I hear you. I made it the second zone in Transylvania, only to realize I was never going to be able to solo my way through the vampire’s tanks, even though it was a main story mission. And I could never find anyone willing to help me.

“Don’t waste your time playing this janky, unfinished survival game. Go play THIS janky, unfinished survival game instead.”

I loved TSW, but could never get anyone else interested in giving it a try. Hopefully this gets more eyes on a really excellent MMO with a fairly unique setting and story.

Yeah, to clarify I’m not talking about comparing emotional resonance (even if everything Mass Effect has that for me in spades). I meant in terms of writing, gameplay, design, and (not to sound shallow) graphics. It’s absolutely fair to judge those against not just earlier games in the series, but every recent…

It’s still very grindy - Yes, there are many worse, but that doesn’t excuse Bungie’s missteps. Look at how long it takes to level a faction or a piece of armor. They’ve made it a lot better than launch, but it’s still an issue.

Okay, I see what you’re saying now. I don’t know that I’d agree with the malice you’re ascribing to him, but I can certainly agree that it would have been a better idea to stick with fixing the existing ending rather than adding a new one.

You’re not wrong, but you’re not 100% right either. The fleet score is supposed to determine how badly the Crucible is damaged before docking with the Citadel, and thus if and how badly it misfires when you light it off. More ships and stuff means less damage taken, more resources and scientists means, I dunno, more…

So tell me a story about how you beat them with UN-conventional means!

If there’s some story about Casey Hudson being an asshat towards the fans, I haven’t heard it. Regardless, if I let a creator’s personality determine the worth or quality of their work, I’d never be able to read anything by Harlan Ellison, to name just one example (not that I’m comparing Ellison to Hudson as writers,…

As I have said twice now, I was talking specifically about Arnheim’s feelings toward the black refusal ending.

As I said in my response to Arnheim’s response to me, I was referring solely to his take on the black refusal ending. I should have made that clearer in my original comment.

It’s still very grindy. It’s still well below Bungie’s own storytelling standard just compared to Halo Reach. It still leaves the best story and lore bits on a friggin’ website. It still can’t decide if it wants a silent protagonist or not. It’s still hobbled by a playerbase split four ways (though this is probably…

I’m not trying to say the original ending was good (and I’m 100% with you about the green ending in particular being terrible and out of nowhere), but when I mentioned the added ending, I was specifically responding to this:

Isn’t that 99% of open world games though?

I’m enjoying Andromeda quite a bit, but it really isn’t fair to hold up a ten year old game as a comparison. We should compare Andromeda to ME 3 or to recent games in the genre. Yes, it’s disappointing, but it’s still excellent, and hopefully what issues can be patched will be. And hopefully Bioware will take…

I get that the added ending wasn’t what people wanted, but that’s the point; it was what the ENTIRE TRILOGY had pointed at: the Reapers couldn’t be defeated by conventional means.

Destiny has a LOT of issues, even now after a couple of years of fixes, but there’s still something about it.

a fascinating new landing system called Maritime Augmented Guidance with Integrated Controls for Carrier Approach and Recovery Precision Enabling Technologies, or “MAGIC CARPET” for short. (They must have really wanted to use that acronym.)

Yeah. They even still release patches for D2 every now and then, though they’re pretty much just to keep it running with newer hardware/services. No new content or balance changes.

They really are worth it. Codex aside, I don’t think the Golden City even gets mentioned outside of Chantry, uh, chants, until MAYBE Awakening, despite being both an awesome piece of backstory and probably a pretty major part of the Darkspawn origin. Will knowing how Turian and Human military tactics differ make or…