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Post by tziwen on Apr 1, 2017 2:20:57 GMT
One pathfinder per ark it is -nods nods-
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Post by tziwen on Apr 1, 2017 2:10:22 GMT
Like in our real life: The one who puts the money on the table has the last say and the priviledge? Still doesn't make sense. It'd be less of a burden for Quarians if Drell have their own exploration to find a home for themselves and the hanar. Like in real life the one with the money decides and doesn't make sense? Obviously pathfinder is a huge honor and kinda high is the chain of command, with lots of prerogatives and powers. No point for the quarians to let this honor to anybody else? They may have drells as super scouts doing all the real work but i'm sure that the one collecting the honor is a quarian
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Post by tziwen on Apr 1, 2017 2:08:09 GMT
Yeah..? Hello?!?! Hiya?! Anybody's there? -waves- Heh... Anyways... That never prevented any videogame of being liked or good or a success: Uncharted anyone?
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Post by tziwen on Apr 1, 2017 2:04:38 GMT
Like in our real life: The one who puts the money on the table has the last say and the priviledge?
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Post by tziwen on Apr 1, 2017 1:47:35 GMT
This is just you groing old and grumpy OP. Most of games always have teens or young adults as protagonist...
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Post by tziwen on Apr 1, 2017 1:45:31 GMT
I mostly love the game so far, but their are a few things that bother me and I am sure others. 1. There has never been a bi female squadmate in a single Mass Effect game! Ashley, Miranda, Jack, Cassandra from DA: Inquisition and now Cora. I am so tired of them doing the obvious default choice for their DA and ME games. It's like they have a checklist Human - check / Female - check / Squadmate - check = Yes you are 100% straight. Liam is human male squadmate = straight. Cora is a human female squadmate = straight. I get having an option male and female options for both protagonists, but it doesn't always have to be the beginning two squadmates. Ashley and Kaiden + Cora and Liam + Cassandra = all straight, except who can suddenly turn bi in ME 3 but yet Ashley can't. Not all bi squadmates/companions that are bi have to be aliens or elfs Bioware. 2011 was the last Bioware Bi human female in Isabella, none since. How do you feel about it? 2. I no some like him/some don't, but I hate Jarun Tann's voice actor, he sounds like and amateur guy pulled off the street or something. This is just my opinion, I have actually never had a problem with a voice actor's voice before, until now. His voice just really doesn't fit well to me, anyone else feel that way? 3. I think that is mostly it for my problems, I am enjoying the game overall. I do wish character customization could make more unique characters, but can live with it. I love the squadmates so far and I am having fun. What are your rants/venting problems with the game? What do you like about the game? 1) Bi characters are tricky. Well first of all the cost more to create develop and dub (multiplied by all the other languages versions.) But even tho, this is very very hard to write at the first place. In DA2 all the base romanceable mates were Bi but not that had an impact on them they just woulddn't care because Hawke was "so smexeh" See as a person/character, you sexuality doesn't define who you are but it is part of it. The prism through you're looking at the world is teinted by it. And you need to ask yourself: What making this character "bi" would add to it? Is she bi by nature? Design? Social convention? The most usedd trope by BioWare is "Your character is that impactfull that your chosen LI would love you no matter what gender you're" and that's worst. This is very tricky and i'ld rather have no biu characters at all than bad written one (or not relevant) 2) I can't tell: I'm french so i've a full french cast to listen to... With its own problems but different (we have a bad Liam for exemple) 3) Awesome! CC is what it is but in the end it shouldn't prevent you from having fun
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Post by tziwen on Apr 1, 2017 0:29:36 GMT
Nah is a valid answer. 20k per Arch but there was more population on the Nexus itself. No. Bioware is just bad at writing as proven by my original post. Source or be tossed in oblivion (and yes! I actually thzt bad Bethesda game!)
