I started playing Mass Effect 2 again. I think I'm in it for the long haul now. I've already beaten the game once, but at the time I didn't have any of the major DLC like Shadow Broker, Kasumi, etc. and at least two of my crew died at the end. I want to give it another shot, especially before I play Mass Effect 3.
See, this is why I prefer to have the GOTY/Collection/Bundle for each game. I loved Darksiders II, for example, but I'm not sure I would have enjoyed it as much as I did without the DLC adding in all the little sidequests, areas to explore, items to use, and extra story bits to play.
Same here, in general. But I don't think they've ever released a GOTY for ME2 or 3.
I started playing Mass Effect 2 again. I think I'm in it for the long haul now. I've already beaten the game once, but at the time I didn't have any of the major DLC like Shadow Broker, Kasumi, etc. and at least two of my crew died at the end. I want to give it another shot, especially before I play Mass Effect 3.
See, this is why I prefer to have the GOTY/Collection/Bundle for each game. I loved Darksiders II, for example, but I'm not sure I would have enjoyed it as much as I did without the DLC adding in all the little sidequests, areas to explore, items to use, and extra story bits to play.
Same here, in general. But I don't think they've ever released a GOTY for ME2 or 3.
Never will, either. The best you can hope for is a sale on Bioware points, which does happen.... like once every 7th year, on a blue moon in the autumn. Amazon sells Bioware points, too, and I have seen them go on sale there once. Just once...
These in tandem with the fact that ME3 isn't on Steam drops my interest in Mass Effect to basically zero.
Your loss. Really. The Mass Effect series represents one of the best things the video game industry has given us yet. From its sweeping story to its memorable personalities to its vivid settings, it is a series that deserves to be played and is unlikely to be easily forgotten by those who do. It is a wonderful tour-de-force of [galactic] war and turmoil, heroic struggle, and the power of determination and spirit. It's an epic of companionship and adventure and the search for hope when there doesn't seem to be any. It sticks.
The three games taken together represent somewhere in the ballpark of 100 hours of pure gaming joy and countless unforgettable moments. Of those moments, of course, everyone has their favorites. A few of mine can be summarized by particular quotes - any one which will be immediately recognizable to Mass Effect vets...
"I am Urdnot Wrex. And this is my planet!"
"Had to be me. Someone else might have gotten it wrong."
"Shit shit shit shit. What the shit?"
"Stand amongst the ashes of a trillion dead souls and ask the ghosts if honor matters."
"We impose order on the chaos of organic evolution. You exist because we allow it, and you will end because we demand it."
Anyone is free to never play these games. To suggest otherwise would be silly. But so doing is really missing out on something special.
I can't disagree with any of that. I have heard wonderfully momentous things about it, I have enjoyed many other Bioware games (except Jade Empire, which ended up really boring me), and I enjoy Sci-fi as well as epics.
However, the combination of time, money and energy to buy the games, install a completely new game management system (Origin, since ME3 isn't on Steam), together with all the other games I still have in my backlog on means that I have so much more easily accessible gaming to do for the foreseeable future, which is why the games have me at a zero interest.
Still, it's similar to my Dragon Age problem: I got the original, but the second one isn't on Steam. At least it's my understanding that the first one is a complete story in itself. I'm sure I'll get around to having Origin installed at some point, but I expect it to be years from now. Which, if my Steam library is any indication (games dating back to 1994), I'll be fine with.
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I don't need Mass Effect anymore. I have Saints Row IV for all that stuff now.
You can't really say you've got SR4 for all that stuff because the Boss can dance. Shepard?
Well...she's got spirit.
The only time Shepard actually dances well in the entire trilogy it's considered a renegade option. It's one of my favourite details of the citadel DLC.
I actually got this early this morning but was just able to accept it due to my brother's subordinates' needing rides at the last minute to catch a bus out of state and it being boating (close a major bridge) season in Seattle.
Just played a bit of two games, HammerWatch, and HammerFight. One is a hack and slash dungeon crawler that I can see being fun but is a bit more difficult than I'm used to, and the other is a mouse driven physics fighting game type thing where you basically swing a wrecking ball at people till they die.
