Damn You Bioware!Follow

Have fun with the old king dude.

Yes. But what I've never done is blown up on them because we have a differing viewpoint, or burst in on them and yelled "QUIT ENJOYING THIS BECAUSE I THINK IT SUCKS".

srsly right?

If you buy overhyped garbage and keep paying for your overhyped garbage, then you loose the right to complain about your overhyped garbage reaming you.
You've never seen me actually blow up on someone. This is "wtf is wrong with you" at worst.

Edited, Jul 28th 2010 6:12pm by shintasama

Lots of people are getting heated. My two cents? Played through DA:O, no DLC, no Awakenings, just the basic story. When I finished it, I thought to myself "This was probably the best RPG I have ever played. It had everything I wanted."

And I had no urge to replay it. Yes, you can make different choices and comments, and courting Morrigan might have been more fun than Frenchie McFrench-French, but the most enjoyable part to me was the storyline, and while some things might change with new choices or paths, the story is still pretty much the same.

Plus it was a DAMN long game.

At worst, it's you being a **** because you're apparently incapable of comprehending that someone has different tastes than you. Is it really that big of a deal that some people like DA:O and you didn't? You're acting like they're trying to take all your games away and force you to play it.

Let me phrase my question this way--When I first found out that you played as a Big Daddy in BS2, I wasn't excited by the news at all. Nothing about being one interests me, specifically.

Would I be better to just leave that one be and enjoy the first?

No? I'm completely capable of comprehending that other people have other tastes than me: ie. I don't like MW2's multiplayer but can understand that other people are into that sort of thing and that would affect their overall view of the game. What I don't understand is how someone can honestly look at a game with nine novels of text in a large number of cases directly, shamelessly, pathetically ripping off a famous work of literature to create a shallow knock off with some faux choose-your-own-adventure hand waving, and say, "Complaining about the dialogue/plot isn't fair criticism!"

THAT requires a level of cognitive dissonance I'm absolutely baffled by.

Why are you so hellbent on calling me names? Are you incapable of comprehending that some people just have different normal tones of discussion? Is it really that big of a deal that I'm a bit more aggressive in my speech than you? You're acting like I'm derailing your thread and trying to get you to honestly question why you keep feeding Bioware money and then complaining about it. Because if there wasn't some shade of doubt there the tone of the OP would be "I can't wait for new expansions" instead of "I'm not looking forward to spending more money on this series."
Well, considering that Yahtzee was right on the mark when he said the that, in practice, being a big daddy in the second game was almost indistinguishable from not being a big daddy in the first one as you're a "prototype model", that really shouldn't be a deciding factor for you. The only real gameplay difference between the two you'll notice is you can breath underwater (which leads to some surreal sections that give an interesting break) and use plasmids and guns simultaneously. Overall it's really just more of the same (which considering the quality of the first game is not a bad thing), with some minor tweaks.

If you've already got the first one and are hesitant, then finish it first and ask yourself if you'd enjoy another 10hrs of that.

Edited, Jul 28th 2010 11:05pm by shintasama

The only thing I can't understand is how you can complain about the plot is DA:O and like FFXIII. I remember a number of points in FFXIII that let you move around for no reason. Cutscene ended, walk to the edge of the screen, cutscene, walk 3 steps, fight 1 battle, cutscene, etc. And the plot wasn't even that original. Final Fantasy has had the same plot since FFX. And it wasn't original then, either. Not to say the cutscenes weren't pretty, just that I didn't really feel like playing a long *** movie after reading all the reviews about gameplay...

Ah, I've never heard of that. As someone who played compulsively for most of a semester, and thus got the higher KS rewards quite often, I can't say I ever noticed any behavior like that. The biggest issue I had with the multiplayer actually wasn't even a game issue - it was the fact that Infinity Ward has horrible algorithms for matching players with low latency servers. You'd be doing fine for a few games in a row, then you'd get a complete sh*t server where everyone is lagging like mad, so the game would try to find you a new server, but the new one would be even worse. Even with all that, though, I really enjoyed the multiplayer. Could do without all the grenade launchers, though.

Edit: As for the KS theory, what I noticed when I played was that each team might have one or two really good players, and then everyone else would be doing decent to poor. What could be happening is that, when you get a high KS then die, your team isn't really set up to carry the slack created by your death, which lets the enemy team push forward a bit near your spawn points. On the other hand, if you haven't gotten any high killstreaks lately, then your team is most likely already in a position to defend the spawns with killstreaks of their own, which they won't be getting if you're doing really well (namely because you're taking all the kills). Just a theory, which seems more likely to me than the idea of being purposefully placed near enemies.

Edited, Jul 29th 2010 12:04am by Majivo

Since this thread is called "Damn You Bioware!", this is as good a place as any to complain about how annoying it was to import my Mass Effect characters into Mass Effect 2. Why on earth do they have an entirely separate set of folders for the save data in the My Documents while there's already a set of folders for the install data in the Program Files?

Yeah, I was like "Goddamn you, BioWare, I hate you fore-- ooh, boobies!"

Really, ME2 is just awesome in so many ways. Only negative thing is that being a "spellcaster" (biotic) is kinda boring after the first dozen kills. Throwing people across the room and doing lift and slam maneuvers like some Jedi is kinda cool at first, but it gets tedious after a while. Being a soldier gave you both some biotics and kickass weapons, so it's definitely the approach I'd recommend to new players.

Edited, Jul 29th 2010 7:48pm by Mazra

You thought so what? The game is awesome and they have a bit of a goofy counter-intuitive scheme for where they place their save files. I was mildly annoyed and felt like ********* Since there was a thread here and my roommates were still sleeping, I figured I'd go for it.

You didnt get it. its ok though.