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I still use singularity + throw + backlash and just never bother with cover. Whenever I am not actively attacking I throw up backlash and let trash kill themselves on the reflect. It is also handy to reflect the big attacks that the bosses and minibosses toss at me and has saved my bacon on...

Much further in the game now. Still have not touched 'favorite' loadouts or indeed branched much beyond my core ability set. I may need to respec at some point just to reallocate my stuff around a bit in terms of abilities I put points into to level my profile but not actually use. I had...

Well this seems very different. Looks like any remnant of the original vision is gone and what we are left with is something that is a cross between Borderlands and Halo. Perhaps as a result of eradicating the Ghosts / Travellers Light / etc. they will reboot the whole thing into something...

This looks pretty interesting. Like a geek intensive somewhat less dark and more visceral Black Mirror, or perhaps a nerdy Twilight Zone

Dimension 404 Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy First Aired: Overview: Inspired by the Internet’s “404” error code, Dimension 404 aims to evoke that 3 AM feeling of wandering onto the weird side of the web, stumbling upon stories that cannot be explained in the world that we know.

They certainly backloaded the content for this title. After starting out on a very linear and uninspiring path I've reached the point where I finish one mission and I have email / messages / etc. piled up with everyone REALLY wanting me to go do their thing like NOW. This has been the case in...

That trailer seems like a mega spoiler. There's a lot of detail packed in there AND there's elements of enough story beats to fill three acts.

I have not had any luck with the LFG tool. Even right after launch people were wanting to 'link achievements' and other stuff. Then after 30+ mins of looking I'd get accepted into a group only to have the tank/healer go AFK for another 10 minutes before starting and then die on the first...

I might come back and play some of this just to see the new zone and get flying. I'm more than a little annoyed at the mechanism they have in place for 'Mythic' dungeons since there's no good way for you to jump in and do even low-rated Mythic content unless you have a guild / larger support...

Destiny's gameplay was extremely good in terms of running around and shooting things. Not knocking that aspect at all, but it could easily have met with WoW type success had their storyline/content plan been up to snuff. They changed the item system a bunch of times and never really met the...

I use an Assault Rifle with the "auto targeted" plasma bolt thing. (Weight is a major issue as a Space Wizzy Biotic). You might think this would be a really useful weapon against the Cardinals... you would be wrong. The 'seeking' bolts happily impact on his shield and even dodge out of the...

I hope to god they do something with the dumpster-fire that is the current story. I rewatched the original opening cinematic and still think I want to play THAT game... not the game where you bippity boop around for awhile and then do some weird timey-wimey stuff with the Vex. I mean Crota...

Part of me actually likes elements of the Research and Development system, but they fucked up by having the 'augment' research produce only the one augment and not giving you a way to use Development resources to make more of them and instead add those to the Loot Table of things you defeat. As...

We came late to the party in my household but have been skipping around and watching whichever episode struck our fancy because anthology. I do think there is a persistent need for such an anthology in the social consciousness in order to explore ideas like these. San Junipero is very close...

Ahhh no I'm not playing on insanity as I immediately recognized that without Companion Ability Control playing on Insanity seemed ludicrous.

I'm pure Biotic but never seem to have much of an issue getting rushed / into melee combat. Then again I tend to stay pretty far away in general just stand there with Backlash active when I'm not actively attacking. The Ket, in particular, are super good at killing themselves with the...

The most annoying aspect of this is that they added a lot of new abilities to the game with ME:A, but I'll likely never see but a small fraction of them unless I do so in multiplayer. I also find myself completely NOT using the 'saved profiles' business as I've chosen to max out my existing...

Took me ages to realize that Lexi (the doctor) was Margaery Tyrell. I actually remembered, after the fact, that she was doing a voice but it did not immediately occur to me that it was her.

I don't care for how the 'dynamic' cover works as Ryder seems very prone to standing up from cover in the middle of combat for no apparent reason. As frustrating as 'Division'-style sticky cover is on occasion I find this version even more annoying, especially when my nuts are being chewed off...

