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Post by smilesja on Jun 27, 2022 15:13:45 GMT
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. Or maybe it's full grindy and pointless collection stuff that you accuse the other games of.
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Post by smilesja on Jun 26, 2022 7:01:27 GMT
Hey, I thought this was the hype thread!
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Post by smilesja on Jun 25, 2022 14:58:48 GMT
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Post by smilesja on Jun 23, 2022 23:28:24 GMT
Each company has their own vision of storytelling: Bioware through their characters, Bethesda with their worlds and From with their bosses and pieces of lore you can find. It's more about preference than quality in my view.
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Post by smilesja on Jun 23, 2022 20:26:34 GMT
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. First of all cool it with the stealth insult and guess what? NO ONE completes single player games even story driven games like the Last of Us had barely 50 percent of people finish the main quest. And even then, not finishing the main quest is the appeal to the Bethesda games because people are often too busy exploring the world and doing side quests. I know I've spent a lot more time meeting companions on Fallout 4 and building my bases than finishing the main quest.
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Post by smilesja on Jun 23, 2022 17:56:44 GMT
Question is, will we meet intelligent life out there? Or did Todd confirm that we are?
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Post by smilesja on Jun 23, 2022 17:56:15 GMT
Well, BioWare =/= Bethesda =/= From Software ... and that's a good thing as far as I am concerned. I like all of them, each for different reasons. Yeah, isn't that what we want? Diversity of games? Why should we adhere to the same old style of games?
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Post by smilesja on Jun 23, 2022 17:16:15 GMT
Personally i think they should bite the bullet and have the Warden having succumbed to the blight. That's out of character for my Warden.
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Post by smilesja on Jun 23, 2022 15:50:22 GMT
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Post by smilesja on Jun 23, 2022 15:28:37 GMT
Yeah, I like the monster design but I'm not too much of a fan of the challenge.
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Post by smilesja on Jun 23, 2022 5:25:54 GMT
That being said, Starfield feels a bit like Mass Effect with what we got from the main plot so far.
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Post by smilesja on Jun 23, 2022 5:16:42 GMT
And to be honest are the devs really insulting Elden Ring or it's just fans overzealously defending their game? Honestly I'm beginning to think that Elden Ring is one of those games that are good but their fanbase is obnoxious akin to the Sonic fanbase.
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Post by smilesja on Jun 23, 2022 5:14:53 GMT
This is what Andromeda should've been. 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.
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Post by smilesja on Jun 22, 2022 22:58:39 GMT
Varric I like... especially in DA2. In DA:I not so much. Here, varric played a minor role, imo. In DA:DW, he may be just the story teller, though I don't mind if a major role is involved (if done well).
Speaking of potential companions, It bugged me that in DA:I our "heroes" were placed in various places and looked like mannekins, until you talked to therm. I prefer how Mass Effect / Andromeda did it. All this "deep characters" shyte went by the way side when I saw them as I was passing by.
Bio, improvement is strongly suggested.....
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You could say that Varric is Dragon Age's DAD? Okay I'll stop. For now......
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Post by smilesja on Jun 22, 2022 0:21:10 GMT
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Post by smilesja on Jun 21, 2022 19:04:51 GMT
I'm just going to assume this is Dad related. Sorry if this has been posted already, didn't see Hrungr do it. Awww Alyx's friend is her DAD.
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Post by smilesja on Jun 21, 2022 7:23:12 GMT
What about Bryce Cousland? He seemed to be a good father for the Warden and his family. I suppose that depends on your definition of a good father. To me virtually all your family getting wiped out is a significant blot. Because of Howe?
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Post by smilesja on Jun 20, 2022 16:47:26 GMT
Good father? Depends on your view point, Nat Howe thought his daddy was swell. Well maybe it's true from a certain point of view.
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Post by smilesja on Jun 20, 2022 16:47:00 GMT
Remember how for Mothers' Day we were discussing just how many good mothers there were in Thedas? Well, I was thinking about the track record for fathers in Thedas and realised we haven't had that many decent fathers either. Those that were seem to have been killed off either prior to the time period we were in or shortly after the game started. At present my prize for best father would go to Malcolm Hawke, who did a decent job of raising and training his three children despite all the problems associated with being an apostate mage. Anyone got an alternative nomination? What about Bryce Cousland? He seemed to be a good father for the Warden and his family.
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Post by smilesja on Jun 19, 2022 23:50:38 GMT
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Post by smilesja on Jun 19, 2022 17:19:32 GMT
I mean, at my current work we are 10 people working in a team, and this past year 3 people left (to a different department, one to a different department with more responsibility, and one to become a consultant but still working for the company). I myself have had a job interview for a completely different job. So that's a 30% turnover. Only one of these left out of dissatisfaction though (the one who switched department), the others just wanted to do something else (which is also the reason I'm considering switching). It doesn't always have to be doom and gloom, it's just a part of working at the same place for a long time. Please don't disrupt the narrative! Bioware is doomed don't you get it?!
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Post by smilesja on Jun 18, 2022 23:36:45 GMT
I think Starfield was in development further than that and besides, I believe procedural planets were really tough to implement. I mean No Man's Sky had an entire engine dedicated to that and even they struggled mightily with it at first.
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Post by smilesja on Jun 18, 2022 16:27:23 GMT
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Post by smilesja on Jun 18, 2022 16:07:22 GMT
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Post by smilesja on Jun 17, 2022 16:06:59 GMT
Activision Blizzard Clears Itself Of Any Wrongdoing
“Contrary to many of the allegations, the Board and its external advisors have determined that there is no evidence to suggest that Activision Blizzard senior executives ever intentionally ignored or attempted to downplay the instances of gender harassment that occurred and were reported,” the Workplace Responsibility Committee wrote to shareholders in a June 16 SEC filing. “While there are some substantiated instances of gender harassment, those unfortunate circumstances do not support the conclusion that Activision senior leadership or the Board were aware of and tolerated gender harassment or that there was ever a systemic issue with harassment, discrimination, or retaliation.”
The summary is also hard to square with the landmark $US18 ($25) million settlement with the EEOC for recent victims of harassment and discrimination at the company. “What we have come to realise over the past several months is that there are many truths about our company — individual and collective, experiential and data-driven — and sometimes they can be difficult to reconcile,” the Board writes. It does not elaborate on the details or nature of those opposing “truths,” but goes on to complain about being wrongly maligned by an “unrelenting barrage of media criticism.”www.kotaku.com.au/2022/06/activision-blizzard-clears-itself-of-any-wrongdoing/Of course it's all the medias fault ... This company is run by scum. My condolences to the people working there.
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