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Dunno how I feel about this game's gameplay or story yet, but I love the aesthetics. The clinical graphics, the cool ''Standford Torus''-esque Citadel design, and especially the awesome late 70s/early 80s synth music. It almost sounds like Jean Michel Jarre or Tangerine Dream or something. I think I like this a lot more than the Knights of the Old Republic. The lack of a Star Wars license helps. I just hate how my guy, whom I modeled after myself, looks way too Asian. I'm not Asian at all. But there only seems to be two kind of eyes in this game, ''Asian'' and ''googly''. |
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I also love how often you can end heated conversations with annoying people by punching them in the face (at the expense of your reputation). You can even punch out the women, it's great. |
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im still playing mario 64. Am i behind the times you think. |
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I've just bought Super Mario Bros 2, it's Mario Madness! |
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ive godda get mario galaxy over crimbo. and hello you sexy man,are you well. |
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I'm good mate, you? I ordered Mario Galaxy ages ago but haven't received anything yet. |
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fantastic thanks. i havent even got a WII yet.but i will,its on my TO DO list. |
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To be honest I don't play mine much, but it is decent if you fancy doing something a bit different for a bit. I still bowl on Wii Sport every so often. |
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i think just for mario alone it would be worth it. i go on my DS more than any console,so my faith with nintendo is still high. |
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Yes, my DS with the Revolution R4 is my most used gaming system :P It's so convenient carrying 'backups' of 40 games around on one card. |
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So is it as "branchy" and "interactive" as people are hyping it to be? looks amazing and fun from what I've seen... But does it have that "x-box world" feel to it, like they all do - like everything is green and gray and sort of metallic? like halo and gears of war? like ghostbusters? like slime? like lemon jelly? (that's the only thing that came to mind) it seems that x-box 360 has now by far the best games, what an odd situation |
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This game confuses. All I've seen from trailers and shit is shooting, jumping and boring action, but all the reviews say it's an rpg with a good story, but then they also seem to be able to sum up the story in one sentence which makes me think it's crap anyway. |
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I don't know how branchy it is, I can't tell that until I try a second save, which I undoubtedly will... right now, as usual when I play these games, I'm trying to be some sort of goody-two-shoes hero. I can tell by facial expressions and reactions that I'm on people's good side, but I just don't know how the gameplay or story differs if you act like a prick. Strategically, I'm doing what I usually do... all brute force, little ''magic'' and tech... so again I don't know how the gameplay differs when you try less... ferocious approaches. I pretty much just play RPGs for the storys and worlds, so I tend to just steamroll through them as a soldier/warrior/etc. The campaign takes 8 hours to beat if you ignore sidequests, but people are playing for 40-60, so there's a shit ton to do. But right now I don't have much freedom in where I go or what I do, I'm not far in. The game eases you in before giving you access to all the worlds. The ''feel'' seems like a love it or hate it game, I can see why people would be turned off... it's clinical to the extreme, visually and aurally, which I love... think Soderbergh's Solaris... and the acting is very impersonal. The 360 definitely has the best library, and always will, but PS3's is catching up and will be quite awesome by 2009. The Wii's library will always be shallow and weak except Nintendo's awesome shit. All I've seen from trailers and shit is shooting, jumping and boring action But what have I told you about going by trailers? I spent hours in the Citadel just conversing and learning about the world, no action at all. It's an RPG all the way. |
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Oh yeah and as far as factions, I dunno, but even if I'm a sucker or a puppet I'm doing my best to stay on the home side this save and brown nose my superiors (and the human race before aliens), even though the game is hinting at corruption and the usual conspiracies and whatnot. I'll see what happens. |
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I haven't been able to put as much time in this yet as I'd like too but so far it seems pretty awesome. although the FPS drop from time to time bugs me. |
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cool, that's funny, I never was either much of an experimenter as far as the main character goes... I mean, the thought of being like a summoner or a thief or a white mage never appealed to me, as long as there's a chance of wielding a broadsword as a warrior and putting all my resources into raising my ATK/PWR. But usually I test the limits of my A.I. friends' patience by randomly pestering them (i.e. shooting them in the head) - but I guess in a game where this actually MATTERS and AFFECTS the gameplay somewhat, I would be more cautious. Maybe. I'm always about 2 years behind in games, so in 2009 I'll get back to you about how I like this game (no, really, I don't even know anyone who has an x-box 360) |
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Damn you and your narrativist approach to videogame criticism. |
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I'm dying a lot but I don't mind that much because the Critical Mission Failure theme is a supremely sinister pulsing 80s synth that I love to hear. But I'd be lying if I said I wasn't looking forward to just eschewing the niceties and just fucking everyone over as a Renegade instead of my current Paragon. This is kind of hard. |
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I thought this game was going to be better, but it was still great. The main story/quest is fantastic and lays great groundwork for the story in the sequels, but man they dropped the ball with the sidequests. Every facility you visit, which eventually comes to dozens, has a similar layout with only small variations, the mines have similar layouts, the derelict ships... I realize that you can't expect the sidequests to all be carefully handcrafted and totally unique in a game of this size and scope... but at least in games like Oblivion, the dungeons and caves have different ''blueprints'', even though they all look the same and use the same assets. It makes the game feel rushed, because the parts they DID put lots of care and time into are awesome, it's a jarring contrast. Hopefully they'll have more time and budget to commit to sidequests in the next game now that the series is established. I liked the procedurally generated moons and planets, because I'm into that stuff anyway and I was gleeful when I got to explore Earth's moon and found a Russian crashed probe, but again they get so repetitive, they need to come up with more interesting discoveries on them next time. |
