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Clawtopsy posted:ME2 on Insane is a sublime game wtf is this loving noise dumbass hipsters
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Pattonesque posted:yes she wrote the first andromada centered novel too. it wasn't that bad.
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Mar 18, 2018 17:02
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Should’ve just let her write the game
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Mar 18, 2018 17:05
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Ainsley McTree posted:Should’ve just let her write the game this. they had the hack who wrote halo 4 writing it. all the good bioware people are writing da4.
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Mar 18, 2018 17:20
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Dapper_Swindler posted:this. they had the hack who wrote halo 4 writing it. all the good bioware people are writing da4. Which there have already been rumblings about going through a very troubled development. Apparently when MEA flopped the EA execs at Bioware freaked out and started ordering massive changes to whatever's going on with DA4.
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Mar 18, 2018 17:21
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Cythereal posted:Which there have already been rumblings about going through a very troubled development. Apparently when MEA flopped the EA execs at Bioware freaked out and started ordering massive changes to whatever's going on with DA4. yeah, apperently it got "restarted". Bioware won't survive not-destiny.
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Mar 18, 2018 17:24
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Dapper_Swindler posted:yeah, apperently it got "restarted". Bioware won't survive not-destiny. That's probably a good thing. Bioware dying might prompt another, much better, developer to take up the torch. I just want decent RPGs where the story is focused on the party as well as the player. I don't care who makes 'em.
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Mar 18, 2018 17:33
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Divinity: Original Sin 2 is a great CRPG with a good ensemble cast from a non-AAA publisher that's worth your money.
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Mar 18, 2018 17:36
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Funky See Funky Do posted:That's probably a good thing. Bioware dying might prompt another, much better, developer to take up the torch. I just want decent RPGs where the story is focused on the party as well as the player. I don't care who makes 'em. Yeah like ... a BioWare-style game is good, but as of late I don't think BioWare can really make a good one anymore! It feels like they haven't innovated since Mass Effect 2 and they keep falling into traps that a less-ossified studio could avoid.
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Mar 18, 2018 17:37
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exquisite tea posted:Divinity: Original Sin 2 is a great CRPG with a good ensemble cast from a non-AAA publisher that's worth your money. Yeah it's pretty good. I'm generally not a big fan of isometric games but I had a fun with it.
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Mar 18, 2018 17:38
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exquisite tea posted:Divinity: Original Sin 2 is a great CRPG with a good ensemble cast from a non-AAA publisher that's worth your money. I dunno. I bought it but had a very hard time getting into it from a gameplay standpoint. I got the impression the game thought I'd have played the first one and already be familiar with how to play the game, because it sure wasn't keen on explaining it and I eventually gave up after repeatedly getting my rear end kicked in a fight I didn't know how to handle and don't know if I was even supposed to be doing at the level I was. Didn't even seem to be any cheat codes or console to just brute force my way past that.
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Mar 18, 2018 17:39
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I really want DA4 to be good because Tevinter could be such a cool setting but uhhhh it doesn't seem smart to be optimistic right now
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Mar 18, 2018 17:42
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At this point it's not even a guarantee that DA4 is going to get made.
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Mar 18, 2018 17:43
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Is pillars of eternity any good? I see it's available for the bonx now.
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Mar 18, 2018 17:43
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A Buff Gay Dude posted:Is pillars of eternity any good? I see it's available for the bonx now. I was into it for a while, then I took a break for too long, and now I can't get back into it because I don't remember what I'm doing or who any of the characters are and I've got like 30 quests in my log. But it was fun while I was playing it, I seem to remember
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Mar 18, 2018 17:45
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I'm still kinda baffled how things even got to this point. Say what you will about the story, I think ME3 had far and away the best core gameplay and shooting of the series - it's the only Mass Effect game I usually play on hardcore or insanity, and enjoy it. ME2 was probably the best story, though the lack of gay options disappointed me in that regard. I don't know who got it into their heads that Bioware, so good at creating tight, focused storylines and gameplay experiences, would benefit from going open world. Leave that nonsense to Bethesda.
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Mar 18, 2018 17:45
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A Buff Gay Dude posted:Is pillars of eternity any good? I see it's available for the bonx now. I thought it was really boring and generic. A whole lot of Baron Infodumps giving you 10 paragraphs of exposition at a time and your party members are all idiots who cannot resist killing themselves without being micromanaged incessantly.
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Mar 18, 2018 17:48
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A Buff Gay Dude posted:Is pillars of eternity any good? I see it's available for the bonx now. If you like that kind of game yeah. It does a few novel things. Cythereal posted:I'm still kinda baffled how things even got to this point. Say what you will about the story, I think ME3 had far and away the best core gameplay and shooting of the series - it's the only Mass Effect game I usually play on hardcore or insanity, and enjoy it. ME2 was probably the best story, though the lack of gay options disappointed me in that regard. People are too hard on ME3 for the endings but some of the levels in it are among the most memorable bits of game I've ever played. The Turian moon and returning to reaper occupied London were amazing.
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Mar 18, 2018 17:49
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exquisite tea posted:I thought it was really boring and generic. A whole lot of Baron Infodumps giving you 10 paragraphs of exposition at a time and your party members are all idiots who cannot resist killing themselves without being micromanaged incessantly. I think the info dumps are why I bounced off it, yeah. I hit a streak where I was too tired to do that much reading in a video game so I took a break to play some more mindless stuff and now I can’t remember what’s going on and I’m sure as hell not starting from the beginning The writing is perfectly good, I just wasn’t in the mood for that kind of game for a bit
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Mar 18, 2018 17:51
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Funky See Funky Do posted:If you like that kind of game yeah. It does a few novel things. Cool quote:People are too hard on ME3 for the endings but some of the levels in it are among the most memorable bits of game I've ever played. The Turian moon and returning to reaper occupied London were amazing. No no no no no no no
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Mar 18, 2018 17:51
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I mean tbf I would also describe portions of ME3 as some of my "most memorable" moments in gaming, so yeah
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Mar 18, 2018 17:52
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Those parts were cool as hell and I'm not ashamed to think so. After the build up of first two games actually looking up and seeing Palaven getting obliterated and Reapers crawling all over London was sick.
