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Post by therevanchist25 on Aug 31, 2023 21:52:16 GMT
I mean this kind of thing is not new. Hollyweird has been force feeding politics into almost every TV show and movie for years now. The fact that these shows and movies keep bombing and losing money (by their standards) due to poor quality seems to not matter to them in the slightest. idk why so many people act like their Political affiliation is like their whole identity or why their so obsessed with everyone else validating them, but it's very tiresome and has nothing to do with what these people are suppose to do for a living.
I liked Krem & Dorian, and did not feel their roles in the game were forced.
I will be OK with DAD, as long as they don't go full-throttle SJW like "BG Dragonspear". I agree, those inclusions were totally fine. I personally saw nothing wrong with that.
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Post by therevanchist25 on Aug 31, 2023 8:59:53 GMT
No, BW Austin was a legitimate spinoff studio. Montreal was a cash-in on subsidies to get a support/tech studio on the Canadian taxpayers' dime. It emerged at a time when EA was rebranding random unrelated studios "BioWare". In fact an acquaintance of mine briefly became a "BioWare employee" for that reason, because he worked at Mythic Studios which EA briefly made into BioWare DC lol. Fun bonus detail: BioWare DC went back to being Mythic Studios, before EA eventually shut it down, which led the staff to move to Mythic's spinoff studio, Broadsword. Broadsword is now handling SW:TOR. Ah yes, mere cash-in studio that was designed to take over major original IP so BioWare Edmonton can work on a new IP.
Jesus Christ your attitude reeks.
Montreal was a support studio, that helped Edmonton with DLCs. The biggest thing they did before Andromeda was the Omega DLC, which wasn't even that good of a DLC. Mass Effect was not suppose to ever "continue" at all. Mac and Casey made that abundantly to people around ME3's release. Andromeda was a half baked idea they threw together because they realized Anthem and Dragon Age was years away and they wouldn't be putting anything out for who knows how long.
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Post by therevanchist25 on Aug 31, 2023 8:48:31 GMT
I doubt there even is ME staff and DA staff anymore. I feel like it's just going to be one studio working on one game at a time, like Bethesda works on one game at a time. Remember how they teased ES6 almost 6 years ago, and they haven't even really started it yet xD Well BioWare claims there is and nothing suggests they're lying about it.
Bethesda thing is just plain weird. It is clear all focus went into Starfield, but they ought to have known that so why announce ES6???
Because they got tired of idiots asking them "Did you guys abandon Elder Scrolls? Where's Elder Scrolls!?" Because Gamer Caveman brain could not comprehend "we just wanted to do something different this time".
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Post by therevanchist25 on Aug 31, 2023 8:35:37 GMT
I'm interested solely in Mass Effect, but since Bioware will probably use most of their staff on both franchises, I had to check DA staff(and looked at a couple of ME people) and I've been looking for some specific markers. IE their twitter feeds seem full of either trans/gay matters - including some fairly agressive agenda pushing - or some political campaigning in a single direction. Hardly any artistic stuff(ie some amazing sci-fi concept art) or anything to do with science/technology/history/non-feminist literature or other similarly inclined personal interests. This does not seem like a good foundation for creating good and interesting stories and settings tbh.
So yes, I think politics matter.
This, so much. Dorian's whole story could be summed up as "after-school special" and it was cringe. It doesn't matter that he had to push it through a committee, if the committee of people is all as shallow as that, then it doesn't really matter. I think it's called the Jar Jar Binks effect. I don't play games to be given a heavy handed lecture. I mean this kind of thing is not new. Hollyweird has been force feeding politics into almost every TV show and movie for years now. The fact that these shows and movies keep bombing and losing money (by their standards) due to poor quality seems to not matter to them in the slightest. idk why so many people act like their Political affiliation is like their whole identity or why their so obsessed with everyone else validating them, but it's very tiresome and has nothing to do with what these people are suppose to do for a living.
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Post by therevanchist25 on Aug 26, 2023 8:46:01 GMT
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Post by therevanchist25 on Aug 23, 2023 13:57:07 GMT
I can't really get excited sadly, because I'm like 90% sure my PC cannot run it at an acceptable performance level lol. I like Inon Zur quite a bit, but I will admit, I will miss Jeremy Soule music in Bethesda games...such a disappointing end that was.
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Post by therevanchist25 on Aug 23, 2023 0:41:22 GMT
New trailer is fantastic, glad to finally see the vehicle weapons in action, even if for only a few moments. My biggest concern at this point is the gigantic increase in system requirements. I'm not even sure I can run the game at an acceptable level anymore lol.