Just played a bit of two games, HammerWatch, and HammerFight. One is a hack and slash dungeon crawler that I can see being fun but is a bit more difficult than I'm used to, and the other is a mouse driven physics fighting game type thing where you basically swing a wrecking ball at people till they die.
I think HammerWatch is meant to be played with other people. A friend and I were playing together and it was still hard, but I could see how much more difficult it would be solo.
I started playing Mass Effect 2 again. I think I'm in it for the long haul now. I've already beaten the game once, but at the time I didn't have any of the major DLC like Shadow Broker, Kasumi, etc. and at least two of my crew died at the end. I want to give it another shot, especially before I play Mass Effect 3.
See, this is why I prefer to have the GOTY/Collection/Bundle for each game. I loved Darksiders II, for example, but I'm not sure I would have enjoyed it as much as I did without the DLC adding in all the little sidequests, areas to explore, items to use, and extra story bits to play.
Same here, in general. But I don't think they've ever released a GOTY for ME2 or 3.
I started playing Mass Effect 2 again. I think I'm in it for the long haul now. I've already beaten the game once, but at the time I didn't have any of the major DLC like Shadow Broker, Kasumi, etc. and at least two of my crew died at the end. I want to give it another shot, especially before I play Mass Effect 3.
See, this is why I prefer to have the GOTY/Collection/Bundle for each game. I loved Darksiders II, for example, but I'm not sure I would have enjoyed it as much as I did without the DLC adding in all the little sidequests, areas to explore, items to use, and extra story bits to play.
Same here, in general. But I don't think they've ever released a GOTY for ME2 or 3.
Never will, either. The best you can hope for is a sale on Bioware points, which does happen.... like once every 7th year, on a blue moon in the autumn. Amazon sells Bioware points, too, and I have seen them go on sale there once. Just once...
These in tandem with the fact that ME3 isn't on Steam drops my interest in Mass Effect to basically zero.
Your loss. Really. The Mass Effect series represents one of the best things the video game industry has given us yet. From its sweeping story to its memorable personalities to its vivid settings, it is a series that deserves to be played and is unlikely to be easily forgotten by those who do. It is a wonderful tour-de-force of [galactic] war and turmoil, heroic struggle, and the power of determination and spirit. It's an epic of companionship and adventure and the search for hope when there doesn't seem to be any. It sticks.
The three games taken together represent somewhere in the ballpark of 100 hours of pure gaming joy and countless unforgettable moments. Of those moments, of course, everyone has their favorites. A few of mine can be summarized by particular quotes - any one which will be immediately recognizable to Mass Effect vets...
"I am Urdnot Wrex. And this is my planet!"
"Had to be me. Someone else might have gotten it wrong."
"Shit shit shit shit. What the shit?"
"Stand amongst the ashes of a trillion dead souls and ask the ghosts if honor matters."
"We impose order on the chaos of organic evolution. You exist because we allow it, and you will end because we demand it."
Anyone is free to never play these games. To suggest otherwise would be silly. But so doing is really missing out on something special.
I can't disagree with any of that. I have heard wonderfully momentous things about it, I have enjoyed many other Bioware games (except Jade Empire, which ended up really boring me), and I enjoy Sci-fi as well as epics.
However, the combination of time, money and energy to buy the games, install a completely new game management system (Origin, since ME3 isn't on Steam), together with all the other games I still have in my backlog on means that I have so much more easily accessible gaming to do for the foreseeable future, which is why the games have me at a zero interest.
Still, it's similar to my Dragon Age problem: I got the original, but the second one isn't on Steam. At least it's my understanding that the first one is a complete story in itself. I'm sure I'll get around to having Origin installed at some point, but I expect it to be years from now. Which, if my Steam library is any indication (games dating back to 1994), I'll be fine with.
Personally I don't think you are missing out by skipping the second DA (they took away a lot of the customization that the first had which really bother me, plus the story and gameplay are weaker IMO), but the first one along with the awakening expansion is like combining the epic scale of skyrim with a terrific bioware story.
