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Post by Lebanese Dude on Mar 22, 2017 13:02:02 GMT
When a quarter of the metacritic reviews include a variation of "SJW pandering to trans and lesbians"...
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Mar 22, 2017 12:00:50 GMT
You're right. There are some usability and learnability issues in the interface. I noticed it the most in the coloring scheme bit actually like you. People do have to understand however that interface issues aren't easy problems to solve. 1) Game devs won't be able to tell that how learnable an interface is on their own due to knowledge bias. They need playtesters to play the game and even those have varying degrees of personal capability to *cough* pathfind their way through an interface. The fact is gamers are just such a notoriously diverse group that it's almost impossible to group them into a feasible number of user classes. You may bring 20 different types of gamers to test your interface, but there's another 20 more that will have additional issues of their own. It's BioWare's job to try to approximate that as much as possible but it's easier said than done. 2) There's a certain amount of "space" you can devote to content on the screen. Any more than that and it feels like clutter. MEA has a lot of information as it stands, so it is also possible that some of the more "obvious" choices were cut from then screen. I think this is most likely to happen in places like the Nomad where you already have way too many things on the screen. It's the difference between assuming a level of contextual understanding by the player rather than providing distinct visual cues. An example of contextual is the repeated use of space to confirm in most MEA interface, so it was assumed the player understood it applied to the color scheme as well. 3) Interface issues are definitely lower in priority than most others. As long as the interface at least functions to an acceptable degree and does not impede on expected gameplay, even issues in learnability can be overcome through experience. ---- That being said, an interface is all it is. An interface. Once you learn how to use it, all the issues you mentioned go away. It is just understandably infuriating to be faced with a learning curve when you're too busy enjoying the game Although I'm still figuring out how to use a consumable lol
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Mar 22, 2017 11:50:49 GMT
Some TW3 sidequests is so amazing, it tells a full story on its own. E.g. A towerful of mice; wild at heart; Crache children's story, Where cat and wolf play etc. Each and every single one of them require player's choice (which will shape its outcome ) even influence the main story line as well. ... and in ME those are squad and main planet missions... It's interesting how people always forget about those... if you're going to compare two games with different formats then at least get the analogous bits right.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Mar 22, 2017 5:42:45 GMT
*chuckle*
You do you but people sure do love talking about what's missing rather than what's new.
Anyway having more than two races (about that... ) in one cluster would be pretty absurd due to the lack of mass relays. It's so statistically unlikely that it would be nothing short of contrived.
The profile option is in itself completely optional. I have only invested points in Combat and Biotics (for Vanguard) and I don't plan on doing anything else for now. It's also nice knowing that if I wanted to, my Biotic character can actually develop as an Adep without some artificial limitation placed on me.
Armor for squad hasn't been a thing since ME1. You could change their aesthetic. I suppose that's a fair request. Nothing tactical about it though.
Etc...
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Mar 22, 2017 5:08:24 GMT
I played for 10 hours straight.
I haven't done that since Civilization 5 released.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Mar 22, 2017 5:05:53 GMT
Took my sweet time getting to the Gil conversations. Finished almost the entire first planet before moving on with a lot of MP in the mix (omfg so much fun).
Anyway, I've only had two conversations with him but he's already my favorite character. His VA is on point and his writing is hilarious.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Mar 21, 2017 15:35:13 GMT
The CC is a downgrade for sure, but I do find it funny that people are complaining about "looking like other people" as if that's what matters in a SP RPG lol
You can make some very attractive Ryders. In previous games, I always made characters that looked the same because few combinations worked for me. At least face scans look like people.
I hope they do release more customization options that allow you to alter major parts of the face. One that comes to mind is eye shape and maybe neck thickness. It can only be an improvement and would make many people happy.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Mar 21, 2017 13:24:39 GMT
... Yeah there are some that give it a 10, but they're 10's are closer to a fair rating of 6-7 ... No. That's not how it goes. Neither 10 nor 0 are "fair". I didn't even say that. Point is, even if you gave the game an abysmal D that's a rating of 6. At least you acknowledge that some effort was made and it was made. Combat is universally praised. Environments look good. Those constitute most of gameplay. People giving it 0 aren't even recognizing any of that. It's pathetic. Maybe not a 10 but a 0 is just downright absurd from any objective standpoint.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Mar 21, 2017 13:17:16 GMT
Not people giving the "omg trans" reviews legitimacy because they're opinions.
