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I think we all saw this coming when BG3 came out and a while bunch of people set the expectation for DA to be that good. And I for one knew it never would be and doubted it ever could be. Even if Bioware was able to push back against EA on some things I doubt they got EA off their backs. And I doubt the development was both focused and smoother after they abandoned making it live service.
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that wasn’t the point? lol I can get why you disliked Ryder, but I kind of became on board with Ryder being trash pretty early on. No moment more signified it for me than the team meeting on the ship where everyone just left and Ryder, left by themselves was just like “good meeting. Everyone dismissed”. lol Like you I didn’t always appreciate it. I really didn’t like Ryder throwing around being “the Pathfinder” to those outside of the Initiative like it should mean anything. It might not even be a rank or job title that translates to Andromeda galaxy species, yet there they were proclaiming it like it should come with any recognition or authority. It could be equivalent to janitor for all we knew. lol that being said I often found it funny Ryder’s being trash compared to sheppard, get very little respect, especially at the beginning, pretty much being called out as a nepo-baby who shouldn’t be in command of the missions. lol by the end of the game it felt like Ryder had grown up. At the very least you felt like Ryder finally earned the trust snd loyalty of the crew and some others they met. Should have been a full game arc for Ryder to be less trash? Probably not. Though I kind of suspect the point was in ME:A 2 they’d start off much less trash. Sadly (at least to me) we’ll never know.
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In regards to ME:A I have a different opinion from most. The moment you highlighted for me was the fame referencing and showing that Ryder was not Shepard. So few took them seriously, they commanded very little respect and very little in way of fear or intimidation. Even Ryder’s “looting is wrong” comes off as a half-hearted attempt to sound tough. For me it was a character choice and in a way I appreciated the contrast to Shepard.
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2024 Formula 1 Season. It’s Lights Out and Away We Go!
Spawn_of_Apathy replied to Spawn_of_Apathy's topic in The Locker Room
Well Perez can’t ever work his way up the field anymore. I hope the closeness we see in the cars and teams translates to some good back and forth. most passing gets done in the DRS zones, but it would be nice to see some very close racing all race long. Alonso v Perez 2023 all race all over the track would be amazing. What I fear is DRS trains. But Brazil hasn’t failed me yet, so I am optimistic. -
I will be interested what my sister thinks of the game after some time with it. They’ve been a huge DA and the Polygon review spoke them like nothing else. yeah that looks like a deal breaker for me. Or maybe a wait until it is on Game Pass within a year to try it. It sounds like it suffers from the same writing issues I have with modern writing. It treats an audience like they can’t feel emotions, can’t empathize in any way with a character and can’t pick up on subtext and nuance. And they’re afraid that characters might be unlikable for a minute and are afraid to give them flaws. Where “I want everyone to be happy” is somehow the closest they get to a flaw. And any thing that goes wrong is because of a misunderstanding.
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the only thing that annoyed me was that party members were also by and large ignored by enemies. The party members contributed pretty much nothing in combat. At times FFXVI feels like they were making a FF CG tv series and decided to make it a game, so they had to toss in a combat system to break up the cut scenes.
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2024 Formula 1 Season. It’s Lights Out and Away We Go!
Spawn_of_Apathy replied to Spawn_of_Apathy's topic in The Locker Room
I do think teams holding their new engine swaps with grid penalties for Brazil and how easy it is the pass on track is big part of what makes that race so good. It’s not completely a reverse grid kind of situation, but seeing front runners work their way up grid helps make fun. But I do wonder with the grid as close as it is and the circuit being about 64% full throttle if that will make overtaking harder. It benefits cars with larger speed differentials getting through. Yeah Max deserved penalties this week. I think the 10 seconds for forcing a driver off just because some official this week felt he should have got a penalty last week is dumb. 10 seconds would be deserving more if Max gained a position by doing so. Should have just been a five second penalty. But the 10 seconds for overtaking off track was very deserving. I have always felt a five second penalty was too lenient as in many cases the chasing car can just make it up in free air. It should be a penalty that discourages it entirely and a 10 second penalty does that. Sure Max wants a no holds barred set of driving rules and there are some areas that a bit over regulated in the rules. But I think not giving space is one that is pretty under regulated. The whole “I have the apex, go fuck yourself” way the FIA seemingly wrote the rule discourages racing. It can and does get weaponized by drivers to be almost functionally the same as a break check. AND they should be more willing to enforce the rules even on lap 1, turn 1. It is kind of ridiculous that it is a blanket free pass. And before somebody says “but cold tyres and brakes” and to that I say “almost never real” and that it’s also time to stop letting the formation lap take so damn long and get so spread out. I never want to hear how slow the safety car is going from people who will drive 5 mph on a formation lap. Get the fuck moving and stay within a few car lengths of the car ahead. But I digress. There’s room to make F1 a lot more fair and encourage close side by side racing. -
PC CoD: Black Ops 6 Coming to Game Pass
Spawn_of_Apathy replied to AbsolutSurgen's topic in The Spawn Point
If they used skill based match making again it could have just been their algorithm learning enough of where to place you and moving higher skilled players away from you. With the player population size of COD you should then have matches that feel close, exciting, without being overly punishing. You know, enjoyable. -
PC CoD: Black Ops 6 Coming to Game Pass
Spawn_of_Apathy replied to AbsolutSurgen's topic in The Spawn Point
I just noticed all the campaign achievements are rare achievements. Only 3.4% have bothered to play the first mission. lol -
PC CoD: Black Ops 6 Coming to Game Pass
Spawn_of_Apathy replied to AbsolutSurgen's topic in The Spawn Point
COD on PC and Game Pass is a lark. Use Xbox app to download COD hub and game. From Xbox app launch COD Hub. COD hub compiles shaders and asks to set some settings then needs a restart. COD hub starts again. Select to start BLOPs 6. Hub closes. Game launches. game compiles shaders, then needs a restart. Game launches again. Now I can actually try starting the campaign. COD has gotten so full of itself. A Marvel logo like intro upon start up and a tv show like intro for the campaign. lol -
Final achievement earned and my friends immediately uninstalled the game. lol Despite that quick removal from their SSDs we all have around 280 hours in the game and easily count this game as one of the best we’ve played in a while. We don’t think we’ve enjoyed a game this much together since Borderlands 2. And like Borderlands 2 we are all happy we’ve reached the point of “done”. I don’t know if I will ever play this game again unless something new surprisingly comes out or somebody I know needs some help.
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2024 Formula 1 Season. It’s Lights Out and Away We Go!
Spawn_of_Apathy replied to Spawn_of_Apathy's topic in The Locker Room
And yet Max was able to start the sprint on pole and take the inside while maintaining the lead. I honestly think if Max started on pole for the GP that he keeps first through the first corner, but Lando still gets by him at some point in the race.