Everything posted by Gorgon
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Mass Effect 3
The narrative clumsily encroaching on player perogative. They have to know their limits when they do that. You can't get anywhere in telling the story without grabbing hold of the reins, but if it just leaves you thinking 'what a douche' it's an obvious failure.
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Chris Avellone and ME3
My main grief with ME3 is all the railroading, and I'm not talking about linear progression, but in the tone and the narrative. I felt some of the emotional high notes they wrote in there, but they assumed too much with the dream sequences and the ending, they were bloody annoying. A fact exacerbated by them for some reason being done in unskippable slo mo. To my mind they completely lost contact with the end user.
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Bioware + ME 3 + Ending + All over the news?
It kinda sucked, but not bad enough for all this craziness. No game could suck enough for that.
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Nokia invents tingly tattoo
Tatoo transistors. Seems to me it would be more economical with subdermal implants.
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What are you playing now?
Has anyone played Fall of the Samurai.
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Mass Effect 3
You always have the three options.
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Mass Effect 3
The other two represent succumbing to reapers or something like that. And I personally find that bonus portion kinda big hint of something. Don't have answers for the rest of your post. How do we even know the destroy action destroys the reapers. It might as well be the automatic window cleaning cycle, by inference the architect is not to be trusted.
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Mystery serial killer strikes in France
Who want's to be anybody's first time. It's guaranteed to suck.
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Nokia invents tingly tattoo
Ahh, so it's almost like having a phone in your pocket that tingles, untill you touch it. Pure genious.
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Halving your risk of depression
I thought meat was a really good way to lose weight. You get a big pile of protein with little fat or carbs.
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Future of the Dragon Age franchise
I'm sure I'm not the only one who thought the characters in DA2 were painfully bad. 'Elric of we have already tried the Drow to death so lets try something else', A pirate thief with ginormous knockers, Lord shoots things with arrows.... sheessh.
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Mass Effect 3
As regards sales the show is over by the time word of mouth from people who have actually played it starts getting around and you can start taking stock of the game as a whole. So it all ends up with marketing. If you can drum up enough exitement you can probably peddle that day one DLC as well. People are stupid, they only want what's new and hot. Tried and tested is so much more preferable.
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Nokia invents tingly tattoo
Pretty pointless. Nokia R&D trying to remind everyone that they still exist to challenge the continent eating legendary Apple beast.
- Computer (sitting) related back pain
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Are you overweight because you're simply tired?
There is also an increased risk of cancer in people who work night shifts. First hit of a google http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22026660/ns/health-cancer/t/graveyard-shift-linked-cancer-risk/
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Invisible Children co-founder arrested for vandalism, public masturbation
Mmmmm, irrelevance.
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Movies you've seen recently
I haven been this excited about a new movie in at least a decade. (Prometheus) I kinda like the suggestion that the Aliens aren't the focus of the story at all, but merely window dressing in the navigator ship.
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Movies you've seen recently
It's a bit like an unbuffed Arnold, although I don't see a big budget Hollywood production with nudity featuring prominently. Aestethically it's a shame though.
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Movies you've seen recently
I think I remember a comic like that. It's disney on the other hand, which probably means it isn't allowed to be too interesting or X rated, you have to be able to drag your kids there.
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Mass Effect 3
Of course it matters whether you are being taken for a ride or not. Paying a huge premium for a tiny mission extra dialouge and a party member which nevertheless is very integral to continuity and the plot. Trying to force Bioware to change the ending, that is pretty stupid on the other hand.
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The funny things thread
This is probably a 5 year old meme, but it's the first time I've seen it, and it's bloody awesome
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Ouch, Bioware... Dragon Age 2, and now this?
The ending is kinda lame, well all of them are. I would not have preditcted these levels of hissy fit though.
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What you did today
I've been over 100 kg but I'm nearly two meters tall. Theres a gym right next to where I work, and I wouldn't mind looking a bit more muscular, or rather look like I had any, but I can't be arsed bringing a change of clothes every day. If I don't commit to doing the gym thing every day my morale crumbles and lazyness wins over.