The Mass' Effect on gaming or HOT ALIEN LESBOZ SEKS!
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requiem_for_a_starfury
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No no don't say that, it's bad enough it's going to influence rpgs but not third person shooters as well. Too much downtime for a TPS and the aiming just doesn't feel right.generalissimofurioso said:
Tell me it gets better though, I only played it for a couple of hours. Normally the first day I get a game I'm up all night playing it but I went to bed early last night and had the best night's sleep for weeks. Hmm perhaps they should market it as a soporific rather than an rpg?
I had to turn the subtitles off, otherwise I would of fallen asleep while playing and while going around talking to everyone that you can talk to (as you do) I realised one alien was going to give me a side quest and I thought 'no don't I'm just not interested'.
I haven't been following this game so it's not hype backlash but I can't remember the last time I've been so underwhelmed by a game.
Well. I've bought the collector edition and played it for an hour. It's rather meh-ish for now. Yeah, soporific is the right word. However the dialogues are not THAT bad ( they are really better than what was shown in the latest videos overall ) if you compare them to nowadays standards in rpg's, the graphics are teh awesum and the story might be actually interesting. Have to play it a little more to be able to judge.
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They use a similar font to Crackdown and a couple of other games. I find it hard to read on the tv, I don't have a HD tv, and it induces eye strain.
Though it is annoying that you pick an option and what you character actually says is often something you never intended.
Though it is annoying that you pick an option and what you character actually says is often something you never intended.
requiem_for_a_starfury said:
Just beat it last night, not bad but not really amazing...
It picks up a bit once you've hit the later levels and you can actually aim most of your weapons correctly. But a good deal of the Biotics lose their edge and Tech abilities just sort of fall by the wayside. I still think that more shooters should attempt a bit more depth but hopefully don't copy this game verbatim. Attempting to outdo this game on all levels could only result in good things.
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I've finished it once pretty much just doing the main quest, and I'm playing it again on hardcore since you can replay with the same character, with their stats and equipment intact. With decent weapons and armour (having more than one upgrade slot) the combat is fairly decent, now that the artificial aiming handicaps are nearly all gone.
But driving around all the planets is pure tedium. Different textures aside once you've been to one you been to them all. And oh for a horizontal thruster just to get over those ridges. You're meant to be able to unlock more if you raise your Paragon or Renegade levels high enough, I don't think I'll bother and I still can't bring myself to do the side quests on the Citadel, it must be all that bland elevator music. It just puts me to sleep.
What is it with Bioware games that they just can't get the pacing of the main plot right? KotOR wasn't too bad in that you don't really find out what's going on until late in the game but in Jade Empire your master gets kidnapped and you set off to rescue him, yet along the way you keep getting all these silly quests like helping someone find a husband. For all you know your master is in mortal danger, are you really going to dillydally along the way? Likewise in Mass Effect you are given the locations of plot critical planets from the start which makes it really hard to reconcile doing the side quests with doing the main storyline. So far there's only been one side quest that tied in with the main plot but it's totally wasted because rather than using that side quest to lead you to the plot critical planet, you've already been given it's location at the beginning of the game.
While it's an alright action game I think Mass Effect has killed off my love of RPGs.
But driving around all the planets is pure tedium. Different textures aside once you've been to one you been to them all. And oh for a horizontal thruster just to get over those ridges. You're meant to be able to unlock more if you raise your Paragon or Renegade levels high enough, I don't think I'll bother and I still can't bring myself to do the side quests on the Citadel, it must be all that bland elevator music. It just puts me to sleep.
What is it with Bioware games that they just can't get the pacing of the main plot right? KotOR wasn't too bad in that you don't really find out what's going on until late in the game but in Jade Empire your master gets kidnapped and you set off to rescue him, yet along the way you keep getting all these silly quests like helping someone find a husband. For all you know your master is in mortal danger, are you really going to dillydally along the way? Likewise in Mass Effect you are given the locations of plot critical planets from the start which makes it really hard to reconcile doing the side quests with doing the main storyline. So far there's only been one side quest that tied in with the main plot but it's totally wasted because rather than using that side quest to lead you to the plot critical planet, you've already been given it's location at the beginning of the game.
While it's an alright action game I think Mass Effect has killed off my love of RPGs.
requiem_for_a_starfury said:...
While it's an alright action game I think Mass Effect has killed off my love of RPGs.
Well, if the reviews, sales and are any sign of things to come...
All RPG's will become like Mass Effect, simply because of the fact that they have dialogue and stats.
Oh well, nothing you can really do about it besides not buying them and being a tired old crank like myself.
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requiem_for_a_starfury said:
It's been Biowhore's problem since the days of Baldur's Gate 2 where the protagonist was supposedly trying to free her <s>lover</s> sister from mortal danger but made a lot of sub-quests under way.
How?requiem_for_a_starfury said:While it's an alright action game I think Mass Effect has killed off my love of RPGs.
