I'm also playing through ME1 remastered edition...and it's a bit slow once you get to the Citadel.
I know there is a ton of lore and conversations and I was enthralled when I first played it.....but if you know most of this stuff then it can be quite long and laborious. Thank god for fast loading times!
It's also funny how quick your character and everybody was like "yes, the reapers, they will kill everything"....yet the evidence you get doesn't really outline the seriousness of them.
Originally posted by Smasandian
I'm also playing through ME1 remastered edition...and it's a bit slow once you get to the Citadel.I know there is a ton of lore and conversations and I was enthralled when I first played it.....but if you know most of this stuff then it can be quite long and laborious. Thank god for fast loading times!
It's also funny how quick your character and everybody was like "yes, the reapers, they will kill everything"....yet the evidence you get doesn't really outline the seriousness of them.
That and I insist on doing every possible sidequest once I arrive there. Just making sure I have enough paragon/renegade points for the various quests so I don't **** them up.
And then when you get the evidence everyone just brushes it aside.
Yeah...I also talk to everybody...it's been awhile since I played the first so I want to get the full experience.
The lore and characters in the first game is top notch. Whoever wrote most of that stuff is amazing. It does make the world/universe fill "real"...like this could actually happen. And even though going to planets is long and a bit too much work...each planet has a writeup that makes the world building even more impressive.
It does for the entire series...and probably one of the best examples in the industry. There is a reason why people had strong feelings about ME3 ending when other large series had similar shit endings.
One reason is because Mass Effect 1 does such a good job building universe the remaining games utilize....and why Mass Effect Andromeda was less impressive with its lore building.
Originally posted by Smasandian
The lore and characters in the first game is top notch. Whoever wrote most of that stuff is amazing. It does make the world/universe fill "real"...like this could actually happen. And even though going to planets is long and a bit too much work...each planet has a writeup that makes the world building even more impressive.
It's a team effort of course, but Drew Karpyshyn was the lead writer for the first two games so he probably should get the lion's share of the credit. He's undoubtedly one of the best writers in the game industry.
Not sure if I'm having fun in Fallout 3 or not. The scenery is spectacular, the characters are memorable, the quests are varied.
Encounters are also way more annoying then fun early game because you don't have the bottle caps to hoard stimpacks, and do a lot of running away when your health falls hoping to get to a safe area and fast travel to someplace with a bed.
Skyrim mitigated this with an early game heal spell. Plus stealth archery is way more abusable then guns.
Originally posted by Smasandian
It does for the entire series...and probably one of the best examples in the industry. There is a reason why people had strong feelings about ME3 ending when other large series had similar shit endings.One reason is because Mass Effect 1 does such a good job building universe the remaining games utilize....and why Mass Effect Andromeda was less impressive with its lore building.
Originally posted by Smasandian
Probably. I have feeling planet descriptions were probably written by one person.
I can just see a list of planets....and they go: OK, planet Athena is done...what planet is next...ohh..its red...so blah blah blah.
I can't remember where I saw it, but iirc Casey Hudson, while not being the best at actual story writing, was apparently a huge contributor to the world-building of the games. Stuff like coming up with aliens, planets etc.
Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity.
It's like a game you didn't know you needed. It really feels like BOTW in Warriors form. Lots of your knowledge carries over between the two, and they did a good job of adapting BOTW to this style. Not just game play either. All the elements of the game come together to make you feel like you're in the exact same world. In many ways, it even fixes some of the annoyances I had with BOTW. I'm liking it.
Plus, you actually get to control the Divine Beasts. It was just plain badass storming down the volcano with Rudania and wrecking shit. Music is great too.
Narratively, it's cool seeing stuff pre-Calamity and getting to use/interact with the four Champions in their prime. I guess it's destined to have a "bad" ending though, since we know what happens to them already. 🙁
Fallout 3 has hooked me.
The combat is absolute shite compared to Dragons Dogma, and even Skyrim seems more fun, but the actual world building is just amazing. And so many opportunities to **** with people however you want, the sense of freedom feels very real.
Was turned off a bit by the fact early game leaves you aimless, e.g. "Go find the boy!", and that's all the hint you get. But now I see it forces you into exploring the world, instead of following quest markers, which is pretty clever.
So far my most fun is stealing like a thief, against the combat build I tried to make. Think my karma is in the gutter because lf it, almost everyone I meet treats me like an outlaw.
But Han Solo was pretty much a scumbag too, smuggling and cutting deals with Hutts, so I'm cool with it.
Fallout 4 is pretty pricey for a six year old shitty game.
Noticed that about a lot of games. Seems like everything past 2013 or so is indefinitely at a higher price point, as if once the next gen started everyone agreed to use Nintendo's evergreen policies. I mean, compare Binding of Isaac 1 and dlc with Rebirth, or indy games from 2008 or so with those released in 2014, the pricing over the same period of time since release is definitely higher.