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Post by bigbad on Aug 2, 2017 0:07:57 GMT
The ME3 multiplayer thread is planning a weekend Turian Havoc challenge to commemorate Corey. bsn.boards.net/thread/12565If you are not familiar with Corey's work, here are some videos (also with Eric Fagnan) discussing a small part of it. Including: - Dragon Age: Origins - Gameplay and Level Designer
- Mass Effect 2 - Gameplay and Level Designer on Mass Effect 2 and DLC: Arrival, Stolen Memory, Lair of the Shadow Broker, & Overlord.
- Mass Effect 3 - Lead Combat Designer on Mass Effect 3, Multiplayer and DLC: Citadel, Leviathan, From Ashes, Reckoning, Retaliation, Earth, Rebellion, Resurgence Multiplayer Packs
Thanks for the heads up!
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Post by bigbad on Aug 2, 2017 0:07:05 GMT
Playing ME3MP was one of my favorite gaming experiences, partly because I was expecting so little from it and got so much in return!
I haven't played ME3MP in months, but I would love to take part in the community tribute weekend event.
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Post by bigbad on Aug 1, 2017 23:29:51 GMT
Look, with threads like these and the constant infighting, you're not making playing BioWare games fun. Knock. It. Off. In my more than five years of (sometimes sporadic) BSN participation, I have never known a time when constant infighting was not the dominant mode of discourse.
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Post by bigbad on Jul 28, 2017 20:53:56 GMT
I haven't played MEAMP since early April when I got bored with it (despite sinking hundreds of hours into ME3MP). Has it improved much? It improved a lot. But also had some hiccups. Overall it`s a complete game now and people can leave it to their preference to find it worthy. The game was just despicable during March and April. Maybe I'll give MP another shot at some point. Thanks.
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Post by bigbad on Jul 28, 2017 20:45:19 GMT
I haven't played MEAMP since early April when I got bored with it (despite sinking hundreds of hours into ME3MP). Has it improved much?
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Post by bigbad on Jul 28, 2017 20:42:37 GMT
Yeah, she was banned, but is back. For now. Why was she banned actually? I kind of agree there needs to be a bit of caramel sweetness added to all the salt... Not a mod, so I can't say for certain. She went on quite an abusive tirade a week or two ago, attacking just about everybody, including many of those who like the game.
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Post by bigbad on Jul 28, 2017 20:41:04 GMT
LOL. That was quite the effective anti-advertisement! This post has the full trailer:
bsn.boards.net/post/822316/thread
Seriously, I am sorry for sounding like I have an axe to grind. Not that I am not annoyed that Bio is losing the MP team which overall put out something I really like save for a few hiccups that can be fine-tuned. Judge the game for yourself
Heh, no worries. My gaming interests already take up more of my time than it should. Don't need to add more games to the list, even if it was a good game.
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Post by bigbad on Jul 28, 2017 20:39:33 GMT
With that pink avatar thingy? The exact opposite of all the salty people on this forum? We should support this, just for the sake of it Yeah, she was banned, but is back. For now.
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Post by bigbad on Jul 28, 2017 20:33:34 GMT
Two thoughts: 1) Prior to ME:A's release, I basically disregarded the announcements of dev departures as unimportant. Now I'm more circumspect about this news. 2) Anybody know anything about Phoenix labs? They are making a Medi-Euro-DnD-CMBikini Coop called the Dauntless that effortlessly blends twenty year old Tolkien calendar with really, really, really large weapons cherry-picked from a pile of reject anime pilots somewhere in rural China. If you've watched E3 presentation for Anthem, you've probably missed their trailer as unremarkable. LOL. That was quite the effective anti-advertisement!
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Post by bigbad on Jul 28, 2017 20:31:58 GMT
Hi fluffy
Edit: to clarify, I am not the OP. The OP got deleted.
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Post by bigbad on Jul 28, 2017 20:19:06 GMT
Two thoughts:
1) Prior to ME:A's release, I basically disregarded the announcements of dev departures as unimportant. Now I'm more circumspect about this news.
