On May 14, 3:14 pm, meatnub <meat...@gmail.com> wrote:
> So is anyone looking forward to this game? I just found out about it > today.
> Should we expect another buggy RPG from Bioware? Or something > revolutionary and fun.
> I'm intrigued by the space element....
Bioware buggy? I think you're thinking of another company. So far I haven't experienced one bug myself from any Bioware product I've played in any platform. And they're certainly not known for being particularly buggy that I know of. In any case, it being a console port, I'm not too enthusiastic about it, but I'll check it out.
> On May 14, 3:14 pm, meatnub <meat...@gmail.com> wrote: >> So is anyone looking forward to this game? I just found out about it >> today.
>> Should we expect another buggy RPG from Bioware? Or something >> revolutionary and fun.
>> I'm intrigued by the space element....
> Bioware buggy? I think you're thinking of another company. So far I > haven't experienced one bug myself from any Bioware product I've > played in any platform. And they're certainly not known for being > particularly buggy that I know of. > In any case, it being a console port, I'm not too enthusiastic about > it, but I'll check it out.
Well, to be fair, Mass Effect _IS_ bugged, at least the XBox360 version I played contains some bug, not big deals game stopping bugs, but ittitating nontheless.
For 1, when you are on the Star Map Control platform of the Normandy, if you turn around quickly while closing the star map, you could get stucked outside of the platform (magically translated outside the edge of the platform, into a non-movable area), resulting a situation where your only solution is to quit the game and lose any unsaved progress.
Another more deadly bug, is that if you save your game while in an elevator in one of the planet (forgot the name already), and quit the game while in the elevator, your save will be corrupted and upon loading the save, you'll be trapt in the elevator forever. If you do not have an earlier save (lets pray you DO save every 5 minutes) in another slot, the result will be Re-Starting the game from squre one.
there are many more bugs that escaped my memory at the moment, since I have stopped playing if for months.
so, don't be so sure about what you haven't set your claws on, pal, even if it's bretherens have not suffered from any of the flaws.
> So is anyone looking forward to this game? I just found out about it > today.
> Should we expect another buggy RPG from Bioware? Or something > revolutionary and fun.
> I'm intrigued by the space element....
you can try looking at the reviews for the XBox360 version to get an idea of how it is. It's not revolutionary, but it's on par with other Bioware products. A little buggy, which I would bet were ironed out for the PC version release. I'd say it's KoTOR sans the Force, and much better graphics, and a lot of shooting.
On Thu, 15 May 2008, Master Baiter wrote: > I'd say it's KoTOR sans the Force, and much better graphics, and a lot > of shooting.
Speaking of which, I tried KoTOR recently and stopped right after becoming a Jedi because the combat is so clunky with pure stat based fighting which ends up with e.g blaster duells where enemies fire right into the ground at targets only meters apart which looks absolutely stupid. I reinstalled the old Jedi Academy in between and had a blast actually fighting myself again. So is Mass Effect combat like KoTOR or hybrid like e.g. Bloodlines?
-- Werner Spahl (sp...@cup.uni-muenchen.de) Freedom for "The meaning of my life is to make me crazy" Vorlonships
On May 15, 9:09 am, Werner Spahl <sp...@cup.uni-muenchen.de> wrote:
> On Thu, 15 May 2008, Master Baiter wrote: > > I'd say it's KoTOR sans the Force, and much better graphics, and a lot > > of shooting.
> Speaking of which, I tried KoTOR recently and stopped right after becoming > a Jedi because the combat is so clunky with pure stat based fighting which > ends up with e.g blaster duells where enemies fire right into the ground > at targets only meters apart which looks absolutely stupid. I reinstalled > the old Jedi Academy in between and had a blast actually fighting myself > again. So is Mass Effect combat like KoTOR or hybrid like e.g. Bloodlines?
For each its own. That's the reason why I *liked* KoToR. In a real RPG, stats should be everything, as they were in KoToR. Problem is that maybe present and future, in which there's almost no skill needed to fire a pistol or a blaster, is not the best setting for pure RPGs, not like medieval times in which, even if you were right next to me with a sword in hand, you would easily 'miss' me.
On 2008-05-15, Werner Spahl <sp...@cup.uni-muenchen.de> wrote:
> On Thu, 15 May 2008, Master Baiter wrote: >> I'd say it's KoTOR sans the Force, and much better graphics, and a lot >> of shooting. > Speaking of which, I tried KoTOR recently and stopped right after becoming > a Jedi because the combat is so clunky with pure stat based fighting which > ends up with e.g blaster duells where enemies fire right into the ground > at targets only meters apart which looks absolutely stupid. I reinstalled > the old Jedi Academy in between and had a blast actually fighting myself > again. So is Mass Effect combat like KoTOR or hybrid like e.g. Bloodlines?
Mass Effect has more shooter-like combat where your own reflexes and accuracy play a part, unlike KOTOR. (Personally I prefer the KOTOR approach)
On Thu, 15 May 2008, Paul Murray wrote: > Mass Effect has more shooter-like combat where your own reflexes and > accuracy play a part, unlike KOTOR. (Personally I prefer the KOTOR
Good to hear, because I'm coming at the RPGs from the FPS direction. I agree with the other poster that a pure stat approach may be better for medieval settings but it really looks stupid with blaster weapons :).
-- Werner Spahl (sp...@cup.uni-muenchen.de) Freedom for "The meaning of my life is to make me crazy" Vorlonships
> On May 14, 12:14 pm, meatnub <meat...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > So is anyone looking forward to this game? I just found out about it > > today.
> > Should we expect another buggy RPG from Bioware? Or something > > revolutionary and fun.
> > I'm intrigued by the space element....
> Not buggy, Bioware's other software is not buggy (compared to the > average high profile PC game).
> I played ME on the 360 and it was great.
Well I don't mean to flame Bioware for being buggy in general. I just kind of remember not being happy with Baldur's Gate for something buggy. So, I do retract and don't mean to say Bioware is buggy as a whole.
