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Another Wednesday, another round of the usual questions:
- What games are you playing this week?
- Would you recommend those games to other Border House readers?
- What games have you ranting?
- Are any of those games listed ones that you want to see covered on the site?
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Two games of interest this week. First, I bought and played through Dear Esther. It was definitely an interesting “game,” and I like how it randomizes some of the excerpts in order to force you to interpret meaning into partially incoherent sense data (a lot like what we do with real life!); my interpretation of the character’s past evolved as more excerpts were revealed, and the end was rather unsettling. I get the feeling I might have missed out on an area or two, but overall, it was an interesting experience that has made me think about about how narrative can work in games.
My other game of the week was Mirror’s Edge, which was on sale on Steam for a paltry 2,49€. Steam tells me I only played the game for 2-3 hours, despite the fact that it felt quite a bit longer (I would have thought 5 or 6 hours). There were a few parts that were infuriating – three or four sections where I literally had to replay dozens if not hundreds of times because the controls were just too finicky and I kept dying or falling back to the beginning (worst of all was the escape from the mall – I literally spent upwards of 30 minutes trying to get that wall running thing to work properly).
Aside from that, though, I really enjoyed it, and as I’ve heard there may be a sequel in the works, I’m sold on it so long as the controls are better managed. I especially liked how you can SEE your character’s body – hands, legs, etc – even if the perspective wasn’t quite right (I usually see my entire body, minus the head, when I look down, but the camera only shows her legs), and how movement itself was the game mechanic – the game does a pretty good job at translating bodily momentum into a purely audiovisual game.
I’m also steadily digging through the task of programming my own game. This is one of many prototypes I’ve developed, but it’s coming a lot further along than the rest have, and I may just be able to make something fun out of it. I’ve been “playing” it too, in the sense that I’ve been testing new mechanics/artwork/engine functionalities. Hopefully I’ll have something to show in the relatively near future.
I LOVED Mirror’s Edge. It was one of those games where I forgave all its faults (having to fight people instead of being able to avoid them completely) because it was such a fresh concept, and Faith is a badass.
I would love to see a Mirror’s Edge game that drops the dramatic plot and instead is a more open world where you are delivering packages to the underground organizations (that’s her job right?). You get a set amount of time to make it from point A to point B, try not to be seen and go for it. If you’re successful, you rise through the ranks as a messenger and get progressively more challenging and more “sensitive” missions.
An open-world Mirror’s Edge would be amazing! It seems like the perfect fit for that sort of gameplay, which is all about freedom of movement to begin with. I’d buy that in a heartbeat.
And I agree, the whole delivering packages thing got shoved to the sidelines really quickly. I would occasionally discover one of the runner bags and go “Oh, right, these things are here too.” I didn’t mind the plot, but I thought there wasn’t enough of it – I didn’t really get a feeling for how the government was oppressing people, other than the “resistance” members. Integrating both a story and open-world challenges/missions would be a great way to go, though.
seconding the love.
I also totally loved Mirror’s Edge – a great lead character, well-thought out overall design with an ace colour pallette (I’m all for a well-chosen colour scheme).
It was a bit frustrating sometimes, but mainly only if I’d been away for it a while and my brain had to readjust to the controls. Once I got back into it, it was incredibly satisfying to play.
but, as you say, pretty much having to shoot people to progress in some scenes ruins the nice feeling of action pacifism! Just one tiny complaint, though.
Thoroughly enjoyable game.
I did not shoot anyone in chapters 3-6, so when i completed the game, i expected the pacifist trophy, and it did not appear. I must have shot someone in the very beginning of the game. >:|
I love Mirror’s Edge too! It got pretty difficult for me at times too when I wanted to break the controller lol. That doesn’t happen too often with games nowadays.. a welcome break from the mold!
Though I hope they change the cutscenes to CGI because they kept reminding me of the esurance girl commercials.
