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NamiraWilhelm

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I still love love love the series. The characters, the lore, the storyline. Bioware can really do no wrong in my eyes. DA and Mass Effect will always be two of my favourite franchises. The world is severely lacking RPGs that are equally good and as customizable.
 
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NamiraWilhelm

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megalon said:
Whoever told you that was a liar. KOTOR and KOTOR2 are in many people's opinion, myself included, the best Star Wars games ever made.
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THIS. KOTOR was awesome. KOTOR 2 was quite buggy if I remember correctly? But all the best games are :bigsmile:

SWTOR wasn't as great. But as I say I'm not into MMO's...


Mass effect is bloody fantastic. If you haven't played it yet, you absolutely should. And it's a trilogy so should keep you content a good long while.
 
BlackPuma

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Is anyone else excited for Homeworld Remastered in 2015? Freakin' amazon ads won't let my hype down!

..Also happy (belated or advance) new year!
 
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DepravedFurball

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I have mixed reactions concerning the Mass Effect series.

Since I primarily game on my PS3, I only had access to the second game of the series, and BioWare only included a sort of inter-active comic-book for players to address all the decisions of the first in the series. Thing was... it was only available as a pre-order bonus. Meaning that, gamers like myself who only picked up the game after reading extensive reviews were shoe-horned in to the default settings.

While the gameplay was decent, the universe diversely populated, and the pacing was fairly nice... I just got really miffed that there were 328238956 star-systems to explore, with ten times as many planets... and yet I didn't need to use a hundredth of the resources I found before maxing out all available upgrades to the ship. I might have found five or six 'bonus-levels' that provided a whopping fifteen minutes of extra combat... but everything else was completely superfluous.

When the third game came out... I ignored it.

When BioWare said they were going to re-package everything as a trilogy, I was actually hyped, and would have happily pre-ordered...

Except for their decision to EXCLUDE most of the previously-released DLC-content for the PS3-version.

I was seriously like :eek:mg: what lunacy. They're after a simple cash-grab and they have the audacity to still hold out for more? Screw that. I'm taking my money to the casino, instead.
 
squidgee

squidgee

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DepravedFurball said:
I have mixed reactions concerning the Mass Effect series.

Since I primarily game on my PS3, I only had access to the second game of the series, and BioWare only included a sort of inter-active comic-book for players to address all the decisions of the first in the series. Thing was... it was only available as a pre-order bonus. Meaning that, gamers like myself who only picked up the game after reading extensive reviews were shoe-horned in to the default settings.

While the gameplay was decent, the universe diversely populated, and the pacing was fairly nice... I just got really miffed that there were 328238956 star-systems to explore, with ten times as many planets... and yet I didn't need to use a hundredth of the resources I found before maxing out all available upgrades to the ship. I might have found five or six 'bonus-levels' that provided a whopping fifteen minutes of extra combat... but everything else was completely superfluous.

When the third game came out... I ignored it.

When BioWare said they were going to re-package everything as a trilogy, I was actually hyped, and would have happily pre-ordered...

Except for their decision to EXCLUDE most of the previously-released DLC-content for the PS3-version.

I was seriously like :eek:mg: what lunacy. They're after a simple cash-grab and they have the audacity to still hold out for more? Screw that. I'm taking my money to the casino, instead.
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I thought the second entry was the best of the series, though it was fairly streamlined compared to the first and not quite as RPG like. I didn't mind that at all though.

Anyway, now I'm playing the walking dead season 2 and probably wolfenstein the new order afterwards, see how those turn out.
 
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NamiraWilhelm

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squidgee said:
Anyway, now I'm playing the walking dead season 2 and probably wolfenstein the new order afterwards, see how those turn out.
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Both great games! Really didn't think I'd get through Wolfenstein as I'm crap at shooters but the concept and story made it worthwhile.

Speaking of tell tale games I just remembered they've done game of thrones. That'll occupy me for a couple hours
 
DepravedFurball

DepravedFurball

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NamiraWilhelm said:
Speaking of tell tale games I just remembered they've done game of thrones. That'll occupy me for a couple hours
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If you enjoy the point-and-click sorts of things, you'd probably lurve some visual-novels with deeper plots.

'Fuwanovel' has a bunch that have been translated, with a wide variety of genres to choose from, and some even have RPG-ish or strategy-combat elements. A few of the horror-types would definitely give you some chills, as well.

:bigsmile:
 
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DepravedFurball

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jerahme04 said:
Am I the only person who enjoys online gaming? Lol.
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If I wasn't stuck with a satellite-based interweb connection, I'd be all up in online-gaming's stupid trollface. :p

I'd love nothing more than to lose myself in MMORPGs, especially EVE and the upcoming Oculus-based Valkyrie. *drools*
 
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Rawz

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DepravedFurball said:
If I wasn't stuck with a satellite-based interweb connection, I'd be all up in online-gaming's stupid trollface. :p

I'd love nothing more than to lose myself in MMORPGs, especially EVE and the upcoming Oculus-based Valkyrie. *drools*
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Same here. I'm stuck on satellite internet (Hughesnet). 95% of all the online gaming I've done has been Runescape (because it's D&D style and you don't have to do any PvP to advance).
 
Ithior

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jerahme04 said:
Am I the only person who enjoys online gaming?
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I always end up playing by myself. I never talk much to other people online. I only have one RL friend who used to play games with me but our taste in games has gone in different directions.
 
DepravedFurball

DepravedFurball

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jerahme04 said:
Have you guys tried to play EVE? it really doesn't require much to run at minimum settings. It doesn't require much period unless you're in large fleet fights. Which you won't be if you're new. I think your satellite dish internet would be fine. I ran 5 accounts on one pc without a problem. Try the trial and see if it works.

Never mind, I thought you had dsl lol sorry but yeah you probably cannot.
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You got my hopes up for nothing!!!1@!
 
Ithior

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Started playing Stranded Deep. It's still in very early alpha, so it's pretty simple. Even so I've been playing for quite a while. I don't know why I play this so much, I'm pretty much just going from island to island to do the same things.
 
squidgee

squidgee

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Looking forward to Killing Floor 2. Hopefully it doesn't get banned in Australia. The way they classify video games is quite stupid in my opinion, makes an R18+ rating almost redundant.
 
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Megaten said:
They actually ban games there?
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Australia is somewhat strict in what they ban. South Park Stick of Truth was required to be censored because of the **** probe, same with Saints Row 4.

For all it's faults there are nice things about living in the US. The only way a game wouldn't get released is if it got an AO rating, but even then it wouldn't be banned by the government (possible but super unlikely), Sony and Microsoft just wont let the game be on their console and most stores wouldn't carry it.
 
squidgee

squidgee

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Megaten said:
They actually ban games there?
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Maybe not completely ban, but require developers to build a censored version. For example the censored version of Left 4 Dead 2 had very little if any gore. You would shoot zombies and there were no bullet wounds and no blood. Killing Floor 2 just so happens to be a particularly gory game, so I suspect something similar is going to happen. Funny thing is games like GTA4 and 5 weren't banned or altered at all in Australia, and as far as I know, the things you can do in that game are much more 'adult' than just mowing down monsters.

I think Germany is pretty strict with game classifications as well, especially with games that involve any nazi imagery.
 
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