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[quote name='hankmecrankme']Exactly.

And the bottom dude is giving, top dude is taking. Both enjoy it.[/QUOTE]



Your knowledge of what is going with that is...frightening.... :cold:
 
[quote name='shrike4242']Mass Effect was written as a trilogy out of the gate, so some of the story was obviously left to the later games in the series. It's certainly a TV move like other shows that build up an overarching universe without things completely compartmentalized.

Would it have been nice to have a DA: O-type expansion to ME2 as a bridge to ME3? Yes, without question. Do I think they messed up with the DLC they did post-launch, including Arrival? Not to me, though I can see some people having issues with "bridge" DLC that ties in specifically to the next game.

As I've played Arrival on both of my ME2 playthroughs, I won't see if there's a "you didn't play Arrival in ME2, so we'll have to summarize what happened at the beginning of ME3" flag that gets set going into ME3 from the ME2 import.

Regardless, I liked the second half of Arrival much more than the first half. No question there. The solo aspect was a bit jarring compared to the rest of the gameplay in the beginning, though at the end, it made sense to me.

ME2's "story" was part of the larger story arc, where ME2 is the middle component to the Reaper saga.[/QUOTE]


You do a sequel like Empire Strikes back or Two Towers, not like ME2 where we clueless to what the threat is. Or maybe that was their intention? I think I beat on ME2 more so than a dead horse.


[quote name='hankmecrankme']I believe that ME was written as a trilogy with everything planned out about as much as I believe George Lucas had all 6 Star Wars movies planned out way in advance.[/QUOTE]


Totally had it planned, you have no idea how deep Lucas is.


[quote name='hankmecrankme']Also a big fat fuckin' LOL at Cashcom.
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TAKE MY MONEY!!
 
Since people are talking about it...

I think ME was planned to be a trilogy. However, only ME1 and ME3 were actually planned stories, and ME2 was just a bunch of dogfucking because going directly from the attack on the citadel into ME3 would have been too much too fast (this is where the joke about someone's mom goes), but they didn't actually know what should happen in between. They knew how to start things, and they knew how they wanted to end things, but they didn't really have it in them to string the two together.

So they threw us in with a vaguely described organization from a group of minor-ish sidequests from the first game. And they threw us up against some goofy looking motherfuckers that we'd never heard of before. And also Arrival.
 
A brief example of the difference between Baldur's Gate 1 and 2:

In BG1, learning a mage spell gave you EXP based on the level of the spell multiplied by ten. So a first level spell is 10 EXP, a third level spell is 30, etc. In BG2, you get EXP based on the level of the spell multiplied by one thousand. The same spell that was once worth 10 EXP is now worth 1000 EXP.[quote name='whoknows']So is ME3 going to be the one that has a decent story, or does the story in all 3 fail?[/QUOTE]
Refer to my earlier 100% accurate prediction of ME3.
 
I'll pretend I read it and agree.

Also I enjoyed the story in ME2 more than in ME1. Frienship simulator was more interesting than the super generic story of good guy goes bad that ME1 had.
 
[quote name='gunm']Your knowledge of what is going with that is...frightening.... :cold:[/QUOTE]
I'm a 31 year old man that's been on the internet for a long time. I'm also pretty perverted. So yes.

[quote name='whoknows']I thought the guy in front was just getting a hug from the guy behind him,[/QUOTE]
I think he was choking om something prior to that hug.

It's all about breathing.

[quote name='j-cart']TAKE MY MONEY!![/QUOTE]
And speaking of anal spelunking, here's another brave soul willing to lose his anal virginity to Cashcom. ^__^

But I'm sure you've left $20 bills on Cashcom's nightstand many times already.
 
