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Augus posted:okay but actually being fun to play would be nice too don’t you think Hold right, easily kill everything, no game overs, easy. What's not to like?
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Doctor Spaceman posted:A magic space McGuffin built by all the races in the history of the galaxy is a big dumb idea but it's the kind of big dumb idea that Mass Effect could work with. It's when you add in the Star Child and the circular motivation for the Reapers and the overwrought cutscenes and the silliness of Synthesis that it gets poo poo. IMO, the biggest mistake BioWare made with ME3's ending was trying to implement three different options for what to do about the Reapers. I think they could've made a much stronger ending with a really similar premise--an anti-Reaper superweapon created over multiple cycles throughout the galaxy's history--and just make it so you always just use it to destroy the Reapers. Have all the ending variance focus instead on the fates of the galaxy's different species and what each of your companions goes on to do after the game is over. That would have been absolutely fine.
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Feb 4, 2019 18:29
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New episode of Nick Knacks on Against the Odds, a little history documentary show that became the whipping boy of early 80s Nickelodeon.
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Feb 4, 2019 18:32
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Calaveron posted:Sonic Forces is the best Sonic game because it understands Sonic is all about goofy animals with dumb melodrama it actually doesn't take seriously accompanied by a poo poo kicking soundtrack
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Eric Taxxon: The Case for Asset Flips
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Honestly, just giving you the option of 'yeah, no, we've already proved that organics and synthetics can live in peace, and even you admit that your methods aren't helping, so let's just hug it out, big robot squid dudes' would make it a proper, satisfying Bioware RPG ending. Renegades can still just blow up all the synthetics if they want, and the hybridisation and control endings are consolation prizes for players who just couldn't get the galaxy's poo poo together enough to convince the Reapers.
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Feb 4, 2019 19:14
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Mass effect 3 turned all the AI characters into pinnochio wannabes and it hurts Edi and Legion a lot, since ME2 went out of its way to show how AI's think differently than organics and how their desires and motivations are alien to us, but ultimately not hostile.
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FlamingLiberal posted:I love how Sonic gets loving tortured Robotnik violates the entire Geneva convention
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Augus posted:okay but actually being fun to play would be nice too don’t you think None of this is good Augus. That's why it's called war.
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Harrow posted:IMO, the biggest mistake BioWare made with ME3's ending was trying to implement three different options for what to do about the Reapers. I think they could've made a much stronger ending with a really similar premise--an anti-Reaper superweapon created over multiple cycles throughout the galaxy's history--and just make it so you always just use it to destroy the Reapers. Have all the ending variance focus instead on the fates of the galaxy's different species and what each of your companions goes on to do after the game is over. That would have been absolutely fine. I'm reminded of something Noah Caldwell-Gervais brought up in his Planescape Torment video, which is how much the writing in that game is unique among the Infinity Engine games for being unlike the experience of a tabletop RPG. In a tabletop RPG every player comes in with a character who's probably charming and fun to engage with but could probably be summarized in a sentence or two and the DM comes in with a bunch of scenarios for them to bounce around. It's not a delicately woven tapestry but it doesn't need to be, because it's more about the journey than the destination. At a certain point Bioware forgot why people play their games.
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The best ME ending choice is shooting the kid. Seeing Liaras time capsule message for the first time got me absolutely weepy.
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Sanguinia posted:The best ME ending choice is shooting the kid. Seeing Liaras time capsule message for the first time got me absolutely weepy. I got that ending accidentally while just shooting my gun around because I was so bored during the forced crawling segment to choose your colour of ending.
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Sanguinia posted:The best ME ending choice is shooting the kid. Seeing Liaras time capsule message for the first time got me absolutely weepy. I shot the kid in the "Extended" ending because I was frustrated that for all they seemed to have compromised just by capitulating and making the ending "better," they just made it all way more lumpy and weird and didn't really fix any of the actual issues with it. So yeah, I shot him, and then got the hilariously petty "gently caress you, we watched all those youtube videos where people shot the kid and we're very upset about it, take this nothing ending where the next cycle just does the poo poo you refused to" ending.
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Calaveron posted:Video games aren't supposed to be fun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdxEUL18ySY
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Calaveron posted:Video games aren't supposed to be fun Do you have a patreon cause I have Benjamins to burn right now.
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This is only Internet Personality-adjacent, but I'm seeing rumblings on Twitter of Patreon responding very poorly to their current difficulties with transferring money to creators. Is it true that people who are running Patreon campaigns are receiving e-mails telling them they can get their payouts earlier if they accept an additional subtraction of 10% in fees from said payouts? Because that sounds a lot like racketeering to me. 
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JordanKai posted:This is only Internet Personality-adjacent, but I'm seeing rumblings on Twitter of Patreon responding very poorly to their current difficulties with transferring money to creators. Is it true that people who are running Patreon campaigns are receiving e-mails telling them they can get their payouts earlier if they accept an additional subtraction of 10% in fees from said payouts? In retrospect, it was a mistake to hand the management of our entire society over to a bunch of Silicon Valley STEMlord vampire idiots.
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JordanKai posted:This is only Internet Personality-adjacent, but I'm seeing rumblings on Twitter of Patreon responding very poorly to their current difficulties with transferring money to creators. Is it true that people who are running Patreon campaigns are receiving e-mails telling them they can get their payouts earlier if they accept an additional subtraction of 10% in fees from said payouts? Something-something private business. Something-something nobody is forced to do it. Something-something they dont owe you anything. Something-something Welcome to Hellworld 2019.
