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| News Comments > Mass Effect 3 Community Demonstration |
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Re: Mass Effect 3 Community Demonstration |
Apr 25, 2012, 18:28 |
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Yeah, a deus ex probably wouldn't have irked me as much if it actually fit. I mean, it still would have been annoying, but this one didn't even slot into the universe very well.
(I think indoctrination theory is a silly way for fans to read far more into the story than Bioware ever intended, or imagine an ending that never actually happened. Bioware doesn't normally operate on that type of level. And I don't see any irreconcilable or disbelief-unsuspending inconsistencies in the ending up to the point where the Catalyst comes in. Bioware has said that the ending DLC will extend, not replace the ending.) |
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| News Comments > Mass Effect 3 Community Demonstration |
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Re: Mass Effect 3 Community Demonstration |
Apr 25, 2012, 01:20 |
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StingingVelvet wrote on Apr 25, 2012, 00:29:
Can't play this until June. Really eager to see if the ending is as bad as all the fucking press coverage makes it seem.
So, I just beat the game. The ending was not good. Trying to avoid spoilers: the tone/style didn't match the rest of the series (okay, it's an ending, I get that it's going to be different, that's not what I mean). I was kind of not expecting too much given all the coverage, but I expected it to be mostly overblown. Some of it is, but not all of it at all.
If you want analogous endings, I'm thinking of other SF that sort of petered out at the end: the later Foundation and Ender's Game books, Battlestar Galactica... At least in ME3's case, it's only the last few minutes; the rest of the game, and even the early part of the climax are pretty badass.
And now, not avoiding spoilers (secret text):
Everything up until the Catalyst comes into play is awesome. Then it just gets all 'what the shit just happened'.
The Reapers taking the essence of advanced civilizations was already established. Their doing so to save that essence from being destroyed by synthetics is crazy. The Catalyst says AI always eventually rebels, but he's not concerned that the Reapers are going to rebel against him? And what about the fact that there are no evil organic-killing AI in the galaxy in this cycle, aside from the Reapers themselves? The Geth are pretty peaceful until they decided to ask for Reaper help in order to prevent their own destruction, and even then Shep can get them back as allies; EDI bonded with organics. AIs being misunderstood people was a major theme of the series; they're the series' true aliens. Shepard never questions this; Shepard questions less crazy things at every point in the series.
The Catalyst says that the crucible proves the Reapers are no longer sufficient. How? Again, Shep never questions this, it's never explained.
The "Destroy" choice is crazy from the perspective of the Catalyst. It says that the crucible has provided it with new options, and this is one... it never had a kill switch before? Furthermore, it's certain new synthetics will be created and will kill all organics, apparently violating its whole point of existence, so why even provide the option? Again, no explanation, no questioning.
It's also crazy from Shepard's position. The Mass Relays are going to be blown up. The Reapers have the best FTL and probably the only chance of rebuilding them, as well as providing general reconstruction assistance (it's going to be damn hard to rebuild without the relays), and Shepard has the option of turning that away? Never mind genociding the Geth and killing EDI. Does it kill VI (again, Shep asks nothing)? Other machines? That can't be any good for the reconstruction effort.
The control option makes no sense. The Reapers are supposed to be true AI, nations unto themselves, how is the control option guaranteed to work? And why does the Catalyst trust it to Shepard? Why does the Catalyst need the crucible to do this? I guess if it works, it's a not a terrible choice for Shep, but it's kind of a boring and un-foreshadowed way of ending the series.
The Synthesis option is maybe the only one that makes any sense from both Shep and the Catalyst's position, but it's crappy SF. In a series where they took pains to make everything sound at least kind of plausible (at least, if eezo existed), and took pains to overexplain every science-fictiony concept in the codex, the ending turns to magic. This is why I mentioned Ender's Game, BSG, and Foundation, because they all did this at the end. It just feels like a cheat. I didn't think I was playing some space fantasy (space new age?) game, but that's suddenly what it is.
And why was the Normandy apparently in a Mass Relay conduit at the end? Or was it in FTL? How were the crew members who probably should have died on Earth, on board the ship? What was up with that?
