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I just want Mass Effect 3 multiplayer on the PS4.
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What, you expected the Sony AAA open world game to get bad reviews? After watching the whole game get streamed it really looks average more than anything. It's a shame they messed up a concept as good as "you fight giant robot dinosaurs that rule the world".
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Feb 20, 2017 09:28
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The averageness just feels more damning when everyone was hyping up it up, especially for the visuals. Which are nice, at first glance, until you see someone talk, or notice how overbearing the fog is compared to other open world games, and see how tedious the combat is, and it all just feels like all the lovely cruft barely hidden by pretty distractions.
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Feb 20, 2017 09:31
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Mr. Fortitude posted:Mass Effect 3 is the superior Bioware game despite it being only half a good game and half an awful one. Dragon Age 2 is just that bad. I got fooled by the positive reception to the last Dragon Age so I'm taking a wait and wait approach.
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Feb 20, 2017 09:35
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TFRazorsaw posted:well Horizon's first reviews are glowing.
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Feb 20, 2017 09:55
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I have said before in various chat threads that Mass Effect 3 is my favourite of the trilogy but entirely due to playing it a year after Citadel was released. Not only that, but the choices I made and treating Citadel as the epilogue (which was recommended in the thread) gave me such a fitting end to the trilogy. The biggest issue with Mass Effect is probably that the game is, really, so very diverse and I somehow took a route through all 3 that was cohesive, entertaining and appropriate for how the story concluded. I know for a fact that very, very few people would have played it the way I did (and so long after the fact) which meant that my experience was a complete outlier. It makes me sad that I seemed to have the experience Bioware wanted and very few others did but that was always going to be an issue with a lowkey 360 exclusive suddenly becoming hugely popular and a mandate from EA telling them to make the third one inclusive to players who'd never seen the first two. I will always appreciate what Bioware were attempting with it because I don't really recall any other game trying the same thing before them (please correct me if I am wrong!) and I hope Andromeda is as excellent fun as I found the original trilogy.
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Feb 20, 2017 09:56
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Horizon review embargo has lifted, looks like it's a hit. (88 average on Metacritic)
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Feb 20, 2017 10:08
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DA:2 should've been a VN/adventure game  Also it has a extremely incomplete ending.
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Feb 20, 2017 10:09
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It still would have had completely awful characters other than two.
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Feb 20, 2017 10:11
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Glad Horizon is reviewing well. The latest stuff had me worried it might have been an disappointment.
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Feb 20, 2017 10:23
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I know nothing about Horizon but Giant Bomb giving it a 5 makes me want to check it out.
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Feb 20, 2017 10:27
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HGH posted:It's a shame they messed up a concept as good as "you fight giant robot dinosaurs that rule the world". The reviews seem to indicate it wasn't messed up I guess? Horizon and Doom being much better than expected seems to be proving than analyzing the same couple sets of clips and nay-saying into echo chambers is unproductive. Though I guess there is something to be said for lowered expectations and pleasant surprises over abject disappointment. Which is exactly why I'm wait and see with Mass Effect with a D: face going on.
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Feb 20, 2017 10:28
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I am someone who cares about at least the aggregated review scores so I'm going from maybe not to probably on Horizon. But I'll also be busy playing SRW and Nier.
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Feb 20, 2017 10:29
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VideoGames posted:I have said before in various chat threads that Mass Effect 3 is my favourite of the trilogy but entirely due to playing it a year after Citadel was released. Not only that, but the choices I made and treating Citadel as the epilogue (which was recommended in the thread) gave me such a fitting end to the trilogy. The biggest issue with Mass Effect is probably that the game is, really, so very diverse and I somehow took a route through all 3 that was cohesive, entertaining and appropriate for how the story concluded. The ending wasn't at all what most of Bioware wanted, reputedly. The head writer told everyone to pound sand while he wrote it himself in a locked room. It also obliterates the entire point of the Paragon route showing it's entirely possible for organics and synths to live in harmony. The Extended Cut dlc was the remaining writers making an admirable attempt to salvage the flaming wreckage into something coherent.
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Feb 20, 2017 10:41
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The 1.05 patch for FF15 claims it can run at 60fps on the Pro in light mode. It sure doesn't seem like it to me though. Edit: definitely not in the city but once I got out on the road, maybe. Haven't been in combat yet though. Samurai Sanders fucked around with this message at 11:00 on Feb 20, 2017 |
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Feb 20, 2017 10:44
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Samurai Sanders posted:The 1.05 patch for FF15 claims it can run at 60fps on the Pro in light mode. It sure doesn't seem like it to me though. It definitely doesn't seem to hit it a lot and frame pacing makes it look choppier than it actually is.
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Feb 20, 2017 11:02
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Neddy Seagoon posted:The ending wasn't at all what most of Bioware wanted, reputedly. The head writer told everyone to pound sand while he wrote it himself in a locked room. It also obliterates the entire point of the Paragon route showing it's entirely possible for organics and synths to live in harmony. I did absolutely everything across all three games as a renegade. I played the biggest ruthless, gets the job done in any way possible Shepherd and went with destroy as my choice. It all fit in with how I expected my character would be.
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Feb 20, 2017 11:09
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I'm just glad that morality systems (whatever they are called in-game) are mostly gone from games these days. They were the colored lighting of the late 2000s/early 2010s.
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Feb 20, 2017 11:11
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infamous did them well I think? Of course you had to go either full evil or full good to get the full experience.
