Arakawa is a shitty father because he raised his "actual" son as a power hungry piece of shit. Ichiban might be noble, but Arakawa only met Ichiban when he was a teenager and can't take credit for being a good father for Ichiban. Arakawa raised Arakawa Jr. from baby to adulthood and Arakawa Jr. sucks. He might be a galaxy brain yakuza boss, but he clearly is more concerned about that than being a good father. Somewhere down the line he gave up trying to raise Arakawa Jr. right.
Mass Effect is my favorite gaming series of all time and watching this and experiencing the series again with Alex has been an absolute blast.
It is kinda super shitty though that Brad, Vinny or the chat didn't tell Alex to stop so he could actually sit back and think about his choice. Honestly can't believe they just let it go like that. Super sucks when you've invested so much time into something and then have the final choice come out like that.
I don't think Brad or Vinny even remembered how abrupt and unclear the choice was. It's shitty of Bioware to poorly communicate that the choices were represented by the 3 paths and didn't even offer an "are you sure you want the synthesis ending?" prompt when Shepard walks far enough down the path instead of blindsiding the player into a cutscene. All the paths are identical in lighting. Left path is slightly blue, right path is slightly red, but middle path is also really bright blue. If Bioware were trying to do environmental storytelling, they failed miserably in communicating it.
Seems people are being unfairly harsh on this and constantly comparing it to Sekiro which somehow has gained untouchable status since its release. This honestly looks more appealing to me as it's more a video game-ass video game, looks damn nice and I could probably actually hang with it unlike what seems to be the nigh impossibly hard Sekiro.
How is Sekiro not a videogame-ass videogame? It's got stealth, weapon upgrades, checkpoints, exp meters, skill points, gadgets. Sure, it doesn't fall into the mold of open world checklist games, but it is by far one of the most straightforward and arcadey games Fromsoft has made. In fact, I think Fromsoft really only makes videogame-ass videogames. Whereas Sony wants to make movie-ass videogames.
People in the comments getting mad that the GB Crew isn't losing their minds over a third Watch Dogs, a sixth Far Cry, and the billionth Assassin's Creed. Ubisoft iterates at a snail's pace with these games that it makes it hard to get excited for a new installment in any of these franchises. I'm sure all three of those games will feature tons of filler content and points of interests just like the last installments did. Kudos to you if you are a huge fan of those games, but realize that people who aren't fans are not going to really go crazy over the same thing, but slightly tweaked.
I enjoyed State of Decay 2 until I encountered my first hostile NPCs and they were overpowered as hell. Super tanky and deadly accurate and basically invisible to zombies. It was unfair and completely turned me off the game. Hopefully they tuned them down.
It's funny how most of the GB crew at the time held this game in such high contempt because of how obtuse and weird it was. But it has since become a hugely successful phenomenon that defined, and continues to define, an entire genre and an entire generation of games.
I relate heavily to the post-horror movie chills when heading to bed. After brushing my teeth and heading to my bedroom, it feels like someone is behind me when I'm about to close my door.
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