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Post by therevanchist25 on Aug 21, 2023 16:24:13 GMT
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Post by therevanchist25 on Aug 18, 2023 23:21:59 GMT
If I'm being honest, the Cop Overhaul is frankly the 1 thing I've never understood the obsession about for this game. It's the 1 thing people kept whining about and for the life of me I honestly don't know why. Immersion, sure, but from a mechanical, gameplay perspective what is the honestly the point? you wanna "RP a cybersycho"? Okay sure, just mindlessly gun down random people until you either die or get bored and reload the game. The system serves no greater purpose, you don't ever actually go to jail or suffer actual consequence, it's gonna be the same boring cop system GTA uses, except in GTA it makes sense because your whole life is being a criminal scumbag. Almost no quests in the game has V get a Wanted level for actions taken during said mission. In over 200 hours of play I've legitimately gotten a Wanted level by accident like 5 times. Unless you just run around being a lunatic non stop mowing people down on sidewalks your basically never gonna even interact with this system. So many more mechanically interesting things could have been done instead of this imo.
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Post by therevanchist25 on Aug 15, 2023 23:03:57 GMT
I agree, the video is quite good. Really shines a light on just how backwards AAA studios are right now. How dare fans actually be excited about a game because it's not half broken on release and isn't a store-front masquerading as a video game. How dare we be so entitled to expect that.
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Post by therevanchist25 on Apr 20, 2023 19:10:11 GMT
That seeems like a reasonable explanation. I was under impression, though, that the player was already given such opportunity during the very first conversation, but as the german saying "double holds better" it really may have been another chance for a new player to pursue another love interest. Although, honestly, it still comes off as really strange when taken at the face value, but then the devs apparently weren't expecting us to think Mass Effect relay explosions would exterminate all known developed civilizations in the galaxy, when in established lore they would Exactly, the devs made the rules, wrote the lore, then when ME3 came around, stopped caring entirely about said lore and rules. Sure some of that is EA's fault for rushing ME3 for basically no reason, but honestly, at lot of ME3 mistakes were easily avoidable if Bioware even remotely gave a damn.
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Post by therevanchist25 on Apr 17, 2023 14:36:11 GMT
Best video for Ashley you're likely ever going to find imo. Good arguments to use against folks who refuse to understand her.
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Post by therevanchist25 on Apr 17, 2023 13:06:44 GMT
What it was about is really simple. It was about Mass Effect 3 being "the best place to start" in the franchise. It's a generic somewhat lifeless conversation designed for new ME3 players and utterly ignored the past 5 years and 2 games worth of history involving the characters, like so many other oddities in ME3.
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Post by therevanchist25 on Feb 10, 2023 9:15:39 GMT
Just wanted to leave this here, as these guys do know the industry fairly well and have a fairly neutral perspective.
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Post by therevanchist25 on Dec 19, 2022 17:24:19 GMT
Yea...if Bioware is bringing him back again because he's part of the inquisition and it's story continuation? Then Bioware can honestly go kick rocks. It's too damn late for that excuse. They had their chance when half the fanbase begged for proper story continuation and everyone got told "No! our arbitrary protagonist rule is more important than good story telling"
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Post by therevanchist25 on Dec 14, 2022 10:15:52 GMT
Absolution Spoilers: I am such a fool i am complaining all over Varric but to my defense i have never imagined that they bring Meredith back. It´s a very stupid twist but hear me out maybe the Varric trailers were misleading and he is own fight more against Meredith than Solas. Jeez its even dumber to have Varric as companion or major character right now with the Stand of Season 1? of Absolution because if he is Vicounte or not he should fix Kirkwall first aka putting Meredith finally than dealing with Solas because on Varric agenda is always Kirkwall first. That right there just reinforced my decision to never care about this franchise again.
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Post by therevanchist25 on Dec 13, 2022 6:43:22 GMT
Had to stop by and show everyone this gem. If you enjoy Stellaris, might be hard to resist... link
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Post by therevanchist25 on Dec 13, 2022 6:08:31 GMT
You know, everyone loves Idris Elba...but I'm getting kinda tired of movie and TV stars taking over all the video game roles. Actual voice actors are losing out on a lot of roles, and these studios needlessly balloon their budgets by always bringing in this big names that ultimately don't really add to the quality of the product.
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Post by therevanchist25 on Dec 10, 2022 4:31:03 GMT
Well, well. It seems the game is real after all. I hadn't dared hope for a long time. 10 years between games is too long to keep any sort of excitement up, but that I haven't moved on completely yet should be interpreted as special regard for DA in general. It seems we will get what I wanted since 2009 - a game set at least partly in Tevinter. That *is* something to get excited about, though I wonder if Bioware's Minrathous can beat Novigrad as a city experience.I'm just saying....The courtyard called "Val Royeaux" says hello again.
