Sabo

Hybrids classes are Arisen only.

Bitterblack Isle is considered end game content. You're going to want really good gear to get through it, the area will eat you alive at your current level.

He just reached the capital. That's barely 2 hours into the game. Who the hell judges an RPG after two hours? That's very premature considering RPGs generally take a few hours before they start opening up.

Hmm, combat changed a lot for me but then again I wasn't sticking with just one class for the whole game. Once I unlocked new vocations and unlocked the later skills in each vocations skill list the combat opened up a lot as I had a lot more options to play with. One thing I really loved about the game was how great the vocations all were, each vocation had their own unique feel and strengths. I never stuck with one vocation for too long and was always switching them up which in turn helped the combat stay fun and interesting.

 Downplay harder, it's not obvious enough. I could go in-depth with all the things the combat does right but to be honest it'd be a waste of my time because you've obviously already wrote the game off and can't be told otherwise.

The game is still very much an RPG, don't know why you're comparing it to an Action game but hey if that's what you have to compare it to in order to give your argument some weight then go right ahead. Don't mind me as I laugh at that though.

 Pawns are great by the way. You just have to know what to look for. Most players don't know how to set up a good Pawn build so there's a lot of terrible ones out there. Seeing as how you're referencing dumb AI companions I already know you must've had a group with the Guardian behavior on which is the worst behavior to assign your Pawn because it makes them useless.

Downloaded Dragon's Dogma Dark Arisen because of PS+. Game still sucks. It really doesn't feel like a Capcom game at all. The mechanics just doesn't feel tight enough, I hate the climbing on enemies a la Shadow of the Colossus. It's just bad.

That doesn't sound like DD at all, there's a lot to complain about in the game but the mechanics definitely isn't one of them. That's the one thing the game gets right, hence all the praise for the combat system. DD straight up puts other RPGs combat to shame in comparison because it feels more in line with an Action game than an RPG. I find it very hard to play other RPGs now thanks to DD's combat spoiling me.

I agree with the scale of the war, it would have been nice to see what the other races were doing. Of course the main problem was the game has always been a corridor shooter with sparse numbers of combatants at any time, so the scale has never and was never going to be huge.

 

To be honest, I felt weird about the ending at first, but what I otherwise expected was a schlocky generic ending anyway. The bigger missions preceding the end were what brought the most closure to me.

Didn't have to incorporate it into the gameplay, I would've been fine with just cutscenes TBH. Didn't even get that though, they were complete no shows so why did I need them exactly?

the scale is the reason why ME1 is still my favorite in the series. That game had some massive levels that just made the story feel way bigger.

All I remember about ME1 was the god awful performance issues...

With the bitter taste of ME3's ending still in my mouth I've decided to avoid starting another playthrough and instead check out the MP. It's alright, I guess.... It's basically Horde mode with a ME twist. I do like how it's a set amount of waves though, it helps prevent it from getting repetitive and dull when you can finish a game in 10 minutes or so. There's a lot of different characters too, each with their own build as well so it can be fun to just mess around with them all. I do not like the progression system at all though. You use your money to buy packs in order to get new weapons and gear but the packs contain random items. I'd much rather be able to buy what I want instead of rolling the dice and hoping I get something useful.

i had like 85% and still didnt do anything at the end

I had 100% and nothing to show for it. It was all pointless.

 

 

What kind of ending were you expecting Sabo?

 

One that I shaped with the decisions I made throughout the series. Every decision I made in this series was regulated to being nothing but a War Asset Number essentially. There was no cause and effect for anything I've done so it makes it all pointless. Absolutely terrible ending...

 

Sorry, but that's a really vague answer. Post in a spoiler tab if you need to, but I'm really curious what your expectations were for the ending. How were your choices going to play into it? Which choices in particular? 

 

Nothing vague about it. What did any of the races do in the ending? Nothing. What did any of them contribute to in the ending? Nothing. You spend all this time throughout the series rallying up allies for this massive war and for what? It's like they weren't even there so you didn't even need them.

 

 

What kind of ending were you expecting Sabo?

 

One that I shaped with the decisions I made throughout the series. Every decision I made in this series was regulated to being nothing but a War Asset Number essentially. There was no cause and effect for anything I've done so it makes it all pointless. Absolutely terrible ending...

 

i hate how some decisions made you feel like an asshole no matter what you pick like the spider queen on the first game

 

Another race that did nothing in the end and was instead just a stat number.

What kind of ending were you expecting Sabo?

One that I shaped with the decisions I made throughout the series. Every decision I made in this series was regulated to being nothing but a War Asset Number essentially. There was no cause and effect for anything I've done so it makes it all pointless. Absolutely terrible ending...

 

That ending sucked... Everything I did throughout this series was ultimately pointless. Fuck you, Bioware.

It's about the journey not the destination man, you just don't get it. ;(

 

If this was a stand alone game then I'd be okay with that but this is the ending to a goddamn trilogy. A trilogy I invested a significant amount of time in and made careful decisions because I was told it's all going to matter in the end. Turns out though it didn't really matter at all, I feel cheated....

That ending sucked... Everything I did throughout this series was ultimately pointless. Fuck you, Bioware.

 

not sure why reviewers panned Arkham Origins. its basically the same game as AC.

It's picked up a lot. Just got past the blank origin stuff. The segment with blank was just

 

Nice spoilers, asshole....