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waiting to finish assassin's creed to start mass effect. looks way immersive yes. |
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so how many bald space marines are in this one. |
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can i ask, in this game can you manualy fly the spacecraft? or do you just point to a planet then your on the surface? i watched the trailer, i thought it looked cool |
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No, you walk around the ship and when you want to go somewhere you walk up to the Galaxy Map. Then you zoom into a cluster, then to a system, then to a planet/moon/spacecraft/etc. I wouldn't be opposed to ME2 having Colony Wars/Freespace inspired space-battles, but controlling a ship that moves faster than the speed of light from planet to planet would be kind of weird. |
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im level 46, playing as a paragon (will go full renegade next playthrough) and am halfway through virmire. this game absolutely RULES. and the music/sound is fucking stellar. Ophecks is right; the critical mission failure theme is made for this crowd. speaking of... there is a "song" that plays during some side-mission interiors that is, without a doubt, inspired by #19/Stone in Focus/SAW2 vinyl track. just missing that 3rd note. the metronome is there, the pace, everything. |
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Did you get laid? Two full playthroughs and I didn't get ANY space tail. It was fun being a Renegade (and Shepard actually has some hilarious burns) but it doesn't change the game much. I love the soundtrack but I downloaded it and it's actually missing my absolute favorite tune, the theme. A more understated version of the sinister game over music (Saren's Theme). |
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Is it lame that I'm considering starting a third save just to complete the romantic subplot? I wonder what it was that I said... or didn't say... |
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make sure to talk to your love interest between EVERY main plot mission - look for new dialogue options and pick nice guy/paragon answers in all conversations with them. I also recall making some progress at one point (regardless of main missions) after doing a load of side-quests (during which I leveled up several times). |
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lol, it was funny in fable, but playing house in the middle of a war sounds like an unnecessary distraction - or then the next in next gen gameplay |
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I just picked up the PC version for 20 bucks. Kind of surprised that the in-game graphics options are so sparse, had to force anti-aliasing through my system settings. The graphics are pretty much awesome on max settings, though. I have just started the game (only about 5 minutes in) so I can't comment on much, but I just wanted to give PC gamers the heads up that it's pretty cheap now. |
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How odd, I just played through it again on the PC and finished it right this second. I originally completed it on the 360 about a year ago, but it is so much nicer using the keyboard/mouse. Still an amazing game. Can't wait for the sequel. |
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I'm about to go at it, now. I'm looking forward to the next installment as well (supposedly it will be a trilogy)! Here's to hoping the port to the PC gets the same treatment the first game was given! Kudos to bioware on a successful transition from 360 to PC. |
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I though Mass Effect was gay. I borrowed from my freind. I tried to like it, I tried. I could see why people did like it. But, I dunno. I just like shooting Nazi Zombies and driving tanks about and stuff. |
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it's £10 in hmv. i might buy it. |
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Dejected admission: It seems that I only get a handful (usually less than 50) credits for all the gear I sell, whereas purchasing new identical gear costs in the thousands of credits. Puzzled query: Should I basically just be converting all this old gear to omni-gel, rather than selling it for paltry credit gains? |
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bump |
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i sold everything i had. nice sexy cinematic alien sex - i think at the end i was like the worst person you possibly be in the game |
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what does this omni-gel stuff do, though? |
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After playing eve online the space exploration that this game offers feels somewhat mediocre. The graphics were OK; nice environments but the character models look like they were thrown in as an afterthought. The gameplay was decent; switching between abilities was somewhat painless and they did a good job making the unit control for the other party members intuitive and painless. I am kind of tired of games that offer two or three obvious choices every time your character interacts with someone, call it a morality game and then market it as an innovative game element. Its not real character development, and it seems to be a gimmick that every single game seems to need to include. I understand why so many people seem to like it, but it didn't work for me. |
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As I see it, it wouldn't be such a problem if game developers didn't try to mislead players into the illusion of choice. The truth is that even games as modern as Mass Effect often boil down to one or two responses from the NPCs. Regardless or which path you go, renegade or paragon, they often say basically the same thing to you, with a few bits of color-dialogue either added or trimmed. Now, taking this into consideration, I see the dialogue in the game as working about as well as it can. Sometimes, you'll get multiple dialogue options that seem to the exact same thing. The difference is that one will have an altruistic slant, the other self-serving. If the game didn't rely on placing paragon on top, renegade on the bottom in the dialogue options, sometimes you'd have no idea what you were about to say until it was too late. Sorry, I'm not doing a very good job of explaining this, suffice to say I understand where you're coming from. |
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Not that into space games, my brother likes the star trek games, im more of a cod4 man myself, though I am warcraft nerd too. |
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just picked this up cheap, im really into it. i can take this as slow as i like (i put about 300hours into elder scrolls 3 & 4) looks like i can put off building a computer for a while longer.. tonight im going to have a test run preparing some lemercier 150 proof absinthe with the style council on, and then ill get back into it |
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my character 'self-portrait' looks like |
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aw yeah |
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