I can understand why people wouldnt like the difference between the game and cutscenes, i really like that style tho :O
I finished the main storyline on FFXIII-2 at the weekend (and – no spoilers – but that really didn’t go where I expected.) I’ve been trying to get the fragments and achievements I’m missing. I’ve got all the Paradox Ending fragments now, so I’m just missing the coin winnings and all monsters fragments – I’ve only got about 3 to go on the latter but one of them is really, really (I mean tempting to throw the controller at the screen) nasty. I’m not looking forward to the coins one – I really don’t do minigames – but I’m so close to full completion that I think I’m going to have to go for it!
I’ve also started Kingdoms of Amalar on the PC, which I’m enjoying thus far. But I’ve got a bit of labyrinthitis at the moment and playing on a pc-sized screen is making me very uncomfortable so I’ll have to leave it for now.
The Last Story arrived in the post today so that’s going on my ‘games to play soon’ pile!
SPOILERS BELOW
What did you think of the ending?? I can’t get that final image of Etro’s throne out of my head! I know lots of people are pissed about the ending, but the more I think about it, the more I like it. 1. I think it means XIII-3 is guaranteed and 2. Unhappy endings are so rare in video games, that I sort of like this change of pace. I am also crossing my fingers and hoping that the fact that Sazh/Hope rescued Fang/Vanille’s crystals means they’ll be back in action in XIII-3.
Which monster is giving you a hard time? You only have to fight them once to get the fragment from that guy in Academia 4XX, some of the are just a bit of a pain to find/reach. The Lucky Coin fragment is pretty annoying, but definitely not as bad as it seems. If you’ve got the Eternal Crystal item in your inventory (which you automatically get if you have a XIII save file) it improves your odds at the slots, and if you just hold down L1 on the slots, they’ll play continuously and automatically. The odds are a bit worse if you go on autopilot, but it lets you read a book or do something else while you rack up the coins for the fragment. Compared to Plat Ingot farming in XIII for the Treasure Hunter trophy, it’s practically a cakewalk.
I kinda liked the ending especially as it was fairly heavily telegraphed and wasn’t therefore a complete surprise (when you-know-who dies, I was thinking ‘but wait, doesn’t that mean…? Why aren’t they mentioning it? Oh, okay!’) Googling games sites does indicate though that the ‘to be continued…’ is a bit misleading. There’s currently no plans for XIII-3, but expect the story to be continued in DLC. Hmm.
Anyway, I got passed the nasty I was stuck on quite quickly once I’d infused the right creatures! And the slot machine ended up being very easy (I did have the Eternal Crystal, which explains why it was much less difficult than I expected!)
I finally got 100% completion this morning – the first full-size game I’ve ever managed. And you’re right – it’s a hell of a lot easier to get than XIII’s; I gave up trying in the end.
Now trying to settle on a new game that doesn’t cause my labyrinthitis to play up…
Congrats on the Platinum!
I’m still fairly confident that we are going to get a XIII-3. There’s just too much left to be resolved; I don’t think DLC would be enough to wrap up the plot after all the crap that happens in the end. SE hasn’t announced it yet, but I’m pretty sure it’s just a matter of time. It was a little over a year after XIII’s Japanese release that we officially got wind of XIII-2 and SE has already secured the rights to the XIII-3 name….
Have you started in on TLS yet? I was all set to import it when we got the announcement about the summer NA release. I’m glad I’ll have a few more months to sink into Xenoblade before TLS hits our shores after all.
Not yet; I’m taking a break for JRPGs for a bit! Playing a bit more Kingdoms Of Amalur for the moment.
I’m still fairly confident that we are going to get a XIII-3. There’s just too much left to be resolved; I don’t think DLC would be enough to wrap up the plot after all the crap that happens in the end. SE hasn’t announced it yet, but I’m pretty sure it’s just a matter of time.
