Glad to hear it. I’m just now laying roads into the mountains from the Craftsman. Got past the first waystation/turn-in area, and decided to give it a break for the day.

I’m finding I’m going through crystals a hell of a lot more than anything else; while fewer of them are needed for constructs, there are also fewer…

Came here for this.

...was only disappointed by time between publication and comment. ;)

Seriously. Those Bridges trucks are—as my relatives down south would put it—straight-up hosses.

I just completed the last few bits of the road from Lake Knot to South Knot (I’d been hammering away at the last four sections from the distro center to South), and I did it largely with cargo carried in the back of a truck.

.…

Two things (well, three, but I’ll get to the third in a moment):

First, don’t ever apologize for disagreeing with me. I’m aware my verbiage can sometimes make it seem like I think I’m infallible, but I’m absolutely not; I’m just as capable as anyone else of being wrong, and if I’ve missed something (or in this case,…

Good grief, why are the sophists who insist on interpreting hyperbole as a serious, nuanced, considered argument always in such a rush to reveal their total inability to understand the off-the-cuff nature of a comment?

I’m working on it! I just hit the point where the road suddenly cuts off over a significant gorge/canyon—and for a while, I couldn’t find the next build point.

I was rolling around in a truck full of supplies, and kept running into BT infested areas, so I decided to take it back to the distribution point south of Lake…

This is probably one of the best arguments against my position on the ME:3 ending I’ve ever seen.

Allow me to rebut: The initial ending wasn’t just a low point—it felt like someone’s understudy had infiltrated the writing room and slapped their piss-poor fanfiction (and no, not all fanfic is bad) over top of the…

I just completed this section last night.

I definitely agree that it was a significant and sudden tonal shift, and I think it worked fairly well—but there were some serious shades of The Sorrow in that whole process.

I have also discovered a new favorite activity: prior to building a truck, I didn’t do a lot of raiding…

If they can manage an ARR turn-around for Anthem, I will be deeply impressed. It’s definitely a possibility, but my willingness to afford BioWare the benefit of the doubt has been significantly eroded ever since the Mass Effect 3 ending debacle.

From a game play perspective, it’s a definite, strong contender. I’ve never felt so compelled to continually move through hazardous areas (I don’t want to spoil anything for anyone, but there’s an area that is infested with BTs between about three different delivery points—and there’s no good way around it right now)…

I wasn’t a big fan of ODST. I plan to pick it up for PC (for $4.99, even if I still don’t like it, I can take the risk) and give it another go, but it didn’t grab me at the time.

“Chief!”

“Yes, Sarge?”

“We gotta defend this MOUT course!”

“...why, Sarge?”

“Because the sorry-ass Covenant brought their raggedy-ass fleet to MY MOUT course, and I’m not having that mess. Mmm-hm!”

“...understood.”

I can definitely give you the early Chief levels. Hell, I didn’t even mind playing the Arbiter.

It was the way they cut back and forth between bits—and then cut the whole thing off right at the end with what might as well have been, “Chief! What are you doing?! ...Sir! Setting up the sequel!” that hacked me off.

Some…

Hey, if that’s the case, good on you and everyone at 343i for bringing the franchise to PC.

I’ve been a Halo fan since CE on the original XBox (undergrad; god that game stole hours of my life during LAN parties), and I’m really looking forward to getting some of the later entries with smoother performance.

I didn’t…

And that farm status is, I think, exactly the kind of justice he will understand—which is what will make it work.

If only he could experience it away from his computer chair.

So what we have here, effectively, is, “if you fuck a bunch of people who helped you clear a raid for the lulz, it’s cool, because it’s content.”

“Content” may well be the only epitaph humanity gets, and god damn it all, it may be all we deserve if this is the direction we’re heading.

I did, and I did a little happy dance—and then jammed all over that pre-order button, because fuckit, I’m playin’ me some Reach.

Agreed, hands-down.

Halo: CE is a close second for campaign.

Halo 2 was fucking flybown camel ballsack, because it was very, very obvious the whole thing was skullfucked to make room for MP.

...and don’t get me started on Halo 4: How I can Plot.

See earlier in this thread: The End.

Same basic character type, similar abilities, same need to take in sunlight.

This is—no mistake—cowardly as fuck. By saying “funny one one’s mentioning her,” you are implicitly holding her at fault for what happened.

If you need to clarify, then you really ought to do that at the outset; this “I’m just asking questions” shit is the sophist’s escape from having to take a position—when they have …