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Post by bigbad on Feb 23, 2019 21:14:13 GMT
To be honest, I'm glad it's being a failure. This way they'll know what they must NOT do on the next Mass Effect and Dragon Age. They managed to get reviews lower than Andromeda, which is a terrible game, so this game must really suck Honestly, I'm not sure that this is the lesson that EA will learn. I think Anthem's failure is at least as likely to make EA decide that Bioware is no longer a studio they're interested in devoting significant resources into.
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Post by bigbad on Feb 23, 2019 21:09:02 GMT
Andromeda, as lackluster as it was, at least felt like a complete game. Anthem feels like a glorified tech demo that was slapped together in the past six months.
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Post by bigbad on Feb 22, 2019 19:59:25 GMT
Some more 50s have come in and Anthem is now at 60. That's fuckin rough. I still believe that Fallout 76 is what finally woke pro reviewers up.
Yeah, that's tough.
Does anyone have a breakdown of which score is based on what version of the game? That can explain some of the low scores.
It doesn't really matter, IMO. I played both before and after the patch, and the patch didn't fix much for me and made some things even worse.
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Post by bigbad on Nov 19, 2017 4:14:33 GMT
Hi All,
Looking for a favor here. Shortly after ME3 was released, somebody wrote an essay regarding what he or she felt were the thematic problems with the ending of ME3. In my head, I remember the author calling the endings a thematic betrayal of the series, but I don't know if that's actually verbatim or not. This was, I believe, prior to the release of the extended cut. If I recall correctly, the author was a philosopher or some other flavor of academic, but that's really all I remember about him or her. I happened to reference the existence of this essay elsewhere, and somebody asked me for a link, but I have been unable to dig one up. As far as I can recall, this essay got a lot of discussion on the original BSN back in the day. Does anybody remember it, and if so, could you provide a link to it?
Many thanks!
P.S. My goal is not to discuss the merits of this essay or the (potential) problems with the ending of ME3. That has already been done many times (!) before. I'm just hoping somebody remembers this essay and can point me to it!
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Post by bigbad on Sept 20, 2017 1:07:26 GMT
I honestly felt like the game peaked on Habitat 7.
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Post by bigbad on Aug 29, 2017 1:42:27 GMT
I'd take the + away from freedom of movement because really it's not more free in my opinion. I don't know why people like jetpacks. I think they're retarded. Just imagine a real conflict, now think of the guy who jumps out of cover and yells "Hey I'm right here!". Not real smart. And besides all that, jetpacks allowed the devs to build crappy maps with no flow. Combat rolls are far superior to jetpacks(and also were unique to species). I'd also put a +/- on the cover system. It is better in some ways but hard cover in ME3 had advantages too and enemies in MEAMP can shoot you most of the time when you are in 'soft' cover even when you cannot target them. So the MEA cover systems' benefits are cancelled out and possibly pushed to a negative. The other problem with jetpacks is it made almost all the kits move the same. Only the duelest moves differently. In ME3 humans rolled, geth and quarians hopped, asari slid, drell flipped, vorcha had a cool pivot, krogan face tanked etc. More variety meant it didn't get old as fast. This precisely.
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Post by bigbad on Aug 23, 2017 12:43:15 GMT
while people of all ages can do this and we see this mindset everyday, the millenial generation has grown up with social media integrated into their lives a way gen-x'rs like myself never did and I find more of them are inclined to just watch a youtube vid and act like they have made an informed opinion. Also note I'm talking in broad terms about an overall demographic not people on an individual basis. You know I'm not sure if I qualify as a Gen X or not. I was born in 1982 and I definitely feel like one and not a millennial. I didn't grow up with any of the social media. I used good old fashion paper lol. You, like me, are a millennial, but barely.
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Post by bigbad on Aug 20, 2017 16:16:07 GMT
So, in the end, Biower did canonize the "Destroy" ending. Only it wasn't the Reaper's who were destroyed. It was their franchise. Seems apropos:
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Post by bigbad on Aug 20, 2017 15:11:49 GMT
No matter what Bioware choices to do with Mass Effect, if there is another game the one thing it needs most is a strong vision, a compelling reason to revisit the ME universe. I would rather that we never get another ME game again than play another half-baked reboot that doesn't seem to know why it exists.