I could see it going either way, really, because the effects that time travel has in XIII-2 are just so huge and unpredictable. If they wanted, they could probably reset the entire world to XIII’s happy ending with the resolution of one final paradox (and it wouldn’t be entirely without foreshadowing, given some of the things Yeul said).
I certainly wouldn’t mind a XIII-3 if they gave me Lightning as the main protagonist again (and maybe even playable Fang and Vanille too), though. There wasn’t enough of her in XIII-2.
Hm, I guess there are ways that the “TBC” could technically be resolved quickly and neatly through DLC, but SE tends toward bloated storytelling, so I don’t see it happening. The story content in XIII-2 was fairly light (compared to XIII and in general, I thought) and they managed to flesh it out into a full-fledged game, so with all the wrenches the XIII-2 ending threw into the mix, I think SE is definitely planning to wring another game out of this series. I guess after years of Kingdom Hearts and Dissidia levels of storytelling, I just can’t imagine SE efficiently resolving any game plot when they can stretch it out ad nauseum. XD
I have been playing League of Legends a lot recently, finally got my summoner up to level 30. I even played a bot game with some TBH community members! I plan on playing TBH Magicka and L4D2 game nights this week. It looks like it will be a lot of fun!
I’ve been playing Ghost Trick! It is fantastic!!
I keep hearing that Ghost Trick is amazing, but I hated Phoenix Wright SO MUCH that I’m a bit skittish about it. >_<;;
What did you hate about Phoenix Wright? If it was the gameplay, you might enjoy Ghost Trick more, since it’s more puzzley instead of just pixel hunting and dialogue. But the characters and story are a similar style; I think Ghost Trick is a bit darker, but I can’t quite remember PW well enough to say for sure.
INORITE? So, SO fantastic. The gameplay was neat and engaging, the plot kept breaking my brain, and the characters kept startling me by being much deeper than they had any right to be.
Still stuck on the microscope puzzle in the 7th Guest >_>.
I’m also still playing TOR and Amalur, but I finished with Defender’s Quest.
I played Corrosion – Cold Winter Waiting too.
Tried Costume Quest (because I loved Psychonauts), but the keyboard-only controls sent me running away screaming after a few minutes.
Still working, slowly, on FFXIII-2. I have vague hopes of finishing it before Mass Effect 3, but I don’t know. I think in part I’m dragging my feet because of some spoilers I stumbled across regarding the ending, and I’m very ambivalent as a result (even though I really enjoy the game *and* have been enjoying Serah quite a bit.)
Other than that, not much!
Need to finish FFXIII-2 so that I can play SSX. I love SSX.
Mirror’s Edge! Stuck on chapter 6 though.
Are you stuck at the section in an open room with a catwalk in there air that’s crawling with enemies? I think I got held up there for a bit.
No, I’m stick in a closed room at Chapter 6.
Ceiling Vents! (probably)
Alan Wake’s American Nightmare and the FFXIII-2 DLC. The DLC was disappointingly short and pointless, but it had some great comedic moments. American Nightmare is just fantastic so far.
Been doing a male playthrough of Mass Effect 2. Hadn’t been planning to (as far as I am concerned, the One True Shepard is female), but I’m curious how the ME team will handle red-hot man on man action, so I wanted to get a character established.
Additionally, I started playing the original Fallout. I had forgotten how expansive it is in terms of the number of options you have, especially compared to Fallout3 and New Vegas. I suppose that’s the trade off you get with modern fancy-pants graphics and full voice acting. Makes me hopeful the Obsidian guys will try and fund an isometric rpg via kickstarter. I’d donate.
I finally kicked my Dragon Quest IX habit of two months. I spent 222 hours doing 126 quests, collected 166 accolades, and went through 54 grottos. The remaining quests didn’t look very interesting anymore (I did all the ones with story bits), so yesterday I decided to start a new game.
Now I’m playing Crimson Gem Saga on the PSP. So far it seems rather generic. Sword-wielding male protagonist with full armor, mysterious past, and desire for vengeance, magic and dagger-wielding female second character with stripperiffic outfit, attitude, and more sense than the hero, emo-looking villain with monster in tow, you know the drill. I hope it gets better later on.
