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I could go for unagi.

I keep meaning to pick up tales of graces f, thanks for the reminder

I don't understand why you're letting a weak ending mar the rest of the story. It was always going to be difficult to end the Mass Effect trilogy, and while I'm not thrilled by it either, it's an ending at the very least (unlike the hash job that was KOTOR 2's "ending"). Everything that led up to it was amazing, so I'm going to focus on that.

Edited, Apr 4th 2012 2:18am by Lucinus

pre-spoiler thoughts on ME3 ending:

final set of battles (on insanity 1st time through, of course) were awesome, difficult, and serious nightmare fuel. the closest i've come to being scared by entertainment media since i was 5. amazing atmosphere.

spoiler thoughts on ME3 ending: Spoilerdon't understand what everyone's problem with it is. your choices made tons of difference throughout the story. surely you weren't expecting every minor choice you made to be reflected in the ending? my 1 qualm is i didn't understand how to choose at the end, but considering i planned on replaying it anyway, i didn't care.

spoiler free thoughts on ME3: action/gameplay wise, best game of the series by far. story-wise, amazingly well done (after clunky beginning) for what was essentially a writer's nightmare (stakes too high to matter, too much fanservice loose end bullsh*t to include, main plot machinery setting the pace so high that enjoyable narrative action that includes significant time and freedom barely has any room, etc). i think ME2 was the biggest improvement of the series, and ME1 still provided the most awe, story-wise.

i'm happy with the trilogy.

I started this analogy before, the way it is to me is imagine the passengers on the titanic, I bet the journey was incredible for all of them, but in the end, all they could remember was the ending, and even if they tried to think of the good times on the boat, all they would be able to manage was thinking about how it ended

a bit over dramatic? maybe, but its how I feel

I beat ME1 and ME2 5 times each, I played one of those characters through 3, and I find it impossible to play through as any of the other 4 knowing that they will all come to the same exact plot hole ridden failure of writing in the last 10 minutes that only varies by the color of the explosion

ME3 did a lot right elsewhere, but it still wasnt as good as the first, especially in the story telling department, but the adventure/discovery wasnt there, sidequests were easily the worst of the 3 (go to solar system, right click, then click on planet, right click again) and how annoying it was that youd have ten of these quests at any given time and you couldnt complete half of them because the systems they were in werent available, but you had no way to know this

gameplay in 3 was phenomenal though

I have a lot more complaints about 3, but I liked the game overall, but the ending has killed my desire to play the entire series

Edited, Apr 4th 2012 6:21pm by Finuve

actually, i will say that my 1 giant complaint about ME series in total is precisely that the stakes were too high. i understand that they wanted to be ambitious, but the fact is that direct conflict to decide the fate of a galaxy is inherently less interesting than a local story in said galaxy. it cuts down so many possibilities, it shapes the whole story so profoundly. i didn't need shepard's story to be the story of the reapers. it would have disappointed a lot of people, but i would rather much more content, much less of it dealing directly with 1 Giant Adversary.

ME1 had large but remote stakes (reapers just a cool thing). ME1 was the sh*t because you're exploring this fully realized sci fi world. by ME3, you're firmly planted in plot, not occupying a universe. it's like how i missed all the beauty of the city of chicago because i was so busy studying bullsh*t philosophy.

anyone ever read Drew's original plot threads for the series?

there was a reason Dark Energy was foreboding in ME2

Having never even heard of Hegel before you mentioned him, could you elaborate on that one please?

Whelp bioware announced a clarity "extended cut" dlc, which wasnt what anyone asked for

Ending needed to remove the entire 3 choice pillar and the goddamn god child, no amount of "clarification" will fix those abominations

Uggh at least kingdoms of amalur was awesome

Sorry mate, but im far to invested in my vidya games to let things go, so i bitch about them, especially when its a series like mass effect, one of which i even own a bunch of merchandise from

I've done that too, and gamefaqs, and /linkshell, and teamspeak

way too invested...

(: have to admit there's some irony in that statement, given the board we're all posting on here.

What's this 'buy' word you keep using?


Edited, Apr 6th 2012 3:49am by Raelix

Considering that most of the DRK Club regulars have moved on from FFXI, the irony has less impact than it otherwise would.

Happy birthday to me.

Yeah, happens to me every now and then. I just think back to the last time I logged back in to realize I hadn't saved my macros since the first day that feature was released and that the entire game apparently now revolves around the latest expansion I don't have yet. On top of that none of my friends play anymore and my server is gone.


HAPPY BIRFDAY lolmaster

Hapop Boydart Faramir!

Yeah, all the people I know moved on when I moved on, so there's every point in me staying with EVE and no point in me coming back to FFXI.

happy belated birtday.

i get nostalgia for ffxi sometimes. never really want to go back to it though. felt closure (pahn's "adventurer" days are over, and he belongs to a time before you were anything beyond level 75).

and re: letting a game dominate your life, while i don't regret, i'll freely admit that i played an astronomical amount of ffxi when i could have been doing other, more productive things.

Doing homework is overrated.

led zeppelin's no quarter blasting, steaks on the grill, on my third fanta and vodka (2.5 shots each, we don't bullsh*t round here), full on nostalgia bomb in effect ~

and happy birthday, @#%^er <3

I can't think of anything more worthy of a holiday!

My current project is trying to train a new puppy to stop responding to the name "Kitty" that my daughter has given him.

It's not going so good.

HA. She's got a new nickname now.

Get Chrome then...

And turn sound off or get Dev channel, because it now crashes Stable as well. I don't know how they broke it.

You're welcome.