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Cleretic posted:The only reason I obect to your opinion is being personally a bit surprised somebody I agree with even bought 3. Like, you knew it was only going further from what you liked about it, was it sunk cost fallacy or optimism? ME3 actually improved on a few things, like having more than two weapons of each type and having them affect cooldowns on your powers so you had to balance your equipment and abilities, like in an RPG. It definitely went downhill in other areas, but at least it was a nice looking and exciting spectacle.
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For me part of the appeal of Mass Effect is it's a space opera game that isn't 4x or space trucking. Just shooting lasers and romancing aliens as God intended. It's got a heavy "Star Trek/Wars with the serial numbers filed off" vibe that is pretty much my jam.
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Nuebot posted:The fact that Puzzle Quest 2 and Puzzle Quest: Galaxtrix or whatever where nowhere near as good and fun as the first puzzle quest drag them down. I'm glad someone managed to mod the first PQ to give it all the DLC the console versions got. Puzzle Quest is one of the few games that can make me super mad, when like an enemy gets a bullshit cascade and kills me ten times in a row, but I won't stop playing because gently caress that guy I am going to kick his rear end. Galactrix was straight up ruined by those loving gates. I forget the exact rules, but they sucked and you'd have to redo ones you already completed on the regular.
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Maxwell Lord posted:For me part of the appeal of Mass Effect is it's a space opera game that isn't 4x or space trucking. Just shooting lasers and romancing aliens as God intended. I love the visual design, style and pretty much everything about Mass Effect. Except the writing, dialogue and biowareness of it all. I even loved flipping through space on that goofy rear end little space car after a while. But oh man there was no reasonable text speed up button, the dialogue choices were a mess on the PC version because it was an  port and I'd often pick the wrong thing hitting buttons to make the text go faster. If 3 was on steam though, I'd probably go back through and buy them all on steam.Ugly In The Morning posted:Galactrix was straight up ruined by those loving gates. I forget the exact rules, but they sucked and you'd have to redo ones you already completed on the regular.
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Maxwell Lord posted:It's got a heavy "Star Trek/Wars with the serial numbers filed off" vibe that is pretty much my jam. This is because it was originally going to be another Knights of the Old Republic game but they came up with their own IP instead for some reason I can't remember.
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i liked how guns folded in and out in mass effect. i'd whip out guns just to watch those animations.
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Dec 22, 2016 07:33
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The citadel in Mass Effect made me really want a game that was set entirely in that instead of doing ice and lava planets and so on.
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Dec 22, 2016 08:20
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Ugly In The Morning posted:The citadel in Mass Effect made me really want a game that was set entirely in that instead of doing ice and lava planets and so on. The amount of time I wasted there was insane. Yes, I'm going to look for all the keepers. Why would I not.
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Dec 22, 2016 09:35
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A sci-fi game set entirely in a limited, non-hosed location for once would be really goddamn cool.
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Dec 22, 2016 10:12
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Too bad they canceled that Coruscant game.
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Action Tortoise posted:i liked how guns folded in and out in mass effect. i'd whip out guns just to watch those animations. This but Vanquish.
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Dec 22, 2016 10:47
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WickedHate posted:Too bad they canceled that Coruscant game. Oh man, a Boba Fett game structured like the Batman games, where you unlock his equipment piece by piece, culminating in a kickass jetpack would've been so much fun.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:The citadel in Mass Effect made me really want a game that was set entirely in that instead of doing ice and lava planets and so on. A game where an old, retired Garrus rejoins Csec to solve some major crime on the Citadel would be awesome.
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Only if, like he comments in the second game, he finds C Sec has changed and it's now both too by the book and too unaccountably ruthless at the same time.
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Dec 22, 2016 13:36
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Back in my day we wouldn't have squeezed that guy and we wouldn't have had council regulations telling us not to either. Politics! 
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RareAcumen posted:This but Vanquish. I just lit a cig every time in vanquish
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I would like it if Grim Dawn just made potions a cooldown ability instead of them effectively being a cd ability that you have to sacrifice a couple of inventory slots for. Why bother including something as a limited resource when that limitation will never matter outside of the first 10-20 minutes of game time. Even if you somehow ran out, maybe by mainlining the arena forever, you can just buy infinity of them for peanuts. I have also managed to put 75 hours into it without ever clearing the base difficulty because I cannot stop making new characters, but that's on me.
