Oh yeah, there are definitely nice people, I just never was big about that kind of multiplayer. I’ve been playing a lot of Ghost of Tsushima Legends, and that’s a sort of multiplayer I can get behind: load up a specific activity or even a random one, get matched, we all have the same objective and the same…

That’s definitely a fair point, especially because I’m coming from a place of “I didn’t play (anything but couch) co-op in these games.” Maybe I found it to be such a slog (which is to say, I disagree with your last bit about them not being hard to level up; the crux of my grievance is that doing so was always a…

I haven’t played *any* of the DLC, so I’m probably not that qualified to say, but is it just me or does this whole “Designer’s Cut/Director’s Cut” thing just seem kinda phoned in?

I wouldn’t mind replaying and getting into it all, but slogging through the game from scratch again with a new character has always been a…

I didn’t play until about six months after it came out and so I thought that all the hullabaloo surely had to be angry incels mad over tween girls not behaving the way they want—like, I thought it surely couldn’t be that bad.

But then I played, and yeah, everything felt so rushed (somehow, despite the game being in…

If the multiplayer were in, I’d think about it, but without that, there need to be a lot of other bonuses to get me onboard (personally).

Like, adding back in cut content and LGBT romances that the audio apparently still exists for. Or incorporating the overheat mechanic into all the games *because that’s how guns work…

Shrug.

I guess it’s technically possible that they thought:

—what if the sexy-voiced robot got a body

before

—what if that body was hawt

but like... *Gestures vaguely at stylistic and artistic changes not only in ME2 but in all Bioware properties around that time, then gestures at the game industry as a whole from that…

But also to be fair, the decision to include a sexy robot woman in the game would have had to come before the decision as to why that robot had a sexy woman’s body.

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Have you played Ghost of Tsushima: Legends? I’ve put a ton of time into it and I am blown away by how much I’m reminded of my time in ME3 multi.

I’ll take full-sized standalone expansions to both please!

I’ve been playing a *lot* of Ghost of Tsushima’s Legends multiplayer mode lately, and I can’t believe how much I’m reminded of all the good times I had playing ME3 multi. They’re not 1:1, obviously, but hopping into a tightly designed, somehow endlessly repeatable wave defense game attached by total surprise to the…

Mr. Goodratt has already given permission that Meg can step on me as much as I can convince her to and he won’t be jealous.

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The Legends multiplayer mode is absolutely amazing, and may be one of the tightest, most cohesive games of this type that I’ve ever played. I cannot get enough of it.

With SP having that job posting about wanting people who were familiar with GoT’s combat it seems pretty much certain they’re working on *something*, but…

Don’t let me turn you off it completely—there’s some fun stuff here, like modern love/pop songs done by victorian string quartets, and a guiltily delicious soap opera but in corsets thing happening with all the rules of polite society, and the acting is on point from almost every single person (especially the people…

I suppose it’s all dependent on personal exposure, because I feel like most shows I catch fall over themselves trying to justify a lack of diversity in casting, and then there’s always a big to-do about “well of course there are no Black people in the show, they didn’t exist in medieval times.” If a majority of the…

You’re right in that there would always be people mad about it, but those people get their way pretty much always, so here it just seemed refreshing. Like the show was saying, “Yes, we all see it, and we all know it, but if you think we owe you an explanation? Nah.”

It’s not a show about race, or at least, it wasn’t,…

The duke (main male love interest) is being ungrateful or moody or something and his aunt tells him she didn’t raise him to be that way, because of the tenuous position Black people have in high society. Something like “the only reason we’re here is because a white king married one of us,” and that they could lose…

Yeah, it felt really fresh and even subversive, like the casting of Hamilton I guess? Like, hey, the duke is Black and there’s nothing weird about that here, and no, you’re not getting an explanation, and you don’t *need* one, either.

Then, surprise, an explanation that we won’t dig into so it feels both derailing and…

Yeah, there’s a super diverse cast in what is otherwise strictly “accurate” (as in, observant of the social mores of the time) 1800's polite english society, with a Black queen, and many other Black characters as lords and ladies and in every level of society, and the show goes for several episodes without saying a…

Yeah, it’d bee too much to ask them to bring any of the original trilogy’s movement and combat up to Andromeda’s standards (which was the best thing about that game), but especially ME1. What they really ought to do is make all weapons across the whole thing function like ME1, with heat bars, and then let you use heat…

This is exactly how I feel about the trilogy as a whole, and ME3's ending specifically—they wrote themselves into a huge, epic corner by making Shep the most important person in the world (Bioware always does this: it’s a problem in DAI, it’s a problem in MEA), dealing with such a massive threat. Don’t get me wrong,…