I have the first Dragon Age. When I start it up it asks if I want to play Origins or Awakening. As a first play through, do I want to just start with Awakening? Or is that meant for experienced players?
I have the first Dragon Age. When I start it up it asks if I want to play Origins or Awakening. As a first play through, do I want to just start with Awakening? Or is that meant for experienced players?
Origins. Awakening is an expansion, and takes place after Origins.
I soured on Mass Effect 3 after that major moral decision early on. You know the one.
I'd love to play a game where I'm not Space Jesus or Hitler. The Witcher series does a good job scratching that itch.
Though it's not in space.
My goto RPG character in any game that has a morality system is a character that is good natured and kind, yet lazy, sort of greedy, and brutally vindictive.
One thing that frustrated me about Neverwinter Nights 2 was that even though I started off as a Chaotic Good character, and I helped pretty much everyone I came across, I still wound up being labeled Chaotic Evil after a while simply because I stole everything that wasn't nailed down.
And maybe strongly requested some gold for my services.
And sided with the Thieves Guild instead of the City Guard because fuck the police.
And slaughtered some Lizardfolk.
Does the Mass Effect series force you to play fairly polar, or is there a nice in-between?
Well @DoctorArch and @Broncbuster. Steam thwarted our attempt at multiplayer last night but I'm up for trying again tonight if you are. It can't fail twice in two nights, right?
Anyone else welcome to join us, of course. Probably for Sanctum 2 at 9est
@Ed Gruberman, if you don't mind my possibly not being mic'ed and having never played any Sanctum or Sanctum 2 before, I'll throw in with you lot this evening.
Dudes! I can't join tonight, going to meet up and see Amazing Spider-Man 2. I'm game Sunday evening after 7:30 PST.
Has anyone had a download constantly switch between 99% downloading and paused? It just won't finish, and keeps on wigging out and switching between those two things. I've tried exiting and restarting steam, verifying integrity of the local cache, and manually pausing and restarting, and nothing. Steam has been pretty terrible lately.
Edit: Also tried changing download region, no dice.
Has anyone had a download constantly switch between 99% downloading and paused? It just won't finish, and keeps on wigging out and switching between those two things. I've tried exiting and restarting steam, verifying integrity of the local cache, and manually pausing and restarting, and nothing. Steam has been pretty terrible lately.
Edit: Also tried changing download region, no dice.
Yes, we discussed it back on page 13, many of us have this problem and unfortunately, it seems there isn't a solution for it at the moment.
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Forget the rumours, Hail Hydra button is not dead yet and never will be!
It's just we are now part of the recently created International League of Evil Criminal Organizations (provisional denomination).
We still need to come up with a catchy name for the new button.
I soured on Mass Effect 3 after that major moral decision early on. You know the one.
I'd love to play a game where I'm not Space Jesus or Hitler. The Witcher series does a good job scratching that itch.
Though it's not in space.
My goto RPG character in any game that has a morality system is a character that is good natured and kind, yet lazy, sort of greedy, and brutally vindictive.
One thing that frustrated me about Neverwinter Nights 2 was that even though I started off as a Chaotic Good character, and I helped pretty much everyone I came across, I still wound up being labeled Chaotic Evil after a while simply because I stole everything that wasn't nailed down.
And maybe strongly requested some gold for my services.
And sided with the Thieves Guild instead of the City Guard because fuck the police.
And slaughtered some Lizardfolk.
Does the Mass Effect series force you to play fairly polar, or is there a nice in-between?
you are heavily encouraged by game systems to pick an extreme and stick with it.
So, tucked away at the bottom of that Activision sale is Geometery Wars, for about 207yen. Less than half the price of a pack of ciggies, and slotting well into that visually-heavy, everything's trying to kill you right now niche along with Really Big Sky (which is also great).
Also, eliciting from my wife the comment, "Man, this makes me want to do shrooms, again." So there's that.
Non-sale related, but...Super Crate Box...i do so want to like you, and i know you're free and all, but...why you gotta go and crash on me every 2minutes?