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Partly it's the knowledge of, as generalissimofurioso says, this is the future of RPGs. But it's also the way they've done the inventory and weapons system.Sorrow said:
I'll try and explain, in KotOR you had unlimited ammo and they've made a slight improvement to that in ME by explaining why you've got unlimited ammo and making the weapon overheat but still there's a whole element of inventory management and tactical gameplay just gone. The same with the party inventory, it might simplify things but for an old school gamer it takes the fun out of it. Combine that with the lack of vastly different item models and the ability to turn everything, you don't need or intend to sell, into omnigel it shows up searching for the number crunching it is. Then there's the random item placement means you search a crashed probe only to find not data modules but armour and weapons. Why would there be armour and weapons on a probe? And money, it's a problem right at the start but it doesn't take long to accumulate and become worthless, as there's nothing much to do with it.
Urm I'm not sure that made sense, sure these are problems with a lot of rpgs but the way it's implemented in Mass Effect just seems to highlight how stupid and grinding this can be.
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When i read the words "ALIEN" and "SEKS" suddenly a image of tentacles came to my mind. Then i saw the screenshots and got a bit disappointed.
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Do I hear defeatism?requiem_for_a_starfury said:
They can't be a future of RPGs, because they aren't real RPGs - they are action games.
To me, it is obvious that our Final Victory is inevitable. Our Glorious Truth will prevail and their pathetic lies will be defeated.
Times will come, when true RPGs will return.
hahaha...check also this one out ,this ain't lezbian seckz but commander shepard sure looks hot here :
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIyFa7ODd10[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIyFa7ODd10[/youtube]
Frith, BioWare, please hire some people who actually know how to write.
For more shitty writing in an awkward scene, here's the lesbian love scene the screenshots in the original post are actually from.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KL7XZANlmJs[/youtube]
For more shitty writing in an awkward scene, here's the lesbian love scene the screenshots in the original post are actually from.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KL7XZANlmJs[/youtube]
Sorrow
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Ugh, alien sex - that's sick :/ .
It's even worse than the Baldur's Gate novel
. Which is pretty weird, because outside the general infantilism and lack of real choice, dialogues in BG and BG2 were pretty well written (except for Gaelan Bayle... I hate the Gaelan Bayle dialogues 
).
Maybe they shouldn't have hired the writer of the slime covered, maggot ridden abomination that is the BG: Tob novel...
It's even worse than the Baldur's Gate novel
. Which is pretty weird, because outside the general infantilism and lack of real choice, dialogues in BG and BG2 were pretty well written (except for Gaelan Bayle... I hate the Gaelan Bayle dialogues ).Maybe they shouldn't have hired the writer of the slime covered, maggot ridden abomination that is the BG: Tob novel...
The thing with Mass Effect for me personally is that it just shows how immature the gaming industry still is. With the whole "omg its so cinematic!!" schtick, it's just arrgh...
See, if comparing the cinematics to other games then Mass Effect may be a decent effort. But if you compare the cinematics to good actual cinema, then you instantly see how incredibly infantile it is. That love scene is just embarrasing to watch from all points of view (though I admit I like the music). I'm actually all for sexual content in games where it fits, but whoever directed that scene is just trying way to hard to bring the game over into movies territory.
The more they try to do this stuff, the more silly it looks to my eyes. The more "realistic" or professional they try to make it, the more the flaws become appearant.
See, if comparing the cinematics to other games then Mass Effect may be a decent effort. But if you compare the cinematics to good actual cinema, then you instantly see how incredibly infantile it is. That love scene is just embarrasing to watch from all points of view (though I admit I like the music). I'm actually all for sexual content in games where it fits, but whoever directed that scene is just trying way to hard to bring the game over into movies territory.
The more they try to do this stuff, the more silly it looks to my eyes. The more "realistic" or professional they try to make it, the more the flaws become appearant.
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I've been researching Mass Effect. I do like what I see besides the... umm.. whats mentioned above.
But I'm not going to go purchase a gaming console that requires a paid subscription just for online support, to play it.
But I'm not going to go purchase a gaming console that requires a paid subscription just for online support, to play it.
hah...pay attention to the Aliens eyes at the 00:18(-00:39) second.
is that what happens to the aliens when they get horny ?!
is that what happens to the aliens when they get horny ?!
No, it's what happens when aliens get wigged out on quaaludes.
Pretty boring and standard gringo sex scene. I wondered if those blue things on the alien chick's head would become erect and start fucking the human chick, independently of the blue-skin's one-second cuddles.
The line at the end made me burst out laughing.
Pretty boring and standard gringo sex scene. I wondered if those blue things on the alien chick's head would become erect and start fucking the human chick, independently of the blue-skin's one-second cuddles.
The line at the end made me burst out laughing.
If you don't like the romance you can just tell the NPC's to piss off, they wont rape you.
Anyway Mass Effect is pretty great. My only real complaint is the side mission worlds were bland and repetitive. The main storyline and universe were awesome and Virmire has replaced the Mordon Cube(Rubikon) as my favourite level in a RPG.
Anyway Mass Effect is pretty great. My only real complaint is the side mission worlds were bland and repetitive. The main storyline and universe were awesome and Virmire has replaced the Mordon Cube(Rubikon) as my favourite level in a RPG.