Last night I got through the end of Eos (or OREOS as I started calling it) and by the end it actually felt like a Mass Effect game. It has picked up a whole 'oregon trail' kinda vibe and that isn't a bad thing. They have added quite a bit of political subtext to the machinations of the Nexus...

I thought I was just being especially retarded when trying to figure out how to fill out the rest of our group for APEX. I'm still not entirely convinced that there is no way to queue as a private group and get matched with other people. How often do you have exactly 3 other people online...

So I finally got past the point I stopped the Xbox trial and went a bit further before deciding that this wasn't worth losing sleep over and shutting down for the night. Here are my additional observations. 1) Character Builder -- I had, naively, assumed that since at the end of customizing...

As i mentioned earlier I spent some time during the preview checking out the background characters talking amongst each other and their low-rez textures and more primitive animations work and work well. I have to therefore put some faith in the rumor that they had much better facial animations...

If it helps at all I logged back in a couple days after finishing the game and got a whole mess of trophies, so either they patched something or there was some sort of trophy delay/upload issue for my save.

I made a custom Ryder and I feel less like punching him in the face now. He still has the same voice obviously, but switching to a custom look seems to have removed a certain level of Nathan Drake snarkiness.

Here's the amusing thing: some people on that staff can actually write / do voice work. If you wander around the idle regions of the Nexus / Tempest / wherever you'll get snippets of conversations going on that are quite good. It's like there was a squad of subversive talented people left...

So apparently EA Access crashed or something? Possibly lots of people have seen the reviews and jumped on $5 to try the game and see if they wanted to abandon ship.

As others mentioned previously: Thrawn has an eidetic memory and will likely notice which planet from his list was replaced when they messed with his stuff. It is telling how much of a nerd I am that I watch that preview above and go "pffft I don't see no Interdictor Class Star Destroyer...

I watched it and enjoyed myself. Certainly has an interesting premise AND since it is based on existing source material they will have a general plot outline in place. Honestly at this point in time if you are launching a new series and aren't basing it on a substantive existing work then you...

I started over from the beginning last night since there was still time on the EA Access preview and I wanted to see the difference from doing vs not doing the optional missions. Anywho, they do actually address the reason you start out going to Habitat 7, but its almost a throwaway line so...

I am not generally a save-scummer, but in previous games I did use it occasionally to rewind dialogue. When I first encountered the lack of save functionality I thought it was just because of where I was at the start of the narrative, but that does not seem to be the case. While ME3 had...

Mac Walters said that eliminating the skill/ability wheel was a feature because they felt that pausing the action to issue commands hindered the flow of combat. They felt that they upped the AI for the companions enough that it was no longer necessary. He seems to be ignoring that the AI...

There was one truly inspired yet insane individual who was responsible for making all the generic planets in the original Mass Effect have reasonable properties and science factoids for those star systems. I had wanted to reach out to Bioware Montreal about beefing that up for ME:A by including...

Decided to play some Multi-player tonight and it was quite fun, although the people I got matched with were much less savvy than the ones at PAX it was still a good time. I bet with friends it will be awesome for quite some time .

Are these wonky renderings coming exclusively from the PC version or are they from all the platforms? I only ask because PC ports have a somewhat uneven history for simultaneous releases like this. It also is striking that the tech demo that was first shown at E3 something like 2 years ago has...

I am reminded of "ReCore". When Microsoft pulled the plug on it and released it quietly as a bargain bin title last fall me and a buddy were trying to figure out why. The game was pretty decent but clearly not done and I speculated at the time that perhaps Microsoft had gotten word that...

I Wonder what Bioware Edmonton is working on? It seems clear they just exiled Mac Walters to Montreal to make this and don't seem to have given it much oversight. Anyway I dusted off the Xboner and booted this up with EA Access last night and played for ~2 hours. Including overall comments...

Finished here too. Sooo freaking good. They left enough hooks that they can mine this IP for a good long while having built an amazing new game world. It's only March but I feel this may already be game of the year for me.

I'm on the quest where you can get the last power cell for the armor (I looked that up just to see if I was tilting at windmills trying to find them too early) so I know I must be near the end. I was certainly not expecting the level of storycraft that has gone into something that was billed...