Anyways, near the end of Mass Effect 3 and I have to say this game is kind of meh and that feeling may change if the ending is as bad as people say it is. I have to say Mass Effect 2 is way better than this game in every aspect.

So I went to Wal-Mart yesterday and noticed a bargain bin for games starting at $9.99 and under. Picked up Mass Effect 3 for $5.99 so now I can finally play this game after ignoring it for so long. 

 

 

I'm downloading Dragon's Dogma Dark Arisen

 

That game is fun, it has it's problems and there's definitely some wasted potential but it was easy for me to overlook it all thanks to the awesome combat. Really enjoyed that game.

 

not too hard?

 

Only at the beginning. Once you gain some levels and some skills the game gets easier.

I'm downloading Dragon's Dogma Dark Arisen

That game is fun, it has it's problems and there's definitely some wasted potential but it was easy for me to overlook it all thanks to the awesome combat. Really enjoyed that game.

I love teh easter eggs

 

That's cool.

So I found a room with a couple Injustice top players last night and got a lot of games in. Got my ass stomped of course but it was fun to just watch and learn. Wound Cowboy, ForeverKing, TS Sabin and some other players whose names I didn't recognize but were also very good were in the room.

Wound Cowboy is fuckin' godlike, I never even managed to take out half of his first life bar and he perfected me twice. Now if you're not aware, getting a Perfect is damn near impossible in this game because everything deals chip damage but this guy did it twice. I couldn't even be mad about it, I was simply amazed by his skill. Dude is always like three steps ahead of you and he just puts on a clinic as he decimates you with surgical precision.

 

Pokemon y, it's alright outside of the fact that it still feels like one big battle/collecting grind

it has always been like that lol

 

Which is why he said, "... still feels like...", emphasis on the still.

if only you guys spent as much time in the gym/dojo training 15 mins to 2 hours

That's kind of a dumb distinction to make, don't you think?

I'm gonna start plating guilty gear and persona or guilt gear and blaz pretty heavily. I don't think there are any other games I'm gonna buy until xbo. I have a ton of backlog games but I'll prob never finish or even start those.

And lol sabo, people rage hard on fighting games. They seriously lose their shit. It's hilarious. Unless I'm the one raging

I'd definitely be down for some BB matches, I'd even play some Persona even though I don't like the game much.

As for people raging, yeah, it happens but the Injustice community is by far the worst I've come across for this sort of thing. That could also be because the community is also much larger than what I'm accustomed to so there's a larger pool of salty players but it does get kind of old to constantly run into rage quitters... Quiting out of the match gives you a loss anyways so you might as well stick around and finish the match.

 

I'm gonna start plating guilty gear and persona or guilt gear and blaz pretty heavily. I don't think there are any other games I'm gonna buy until xbo. I have a ton of backlog games but I'll prob never finish or even start those.

And lol sabo, people rage hard on fighting games. They seriously lose their shit. It's hilarious. Unless I'm the one raging

 

 

Fighting games can get pretty heated though Especially when both players are playing online and doing what they must do, even if it means cheap tactics the other player doesn't know how to counter.

 

Not me. When I come across somebody beating me with the same tactic over and over again I IMMEDIATELY head into Training mode afterword. I then proceed to pick the character they were using, record the tactic they were using, and I won't leave Training mode until I figure out how to deal with it. I don't care if it takes me 15 minutes or 2 hours, I'm not leaving Training mode until I figure it out.

Sabotage what did you think of MK and how does it compare to injustice? I assume you liked it since they seem similar?

I only played MK a couple times and from the little bit of it I've played I didn't enjoy it. Injustice was fun right from the get-go for me, I'm really digging the game and the more time I put into it, the more I enjoy it. It also helps that this game has a very active community so it's very easy to find a game and get to playing. There's a broad spectrum of players too, players of all different types of skill levels ranging from your Ridiculously Good player down to your Just-bought-the-game-and-have-no-idea-what-I'm-doing-so-I'm-just-pushing-buttons player.

Figured I'd try out the King of the Hill mode in Injustice. Beat the current king and then proceeded to go on a 20 Win winstreak. Dudes were getting soooo salty LMAO, they were screaming in their mics.

"Oh my god, someone beat this faggot!" (Ah, the classic 'faggot'... You know you're doing something right when people start screaming that at you.)

"Fuck you, spammer!" (How do you even spam with Batgirl? I don't know. Unless you count punches and kicks to the face spamming, then yeah, I was 'spamming'.)

"Jesus, he just keeps doing the same thing! He sucks so much!" (Probably because you guys weren't stopping it. If you're not going to stop it, I'm going to keep doing it. Don't blame me because you can't punish and prevent me from doing it.)

"Can we kick this fucker? He's terrible at this game" (And yet... I kept winning. If I'm terrible then what does that make the group of you?)

Good times. Good times.

Just starting KOA: Reckoning. Always wanted to play it back in the day but couldn't justify paying much. Hope its fun. I really want Dragon's Dogma but I can wait.

PISSED that A Wolf Among Us isn't available in NA for PSN till the 15th

KoA, ugh.... I stopped playing it around the halfway point of the game, the game just gets so tiring. There are sooooo many sidequests, you clear one and then three more pop up. It quickly gets to the point to where you feel like you're not making any progress because the quests just never stop coming. The combat is entertaining for awhile but even that gets tiring after awhile.