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Tue Dec 1
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Incoming...Coming...whatever?
Did I miss it?
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(For those wondering where to find the Braaaains quest, go to the far south end of Sleepy Hollow near where you fight Pumpkin Head to find the quest - it'll be given to you by an old friend. You'll laugh when you see who it is. Make sure you get this quest first, because you'll be frustrated otherwise -- like me!)
On the plus side, this expansion has a great sense of humor, and I found myself entertained by the missions and the characters much more so than the original game.
As a level 50 character, I can attest to my disappointment that Gearbox didn't raise the level cap, add any really cool new weapon attributes, and for the most part, didn't even throw in any mission-specific, unique weapons.
There is one machine gun that you can get from one of the final bosses that shoots in a circular pattern, but that's about it.
Overall, it's a bit disappointing in the loot category. But even with those problems, I think this was a noble effort for the first batch of downloadable content.
I loved the sense of humor, change of setting, and how different the enemies were from the original game.
I just wish more work was put into addressing some of the game's primary issues -- that being the lack of a locker to store your extra loot, and the need for more inventory slots, and new weapon attributes that are creative and fun.
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Perhaps I'll hold out and hope the next DLC offers a level cap expansion, and then I'll have a little more motivation to break my 50 out of retirement.
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Otherwise, I have more than enough to keep me entertained for now (and for the next 6 months).
There isn't much motivation to chase XP and loot when your Lv50 character can dispatch most enemies in three easy steps: 1. bust out incendiary sniper rifle or RPG, 2. shoot once, 3. watch enemy burn. (+ mix in Phasewalk at will for one-button critter crowd dispersal.)
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On the other hand, I wouldn't like an overly ornate cover that ends up making the case look gawdy. Sometimes less is more.
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I'm not going to crack the slightest smile over the game until I have some assurance that they're not going to assram 6-12 factions into two teams.
"Well, Chaos corrupted a clan of Orks and then the Dark Eldar found a device that allows them to control a force of Necrons so the Archon leading the DE made a Pact with the chaos lord to work together and now they're the bad guy team."
GO DIE IN A HOLE.
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[Throws Up]
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In that case, I hope my American boxart does not look like this _ This isn't even as classy as the older boxarts that just had the logo on them (featuring enlarged Yoshitaka Amano art at most). The big CG art of Lightning kind of breaks that up for me.
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Not really.
Mass Effect is easy enough that you can pretty much beat the game on hardcore solo.
12:42 PM
How much of Mass Effect did you play?
I never chose the characters based on what I "lacked"
Mass Effect was easy...too easy in fact. However, I felt this was not important because it allowed me to choose whoever I want.
Replaying it now in fact...playing as a biotic...with another biotic...
Now...for other RPGs? Yes, you could argue it is a problem. But even then, just scroll the difficulty slider down(at least for modern RPGs).
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Also...one thing Mass Effect did to help this was allowing you to "unlock" new skills to use with whatever charatcer.
Like...unlocking AR skill for a Biotic to use. Helps even more with the easy difficulty.
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Ah...forgot about that...
Well...most of the items in those lockers was pretty crappy...
The main issue I would have would be the few "missions" you find from hacking terminals...
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Almost all the characters I remember seeing for the game so far, including Shepard, seem like they're trying pretty hard to be badasses, things that make me wonder how the game will play through after I load up my ME1 save, which I played as a goody two-shoes.
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One thing I've always liked about games like this are the relationships and interactions with party members.
Dragon Age has a pretty diverse cast you can recruit, so no matter which way you play the game, good or evil, you'll have like-minded allies.
If everyone besides you is a jackass in ME2 I'm gonna miss out on a bit of that, and I don't usually enjoy playing evil characters. I guess this Samara will be one of the exceptions though.
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Almost ALL of the Japanese covers have been white with the FF logo - that's it. Ditto for the Euro covers, which are often just the Japanese ones. This actually has more going on than most.
Doubtful it'll be the US cover anyway, but I actually wish it was. The US FF covers too often cheese it up and dumb it down.
FF is supposed to be a classy game, it should have a classy cover treatment.
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This is being published by EA right? I thought they were all for Multi-Platform or something.
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Does that mean that there could well be in the future a ME2 release on the PS3? Like say after this contract thingy expires?
01:01 PM
Pray for a 2 pack or 3 pack later down the road.
Or maybe an "upadted" version for the ps4!
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I heard a lot of bashing of him when I worked at a Marin GameStop where we had EA and LucasArts guys coming in all the time. They thought he was a total hack. So my opinion of him is rather low.
But I'll still call.
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