toblix

Just finished this, and it was incredible. I feel like I've watched a great film or read a great book.Here comes an unordered list: The story wasn't boring. Often in "epic" games like these I end up skipping dialogue because there's so much exposition and shit going on I stop caring. In Mass Effect I always knew what was going on. Even though the main plot is really simple, everything took place on this thick, lush tapestry of background story, characters and races, which made everything feel real and consistent. This must be the best looking game I have ever played. You'd think I'd look back at the billion million vegetationless height maps with generic debris ten minute drives apart, and anomalies and five different kinds of building with a bad taste in my mouth, but oh my god it's so beautiful! The weather and lighting effects, the various flares and glows and blooms, and the wooshing sound of the winds. It was like a movie, but in a good way. And that's just the generic planets. The story environments, too. Everything felt huge and real, and driving through the endless corridors of Ilos was sort of touching, I thought. Some of the dialogue sequences were totally awesome. While they were all mostly great, some stood out to me as special. The standoff with Wrex comes to mind. I'm no expert, but I think the dialogue in this game is probably the best I've heard. The ending wasn't frustratingly hard and stretched out, but satisfying. YAY DESIGNER POWER! There were too few subquests. They were too short and too uninteresting, and the system for keeping track of them wasnt good enough. Usually I'd just land on a planet and kill everyone and then find out I did some quest I don't even remember taking. Obviously they couldn't've made more and longer subquests, so I'd rather they dropped these altogether and made more story-specific stuff. ...and :tdown:There were too few story-specific locations. Although they were so beautiful they brought tears to my eyes, they should've dropped all the non-story planets and made some more story stuff. The music was awesome. I must get the soundtrack. It's awesome that they actually did interesting stuff with all the characters, and not just let each of them have some generic little quest line. I love how there are lots of sections where the characters you chose to take with you comment on things. Obviously it's just a matter of switching out pieces of the cut-scenes and triggers, but it never felt like that. It always felt like the story I was playing was the story. It sucks that I discovered that the charm/intimidate skills were always available at the same places in dialogue. To me it felt like they were just two equal choices with different sound files, both leading to the same outcome. The inventory system was pretty bad. I can't even imagine how terrible it must've been on the Xbox if the PC version is greatly improved. Just having to scroll these huge lists and not being able to quickly determine what the best choices are is ridiculous. And those huge fucking images of every item in the store! Who thought of that?! Subquests were very inconsistent with whether you'd have to return to someone after doing stuff, resulting in lots of loose ends in my quest log. I'd basically done the quest, but since I've killed everyone I can't tell the guy I've done it, so no points for me! The combat was very meh. The cover system was usually okay, but lots of times it'd be unable to decide whether I was covering or just standing there, and especially when the guys charged and ran past my cover, the camera just freaked out and went everywhere. Sniping was fun, but close combat was horrible. I never had any idea of what my squadmates were doing. I never used their skills since I didn't really understand the interface for them, and after a while I found out I'd just concentrate on my own survival. Sometimes a guy would float up and I could take him out easily, but for the most part I felt like a solo fighter with some incredibly useless sidekicks. Also, if they didn't have combat, there could be lots of awesome story and stuff. The unlocking minigame became annoying. At least they could've mixed it up a little, or improved it somehow. PERHAPS BY NOT HAVING ONE! Mass Effect is fucking awesome.

Fucking awesome!

You'd think he notice as he looked over his posts.

So what happens when the spambots starts talking to each other? Do the destroy each other or something?

Don't you mean __{^\{/(_)\_}/^/?

I always liked how you gradually became really familiar with the cit[y/ies] in the previous ones. I'll probably also turn off GPS guidance too, as well.

I surely hope so.

So, for argument's sake, let's say I want an PS3. Should I do it? Should I just buy the 40GB that's available everywhere, or is there some magical version that's around the corner that I should wait for instead? Can I pop in MGS3: Subsistence (that's the one with the fancy camera, right?) and play it like a motherfucker? I want to get one because I want to play MGS3 I want to play MGS4 I want to play Uncharted Are these stupid reasons? Am I missing some good reasons? For example, Everybody's Golf or whatever the fuck it's called sounds fun.

I just found out my old pal* Leonard Boyarski, from Interplay/Troika, is lead world designer on this game. If I hadn't already decided to get this already, I certainly would've now.

It would be totally awesome if I could buy a PS3 and then just download MGS3.

Thank you, thank you. Today we had more celebrations, with more cake.

http://kotaku.com/397427/rock-band-2-announced Seems to me they should just drop releasing RB altogether in the EU, and just release RB2 with the original RB tracks included on the disc or as free DLC. I'm certainly not going to buy RB1 now. Unless they wait just as long before releasing RB2 in Europe, too, in which case they can fuck off.

So, is this guy a neat AI bot, or just retarded?

aarathy, it runs well on your Vista 64bit machine? That's good to hear. Tell me more about Age of Conan.

That's what I thought. Since I'm a competionist I still keep a detailed list of locations to return to later. Also, the inventory UI really starts to suck when you get a lot of stuff.

Thanks, aarathy. Your prayers mean most of all.

I got all manners of sweet tools and utensils!

Okay, so I didn't realise I was still docked there, and could just go back in. So I did all the quests, and it was awesome, although I think I encountered some sort of bug: Spoiler for the corruption evidence side-quest on Noveria: Anyway, I found a generic planet and landed on it, drove around a bit. I found some space thing lying on the ground, but didn't have enough electronics to do anything with it. Should I make a note of all these things and go back later, or are they just generic containers of uninteresting stuff? Am I missing quests and shit if I just ignore these things?

Well, that's Noveria over with. Why in the Hell can't I return to Noveria after I've completed the main quest? I still haven't done everything there! There should be a law against this kind of stuff. Now I'll have that quest in my journal for the rest of the game, teasing me. Are there any more places where I have to know in advance which order to do the quests in?

Thankulations! [some sardonic joke about nearing death] I just finished a delicious full English breakfast, which I know all Brits have every single day, but up here it's uncommon. Those little sausages are awesome. And we're having lasagne for dinner, which is even better. Also, later, cake. And shitloads of strawberries. So, today, I have planned foods. And I guess presents, but that would be trés vulgaire to say.

I never really ever "got" Diablo. I thought it was boring, so I never really sprung a huge penis tent when Diablo 3 was mentioned. However. After seeing the gameplay video, it struck me that this game may be a highly concentrated concentrate of almost everything I loved about playing WoW with other people. Remind me how playing the previous Diablos off and on line was with regards to keeping a character, leveling up, loot and all that. How close to today's MMORPGs was/is it really?

I do have an unused tiny PS2 lying around. I just thought I could put the game in a PS3 and have it upscale the fidelity matrix to high Trinitron resolution HDCP anamorphic 100Hz TFT Super Power with superior HQ quality or something. Is there a noticeable difference between the RGB SCART and composite cables for the PS2?

Okay, so I'd just misunderstood the whole emulation thing. It's amazing how confusing these things have become. Or I'm just getting slow.

What in the flying fuck of fucks? Fuck fuckery fuckington, that fucking sucks. So, what was the deal with PS2 compatibility? Was it only something they had at the beginning? If they could do it in software, why stop?

Is there a level limit, or is it possible to become maximensch?