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Post by bigbad on Aug 20, 2017 3:45:29 GMT
He was unprofessional towards people who expressed skepticism to his article. Yeah, the BSN was just being skeptical right? That gif is oddly mesmerizing.
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Post by bigbad on Aug 20, 2017 3:44:29 GMT
It seems that Marauder Shields was trying to warn us about this too. It's a pity that I did not heed him.
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Post by bigbad on Aug 20, 2017 2:15:12 GMT
MP is one of the best things about ME3.
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Post by bigbad on Aug 20, 2017 2:01:22 GMT
My god, this is insane. It's a public forum. Our names are (mostly) all fake. He posted some screenshots of people behaving in a very silly fashion along with some mildly mocking commentary. That is not remotely criminal. Mine is real. Fight me. But yeah, talk about acting like a butthurt. Sorry, I have a strict "No fighting criminal supervillains" policy.
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Post by bigbad on Aug 20, 2017 1:41:43 GMT
Pity that I never had the chance to get to know the OP. Sounds like a real great person.
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Post by bigbad on Aug 20, 2017 1:40:54 GMT
I will not be expending any mental energy worrying about whether MEA is canon or not. What I probably will be doing is ignoring it on all subsequent Mass Effect playthroughs.
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Post by bigbad on Aug 20, 2017 1:32:12 GMT
Posting screenshots of a public forum is borderline criminal? What statutes specifically? Without removing any names, and sharing them with his toadies for the purpose of mocking people who dared to question him. That's a recipe for cyberharassment. My god, this is insane. It's a public forum. Our names are (mostly) all fake. He posted some screenshots of people behaving in a very silly fashion along with some mildly mocking commentary. That is not remotely criminal.
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Post by bigbad on Aug 20, 2017 1:26:13 GMT
The way he act. Or better yet, the way some fans perceived he acted, was never a reason to discredited him. At best he was a jackass that was right. But people before now wanted to say he was both a jackass and wrong, now they are trying to savage it anyway they can. Posting screenshots of comments, with names intact, and sharing him with his twitter followers for the purpose of mocking anyone who dared to doubt him was not a perception on our part. It is literally what he did, and it was borderline criminal. Posting screenshots of a public forum is borderline criminal? What statutes specifically?
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Post by bigbad on Aug 20, 2017 0:33:56 GMT
Has anyone on Twitter asked about a sequel yet? What could possibly be the point of that? Almost certainly, nobody knows for sure if there will be a sequel or not. And even if they did, they couldn't say anything.
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Post by bigbad on Aug 19, 2017 23:59:35 GMT
In one form or another, if Mass Effect has a future it's in the Milky Way.
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Post by bigbad on Aug 19, 2017 23:53:49 GMT
I've probably been less than kind to you, and I too am sorry for that. In all honesty, I don't know you but you seem to be a troubled person. As somebody who is not a stranger to mental health problems, I truly hope you find some solace.
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Post by bigbad on Aug 19, 2017 23:24:20 GMT
This whole free trial thing then makes no sense to me then since there is no dlc in the pipeline. Why is it so long then? I don't see why it's confusion. They probably want to squeeze some more sales out of the game from people who would otherwise not have given it a chance. There doesn't need to be any DLC for that to be a good idea.
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Post by bigbad on Aug 19, 2017 22:48:07 GMT
Good on them for finally admitting it, I guess.
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Post by bigbad on Aug 19, 2017 20:10:40 GMT
has the quality of the game improved enough to warrant a second run through? For most of us it was fine day one so yup. Who exactly counts as "us"? The dwindling number of BSNers or the ME fanbase at large?
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Post by bigbad on Aug 18, 2017 15:09:31 GMT
TBH, I'm not sure I'll ever feel compelled to do a second run of ME:A.
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Post by bigbad on Aug 15, 2017 11:26:34 GMT
Horizon Zero Dawn was released on February 28th. IIRC, it's an open world game taking up about 39 GB, similar to MEA's size. HZD's DLC was announced last week, its release date sometime in November or December. Andromeda's also a big game. Put two and two together and you'll see. Actually, the HZD DLC was announced more than two months ago. There was a trailer released on June 12th. It was only the release date (Nov 7th) that was recently announced.
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