I think the unique challenge of Mass Effect is that *the central draw* of the games is a trilogy where your choices have consequences. And everyone’s Shepard is *their* Shepard. They made the choices the player wanted, they dealt with the choices they player made. Hell, they fought like the player wanted them to fight.

…

How are you forgetting the greatest example of all:

The game was great fun when it worked, but approaching the two hour refund limit, I had 12 crashes, 6 of which were before I ever got into a game, so I refunded and haven’t tried it since.

I honestly think you should sue your optometrist for giving you rose-tinted glasses

Devs have explicitly shot down Indoctrination Theory, much to their own detriment.

“I’m sure it’s just a bunch of kids trying to be edgy, but in this case, every other comment was something like “Xbox sux” “Xbox is the worst” “Playstation is better”... like why are these people even watching the event? Kid, you’re not edgy or original and definitely not funny. I considered it to be one of the better…

Meanwhile, I got a bot-enforced one day timeout from Game Award chat for saying “Lul, you can fight after your arm is cut off” in the trailer for Chivalry 2, where a guy keeps fighting after his arm is cut off.

I worded that poorly. I meant that would be the absolute most, but I’m like 99.9% certain we won’t even get that. It might get mentioned as a thing that exists, i.e. after showing Starfield, they say something like “We hope you enjoy this while we continue to work on TES 6"

I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that Avowed, a game that is still in pre-production created explicitly to compete with Bethesda’s flagship product, isn’t going to be on the same stage as Bethesda.

This author isn’t particularly good at actually understanding what goes on in the game industry.

“OK. So will The Elder Scrolls VI be at E3?

It was a massive undertaking to blow up the alpha relay in Arrival, that would not go unnoticed by the Reapers. It only went unnoticed because it was a backwater colony of the batarians, who are arguably the weakest military in Mass Effect (at least, ruling out minor council races like the Elcor and Hanar who are…

Not everything needs to be a choice in a story.

I probably wouldn’t have had Frodo get stabbed by a Nazgûl. Fucking JRR Tolkien not giving me a choice.

I never got a choice to run left in Super Mario Bros, and to fuck off and go drink coffee and let that spoiled bitch rot in Bowser’s castle. What a dick move by Nintendo…

I mean, it’s not meant to be a “choice”, because it isn’t one.

Presented in the story, if the reapers reach the Mass Relay, the invasion starts. In such a situation, anytime you have to prepare is valuable. It’s more tone setting for ME3 - shit is going to get bad. This is war. You aren’t going to save everyone. There…

Because children don’t make sub money.

Asses on the other hand...

The formula is:

(amount of money you make us) / (amount of negative media you cause) + (% of liberal views) * (animals abused on stream) / (100 if you are a woman, 0.5 if you are a man) + Number of bullets discharged into your neighbors house * 100000

The larger the number, the more likely you are to be banned

Anyone else convinced that Pokemon Arceus is going to be a really boring game overlong repetitive open world game?

Yeah ME1 is fucking weird. That said, if you’re willing to dump early points into sniper and the class ability to slow time, Infiltrator is fine.

I get Adept is great for CC, and hilariously broken in late game, but it makes the early game a pain when you are made of slighter thinner than average paperclips. And in the…

Fuck Miranda
Marry Thane
Kill Jack

The thing is, I always want to change my class.

Because ME1 had weird balancing, but the time you reached high level, you were immortal. So pick the class that is best early (which is soldier because of Shield Boost and Immunity)

ME2 Infiltrator was amazing. Adept was fun for det combos, but too unreliable on anything…