2) Anybody know anything about Phoenix labs?
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Post by bigbad on Jul 28, 2017 15:37:53 GMT
That does not seem like an especially helpful distinction to make, IMO. But going further down this road would be getting into hair-splitting, "how many cunts could dance on the tip of Garrus' sniper rifle" territory, so I'm going to drop it. My impression of anyone can be anything without them actually being that thing... and by saying as much, the poster is actually acknowledging that he/she may be mistaken in their impression. I think it is an important distinction to make here. My preference would be that we just not call people cunts at all. And by we, I don't mean BSN. I mean in general.
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Post by bigbad on Jul 28, 2017 15:25:47 GMT
You're right, that's a fair point. But it's also true that there was plenty of over-the-top criticism of JS and his articles here prior to the twitter shenanigans. Just not this particular example. I'm also going to note that the quote you inserted is not outright calling him "a cunt." It's put in a far more mild context - "It seems to me..." The person in that quote is stating their impression, not outright calling him a name. Big difference in my book. That does not seem like an especially helpful distinction to make, IMO. But going further down this road would be getting into hair-splitting, "how many cunts could dance on the tip of Garrus' sniper rifle" territory, so I'm going to drop it.
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Post by bigbad on Jul 28, 2017 15:17:07 GMT
... and I believe that, if you research a little deeper, you'll find that post was created after he had already posted the screenshots of various people here to Twitter. You're right, that's a fair point. But it's also true that there was plenty of over-the-top criticism of JS and his articles here prior to the twitter shenanigans. Just not this particular example.
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Post by bigbad on Jul 28, 2017 15:14:12 GMT
Well, I'll be damned. Mea culpa, apparently someone did call him a cunt.
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Post by bigbad on Jul 28, 2017 15:05:50 GMT
Doubt me if you want, but both quoted words were used to describe JS in one or more of the many, many threads on this topic. And no, I'm not going to go back and search for it. Sorry. Oh, I do strongly doubt, since I was often involved in those threads, and, no, I don't really care if you go search for them. Think what you will. Okay, I lied...about not searching the boards. Apparently BSN has a more robust search feature than I imagined. Here is the post I saw where JS was called a cunt.
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Post by bigbad on Jul 28, 2017 14:34:13 GMT
In lieu of having a well-written, believable character, a villain should at least be fun to hate. The Archon certainly failed in that regard, IMO.
So did what's-his-face in DA:I. I just never cared about either villain at all.
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Post by bigbad on Jul 28, 2017 14:28:49 GMT
You mean he took a screen shot of your (and some other's) posts and mocked them mildly. Oh no. Some of those posts were well deserving of mockery. Not saying yours were - I no longer remember who said what. But some folks here were really acting like asshats in reaction to his articles. Jason was already loathed here by many before he started posting screenshots to twitter because he was the bearer of news that people didn't want to hear. This is evident by the fact that, weeks later, people are still criticizing him for things he never said. I don't know Jason, and I hope ME:A gets awesome story DLC, but the way many here have treated him irks me. ... and you're over dramatizing my reaction -exaggerating it for your own purpose (a common tactic here). I called him "unprofessional" and I do consider his reaction to that to be "unprofessional." I'm certainly not "oh no, etc. I wasn't using "oh no" to describe your reaction. I was attempting (perhaps poorly) to be sarcastic, meaning that I didn't think his mild chiding of BSN members was in any way a big deal, especially in the face of the reactions he was getting here.
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Post by bigbad on Jul 28, 2017 14:26:33 GMT
People here were calling him a "cunt" a "douche" a liar, etc. I don't blame him one bit. Liar I'll believe. Maybe even douche. Hats that fit and all of that. But cunt? No, that one I never saw. Not once. So unless you're projecting, and I wouldn't blame you, I call shenanigans. Doubt me if you want, but both quoted words were used to describe JS in one or more of the many, many threads on this topic. And no, I'm not going to go back and search for it. Sorry.