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JordanKai posted:This is only Internet Personality-adjacent, but I'm seeing rumblings on Twitter of Patreon responding very poorly to their current difficulties with transferring money to creators. Is it true that people who are running Patreon campaigns are receiving e-mails telling them they can get their payouts earlier if they accept an additional subtraction of 10% in fees from said payouts? At first it sounded like a technical issue, now that makes it sound like a trial balloon for enhanced "features" for a greater cut after this is over.
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:In retrospect, it was a mistake to hand the management of our entire society over to a bunch of Silicon Valley STEMlord vampire idiots. But! Jack Conte founded Pomplamoose! These vampire idiots were quirky!
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Sanguinia posted:The best ME ending choice is shooting the kid. Seeing Liaras time capsule message for the first time got me absolutely weepy. Reject is the only thematically fitting ending for Paragon. Shooting the kid is the most fitting ending for Renegade.
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Sanguinia posted:The best ME ending choice is shooting the kid. Seeing Liaras time capsule message for the first time got me absolutely weepy. That was delightfully salty of BioWare. "There's all these videos online of people shooting the Catalyst in protest of then ending." / "Make it so that shooting it triggers an Everyone Dies ending. That'll show 'em!" You can feel Mac Walters and Casey Hudson's spite dripping off every second of it.
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Arist posted:I shot the kid in the "Extended" ending because I was frustrated that for all they seemed to have compromised just by capitulating and making the ending "better," they just made it all way more lumpy and weird and didn't really fix any of the actual issues with it. So yeah, I shot him, and then got the hilariously petty "gently caress you, we watched all those youtube videos where people shot the kid and we're very upset about it, take this nothing ending where the next cycle just does the poo poo you refused to" ending. Yeah I found that in half a second too.
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You could tell they wanted the synthesis ending to be the main one, and I think that’s the ending people were most negative about
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When I went through the first time, pretty much full Paragon, I felt like control was the only possible good end. Synthesis was obvious stupid BS and Destroy was genocide against the Geth. Control lets all the good you did for the galaxy stand and then you become a benevolent guardian for the universe. Like a giant Batman Armada.
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bobjr posted:You could tell they wanted the synthesis ending to be the main one, and I think that’s the ending people were most negative about Shockingly not everyone or even most people are down for forced transhumanism. Maybe they just really wanted Joker and EDI to be able to bone.
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Screw Attack is rebranding to be a Death Battle only channel now which is like, okay whatever. But they're also seemingly in the process of privatizing all their old videos which is like around...thir-thirteen years worth of stuff that's gonna be "gone" now. A bunch of it was trash but still that was stuff from 2006 that somehow still survived on YouTube over for over a decade.
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The best 3D Sonic game is Sonic Colours  .bobjr posted:You could tell they wanted the synthesis ending to be the main one, and I think that’s the ending people were most negative about They, nothing; That's all Mac Walters jerking off. You can tell this because he blatantly weaves it into Andromeda eith the whole fused-with-SAM thing.
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Viewtiful Jew posted:Screw Attack is rebranding to be a Death Battle only channel now which is like, okay whatever. But they're also seemingly in the process of privatizing all their old videos which is like around...thir-thirteen years worth of stuff that's gonna be "gone" now. A bunch of it was trash but still that was stuff from 2006 that somehow still survived on YouTube over for over a decade.
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poparena posted:New episode of Nick Knacks on Against the Odds, a little history documentary show that became the whipping boy of early 80s Nickelodeon. Don't want this to go unappreciated, nice video about a show I knew nothing about.
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bobjr posted:You could tell they wanted the synthesis ending to be the main one, and I think that’s the ending people were most negative about It really is amazing considering it was the goal of the first game's antagonist.
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I do not like it when people make up lore about living people who might read it.
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Arcsquad12 posted:Mass effect 3 turned all the AI characters into pinnochio wannabes and it hurts Edi and Legion a lot, since ME2 went out of its way to show how AI's think differently than organics and how their desires and motivations are alien to us, but ultimately not hostile. Yeah it was a real shame there. The Geth being so completely alien and beyond our comprehension and yet benevolent to the point they didn't understand why their creators attacked (and even had the Quarian homeworld waiting for their return) them was a beautiful twist in the second game. EDI and Joker's relationship was also much more touching in the second game. The guy who completely distrusted the AI at first ends up warming heavily to her. They could've even gone the romantic route in 3 without the dumb sexbot stuff and just had their pairing be quite unorthodox.
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All this just makes me wanna play a game about a traveling band of friends (In any type of setting) thats about their lives or whatever and not really about any kind of epic quest.
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BigRed0427 posted:All this just makes me wanna play a game about a traveling band of friends (In any type of setting) thats about their lives or whatever and not really about any kind of epic quest. I am 110% sure there is some indie game like this that already exists
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AnEdgelord posted:I am 110% sure there is some indie game like this that already exists The Last Story and Resonance of Fate aren't exactly indie  .
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Want to see someone get ridiculously excited over a small Pac-Man replica cabinet? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiLqJ7QRHiA Featuring pet rats! 
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:I do not like it when people make up lore about living people who might read it. The Geordie Man sketch actually made me laugh.
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