Mega Flare
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i would! but it not out till tomorrow D:
What games are you currently playing?
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Mega Flare
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yeah it was supose to be a launch title here... idk why it wasnt
Fusty:
There is little variance. In fact there is really three endings with small minor details that make it sixteen. The differences in the three endings consist essentially in the color of the crucible beam and whether the reapers explode or leave. Normandy still crashes Joker and squadmates emerge roll credits. Relays explode everyone is stranded at earth which has been fucking decimated. No closure or explanations.
My hope is that this ending is actually a teaser for a dlc with a real ending to the series. The theory being you were never on the crucible. Rather when you were hit with harbinger's beam you were drawn into an indoctrination process where Harbinger or the Catalyst attempts to indoctrinate you into accepting the Reaper's ideology and adapting it as your own. The only choice that gets you to see Shepherd take an inhale back on earth is the destroy the Reapers option which seems to me a rejection of cooperation. The control and synthesize options being instant death options where Shepherd is indoctrinated. This theory hinges on the boy back on Earth that Shepherd sees both in his dreams and as the catalyst as not a real boy at all, but a ghostly hallucination brought on to wear Shepherd down until he can be indoctrinated by them. If this is an appropriate reading it is on the one hand pretty brilliant, but on the other hand totally unseemly as they released an unfinished game that they plan to sell us an ending for for an additional ten dollars.
Either that or the writing staff were drinking as they finished up the final sequence.
My hope is that this ending is actually a teaser for a dlc with a real ending to the series. The theory being you were never on the crucible. Rather when you were hit with harbinger's beam you were drawn into an indoctrination process where Harbinger or the Catalyst attempts to indoctrinate you into accepting the Reaper's ideology and adapting it as your own. The only choice that gets you to see Shepherd take an inhale back on earth is the destroy the Reapers option which seems to me a rejection of cooperation. The control and synthesize options being instant death options where Shepherd is indoctrinated. This theory hinges on the boy back on Earth that Shepherd sees both in his dreams and as the catalyst as not a real boy at all, but a ghostly hallucination brought on to wear Shepherd down until he can be indoctrinated by them. If this is an appropriate reading it is on the one hand pretty brilliant, but on the other hand totally unseemly as they released an unfinished game that they plan to sell us an ending for for an additional ten dollars.
Either that or the writing staff were drinking as they finished up the final sequence.
@So Fist
Also, on the topic of the multiplayer issue, I read this yesterday:
Hmm well then I hope that you're right and we'll get a proper ending later, but I doubt it though, since after the credits another scene played where you saw a father telling stories to his son about "The Shepard" and how he saved the galaxy.
Which wouldn't really make sense if it wasn't the real ending..
Which wouldn't really make sense if it wasn't the real ending..
Also, on the topic of the multiplayer issue, I read this yesterday:
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Il be playing ridge racer vita soon. just downloading the patch... you think since we almost waited a month for this that this patch would of been on the game itself?
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one thing i hate about hte free dlc they gave... 3 tracks and 5 cars. 1 of the tracks and 2 cars arent even out yet. you got to wait
Beat Mass Effect 3
So it was a fun game.
The story was not as good as the other two. There was no real character development like what you saw in ME2.
BUT, the fighting was indeed more enjoyable, and more challenging. Banshees are THE DEVIL.
The environments were pretty cool.
There weren't any of those really annoying/repetitive scanning/hacking minigames.
I spent more time having fun than not having fun.
I am still really bummed about how little attention they paid to the other still-living party members from ME2. I don't see why they couldn't have just let us have them in our party ... They already had all the animations and everything from ME2.
One thing that really annoyed me was that Thane got ran through by Kai Leng and died in a hospital, but no one said a single word about it -AT ALL- until Shepard eventually killed Kai Leng and went "And that was for Thane". But then that was it. Seriously? Even though Miranda lived in my game, Tali spent like 10 minutes semi-mourning her drunkenly. But no love for the drell
Anyway, I spent more time enjoying it than not.
The endings were a massive cop-out letdown.
However I laugh about poor Tali, who has finally regained her home world, only to be stranded in Sol or whatever other system she winds up in, where all relays back to Rannoch have been destroyed ...
