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Been playing Vegas with melee as my primary method. Have some energy and guns skills as backup but am able to take on most comers with my gladius machete, or if they are wearing armor, with my chainsaw (so much fun). Was so much fun sauntering into Vault 3 and upon getting challenged at the entrance by the Fiends, covering the room in their body parts.
I kept one sword from Operation Anchorage. I kept a couple of named power fist things. And I think I have a deathclaw gauntlet. Otherwise I sell all of the melee stuff. Now guns are a different matter. I am a pack rat in these games naturally and I have a dozen of each of the more common weapons easily. I think I have at least one form of fully repaired armor of each type as well.
There is a review embargo on this game until the day of its release. Which is the only reason I haven't pre-ordered it.
On the hurt yourself thing I went outside Megaton and blew up a couple of grenades at my feet.
Saints row is like Pacific Rim or Transformers - it may not be everyone's cup of tea, but I have little sympathy for anyone who went in expecting anything different from what they got.
I caused a guy in Rivet to overdose. That was neat.Yankee23Fan said:
I might have killed him before that
I'm enjoying it so far.thecatch said:
Stuff happensI might have killed him before that
I forget his name, but I entered his house/shop and he asked for drugs. Said he was hiding his use from his wife. I obliged, I left, he followed me. He asked for more, next thing I know he is dead and my hands are in his pockets.
If you played with the extended cut, thats why. That was my assertion when they released EC. If they shipped with the extended cut, there wouldnt have been a fuss. The original ending was much worse.
You are dead to me. So, what would you like for dessert? Red jello? Or can I interest you in some blue jello? No, how about some green jello?
I never played it before they released the EC, but from what I understand that just fixed the "after story" for lack of a better description. Am I correct about that, or did it actually change the ending of the game playing at all?
Essentially, the original endings added many plot holes. The EC added footage to clean up the holes. The endings were fleshed out a little better too. They were weak but not riot inducing. Merely disappointing.This video sums up the major plotholes with the original.
I can see that complaint. My guess is that the EC added some cutscenes based on your choices. Probably not enough to placate the masses who complained about it. Nonetheless, I still feel satisfied with the ending. Maybe because I was expecting it to be much worse.
I didn't finish ME3, but for what it's worth, KOTOR was also like this and I still dug that finish.
That is a good point, both KOTOR's have that option to all the sudden hit the end and go for the ending that is the opposite of how you played the game. maybe I don't mind it as much because you at least do something with your choice. ME3, you literally hit the end of the game, make the choice, and then go to endgame cutscenes.
Has anyone else played Transistor? How long is the gameplay on it? I saw a glowing review on IGN...
That's a fair point but it's also kind of the point at the same time. After such large decisions (and all the small ones) that change the how story develops, I wanted all those decisions to come into play at the end as THEE Mass Effect. I wanted different endings as the result of the culmination different choices. Big rewards and big consequences. I like the ending but I did feel as though I had been liked to when I read there was basically no difference between ending.
You should realize that the single-player for Battlefield is almost an afterthought. Many players never even load that up unless it is to get the unlocks they can use in multi-player.
My biggest complaint from the last game: What were the war assets and war map all about? I wish the final battle would have changed, at least in cutscene form, depending on what forces I had gathered throughout the game. But I feel that I could have gotten the bare minimum and it would've looked as it did when I finished (I finished all side-missions and had the assets bar full 2/3 into the game). Also the war map that showed the percentage of what the galaxy was controlled by reaper forces never changed AT ALL. It was at 50% for all regions when the game started and it was that way before I started the final mission. What's the point of it?
The cutscenes do change if you don't have enough war assets. You can change the war readiness (the 50% number you referenced) by playing multiplayer, which increases your war assets, essentially.
This is from IGN. I didn't know about it until I was looking at the different endings again about an hour ago.
The war readiness was an EA misguided effort to force people to use MP and iOS for a non multiplayer game. Before EC, you HAD TO do multiplayer. You couldn't get the necessary level of assets without get the war readiness above 95% in order to get the "Good" ending. This was not a simple task either. Each match gained you anywhere from 1-4% readiness but you decayed 2% every 12 hours. Each match took about 30 mins to play. So if you played for 2 hours a night and gained 8% readiness lets say, you lost 4% of it by the next night. So it literrally took me an extra 30-35 hours of grinding MP to get up to 100% readiness before I attempted the final mission. EC now reduced the requirement so no one has that nonsense again. You can get the good ending through just single player assets.
Eww. Sounds like a terrible tactic from Bioware/EA. I haven't touched the MP. I don't really plan to. It doesn't seem like it would fit the type of game. However, I do imagine it being a Gears ripoff due to how the campaign plays. As for the assets, I guess I was hoping to see the Rachni queen take down a reaper in battle or something along those lines.
Absolutely. Now imagine you played ME1 in 2007 and made the decision to save the Rachni Queen way back then. Then your decision pays off 5 years later only to have it really mean nothing.
Is that good or bad?
I'd give it an 8. Solid gameplay, good guns, stealth works well - I like it so far.
Check out Hubris Comics some time. I found it last night near the Citidal. There's funny geeky tribute to the old Zork games on one the terminals.
The good news is Big Town s probably the worst (most annoying) side quest. 100 different ways for the town kids and/or kidnapped kids to get themselves killed. I love when they run off empty handed towards a pack of wild dogs and then manage to continuously jump into your line of fire. Cannot count the times I've returned to Big Town "Red's dead baby, Red's dead.". Even successfully completing it kind of sucked - it doesn't become a trading destination like Little Lamplight or Paradise Falls.
