I can't believe I forgot him. I'd still ride or die with Garrus.
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I can't believe I forgot him. I'd still ride or die with Garrus.
Javik wildly underrated because they were cunts and stuck a character who was clearly meant to be in the game in some day 1 DLC instead.
Mordin is the best though, then Garrus.
Maybe tomorrow I'll do my own, correct full ranking of all the Mass Effect characters when I'm bored at work.
It's more like just a new lick of paint rather than a full re-do from what I can see, but for all 3.Quote:
Originally Posted by Disco
Correct answer is correct.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cord
The only characters worth ranking, ranked.
Mordin Solus
Urdnot Wrex
Tali'Zorah nar Rayya
Thane Krios
Ashley Williams
Garrus Vakarian
Liara T'Soni
Miranda Lawson
Jack
Such a bullish opening only to put Ashley at 5.
I think Mass Effect 3 turned her into a surprisingly funny and well rounded character.
She got a bit better but that's a low bar given her only redeeming feature in ME1 and 2 is that she isn't Kaiden and therefore doesn't get exploded on Virmire.
She's this completely normal person in a world of absolute weirdos and they play off of it well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ian
Alternatively she's a boring character with a mostly uninteresting arc in a world filled with more engaging characters.
Right:
Mordin Solus
Garrus Vakarian
Tali'Zorah nar Rayya
Javik
Urdnot Wrex
Jack
Thane Krios
Legion
Grunt
Liara T'Soni
Kasumi Goto1
Miranda Lawson
Zaeed Massani
Samara
Ashley Williams
Edi
Jacob Taylor
James
Kaidan Alenko
I think I'm happy with that. Everything from Tali to Legion I might shuffle on a given day but everybody's broadly in the right bit of the list.
And Ashley is firmly near the bottom where she belongs.
Also following my previous Mad Max post I'm really struggling against the map-clearing urges. Some upgrades for the car are locked behind it and I'm not struggling in the car chases/combat but I want them and it's problematic.
It's a fun game though, and it has possibly some of the prettiest cloudy skyboxes of anything I've played. I think Avalanche did well to accept that they need to make the lightning, etc. gorgeous if they wanted people to spend hours driving about a rocky, desert-y wasteland.
I had that issue with Andromeda, there was no reason for me to bowl about clearing the maps but I felt compelled to do it anyway.
Thing is other than car upgrades all you really get out of it is upgrading the NPC fortress things so that when you go to them they'll top up your health, ammo, water, etc. but.... the game has fast travel, so once you've maxed out one fortress there's no great motivation for doing that either. It's literally just that looking at the map has part of your idiot monkey brain going "Oh look at all those icons you haven't dealt with."
Plz mind the Spoilers lads. :wave:
Not sure there were any, but didn't really dare read through all those posts properly.
Yeah I nearly put a lot more rambling on my list then realised it'd be spoileriffic so left it out.
I fancied some RPG based shootums and remembered that Wasteland 3 exists. £55 on Steam a year after release, get fucked :D
Fallout 3 acquired for less than a tenner.
Probably because it's free on Gamepass.Quote:
Originally Posted by Disco
https://i.imgur.com/f4vcADK.png
It's fine, it'll be reasonable at some point.
One thing about Mad Max that is shit, doesn't matter THAT much but is really odd that Avalanche would get wrong: When you're not in your car sometimes there are bits where it feels like it expects you to be a bit platformy or navigate some obstacles as Max, and given these are the people who do Just Cause which is all about making a guy feel like a superhero as he zips about the environment Max, by contrast, feels like an old man when running / jumping. Fortunately for most of the time you're on foot you're either doing the Arkham-y combat or following fairly clear paths through enemy bases but still, sometimes he feels tanky as fuck and you'll suddenly slip off something and plummet to your doom. Which is a shame because the save system (just like me quicksave like a proper game, dickheads) is also baaaaaaalls.
Still enjoying it though. Think I'm about halfway through the main story now so hoping to batter through a chunk of that over the next few days.
Finished it last night and loved it. It maybe goes on for slightly too long, and that book can do one, but other than that, it was fantastic! Loved the rainbow road ending, commented it looked like it then Cody does his best Mario impression!Quote:
Originally Posted by Ian
The tone remained odd throughout, looked like a kids came at times but had some freaky stuff in.
Would recommended it 100% for anyone looking for a co-op game, it’s easily one of the best.
May is a right bellend at times though.
I don't like May or Cody. They can both go in the same bin as Doctor Hakim. The kid would be better off without them.
12 Minutes is out and on gamepass. Excited to try it!
Any good? I got Darkest Dungeon with all DLC off PSN the other week £6, bit of a learning curve but enjoying it.
