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@Meg This is still why I vape with a low nicotine amount so that doesn't happen to me.

@Thenomain said in General Video Game Thread:

I was yelling at the screen last night on two occasions.

1. I could suddenly understand everyone of an alien race that I couldn't previously understand. This was addressed later, kind of, sort of.

Oh, so I wasn't the only one that had a 'wtf' moment when suddenly these races, who I've had barely any interaction with, can talk.

Yeah, that kind of pulled me out of the immersion.

Is anyone else bothered by the tedious little cutscene that happens when you change from one planet to the next? I mean, in previous games, you could just zip your ship around, do your scanning and be off to the next thing.

Here, it's like this big deal that we have to first-person view the changing from one planet/system to the next and it just gets tedious after away. I just want to scan stuff, don't make it a big deal.

Also, unskippable cutscenes when I land and leave with the Tempest? What is this? 1998 Playstation?

Plan on picking this game up once it goes on sale on Steam.

I'm having mixed feelings thus far. That being said, I enjoy the game, but I feel like a lot of the menus are a bit more cumbersome than they need to be. For example, I couldn't find any missions in my journal beyond Priority ones. Only to realize that I had to BACK OUT of it to find the others. That's just something I'm not used to. I'd rather it list everything on one page with topics holding quests being collaspable to hide/show the others.

In general, things just feel a bit 'unwieldy', as if a lot of things that were made were either 50-75% completed when the game released. There's not as much polish as I was expecting from a company that really shouldn't be cutting corners, especially with how ME3 ended and the huge to-do that all was. Which, by the way, I had a little chuckle when I realized that the writers decided to just completely side-step the events of ME3 by saying the Andromeda arks and Nexus left at the end of ME2. Just didn't want to deal with it at all.

However, combat is good, and probably just as good as ME3' was. Though I think I actually preferred having a button to enter cover instead of just automatically entering it. I do like how you aren't really shoe-horned into any particular class, picking and choosing what abilities you want to use. My soldier with tech skills? I love it.

While I'm seeing some parallels with the resource mining from ME2, at least they've done it in a way that kind of fun. By that, I mean, I SCAN EVERYTHING. The mining with the Nomad is sorta endearing too. And while I may miss the wonky gravity defying physics of the Mako, I don't like how the Nomad has zero offensive weapony.

I've heard complaints about the writing being up and down. Good or bad. I haven't really seen anything that would constitute as BAD. And I think voice acting is pretty decent, though then again, I'm the sort of person who enjoyed the MaleShep's voice acting, so I may just have bad taste in that regard.

There seems to be a TON of stuff to do. Numerous different systems, I still haven't really figured out the Strike stuff yet. Too many quests and often it feels like I'm not entirely sure if all the running around I'm doing will pay off in any meaningful way. And while these may sound like gripes, I do enjoy the game. But I'm also like, six or so hours in, so my opinion may change once I dig a little deeper into it.

Initial thought to ME: Andromeda. They need to release a patch, because I had a bunch of glitches happen where I entirely skipped the whole playthrough of going down to Habitat 7 at the beginning of the game and arriving at Nexus. I should've known something was up when my character was waking up in stasis and was constantly clipping through another character model.

They might want to get that day one patch out because holy damn.

I always heard that Mav was a girl and was knowing for mispaging TS poses on chans. Or anything on chans. Or pages to people.

Again, like @Catsmeow said, urban legends sorta tend to have different variations depending on who you talk to. That's just how I heard it years ago.

Really want to try out Horizon: Zero Dawn just because I've heard so many good things about.

ME: A will be a day one buy regardless of anything. Even if I'm not pre-ordering, because I don't believe in that whole 'Day One DLC' or 'Pre-Order DLC' bullshit. Not getting suckered into that shit ever again.

@Catsmeow Having moved or helped others move 4 times in 4 years. And not just across towns, across states, I can relate very much with this particular hate.

Liquid Television was amazing.

Not really big on zombies, never really have been. Which is likely why Fallout appeals to me. There was a Fallout MU way back in the day(I think 2008 or thereabouts), but it had to close down due to the staffer getting busy with life. But for a time, it was great fun.

@Astrid Pretty sure a lot of people would from those I've talked to.

@Lithium I have tried numerous times to get into comic or hero based games, and it has just never stuck. I don't know if it just doesn't grab my interest or something else about it.

I'd like to see more fantasy out there. An option that's not Arx. Or sci fi. Or a Fallout type game that somebody was talking about a week or so back.

@Lithium That's about where I am. There's WoD, a couple of SW games(but I'd rather just play SWTOR), and then Arx.

I mean, I know I'm probably wrong, but that's what the landscape feels like.

NOLA, and only kinda active.

There's not much else out there, frankly. Or at least anything that holds my interest.

This all just makes me think of Star Crusade and I start having violent tremors.

@Cupcake Holy hell this is very relevant. And this is only something I'm personally becoming aware of in the last few months. Many times, we don't see how we're coming off to other people, and even less do we stop to consider the ramifications or perceptions of the things we do on MU. And sometimes, we don't want to see it. I know I didn't. Not for a very long time.

He's dead, Jim. And then the murders began.

Bonus Slogan version.

Just do it. And then the murders began.

We have the meats. And then the murders began.

Welcome to the after party. And then the murders began.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. And then the murders began.

Finding a song by a band that you love that you've never heard before.

I may never hear Peter Steele's dulcet tones ever again(too beautiful for this world), but it's always great when I find, in this instance, a Type O Negative song I hadn't heard before.