I think ultimately what gets me about ME3 is that all the flaws I can see are very easy to fix, at least in my non-developer eyes
The entire ending trades on a premise that they barely talk about in the entire series
If they just made that a running theme through the game, then it would work for the ending
It blindsides everybody who didn't even realize that was part of the story
This is part of it
But what actually bothers me more is that the conflict in question comes up in the very game you just played, and you already had to make a decision on it one way or the other
It's not only not the theme of the trilogy, it's redundant
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David_TA fashion yes-man is no good to me.Copenhagen, DenmarkRegistered Userregular
I'm going to strongly disagree, and I really like ME3.
ME2 is a much cleaner, more focused experience. It's structured in a much more streamlined way. Mass Effect 3 feels bloated and piecemeal in some of the ways the first game did.
The stuff they put in to replace resource scanning is actually a huge step backwards, as is the weapon upgrade stuff. (It works wonderfully for the multiplayer but in the campaign is it unwieldily and pointless to the point of being a hassle.)
I'll have more to say on this after work, but ME2s scanning was actively awful. ME3s was not half as bad. I understand the scanning was okay with a controller, but anyone playing with a mouse knows the score.
I'm also one of those people that says that if they just ended it 10 minutes earlier, perfect ending
You turn on the Catalyst, it totally works and destroys all the Reapers through the power of generational friendship, and you sit and have one last chat with Anderson
A+ ending, GOTY
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AntimatterDevo Was RightGates of SteelRegistered Userregular
I could buy a Wii and Super Mario Galaxy at full price and not feel cheated
That's how much I loved that game
Like, it's rare for a game to make me have a big dumb grin on my face, but Super Mario Galaxy did it
well I bought both those things at full price and I played SMG every night for like an entire month and then didnt turn my Wii on again for like a year after that and I pretty much felt like "why do I have this dumb thing"
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AntimatterDevo Was RightGates of SteelRegistered Userregular
I could buy a Wii and Super Mario Galaxy at full price and not feel cheated
That's how much I loved that game
Like, it's rare for a game to make me have a big dumb grin on my face, but Super Mario Galaxy did it
well I bought both those things at full price and I played SMG every night for like an entire month and then didnt turn my Wii on again for like a year after that and I pretty much felt like "why do I have this dumb thing"
I hope eventually there is a way to share videos/screenshots to places other than Facebook. And Twitch figures out a way to archive PS4/Xbox One broadcasts.
I hope eventually there is a way to share videos/screenshots to places other than Facebook. And Twitch figures out a way to archive PS4/Xbox One broadcasts.
Apparently there's an option you can switch on through Twitch's website that is supposed to archive console streams, but it isn't working 100% of the time right now
I hope eventually there is a way to share videos/screenshots to places other than Facebook. And Twitch figures out a way to archive PS4/Xbox One broadcasts.
It archives mine, but only for a limited time, I guess?
It saved my AC4 stream for about a day
Same with my Sound Shapes stream
And my Lego Marvel one is still up
More than watching them on a web browser, I wish there were a way to access past broadcasts from my PS4
Mass Effect 2 is an excellent game but it isn't the perfection of its genre. Mass Effect 3 is its superior in all but ending. Combat is better. Characters are better. Ambient dialogue is better.
Mass Effect 2 will always shine brighter because it such an improvement over 1 but it has a lot of flaws that ME3 improves upon and its a damn shame the 3s ending will permanently scar all the other amazing things about it.
The ambient dialogue is better but it also has the unfortunate part of being tied to the weirdest way to get sidequests ever
Some jerk is eavesdropping on you and then has an entire adventure and comes back a week later to give you a thing you forgot about already
I really liked it in the context of Shepard as this like famous historical figure in the uinverse, and this is the sort of thing that would make it into a biography about them because someone's grandpappy would not fucking shut up about the time they were on the Citadel and Shepard heard about the thing he was looking for and then Shepard went and had a daring adventure and then gave it to him personally.
I will say for ME1 though that if we were to have a video game experience of the generation award, the last 3 to 4 hours of that game would probably be in my top 5 list.
Bioware has never come close to anything as cinematic and intense as those closing hours.
I hope eventually there is a way to share videos/screenshots to places other than Facebook. And Twitch figures out a way to archive PS4/Xbox One broadcasts.
Apparently there's an option you can switch on through Twitch's website that is supposed to archive console streams, but it isn't working 100% of the time right now
Oh. Huh. I have that option checked but it didn't archive my test stream of AC4. I wonder if there is a certain amount of time you have to stream for it to archive. I only streamed for like 5 minutes.