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Post by tziwen on Apr 1, 2017 0:27:45 GMT
Playing Andromeda i wasn't really feeling any DA:I influence but now i've finished MEA, i've a furious lust for an other DAI playthrough... So i guess they're more related than i thought. As far as the comparison goes... I had to force myself -at first- to keep on playing DAI from hour 20 to hour 30. Which wasn't needed for MEA. MEA makes me feel responsable for every outpost i opened and i was like the first line of defence. I never felt the NExus was my home but more like a burden i had to carry pressing me to push forward. In DAI at some point i wished i could just sit on my throne in my castle grow fat and do fart jokes all day long with Sera. We stabilized the rifts too early and i had no urgency... That being said, i'll remember the 3/4rth of the companions of DAI in 10 years... i'm not sure about Andromeda. Peebee Jaal and Liam would probably go away fast. Andromeda was more enjoyable to play but i won't replay it so much... DA:I was a bit painfull at some point (every DA game felt that way to me at some point ) but i replayed it more and i'll replay it again... Heh... None's trully superior to the other. I basically will just remember Dorian. Other Inquisition characters were so bland, and he was so bright. Andromeda so far does not have an OMG, OMG! character in the cast, but that may be actually a good thing because I am noticing all of them. By RP reasons I always have my guide along (Jaal) save for Liam's loyalty mission (seemed like Vetra should come) and then put someone else in the party, and it makes me think who will be an appropriate companion, so I notice their character more. Also, none of the Andro-crew inspire burning hatred, so it's awesome. Bio is getting better at that, but I swear, when a certain DA:O character showed up in Inquisition and forced herself into my Keep... only the thought that I've just paid $1,400 for my monitor prevented me from spitting and tossing things at it, and I was ready to throw a classy Internet fit demanding a refund, a personal apology from Bio and maybe even telling the world that really cares how I am so done with BioWARE, its self-proclaimed biggest fan being so let down by it, lol, lol, lol. I restrained myself to maybe only five or so outraged posts including this one, so it's an achievement. Heh. Well congrats on restraining youself! My OMG character for DA:I would be Cole. I hadn't enough the possibility to teach anything to a character that way. But i gotcha. Andromeda's character don't add alot for most of them except some querky stuff: Liam is... Their "we are sorry we screwed about Jacob" character, Jaal is the new flavor that is Garrus under cocaine. Peebee is also a cocaine version of Liara (except she is too close to an overdose...) Drack isn't bringing much compared to wrex but the fact he had familly he cares and all -right here- is catchy. Cora is Jack that has taken 10 tranquilizer darts in the ass... But Jack is... Jack And then Vetra which is the only one standing out to me. I've been public enough about the fact i love Andromeda and DAI isn't better but i just miss my "man/girl". The one i always pick what ever the situation is. Which i had in DAI.
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Post by tziwen on Apr 1, 2017 0:20:16 GMT
Nah is a valid answer.
20k per Arch but there was more population on the Nexus itself.
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Post by tziwen on Apr 1, 2017 0:08:17 GMT
Playing Andromeda i wasn't really feeling any DA:I influence but now i've finished MEA, i've a furious lust for an other DAI playthrough... So i guess they're more related than i thought.
As far as the comparison goes... I had to force myself -at first- to keep on playing DAI from hour 20 to hour 30. Which wasn't needed for MEA.
MEA makes me feel responsable for every outpost i opened and i was like the first line of defence. I never felt the NExus was my home but more like a burden i had to carry pressing me to push forward.
In DAI at some point i wished i could just sit on my throne in my castle grow fat and do fart jokes all day long with Sera. We stabilized the rifts too early and i had no urgency...
That being said, i'll remember the 3/4rth of the companions of DAI in 10 years... i'm not sure about Andromeda. Peebee Jaal and Liam would probably go away fast.
Andromeda was more enjoyable to play but i won't replay it so much... DA:I was a bit painfull at some point (every DA game felt that way to me at some point ) but i replayed it more and i'll replay it again...
Heh... None's trully superior to the other.
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Post by tziwen on Mar 31, 2017 23:55:43 GMT
Male Ryder but then he doesn't count - since a player character. But for me Cora is my number one character, I swear she reminds me of someone from the trilogy just not sure yet. Suvi, the Salarian the pilot and Kesh I like To me Cora is Jack and Miranda's baby ^^ My favourite's Vetra Drack's close second. I like Tann too. Feels real to me
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Post by tziwen on Mar 30, 2017 17:28:48 GMT
Good comprehensive review. Reading it actually just made me realize - I think my Movie Night quest just.... disappeared? Yeah mine ain't going anywhere neither. Sad. Good review. Thanks for sharing your insight with us.
