thing in Mass Effect 3 is how they revealed the mysterious face of the masked character and they just used a stock photo with bad effects on it.
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Level Slide posted:Is the Mass Effect series still the face of good writing in western video games? Even around the same time we had New Vegas. So no. Especially not now with all the story games and as mentioned Witcher 3.
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