Gildermershina

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#1 Edited by Gildermershina (199 posts) - 7 days, 5 hours ago

Fuck EA for doing this! For some reason we'll figure out later, because EA would NEVER do anything in the interest of customers. That wouldn't fit the narrative.

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#2 Posted by Gildermershina (199 posts) - 17 days, 4 hours ago

Oh no, all the Star Wars games were great, and they showed such restraint when licensing the property before now. Now EA are going to annualise Star Wars games, and put out a bunch that are bad on purpose and sell a bunch of DLC, and it'll have DRM, and microtransactions, and the, um, cities will be smaller, because they're THE WORST COMPANY IN AMERICA 2013.

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#3 Posted by Gildermershina (199 posts) - 25 days, 10 hours ago

I know what the Wii U is, and I don't want it. Most people don't know what it is, let alone why they should want it. If you want a console for casual fun at family get-togethers, and you buy a Wii U, you fucked up.

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#4 Posted by Gildermershina (199 posts) - 27 days, 15 hours ago

I think there's some value in keeping the XCOM brand because they get to play with that mythology in a new setting, and if their statements are to believed, that gameplay from a new perspective. I'm not sure how you do tactics in this setting, unless it's Mass Effect style, pause and command, but a solid refinement of that system could be really awesome.

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#5 Posted by Gildermershina (199 posts) - 29 days, 8 hours ago

Rorie! Return of the King.

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#6 Posted by Gildermershina (199 posts) - 29 days, 8 hours ago

Fare thee well sir, and thanks for everything. Now that the transition to the new site is complete, I guess you're free to go off into the future.

And the return of Matt Rorie makes me happy in a way that defies rationality. Rorie seems like the nicest guy in the world, so it's heart-warming to see him find his way back to the family.

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#7 Edited by Gildermershina (199 posts) - 1 month, 1 day ago

@greggd:

@greggd said:

@ssully said:

@gildermershina said:

@sweetz said:

@ssully said:

It's amazing how gearbox recently made one bad game and they are now seen as this horrible developer.

If you look at Gearbox's entire catalog, it's pretty middling. I personally think they made only one notably great game, Borderlands 1.

I didn't even like Borderlands especially, so yeah, I have next to no faith in Gearbox's ability to make a great game. I thought Opposing Force was pretty good, but you know, that was 14 years ago (a terrifying thought), and a Half-Life expansion.

But I never actually played Homeland, so I guess I don't really have a horse in the race.

Which is fair. I didn't like the Brothers in Arms games, at that time I was more of a COD 1 & 2 guy, but that didn't stop a bunch of my friends and many other people from loving the game. I just think it's crazy how a developer missteps once and loses all credibility.

I'd like to cite Bioware, here. Dragon Age II comes out, they're suddenly the worst RPG developer of all time.

Difference is that prior to Dragon Age II, Bioware made Knights of the Old Republic, Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2, Dragon Age: Origins, Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights, Jade Empire, and more.

Whereas prior to Colonial Marines, Gearbox made Duke Nukem Forever (albeit only partially), Borderlands, Borderlands 2, PC ports of Tony Hawk 3, Halo and 007 Nightfire, Counter-Strike Condition Zero, a bunch of Brothers in Arms games, a PS2 port of Half-Life, a Wii port of Samba de Amigo and so on.

So you know, I don't know that it's a fair comparison. I'm not sure that this is either but here's my analogy: Bioware is Pixar. Gearbox is Dreamworks Animation.

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#8 Posted by Gildermershina (199 posts) - 1 month, 1 day ago

@sweetz said:

@ssully said:

It's amazing how gearbox recently made one bad game and they are now seen as this horrible developer.

If you look at Gearbox's entire catalog, it's pretty middling. I personally think they made only one notably great game, Borderlands 1.

I didn't even like Borderlands especially, so yeah, I have next to no faith in Gearbox's ability to make a great game. I thought Opposing Force was pretty good, but you know, that was 14 years ago (a terrifying thought), and a Half-Life expansion.

But I never actually played Homeland, so I guess I don't really have a horse in the race.

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#9 Edited by Gildermershina (199 posts) - 1 month, 5 days ago

So when I started the game, got to the baptism to enter Columbia, I kind of just hung out there listening to the choral music for a while. Didn't realise it was Will The Circle Be Unbroken, but man, so beautiful. They really nailed the tone of that scene.

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#10 Posted by Gildermershina (199 posts) - 1 month, 6 days ago

I would be all for another Link to the Past style Zelda, but isn't that just basically another top down Zelda game? I mean, isn't that all of the handheld games? Is this significant because it continues the story of that Link? Shouldn't that Link have pink hair, or has that been retconned? If he doesn't have pink hair, no sale. Also I don't have a 3DS.

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