Kimiko, I found that CGS does indeed get better later on–and makes it more apparent that they know exactly how cliched they are and are playing it up for extra fourth-wall breaking lulz (of which there is a significant amount.) They do change up some of the cliches later, including mage and healer ones, and I found it pretty fun overall.
Kingdoms of Amalur has really grabbed my attention this past week, notably the House of Ballads quest, which I finished last night. I ended the quest differently than the three other people I informally surveyed. Times are changing, is all I can say about it without spoilers! Next: the Wanderers, I think, since I’ve finished all the sidequests that were in my log. I’ve stolen some books for a side quest and it was fun, so I’m looking forward to more pilfering.
Other than Amalur, it’s been more “test runs” on portable games. Tokobot (PSP) looks promising as it’s cute, and the puzzle-platforming levels are relatively short, taking less than an hour apiece so far. Rune Factory 3 (DS) is less gaming-fidgets friendly, but already I like its look (whether areas or character designs) better than RF2′s, and time passing indoors makes RF3′s in-game days go by quickly.
I’ve been kicking through Kingdoms of Amalur, getting a little further in the Scholia Arcana quests and main story. I’m really enjoying it! The combat system is fun, the game is really bright and colorful, and my favorite part is actually the longer quests. I appreciate that the game doesn’t assign morality to my actions, nor are my choices such inane extremes which I feel Bioware has always struggled with. Each decision is its own unique thing.
Other than that, I’m always tinkering away at Sims 3 and waiting for Mass Effect 3!
I love Sims 3! I’m glad I’m not the only one who keeps wanting to go back and tinker with it! There’s so much humor in that game.
Just lost a chunk of my weekend to the MMO/arcade shooter Realm of the Mad God.
One gripe: the player sprite is like 10 pixels tall and they still had to be gendered.
Second gripe: customized controls aren’t saved to your account if you’re not on Steam.
Beautiful little game nonetheless, one of those few fantasy MMOs that isn’t primarily about chopping wood and rearranging equations. I particularly like how wizard is the starting default and warrior is a challenge you have to work up to…
I’m in a gaming slump. I’m finding myself getting easily bored with whatever game I pick up. I picked up Assassin’s Creed: Revelations thinking that would do the trick since I devoured the other games, but I still couldn’t get into it.
Any suggestions for something new and different to break out of a slump?
What kind of things do you gravitate towards, and that you haven’t tried yet?
If you like 3D action games (just guessing, since you said Assassin’s Creed and Mirror’s Edge above), you might like Orcs Must Die! – frantic action with some brains behind it as well. That game kept me busy for quite a while. Unfortunately, I don’t know any other 3D titles that involve the kind of free running of AC and ME, though from what I hear, Dustforce might be a bit similar in a 2D format (lots of acrobatic movement through levels).
Thanks for the suggestion! Unfortunately, I’m not a PC gamer. My computer at home is a 11″ macbook air – which I really like using for all my general computing needs but it’s not the best gaming rig
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I like all kinds of games. I do have a lot of 3D action games, but maybe that’s part of what’s getting old. Those games really run together. Perhaps I should bust out my gameboy micro and play some Metroid Fusion to change it up. I do enjoy inventive indie games. Swarm looked fun, I might try that.
I also like mellow, relaxing games like Eden or Flower, it’s too bad Journey isn’t out yet.
Oops, sorry I assumed! Unfortunately, I don’t have any other gaming devices, so at most I’m familiar with cross-platform titles. I’ve been spending quite some time with Plants vs. Zombies, which is out on practically every platform that exists. If you haven’t tried it yet, I’d definitely recommend it!
