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Had to stop playing the ME3 single player before the final mission to step into multiplayer to get my EMS up. So, it seems pre patch, you need a 5000 EMS for the "best ending" whatever the f that is, and it would take me too much time to reach that at this point since I hadn't played multiplayer at all before this. Yeah, that was a really stupid idea Bioware, however I doubt the "best ending" is all that amazing anyway. Played the multiplayer for the last few days, but I just can't halt the story for that long, that's just straight up ridiculous. So I edited a save game to save me the trouble..

So, if you have "old school RPG" attatched to your title you can get away with anything, even ridiculously tired fantasy artwork..

I have 9 hrs logged into SR3 and I have to yet start another game from the beginning. First game had a bug that totally killed progression in the game so I had to start game #2, well I tried a female character this time and it looked horrible once in the game...now I'm going to try attempt #3 after I finish ME3. I hate how you have to play a mission first before you get to the create character menu, but luckily that mission isn't too long..

How did Morrowind not have a main quest? It would sometimes tell you "hey I guess you should do some sidequests now" and felt a bit less urgent, but it wasn't any less of a main quest. Morrowind main quest line is more vague - Oblivion's is more immediate with known recycled goals in Oblivion gates...

, but I still have quests to complete and dungeons to clear in this open-world action/stealth house decoration simulator with RPG elements. Right now I'm playing through the College of Winterhold and I don't really know why I should even care for these idiots or what my goal is, but the appearences of the have been interesting, if only for lore reasons in the latter's case. I occasionally return to my Solitude house to continue my work on filling two cauldrons with jewels. https://dl.dropbox.c...09-02-30-88.jpg I've also started up Borderlands 2 but that's currently on hold as I had this current Skyrim relapse. Haha, nice jewel setup.

Skyrim story is about 10x worse than FO3 to me. It's so bland and boring that it shouldn't even have been included. Morrowind's lack of main narrative was a much better approach - a few scattered big story moments with a lot of the bulk moreso left to the imagination.

From what I understand, the main people who worked on Riddick left Starbreeze not too long after the release. Articles that state "from the makers of Riddick" are somewhat misleading. Some of the key people, yes. They formed Machine Games which was later acquired by Bethesda, so who knows what they're working on right now. But if they manage to re-capture the same beautiful charm of Darkness and Riddick, I'm game. Yeah - been checking for a while for what the Machine Games crew is working on, but there's been no info at this point. I'm curious, at the least. Pretty talented group.

From what I understand, the main people who worked on Riddick left Starbreeze not too long after the release. Articles that state "from the makers of Riddick" are somewhat misleading.

ME3, the mission on Thessia is scripted so stupidly. I literally destroyed Kai Leng with ease but then it switches to the cutscene where it's scripted that I get destroyed instead. The ensuing dialogue of how much of a failure the mission was is straight up pathetic and served no other purpose than to annoy me a bit. Garbage.

Good idea - though I only expect to buy 2 more games in the near/not so near future on Steam, so a bit late on that for me. No idea how my account got selected, but all seems good so far..

Reading all of this Borderlands stuff almost gives me nightmares. Don't see how so many people like that style game.. but anyway, I got a random password reset email from Steam - has anybody ever got that before or is my account being targeted by some sonofabitch?

I never played the original NWN, but it must be pretty horrible if you're looking forward to NWN2 that much. I have yet to finish that one after being about 13 hrs in. The game is a borderline joke. It's akin to playing with hand puppets and talking to yourself - not fun at all. Hopefully I can finish it one day so I can get to MOTB that everyone loves.

I'm probably a little over halfway done with ME3. I'm not going to patch it just so I can witness the ending that caused all of the mayhem. Pros: polished product, the genophage storyline was decent, gameplay is decent enough and most things are pretty balanced Cons: the characters are weak and not as good as ME2, annoying how conversations and sidequests all come in huge waves, "been there, done that" feel in concerning most of the story.

Borderlands is extremely generic and feels like a console game. If you're yearning for a game to play with friends, then you might like it I've heard, but if you play it solo, like I did, it's horrible. The whole game is this - collect loot everywhere, kill respawning enemies all the time, weed out your inventory all the time, the end.

I think the issue is that people take Mass Effect more seriously than it does itself. I never saw them denounce the "80s scifi pastiche" approach they had to the setting, and the music in 3 certainly supports this, as well. Not an excuse for the ending, but certainly for a lot of the other more aspy gripes. Also, DXHR is all about hitting the fourth button. Oh man, I visited the Bioware forums near the release and it was mayhem--nerd rage galore!! I finally got the game running today, played the first mission until the first resting point, and it wasn't as bad as I thought. No doubt, low expectations always makes things better than they probably are but it's well done so far, for what it is. I haven't played in the ME universe in 2 years so it's kind of weird getting used to it again. I wish there were no renegade/paragon system - it's just horribly done and gimmicky at this point. I got renegade points for simply telling a squadmate to "focus" in a somewhat casual manner during a mission. I guess that makes me a badass? That's kind of the part where I feel the game takes itself too seriously - all of the dialogue is forceful in some way, overly imperative or overly concerned and caring and even when it's more casual, there's too much importance placed into a simple response. Anyway, it's kind of nice to play a more straight forward game without having to hack every 10ft you move like in DXHR. Hacking needs to be eliminated from gaming, or atleast made a tiny bit interesting. And about the DX ending...