I soured on Mass Effect 3 after that major moral decision early on. You know the one.
I'd love to play a game where I'm not Space Jesus or Hitler. The Witcher series does a good job scratching that itch.
Though it's not in space.
My goto RPG character in any game that has a morality system is a character that is good natured and kind, yet lazy, sort of greedy, and brutally vindictive.
One thing that frustrated me about Neverwinter Nights 2 was that even though I started off as a Chaotic Good character, and I helped pretty much everyone I came across, I still wound up being labeled Chaotic Evil after a while simply because I stole everything that wasn't nailed down.
And maybe strongly requested some gold for my services.
And sided with the Thieves Guild instead of the City Guard because fuck the police.
And slaughtered some Lizardfolk.
Does the Mass Effect series force you to play fairly polar, or is there a nice in-between?
you are heavily encouraged by game systems to pick an extreme and stick with it.
Didn't extra credits once posit that mortality systems would work better on two axis than one?
I soured on Mass Effect 3 after that major moral decision early on. You know the one.
I'd love to play a game where I'm not Space Jesus or Hitler. The Witcher series does a good job scratching that itch.
Though it's not in space.
My goto RPG character in any game that has a morality system is a character that is good natured and kind, yet lazy, sort of greedy, and brutally vindictive.
One thing that frustrated me about Neverwinter Nights 2 was that even though I started off as a Chaotic Good character, and I helped pretty much everyone I came across, I still wound up being labeled Chaotic Evil after a while simply because I stole everything that wasn't nailed down.
And maybe strongly requested some gold for my services.
And sided with the Thieves Guild instead of the City Guard because fuck the police.
And slaughtered some Lizardfolk.
Does the Mass Effect series force you to play fairly polar, or is there a nice in-between?
It starts off polar, but lessens over the course of the series. If you want the "really good" choices for Paragon/Renegade things, you need to pretty much lean one way or the other in ME1. ME2 continues that mostly, but also offers Paragon/Renegade interrupts (kind of like optional QTEs) that pop independent of which way you lean. ME3 just bases morality decisions around Shepard's level of renown, so you can be a Baby-Eating Demon, but then still help a blind person across the street.
Has anyone had a download constantly switch between 99% downloading and paused? It just won't finish, and keeps on wigging out and switching between those two things. I've tried exiting and restarting steam, verifying integrity of the local cache, and manually pausing and restarting, and nothing. Steam has been pretty terrible lately.
Edit: Also tried changing download region, no dice.
Yes, we discussed it back on page 13, many of us have this problem and unfortunately, it seems there isn't a solution for it at the moment.
Well, it's nice to know that at least it's not just something off with my setup, but man alive, there is no buyer's remorse quite like a purchase of a digital good that doesn't work. At least with a broken physical product, you have, like a paperweight and an instruction manual or something...but here, the money's just...gone.
Also I thought Mass Effect in general was pretty terrible. But then again I've actually spent a fair part of my childhood reading, so the entire story was pretty shoddy and poorly written from my point of view. With combat that was rather terrible in the first two and serviceably fun in the third. Moral choices that were generally terrible (Except the interrupts which had a couple of good options) and the ability to punch a reporter.
All in all I don't think anyone misses out by not playing Mass Effect. I think people miss out more by not playing something like Saint's Row, Spelunky or Mirror's Edge.
My house is, was, and always will be a House of Quake.
However, I can appreciate some of the things that UT did that set it apart (things like ootb mutators and secondary fire for all weapons), and had some fun slumming playing UT with filthy heathens Unreal fans back in the day. I'm excited to see where it'll be headed in the future now that id is a remnant of its former self, a shambling corpse wandering dark hallways clad in nothing more than a dirty and torn Doom T-shirt.
If anything it'll be nice to see a tournament shooter in UE4.
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I'd love to play a game where I'm not Space Jesus or Hitler. The Witcher series does a good job scratching that itch.
Though it's not in space.
I can't disagree with any of that. I have heard wonderfully momentous things about it, I have enjoyed many other Bioware games (except Jade Empire, which ended up really boring me), and I enjoy Sci-fi as well as epics.
