Still deep in Mass Effect 2. Was about to do Jacob's loyalty mission, when the game bugged out and the beacon on the planet disappeared, and then it auto-saved. Good thing I had a manual save ten minutes away..
As a soldier, I expected I'd be ramboing the game with a machinegun. Turns out, I'm ramboing with the Viper sniper rifle.
Which is actually closer to Rambo from First Blood anyways. 🙂
Originally posted by cdtm
Still deep in Mass Effect 2. Was about to do Jacob's loyalty mission, when the game bugged out and the beacon on the planet disappeared, and then it auto-saved. Good thing I had a manual save ten minutes away..As a soldier, I expected I'd be ramboing the game with a machinegun. Turns out, I'm ramboing with the Viper sniper rifle.
Which is actually closer to Rambo from First Blood anyways. 🙂
Knee deep in Mass Effect 1 still. Already covered the incredibleness of it on it's eponymous page.
ME2 = soon...
Originally posted by John Murdoch
Knee deep in Mass Effect 1 still. Already covered the incredibleness of it on it's eponymous page.ME2 = soon...
Ooh, I'll try and avoid anymore spoilers then. Figured I was the only one on Earth still playing through the trilogy for the first time.
I will say ME1 probably has the better characters, but thankfully one of the best crosses over.. You'll see what I mean when you get there.
Know what's still kind of fun?
(Note: Not sure if they updated it, but used to be it didn't work on 64 bit browsers, and you needed to break out your 32 bit legacy IE from the start menu. That was on Windows 7..)
Originally posted by cdtm
Ooh, I'll try and avoid anymore spoilers then. Figured I was the only one on Earth still playing through the trilogy for the first time.I will say ME1 probably has the better characters, but thankfully one of the best crosses over.. You'll see what I mean when you get there.
Most excellent. Will report back in time.
Originally posted by BackFire
Just started playing Middle Earth Shadow of War. Seems more or less the same as the last one but with real money loot boxes.Plan on ignoring those, hopefully the game isn't balanced around them (probably is).
Is the story any tighter? It was my biggest complaint with the first one, as a few times I felt like it was kind of aimless.
The loot boxes are pointless. You get so much currency and loot from captains that I never used them. I used the ones I was given for free and then bought some with the in-game currency but you never need them. It's far from Battlefield 2.
The story is meh....but the upgrades to the nemesis system is pretty substantial. There is a lot of cool shit that can happen with captains.
Basically, Shadow of War is good action game with a really cool mechanic but that's all it is.
Originally posted by BackFire
Story seems less engaging than the first one. I seem to be in a constant "I don't give a shit" loop when I'm watching the story cinematics to this game. That said the combat is good and the nemesis system seems intact.
Yeah, that's basically it. The nemesis system is pretty damn cool still.
I had an orc captain kill me, get legendary status, and then I killed him with fire. Then he came back in more powerful but as some sort of fire god prophet thing that kept on muttering on how the Ranger killed him with fire. It was amazing.
And the greatest is killing a captain by decapitating them and then they come back as a zombie captain orc but instead of going through the huge speach....they just grumble and make sounds. It's pretty damn funny.
From what I've heard they really shat up the nemesis system by making orcs so disposable and throwing them at you constantly. The original system was ground-breaking, so it's real shitty that they messed it up to sell lootboxes.
I'm finally playing Metal Gear Rising atm. I'm having a great time but I can tell not playing with a controller is hurting me and parrying is a total crapshoot. But playing with a controller on computer is so damn finicky....