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Soral
May 30, 2009

mass effect 3 is kind of poo poo but the dlc with the extra missions in the citadel is amazing and makes up for it imo. worth a play to check it out, once.

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Pewdiepie
Oct 31, 2010

Video Viddy Games posted:

i do. i had a lot of fun with it. especially driving around planets in the mako. it was more like oldie scifi too and didnt feel all cover shootery like 2 and 3. its legit my favourite.

VideoGames
Aug 18, 2003

i know. no one (or very few people) agree with me and i am cool with that. i just really liked what they did with it. at least it felt cohesive with a direct line of where you began to where you ended up. neither 2 nor 3 felt like anything more than a collection of random stories. also the mysterious man was boring

Ekster
Jul 18, 2013

honestly I liked the story of ME 1 the best, ME 2's storyline was insanely bad but it had a bunch of really cool characters and overall good gameplay improvements so it's my favorite and ME 3 is pretty much an inferior ME 2 in most respects but hey it had citadel DLC which is easily the best thing out of ME

Wits2k1
Jun 7, 2002

The mako was awesome and it was a mistake to get rid of it

Wits2k1
Jun 7, 2002


look in your heart, you know it's true

Bolow
Feb 27, 2007

i would pay money for the master chief collection if it came out on pc :smith:

Pomp
Apr 3, 2012

by Fluffdaddy
mass effect and assassins creed are bad, sandbox games are all shallow poo poo, and Okami was just pretty good.

CJacobs
Apr 17, 2011

Reach for the moon!
^
:agreed:

other opinion: Playing video games professionally/competitively is stupid and is only half of the reason MOBAs are a garbage genre (the other half is that they aren't fun to play).

LaTex Fetish
Oct 11, 2010

zen death robot posted:

Mass Effect 2 and 3 were pretty good games overall. If you had a crybaby meltdown over the ending of 3 then you care too much about writing in games.

when the mechanics are poor and typical and the only redeeming quality was the story/characters, they should care

Bobby The Rookie
Jun 2, 2005

The driving in Sleeping Dogs feels like horseshit in conjunction with most of the cars already handling awfully. The bikes are even worse.

The Protagonist
Jun 29, 2009

The average is 5.5? I thought it was 4. This is very unsettling.
the final boss of me2 was completely retarded and badass at the same time

Contra Calculus
Nov 6, 2009

Gravy Boat 2k
I felt ME2 was mostly better than 1 because they pulled the old Bioware trick of literally cutting half the original's gameplay rather than improving on the flaws of the original which, I got to be honest, was really disappointing.

ME3 was just more of the same and became dull after a while.

Wormskull
Aug 23, 2009

Contra Calculus posted:

I felt ME2 was mostly better than 1 because they pulled the old Bioware trick of literally cutting half the original's gameplay rather than improving on the flaws of the original which, I got to be honest, was really disappointing.

They replaced the stupid skill thing with one that's just better as a skill tree, they got rid of tedious poo poo like driving around a stupid planet in favor of just scanning it less tediously, and more. I don't know what their supposed to have cut rather than replaced with something that's at least not as bad, whether it makes the game shorter or not.

Wits2k1
Jun 7, 2002

zen death robot posted:

Oh man I miss this lovely driving a bad dune buggy on a small lovely part of a moon while a space worm spits acid at me. Don't know why we didn't just fly past all this poo poo instead.....

the mako was fun as poo poo if for no other reason than ramming those huge geth walkers things until they die

Contra Calculus
Nov 6, 2009

Gravy Boat 2k

Wormskull posted:

They replaced the stupid skill thing with one that's just better as a skill tree, they got rid of tedious poo poo like driving around a stupid planet in favor of just scanning it less tediously, and more. I don't know what their supposed to have cut rather than replaced with something that's at least not as bad, whether it makes the game shorter or not.

Rather than getting rid of the tedious driving all together and replace it with a tedious scanning mini-game instead, they could have made the driving, I don't know, fun?

I also liked being able to customize my stats more in ME1 but I really don't remember ME2 that well so I can't remember if they did the powers thing that much better.

Wormskull
Aug 23, 2009

You don't really customize as much in ME1 so if that's what you wanted ME2 was better, as it had somewhat branching trees.

VideoGames
Aug 18, 2003
i genuinely loved the mako and driving around the planets. felt like i was exploring the universe i was a part of. i really felt like a scifi spaceman.

i did not get that feeling with any of the others

Silver Striker
May 22, 2013

for the mako stuff i had fun with it but i was like "hm, this has potential to be way better, i cant wait to see what they do with it next game" and they just cut it. thats how i felt about pretty much everything in mass effect 2. its probably a better game overall for the cuts they made, but it also removed a lot of the quirky aspects of mass effect 1 that i really liked.

VideoGames
Aug 18, 2003

zen death robot posted:

If you're a future space explorer are you gonna go trucking around a possibly hostile alien environment in a badly shielded ATV or are you gonna fly in a badass heavily armed/stealth ship and land as close to your destination as you possibly can?