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Post by therevanchist25 on Nov 29, 2022 7:28:30 GMT
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Post by therevanchist25 on Jul 12, 2022 16:50:48 GMT
an even bigger indictment of how boring people thought it was. I'd argue it's less about any boredom of the critical path, more that uniquely Skyrim offers so many opportunities to be distracted by other things. There are plenty of games where the critical path is the only interesting thing to follow. Given that Skyrim is one of the most convincing GOTY's in the last 15 years, any issues it has (no game is perfect) are hardly an issue for most people. I'd like to see some of that magic in Starfield, and frankly I expect it will be there. Yout realize "uniquely" means one-of-a-kind right? There is absolutely nothing unique about Skyrim providing distractions from the main path. That is in fact the primary thing open world games do. It's formulaic and measurable. Most people who play games want objectives, they want a goal to strive towards, they want something challenging to test themselves. Most people aren't reclusive introverts who refuse to leave their house and know they can just go outside if they want to aimlessly wander around the wilderness.
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Post by therevanchist25 on Jul 6, 2022 18:00:08 GMT
As for Skyrim's main plot, yea it's so great that basically no one ever finished it despite playing the game for thousands of hours. I've never in person met anyone who ever finished it I think I finished it 3 times. It's not a particularly challenging critical path. I've probably completed all the major quests twice. And probably a dozen abortive bouts of messing about. Fallout 4 remains my 'most played' Bethesda game. You are correct, it's not challenging in the slightest. But if anything I would say the fact that most people didn't finish it despite how short and easy it is is an even bigger indictment of how boring people thought it was.
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Post by therevanchist25 on Jun 27, 2022 16:19:19 GMT
THey did, but understandable given that the game is padded with pointless Collection bullshit and most ppl are too ocd to not do "everything" so they keep doing the stupid grindy shit until they get bored and stop playing. Given the games on that list, that would account for almost all of them except Kingdom Come, which is a game most people in general probably don't understand or able to appreciate. Or maybe it's full grindy and pointless collection stuff that you accuse the other games of. No, it's actually not. You're just saying that because your likely "butthurt" by my comments and are one of the people I am talking about who cannot appreciate an Analog gaming experience because your too dependent on modern hand holding and relatively piss easy gameplay to really understand the point of the game. That's fine, your just like most gamers these days who hate anything that actually challenges you or makes you change up the ocd routine you do for all these other copy paste experiences.
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Post by therevanchist25 on Jun 27, 2022 14:34:47 GMT
Horizon Zero Dawn – 34.1% This hurts me!
Ok, I guess 34.1% is pretty good, given this list but still, if you haven't finished the story of that game, you REALLY missed out. THey did, but understandable given that the game is padded with pointless Collection bullshit and most ppl are too ocd to not do "everything" so they keep doing the stupid grindy shit until they get bored and stop playing. Given the games on that list, that would account for almost all of them except Kingdom Come, which is a game most people in general probably don't understand or able to appreciate.
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Post by therevanchist25 on Jun 23, 2022 16:20:26 GMT
Should've? I wouldn't say that. A thousand barren planets with nothing to do except build settlements/scan flora and fauna is exactly what I don't want to be doing in Mass Effect personally, at least not as the thing that's going to drive the majority of your playtime hours. If I wanted to do that crap I would just play No Man's Sky. Also, this is Bethesda, so the companions are probably gonna be ass, again, not something Andromeda should have emulated, despite the ones in Andromeda being bad already. Combat is typical garbage Fallout 4 combat. If there's one thing Andromeda did well it was that, so again, not something to emulate. Storyline about ancient alien artifacts and uncovering mysteries? Andromeda did in fact do that, it was just lackluster. But again, this is Bethesda, their story writing is typically not that good either, As bad as Andromeda's plot was, Skyrim's plot is a literal meme it's so terrible. Let's not forget their newest release, 76 literally didn't even have human npcs and told the entire story through fucking holotapes. That's as bad as it gets imo. Honestly the only thing from this game that I personally would want to see Mass Effect adopt would be some form of space combat and immersive space traversal. Speak for yourself, I LOVED the companions of Fallout 4 pretty much on par with New Vegas and Skyrim's main plotline wasn't too bad and I did like how 76 approached their storytelling. It wasn't the best, but they did utilize environmental storytelling something that was pretty strong in Fallout 3. Speak for YOURSELF. Bioware companion writing is in a different universe than Bethesda is. Cool, you like comparatively mediocre companion writing, that's great for you. I'll take Bioware companions any day over that drivel. The game had 16 companions. 7 of them had Quests. 2 of them aren't even about the companion in question, and one of them is just part of a faction storyline. So again, no thank you, I'll take companions who actually have quests, and quests that are likely to be far more interesting. You can keep that quantity over quality crap. As for Skyrim's main plot, yea it's so great that basically no one ever finished it despite playing the game for thousands of hours. I've never in person met anyone who ever finished it, or even cared about it, despite playing the game for years and years.
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