Heh, it didn't work. So I'm going to have to redownload the whole file. Good thing that my bandwidth isn't capped yet. So then I thought, since I'm on Origin and haven't played Battlefield 3 for several months, I might as well update it and play a few rounds. I update it, the game and the browser plugin and all of that jazz. I click to play and all I get is this "need to install game first". Hahaha. So I've spent the whole night trying to get two games to run on this **** Origin system and they both fail to f'n launch. Thank you EA and your horrible system.

So I downloaded ME3 through Amazon's slow servers. The installation stalled at 81% and gave me a disc read error and suggests that I clean the disc or download and install the digital version(lol). So I exit the installation and retry it and the installation flickered between 99-100% and said the same damn thing. I'm gonna keep trying the install and hopefully one of these work because I'm not in the mood to redownload the whole file right now. What a garbage service.

Ha, I heard about that so that's why I chose to play DX first. Funny though that DX then copied the intro to ME2 to a degree. I didn't hate the ending btw. I actually thought they were pretty well done for gaming's standard. I simply just am confused to why someone who likes the DX universe so much wouldn't want to choose that one option. The other choices would be for people who are general gamers but aren't neccessarily into sci-fi much or so I would imagine..

Deus Ex spoiler ahead: Yeah and we haven't totally abolished technological advancements or destroyed ourselves yet. Everytime there's a cycle, things start over but they return to the same point much more quickly, so my point is that it doesn't really matter. Technology can cause problems for sure but can also do things like prevent disasters. Would people rather just sit on their hands instead of develop ways to make meteors avoid colliding with earth(which they do from time to time)? I think the positives outweigh the negatives and stalling that is just further putting everyone at risk. I snuck around and knocked people out for the first half of the game and then just started shooting them in the head as the game was getting stale and tedious and I still ended with the "good" ending. I see the point in all of the endings however all of them are hypocritical and made redundant. I.E. murdering everyone at the base does nothing but takes away spin from those imediate groups you deal with. Leaving choices up to politicians does nothing but gives up your control and now they can do everything they wont permit you to do and on top of it make you pay for it and as well start wars and chaos themselves. Exposing both sides to the world is assuming that the world will then live in peace and harmony - lol, how is that ever going to happen? The natural order is chaos. Accept it that we are flawed and harness it - but don't keep us down with religion or superficial morality on a grand scale. People already suffer today without augments - talk to people who have amputations and their mind can still connect with that limb that's no longer there. We are just now beginning to understand parts of the brain and how it works. Taking that away and setting it back wouldnt cure depression, killings and all that sort of thing. Sure, a whole lot of bad things could happen within this realm on an individual basis, but the important thing is leaving people with a choice instead of keeping them in control because it could be quite helpful to other individuals who choose to take whatever augmented steps they're taking. So basically, in the grand scheme, there's going to be chaos anyway... why not try to make the most of it?

Well all of the option had appeal in my opinion, but it came down to whether you trusted the people involved in each of them. Ok well what I mean is that

Finished DX:HR. Chose the ending. Not sure why anyone who's playing this style game would want to choose a different option. And with that, I could never replay the game as I saw as much as I need in the one playthrough. Now I might play the other takes-itself-too-seriously sci-fi drama in ME3 and see what all of the fuss was/is about.

Good to hear. That's got to be one of the few new games I'm looking forward to playing.

I'll be glad when I've finished Deus Ex:HR. The levels are beyond tedious at this point and the story with all of it's juvenile twists shouldn't have gotten passed testing it's been done so many times before. Now the game has hit the point where it just turns into busy work where I'm just waiting it through. Hack, crawl, evade, shoot and listen to lame voiceovers feeding you intel.

It seems everyone forgets that this game was rushed. Plus, melee is not even one of their worst design decisions. That makes sense. Concerning the bulk of the game there is a lot of things that are "ok" and come off as if they were quickly decided upon and nothing that's really great other than the look of the environment. I mean for as much as an unpolished game Alpha Protocol was, atleast the combat choices made more sense and hey, the gunplay is actually kind of fun. Deus Ex destroys Alpha Protocol as far as making a nice gameworld, but that's pretty much the only thing it does better. AP combat is better and the story + voice acting + role playing takes it to a whole other level.

Which is why they should've done something with hand-to-hand combat instead of melee = insta kill. Using an entire energy cell for one maneuver, but then getting it refueled by eating an energy bar which lacks real nutrition is just shoddy and lazy. But I guess in a game like this, you have to forget about anything logical. I mean they do have giant airvents throughout every location that's around sensitive information and completely unguarded.