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Post by tziwen on Mar 30, 2017 1:29:58 GMT
Gameplay: Loops of repetitive actions a player has to do "to play". Loops are usually divided in 3 categories: Micro, medium, large. Micro bein' what the player's doing for one action, medium for a whole scene or fight, etc... you got the idea Gamedesign: Partial choices about the design of the game. I'm talking gameplay you answer with gamedesign. That's not how I view and deconstruct gameplay. You say that you hope you and I agree on something, while simultaneously being a smartass for two posts in a row now, by trying to twist my words in your last post, and by assuming I love Telltale games here. So how about you drop the facade you're trying to put up here. You don't like me, or my opinion on the game. I'm fine with that. I'm too old, experienced, and confident in my views to care about what other people think of my opinions. But don't think you can talk to me like I'm an idiot. Your sarcasm does you no credit. That said, I also don't agree with your last point, on how a 3rd person shooter RPG has to have good gameplay. A great story can make up for average/bad gameplay. Mass Effect 1 is a testament to that. The game sits comfortably above a 90 on Metacritic, and many people adore the game, despite acknowledging it's many issues with gameplay. That's not how you descronstruct gameplay? Good, you just revolutionized the videogame industry. Not being smartass or so but still: linkNo need to be a smartass to tell you that your defenetion of gameplay is very... personal and probably not shared by devs. "I'm too old, experienced, and confident" Who's being a confident smartass here -drools- I'm probably as old as experienced and as confident as you're. And i'm too old to exchange tight ideas about somebody not able to keep up with the gameplay loop concept... sorry. Wrappin" up this BS discussion. You have an opinion on everything: What is gameplay, what makes a good game, what makes a RPG good. FINE. Of course you can have one but this is only what it is: Not an analysis, not a critic, not a test, not enlighted view... It's an opinion. tainted by who you are, what you did and how videogame matters in your life... You're liking can only be yours and it makes your opinion irrelevant for others: We aren't you. Last thing: Don't victimize yourself: That's cheap low and pointless. "You don't like me, or my opinion" I mean come on. I don't know you enough to like or dislike you. I just believe that your opinion is just... An opinion. Not helpfull in any way shape or form.
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Post by tziwen on Mar 29, 2017 23:34:13 GMT
Strictly Bioware games here.... 1) Mass Effect 3 2) Mass Effect Andromeda 3) Mass Effect 1 4) Baldur's Gate 2 5) Dragon Age: Origins 6) Mass Effect 2 7) Dragon Age 2 8) Jade Empire 9) Dragon Age: Inquisition 10) SWOTOR (Agent story only) 11) NWN:HOTU 12) SW: KOTOR Wow, list was tough. Mass Effect 1 and 3 kept flipping back and forth (have been for years now...). Haven't played through BG1 yet. If I'd added Obsidian titles (on a Bioware list?) their NWN2: MotB would be #1, no contest. Writing was simply fantastic. Oh come on! Give props to the agent story in SWTOR! SCORPIO was awesome
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Post by tziwen on Mar 29, 2017 23:31:12 GMT
The only high praise you can give to Andromeda is its gameplay tho... So you state that you like the best videogame of the franchise the least. There are tons of novels and movies i could advice you. Gameplay is a category, that is divided into other subcategories. Of these subcategories, Combat and Driving are the only two things I can give high praise towards this game. That doesn't mean I think the Gameplay overall is great. The UI is poorly designed, the slow moving galaxy map tests the player's patience, the CC is a joke, the game is bugged out the ass, and the game doesn't allow me to quick save during some missions. That's just to mention a few. The Story category, and all the subcategories that follow, such as Plot, Characters, Setting, Dialogue, Presentation, Voice Acting, etc, is a category that ME:A suffers the most at. There is nothing in this game's Story I can give praise towards, and unfortunately Story has always been the bread and butter of Mass Effect, so even if the combat in the game is amazing, it feels like a hollow victory. People say ME2 had a weak story but great characters. I disagree with that first part. It's plot was weak, but it's characters, setting, dialogue, presentation, voice acting were great. Gameplay: Loops of repetitive actions a player has to do "to play". Loops are usually divided in 3 categories: Micro, medium, large. Micro bein' what the player's doing for one action, medium for a whole scene or fight, etc... you got the idea Gamedesign: Partial choices about the design of the game. I'm talking gameplay you answer with gamedesign. Alright. Now that we've a defenetion -i hope we agree on- none of the ME games offer you loops as good as ME:A. Being a better video game. Now maybe MET is a better product in a whole or something that appeal more to you due to story, deisgn etc. But what defers a movie from a videogame is gameplay... You know, actually playing the game and not sitting in front of a cinematic? I'm glad you love Telltale games but a 3rd person shooter RPG has to have good gameplay which it does.