That's the problem with the Mako. It just didn't fit in with the rest of the tech. The thing they had in ME3 was a better try.

i liked being dropped in a badly shielded ATV because i felt like that was one of the underlying themes. being completely unprepared to be a spectre, for the reapers, for the oncoming war. like I was always out of my depth and had to make do

Wits2k1
Jun 7, 2002

It was hard to drive at first but once you got used to its quirks it was fun and you could bounce around and squish people and ramp off mountains, whether it fit in with the tech or logic is moot because it was a fun mechanic that got axed in favor of a boring rear end minigame which is pretty much what happened to the series after ME1

Cobweb Heart
Mar 31, 2010

I need you to wear this. I need you to wear this all the time. It's office policy.
amazing mirror is the best kirby game. the 64 outing is upper-echelon kirby, too. kirby has never had a truly, transcendentally great game, but combining some mechanics from those two would be a good start

Contra Calculus
Nov 6, 2009

Gravy Boat 2k
Kirby 64 was okay but I was disappointed in the lack of variety with the powers even with the ability to combine them. Which was still really cool.

Cobweb Heart
Mar 31, 2010

I need you to wear this. I need you to wear this all the time. It's office policy.
i like kirby 64, but it could be improved in almost every way. starting with extracting the 2.5d levels and power fusing and putting them in a different, superior game

Knuc U Kinte
Aug 17, 2004

LaTex Fetish posted:

when the mechanics are poor and typical and the only redeeming quality was the story/characters, they should care

The mechanics were good though.

LaTex Fetish
Oct 11, 2010

Knuc U Kinte posted:

The mechanics were good though.

I dunno, played one bioware game played em all.

Scalding Coffee
Jun 26, 2006

You're already dead

CJacobs posted:

Better dialog?
Better?

Knuc U Kinte
Aug 17, 2004

LaTex Fetish posted:

I dunno, played one bioware game played em all.

:iamafag:

Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011

Contra Calculus posted:

Kirby 64 was okay but I was disappointed in the lack of variety with the powers even with the ability to combine them. Which was still really cool.

it would kick rear end for a kirby game that had the superstar ultra variety of moves but had 64 power fusion poo poo

also playable Metaknight from the start

Kilroy
Oct 1, 2000

zen death robot posted:

Origin isn't that big of a loving deal, but it would be nice if EA played nice with Steam like Ubisoft does with Uplay. Still, it doesn't stop me from buying an EA game if I want one.
Agreed, yet somehow I've still never had to install Origin. Figure that out :shrug:

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Video Viddy Games posted:

i do. i had a lot of fun with it. especially driving around planets in the mako. it was more like oldie scifi too and didnt feel all cover shootery like 2 and 3. its legit my favourite.

Agreed.

1 was at least different, 2 was gears of space filler episode. Pretty poo poo.

Wits2k1 posted:

It was hard to drive at first but once you got used to its quirks it was fun and you could bounce around and squish people and ramp off mountains, whether it fit in with the tech or logic is moot because it was a fun mechanic that got axed in favor of a boring rear end minigame which is pretty much what happened to the series after ME1

Rocket jumping it and pancaking it on top of geth was pretty fun. Like the teabag of god.

Plebian Parasite
Oct 12, 2012

Video Viddy Games posted:

i do. i had a lot of fun with it. especially driving around planets in the mako. it was more like oldie scifi too and didnt feel all cover shootery like 2 and 3. its legit my favourite.

I liked them both, ME2 was more 'thought out and polished' but ME1 had some pretty funny ways to exploit it and allowed me to stack so much force onto a shotgun it would clip geth into walls.

Wormskull
Aug 23, 2009

LaTex Fetish posted:

I dunno, played one bioware game played em all.

True, though Mass Effect 1 is very bad compared to the later ones, but their all stupid.

BigLeafyTree
Oct 21, 2010


Wits2k1 posted:

The mako was awesome and it was a mistake to get rid of it

I liked the space jeep made apparently of styrofoam too

Breetai
Nov 6, 2005

🥄Mah spoon is too big!🍌
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 was better than 3/3+knuckles; it had much tighter, well-thought out levels and didn't degenerate into a boring slog like its sequels.

Bioshock 2 is better than the original because while it doesn't have an 'amazing' storyline recycled from the worst bits of Atlas Shrugged and the best bits of System Shock 2, it did have 'fun gameplay'.

The only fun command and conquer games were the original, and Generals/Zero Hour. RA2 was an unbalanced tug-of-war between Rhino Tank Rush and teching to Prism Tank=Instant Win.

The balance for Mass Effect 1's combat system was hot garbage, as evidenced by the fact that the Vanguard hybrid-class was better at being a biotic specialist than the Adept biotic-class. Giving the 'resets cooldown on all powers' power to the guns+biotics class rather than to the biotics-only class was dumb as poo poo.

LaTex Fetish
Oct 11, 2010


lol epic dialogue sequences where choosing one option over the other makes a character die by getting hit by a random asteroid

Knuc U Kinte
Aug 17, 2004

LaTex Fetish posted:

lol epic dialogue sequences where choosing one option over the other makes a character die by getting hit by a random asteroid

I was talking about gameplay. Don't post at me anymore because you are dumb and not worth talking to.

Knuc U Kinte
Aug 17, 2004

*talks really slowly* I said the Game Mechanics were good, as in the bits where you shoot people aka the Actual Game. Do you understand, retard?

Pomp
Apr 3, 2012

by Fluffdaddy

:10bux: money match :10bux:

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LaTex Fetish
Oct 11, 2010

Knuc U Kinte posted:

*talks really slowly* I said the Game Mechanics were good, as in the bits where you shoot people aka the Actual Game. Do you understand, retard?

in bioware games the main mechanic is the dialogue

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