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Post by Gileadan on Nov 22, 2021 19:00:19 GMT
Trespasser was the worst DLC even before the next game implications. For example how it forces us to be idiots throughout, where I absolutely agreed with Josephine about telling the nobility what’s going on from the start. But nope, forced to keep it secret just so we can be lectured by the devs later. I HATED that moment. The devs force the characters to fuck up (as always, any character and/or faction not controlled by the player is fair game for the merrily bouncing idiot ball) and then some NPCs blame the player character for that garbage. It's right up there with the forced incompetence in ME3 that lets Kai Leng escape, followed up right away by his "neener neener" email.
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Post by Gileadan on Nov 21, 2021 21:18:58 GMT
If the MCU was like BioWare games, Iron Man (2008) would have ended with a post credit scene that revealed that War Machine was the real villain all along, but not to worry, it will all be resolved in Doctor Strange (2016).
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Post by Gileadan on Nov 20, 2021 7:37:52 GMT
Politics in games is like dirt on my shiny new floor. I realize it can't always be perfectly clean and that's fine, but if my neighbour starts shoveling it in through the window I get cranky, and there's no type of dirt I like better than the others.
Solas was 2014. I don't find him memorable enough to bring him back, and I don't like the concept of the new protagonist fixing the barely remembered loose ends of the previous one. But here we are, I guess.
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Post by Gileadan on Nov 15, 2021 13:20:10 GMT
Here is an interview from this past August with Mark Darrah about Dragon Age (from a series of retrospective articles on the franchise) where he says something that confuses me as far as the logic goes. Maybe this is just me?
From the sound of it, a Warden return is still occasionally discussed, although we won’t be playing as an old protagonist anytime soon. “A new protagonist allows the series to distance itself from the decisions of the previous game without invalidating them,” Darrah says on the matter. If we were playing as the Inquisitor again, then how on Earth do you rectify that the Inquisition itself might not even exist anymore? Change might cause a ton of complications when writing a sequel, but it is indeed the only way to make sure player choice is respected.
Tresspasser ended with The Inquisitor losing their hand, their cool superpower, their organization (no matter what choice you make), and will have their role in the Solas storyline completely taken over by a new protagonist.
And Mark Darrah (and the DA team) thinks this is more respectful to the player who is invested in that storyline than bringing the Inquisitor back and not being able to account for every choice and decision you could've made in DAI? I don't see the logic. Like, we can't possibly risk invalidating past game playthroughs by bringing back established protagonists, but we can invalidate past game playthroughs by making the established protagonists losers who needs a new chosen one to fight their big bad villain for them? That respects the player?
I don't get it.
I think the logic (if any) is that player choice is being respected (their choice of words, not mine) by keeping any reference to the consequences of those choices either vague or making specific references so easy to implement that all possible choices can be covered with a reasonable cost of resources. I.e. if you were to play the Inquisitor again in DA4, there would have to be voice lines for all possible outcomes in DAI if you wanted to respect player choices, and that would likely come at a massive cost. Or DA4 would assume that everyone made the same choices, i.e. it would establish an actual canon, thus not respecting previous player choices. But if you were to play a new protagonist who had only heard vague rumours of some Inquisition thing happening down south, all those details could be omitted, also "respecting" player choices (by not contradicting them with a newly established canon). Any specifics could just be codex entries, i.e. written text instead of voiced conversations. This is all about choices made, not the previous protagonist (the Inquisitor) taking the L because they got replaced by a new guy or girl.
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Post by Gileadan on Nov 13, 2021 7:33:59 GMT
If you like companion focused games and don't mind isometric gameplay like Pillars of Eternity, I can heartily recommend Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous. You get interesting companions, a bit of romance, different endings based on your choices and mythic path and a massive amount of content. On the downside you may encounter some bugs and the Pathfinder system requires some time investment to learn.
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Post by Gileadan on Nov 11, 2021 9:02:42 GMT
Twitter is essentially a cultist platform where a very small but extremely loud minority posts most of the content. It's not a relevant metric for anything.
Metacritic is unreliable because of review-bombing in both directions and sorely needs a function that ignores the 0s and the 10s for a more reliable score.
MEA has a 74% positive rating on Steam, which is pretty close to Metacritic's 72%. However, the review rated as most helpful by far (with about 3 times the votes as the second most helpful) is negative, stating that it's some fine combat on pretty worlds marred by poor writing and boring quests. And some other reviews listed when sorting by "most helpful" say essentially the same thing, they just give it a thumbs up anyway - which is understandable because people have different priorities. There are absolutely people there who liked its writing of course, but it is often quoted as a really poor aspect of the game, just not enough to give it a thumbs down because of the competent combat.
Was it not as bad as people claimed it was when it was released and it got a way too harsh reception? Yep.
Is it suddenly a hit now that it's on Steam? Nah.