Yeah there are some that give it a 10, but they're 10's are closer to a fair rating of 6-7 ( C or even D rating) than a 0 which claims the game is overall complete and utter trash undeserving of even an F because transgenders and animations.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Mar 21, 2017 13:11:26 GMT
Fact is that it's a good game, with some imperfections. Anyone who rates it at less than a 5 or 6 is blatantly a giant troll. For all it's flaws the combat is the best in the series, and the environments are stunning. It is vast in content and scope and while some parts miss the mark, on the whole there is a lot there to praise and to enjoy. ... You are likely right about these two things (combat and environments), but ME is a franchise about more than just that, and it seems like the writing and the characters are not a particularly strong point of ME:A. "It seems". You can actually make a pretty fair conclusion regarding the combat and environment just by playing for 5 minutes because what you see is what you get but you can't make a conclusion about the narrative and characters til you finish the actual arcs.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Mar 21, 2017 13:01:56 GMT
Fact is that it's a good game, with some imperfections. Anyone who rates it at less than a 5 or 6 is blatantly a giant troll. For all it's flaws the combat is the best in the series, and the environments are stunning. It is vast in content and scope and while some parts miss the mark, on the whole there is a lot there to praise and to enjoy. All 0/10 reviews on metacritic should be removed for unnecessary trolling, and people who go out of their way to rate it Zero and spew hatred at it (or any game, or developer of said game for that matter!) need to take a long hard look at their lives. Pathetic. 👎🏻 Agreed. Mixed is understandable but outright negative shows clear bias. Most of the 0's come from people who either have an "anti-SJW" agenda (seriously like 10 mention trans when they don't even exist in the game) or don't even provide a convincing reason for why they gave it a 0 (a few literally boiled down to animation quality).
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Mar 21, 2017 12:48:24 GMT
lol @ user score
Look at these golden nuggets. I don't see an agenda here. Do you?
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SJWs manage to ruin another excellent saga, good job. Facial animations are reaaaaallly bad, like PS1 tier era or even worse. I wonder when EA will be satisfied.
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muh transexuals
muh pandering
muh F.AGS
muh progressive ideals
muh dy.kes
muh mentally ill shemales
muh **** writing
muh fetch quests
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Yet another game where the liberals ruined their game with an agenda. Bioware decided to hire transexuals, feminists and racists in the design team. Not artists or people based on skill. The animations and models where designed by a women. This is not the same team that worked on mass effect 1,2 and 3. This is a new studio that had an agenda and implemented into the game.
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Do not buy this trash. Do not support cancerous sjw community and Bioware as their PR part in videogame industry. We don't need imposing of wrong ideas and politics in gaming --
not only did they ruin everything in this game, including facial animations, but the dialogues, the poor voice-acting. The constant pandering to minorities, lefties, SJW, liberals, lesbian and trans.
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LOL
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Mar 21, 2017 12:45:49 GMT
Hi I'm an obsessive completionist gamer that must explore every cave, pick up every rock, and fulfill every request in order to feel better even though I don't enjoy it. /s
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Mar 21, 2017 12:41:17 GMT
The quality of a crew romance can never reach that of a squad romance though. I think it's best that people drop that idea that if someone isn't getting shot at with you, then they're inherently inferior, because at this point that's all it is boils down to. Romance Content is a part of NPC content, not the other way around. Either way, They all participate in banter on the field. They all have their own missions. They have their own unique scenes. They don't fight. They actually have their own functions like Kallo being your driver and Gil being your engineer with their own unique dialogue interactions. With the case of Reyes, he doesn't have his own banter (not even on Tempest) but there's an entire planet devoted to him (more than any LI) and apparently has the largest subset of romance content. It appears BioWare is not making the same distinction as you are regarding squad =/= nonsquad. You can't fault them for not conceding to your own subjective descriptions of what qualifies as "quality".