Also, Olivia’s suggestion below (short break from gaming) is also a good one – I sometimes find myself getting overdosed on one activity or another, and it’s nice to take a break now and again to give yourself the chance to start to miss games. If I’m on a slump with games, I often either write or program, or read if something has come out that I’ve been wanting to get to.
In any case, good luck getting out of the slump!
Maybe try switching your focus to other activities for a bit? Whenever I get gaming ennui, I’ll just read nonstop for a few weeks instead til the urge to pick up a game comes back again.
Otherwise, what are some of your favorite games? I picked up Catherine last year out of curiosity and unexpectedly found it to be one of the most addicting and refreshing games that I’d played in years.
Hmm. If you find yourself getting bored quickly, why not try some casual freeware gaming for a bit? Short, free games that are over before you have the chance to get bored with them. And if you DO get bored, well, they were free, so nothing lost or wasted.
You say your MacBook Air isn’t a gaming rig, but it can be quite fun to figure out what games you can run on a minimalist system (*currently using an Acer Netbook as her main machine*). And there are SO MANY games you can play in your browser these days.
When I feel like goofing off with something new, JayIsGames is my usual starting point. Maybe look at their best of casual gaming 2011 list, look for anything that has ‘free’ in the tags list and has a description that sparks your interest?
I finished Alan Wake’s American Nightmare and enjoyed it tremendously! While the plot relies heavily on well-known genre tropes, the way those are used made me really enjoy the story. I also love the mix of real actors and how important parts of the story is told through a mix of live-action video clips, radio shows interviewing some of the supporting cast and last but not least, through Alan’s writing. There was also three in my opinion rather well-written female characters in the story and I enjoyed how they were written. I kind of live in hope that Alan’s wife will be the protagonist of an Alan Wake game one day, but I suppose that’s too much to hope for. Still, it was a very good game and I hope we’ll see more high quality spin-off games like that in the future.
I’ve also been working on my ME2 playthrough with Engineer broShep and decided that he will stay true to Ash. I really dislike the lack of continuity for the non-Liara ME1 romances in ME2 so Bioware had better make up for that in ME3!
Still playing Lost Odyssey. Just got onto Disc 2 (not had much time to play anything the past week), and loving it. I was ludicrously happy when I got to travel by boat on a 3D world map, like old times! I believe a lot of RPGs have lost their sense of scale by having instantly-selectable destinations, but I recognise that it does streamline the gameplay.
I am an old fuddy-duddy, forever grasping for the feeling I got when I first played FFVI…
I’m really enjoying the fact I’m finding myself actually having to use items and a wide variety of magic, too, instead of just relying on healing magic and the odd fire spell.
My only problems with it so far is the gratuitous cleavage on two of the main characters outfits, and aklso the fact that playing Lost Odyssey is taking up a lot of my time! though that’s more my problem than the game’s…
You know, I found that FF8 had a delightful compromise between selectable-destination and free world exploration: you could fly wherever on earth you wanted, but you could also pull up the autopilot option and zip straight to whatever city (which alleviates the problem I continue to have with FF4, for example, even after 10 playthroughs, where I cannot find Eblan no matter what I do.)
The cleavage is really unfortunate, though, I agree. I find I tend to mentally edit it away when I think about the game.
(also, hi, I am so pleased to find a fellow lover of FF6. Still my favourite game ever.)
High-fives for FFVI. I ADORE that game. I also really liked VIII, more than VII FOR SURE (Rinoa, mirite? come on).
I was a fan of Quistis because I identified a lot with the overachieving brainiac who is more socially awkward than she wants to admit, but I am slowly growing an appreciation for Rinoa.
I liked that, when i played it, Rinoa had a dog like i did, and was independent. At the time, i saw Quistis as a teacher, but i think were i to replay, i would get more out of it, and enjoy Quistis even more.
I need to reply that game.
Nothing against Rinoa, but QUISTIS. YES.
Yeah, the FF8 autopilot thing was very helpful! The Lost Odyssey world map travel seemsm to be a good compromise, too, but I’ve not long got access to the first boat, so I can’t really say much about it beyond “hooray!”
