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Offline Scotty

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Re: What are you playing right now?
Finished ME II, which shouldn't ever exist or be charged for, as well as ME III, which was a huge improvement over the former, and actually fun and pretty damn epic [ if you don't mind the plot.. ]. Now onto Vampire: The masquerade: Redemption. Need to finish SPAZ too.

ME2 had an excellent character writer and is probably my favorite for right around 90% of the game.  Then the giant terminator baby ruins the ending.  Kinda like how the amazing Technicolor dream ending ruins ME3's final sequence.  Bioware is not good at endings, but they're fantastic at just about everything else.

 

Offline Nakura

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Re: What are you playing right now?
Act 2 of Katawa Shoujo. Looks like I'm on the path of dating Shizune, good.

 

Offline NGTM-1R

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Re: What are you playing right now?
The thing that will always confuse me is that ME1 did not actually have a bad ending sequence.
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Re: What are you playing right now?
Just reinstalling C&C Kanes Wrath...

 

Offline Klaustrophobia

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Re: What are you playing right now?
i'll have to remember to install that on the laptop before i go home for christmas.  might see how it holds up to crysis also.
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Re: What are you playing right now?
Finished ME II, which shouldn't ever exist or be charged for, as well as ME III, which was a huge improvement over the former, and actually fun and pretty damn epic [ if you don't mind the plot.. ]. Now onto Vampire: The masquerade: Redemption. Need to finish SPAZ too.

ME2 had an excellent character writer and is probably my favorite for right around 90% of the game.  Then the giant terminator baby ruins the ending.  Kinda like how the amazing Technicolor dream ending ruins ME3's final sequence.  Bioware is not good at endings, but they're fantastic at just about everything else.

That's what's a bit odd considering that: Throne of Bhaal had an excellent ending, KOTOR had a good conclusion, Dragon Age had a decent ending, and Mass Effect 1 had a spectacular finale... So something happened, much like the blandization of Blizzard.
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Offline MP-Ryan

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Re: What are you playing right now?
KOTOR had a good conclusion, Dragon Age had a decent ending

*nitpick*

I think this might be nostalgia talking.  Have you played KOTOR recently?  The ending was easily the weakest part of that game.  The entire sequence on the Star Forge is utter crap, culminating in an utterly crap and boring final battle.  Everything up to the Star Forge docking was fantastic, but the ending was pretty meh.  Even the most interesting part of KOTOR's ending - the disappearance of Revan - was left to the sequel.

As for DA:O, it wasn't bad but it wasn't great, either.  Awakenings improved the DA:O ending narrative considerably.

BioWare doesn't have a good track record with endings, unfortunately.  I think it's probably because the content of their games is so excellent that its tough to craft a fitting conclusion.  Think of other top-tier games - Valve got so chicken after HL2:Ep2 that they haven't continued the bloody series :P
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Re: What are you playing right now?
i'll have to remember to install that on the laptop before i go home for christmas.  might see how it holds up to crysis also.
Can you give me a quick note if you manage to install it?(Kane's Wrath)
I'm unable to do it, some file is corrupt and the cab archive is also ****ed up...and I have an original copy -.-

 

Offline Klaustrophobia

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Re: What are you playing right now?
i guess.  quick check in the meantime though, you have the CnC 3 base installed right?  i'm pretty sure kane's wrath isn't standalone.
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Re: What are you playing right now?
Valve got so chicken after HL2:Ep2 that they haven't continued the bloody series :P
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Re: What are you playing right now?
Back to Pokémon Y. Only have two badges so far.

 

Offline crizza

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Re: What are you playing right now?
i guess.  quick check in the meantime though, you have the CnC 3 base installed right?  i'm pretty sure kane's wrath isn't standalone.
Of course I have, I've grown up with expansion sets, which require the base game installed.
The game keeps freaking out that the archive is corrupt and I'm speaking about the bloody game disc -.-

 

Offline crizza

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Re: What are you playing right now?
After updating Rome 2, the game is getting wierder.
Every single faction declares war on me... for the last 100 turns I'm in one bloody huge war, against the Averni, Sparta, Athen, Pontus and Egypt...
Smaller factions join and bug out when I give them money, but the big five don't want to make peace, so I'm forced to fight with just four legions and three fleets against dozens of enemy armys...challenging.

 

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Re: What are you playing right now?
battlestar galactica

 

Offline StarSlayer

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Re: What are you playing right now?
Arkham City

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Offline Klaustrophobia

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Re: What are you playing right now?
i'll have to remember to install that on the laptop before i go home for christmas.  might see how it holds up to crysis also.
Can you give me a quick note if you manage to install it?(Kane's Wrath)
I'm unable to do it, some file is corrupt and the cab archive is also ****ed up...and I have an original copy -.-

sooooo... about that.  i forgot my new laptop doesn't have an optical drive, so i'm not going to be able to install CnC.  sorry.
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Re: What are you playing right now?
Act 3 of Katawa Shoujo, following Shizune's story. I hope I get the good ending.

 

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Re: What are you playing right now?
Finished Tomb Raider, onto the original Assassin's Creed (which has been in my backlog for some time).
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Offline Nakura

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Re: What are you playing right now?
Act 3 of Katawa Shoujo, following Shizune's story. I hope I get the good ending.

I think I'm on the good path, but the end of Act 3 for Shizune is so sad...

 

Offline Mito [PL]

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Re: What are you playing right now?
battlestar galactica
You mean, BSGO? Is there a HLP squadron yet?
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