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well why not posted:Oh man, a Boba Fett game structured like the Batman games, where you unlock his equipment piece by piece, culminating in a kickass jetpack would've been so much fun. Could you explain this to me? If I'm playing a Star Wars game, it's to be a force-using Jedi, not some mundane guy. Green Lantern, not Batman.
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Dec 22, 2016 14:52
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hands up everyone who guessed the username before they looked
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:hands up everyone who guessed the username before they looked To be fair I'd rather be a Jedi than Boba Fett too. Dude had more screen time as a small child than an adult with cool armor
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Dec 22, 2016 15:15
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There's a million god drat games already where you can be a Jedi. I want to be a non-Force-using bounty hunter who's hired by the Empire between episode 3 and 4 to kill jedi.
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Dec 22, 2016 15:39
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Remember in KOTOR2 where Atton talks about his days as a Jedi hunter, and all the ways they figured out how to deal with them? A game of that! I read a post by a guy who played that kind of character in Star Wars Galaxies, it was lots of fun to read
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2house2fly posted:I want to be a non-Force-using bounty hunter who's hired by the Empire between episode 3 and 4 to kill jedi. Vader was the clean-up man for Jedis between 3 and 4, if I remember correctly, specifically because what you suggest doesn't work very often.
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2house2fly posted:Remember in KOTOR2 where Atton talks about his days as a Jedi hunter, and all the ways they figured out how to deal with them? A game of that! I read a post by a guy who played that kind of character in Star Wars Galaxies, it was lots of fun to read I played SWG for a long time and the first of the Jedi were unlocked in a specific way. Each character had a seed for 5 or 6 classes(out of like 28) they needed to master in order to unlock a new character slot for a force sensitive character. There was a very rare item drop called a Holocron, which when read revealed one of the classes needed to unlock the FS slot. It would not reveal the last one, which left people to A)hunt holocrons which became massively inflated in value and B) just grind everything once your last Holocron was cloudy. It was a loving nightmare and likewise Jedi/Sith in Star Wars Galaxies were incredibly powerful and rare. They even had permadeath(yes, in an MMORPG) and would turn into a blue glowy. Well SOE realized how hosed up a Jedi economy would be, so they planned in a huge game update to streamline the game down from the 30 or whatever classes down to like 8. Jedi was a starting class, and we ended up with servers that were maybe 40-50% Jedi, all running around at a time when the only two known Jedi were Luke Skywalker and Yoda because the others were quite literally hunted to extinction in the Star Wars timeline. I personally never played as a Jedi because gently caress that poo poo. ToR came around and you can still start as a Jedi, and yes I subscribe but even then, I will not play as a Jedi because they are so ubiquitous. Even in a franchise like Star Wars where you could expect to see or play as an iconic bounty hunter or smuggler, everyone is drawn to Jedi and there is so much god drat potential in a non-Jedi type character that shoeing in magic powers is overused and stupid. Schmugglah 4 lyfe.
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Somfin posted:How dare a female character have a life and personal agency Dishonored 2 again I just feel like the game should be focused on specific person being a badass and not about their dumb intimate personal details.I know that's sounds hypocritical due to Corvo/Jessamine, but then again that's the major story element so imo it's different. I think my problem is that I played DH1 so much and she was a kid, so like... it seems forced that they had to specify that she's now AN ADULT and has A BOYFRIEND. I just feel it's unnecessary. note: I am not a creepy jealous crazy weirdo because it probably sounds that way, I'm just a weirdo nerd Unrelated, the voice actor for Corvo bothers me because he really pronounces 'sh's like, "sszzshhip". It annoys me significantly. Thin Privilege has a new favorite as of 16:44 on Dec 22, 2016 |
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2house2fly posted:Remember in KOTOR2 where Atton talks about his days as a Jedi hunter, and all the ways they figured out how to deal with them? A game of that! I read a post by a guy who played that kind of character in Star Wars Galaxies, it was lots of fun to read I too want to play a game where in the first 30 minutes I get sliced to death by some random Jedi because I'm a boring rear end peon in the galaxy.