Also, I’m always juuuust on the verge of starting a new game of FFVI, but I think maybe I’ll leave it another few months?
Such an amazing game for so many reasons, and just generally a really important game for me in my formative years…
I’m totally willing to admit that when I have to face a really difficult situation, I channel General Celes Chere and it helps an awful lot, because she has spine. (Well. I’m willing to admit it online. Not so much in person.) There are so many things about FF6 that completely shaped my preferences for both characters and video games (I am perpetually at -20 to save versus knights, hardcore lady warriors, and dashing rogues.) I could glee about it forever.
Just gonna leave this link right here in case you’re not already familiar with Fangamer merchandise.
Oh my goodness, Olivia, you are helping like a kitty. ….when my paycheck comes in on Friday. Oh my.
(Thank you!)
We have been frustratingly without internet, or else my list would be Super Monday Night Comabt and The Old Republic.
That said, shortly before the internet downage I finished the story for the Bounty Hunter in TOR.
Currently I am playing FFXIII, and am … 27h in or so. it’s aight. I can’t imagine spending 100+ hrs on it like i have for the rest, and i will probably drop it for a while when we get internet back / i get ME3 (oh wait, if we dont have internet, i cant play ME3, great!!).
I’m playing Angband. Angband is like a bad habit for me. Whenever life gets me down, I play Angband.
Roguelikes can become a habit, but I think they’re a good habit.
Not a lot of gaming for me this past week.
Finally resumed playing Icewind Dale. The only part I don’t enjoy is inventory management. Other than that, it’s been a lot of fun.
Have also been playing some Quarrel Deluxe with Ike on our iPad, which is quite enjoyable.
Earlier today, I had my weekly Magicka multiplayer session (2pm EST)… only one person showed up, but we had fun! Hopefully next week, more people will be able to play. I might consider trying it twice next week, to see if one time works better than the other.
Tomorrow, I’ll be hosting Left4Dead 2 at 2pm EST. Please join in if you can, by joining the Border House Steam chat room. ^.^
I picked up the Sazh DLC for XIII-2 last night, so I’ll be playing a bit of that this week. I started a long intended re-play if ICO on my PS3 a few days ago and am impressed by how well the game has held up over the decade. I’m wrestling with the controls a bit more than I remembered though.
Having a hard time sticking with one portable these days, so I’m skipping around between Hakuoki on my PSP, Tales of the Abyss on the 3DS and Hot Shots Golf on my new Vita. The PS Vita is a really awesome piece of hardware, by the way, I’m super impressed with it!
Also playing a few minutes of Mutant Mudds and Kirby’s Adventure on the 3DS here and there as well. Mutant Mudds is actually pretty challenging (for me anyway) and Kirby just makes me smile. I’d forgotten how awesome Kirby’s Adventure was on the NES back in the day, and it just makes me grin to play it again now.
After hte ME3 demo I got in the mood and finally downloaded and played the Arrival DLC for ME2, it wasn’t all that great and had me thinking about shadow broker dlc again. From there my thoughts went to Liara and Garrus, the people I romanced as Male and female Shepard respectively. I realized I liked those characters because they’re actually among the few who undergo a visible character evolution and with whom you share some hard experiences. There’s that in other characters as well but Garrus and Liara just stand as my favorites.
A little of topic but 1up had a insightful enough article about sexism in Mass Effect 2: http://www.1up.com/news/sexism-mass-effect-2
I think people tend to forget that it’s a bit weird that a wise and ancient species such as the Asari so often end up as sex workers. Also the Jack part was spot on, I didn’t want to drop the romance with Liara so I didn’t pursue her with male shep, but even if you don’t romance her at some point she just shuts in and you have the feeling talking to her or helping her blow up her trauma (literally) achieved next to nothing besides unlocking some more covering gear for her. Which I always replace with the bad-ass biker look from the appearance pack DLC anyway.