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Mar 18, 2018 17:56
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It still amazes me that people come away from a lovely mission reporting that the skybox was really good, therefore the mission was good.
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Mar 18, 2018 18:01
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Funky See Funky Do posted:Those parts were cool as hell and I'm not ashamed to think so. After the build up of first two games actually looking up and seeing Palaven getting obliterated and Reapers crawling all over London was sick. My favorite gameplay levels were from the Leviathan DLC. I didn't care for the big reveal at the end, but I thought the three levels in the DLC were pretty cool and fun to play through.
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Mar 18, 2018 18:28
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ME2 Insanity was better than ME3 Insanity because ME3 took the extra health bars out which made squad and power selection much less important.
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Mar 18, 2018 18:39
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Cythereal posted:My favorite gameplay levels were from the Leviathan DLC. I didn't care for the big reveal at the end, but I thought the three levels in the DLC were pretty cool and fun to play through. The Omega DLC had some amazing looking levels in it too, especially that mining area at the very end. Even Citadel's environments looked great and nothing like the rest of the game, the first level after the restaurant was legitimately the first time the Citadel felt like an actual place and not a generic hub world to me.
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Mar 18, 2018 18:43
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A Buff Gay Dude posted:Is pillars of eternity any good? I see it's available for the bonx now. The White March expansions are some of the best CRPG content out there imo and the main reason I have absolute faith in the sequel that's coming out soon. Outside of the expansion, the main game is good but a lot more hit or miss, and unfortunately for Obsidian the worst part of the game is the first couple hours while you get your bearings. If you do play it, the one thing you need to know in advance is that any character with a gold border around their name is a Kickstarter backer's fan fiction they paid to put in the game and the sooner you stop reading them the better your experience will be. Also no clue how it actually plays on a console, only played it with a mouse and keyboard.
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Mar 18, 2018 19:11
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Jack's mission in ME3 was pretty great! Maybe because it was basically a Mass Effect 2 loyalty mission
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Mar 18, 2018 20:02
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Yeah, White March is pretty fantastic and should be played at least once, but a lot of PoE's writing is first-draft and it shows. The balance and mechanics have been improved over time (party members have actual AI settings now, instead of requiring constant micro), but the writing is still pretty rough in places and the game doesn't really come together the way it should.
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Mar 18, 2018 20:23
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Arglebargle III posted:It still amazes me that people come away from a lovely mission reporting that the skybox was really good, therefore the mission was good. The game set a solid mood, and things like Palavens moon really worked well with it. poo poo was hosed and you were on the back foot but getting your team together. The skybox was the icing on the cake.
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Mar 18, 2018 21:15
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Funky See Funky Do posted:There may be a wide variety of weapons but not a good selection. All of the beam weapons, for example, are a straight downgrade from every single projectile weapon. I haven't found a beam weapon I like yet, but, for instance, the quarian electric shock "shotgun" quickly became a favorite despite on-paper inferior stats. Gun is just satisfying to use. It concentrates its attack on whatever it finds within its wide arc of effect, making it dependable even against mid range targets. It's hard to miss or gently caress up face shots with it, whilst finding the sweet spot with a regular shotgun up close can be tricky. Also the reload animation is drat cool.
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Mar 18, 2018 21:44
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Pattonesque posted:Jack's mission in ME3 was pretty great! Maybe because it was basically a Mass Effect 2 loyalty mission Her character arc between the end of 2 and 3 was the only good one. But then you do her mission, get,to the end and it didn't matter in the slightest GG bioware
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Mar 18, 2018 21:59
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BARONS CYBER SKULL posted:Her character arc between the end of 2 and 3 was the only good one. Doesn’t her state at the end of ME2 really effect the Grissom academy level in 3?
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Mar 18, 2018 22:15
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quote:According to Patrick Weekes, the plot for this mission was inspired by the attack on the X-Mansion in the film X-Men 2, with Jack as Wolverine.
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Mar 18, 2018 22:39
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yeah, i definitely saw the influence.
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Mar 18, 2018 22:51
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ME3 jack owned for the 14 seconds she was in it before all the self-inserts came back
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Mar 18, 2018 23:06
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BARONS CYBER SKULL posted:ME3 jack owned for the 14 seconds she was in it before all the self-inserts came back One of the better ME2 character appearances. For example Jacob who they apparently forgot was a romance option in ME2. Having a weak terminally ill Thane clown on their new supposed super badass was pretty funny at least
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Mar 18, 2018 23:30
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hobbesmaster posted:One of the better ME2 character appearances. For example Jacob who they apparently forgot was a romance option in ME2. I've said it roughly ten million times, but it really felt like a good chunk of the writing team did not have any respect for Kai Leng's bullshit. I mean, he's stopped by a cop loving with his elevator like a kid in an eighties comedy. That does not sell "badass". Especially not with his death scene.
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Mar 18, 2018 23:40
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Kai Leng is the comedy relief of Mass Effect 3. This is 100% intentional.
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chiasaur11 posted:I've said it roughly ten million times, but it really felt like a good chunk of the writing team did not have any respect for Kai Leng's bullshit. Then again everyone thought that in asoiaf dark star was a parody. When it was brought up to GRRM he was confused and thought darkstar was a badass.
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