Woohoo, official off-topic thread!

Originally posted by Phanteros
Bioware definitly is not a sucky company, just a average company that been hyped to hell an back.

Pretty much. They excel at remaking the same game with a different backdrop repeatedly. Mediocrity is something they have down to an art.

Agreed. I've also noticed that all their games are extremely similar.

They're head and shoulders above the other RPG making companies though, like Square-Enix (or whatever it's called now). Final Fantasy games haven't been above shit quality since 10.

They're two completely different styles of RPG, though, so they're hard to compare.

But yeah, need a good FF, damnit. I liked FFXIII quite a bit, but it was lacking. Need FFX HD now.

Mass Effect 1 and 2 are much better than any Final Fantasy ever created, except maybe VI, though.

Is it wrong that everytime I look at Mass Effect I'm reminded of an action orientied Star Trek?

edit: I also think Obsidion is much better in the moral compass department than Mass Effect in the fact the there isn't a simple Good/Evil choice, though their games...well functionality isn't their strong suit.

I would guess that depends on your opinion of Star Trek.

Originally posted by NemeBro
I would guess that depends on your opinion of Star Trek.

Morality is always simple, due to it being relative. I've never seen a "complex" moral choice, certainly not in Fallout.

Closest I've ever come to having a difficult time choosing was when I had to choose between killing Witherfang or Zathrian in DA1.

If I was going to make a video game, the moral choice would send you to a different dimension. Pink fluffy and full of candy for the bad choices, dark damp and gritty for the good choices.

So like, I watching this Jessica Alba clip on Pornhub, where this guy grabs her and forcefully tosses her onto a bed, pins her to the bed, takes off her belt, and literally starts whipping her ass while she's sobbing in the background; then he rapes her.

... And then he starts crying and says sorry, and she feels bad and has sex with him. 😐

I don't even know what is this

I really did mean it though.

Weirdest video I've ever seen. I wonder what movie it came from.

edit- Found it; "Killer Inside Me". Plot is so ****ing stupid.

@phanteros

Nope, I agree that Mass Effect has a very Star Trek feel to it. I think they did that on purpose.

Also as far as the moral choice system in ME I'm glad that at least you don't have to go 100% in one direction or the other, I have both paragon and renegade options available a lot. I just make the choices I would make IRL.

@Blax
You have obviously never played Fallout 1 & 2

3 and vegas are fun... but nothing compared to the originals

Fallout 1 and 2 had meh moral choices.

Originally posted by RE: Blaxican
Fallout 1 and 2 had meh moral choices.

your blasphemy is unforgivable.

Fight me in a wrestling match.

Blax is dangerously close to becoming a dudebro. uhuh

Don't make me come out to california and destroy you in a heated debate.

Black people can't be dudebros.

Originally posted by Cyner
Don't make me come out to california and destroy you in a heated debate.

You'll never make it. I'm protected by an army of homeless people and whiny far left white people who'll fight to the death to protect me, because I'm the black victim here.

Originally posted by RE: Blaxican
Black people can't be dudebros.

You'll never make it. I'm protected by an army of homeless people and whiny far left white people who'll fight to the death to protect me, because I'm the black victim here.

You have me on the homeless people, last time I was in SF it was ridiculous...

However being hispanic I can also summon an army of white apologist liberals for defense.