Random rear end in a top hat posted:

Welp, won my first Silver multiplayer match and MP is officially fun now. I guess it just 100% came down to the starter gear being utter poo poo, which... is an odd design choice, but whatever! It's pretty fun now!

To think, I finished all the SP content with 5 hours left and was pretty disappointed. Now I'm deeply regretful I only have like an hour left to last me until Monday-ish.

Quite a turnaround from having literally zero interest in MP before trying it to get SP item boxes (which seem to almost always be weapons, which make the other rewards look like poo poo!).

Number Ten Cocks posted:

A recap:

A: (Repetitive posting)

B: Your posts aren't funny, A.

C: Yo, B, stop telling him his opinions aren't valid!

D: I hope you realize, my boy C, that a challenge to his posts' humor content says nothing about the validity of the underlying opinions, you mentally incompetent slug.

C, et al:

SurreptitiousMuffin posted:

All the complaining about dialogue, and nobody has brought up "Huh, I think I really pissed that one off. Maybe because I shot him in the face!"

It would almost be funny if the VA had been instructed to make it hammy and ridiculous, but it's played super seriously.

In other news, Reddit is unhappy about very different things than we are.

Decius posted:

Thing is, I have a similar - or rather the exact opposite - complaint. I originally wanted to play Sara Ryder as Sub-Saharan African woman. But the skin tone scale doesn't really go into really dark skin tones, it ends a bit darker than Liam, which is a bit disappointing.

Schlesische posted:

It's an EA/Bioware product.
It has a hype train fit to colonise Mars (and probably funded well enough to do so as well).

It deserves the bulk of criticism it's getting.
You're telling me they spent over 4 years on this game but couldn't get human faces to be even in the ballpark of okay. I sort of understand why Ryder is bad because of the face morphs, I can sort of appreciate that Cora and Liam being okay but the rest? Even if they just ran them through a bulk generator, it doesn't take a staggering amount of effort to make them not look like garbage.
What's worse is how amazingly bad the character creator is, and how definitively the lighting set up was not made for the tattoos or makeup available therein (just like DAI and it's nightmare creations).

The characters themselves come across as bland as milk. The Ryder story isn't all that interesting, and it has to contend with gamey-as-gently caress mechanics that are just awful.
The story is a pretty beige canvas, and it'll be down to see if Bioware can still pull off generalised character-group development. Given how in DAI you went from being "The thing that killed the divine" to "our holy saviour" in like 15 seconds and don't lose it for the rest of the game (unless you play the DLC and get the endings from that) that quality is still very much in the air.

Is it going to be as bad as shitposters like Eonwe are making it out to be? No.
Is it going to be a bad game? Probably not, No.
Is it going to be a genre redefining moment of excellence? No.
Is it worth $80? No.

It'll be what it is. A game that's going to be at least somewhat fun, solid and disgustingly engaging for around 20-30 hours (and if you don't finish the main quest after that you probably never will, see Inquisition, Dragon Age), with a multiplayer that should be decent for at least 10 hours unless you find a tight group of game buddies (then that number skyrockets).
EDIT: It's also quite hilarious that EA thought it'd be a great idea to showcase the first 5 hours of a game from a developer who hasn't made a decent first 10 hours to a game in like a decade.

marshmallow creep posted:

Note, when you have a quest to go find people in the desert, don't forget your car, because parts of the quest can be timed.

Schlesische posted:

Is it worth $80? No.

marshmallow creep posted:

Note, when you have a quest to go find people in the desert, don't forget your car, because parts of the quest can be timed.

Decius posted:

Thing is, I have a similar - or rather the exact opposite - complaint. I originally wanted to play Sara Ryder as Sub-Saharan African woman. But the skin tone scale doesn't really go into really dark skin tones, it ends a bit darker than Liam, which is a bit disappointing.

marshmallow creep posted:

Note, when you have a quest to go find people in the desert, don't forget your car, because parts of the quest can be timed.

Fojar38 posted:

sounds like a whole lot of people are self-owning tonight by having fun with the video game

Hedrigall posted:

Yeah but what's a sync kill

Decius posted:

Thing is, I have a similar - or rather the exact opposite - complaint. I originally wanted to play Sara Ryder as Sub-Saharan African woman. But the skin tone scale doesn't really go into really dark skin tones, it ends a bit darker than Liam, which is a bit disappointing.

Admiral Ray posted:

Milky Moor posted:

what the gently caress

orange juche posted:

Should Scrapper be the only training selection I should care about because of Charge?

E: Can I charge someone and then shotgun them in the face?

orange juche posted:

Should Scrapper be the only training selection I should care about because of Charge?

E: Can I charge someone and then shotgun them in the face?

Burkion posted:

Why the gently caress couldn't you


I will warn- on the first planet you will suck and die if you don't keep to cover and charge sparringly


After you get your real super powers and the Vanguard profile, you will become a God and regain shields by both charging and punching.