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Post by Gileadan on Nov 10, 2021 19:03:55 GMT
Geth may just be software, but software is as hard to hide as hardware, or anti-virus tools wouldn't exist.
But then again, it's the AI... I can just imagine how that went down. Liam clicked that shiny "Click here to install free software" button that popped up from that new tool bar he installed, downloaded the entire geth archive to the Nexus just before departure, and it promptly rewrote some fabricator routines.
As a small side effect the arks separated from the Nexus during the journey and arrival turned out a bit more complicated than expected. Whenever a planet was scanned and all its minerals were sucked from it and it turned out it was just enough to build a single submachine gun, nobody wondered where all the excess resources went.
That geth army in Andromeda must be massive by now.
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Post by Gileadan on Nov 10, 2021 7:09:19 GMT
Friendly reminder that blanket statements asserting Shepard's story is over are futile because here we sit, with the door remaining wide open for Shepard's return. Absolutely no proof his story is completely over; with plenty of proof to say he can return. Well yes, in theory he can return, like a former world class boxer can return to compete in the local amateur league long after the crowning win of his career. But who'd want to see that? Sometimes I prefer to remember characters how they were and not how present day writing changes them. I mean, technically Luke Skywalker returned in The Last Jedi...
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Post by Gileadan on Nov 9, 2021 19:27:31 GMT
I would greatly prefer a new protagonist. Shepard's story is over, plus I really really don't want them to touch him again and make it all worse.
Ryder just wasn't my type of character. It felt awkward watching someone trying to be a marvel superhero without any of the charisma. But if they are going for the same style of writing again, they might just stick with Ryder as well.
But I hope for a new protagonist who is different from both of them. I mean, if we're all bored of the Milky Way with over 90% of it still unexplored and needed a new galaxy, we certainly need a new protagonist too, no?
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Post by Gileadan on Nov 8, 2021 22:58:06 GMT
What can it be? Just another universal holocaust menace probably. I think I'll let it burn this time. But the only way not to win is not to play.
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Post by Gileadan on Nov 8, 2021 0:04:19 GMT
It's early concept art, so it probably means little more than what the writing says. Mass Effect will continue.
The ship is small, just slightly bit bigger than a heavy fighter / gunship. It likely can't support more than the displayed crew of four and even that would probably feel a bit cramped.
No idea what the crater is supposed to be.
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Post by Gileadan on Nov 7, 2021 10:06:28 GMT
I don't think it's realistic to expect anything substantial from dev tweets anyway. It's always been random musings and reminiscing about the good old days. Some people find that kind of fluff interesting, for others it's a waste of time. Nothing wrong with either opinion.
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Post by Gileadan on Nov 5, 2021 14:57:49 GMT
I preordered DAO too, but I couldn't get the steel case for some reason, and it arrived a day late. Watching the post car go by that day was one of those "Nooooo..." moments.
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Post by Gileadan on Nov 5, 2021 13:18:42 GMT
For those of you who like to keep their builds simple I can heartily recommend just taking 20 levels of Mutation Warrior and specializing into a good melee weapon. The grand mutagen gives you a massive boost of your physical stats (+8 / +6 / +4) and +6 natural AC. I specialized into Fauchards because of reach and crit range, and while there's only a handful of really good fauchards in the game, it's something else to watch an enemy trying to run past you in melee and instantly dying to your casual 300+ crit attack of opportunity.
Also props to the game for how different the mythic paths feel: aeon was all about being a grim lawful judge, while azata now feels like Guardians of the Galaxy. With dragons and halflings.
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Post by Gileadan on Nov 3, 2021 9:39:58 GMT
Generally speaking (i.e. not limited to BioWare games) I find absolutely lawful characters harder to play than evil ones. Playing evil makes me feel I'm in a Tarantino movie with all the seriousness or lack thereof that implies.
But lawful characters? Jeez.
"There is no creature on earth half so terrifying as a truly just man."
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Post by Gileadan on Oct 29, 2021 17:55:11 GMT
This article displays the often encountered shortsightedness when it comes to ME3's endings: not a single ending is "cost free" (or "Disney like" as some people call it) because billions already are already dead and even the death of Shepard's entire crew would merely add a tiny handful on top of a gigantic mountain of corpses. Does no one ever think of all the civilians and grunt soldiers dying in droves off screen?
I'm not entirely sure whether I would call DA trash since some companions are really interesting and well voiced, but I find that both DA and ME have a too light tone for the stuff that's actually going on in the world (but rarely shown on screen, instead we're told about it or read it in some log or lost diary). To me they feel like the movie "Kelly's Heroes", if the protagonist's main objective had been to get to Berlin and end the war instead of just robbing a bank somewhere in France.
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Post by Gileadan on Oct 25, 2021 19:31:25 GMT
I find it easiest to vote with my wallet. I don't think BioWare is that interested in player feedback anyway unless it's praise on Twitter.
