I went from here to Gaf fulltime a few years ago. It was a great place to stay up to date on world/gaming news.
I think I left this site around the same time that Dave left. It's not as fun without him constantly coming up with crazy forum redesigns and general shenanigans.
Personally, I'd give the game a 3/5, which would be "yellow" on Metacritic. Yes, there are technical issues, and yes the script is truly cringeworthy in a lot of places. But more than that, the game is just boring. Even if you solve all the technical issues with patches, there's such a lack of ambition that it will never be more than mediocre. It'll just be a soulless game as opposed to a buggy soulless game.
I wouldn't say the game is lacking in ambition. For all its faults it at least attempted to solve the goofy Paragon/Renegade dynamic from the OT. They removed the global cooldown from the combat and tried to make it more dynamic overall. Then the biggest change is obviously bringing back the exploration elements of Mass Effect 1 and giving you giant planets to run around in. If anything they were too ambitious and tried to change too many things all while having to create an entirely new story.
They could have used the corridor shooter formula of Mass Effect 2& 3. Now THAT would have been far easier and less ambitious.
It handles the story/cutscenes better than any of the other batman games. It lacks the polish of the first two, though. I saw a bunch of glitches and bugs in my play through, although only one was potentially game breaking. It doesn't have any riddles, so that kind of sucks. Still, it's my personal favorite of the series. They definitely did a much better job than Rocksteady in the story department.
Does the WoW Battle Chest from gamestop come with a separate code for game time? Could I buy multiple copies of that for 5 bucks and get a bunch of game time?
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