…. Am I the only person who loved the Arrival DLC?
eh, probably.
Lair of the Shadow Broker set the bar a bit high, I preferred Overlord to Arrival though, but it wasn’t BAD by any means. I’m just being a spoiled kid.
Oh, well, yes, it was obviously the weakest of the set. But. gawd, I loved seeing the power of Indoctrination, the fact the Big Decision made so much sense for Paragons and Renegades, and J.Hale’s speech at the end was so amazing. So much love. <3
J. Hale is why Mass Effect is all about female Shepard. She totally deserved that Emmy award.
+1 to this. <3
nope definitely not. I loved arrival.
I just picked up Devil Survivor II.
Finished a replay of Mass Effect 2 while waiting for 3 to come out. I’m currently playing SWTOR to kill time. It’s pretty enjoyable as long as I turn off all chat and pretend it’s a single player game rather than an mmo. Now I’m just getting frustrated that I’m going to have to pay a subscription fee every time I want to “replay” it.
Finished up SS2 the other day and found that the current tower cannot handle DK2. When the thing crashes to desktop just on the basis of 8 Imps, it’s an OS problem. Too bad as I’d finally made it to Storm.
Am debating reinstalling Gangsters for another attempt. Anyone have any insights on how to start out?
So much Dota 2. I also tried to play a couple games of League of Legends with some real-life friends and realized that I may just suck at all MOBA/ARTS games entirely. A sobering realization.
I think that sometime we should do a replay for FF8. JUSSAYIN
I bought the PS3 version of House Of The Dead 3 last week and I am really enjoying it. I did play it originally on the xbox, but I hardly remember it at all.
I also have been playing Infamous : Festival of Blood, it is really good.
SWTOR!!
Wow, I’ve been burning too much time into it. I finally got to lvl 50, too! My guild is the best, so that helps. We call each other on a first name basis and there are several active women, in a wide age range. I know that’s weird to point out, but it’s true that I was worried about being the only woman and getting harassed because the group uses Teamspeak. Luckily, they’re all mature (and married) … except for one person. The guildmaster who assured me that there wouldn’t be sexual harrassment has been the only person dishing it out since I joined, really making all the women uncomfortable. He’s since been confronted and quit the game in protest. He did not admit that he was out of line or ever apologize. And he ended it all with trashing feminists for being a bunch of man-hating dikes. Yep. He seemed like such a nice guy, but when red flags bubble up, watch out. There might be something just under the surface.
I’ve been finishing my second character playthrough in Mass Effect 2, so I could have both of my Shepards ready for action when ME3 strikes. Demo hyped me so much I cannot really think of any other game right now. I don’t know how I will survive till friday.
Also tried the multiplayer in the me3 demo but I guess it only proved that I’m just too stupid for multiplayer games. It’s tons of fun sure, but after being kicked out of the room after each match I can’t help that I’m doing something very wrong xD
I also tried out the ME3 multiplayer, but being wary of things like you described above, i.e. being kicked out of the room because I’m not as good as the others, and the realization that I probably need time to find my “multiplayer legs”, I asked a friend to help me. We played as a 2 player team which meant we died a lot (ok mostly I died a lot, heh). But as I leveled up my character, it got easier and got a lot more fun. Even failed missions give you XP so building your own team with nice people who don’t just kick other players off the team for being beginners is probably the best solution. At least that’s what I’m planning to do!
Still a single player at heart though. I doubt I’ll ever become a multi player addict.
Oh that sounds really great! I’m not generally playing multiplayer, but always thought it must be lot of fun when playing with friends. Sadly none of mine really play online games.
But I have to say I gave the multiplayer ME3 try again, and it was actually fun! The whole team was pretty low level 6-8 at the beginning, with low n7 ratings and so on, and we played several games…. We never won any hahaha, but got better with time, and stopped dying on wave 5. Instead we started dying on wave 9. Although I was still terrified they will kick me out after a match or something, because sans one game I kept being lowest in the ranking with only one or two achievments [for assist and for melee kills heh].
