GoodEnoughForMe

I spent ~$95 on the Japanese demo of Final Fantasy XIII that came with the Bluray release of Advent Children. I didn't really want Advent Children, so I effectively spent almost 100 dollars on a non-English demo that ended up seeing a ton of changes when it became the finished product.

Still the most I've spent on a single game, discounting subs/in-game items, which I'm sure stuff like WoW and SWTOR have taken way more money grand total for.

I think it's good enough to do its job. It's a sci-fi space opera and it comes with its fair share of cliches, deus ex machina mumbo-jumbo explanations, and some definite cheese, but the NPC to NPC interactions are good, and I'm finding pretty much all of the crew except Lexi interesting enough. In a game with this much dialogue some will be jarring, I think, and it's hard to make sure everyone has a distinct personality and tone. Some of the best writing, too, is in the emails and datapads. I'm not sure how I feel about that from a gameplay perspective, but at least it makes reading all of them interesting.

I do quite a bit of writing, keep a blog, try my hand at short stories and attempt to get them published every year. I'm also pretty big into music, I listened to about 215 albums that were released in 2016 alone, not counting older ones I also listened to, and I go to shows. I also enjoy movies a lot, considering at one point in my life I was involved in making them. Finally, I travel quite a lot, and I've been basically everywhere in the US, SE Asia, Australia, and will be going to Europe for a 3rd time this year.

An SNES with Super Mario world. My dad bought the SNES when I was like 3 or so when my parents and I were out at Toys R Us. It's kind of amazing in retrospect, because my dad has never known basically anything about video games, computers, etc.

The thing about that is, a ton of characters have area denial baked into their ults (as many as 10+ depending on how you want to consider things), but actually can kill people, because they start up instantly or don't give you a bunch of time to react.

@wiseman4545 said:

Yeah, I linked the payload only because it was most recent, but there's lots of articles going all the way back into beta (!!) which have her near the bottom. Her Ult still takes too much time to develop (if its main point is to scatter, McCree and Reaper and Soldier And Junkrat and... and... all have better scatter methods, as they do large damage too). Her need for super close range to freeze with no mobility skills is also a big detriment. I just think she adds very little and is an easy target for a lot of different characters. In that regard, her getting a slight buff wouldn't surprise me, although I don't know what form it would take.

As always, a lot depends on how Blizzard chooses to balance things. Bastion and Torb are of little threat when you're in a group with mics and can organize, but against PUGs, they can be a big time pest. I've seen plenty of people claim Mei is annoying in pugs, although I maintain that she's not very dangerous.

@wiseman4545 There are a variety of tier lists I've seen, although most this early on still are are done by one or two people spitballing and not entirely data-driven, which limits their appeal. Here, for instance though, is basically a tier-list driven by competitive play picks.

@wiseman4545 I'm curious where/how she is considered strong, because she is routinely near the bottom on tier lists for competitive play (or even at the very bottom), and in casual play, she just doesn't really offer anything all that threatening or compelling, imo. Plenty of ults cause scatter; Soldier, McCree, Junkrat, Pharah, etc., so she's not alone in that regard.

This would be no fun. I strongly suggest getting a group together and trying a 6 same character strategy. If nothing else, it is hilarious. I've done it with Winston, Torb, Mercy (lol), Soldier, McCree, and more. It makes for a fun game and one that can be infuriating to play against.

Zenyatta still feels patently underwhelming as a healer, particularly when compared to Mercy and Lucio. I wouldn't mind seeing Lucio's raw healing output tuned down just a hair, as it's just ridiculously good.

Mei also feels underwhelming, particularly her ult, which requires a lot of time to get max use out of, and plenty of characters can easily escape from.

Winston's ult is great for survival and messing enemy spacing up, but I don't worry about it when I see it deployed against me, because the damage is not that great and it really isn't that threatening.

Rein is much like Lucio in that he usually feels like the clear superior class option, with a few map-based exceptions for Winston.

Hanzo is basically outclassed by Widowmaker in almost every regard, so he might need some tuning.