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I thought Solo felt more like a Mass Effect movie than a Star Wars movie.
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Feb 2, 2020 10:50
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Who What Now posted:Being a gravity wizard rules Biotics were so overpowered in ME 1 to the degree of being able to lift Geth Collosi and shoot them to death with souped up explosive ammo shotguns. ME 2 must be the best goddamn game I have ever played along with FN:NV. ME 3 was okay, the Citadel DLC is still kinda dumb that you throw parties when the universe literally burns but the gunplay and powers were better. Never played Andromeda, will probably try the new ME despite how bad it will be.
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Oh is there going to be another one? I enjoyed the trilogy a lot, keep meaning to give it a replay, I also never bothered with Andromeda tho
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Feb 2, 2020 14:09
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2house2fly posted:Oh is there going to be another one? Probably: https://www.pcgamer.com/a-new-mass-effect-is-rumored-to-be-in-very-early-development/
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Feb 2, 2020 14:17
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The final mission after you return to Citadel in ME is pure adrenaline and rules so hard.
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Feb 2, 2020 14:54
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I never got the hate for Andromeda
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I liked the first one but couldn't get into the cover shooter style of the second.
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The combat in Andromeda was top notch, but the character animations, characterisation and plot fell flat in a way that prevented a lot of people from really getting invested in the new characters the way they did Shep, Garrus, Wrex and Liara. The writing team wasn't as strong as the ME 1/2 team, and, and while it was at least as good as ME3, that was the weakest of the series. They really needed a stronger start. The game mechanics were fine, but it just didn't draw you in the way the first two games did, and ME3 benefitted significantly from the first and second game's work in establishing the main cast. Andromeda didn't have that advantage. It didn't have much replay value, and it also really didn't help that bioware wouldn't even stand by their product and cancelled planned DLC like a month in.
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Feb 2, 2020 15:21
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Don Dongington posted:The combat in Andromeda was top notch, but the character animations, characterisation and plot fell flat in a way that prevented a lot of people from really getting invested in the new characters the way they did Shep, Garrus, Wrex and Liara. The writing team wasn't as strong as the ME 1/2 team, and, and while it was at least as good as ME3, that was the weakest of the series. They really needed a stronger start. Yeah that’s fair. The combat was the best in the series, I think I cut the writing a lot of slack because thinking back on Mass Effect 1 I don’t think I really cared for the characters all that much back then except Tali, all the work of making them memorable and likable felt like it was done in ME2. While the characters in Andromeda didn’t impress me too much I felt like it was at least on the level of ME1 and thought they were a solid base to build on in the next game. The story also could have been more tightly plotted but I liked the relatively small scope of it, trying to protect this small colonization effort was a lot more engaging to me than Galactic Space Opera #877 so I think I was willing to overlook the minute-by-minute faults. Either way I hope this rumored new ME game builds on Andromeda instead of scrapping it
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Feb 2, 2020 16:12
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Galewolf posted:ME 2 must be the best goddamn game I have ever played along with FN:NV. Please try Super Mario Bros. 3
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Chuck Buried Treasure posted:I never got the hate for Andromeda It’s so bad... I so desperately wanted to like it, even after hearing all the hate, but I couldn’t finish it.
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Feb 2, 2020 22:37
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ME1 was great, the rest of the series was a blight and literally a disservice to both the medium and the genre.
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Utgardaloki posted:ME1 was great, the rest of the series was a blight and literally a disservice to both the medium and the genre. I'm sorry, but if playing as a vanguard and using wormholes I create with my mind to punch people in the dick is wrong, then I don't want to be right!
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I liked the multiplayer in 3 enough that I pre orderd Dragon Age Inquisition because the multiplayer looked similar. It was a large mistake. But this isn't a forum for games this is a forum for sci-fi, so I'm gonna talk about the sci-fi. The sci fi was okay but honestly now that I'm thinking back none of it really stands out as amazing.
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Utgardaloki posted:ME1 was great, the rest of the series was a blight and literally a disservice to both the medium and the genre. A blight you say? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8wUSk3aqgI
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Utgardaloki posted:ME1 was great, the rest of the series was a blight and literally a disservice to both the medium and the genre. mass effect is a dogshit take on the genre and me1 is part of an insanely bad sub-medium, hth
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ungulateman posted:mass effect is a dogshit take on the genre and me1 is part of an insanely bad sub-medium, hth Cool, great post in the Mass Effect thread, hth.
