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I thought the game more looked like they were obligated to release a Deus Ex this year, but had to rush a script together that didn't interfere with later games. If stuff was cut, it was far more than 1/3rd. It has only a single boss fight and the plot ends in pretty much the exact place it started. There's no further revelations about the conspiracy, Jensen makes no new friends, and no new enemies.

I hear good things about G-senjou no Maou, good even with the censoring since that's the only one available in English. But I've already got a backlog of my recent VN addiction. Umineko, World End Economica, Root Double, Planetarian, and then Muv-Luv Alternative is supposed to come out this winter. Fruit of Grisai and Umineko are listed as 50+ hours! I don't even have room to check out G-Senjou.

Fruit of Grisaia still. The humor is losing its punch, but it's starting to invest me more in the characters instead. Really enjoying it. I also bought Saya no Uta today. VNDB's #3. It's short too so I'll probably start that before I finish Grisaia. And the Bo-Rifle is out in Battlefront. Kill someone with it equipped, get one of your own. Edit: And Saya is definitely something. It's a story about a guy who sees everything as this horrifying mess of flesh following an accident. All except this one mysterious girl named Saya, the only normal person in his world. And so far splits perspectives between Fuminori, our mentally damaged main character, and other more normal people. In less than an hour of reading, I already come to sympathize with our protagonist for being a bit of a jerk. While feeling sad for his friends. So what they're trying to do is working. Edit2: Reading further, Jesus christ.

It was a mistake, looks like. Bioware's 5 day giveaway is twitter raffles. Today is a Krogan plushie.

Not anymore.

Well, my days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle.

I find class systems to be the ones that change the most over the course of a game, granting new abilities and ways to play as you level. Skill based too often just tend to ramp up damage, accuracy, or the like. I'm not taking that as a rule, but it's the impression I've gotten. But at the end of the day, it depends on the nature of the game. Lots of abilities from classes works mainly for games that are either turn based or at least have tactical pausing. Less so in a real time affair.

The Last Guardian is soo good. Controls are very floaty, I don't know if I'm using that wrong. Which is a bad thing, but it makes it feel like Ico and Shadow of the Colossus. Edit: And now I've beaten it after spending an entire Sunday. It was great. It's what you expect if you're familiar with the series. And, if you're not, i don't know what to tell you. It practically plays like a PS2 game, It's a boy and his Griffin.

If we can cheat like that, Undertale is mine, too.

Uncharted 4 is my current GOTY. But I have high hopes for The Last Guardian. I'm actually kind of disappointed with my own choice, frankly. No doubt it's deserving, but I wish there was at least some competition. The only other two contenders I had in mind turned out to be released in 2015. I guess I can give Blood and Wine second place for now, at least. A DLC. Tyranny get third.

KOTOR isn't canon. Hammerhead ships are actually much newer in canon. The rebellion acquired a bunch in Star Wars: Rebels, actually.

Finished Final Fantasy XV. I give it a PFFFFFFBT. The combat was good, I liked it. The open world was... open. Virtually every single side quest in the entire thing is dull. The main plot looks like someone took an acceptable but not great plot, tacked on an even more generic plot on top of it, then failed to finish either. What we're left with is a plot that only remains coherent due to the simplicity at its core. A few characters are built up to then go missing, the main plot sends you to do stuff that never matters, lots of skipping around, and more than a few things that are simply dropped in your lap. I'm kind of cheating by saying it "looks like," because I'm sure that's what happened. There are leaks about development of the old version and lots of verified cut content. I kind of regret giving this franchise another chance. It's not a terrible game, it's just a terribly written game that was subsequently chopped up to sell DLC and tie-ins. It makes Metal Gear Solid V look well planned and coherent.

Depending on the execution of it, they might have made it a more "credible" story by emphasizing your Mandalorian heritage rather than your bounty hunter heritage. There does seem to be some loose association between Mandalorian clans and the Empire. At least enough for them to have their own enclave in Dromund Kaas. I really resented Gault when playing my first character. Eventually he grew on me, but it did take 2-3 years of real time Edit: as for why I picked the bounty hunter for my first class, 2 reasons: Mako was cute and I loved the armour displayer on their website for the powertech class (which of course was no longer available ingame when I started playing) They should have just scrapped the whole Mandalorian and hunt element of it. The iconic Star Wars Bounty Hunters weren't part of some glorified contest. They were the dudes a Sith Lord called in to get the job done when the rest of the Empire wasn't up to the job. The BH should have been employed directly by the Sith. Training and commanding troopers on commando raids, assassination missions, hunting down defectors.

Rogue One will be the first Star Wars movie I get on Blu-Ray. I thought it was pretty okay for most of the film. But the third act is simply perfect. It turned an acceptable side story in the Star Wars universe into a worthy addition to the original epic. It made me feel feelings. Feelings that leave me unsatisfied with other entertainment, at least for a little while. The kind that put me in a position to write and express myself. To improve my own creative energy and try to pass those feelings on that way. The appropriate adjective is "inspiring." Try not to give that too much weight, however. I'm not saying it'll change lives. While it is a grand thing, I'm also inspired by Bushes of Love (we've all got a Chicken Duck Woman Thing waiting for us). That song is beautiful and ridiculous.

Yes, but now you'll always know you're a fraud of a Bounty Hunter.

Not being able to kill Gault is the main reason I never made it past beta.

I want a pet Trico. So cute.

Neither is KOTOR 1 and 2.

I don't think there's any real chance of it being made. Disney hasn't shown any interest in doing more for the Legends continuity. I also think SWTOR and the novels have killed off most plot threads a KOTOR 3 would have addressed.

I experimented with ramen today. Mostly I learned that it's remarkably hard to screw up ramen so long as you're not being ridiculous. But also: Egg whites do not form ribbons when doing egg drop. But neither do they ruin the broth. They do leave a residue on the bottom of the pan, or at least with what I did. Salted mushrooms are pretty good. Putting broccoli into soup inevitably makes the entire thing taste a bit like broccoli soup. The flavor is strong with this vegetable. Medium size shrimp sink.

My biggest disappointments were the derailment of Legion's character into the very cliche he was originally written to defy and the lack of any character arc aside from the DLC guy and the robot I forget the name of (whose arc was also pretty much the same as Legion's new derailed character). A great ending could have made those something I just shrugged at. Endings can do that, it's just the way they are. But yeah, it's hardly the only problem it had.

I still can't get over a galactic government that consists of three people. And how screwed up even the idea of Spectres is. I get that they wanted to have their own version of Jedi, but it came across as a transparent rogue cop power fantasy. Complete with them taking away your badge later when they ground your ship. At least there should have been some self-awareness when one of them turns out to be evil. But no, they just make another one and throw that at the problem. And then you've got Garrus whose entire character is to complain about red tape holding him back.

I also like Bushes of Love.

It's a story about a planetarium in the post-apocalypse, dude. It's not a sexbot. Not that kind of story.