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Feb 20, 2017 11:14
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Sefal posted:infamous did them well I think? Of course you had to go either full evil or full good to get the full experience. And also like you said, the game doesn't reward mixing and matching responses based on the situation, only going all-in one way or the other, which means you might as well just have the player choose an alignment from the beginning and not have any other choices in the game. edit: ME2 and 3 tried to obfuscate this by having two separate bars but in the end it's the same thing....right up until the ending of the series ignores it all anyway. I'm glad it's dead and if anything replaced with "did this character/group like what you did?" systems. Samurai Sanders fucked around with this message at 11:21 on Feb 20, 2017 |
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Feb 20, 2017 11:17
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Sefal posted:infamous did them well I think? Of course you had to go either full evil or full good to get the full experience. No, they stunk badly because you had to choose a path and never deviate from it. Otherwise you arbitrarily hosed yourself out of the top-level power.
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Feb 20, 2017 11:18
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The Eurogamer review of Horizon says its decent but a bit uninspired and generic :/
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Feb 20, 2017 11:23
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spudsbuckley posted:The Eurogamer review of Horizon says its decent but a bit uninspired and generic :/ Whilst I was wondering if it might turn out good as most reviews say, this opinion was the one I was expecting to see.
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Feb 20, 2017 11:27
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TF2 HAT MINING RIG posted:The ending to Mass Effect 3 involves the player being badly injured and walking slowly down a hallway which is always fun in videogames. Metal gear solid 4 did it first. Then helped by doing an awesome fist fight after.
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Feb 20, 2017 11:29
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Listening to Gamestop's review of Horizon, is Alloy's name really pronounced with a long A? edit: or as always with dialect stuff, is MY dialect the weird one for pronouncing alloy with a short A? Samurai Sanders fucked around with this message at 11:44 on Feb 20, 2017 |
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Feb 20, 2017 11:40
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Is someone going to make a Horizon thread now that we know the game is good?
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Feb 20, 2017 11:42
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Ineffiable posted:Metal gear solid 4 did it first. That is one of my favorite MGS Fights. How the lifebars change while fighting was pretty good. Hmm yeah I guess I can't call any other morality game that did it well.
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Feb 20, 2017 11:50
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Samurai Sanders posted:Listening to Gamestop's review of Horizon, is Alloy's name really pronounced with a long A? Aloy, not alloy. Alloy is when you combine two kinds of metal, and is pronounced the way you're pronouncing it. Aloy is some dumb future name that can be pronounced however Guerilla wants to pronounce it. I've always assumed this would be a metaphor or something. Or maybe not.
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Feb 20, 2017 11:51
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I love that all but two reviews of Horizon are very positive, but people in here are like, "Too bad they hosed it up!!!"
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Feb 20, 2017 14:12
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I mean everyone deemed a game awful trash because of one badly designed cutscene so
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Feb 20, 2017 14:17
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Wendell posted:I love that all but two reviews of Horizon are very positive, but people in here are like, "Too bad they hosed it up!!!" I think I'm getting senile what I remember reading was more 'Oh I thought this was going to suck but everyone says its good, neat-o'
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Feb 20, 2017 14:27
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UnfortunateSexFart posted:Horizon review embargo has lifted, looks like it's a hit. (88 average on Metacritic) It's two months into 2017 and Horizon: Zero Dawn and Nioh are the two best reviewed $60 retail games. Last year, the best reviewed $60 game was Uncharted 4 and the worst reviewed $60 game was Star Ocean 5. Blackfyre posted:Whilst I was wondering if it might turn out good as most reviews say, this opinion was the one I was expecting to see. A few reviews say it takes after Ubisoft style open world games. I can see that being a deal breaker for some.
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Feb 20, 2017 14:32
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Blackfyre posted:I think I'm getting senile what I remember reading was more 'Oh I thought this was going to suck but everyone says its good, neat-o' Yes, people react in a glorious rainbow of different ways. I'm not saying the thread is a hivemind!
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Feb 20, 2017 14:33
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Sunning posted:It's two months into 2017 and Horizon: Zero Dawn and Nioh are the two best reviewed $60 retail games. Last year, the best reviewed $60 game was Uncharted 4 and the worst reviewed $60 game was Star Ocean 5. What is this supposed to imply?
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Feb 20, 2017 14:33
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Sakurazuka posted:I mean everyone deemed a game awful trash because of one badly designed cutscene so That was because most open-world games build out of a toolkit and standardized assets, so what you see in one is a pretty safe bet on what's in all/most of them. It apparently not being the case is perfectly fine by me  . Won't be picking it up til well after Breath of the Wild, but I wanna climb one of those big Radar Giraffes.
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Feb 20, 2017 14:35
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For games with frame rate issues, is it better to install on the hard drive or to get the disc? Assume 'just avoid' isn't one of the options.
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Feb 20, 2017 14:40
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Oxxidation posted:What is this supposed to imply? Horizon and Nioh are reviewing very well?
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Feb 20, 2017 14:40
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Abugadu posted:For games with frame rate issues, is it better to install on the hard drive or to get the disc? Assume 'just avoid' isn't one of the options. Zero difference. All games install to the drive anyway.
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Feb 20, 2017 14:40
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I can't stand open world games in general so I am good to just go ahead and skip Horizon Zero Dawn, I won't enjoy playing it.
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spudsbuckley posted:The Eurogamer review of Horizon says its decent but a bit uninspired and generic :/ Eurogamer says that for every game. Europe must be a really depressing place.
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