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hobbesmaster posted:Then again everyone thought that in asoiaf dark star was a parody. When it was brought up to GRRM he was confused and thought darkstar was a badass. Thane specifically calls Leng out as a wannabe. I'd put down cash that part of the writing team was thinking "Oh, man. Kai Leng is going to be so cool and badass and the player's going to be all 'Whoa. This guy's cool. How am I going to beat him?", and the rest being "This is a joke, right?" You see it reasonably frequently in writing projects with more than one person involved, with mainstream comic books being an especially relevant case study. You frequently see characters built up to be badasses in their own book show up somewhere else just so the writer of the other title can take a dump on them, or build up their pet character at the other guy's expense. Garth Ennis provides some of the most obvious examples.
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Kai Leng would have been fine if he didn't look so loving stupid.
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hobbesmaster posted:Then again everyone thought that in asoiaf dark star was a parody. When it was brought up to GRRM he was confused and thought darkstar was a badass. I don't remember this character, even after looking it up. Hmm, maybe the books are getting bad
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Feels Villeneuve posted:Kai Leng would have been fine if he didn't look so loving stupid. Also, after two games of saving the universe, killing two machine deities, a single augmented human is one of the least threatening options they couldve chosen.
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Nasgate posted:Also, after two games of saving the universe, killing two machine deities, a single augmented human is one of the least threatening options they couldve chosen. One idea I always had was to steal what they did in Citadel and make it TIM making another Shepard clone that actually follows his orders, but that might also be stupid.
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Feels Villeneuve posted:One idea I always had was to steal what they did in Citadel and make it TIM making another Shepard clone that actually follows his orders, but that might also be stupid. I...should go?
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Feels Villeneuve posted:One idea I always had was to steal what they did in Citadel and make it TIM making another Shepard clone that actually follows his orders, but that might also be stupid. I like it, but I think how it should go with that is the clone Shepard being the opposite alignment of your own. Playing Paragon? CloneShep's slaughtering their way through civilians to get you. Renegade? They're methodical and careful in their approach to stopping you.
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Feels Villeneuve posted:One idea I always had was to steal what they did in Citadel and make it TIM making another Shepard clone that actually follows his orders, but that might also be stupid. It worked in Citadel but I don't think it would've worked so well in the core story.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:I like it, but I think how it should go with that is the clone Shepard being the opposite alignment of your own. Playing Paragon? CloneShep's slaughtering their way through civilians to get you. Renegade? They're methodical and careful in their approach to stopping you. Neutral and they just stop for a light hearted chat with each other.
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For anyone curious: game not great.
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Zudgemud posted:Neutral and they just stop for a light hearted chat with each other. "I have no strong feelings one way or the other."
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Rinkles posted:For anyone curious: game not great. See all of my posts for someone to agree with you at length.
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Rinkles posted:For anyone curious: game not great. 
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It has its moments, it has some okay ideas, it can be quite pretty, but all that's sunk in a clunky, unpolished sea of dull derivative pap. And it very much feels less than the sum of its parts; every element is considerably flawed. Pity, because every (not) so often it manages to elicit nostalgic feelings of Mass Effect, and I don't mean just when it's a pale imitation.
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It's okay as brain-unwinding "fill out the world map" entertainment for burning time, if you're in need of that sort of thing for some reason.
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Rinkles posted:It's okay as brain-unwinding "fill out the world map" entertainment for burning time, if you're in need of that sort of thing for some reason. I think your brain has been broken by Andromeda.
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Iron Crowned posted:I think your brain has been broken by Andromeda. It was already broken.
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Rinkles posted:It was already broken. IT's beyond repair now
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A Buff Gay Dude posted:Is pillars of eternity any good? I see it's available for the bonx now. I liked POE's gameplay, but the last half of the game feels like it was rushed, particularly as the game starts telling you how your character feels and getting angry at you for choosing options other than the ones you apparently promised to take before you got control over the character. Tyranny has the same combat system more or less, with fixes, and a much better story.
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If your main complaint about Pillars is that its last couple acts felt rushed, then I don't think you can really recommend Tyranny...
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Rinkles posted:It has its moments, it has some okay ideas, it can be quite pretty, but all that's sunk in a clunky, unpolished sea of dull derivative pap. And it very much feels less than the sum of its parts; every element is considerably flawed. Pity, because every (not) so often it manages to elicit nostalgic feelings of Mass Effect, and I don't mean just when it's a pale imitation. I'm thinking of playing it first when doing my next ME series run, just because I don't want "God I have to play Andromeda at the end" hanging over it, and also ME1 is my least favorite so getting those out of the way would be nice
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My complaint about PoE is mostly the last act consisting of a dungeon where Your sister pops up out of nowhere, plot dumps at you for an hour, then chews you out for not picking the objectively worst decision out of a giant pile of bad decisions. Tyranny's last act basically being a series of boss fights, some of which you can actually talk your way out of. Felt more like the victory lap as you see how all your decisions play out and which party members actually stick with you.
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Feels Villeneuve posted:I'm thinking of playing it first when doing my next ME series run, just because I don't want "God I have to play Andromeda at the end" hanging over it, and also ME1 is my least favorite so getting those out of the way would be nice Or, revolutionary idea, don't play Andromeda.
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chiasaur11 posted:don't play Andromeda.
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chiasaur11 posted:Or, revolutionary idea, don't play Andromeda. 
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Even More Video Games
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in the time it takes to play mass effect andromeda, you could play mass effect 2 at least 4 times
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Lol this game has the weirdest bugs. Just randomly didn't give me skill points at level up.
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They could have used some (any?) variety, but I enjoy the architect fights.
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Rinkles posted:They could have used some (any?) variety, but I enjoy the architect fights. Here's the secret to the Architect fights Or rather the only way to enjoy a real challenge in the game. Find the desert one *WAY* before you ever should, when you're massively under leveled, before you're even supposed to know they're out there. Have only a shotgun and a sword as your weapons. Biotic charge and drones are your only real powers. That right there is the true final boss of the game. It was a lot of fun and took me goddamn forever but I killed the fucker.
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Burkion posted:Here's the secret to the Architect fights I had a similar experience. The few times the game poses a challenge it's usually fun.
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So now two lead writers and their lead animator have left Anthem and Bioware.
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Arglebargle III posted:So now two lead writers and their lead animator have left Anthem and Bioware. Anthem is going to be such a great trashfire to gawk at.
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Maybe Casey's taking out the trash? E: that's meaner than I intended the joke to be
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Arglebargle III posted:So now two lead writers and their lead animator have left Anthem and Bioware. The good thing is Bungo set the bar really low with Destiny 2 so even without lead writers and animators EA might sell Anthem a bunch 
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orcane posted:The good thing is Bungo set the bar really low with Destiny 2 so even without lead writers and animators EA might sell Anthem a bunch Yeah, honestly, this is going to be interesting. Destiny 2 is basically burning on PC and I doubt it'll recover (tell them all about it, ABGD!) So, I could see Anthem doing well just because Destiny 2 sucked.
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