So yes be a Scrapper and scrap their poo poo

SweetBro posted:

To be fair this is only the case if you play on Hard or higher.

Captain Oblivious posted:

If you aren't playing on Hard or above you are casual filth

Decius posted:

Thing is, I have a similar - or rather the exact opposite - complaint. I originally wanted to play Sara Ryder as Sub-Saharan African woman. But the skin tone scale doesn't really go into really dark skin tones, it ends a bit darker than Liam, which is a bit disappointing.

Clawtopsy posted:

read the whole post

i bought the witcher 3

Captain Oblivious posted:

If you aren't playing on Hard or above you are casual filth

Schlesische posted:

It's an EA/Bioware product.
It has a hype train fit to colonise Mars (and probably funded well enough to do so as well).

It deserves the bulk of criticism it's getting.
You're telling me they spent over 4 years on this game but couldn't get human faces to be even in the ballpark of okay. I sort of understand why Ryder is bad because of the face morphs, I can sort of appreciate that Cora and Liam being okay but the rest? Even if they just ran them through a bulk generator, it doesn't take a staggering amount of effort to make them not look like garbage.
What's worse is how amazingly bad the character creator is, and how definitively the lighting set up was not made for the tattoos or makeup available therein (just like DAI and it's nightmare creations).

The characters themselves come across as bland as milk. The Ryder story isn't all that interesting, and it has to contend with gamey-as-gently caress mechanics that are just awful.
The story is a pretty beige canvas, and it'll be down to see if Bioware can still pull off generalised character-group development. Given how in DAI you went from being "The thing that killed the divine" to "our holy saviour" in like 15 seconds and don't lose it for the rest of the game (unless you play the DLC and get the endings from that) that quality is still very much in the air.

Is it going to be as bad as shitposters like Eonwe are making it out to be? No.
Is it going to be a bad game? Probably not, No.
Is it going to be a genre redefining moment of excellence? No.
Is it worth $80? No.

It'll be what it is. A game that's going to be at least somewhat fun, solid and disgustingly engaging for around 20-30 hours (and if you don't finish the main quest after that you probably never will, see Inquisition, Dragon Age), with a multiplayer that should be decent for at least 10 hours unless you find a tight group of game buddies (then that number skyrockets).
EDIT: It's also quite hilarious that EA thought it'd be a great idea to showcase the first 5 hours of a game from a developer who hasn't made a decent first 10 hours to a game in like a decade.

Utnayan posted:

If you are playing this game at all after a ten hour trial you are a loving moron

SweetBro posted:

My problem with Bioware games on higher difficulty is that all they are "Increase enemy HP and Damage" which basically turns every fight into poo poo that takes too drat long.

Captain Oblivious posted:

Yes there are. There were in ME3 as well.

Do not get close to the thing that looks like it could pick you up and eat you because it can and will do exactly that!!!

Utnayan posted:

If you are playing this game at all after a ten hour trial you are a loving moron

Admiral Ray posted:

cams posted:

you are a literal crazy person hth

Utnayan posted:

And you are a loving idiot who hasn't contributed to a God drat thing your entire life, and that includes words on the internet while you try to continue to troll, and you are so loving bad at it I want to give you some lessons on the art. We could start by everyone looking at your poo poo post history. At least I am consistent and do have ethics in game design. Go snort some coke and have a heyday on another forum. I've been here since 2002 you little gently caress.

Now, with that said...

I love the loving Goons. GOONS ROCK.

I don't want to see Goons spending their money on poo poo. I didn't want to see them spending money on the Switch, which is poo poo, and I do not want to see them being conned into this loving disaster either.

We have a choice my friends. And this goes to the anti shills. And Christ, even the trolls which I love.

You saw this loving pile of poo poo hook line and sinker this last week. You had a chance to play your 10 hours (I guarantee you someone will quote that and say how much of a great time they had in shitville), and you saw, for real, how poo poo this game is.

I want you to ask yourself this. How long have you been playing games. And I also want to ask you how many times have you wanted to have more games to play like Witcher 3, Zelda BOTW, Horizon, all the way down to Bioshock (Whether you liked it or not at least it was loving cool). Break this God drat cycle of poo poo in a box. DO NOT buy this poo poo. FORCE EA to keep releasing titles like BF1.

Yeah. I know exactly how EA operates. I know EXACTLY how this pile of poo poo was developed. I know exactly how they didn't care and expect you to pay for poo poo in a box when it is now EVIDENT it is poo poo in a box.

Imagine 15 games like Horizon Zero dawn a year compiled with 10 games of BOTW for the year. Or 15 the last of us's for the year.

WE CAN HAVE THAT IF YOU STOP BUYING THIS BULLSHIT.

SO START NOW AND PRAISE JESUS CHRIST.

Utnayan posted:

What the gently caress does that mean. You are swayed to buy this game, which is pure poo poo, but you bought witcher 3 which was good?

I am completely lost.

Troposphere posted:

I'm gonna buy the game

Utnayan posted:

No. I will block your loving charge card.