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Mar 21, 2017 12:24:56 GMT
Yeah sorry about Jaal... sucks. Who is this Turian you speak of? Kandros?
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Mar 21, 2017 11:47:28 GMT
Can't use the 20 minute figure which contains NPC content to compare it to the 10 minute only contains romance content and not even all of them.
However this also justifies my prior statement that the Reyes romance is still significant in romance content and not a "fling".
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Mar 21, 2017 11:43:15 GMT
They arent loading any planets or maps if all you are doing is focusing in on a planet for scanning. All they need is the picture, just like any of the planets in the OT. Internal consistency. It would be jarring for it to apply to some places and not to others. Note how it's faster than others.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Mar 21, 2017 11:41:59 GMT
What load screen is this hiding? I get a load screen just coming up to a planet to scan it? I really, really don't think it is a loading screen. I believe it's sole purpose is to look "cool". But yes, you get it whenever the ship moves to investigate or scan any planet, meteor etc even when you don't land on the planet. It's a loading screen whether you want to believe it or not. It takes a bit less than 15 seconds on my slow-ass computer while people in Reddit report it being 10 seconds. For comparison, In ME3 loading screens for me were ~12 seconds.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Mar 21, 2017 11:36:11 GMT
This is beyond the pale. If people like you had their way, there would barely be any representation in the media at all. I'm really starting to feel like there shouldn't be because reading things things that stupid is almost as painful than shooting myself in the foot. So I might as well... I'm getting a headache reading it. Poor them though. Missing on the husbando that is Gil because the L-word has two more in their cast.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Mar 21, 2017 11:34:58 GMT
I wonder if the animators felt icky so they didn't animate any M/M scenes. Cora's scene on the other hand is pretty explicit. Shows you something huh. Thanks Montreal. They probably had long bloody arguments about who should be a top or a bottom based on their own fanfics, and by the time they realized they could make them vers, it was launch day.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Mar 21, 2017 11:25:52 GMT
I've said this in the romance thread as well but the thing that bothers me the most about this, the core thing, isn't the absence of options, it isn't even the fade-to-black and the lack of content with the romances we do have access to, it's the nauseating hypocrisy of Bioware. Who wants to bet they'll show up at Gaymer X again this year? Maybe win a few awards for inclusivity? Tweet and posts on forums reassuring the fans that they care and that they're the inclusive AAA dev, the ones who care about representation. I don't get in Bethesda or CDPR's face cuz at least they're upfront about where diversity slots in for them, there's an honesty there even if the answer isn't particularly pleasant. But Bioware is more than willing to take the plaudits for the importance of their supposed service. More than willing to pat themselves on the back. The backhanded disdain from a developer who has, and probably still will, loudly tell you their on your side is just breathtaking. k WTF? You're seriously praising companies for not having any gay content at all by shooting down the ones that do have it just not to the full extent you wish, especially when that amounts to less explict sex scenes? This is beyond the pale. If people like you had their way, there would barely be any representation in the media at all.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Mar 21, 2017 6:14:15 GMT
Hi I'm an obsessive completionist gamer that must explore and do every quest in order to feel better even though I don't enjoy it.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Mar 21, 2017 3:48:24 GMT
K so I rerolled for a fresh start. Tried Scrapper instead of Soldier.
LOL charge on insanity is just asking for death. What was I thinking.
Oh well SAM will save me soon.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Mar 21, 2017 2:45:30 GMT
I'm visualizing a giant bazooka. Oh I can definitely see Gil having a giant "bazooka"
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Mar 21, 2017 2:44:58 GMT
Gay men aren't allowed to be main characters in Mass Effect. You can have aliens and spaceships, but homosexuality in men is considered pandering to the SJW, I guess. My bad! Sorry, I thought I deserved just as much as a lesbian gamer. Those damn lesbians.
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