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Mass Effect Andromeda
Posted on 4/13/16 at 3:29 pm
Posted on 4/13/16 at 3:29 pm
Anyone hearing anything on this game?
It was set to release this year and now looks to be delayed.
It was set to release this year and now looks to be delayed.
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Posted on 4/13/16 at 3:35 pm to Prometheus
no interest. tired of the open world bullshite. "linear" has become a slur these days
Posted on 4/13/16 at 3:37 pm to Prometheus
Yep I was checking up on it last night, pushed to Q1 of next year.
Posted on 4/13/16 at 3:38 pm to Carson123987
I am sick of open world single player too. Especially open world fetch.
Posted on 4/13/16 at 3:42 pm to Carson123987
frick you guys I am pumped for this game.
Posted on 4/13/16 at 3:44 pm to sbr2
When will Scruffy show up, the bat signal is on?
Posted on 4/13/16 at 3:45 pm to DoUrden
Well technically no mentioned that game...
Not sure if the batsignal is word sensitive
Not sure if the batsignal is word sensitive
Posted on 4/13/16 at 3:49 pm to DoUrden
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Yep I was checking up on it last night, pushed to Q1 of next year
Hmmm.
I was already concerned about Casey Hudson leaving Bioware.
Posted on 4/13/16 at 3:53 pm to Mystery
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Especially open world fetch.
Too right.
Still, I'll probably end up playing it. Just like I will the next elder scrolls, and dragon age.
Posted on 4/13/16 at 3:53 pm to sbr2
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frick you guys I am pumped for this game
Same here. ME is my favorite game.
Posted on 4/13/16 at 3:59 pm to Mystery
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Especially open world fetch.
That's what it boils down to
Posted on 4/13/16 at 4:04 pm to Carson123987
I didn't play long into Mass Effect but wasn't it already open?
Posted on 4/13/16 at 4:08 pm to Mr Gardoki
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I didn't play long into Mass Effect but wasn't it already open?
Sort of. 1 definitely had a lot of it with taking the Mako out on random planets.
2, especially with the DLC allowed you to do a ton of stuff before taking on the main missions with all of the characters and their missions.
Posted on 4/13/16 at 4:08 pm to Mr Gardoki
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I didn't play long into Mass Effect but wasn't it already open?
yes, but in a very well-done way. now it's gonna be like MGS/Far Cry/Dragon Age where you drive a truck around planets looking for giant question marks in addition to the main quest
having structured hubs and meaningful sidequests is paramount to proper narrative pacing. you want John Smith to do some sidequests and then have a main quest open up, then some more sidequests that tie into main quest, then another main quest mission. do it like Deus Ex or Witcher 2. when you just blot the map with ?s, you get people that just want to do them all before going back to the main quest and it ruins the pacing.
it wouldn't be so bad if the side quests were more than Woman approaches you to find husband -> find husband's corpse -> return and tell woman -> get a ring or some stupid shite. you can only clear so many caves or close so many rifts before it gets stale. well-done sidequests have big self-contained arcs or one-off/two-off arcs that tie into the main story and give background or world-build
This post was edited on 4/13/16 at 4:12 pm
Posted on 4/13/16 at 4:09 pm to sbr2
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frick you guys I am pumped for this game.
Posted on 4/13/16 at 4:12 pm to RTR America
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2, especially with the DLC allowed you to do a ton of stuff before taking on the main missions with all of the characters and their missions.
and 2 was by far the best. that is how you do a semi-open game.
Posted on 4/13/16 at 4:13 pm to Carson123987
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when you just blot the map with ?s you get people that just want to do them all before going back to the main quest and it ruins the pacing
I normally read your commentary and think there are degrees of merit. But this is fricking stupid. If you think it fricks with the pacing, don't do the quests. Jesus Christ. It's not difficult. Sometimes I think you bitch just to bitch.
Posted on 4/13/16 at 4:14 pm to Carson123987
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and 2 was by far the best. that is how you do a semi-open game.
It still had dumb fetch shite in these sort of hub places.
Posted on 4/13/16 at 4:17 pm to Matisyeezy
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But this is fricking stupid. If you think it fricks with the pacing, don't do the quests. Jesus Christ. It's not difficult. Sometimes I think you bitch just to bitch.
sometimes you have to in order to level for bigger, tougher quests.
Posted on 4/13/16 at 4:18 pm to RTR America
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It still had dumb fetch shite in these sort of hub places
even well-done games throw them in there because so many people insist that games need to have super long playtimes to be good.
This post was edited on 4/13/16 at 4:19 pm
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