The story was not as good as the other two. There was no real character development like what you saw in ME2.
BUT, the fighting was indeed more enjoyable, and more challenging. Banshees are THE DEVIL.
The environments were pretty cool.
There weren't any of those really annoying/repetitive scanning/hacking minigames.
I spent more time having fun than not having fun.
I am still really bummed about how little attention they paid to the other still-living party members from ME2. I don't see why they couldn't have just let us have them in our party ... They already had all the animations and everything from ME2.
One thing that really annoyed me was that Thane got ran through by Kai Leng and died in a hospital, but no one said a single word about it -AT ALL- until Shepard eventually killed Kai Leng and went "And that was for Thane". But then that was it. Seriously? Even though Miranda lived in my game, Tali spent like 10 minutes semi-mourning her drunkenly. But no love for the drell
Anyway, I spent more time enjoying it than not.
The endings were a massive cop-out letdown.
However I laugh about poor Tali, who has finally regained her home world, only to be stranded in Sol or whatever other system she winds up in, where all relays back to Rannoch have been destroyed ...
Hmm... I can get Dragon Age II for £8 (€9/$12), I own Origins and thought it was pretty decent but nothing amazing, and when I played the demo for Dragon Age II ages ago, even though I like the fact it's more action based than Origins, I didn't like that it felt too... empty, and apparently all the evironments are recycled over and over, and there's a lack of variety in just about everything that isn't the player... then again it's really cheap so I may buy it just to say I have it, even if I never end up playing it... what do you guys think?
Yeah. Massive disappointment. Pretty obvious that EA had their noose around BioWare's neck about time constraints. The recycling of the environments was my biggest annoyance but the whole thing was a testament to EA's influence on a once-amazing company
It was fun for the first chapter, b/c everything was still fresh. but after chapter 1, you're still in the same city, you still visit all the same like 10 maps over and over again, and only a couple of the characters are interesting at all. bummer.
i never even formally beat it. i got to like the very last hour of gameplay, and lost all interest. i beat the arashok, and then just sort of felt like that was the best thing the game had left to offer (and according to other people who played it, i was right).
It was fun for the first chapter, b/c everything was still fresh. but after chapter 1, you're still in the same city, you still visit all the same like 10 maps over and over again, and only a couple of the characters are interesting at all. bummer.
i never even formally beat it. i got to like the very last hour of gameplay, and lost all interest. i beat the arashok, and then just sort of felt like that was the best thing the game had left to offer (and according to other people who played it, i was right).
Jason":2j1rxxx5 said:
The worst part about DA is that EVERYTHING is the same. You have like a single city, 2-3 dungeons and 2-3 places you can visit that are constantly re-used during the game (only thing that changes are which passages are miraculously blocked and which are not).
While I did enjoy the game (not nearly as much as origins) I wouldn't recommend it if you weren't a fan of the first one. DA has some kick-ass party members though, Anders and Varric are some of the most interesting characters in my recent memory.
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http://blog.us.playstation.com/2012/03/ ... -included/
OMFG! too bad here in NA we got to wait like 3-5 months longer... but man we do get something speical that you eu guys dont :D soo pumped. btw still playing ridge racer and its awesome :D
OMFG! too bad here in NA we got to wait like 3-5 months longer... but man we do get something speical that you eu guys dont :D soo pumped. btw still playing ridge racer and its awesome :D
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There's an iPhone app out released by Bioware that details the planning of ME3.
Apparently, Mac Walters wanted to troll the FUCK out of the player base. I see why Bioware is calling the end of Mass Effect 3 art now. When you troll this hard, it is indeed art.
I'm confused as to why people were willing to give them more money after ME3, but hey. Now we know that they like bad decisions :P
What specifically annoyed me the most:
Apparently, Mac Walters wanted to troll the FUCK out of the player base. I see why Bioware is calling the end of Mass Effect 3 art now. When you troll this hard, it is indeed art.