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Post by bigbad on Jul 28, 2017 14:19:24 GMT
People here were calling him a "cunt" a "douche" a liar, etc. I don't blame him one bit. However,, my avatar WAS copied by him to Twitter and the worst I called him was "unprofessional." I think it's perfectly reasonable for me to still think that his actions in that regard were indeed both "childish and unprofessional." I do blame him for his own actions... he should take full responsibility for them. You mean he took a screen shot of your (and some other's) posts and mocked them mildly. Oh no. Some of those posts were well deserving of mockery. Not saying yours were - I no longer remember who said what. But some folks here were really acting like asshats in reaction to his articles. Jason was already loathed here by many before he started posting screenshots to twitter because he was the bearer of news that people didn't want to hear. This is evident by the fact that, weeks later, people are still criticizing him for things he never said. I don't know Jason, and I hope ME:A gets awesome story DLC, but the way many here have treated him irks me.
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Post by bigbad on Jul 28, 2017 12:44:05 GMT
No, I can blame him. What he did was very unprofessional and childish and made, even more, people question his article. Yeah, I, too, can completely blame him. That shit with the Twitter posts was, and still is, shit. My feeling is, if he has something to say to the forum members he can create an account and start a discussion. But ghosting the forum so he can post screenshots to his Twitter feed? Nah. I have no respect for that. People here were calling him a "cunt" a "douche" a liar, etc. I don't blame him one bit.
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Post by bigbad on Jul 24, 2017 14:09:51 GMT
While Metacritic user scores are probably always going to be mostly useless, they could be improved. Currently, the user score reported for a game is simply the average of the all the user scores (according to this FAQ). Given the large number of unwarranted 0s and 10s that many games get, switching the reported user score from the mean to the median would probably provide a somewhat better summary of what the typical score likely is.
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Post by bigbad on Jul 23, 2017 14:14:44 GMT
Anyone with a brain knows Metacritic is full of crap. But hey, if you're happy to make allies with people whose psychotic hatred and wish to see the game fail is fuelled purely by bigotry against women and LGBT people, good for you. Anyone with a pathetic obsession with shitting on the game is cool with you. Interestingly, these comments sound nearly identical to those of somebody who was recently banned.
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Post by bigbad on Jul 22, 2017 17:10:45 GMT
I'm not sure I understand what you're saying. Per the bit I quoted, the author of the Eurogamer article talked to his own source "close to Bioware" (whatever that might mean) who also told them that no DLC is being worked or on in the planning stage. Like I said, maybe both articles are wrong, but the Eurogamer story is not just basing their claim off of the Kotaku story. Sorry, I thought you were quoting both articles. My bad. Could be. Continued patches and Twitch streams would suggest there is still a presence at Montreal, but enough to make SP DLC? I have no idea. However, sources "close" to Bioware is where we got the whole KOTOR reboot hoax from, too (Kotaku as well) so I'll wait for sources inside Bioware to explain why they've spent so much time and effort patching animations, glitches, adding romance content, changing cinematic scenes, etc all for a "dead" game that has no people working at the studio if there'll be no DLC. That's reasonable enough. To be fair, though, not even JS in his Kotaku articles claimed that nobody was around working on patches, or even that the game was "dead". I honestly hope that we do get some high quality story-based DLC. If so, I will most likely buy it and play it. I'm just not expecting any to come at this point. Maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised.
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Post by bigbad on Jul 22, 2017 16:47:18 GMT
This Eurogamer article, which came out shortly after the Sinclair nonsense. Relevant quote: Of course, both stories could be wrong, but I don't think it's wise to assume that they are. So the Eurogamer article says nothing about DLC or Bioware except that they didn't work with Sinclair Networks and they don't confirm/deny SP DLC? Just curious. I had thought the only publication saying there wouldn't be DLC was JS's Kotaku, and the rest simply quoted his article. I'm not sure I understand what you're saying. Per the bit I quoted, the author of the Eurogamer article talked to his own source "close to Bioware" (whatever that might mean) who also told them that no DLC is being worked or on in the planning stage. Like I said, maybe both articles are wrong, but the Eurogamer story is not just basing their claim off of the Kotaku story.
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