"There’s a countercharge now, in response to anger about the endings, that describes Bioware’s output as sacrosanct in some way - beyond criticism. This is fundamentally batshit, or as noted "speculative fiction" author Harlan Ellison might say, bugfuck. I’m fine with the ending, which to my mind started as soon as…
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Krogans would just end up eating everyone else. Maybe not the Quarians and Turians, they look like they're just skin and bones.
They probably just retconned it so the explosion is now made of rainbows and clouds. There have been even worse retcons. Remember in ME1 when you're looking for that one relay that survived a supernova? Now all it takes is an asteroid. Or thermal clips being a new invention only developed 2 years after ME1? Somehow…
"a little lack luster"
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"Thank you for proving my point, that $200-300 mid-end video card must also be attached to a computer, which costs money."
Don't bring a knife to a gun fight.
Maybe websites are taking money for positive reviews, maybe they're not. But I don't believe anyone can honestly think there's no problem with the relationship that the gaming media and gaming industry share. There are clear conflicts of interest on gaming sites. It's difficult to think that a website doesn't have an…
Sounds like an idea for the Mario RPG series, not platformer.
"PC gaming, on the other hand, required you to update your box to stay at the cutting edge and the components were often times as expensive as a console and that led to fragmentation."
"If the casual crowd goes away, the people who care about consoles will STILL BE ON BOARD. Think about that for a minute."
This is going to be an unpopular opinion, but I can agree with what he's saying. And I don't really mind. Seen it before with PC and consoles too. Sure, mobile devices don't have the major console genres at the moment but there's nothing in the hardware that prevents that from changing. Not to mention new genres that…
And that was how we got the gameplay shift from ME1 to ME2 and DA1 to DA2.
New settings and gameplay refinement. Same reason games like CoD or Uncharted are bought for $60.
Roguelikes are not a larger niche in the US. That style of game gets actual mainstream releases in Japan instead of "waahhh, it's hard and the graphics are bad" reaction they get in the US even when they're free. There was a Wizardry game released for the DS.
Are you trying to say character customization and exploration is the sole domain of Western games?
I don't think it would be so bad. Have Japanese gameplay but a story and setting created by the West. Of course, get the budget of a Western game too.
The only thing Western about Demon/Dark Souls is the aesthetic. If it was trying to be Western it would have removed the challenge, made the combat boring or filled with guns, and focused on cinematic set pieces. It's closer to a Roguelike that, while a Western creation, has been all but abandoned in the West but kept…