Mac Walters on the Star Child/Reapers
"Originally, with the catalyst, the star child at the end of the game, I had written that much more in the guise of a investigative style conversation, where there is something he tells you but then, you get to ask a bunch of questions and you get your questions answered. But then me and Casey talked and decided, lets keep the conversation "High level". Give you the details that you need to know, but don't get into the stuff that you don't need to know. Like "How long have they been reaping?" You don't need to know the answers to the mass effect universe. So we intentionally left those out"
Casey on after Mass Effect 3
"Whatever we do would likely happen before or during the events of Mass Effect 3, not after"
On delaying the game
In march 2011, he also faced a roomful of Mass Effect developers who expressed concern about hitting the promised holiday release date... New release date set for March 2012. After much deliberation, the CAT mission (or rather, the Prothean mission) had to be removed from the set of tasks. The missions would later be completed as post-release content"
Casey on the End Boss
We had the final fight with the Illusive man in the game, but it just felt very Video Gamey. It didnt fit in with the themes. And really, is there a point of the end boss if only for the sake of an end boss?
On Tali's Face
We eventually decided that she gives you a memento of her pictures, but the team was throwing around a lot of pictures and designs until we decided on something and said "Yup, that's her".
On Deciding the End of the Game
The illusive man boss fight had been scrapped... but there was still much debate. On night walters scribbled down some thought on various ways the game could end with the line "Lots of speculation for Everyone!" at the bottom of the page.
And even in November the gameplay team was still experimenting with an endgame sequence where players would suddenly lose control of Shepard's movement and fall under full reaper control. (This sequence was dropped because the gaemplay mechanic proved too troublesome to implement alongside dialogue choices).
Deleted Scenes Videos:
- Liara and Garrus are running behind sheppard in the run for the conduit. Garrus falls over and Liara tries to pick him up. As he gets up, the two run and are hit by a laser as sheppard watches on without hope. In the final version (which is shown beside the deleted scenes video.) the body of your team mates are on the floor dead instead.
"Originally, with the catalyst, the star child at the end of the game, I had written that much more in the guise of a investigative style conversation, where there is something he tells you but then, you get to ask a bunch of questions and you get your questions answered. But then me and Casey talked and decided, lets keep the conversation "High level". Give you the details that you need to know, but don't get into the stuff that you don't need to know. Like "How long have they been reaping?" You don't need to know the answers to the mass effect universe. So we intentionally left those out"
Casey on after Mass Effect 3
"Whatever we do would likely happen before or during the events of Mass Effect 3, not after"
On delaying the game
In march 2011, he also faced a roomful of Mass Effect developers who expressed concern about hitting the promised holiday release date... New release date set for March 2012. After much deliberation, the CAT mission (or rather, the Prothean mission) had to be removed from the set of tasks. The missions would later be completed as post-release content"
Casey on the End Boss
We had the final fight with the Illusive man in the game, but it just felt very Video Gamey. It didnt fit in with the themes. And really, is there a point of the end boss if only for the sake of an end boss?
On Tali's Face
We eventually decided that she gives you a memento of her pictures, but the team was throwing around a lot of pictures and designs until we decided on something and said "Yup, that's her".
On Deciding the End of the Game
The illusive man boss fight had been scrapped... but there was still much debate. On night walters scribbled down some thought on various ways the game could end with the line "Lots of speculation for Everyone!" at the bottom of the page.
And even in November the gameplay team was still experimenting with an endgame sequence where players would suddenly lose control of Shepard's movement and fall under full reaper control. (This sequence was dropped because the gaemplay mechanic proved too troublesome to implement alongside dialogue choices).
Deleted Scenes Videos:
- Liara and Garrus are running behind sheppard in the run for the conduit. Garrus falls over and Liara tries to pick him up. As he gets up, the two run and are hit by a laser as sheppard watches on without hope. In the final version (which is shown beside the deleted scenes video.) the body of your team mates are on the floor dead instead.
I'm confused as to why people were willing to give them more money after ME3, but hey. Now we know that they like bad decisions :P
What specifically annoyed me the most:
They discuss the dialogue for anderson they cut as well. Everyone on their team liked it but Casey said it was "too long for the moment".
Mega Flare
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yeha you luck bastards... you get it in may... i hope that awesome thing we get is worth the wait(maybe they gonna release dreadlock too and you guys have to pay for it and we get it for free)