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mass effect 2 correctly realises it's not a space opera and takes its grim, miserable setting and turns it into a Die Hard video game, with gameplay that complements that. mass effect 3 then proceeds to flail around in circles for 30 hours trying to make up its mind between the two and then trips over itself at the end for spectacular comedic effect from what i've seen of andromeda it's a way better take on the genre but is not particularly good as a game, but also it having the mass effect brand attached to it did nothing positive or useful for it in either case
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I never played Andromeda, but I recall hearing about how the Citadel races set up a museum that teaches a very white washed version of their history to the Andromeda races, and that sounded like a really cool idea.
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Mass Effect was basically the Star Wars of video games, it took a bunch of disparate stuff that came before it (in this case shooters and roleplaying games) and synthesized them into something that could achieve something new while paying homage to its influences at a time when technology reached the point that it could set the standard for blockbusters that would follow. Also like Star Wars the second one was objectively the best.
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I have never played a ME game and it's probably the biggest gap in my "gaming knowledge" of the last decade. Is the whole trilogy available on PC through Origin or something?
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What's Die Hard about Mass Effect 2
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2house2fly posted:What's Die Hard about Mass Effect 2 There's a mission where you fight your way through a corporate skyscraper.
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C-Euro posted:I have never played a ME game and it's probably the biggest gap in my "gaming knowledge" of the last decade. Is the whole trilogy available on PC through Origin or something? the whole trilogy is on Origin, yes
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rear end effect: a pornographical parody
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Squizzle posted:rear end effect: a pornographical parody i'll
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Tonight at 8: Xbox, or sexbox? We look at Mass Effect, the hot new video game that some parents say is a little too hot to be on the store shelves.
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Feb 3, 2020 18:16
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Galewolf posted:The final mission after you return to Citadel in ME I got a mod that made my shotgun have almost infinite range and knockback and pretty much infinite cooldown so it turned that entire last level into Doom It owned
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Feb 3, 2020 18:17
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I remember everyone being mad at the end and not understanding what the problem was, but I only played through 2.
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zoux posted:I remember everyone being mad at the end and not understanding what the problem was, but I only played through 2. The Ends Are Bad
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ME3 presaged the sequel trilogy. Couple of neat set pieces, wraps up one or two story arcs nicely, but it ends up being an incoherent mess because no one had any real clue what they were doing or what the story was ultimately going to be about
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RBA Starblade posted:The Ends Are Bad I almost always hate story in games because if I wanted story I"d Read A God Damned Book
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the ends are fine. the biggest problem is, like the sequel trilogy, EA/Disney forcing releases of undercooked first draft material to fit a schedule the second biggest problem is Bioware's cringing-dog approach to audience responses and feedback leading to dishonest and schizophrenic storytelling. hmm, also familiar...
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I kind of like a lot of the extended cut but the revised Destroy ending being like "this is all basically fine" was a weak move
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Zoran posted:ME3 presaged the sequel trilogy. Couple of neat set pieces, wraps up one or two story arcs nicely, but it ends up being an incoherent mess because no one had any real clue what they were doing or what the story was ultimately going to be about Didn’t they rewrite the whole ending because the script leaked? iirc the original actually involved the dark matter/dying suns thing that got brought up a few times in ME2
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zoux posted:I remember everyone being mad at the end and not understanding what the problem was, but I only played through 2. Expectation is the biggest enemy of any nerd-focused media because when your audience is people who build their personality around media nothing you put out can fill the yawning chasm in their soul that is chasing the dragon of being 12 playing games without a care in the world. It's why the only games that really truly hit hard are ones that sneak in under gamers' defenses like Portal or Undertale, while anything that has half a decade of build up and  will never live up to it.
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Sleeveless posted:Expectation is the biggest enemy of any nerd-focused media because when your audience is people who build their personality around media nothing you put out can fill the yawning chasm in their soul that is chasing the dragon of being 12 playing games without a care in the world. It's why the only games that really truly hit hard are ones that sneak in under gamers' defenses like Portal or Undertale, while anything that has half a decade of build up and Undertale didn't hit that hard
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The series went to complete and utter poo poo with the Lair of the Shadow Broker DLC. Idiotic, self-referential writing focused on solving mysteries that didn't need answering, and waves of enemies dropping in on your head in lieu of actual set piece design. Everything before it is great, everything after just garbage that I'm still mad about nearly 8 years later.
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