Quinn wrote on Apr 1, 2020, 07:18:

OpticNerve wrote on Mar 31, 2020, 22:53:

Quinn wrote on Mar 31, 2020, 16:51:
I jumped back into Division 2 since last week. I never did much of the Black Tusk stuff but now I think I've cleared all of D.C. except for the raids. I really enjoyed it but now I feel like I have to buy the expansion because grinding for gear now feels too much as coming too late to the party -- "endgame" has moved itself to the expansion.

I still doubt if Warlords of New York is worth the 25 bucks...

I felt that the campaign alone was worth the price (imo the expansion storyline was what Division 2 should have been about - D.C. had a lot of unfocused meandering) but you are correct that the "endgame" has (in a roundabout way) moved over to the expansion via the removal of gearscores and adding +10 levels to gear as well as some nice exotics. But like I've sort of mentioned in my above post, most of the new global events take place and can be done in D.C., so New York is an area you sort of only hop back to in order to do missions to RNG better-rolled exotics.

I do think that Massive will eventually do expansion-specific raids and additions but right now Warlords of New York needs more endgame content, which is a damned shame because run-down New York looks great and it's a fun place to shoot stuff in.

Hmm sounds good enough I think. If not for anything else, I'll buy it for the New York map. I think most of us agree that it would've been better if the better game (Division 2) had New York, and the other D.C. Or any other city, really. I visited D.C. and I always thought it is a bit too neat/clean and low-rise a city for a Division game.

Quinn wrote on Mar 31, 2020, 16:51:
I jumped back into Division 2 since last week. I never did much of the Black Tusk stuff but now I think I've cleared all of D.C. except for the raids. I really enjoyed it but now I feel like I have to buy the expansion because grinding for gear now feels too much as coming too late to the party -- "endgame" has moved itself to the expansion.

I still doubt if Warlords of New York is worth the 25 bucks...

The Half Elf wrote on Mar 31, 2020, 06:08:
you pretty much nailed it.

Division 1 and 2 are pretty good, but Warlords of New York is just awesome. They need to let Massive Entertainment take a stab at the Ghost Recon franchise.

Beamer wrote on Mar 18, 2020, 10:59:
Crazy how, during a national emergency, suddenly everyone is a democratic socialist.

Maybe some will realize that not every emergency is national.

MoreLuckThanSkill wrote on Feb 22, 2020, 20:24:

Slick wrote on Feb 22, 2020, 19:57:

jdreyer wrote on Feb 22, 2020, 15:26:
Why would I do EA for a single played narrative game?

This.

Few of us on bluesnews are the target EA market for a game like this, but this is just the continued outsourcing of beta testing to the games community.

Did D:OS or D:OS2 have some sort of public beta or EA phase? I can't remember.

I usually avoid EA/beta for pretty much any game, let alone RPGs, but some people seem to love getting in early.

HorrorScope wrote on Jan 18, 2020, 20:35:
I do like their games quite a bit, but even so they do need to make them feel different and just add something more. This is a good move.

I like both Divisions, but the second the Tiers from 1 to 5 was so fast what is even the point? I do like the live map but there should have been some well designed meta game there that added strategy that matters. Also overall it is too easy and I do feel the AI was a bit of a step backwards from 1, that said it has some of the best AI in the biz, they just dumbed them down because they felt the audience is dumb, imo. Loot goes so fast there is like no point to even bother with it all that much until you hit top gear score, there has to be something better.

Creston wrote on Dec 29, 2019, 00:01:

OpticNerve wrote on Dec 28, 2019, 20:30:

Kxmode wrote on Dec 28, 2019, 19:33:
Started season three of The Expanse. What a crazy show! The stakes keep getting bigger each season. I love how season two essentially had two big climatic endings (one in the middle, the other at the end). Thanks, OpticNerve for convincing me to stick with the series past season one.

Glad you're enjoying it! It took my online friend a while of constant nagging for me to finally start watching The Expanse and I'm really glad that she did.

Her: "You love sci-fi shows! WHY AREN'T YOU WATCHING THE EXPANSE?!"
Me: But the synopsis and trailer looked boring and I have other shows to watch.
Her: Watch it now! Season 2 is amazing!
Me: Fiiiiine...
*Me after binging Season 1, 2 and part-way into Season 3*
Me: THE EXPANSE IS AWESOME!
Her: Told you!

Haha, I hear ya. I have several colleagues at work who I've had to constantly badger about it, even though they're HUGE sci-fi fans. And then they watch the first two episodes of season 1 and go "UUUGGHH!!" and I have to plead with them to keep watching, until they finally do, and then the next day they show up and go "Holy shit, I'm halfway through season 2, this is fucking crazy awesome!"

I'm also very glad season 4 is excellent, because a lot of people were worried it would be a letdown because apparently the book wasn't that great.

Kxmode wrote on Dec 28, 2019, 19:33:
Started season three of The Expanse. What a crazy show! The stakes keep getting bigger each season. I love how season two essentially had two big climatic endings (one in the middle, the other at the end). Thanks, OpticNerve for convincing me to stick with the series past season one.

jdreyer wrote on Dec 25, 2019, 03:34:

OpticNerve wrote on Dec 25, 2019, 03:25:

Kxmode wrote on Dec 25, 2019, 01:55:
I'm three episodes into The Expanse and I still don't know what this show is about. It's looks like an aimless soap opera set in space. I think one more episode and I'm done. So far I don't care about ANY of the characters... not one.

Try to stick with the entire season if you can. It's a VERY slow burn because season 1 begins as an odd sci-fi, detective mystery that eventually builds up in scope and epicness as it moves away from that. It feels aimless at first but it really isn't and the actors get a lot better (and the main cast gets more likeable - Amos is awesome) further into the seasons.

Personally, it wasn't until near the end of season 1 that the show really hooked me and once it did, it didn't let go. The good news is that once it gets past season 1, things pretty much go full throttle and things ramp up in urgency as the major plot eventually reveals itself.

Just don't expect it to get there asap. It really wasn't until the end of season 3 that the overall plotline did get revealed. And by that time I was just completely enthralled due to the slow (but consistently urgent) buildup of it.

I just love watching Thomas Jane as Joe. In the middle of S2 now.