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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...

Part of me wonders if the Andromeda Initiative is just a full implementation of the "Golgafrincham" solution from Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy : Of course that would make the Reapers a "virulent diseases contracted from a dirty telephone"

We actually started watching the old Channel 4 comedy "The Green Wing" purely to see Michelle Gomez acting completely bonkers. Damn she's awesome.

At one point I started to actively hunt critters that have a high wire component drop rate. Lately I've managed to achieve a steady state with my materials gathering / usage through normal activity such that I haven't needed farm common things lately.

Without spoiling anything I will say there were several plot elements in the game that I thought were going to go the way of cliche-ridden hackneyed story elements that went a completely different and fairly logical way. These were all fairly minor elements of the overall plot but served to...

I did get a chance to play Multiplayer at PAX this past weekend and it was pretty smooth. As mentioned several times in the earlier segments of this thread Bioware Montreal did the multiplayer part of ME3 and they have kept it pretty much intact for this game. The only changes from that format...

After being off side questing for quite a while (including some of my own making...i.e. "get a goddamn trampler heart for a shadow war bow") I went back to the main plot and I am thoroughly engaged with this to a degree I haven't been in years. I actually don't think Sony is even aware of...

I don't think they really had a clear vision of what to do with Iron Fist. They knew they needed to have him for the Defenders but there's likely a reason he was the last series they worked on. It seems almost like a rehash of the less entertaining aspects of Daredevil Season 2, hopefully...

What really sucks is being in a major fight and suddenly realizing that your supply of wood, the stuff that you had collected far too much of early on in the game and therefore ignored for the past several days, is now gone and you can no longer make any arrows. Thankfully my supply of wire...

The review embargo has dropped and they are, so far, not kind. Iron Fist review: The first six episodes Iron Fist fails to land on critics: 'Good luck, bingers: Getting through two episodes was a challenge'

I hardly ever need to tumble...then again I try never to actually get close to the robodinos. Never underestimate the power of precision targeting of various subsystems. Night and day difference in combat if you are accurate enough with the nicer precision bows.

The one groaning moment I had was thinking at the start "this mountain better not be what I think it is..." and then seeing the remains of that ode to concrete majesty: the Air Force Academy chapel. Once ONCE I would like a 'post apocalyptic mountain' to NOT be NORAD.

I think it is clear that the talent they had was completely wasted on Killzone...

The new "golden worlds" training briefing is up. They do at least mention one world as the best shot for dextroprotein lifeforms / biology to support the Turian and Quarian colonists. This addresses one of the head-scratcher things that was bugging me about the whole Andromeda Initiative and...

I acquired a Shadow Bow and loaded it up with three (1 purple two blue) + Fire damage mods. Then I proceeded to cackle with glee as I set dinos ablazing until I promptly burned through my whole Blaze stockpile and had to start rationing my pyromania. I was wondering why there was a large carry...