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Thin Privilege posted:Dishonored 2 again Do they ever specifically mention that it's a guy? Lots of people in the Dishonored 2 thread were saying it's left ambiguous. In any case it didn't bother me really, it's in a letter that nobody is supposed to be reading and if you read old correspondence like that there's always dumb poo poo in there, people being people.
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MisterBibs posted:Vader was the clean-up man for Jedis between 3 and 4, if I remember correctly, specifically because what you suggest doesn't work very often. Kontradaz posted:I too want to play a game where in the first 30 minutes I get sliced to death by some random Jedi because I'm a boring rear end peon in the galaxy. modern gaming has robbed players of their imagination
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There was a jango feet game for the GameCube way back then, and by all accounts it was a pretty good precursor to modern third person shooters
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2house2fly posted:modern gaming has robbed players of their imagination I was bored to tears of SW Republic Commando
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MisterBibs posted:Vader was the clean-up man for Jedis between 3 and 4, if I remember correctly, specifically because what you suggest doesn't work very often. jedi were dropping like flies in episode 2. they're literally space ninjas in that the more of them are onscreen, the more of them will die off. Len posted:To be fair I'd rather be a Jedi than Boba Fett too. Dude had more screen time as a small child than an adult with cool armor boba fett is the 90's antihero of the sw universe. rogue one showed me you can do tell a star wars story without having a lightsaber duel. i could see a bounty hunter game with small scale thugs amping up to taking out a jedi/sith as a final or at least second to final boss.
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Action Tortoise posted:jedi were dropping like flies in episode 2. they're literally space ninjas in that the more of them are onscreen, the more of them will die off. The best part of Rogue One was Darth Vader and the rest was bland uninteresting characters- the whole premise of the non-jedi movie was also incredibly boring so it doesn't really help the quality of non-jedi entertainment. There's a reason the best of Star Wars media involves Jedi 
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More Star Wars games need to let you play as a Sith. Not like a mean Jedi like if you take the Dark Side path in KOTOR but a straight-up, no-poo poo member of the Sith order. I think TOR is the only one that lets you do it currently.
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Kontradaz posted:The best part of Rogue One was Darth Vader and the rest was bland uninteresting characters- the whole premise of the non-jedi movie was also incredibly boring so it doesn't really help the quality of non-jedi entertainment. There's a reason the best of Star Wars media involves Jedi the best part was sneaking into the base and planting bombs and dressing up as stormtroopers. as cool as it was to treat vader as the predator in movies for the first time, it's like watching yoda doing flips in episode 2 for me.
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Episode 3, while not being good, had a whole montage of Jedi being killed by regular rear end troopers. Some of them even died from really silly bullshit, like the one who got shot on a speeder. Wasn't a key theme of KotOR 2 that a Jedi is just as frail and mortal as any other rear end in a top hat, especially if they can't hide behind a saber?
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Glukeose posted:Episode 3, while not being good, had a whole montage of Jedi being killed by regular rear end troopers. Some of them even died from really silly bullshit, like the one who got shot on a speeder. Wasn't a key theme of KotOR 2 that a Jedi is just as frail and mortal as any other rear end in a top hat, especially if they can't hide behind a saber? That was the theme brought about by the game being limited to D&D Rules, not really canon.
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Kontradaz posted:That was the theme brought about by the game being limited to D&D Rules, not really canon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fP7YJtjbZY
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Kontradaz posted:That was the theme brought about by the game being limited to D&D Rules, not really canon. Then if we're specifically working within canon, the Jedi get clowned by robots who are often too incompetent to shoot straight. They also get killed by a bounty hunter whose son would die later by falling into a giant mouth in a desert. They're really not infallible or overpowered.
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Glukeose posted:Then if we're specifically working within canon, the Jedi get clowned by robots who are often too incompetent to shoot straight. They also get killed by a bounty hunter whose son would die later by falling into a giant mouth in a desert. They're really not infallible or overpowered. The STRONG jedi, i.e Yoda / Darth Vader / Palpatine etc., have never been clowned or subject to any pitiful deaths. The younger ilk I would agree have their flaws.
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Kontradaz posted:The best part of Rogue One was Darth Vader and the rest was bland uninteresting characters- the whole premise of the non-jedi movie was also incredibly boring so it doesn't really help the quality of non-jedi entertainment. There's a reason the best of Star Wars media involves Jedi Episode 4 also has very minimal Jedi stuff and it's really good so vOv
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