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Post by tziwen on Mar 29, 2017 22:42:17 GMT
-NVN -KOTOR -DA:O -DA:I -ME2 -BG 2 -MDK2 (dreamcast) -MEA -BG -ME3 -DA2 -SWTOR -ME1 -Jade Empire I let Obsidian games appart. They deserve they own credit especially when they beat BioWare (in my book NVN2>NVN) Now i rate ME1 kinda low but this is by comparison. I love the game. This is a ranking i do today. You'ld have asked me 10 years ago: ME1 and JAde Empire would have been higher... I just concider the both of them don't age gracefully
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Post by tziwen on Mar 29, 2017 22:25:44 GMT
Which review would you point to as a definitive/accurate overview of the game based on your own perspective after playing it? Clic bait title heh... You should go for a poor videogame journalist career... You got what it takes... Anyways... this one i picked from a PC review featured on metacritic appeal to me: "If you look at it as a reboot, a starting point for the series, there’s lots of promise in that future. The first Mass Effect had countless problems, far more than here, but that will always be remembered as a classic, despite leaving similar threads hanging. Ultimately, this is a story about laying the foundations of a civilization, and it feels like BioWare were doing the same for the future of the franchise. In that way, these RPG developers have become Pathfinders themselves." They gave it 80/100. i'ld agree. There you got your answer.
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Post by tziwen on Mar 29, 2017 22:17:33 GMT
What strengths are those? MEA has its own strengths as well. ME1 - Story, world building, choices, and music. ME2 - Characters, fully fleshed out the setting, side missions, choices, music, and voice acting. The only high praise I can give Andromeda is its combat and vehicle gameplay. Everything else is either poorly done, or average and outdone by other games in the series. Exploration and side quests HAD the potential to be the best in the series, but are squandered by bad animation, poor - average writing, and mediocre voice acting. Walking into Club Afterlife on Omega for the first time, blew me away more than anything I experienced in Andromeda. The only high praise you can give to Andromeda is its gameplay tho... So you state that you like the best videogame of the franchise the least. There are tons of novels and movies i could advice you.
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Post by tziwen on Mar 29, 2017 10:23:57 GMT
Alec Ryder vs Post Lazarus Shepard? I don't see how Alec could lose as long as he has SAM... SAM is OP. Turning baby ryder from a midget to a war machine....
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Post by tziwen on Mar 29, 2017 10:08:26 GMT
Wait ... You know what... Screw it. I agree with 99% of what you say. The only thing is that i seem less annoyed by its imperfections than you. Which is... Fine. I mean it's matter of expectations, standards and tolerence. Not that i've more/better of those than you. Just we're two different persons seeing the same situation but where i say: Not bad. I understand this ME is a test to see if the franchise still carry some weight before the big hourrah, you're more like: It's ME... Drunk and running on one leg. Your points are valid... I agree on the syptoms not on the diagnostic. I guess what annoys me so much is the fact that most of these superficially small concerns indicate a writer's lack of awareness of their subject matter I find plainly inexcuseable. If you were aware of the time scale along which a planet develops, you would never make a mistake like requiring FTL scans to ensure a planet's viability, supposing you actually get over the hurdle of being able to scan planets from two million ly away in the first place. If you were aware of your fictional world, heck, even if you just thought about plausbility for ten seconds considering the MET games, you would never give Pebee those lines. I complain about many things, but most are forgivable from my perspective, even though I may hate them. The one thing I can't forgive is lack of awareness of your world and the rules, fictional or inherited from the real world, by which it works. In DAI, they compromised their world in my opinion by the way they reinterpreted the Qun, but while I may dislike that they did that, it's clear to see that they didn't do it casually. They were aware that this would be a possible problem and tried to give you an in-world explanation. DG also said there was a lot of debate about it on the team. You can see this kind of attention in many places in DAI, and I respect that a great deal even though I sometimes didn't like the decisions they made. In MEA, this was clearly not the case, simply because people aware of their world wouldn't make these mistakes in the first place. This is the main reason why DA games are still pre-order games for me, while ME games aren't. The whole opus lack of longterm vision: Everybody did their thing on a side and then they were put together... It's not always working. I appreciate you took the time to articulate those concerns. You did more for the franchise than most of us here. DDa is still a buy, mmainly because of Derrah and Laidlaw... But we'll see.