It always stung a bit when I felt BioWare wasn't entirely honest with us (I'm sure we all remember enough examples), but the enjoyment I got out of their games made it worth to put up with them. Until their last two disasters that is.
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Post by Gileadan on Oct 21, 2021 6:59:52 GMT
For science I tried to not take any mythic path advances until after the battle of Drezen, hoping I could spend all three points in my chosen path instead of putting two into Mythic Hero first. This does not only not work, it bugs the game. When you are about to rise the banner and are prompted to pick your mythic path, the game will make you spend two points on Mythic Hero, then you never get the third point that you earn at that moment, and the unrolled banner is invisible because no path was chosen. That was totally worth it.
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Post by Gileadan on Oct 19, 2021 7:30:18 GMT
DAI stopped supporting old consoles when it came to DLC anyway. You played the game on a PS3 or XBox360? Oops, no DLC for you. Go buy the next gen hardware, scrub.
Meanwhile, smaller studios still make "old style" games like Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous, so all in all it's not as bleak as it seems. Those games still exist, they're just being made by different people now.
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Post by Gileadan on Oct 16, 2021 13:06:21 GMT
Sometimes it's not about the graphical increases you can get with a new generation of hardware, it's less limitations you have to worry about.
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Post by Gileadan on Oct 11, 2021 7:41:46 GMT
Wrath of the Righteous I finally closed the world wound and called it a day. Whew. Areelu hated my guts because I chose to reject the mythic power, Nocticula gave me a gift despite getting rejected twice, and Iomedae gave me her personal longsword. Yay. In the end, the game was for some reason less than impressed with my crusade results. I'm not sure how it came to that conclusion - the level I attained in Military and Logistics? Number of related buildings I constructed? It's not my fault that one army with a wizard general and a bunch of marksmen can practically mop up the map on its own. All in all, the higher everything including my party leveled, the less I was enjoying myself, but that was because of the Pathfinder rule set and not the developers' fault. I'm not very familiar with Pathfinder and as enemies leveled up, they spammed more and more afflictions at me and I had to go and google how to counter or remedy them and occasionally repeat big fights because of that. I was getting the impression that Pathfinder is a rule playing game meant for min-maxers. Next time I'll know better. On the bright side, I found the companions really interesting and did everyone's side quest except for that one I killed before the side quest even started.
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Post by Gileadan on Oct 10, 2021 10:30:14 GMT
So, I've finished the game, yay me. I chose to reject the mythic power and be the master of my own destiny. This had some interesting consequences. - It pisses off Areelu to no end. To reject the mythic power, you have to fight and kill a shadow who is essentially the mythic part of your soul, and it turned out that this shadow was the soul of Areelu's dead son. To her it was like her kid got murdered a second time. Ouch. - You receive support from all kinds of mythic people who apparently think that you can't do it as a mortal, among them the angel Targona, the devil Mephistopheles and the dragon Hal...something or other. Oh, and Aivu. Aivu is cute. They will assist you on the assault on Threshold, and some will give you powerful gifts before. Apparently, Nocticula enjoyed being rejected two times so much that she went on about liking headstrong people and left me a gift anyway. Rejecting her twice in turn impressed Iomedae so much that she gave me her personal longsword, Daybreak. What could possibly go wrong from here? Well, the fact that enemies could see and shoot me through walls, for example. Jeez. It made for a frustrating hour of slogging through Threshold until I found a very angry Areelu. I didn't interfere with Pharasma's judgment in the end. I was the law upstairs, she's the law down here.
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Post by Gileadan on Oct 8, 2021 6:55:50 GMT
Well, it could be the first of all the World of Darkness games churned out by Nacon (previously Bigben Interactive) that's really good. So far, the cycle was always the same: Nacon releases a WoD game exclusively on Epic Store, I get cranky about it, game gets very middling reviews, I lose interest and have forgotten about it by the time the exclusivity ends.
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Post by Gileadan on Oct 7, 2021 17:48:17 GMT
Who cares what a bunch of cultists on social media think anyway...
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Post by Gileadan on Oct 7, 2021 7:02:09 GMT
Wrath of the Righteous
Right, I went to the Enigma. I really like the game, but I didn't enjoy myself there. Hours of puzzles and backtracking and trial and error, and finally a bug that didn't open a door when it should have, so I was stuck and didn't have a hard save from the beginning of the map. Drats.
On the bright side, I figured out how to get through walls! Firstly, have your caster stand really close to the wall you want to pass. Cast Dimension Door (Single) and teleport him or her to the other side. It doesn't work with Dimension Door (Mass) for some reason. Now snuggle everyone up against the wall in a tight bunch on both sides. Have your caster cast Dimension Door (Mass) right in front of them. This fetches your other five party members from the other side of the wall and everyone's together again. You'll need to do the same to leave, so make sure you have enough Dimension Doors memorized or use wands and/or scrolls.
The final boss fight of the Enigma is also a real joy. Poor Nenio deserved a better personal quest.
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