I am hip-deep in the Geth and arguing with Quarians in my spare time in Mass Effect 3.
So… what are you playing?
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I am hip-deep in the Geth and arguing with Quarians in my spare time in Mass Effect 3.
So… what are you playing?
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well i finished me3, which while not great, was certainly not worth the outcry it garnered. had these people never played a bioware game before? i actually gained a bit of respect for the company for the general ambiguity and mythmaking bit at the end, though my preferred ending would have been:
gung lbh ybfr gb gur erncref, naq gur bayl qvssrerapr va raqvatf jbhyq unir orra gur nzbhag bs vasbezngvba lbh pbhyq fnir sbe gur arkg plpyr. v ernyvmr guvf vf abg srnfvoyr sbe guvf xvaq bs nhqvrapr, ohg v guvax vg jbhyq unir orra gbgnyyl njrfbzr, n yn gur raqvat bs cynarfpncr gbezrag.
The problem is that the ending wasn’t so much mythmaking as a gigantic left turn. It didn’t really fit the sub-genre of sci fi that the Mass Effect series belongs to.
It didn’t really fit the sub-genre of sci fi that the Mass Effect series belongs to.
I get that this is a legitimate criticism, but…can a problem get any more first-world than this?
We may have reached a theoretical upper limit.
One of the things that goes hand in hand with being a matter of taste is that it’s okay to *DISLIKE* it.
If someone dislikes olives, they should be allowed to say “I don’t like the pasta salad, they put too many olives in it” without being told “first world problem! At least you have enough to eat!”
It turns whether or not one likes pasta salad with too many olives into a matter of morality when, seriously, not liking olives is a matter of taste.
This goes for endings as well.
It wasn’t a criticism of James. I just find that sentence terribly amusing.
Probably not, but people who live in the first world have first world problems.
I am on day 3 of my Eve Online free trial. Too soon to tell if I will stay with it, but I will say that it’s reputation for having a vertical wall for a learning curve is well earned. I am actually enjoying being out of my depth all the time – I didn’t expect that. I guess every player goes through it with this game, so there seem to be a lot of sympathetic players ready to help us noobs. And it really is more difficult than any comp stomp; there are no easy exploits or grinding.
Maybe this is true for many MMOs, my experience with them is limited. I tried WoW for about a month in ’07 and thought it was dead awful.: grinding and ganking and soul crushing barrens chat. So, as they say on Wall Street, “Maybe this time is different.”
It’s Summer Sale time, so I’m on a game buying spree.
Of course, I still spend 90% of my gaming time in either TF2 of Binding of Isaac, I’m hoping I find something awesome in here somewhere.
I’ve found that I can’t play computer games anymore. When I sit at the computer and try to play, I find myself saying “I should be writing.”
Not when you’re on the console?
I can only think of good writing ideas in the car when the absolute last thing I should be doing is writing. When I sit down at the PC, all I can think of is the 1,000,000 things I could be reading or doing.
I need to get some kind of tablet that can take dictation for the commute.
In the console, I can sink in to my chair and Cecilia runs up and lies down next to me and, hey, even if I need to take a nap I can just sit and close my eyes and take a nap.
When I sit at the computer, I think “what’s due?”