However, the combination of time, money and energy to buy the games, install a completely new game management system (Origin, since ME3 isn't on Steam), together with all the other games I still have in my backlog on means that I have so much more easily accessible gaming to do for the foreseeable future, which is why the games have me at a zero interest.
Still, it's similar to my Dragon Age problem: I got the original, but the second one isn't on Steam. At least it's my understanding that the first one is a complete story in itself. I'm sure I'll get around to having Origin installed at some point, but I expect it to be years from now. Which, if my Steam library is any indication (games dating back to 1994), I'll be fine with.
The only time Shepard actually dances well in the entire trilogy it's considered a renegade option. It's one of my favourite details of the citadel DLC.
I actually got this early this morning but was just able to accept it due to my brother's subordinates' needing rides at the last minute to catch a bus out of state and it being boating (close a major bridge) season in Seattle.
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I think HammerWatch is meant to be played with other people. A friend and I were playing together and it was still hard, but I could see how much more difficult it would be solo.
Personally I don't think you are missing out by skipping the second DA (they took away a lot of the customization that the first had which really bother me, plus the story and gameplay are weaker IMO), but the first one along with the awakening expansion is like combining the epic scale of skyrim with a terrific bioware story.
Yes.
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Origins. Awakening is an expansion, and takes place after Origins.
My goto RPG character in any game that has a morality system is a character that is good natured and kind, yet lazy, sort of greedy, and brutally vindictive.
One thing that frustrated me about Neverwinter Nights 2 was that even though I started off as a Chaotic Good character, and I helped pretty much everyone I came across, I still wound up being labeled Chaotic Evil after a while simply because I stole everything that wasn't nailed down.
And sided with the Thieves Guild instead of the City Guard because fuck the police.
And slaughtered some Lizardfolk.
Does the Mass Effect series force you to play fairly polar, or is there a nice in-between?
I was going to "Hail Hydra" this, but...
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The thread would end up just a single post with a million "Serve the Newell" button clicks
Your point?
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I think his point is "Serve the Newell!".
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Pretty much.
Unfortunately i can't tomorrow night.
Edit: but I'm still around tonight
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Edit: Also tried changing download region, no dice.
Yes, we discussed it back on page 13, many of us have this problem and unfortunately, it seems there isn't a solution for it at the moment.
It's just we are now part of the recently created International League of Evil Criminal Organizations (provisional denomination).
We still need to come up with a catchy name for the new button.
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Also, eliciting from my wife the comment, "Man, this makes me want to do shrooms, again." So there's that.
Non-sale related, but...Super Crate Box...i do so want to like you, and i know you're free and all, but...why you gotta go and crash on me every 2minutes?
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Didn't extra credits once posit that mortality systems would work better on two axis than one?
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
But why? :P
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@Jeix wins. Glory to the fresh blood! Be sure to install the unofficial patch to make the game 100x better.
@Masume wins. Enjoy probably my favorite Star Wars game besides Shadows of the Empire and the Battlefront series.
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I'm hoping : Play Battlefront II multi, or some other game???
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Also I thought Mass Effect in general was pretty terrible. But then again I've actually spent a fair part of my childhood reading, so the entire story was pretty shoddy and poorly written from my point of view. With combat that was rather terrible in the first two and serviceably fun in the third. Moral choices that were generally terrible (Except the interrupts which had a couple of good options) and the ability to punch a reporter.
All in all I don't think anyone misses out by not playing Mass Effect. I think people miss out more by not playing something like Saint's Row, Spelunky or Mirror's Edge.
You make a very compelling argument.
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However, I can appreciate some of the things that UT did that set it apart (things like ootb mutators and secondary fire for all weapons), and had some fun slumming playing UT with filthy heathens Unreal fans back in the day. I'm excited to see where it'll be headed in the future now that id is a remnant of its former self, a shambling corpse wandering dark hallways clad in nothing more than a dirty and torn Doom T-shirt.
If anything it'll be nice to see a tournament shooter in UE4.