Shep's death isn't even close to an issue. I've heard people whine about that, but I can't understand why.
Phew, had to nerd out there. Not upset or about to nerd rage out, definitely not going to "protest" the ending to a damn game, it was just disappointing is all.
I'll have to see what I think about the ending DLC, but I have a feeling I still won't like it, considering that the problems I had weren't really of the "my decisions didn't matter" or "they didn't explain what happened after" variety.
This comment was edited on Apr 25, 2012, 02:24. |
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| News Comments > Space Rangers HD: A War Apart Announced |
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Re: Space Rangers HD: A War Apart Announced |
Apr 19, 2012, 04:46 |
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Dev wrote on Apr 19, 2012, 01:16:
xXBatmanXx wrote on Apr 18, 2012, 23:48:
FOUND IT! SUB SPACE!!!!!
http://subspace.legendzones.com/screenshots.php
Game was infuriating. I played that back in the day. I enjoyed it for what it was. I think its still going even today. It was last time I checked.
Continuum is the new client, created by reverse engineering the original game. |
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| News Comments > Evening Consolidation |
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Apr 18, 2012, 20:29 |
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swedishfriend wrote on Apr 18, 2012, 20:13:
I can guarantee there is no license that specifically states which data on the disk is not licensed to the end user who bought the disk. There is no question in my mind that these hackers did nothing wrong by any standards. They did wrong by the legal standards of any nation with a DMCA-like law. As far as I can tell, this would count as circumvention of a copyright protection mechanism. And if the EULAs are actually binding, it's pretty standard to have a "you may not modify this game in any way that we don't like" sort of thing in the boilerplate.
Moral standards are another matter. |
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| News Comments > Tribes Ascend: Launches |
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Re: Tribes Ascend: Launches |
Apr 14, 2012, 05:40 |
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Beaner wrote on Apr 12, 2012, 23:04:
Those COD machine gun weapons need a spread like the tribes chaingun.
Don't tell me they re-broke those. The bullet-based guns fluctuated in the beta between 'okay, this is annoying' and 'why can he kill me just by looking at me?'. |
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| News Comments > ME3 Operation RESURGENCE Underway |
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Re: ME3 Operation RESURGENCE Underway |
Apr 13, 2012, 21:37 |
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I just want to comment on this game, since I now can:
I haven't hit the ending yet (which I take it from what I've read is tone-appropriate but ambiguous and lacking closure), but the game itself has been pretty good thus far. It's also been depressing as all hell. It just never lightens up.
Multiplayer is fun, but doesn't really have much of a draw for me. |
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Apr 10, 2012, 01:22 |
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eRe4s3r wrote on Apr 9, 2012, 20:16:
Ever since Penny Arcade got all douche bag over the ME3 ending child's play donation thing I have removed that site from my feeds....
As someone who doesn't follow Penny Arcade drama, what was this about? |
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| News Comments > Morning Metaverse |
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Apr 10, 2012, 01:18 |
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It's not that hard to write in 140 characters without sounding ridiculous. I think his peculiar style probably takes more skill (along, perhaps, with a dash of crazy).
Constituents askd why i am not outraged at PresO attack on supreme court independence. Bcause Am ppl r not stupid as this x prof of con law. =>
Why am I not outraged at Obama's attack on SCOTUS independence? Because Americans aren't as stupid as this exprofessor of constitutional law |
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| News Comments > Starlight Inception Kickstart |
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Apr 7, 2012, 18:23 |
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jdreyer wrote on Apr 7, 2012, 18:10:
CommunistHamster wrote on Apr 7, 2012, 11:56:
Not enough of a track record or proof of concept for me to fund this yet. basically a new x wing though which would be beyond amazing.
Yeah, which makes me wonder: Why aren't any studios doing a AAA space combat game? Look at all the interest and buzz for that fan-made Wing Commander game.