Mass Effect 2 is an excellent game but it isn't the perfection of its genre. Mass Effect 3 is its superior in all but ending. Combat is better. Characters are better. Ambient dialogue is better.
Mass Effect 2 will always shine brighter because it such an improvement over 1 but it has a lot of flaws that ME3 improves upon and its a damn shame the 3s ending will permanently scar all the other amazing things about it.
The ambient dialogue is better but it also has the unfortunate part of being tied to the weirdest way to get sidequests ever
Some jerk is eavesdropping on you and then has an entire adventure and comes back a week later to give you a thing you forgot about already
Wait, Super Mario Galaxy beat Rock Band in an earlier round?
Fuck that
Shut down that contest
I kinda get it
now, if they said rock band 3 we're in a whole new ballgame
Hell, Beatles Rock Band
god it's insane that that thing even exists
That's why I think they're probably going with most influential?
Rock Band was the big groundbreaker there, but 2 and 3 best it
And likewise I think nearly everyone prefers SMG2 to the first one, right?
But even if they're going with what was more groundbreaking at the time, Rock Band absolutely was over SMG1
Super Mario Galaxy was just Super Mario 64/Sunshine with the gravity concept that Ratchet and Clank had been doing for five years prior. Not that it didn't do it really well, but it wasn't some crazy new experience
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This is part of it
But what actually bothers me more is that the conflict in question comes up in the very game you just played, and you already had to make a decision on it one way or the other
It's not only not the theme of the trilogy, it's redundant
And as YouTube has shown, Google is always right.
No, seriously, requiescat, like requiem but without the m. And with... scat.
Also everytime I see "pewdiepie" I read it as "pewpewdie". I cannot not. Even now that I know it's not right.
Best? Most influential? Most exemplary of common qualities of games of this time?
I'll have more to say on this after work, but ME2s scanning was actively awful. ME3s was not half as bad. I understand the scanning was okay with a controller, but anyone playing with a mouse knows the score.
But the Half life Series, Dark Souls, and Minecraft have to be up there
Damn.
So Google is evil after all!
You turn on the Catalyst, it totally works and destroys all the Reapers through the power of generational friendship, and you sit and have one last chat with Anderson
A+ ending, GOTY
This is what I'm curious about and it's something to think about once the pack gets thinner
For the choices in this bunch there was just one of the two I didn't like or where I liked both but thought the other was much, much better
If it were on a system with a sensible controller I'd probably agree
As it stands though I'd still say it's probably top five
wow this villain is really good why couldn't the rest of the game be like this
shame on you super mario galaxy
Bullshit
The game of the generation is Super Mario Galaxy 2
i didnt get a chance to beat SMG2, sadly
That's how much I loved that game
Like, it's rare for a game to make me have a big dumb grin on my face, but Super Mario Galaxy did it
well I bought both those things at full price and I played SMG every night for like an entire month and then didnt turn my Wii on again for like a year after that and I pretty much felt like "why do I have this dumb thing"
yeah but you're balefuego
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Apparently there's an option you can switch on through Twitch's website that is supposed to archive console streams, but it isn't working 100% of the time right now
It archives mine, but only for a limited time, I guess?
It saved my AC4 stream for about a day
Same with my Sound Shapes stream
And my Lego Marvel one is still up
More than watching them on a web browser, I wish there were a way to access past broadcasts from my PS4
Bioware has never come close to anything as cinematic and intense as those closing hours.
Fuck that
Shut down that contest
Oh. Huh. I have that option checked but it didn't archive my test stream of AC4. I wonder if there is a certain amount of time you have to stream for it to archive. I only streamed for like 5 minutes.
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I kinda get it
now, if they said rock band 3 we're in a whole new ballgame
Hell, Beatles Rock Band
god it's insane that that thing even exists
That's why I think they're probably going with most influential?
Rock Band was the big groundbreaker there, but 2 and 3 best it
And likewise I think nearly everyone prefers SMG2 to the first one, right?
But even if they're going with what was more groundbreaking at the time, Rock Band absolutely was over SMG1
Super Mario Galaxy was just Super Mario 64/Sunshine with the gravity concept that Ratchet and Clank had been doing for five years prior. Not that it didn't do it really well, but it wasn't some crazy new experience
Those two should not have started off so close together
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But comparing to a music game almost seems unfair
Because yes, of course Rock Band is going to have a better soundtrack
The soundtrack is half the point
I remember the sound effects though
Great sound effects
When you shoot out from a slingshot star, fucking amazing