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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote stonebeard Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 21 2012 at 23:56
Originally posted by manofmystery manofmystery wrote:

I disagree completely.  I enjoyed HL2 quite a bit and this beta copy of HL3 Gabe Newell sent me is amazing.  You guys are going to be blown away when this game is released, in 2020.

Never thought they would pull off a first person shooter in a universe populated only by hats, but I stand corrected. 10/10.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote KoS Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 21 2012 at 23:59
but Team Fortress is broken. Still fun, though.


Boat level in HL2 was the worst, the worst.


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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Triceratopsoil Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 22 2012 at 00:10
Frankly kotor was the first and last great game Bioware made
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Gamemako Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 22 2012 at 02:03
Originally posted by James James wrote:

Yes the ending was deliberate and yes, they have no plans to fix it.  A pre-ending DLC won't be fixing the ending.  It will just be explaining it all better. Wink


That is the most likely candidate, actually. Because the game shipped with this ending, they'll almost certainly want to stick with it, instead just working everything else out so it doesn't seem so damn stupid. They can do a lot to help things that way, though they're always going to be saddled with some issues that will still leave a lot of people displeased.

Originally posted by James James wrote:

The story with Shepard is done with (within this series, not with the game, as there is DLC planned).  Mass Effect as a setting is not.


It's pretty hard to make a sequel with the endings they've given. The disparity is too great. If they do, it'll be a very different game than the previous ones anyway. But you know, I learned something today. That stinger voiced by Buzz Aldrin? It's 10,000 years into the future according to the game files. Holawd...

Originally posted by James James wrote:

If the theory is not true, then I agree, the endings are bad but I don't actually dislike them at all.


Well, it's pretty clear at this point that the indoctrination theory is wrong, so I'm glad we agree. Wink

Originally posted by James James wrote:

Dragon Age had gay sex.  Just sayin'.


There have been gay romances in BioWare games for a decade.

Originally posted by James James wrote:

That's taking things a tad too far.


I still don't see how that is a bad thing. In terms of ways to air your grievances, that is incredibly civil and productive.

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Oh and Textbook, I hope you have Broken Steel? Wink


Haha, that's not the first retconned ending, you know. Big smile

Originally posted by Triceratopsoil Triceratopsoil wrote:

Frankly kotor was the first and last great game Bioware made


Uh, which ones have you played? I do not see how you could not think that MDK2 and BG2 are damn fine games.
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Mass Effect (the first game) is far better than KotOR (the first game).  I cannot get into KotOR that much.  Mass Effect is keeping me far more enthralled.

BG II is their epic and not even Mass Effect has surpassed it.

I won't mention Black Isle games (even though I kind of consider them BioWare games in style and quality).

Why are you anti-Indoctrination Theory, Gamemako?  Just curious.

The clues in the game seem to fit pretty well.
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Originally posted by Gamemako Gamemako wrote:


It's pretty hard to make a sequel with the endings they've given. The disparity is too great. If they do, it'll be a very different game than the previous ones anyway. But you know, I learned something today. That stinger voiced by Buzz Aldrin? It's 10,000 years into the future according to the game files. Holawd...


I didn't know old Buzz' scene was supposed to be 10,000 years after the events of Mass Effect 3.  Interesting!  It seems if that is true, then technologically everything has stopped in regards to Space Travel.

If you've read Dr. Greg Muzyka's blog message from yesterday, you'll know he also mentions future Mass Effect games are planned.  So it's not the end of the series.

Also, Jennifer Merizan (before she got an accidental death threat) was helping the community out a lot with her tweets.  I haven't read them all as I'm not on Twitter but she did say the Mass Relays are not destroyed.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Triceratopsoil Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 22 2012 at 09:07
Originally posted by Gamemako Gamemako wrote:



Uh, which ones have you played? I do not see how you could not think that MDK2 and BG2 are damn fine games.


I have never even heard of MDK2 before now.  Never liked the BG (or NWN for that matter) games
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Well you should do.  At least the Baldur's Gate series.  They're superior to Knights of the Old Republic.  Neverwinter Nights I can understand though you not liking.

I played the demo of the first MDK (Murder, Death, Kill, not Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh) once and didn't like it much.  I've not played MDK2 though.
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Finally got Bioshock (I know, I'm behind the times) and it is absolutely fantastic.  The gameplay, the Ayn Rand parody, the deconstruction of linear narrative, everything.  Would you kindly admit that it's one of the best shooters of the decade?

And yeah, the boat level in HL2 was way too long and annoying, especially since the game only really gets awesome once you're past it.


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I can't think of a single player game I've enjoyed more than Bioshock in ages
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I'm still waiting for my goddamn copy of Arkham City, which is nearly a week late. I should play Dead Space 2, though. I haven't even opened it. Alas, I'm sucked into something else...

I loved Bioshock. The sequel was great, but it didn't really tread any new ground. 
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The final boss of Bioshock was pretty anticlimactic though, although the endings were pretty good.  I'll be ordering Bioshock 2 from Amazon, so hopefully that'll come soon.

Arkham City is a great game, lots of fun.  The DLCs are actually quite good as well, although I'd only buy them if you've finished the main game but aren't quite done playing.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote stonebeard Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 22 2012 at 22:08
Originally posted by Gazoinks Gazoinks wrote:

The final boss of Bioshock was pretty anticlimactic though, although the endings were pretty good.  

Eh. I don't know what it is with modern games, but the stories (and endings especially) for most of the games I've played are just horrifically lazy and awful. Even my most happily non-disappointing Deus Ex: Human Revolution had a phone-it-in voice over slide show ending. What the f**k? I don't know why developers can't come up with endings I like. It's either either space-marine-staring-off-into-the-wreckage/invasion-of-Earth (every first person shooter including the ones I like from the past 10 years) or a lame FMV sequence. Nothing really inspiring. Last game ending that really, really blew me away was Snake Eater.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote The Neck Romancer Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 23 2012 at 07:31
Recommend me some free games, other than TF2
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Originally posted by Polo Polo wrote:

Recommend me some free games, other than TF2


La Mulana
Moonbase Alpha
Alien Swarm

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Henry Plainview Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 23 2012 at 08:08
The actual gameplay of Bioshock was meh, I don't think I ever completed it. Andrew Ryan is awesome though.
Originally posted by Polo Polo wrote:

Recommend me some free games, other than TF2
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I don't know, I liked the gameplay.  There was a fair amount of room to be creative, setting people of fire and electrocuting them when they jump into water, breaking frozen enemies, enraging groups, hacking bots, etc.  Plus, you know, shooting bees at people is pretty awesome.


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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Triceratopsoil Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 23 2012 at 18:50
Originally posted by Gazoinks Gazoinks wrote:

I don't know, I liked the gameplay.  There was a fair amount of room to be creative, setting people of fire and electrocuting them when they jump into water, breaking frozen enemies, enraging groups, hacking bots, etc.  Plus, you know, shooting bees at people is pretty awesome.




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Originally posted by Triceratopsoil Triceratopsoil wrote:

I can't think of a single player game I've enjoyed more than Bioshock in ages
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