I don't know. The art load for a modern AAA game is a pretty hefty chunk of the budget, and think of what you need for a (classic-style) space combat game:
- Ships
- 2D backgrounds
- Weapon effects
- UI
That totally omits an enormous chunk of what other games require, including:
- characters
- character animations
- weapons (okay, you can have this, but at lower LOD than an FPS)
- 3D environments (huge; this includes the level design, environment artwork, and AI paths) |
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| News Comments > Starlight Inception Kickstart |
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Re: Starlight Inception Kickstart |
Apr 7, 2012, 16:30 |
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TurdFergasun wrote on Apr 7, 2012, 16:20:
this one looks like decent enough creative vision I don't know, that's my main problem with this: it's thin. I mean, "dramatic" and "realistic" and "3rd person view", OK, but what is this game? It feels a little too vague and characterless. |
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| News Comments > April Foolin' 2012, Part 2 |
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Re: It Came from April Fool's 2102, Part 2 |
Apr 1, 2012, 20:21 |
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The Wiimote hidden blades cracked me up.
But eh, Google Maps definitely has it this year.
Dev wrote on Apr 1, 2012, 18:41:
And the onboard computer I wonder if its done in minecraft 
"The computer in the game is a fully functioning emulated 16 bit CPU that can be used to control your entire ship, or just to play games on while waiting for a large mining operation to finish."
Apparently he's actually been talking about doing that on Twitter (a 16-bit VM inside his space game). Sounds kinda nifty. |
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| News Comments > Morning Tech Bits |
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Re: Morning Tech Bits |
Mar 26, 2012, 20:50 |
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Ventura wrote on Mar 26, 2012, 18:44:
I don't know, there are some movies (Prometheus) that I only want to see in the theater despite having a pretty kickass home theater setup.
I have a kickass setup at home too, and the better it gets, the more I realise that I only continue to go out to the movies because they get them first. If movies I really want to see, like The Avengers, Battleship and Prometheus, came out on Blu Ray on the same day as arriving in cinemas, it would be a very different story.
It used to be about the big screen experience, but these days, it really doesn't cost all that much to be able to have a similar experience at home.
It's not even just that it's at home, the quality you get from even a cheapish home theatre setup is better than at any of the theatres I've been to.
Projectors? Always out-of-focus, out of sync, covered in dust. The best I've seen was one that had an awesome new DLP projector just installed... but since then, it's degraded massively (maybe because they installed a 3D lens adapter on it that they never remove?)
The sound is wretched too. Poorly balanced, way too loud (hearing protection loud, which is just insulting).
As far as I can tell these theatres have good, often new equipment, they're just being run incompetently (few, poorly-trained employees). I'm sure there's well-run theatres somewhere, but I've never seen them. |
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| News Comments > Steamships Ahoy - Total War: Shogun 2 - Fall of the Samurai |
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Re: Steamships Ahoy - Total War: Shogun 2 - Fall of the Samurai |
Mar 22, 2012, 23:38 |
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I have a lot of time in Shogun 2, though most of it was because of a few times where I walked away without closing the game. Still, actual play time is probably comparable with or greater than Skyrim. Excellent game.
And I haven't tried mods yet. I didn't really find the lack of unit variation bothered me that much. |
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| News Comments > Saturday Consolidation |
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Mar 11, 2012, 03:54 |
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Narf2029 wrote on Mar 10, 2012, 23:04:
I almost never use my 360 anymore, except to watch Netflix. Even that is dubious since I have a computer hooked up to the TV as well. Yeah, since I hooked a PC up to the TV I've barely touched my 360. Most console games I care about are multiplatform, and almost every multiplatform game supports controllers, so that argument for the console is out. I can lie down on the couch in any position I feel comfortable and game at my leisure. At full 1080p with antialiasing and cranked graphics settings. Or I can pull up the keyboard and mouse, and blast away some people in an online game. It's great. |
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| News Comments > Tribes: Ascend Next Month |
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Re: Tribes: Ascend Next Month |
Mar 9, 2012, 22:23 |
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| If you like the game, putting down $8 on the cheapest booster gives you at 10-day booster and for-life VIP status (only if you do it during the beta). I bit the bullet and did it; I've had enough fun out of the game for the devs to get something. It's the only F2P purchase I've ever made. |
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