[quote name='j-cart']/edit: HAHAH Inf^Shini, I totally forgot that it did that. Awesome :D[/QUOTE]

I've never seen a comic do that lol :shock:
 
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Found my first big irritant in Baldur's Gate 2 (beyond getting utterly destroyed by trolls and gibbed by vampires). Having control taken away from me during a cutscene? Unfortunate, but occasionally necessary. Having control taken away from me during a cutscene in which an NPC is attacked and killed? Okay, that's getting stupid. Having control taken away from me during a cutscene in which an NPC is attacked and killed very slowly (dude took, like, eight shots to bring him down)? Why would you do that? Having control taken away from me during a cutscene in which a vital-to-my-plans NPC is attacked and killed very slowly (dude took, like, eight shots to bring him down)? fuck off.
 
[quote name='ihadFG']Hmm, apparently I did get SFxT shipped to my apartment. So yeah, I'll be up for playing that tonight.[/QUOTE]

I'll hop on later if you guys play long enough. :p
 
[quote name='ihadFG']Hmm, apparently I did get SFxT shipped to my apartment. So yeah, I'll be up for playing that tonight.[/QUOTE]

[quote name='corrosivefrost']I'll hop on later if you guys play long enough. :p[/QUOTE]

Same for me, I'm not going to get home till a bit later my time, since I'm going to workout tonight.
 
[quote name='icebeast']Same for me, I'm not going to get home till a bit later my time, since I'm going to workout tonight.[/QUOTE]

We can always play each other if they've finished for the night. :)

Anyone with the SE get their amazon code yet?
 
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[quote name='ihadFG']Not the first time you've asked him that I'd wager.[/QUOTE]

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[quote name='whoknows']How hard is it[/QUOTE]

Almost too hard.

[quote name='ihadFG']Not the first time you've asked him that I'd wager.[/QUOTE]

Question gets asked a lot particularly when we are talking about Uraizen.

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Now it's just getting overused.
 
Played another 3 levels of Uncharted earlier this evening. Needed a break after that shitty jet ski up the river level so I decided to start up ME3 since I wanted to just play games all evening. Put 4.5 hours into it so far and I'm loving it thus far. Looks great, nice tweaks with the weapon upgrading and customizing etc.
 
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Frosty should have posted the picture again in response to Indignate.

Would have been hilarious. Missed opportunity.


Also I like the Jet Ski. Was cool.
 
[quote name='whoknows']Frosty should have posted the picture again in response to Indignate.

Would have been hilarious. Missed opportunity.


Also I like the Jet Ski. Was cool.[/QUOTE]

Eh, the picture, it wasn't calling me there.
And I didn't necessary *like* the Jet Ski, but I didn't have the problem with it that the gaming community at large seems to have.
 
[quote name='corrosivefrost']Eh, the picture, it wasn't calling me there.
And I didn't necessary *like* the Jet Ski, but I didn't have the problem with it that the gaming community at large seems to have.[/QUOTE]
I thought it was a nice change of pace.
[quote name='Indignate']You know all about missed opportunities.[/QUOTE]

I sure do.

And by that I mean I don't know what you're talking about.
 
I have encountered another Major Annoyance with Baldur's Gate 2.

Trust your encounters to work on their own, Bioware. None of this "you're half-way through the room and then five twelve foot tall monsters appear all around you also the room is cut in half with four of your guys on one side and your mage all alone on the other side".

At least make the rising cage door thing on an actual trap and give a teleportation animation to the monsters appearing. This just looks terrible.

EDIT: They can cast their spells through the divider, too? Jesus fuck.
 
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[quote name='corrosivefrost']Why does everyone hate the jetski level so much? It's easy and really not a bad variation... :3[/QUOTE]

I thought the controls just sucked when fighting the rapids. Add on the instant deaths from exploding barrels if you don't see one in a rapid or run into one around the corner that you couldn't see etc. and it just frustrated the hell out of me.

Game has way to much trial and error bs in general where you keep dying as stuff happens that you couldn't foresee. Like when a new wave of enemies spawns right behind you after you finish off one wave, and then you have to do the whole firefight again as you didn't know to move to the otherside of the room until you get wiped out from behind the first time etc.

I like the game, but the difficulty/frustration factor is lessening that and making it a game I can only play in small doses.
 
[quote name='dmaul1114']I thought the controls just sucked when fighting the rapids. Add on the instant deaths from exploding barrels if you don't see one in a rapid or run into one around the corner that you couldn't see etc. and it just frustrated the hell out of me.