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Post by tziwen on Mar 29, 2017 3:25:37 GMT
Ryder would threaten to fuck Shep's shit up...and Shep would kick him outta window. Drack takes shits bigger than Grunt Ashley would make Cora cry Liara would overwhelm Peebz with her intel...then make out with her in the airlock Kallo would steal EDI from Joker and make him cry...but then Joker would steal Kallo's fancy ship Chakwas would drink Lexi under the table Adams would not put up with Gil's bullshit Garrus and Vetra would have spiky babbies SAM would infect EDI and she would demand to be called TRANS from now on Kaiden would blow Liam's hair off his head with powerful biotics Javik would kick Jaal's ass...then kill himself cause he's sad about it Traynor would destroy Suvi with her toothbrush of doom Actually!!!! Vetra and Garrus having a baby is ... weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
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Post by tziwen on Mar 29, 2017 3:24:09 GMT
An open world RPG such as Andromeda or Inquisition have longer playthrough but less replayability. I guess that's a matter of preferences.
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Post by tziwen on Mar 29, 2017 3:20:53 GMT
-Probably a tie. Shepard is far better but SAM would compensate in a fight. Shepard has my preference -Drack i do believe. -Cora -What Liara are we talking about? ME1's? Or ME3's? Shadowbreaker Liara would win. -Joker -Chakwas... When she is drunk -Gil. -This one's hard has fuck... Vetra is prolly my favourite of the 2 but Garrus may be the best written of the 2 -EDI. Clearly -Liam. Easily -Javik... Because in french he has Teal'C voice -Traynor!!! Oh come on! Traynor!!!!! -Jack vs all: Jack ofc!!
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Post by tziwen on Mar 29, 2017 3:09:15 GMT
People putting Andromeda above ME1 and ME2.... I'm starting to suspect you ain't even here to share anything with us besides video memes. Are you trully looking for a chat or an exchange about MEA here? Or are you just running amuck at everybody not sharing your views?
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Post by tziwen on Mar 29, 2017 2:16:23 GMT
One thing to keep in mind, if there was no EA, do you think Bioware would be working on 2-3 projects at once? Do you think they'd give Mass Effect, their baby, to an unproven "C" team? These sorts of decisions wouldn't happen if there was no EA. You could actually argue that mass effect or dragon age wouldn't have gone as far as they have without joining up with EA. EA sponsors them the money to keep going, and during just ME1 bioware was having issues fund wise. There is a reason devs team up with these people, they don't intentionally want to just give up their freedom but that freedom comes with a sacrifice if you want the funding to help you out. Bioware in a seriousness really isn't a big company compared to others out there, independently they would have struggles without EA or at least some other publisher. Look a bungie as just one example, famous for making halo yet they had to sign with activision to get the 500 million dollar support. nevertheless I still feel like people blame the publishers to much, they set the deadlines and in other cases, they're merely "speculated" to tell the devs what to put in a game with no support for it. It's why I'm going to scoff at people that are saying EA and bioware are one and the same, EA doesn't make the game, bioware does. So unless someone has proof that EA picks who biowares hires and pays to work on their games, I'll keep scoffing. There's a fine line between lublisher and developer. Im owned by my boss, yet he isn't blamed for my own failings as an employee. ME2 -that most are faping thinking about it- has been made with EA money... bad EA... BAD! ME1 was made with Microsoft money... All those Bad companies... Defenetly killing the ME franchise!
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