I don’t think I will become overly hooked on multi, but it’s definitely an interesting experience,
I think the multiplayer could benefit from a quick tutorial, mostly to bring you up to speed about your powers and how to spend them. Right now you just kind of get “dropped in” and are told to kill enemies, which is pretty straightforward weren’t it for the fact that the AI is above average and therefore not so straightforward.
Matchmaking could be nice as well, put beginners with begginers so they don’t get their ears filled with stressed yelling and whining from more experienced players counting on some top-notch backing. I mean I feel bad for the newbies who get in, don’t have a clue what to do, and get scolded by others. Yet at the same time having inexperienced players to cope with isn’t a glorious and fun experience either. Though in ME3 it’s not so bad as in LoL or other online games.
Tutorial yest please. I never even figured out how to open the chat window or other communication way, so if there was scolding and criticism towards me being said somewhere, I couldn’t see it at all.
Kind of explains why I got kicked out though, they probably wanted me to do something etc, and I wasn’t apparently listening. /hides in shame
Normally there is a voice chat component, when I played on PC there would be quite a lot of filth being thrown around in some game rooms. Other times everyone was quiet as a crypt. If they kicked you out without even bothering to use the voice chat to tell why then that was kind of mean on their part.
I adapted the rules of Critical! http://borderhouseblog.com/?p=7199 for a Poke’mon-like setting for our pen&paper group. Much fun was had.
I know at this point it’s already more like “what are you playing Saturday,” but I just wanted to stop in and mention that I just started SWTOR, and holy cow–it’s *GREAT*.
I’ve never played MMOs before, and I was a big fan of KotoR, so this is really a wonderful treat. And also, Jennifer Hale’s wonderful voice acting as the female Republic Trooper–I feel like I’m playing as Commander Shepard in the Star Wars universe!
I am really quite impressed by the game and am enjoying it tremendously. It’s like KotoR 3!
How far have you gotten? Some people say it loses some of its wonder after you hit the higher levels. And how is the community and social interaction? I was thinking of picking it up with firends during summer and I don’t want it to end like it did in WoW where I was left in a sort of lonely Limbo of not-yet max level on a PvP server, unable to make new friends or catch up with the ones who outran me.
Well, at this point I’m still only level 10 on my Trooper, but I’ve just been having a blast with all the missions and voiced cutscenes. Mainly, I’ve been focusing on it as a singleplayer PvE game for my first playthrough so I can get a grip on the controls and game flow and not embarrass myself when I try to party up with strangers later. Because of this, I’ve chosen a very light server, but I do occasionally see other folks running around and sometimes chatting, and it’s nice how people tend to buff each other when they pass by in the main hub.
For all I know, though, all of the above could sound like total newbie talk. I’m more of a light player, so I’m more interested in the KotoR 3 + Mass Effect feeling of the game, which I think is wonderful. I think maybe for my second character I’ll try to pick a heavier server and delve into more of the social aspects of the game, and maybe even a little PvP.
I have heard from other people that post-game play is light, but seeing the sheer amount of story content in here makes me realize that most of those people are just grinders with way too much time on their hands. As I’ve said, I’ve never played other MMOs before, so I don’t have a barometer to judge Old Republic by MMO standards, but based on all the console games I’ve played and the fact that I really like Bioware games, I think this is a great continuation of the KotoR universe with the benefit of other folks running around.
If your friends are grinders who tend to go through a game very quickly, you might be left in the dust. (I know I would be!) But if you enjoyed KotoR and you take the time to really savor the rich story sequences, you might have a very fun time.
I hope that helps!
That sounds pretty good actually, I wasn’t that big on WoW’s endgame anyways so I could enjoy an MMO that’s a tad more focused on story. And I know pretty much all of my friends enjoyed KotoR so SWToR should be a nice experience.