Mad Max done. Fun, but even without getting every upgrade and clearing every icon the last mission was still a bit of a rinse. The ending was a bit more glum than I was hoping for but that's probably to be expected. It's not perfect but if you want an open world icon-clearer with a sweet ride, Arkham-y punching and the ability to look like a murderhobo then I can recommend it. There's probably at least double the 25 hours I spent in it too if you really want it.
Next will be........... Call of the Sea or Psychonauts I think. Not sure which yet. And I might dip into Humankind as well.
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/psychonauts-2-review
Super positive review there. That might confirm Psychonauts (original one) to be the next thing I play.
Recompile. Looks great in a gif, fucking hate playing it.
I added that to my Game Pass list. Will give it a go at some point.
Finally picked up a classic Doom bundle in the steam sale. All my shareware FPS experience starts with Quake 2 so this is completely new territory for me. Early impressions are that it holds up really well and feels like something they just don't make any more. DOOM 2016 tapped right into the pace of combat and it's for the better.
Agree that Doom holds up, which is bloody incredible really.
Are the likes of Dusk that close to original Doom or just an inspired-by sort of affair?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drD6pWAKnJk
That should probably answer that. They're certainly trying with the speed but Doom was a little more claustrophobic.
The "Meet Your DOOM" bit is very subtle.
Sort of a bit more into ME2 now. Though I think I have done most of the main game actually. I'm ahead of what I think is the end-game (I'm supposed to go get something called an IFF) and it sort of feels like I barely scratched the surface? I haven't even gathered the full squad yet, but I keep getting thrown into story-advancing missions and it's taken me (all fucking game) a while to understand that you're not supposed to talk to the Illusive Man unless you want to be thrown into story-advancement.
So anyway, gonna finish up gathering the crew and get on with it, basically.
A lot of stuff still annoys me with this game. But I can't deny the world-building is impressive.
I dunno if that's gonna fuck you for loyalty missions but... yeah, I would advise you do all that if you can. And not just because it's all good shit.
I don't really remember the main story dragging me along whether I liked it or not, I felt quite leisure with just pootling about doing other stuff until I had no more side stuff to do.
If I remember the order rightly you'll want to get as much stuff as done before you start the IFF mission. It's not quite a point of no return but I think it sticks a soft timer on you at that stage.
Aye thats the plan. Helping out my man Garrus at the moment. Also Jack is weirdly appealing.
Oh and I already did the Shadow Broker thing, without realising it was a DLC. That was a great mission.
Mass Effect 2 and 3 have some properly decent DLC. I love the lines the Shadow Broker gives you about whoever your third companion is. Who did you take?
And Jack is a very good character after initially seeming a little one note.
The Alien assassin guy was DLC and he was great.
Thane? He wasn't DLC was he?
Nah, there's some South African bloke that's DLC. He has a scar on his face. Zaeed.
I assume given Phonics said both assassin and alien he's just getting mixed up with who was DLC as Zaeed doesn't fit any of those. The character DLCs were Zaeed, Kasumi and (in ME3) Javik unless I'm forgetting anything.
Aye, I misread. So erm ... yeah, he probably meant Thane.
Between the stuff you see in 2 and 3 and what was in the one Mass Effect book I've read (Annihilation, about what happened to the Quarian ark) I'd be right up for a game where you're just playing as a Drell assassin.
I'm thinking Hitman but with Hanar.
Everything should have Hanar.
And give me my Blasto game, damn you.
A Hanar and Elcor buddy cop movie would've been special. On a sidenote, I'm weirdly excited for the Saints Row reboot that's apparently getting announced today.
Buddy cop Elcor/Hanar would be good, also a management game where you're running that all-Elcor Shakespeare company.
Oh Thanes not DLC but if you use him during the DLC he has loads of extra lines. My bad.
I think they did a good job of that in general, to be honest. Thane is ace though.
Fuck's sake I want to replay ME2 again.
I'm glad I was planning to use my pad anyway because there's somebody about my mouse that Psychonauts (1) really doesn't like and it's the floatiest shit going.
Did an hour or two yesterday. Decent start so far though some of the platforming feels a little floaty (my word of the day apparently) and loose but it doesn't seem to punish you too hard so far.
Loads of trailers from Gamescom here:
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/eve...ight-live-2021
The couple that were of particular interest to me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7uj71zKmGw
Wasn't sure how I felt about April here but then I lol'd at her literal mic drop so I'm in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wz8Vw5tOf5M
And this is a cinematic only for the Marvel X-Com.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gdGxjdm6yE
Right tone but I'll reserve judgement til gameplay. Psychonauts 2 looks really good but I fell off the original in a big way.
Gameplay, story, whole thing?Quote:
Originally Posted by Shindig
I wouldn't be entirely surprised if I don't finish this because of ye olde jank but like it enough to give the new one a go.