Game has way to much trial and error bs in general where you keep dying as stuff happens that you couldn't foresee. Like when a new wave of enemies spawns right behind you after you finish off one wave, and then you have to do the whole firefight again as you didn't know to move to the otherside of the room until you get wiped out from behind the first time etc.

I like the game, but the difficulty/frustration factor is lessening that and making it a game I can only play in small doses.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, I can kind of see that, the upstream portion does kind of suck like that, especially on the highest difficulty. The real key, and I knew this by the 2nd time I played, was slowly going up the river and just hanging back until you could shoot all the enemies and barrels, then moving up a level.

If I remember correctly, you're probably already past where the most difficult gunfight on crushing was -- which was a room in chapter 4 where you after you go down a narrow hallway, you drop into this open room with water covering the floor and only pillars for cover. Not that there's necessarily a correlation between difficult gunfights on crushing and normal, but in theory, you should be mostly good...

Can't wait to see what you think of the endgame... :lol:
 
Yeah, that's how I did the Jet Ski part, still annoying as it's not a lot of fun hanging back and going slowly etc.

Yeah, the drop down into the water part was a fairly tough gun fight. The one in Chapter 11 where you're between the two stairways with a turret across the room was a pain too. That's the one where I finally got all the guys and turret killed only to have guys drop down behind me and kill me and have to do it all over again as i thought the fight was over and wasn't ready for guys to randomly start shooting me in the back!

And yeah, I hear the end game is a pain in the ass. So I'll definitely just chip away at this with a chapter or two here and there when I don't have a big block of time to play ME3 (hate playing that game in shorter bursts).
 
husky is some douche who got popular because his SC2 channel was in HD when the game released, and 80% of the community is 12 years old these days so his charisma is pretty approachable.
 
I had no problem with the jetski level. It was fun! dmaul just be hatin'. :cool:

Been playing Golden Abyss. Pretty good so far. Love portable Uncharted--good use of the touch screen, although the shooting seems more difficult to me for some reason.
 
[quote name='dmaul1114']Yeah, that's how I did the Jet Ski part, still annoying as it's not a lot of fun hanging back and going slowly etc.

Yeah, the drop down into the water part was a fairly tough gun fight. The one in Chapter 11 where you're between the two stairways with a turret across the room was a pain too. That's the one where I finally got all the guys and turret killed only to have guys drop down behind me and kill me and have to do it all over again as i thought the fight was over and wasn't ready for guys to randomly start shooting me in the back!

And yeah, I hear the end game is a pain in the ass. So I'll definitely just chip away at this with a chapter or two here and there when I don't have a big block of time to play ME3 (hate playing that game in shorter bursts).[/QUOTE]


This is why you need to just finish up and play Uncharted 2. Uncharted 2 is just THAT much better than the first one.

Also don't play on anything higher than normal on your first play through. The higher difficulties require a bit of finesse and memorization.
 
Yeah, I'm only playing on normal. I pretty much never play games on higher difficulties.

I'll definitely play the sequels, as they're better by most accounts, but I'll take a break and play some other games in my backlog inbetween.
 
I don't even know WTF game this jetski part is in.

I'm just going to pretend it's Resident Evil 4. ^__^

Edit: Oh Uncharted 1. Makes sense. I wiped those parts from my mind.
 
[quote name='j-cart']This is why you need to just finish up and play Uncharted 2. Uncharted 2 is just THAT much better than the first one.

Also don't play on anything higher than normal on your first play through. The higher difficulties require a bit of finesse and memorization.[/QUOTE]

Uncharted 2 is only better than 1 in that some of the gameplay mechanics have been refined. If uncharted had the gameplay tweaks from two patched in, it would be superior to 2 in every way. Especially if you like the series for being more tomb raider/indiana jones than for being gears of war. [/bold opinion]

Compared to 1 and 3, 2 sucks. It's by far and away the worst in the series. I haven't played Golden Abyss yet, but since 3 was better than 2, I have hope for it.
 
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