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Giant Bomb |OT 14| BigDickDaddyDom
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I should probably read that book at some point.
Dan's book came today, I can relate to some of his anecdotes so far, been a great read and I'm learning some ideas.
Glad I bought it.
Thanks Dan.
Also, I can't help but repeat that it's really funny that Dan dislikes Celeste even though it's the only game I can think of where you literally use your anxiety as an ally.
How much of Celeste did he play?
Last I heard he just didn't like it because he thought it was Super Meat Boy.
To be fair it is kind of Super Meat Boy.
It's also really good and a thing he'd normally like but didn't for whatever reasons the time he tried it.
It's Super Meat Boy except you can tweak the difficulty however you want instead of having the game stomp you into the dirt again and again until you figure out how to play.
Yeah but it still does that unless you go out of your way to tell it not to.
And also Super Meat Boy is inspired by Matt Thorson's Jumper Games.
Also yeah, Celeste was my favorite game of last year. I feel pretty proud that I beat the C Sides without any assist mode options. Beat those clean!
For Dan hey guess what, not everyone is gonna like something even if it has a great reputation. It happens.
I had zero interest in Cadence of Hyrule until hearing recent impressions of it. Necrodancer just was/is not something I am interested in at all so was just prepared to skip Cadence as well but looking into it now. Not that I think that it (necrodancer) is a bad game, just the definition of not my bag.
Platinuming Celeste is one of my proudest gaming achievements in recent memory. Damn that game is good, if I had finished it last year it definitely would have made my top 10 with a strong case for #1.
It's awesome. I'm just waiting on the free DLC it's getting where it's one large endgame chapter that's supposedly harder than the C Sides. There's no official release date for it but Matt Thorson has tweeted updates about it.
Still makes it more lenient than every other masocore game on the market.
I think Celeste is incredible, but man I am so bad at it.
I had to put on cheats to beat that game.
/no shame!
I had to put on cheats to beat that game.
/no shame!
My Friend Pedro preloaded and ready to go on Switch.
Probably buy Judgement tomorrow.
Video games are happening.
Probably buy Judgement tomorrow.
Video games are happening.
I think I finally want to give Divinity Original Sin 2 a chance but man... must...resist... buying it right before a Steam sale...
Also, the game is seemingly barely on any sites other than Steam proper and like Gog... Sucks for when you're looking for deals
Also, the game is seemingly barely on any sites other than Steam proper and like Gog... Sucks for when you're looking for deals
Wait til he never uses the big fuckin' stab move in ME3. Then you'll remember that he forgot that.
My secret fear is that they'll forget that certain missions in ME3 are time-sensitive and as such miss out on Grissom Academy and the other ME2 companion quests.
If there's a silver lining, it's gonna be the utter confusion at Jack appearing as an enemy Phantom at TIM's base
"Pick up" is generous. All them are "I heard you talking to a friend, is this [item] you were looking for?"
But then I skipped all the DLC, so maybe Overlord and whatnot fixed that too.
It boggles my mind that they decided at like the eleventh hour to give Shepherd a rival character who was a super ninja.
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Sexy EDI is a pillar of the community though
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Sexy EDI is a pillar of the community though
Everyone loves a cameltoe? Over/under on Alex noticing and calling it out?
Alex will notice halfway through the game and go on a ten minute rant.
lmao I forgot about that
Oh and don't forget making the game's best character a paid pre-order dlc
Thank goodness they'll have that for Alexy Quest 3, cuz Christ, what a mistake.
a jerky space ninja with a sword voiced by Troy Baker of all people is kinda the inverse of what I wanted out of mass effect
the EDI (and Legion) situation is deeply comical cuz shortly after ME2 released I remember reading their former writer going on about how hard he worked to have those two characters be believable synthetic beings that didn't aspire to humanity, beings who were comfortable with what they were
and how hard that was with Legion cuz "someone" insisted it have a piece of Shep's armor despite him arguing it would make no sense for an AI like Legion to be sentimental in that way
it worked out, but still
but then ME3 happens and we get sexy pinocchio and "does this unit have a soul"
yuck
and how hard that was with Legion cuz "someone" insisted it have a piece of Shep's armor despite him arguing it would make no sense for an AI like Legion to be sentimental in that way
it worked out, but still
but then ME3 happens and we get sexy pinocchio and "does this unit have a soul"
yuck
Also those slow ass dream sequences with that kid they kill off to try to force an emotional reaction out of the player.
I still haven't played with Javik because of that. But I also haven't touched the game since release
Didn't you have to pan the camera 2B-style to see it in the first place?
Regardless, they're likely gonna be running the texture pack mod that - I think - removes that bit from EDI's outfit
For a game that let you play as complete sociopath, making the player character appear to grieve about anyone was a weird choice.
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To this day, my only experience to ME3 was through other players's woes.
I do really love the theme though, shame they squandered what could have been something very memorable(in a good way).
I do really love the theme though, shame they squandered what could have been something very memorable(in a good way).
If the decade-later review of Shadow Broker is accurate and portentous to ME3, Javik will also be very well recieved.
(A mini side episode of them taking turns reading SB entries on all the cast members would be great).
Also, here's yet another reminder that apparently the game The Yawhg was named after The Yahg in The Shadow Broker. I cannot find proof of this but I stand by it.
TBH while I think the stupid robo-cameltoe is dumb, I'd almost rather it be there to hear Alex react to it.
Yeah, I've said since 2012 they should have put the crew member you let die in ME1 in the "kid" role at the end of the game (they had to bring both actors in either way) but they insisted on ME3 being a Great Place to Jump In, so that never happened.
Eh, It's an excellent game with multiple serious flaws. Is what it is
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As a fan of both ME games, especially 2, I was really looking forward to it but holy shit at the impressions when this game came out. The ending especially, you couldn't walk a meter without hearing about it. Really soured on my interest in ever playing the game. All I did in the end was follow the whole drama instead of playing the game lol.
Ah....the indoctrination theory. Good times.
Eh, it's a very, very flawed game with a few moments of excellence. A fair bit of the soundtrack is great, Tuchanka is great, and that's mostly it.
For the sake of my time to sleep, I had to put down Cadence of Hyrule, but I'm really digging Cadence of Hyrule. Which is strange since I found Crypt of the Necrodancer blistering hard and haven't gotten too deep on Zelda games.
like javik was so essential to me, like I had to take him on most missions cause they were about protheans and I wanted his commentary of it.
I think it's good but there are a lot of moments like when they are doing big side missions in me1 or mining in me2 that if you aren't into their conversations it can be boring.
I think it's good but there are a lot of moments like when they are doing big side missions in me1 or mining in me2 that if you aren't into their conversations it can be boring.
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I think if you have an affinity for the Mass Effect series, it's a good to great watch. I just love how infectious Vinny's energy is in the series. He's just really enjoying the fact that Alex is playing through his favorite series.
Mass Alex is one of the purest expressions of Giant Bomb refusing to read what's on the screen
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