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[JeffZero]

Nevara wrote...

Speaking of old school, does anyone remember those old games for the Atari that had the little switches that you'd flip up and down in different patterns to get a different game and there were like 20-30 games on the cartridge. That is nostalgia at its finest.

I still find myself playing games from the SNES and NES days via modulator. I only wish I had some of my PS1 games around. The cost of having younger siblings I guess.

I'm afraid Atari's before my time, actually, but I have friends who would probably be nodding along merrily if they were here.

[AkiKishi]

JeffZero wrote...

Farbautisonn wrote...

Hmnn... I still install and play games like PS:T, Heroes of Might and magic 3 (plus expansions). Command and Conquer, and even the original Battlechess sometimes. Wore out my copy of "Freelancer".... A game that actually isnt that far from ME in its story. If I had a copy of "Syndicate" id play that too. Star wars rebellion is also a game I like. All games that have 7-10ish years of history and look like crap, but games that had excellent stories to back them.

You had me at Planescape. Hell yes.

New Syndicate.... I'm not really that bothered about things being different as long as they are good. Syndicate was not.

New Xcom is out same day as ME3.

[AkiKishi]

Nevara wrote...

Speaking of old school, does anyone remember those old games for the Atari that had the little switches that you'd flip up and down in different patterns to get a different game and there were like 20-30 games on the cartridge. That is nostalgia at its finest.

I still find myself playing games from the SNES and NES days via modulator. I only wish I had some of my PS1 games around. The cost of having younger siblings I guess.

Closest I got was the Sega/Namco collection on PSP.

[Justicar]

Well this thread has been exciting.

Not bothered by PS3 issues or minigame.

[Wulfram]

Farbautisonn wrote...


-Sure. If you cant be bothered and want everything served on a plate instead of keeping in with the lore and immersion.

There's nothing immersive about Shepard taking time out from saving the galaxy to trawl for random trash.

[Nevara]

JeffZero wrote...

Nevara wrote...

Speaking of old school, does anyone remember those old games for the Atari that had the little switches that you'd flip up and down in different patterns to get a different game and there were like 20-30 games on the cartridge. That is nostalgia at its finest.

I still find myself playing games from the SNES and NES days via emulator. I only wish I had some of my PS1 games around. The cost of having younger siblings I guess.

I'm afraid Atari's before my time, actually, but I have friends who would probably be nodding along merrily if they were here.

It's just strange when I realize how I pretty much dated myself.   
However, it is nice to see the leaps and bounds that have taken place in such a short time.  There's still games on the PC I play where the characters were represented with a letter, but the story was compelling enough to continue playing.

[DenizYe]

Thank you for sharing those videos OP!
And I'm so excited. Can't wait to play it myself. And the graphics are really looking better on mars than on earth (demo). I think we will become accustom to these new running animations.

[AlphaJarmel]

Yea IGN's wiki page talks about scanning in more detail:

http://www.ign.com/w...ct-3/Galaxy_Map

Sigh.

Modifié par AlphaJarmel, 25 février 2012 - 11:03 .

[Nevara]

BobSmith101 wrote...

Nevara wrote...

Speaking of old school, does anyone remember those old games for the Atari that had the little switches that you'd flip up and down in different patterns to get a different game and there were like 20-30 games on the cartridge. That is nostalgia at its finest.

I still find myself playing games from the SNES and NES days via modulator. I only wish I had some of my PS1 games around. The cost of having younger siblings I guess.

Closest I got was the Sega/Namco collection on PSP.

Strangely, I never really got into Sega.  There were times when it was great, but then that flooding of hardware became almost pointless when some of the games required 'x' amount of peripherals to be involved.  Graphically it was gorgeous for the time but in the end that wasn't enough to save it.

[FluffyScarf]

Sounds better than ME 2's method. I fell asleep driving the Mako and scanning for minerals.

Modifié par FluffyScarf, 25 février 2012 - 11:06 .

[noxpanda]

Anyone else having issues with sound on these vids?

[Farbautisonn]

Wulfram wrote...

Farbautisonn wrote...


-Sure. If you cant be bothered and want everything served on a plate instead of keeping in with the lore and immersion.

There's nothing immersive about Shepard taking time out from saving the galaxy to trawl for random trash.

-Shepard is a DEVGRU/SEAL team six operative with no intelligence service to back him up. So he has to do his own recondo. Not really logical but hey.... there it is.

[JeffZero]

Nevara wrote...

JeffZero wrote...

Nevara wrote...

Speaking of old school, does anyone remember those old games for the Atari that had the little switches that you'd flip up and down in different patterns to get a different game and there were like 20-30 games on the cartridge. That is nostalgia at its finest.

I still find myself playing games from the SNES and NES days via emulator. I only wish I had some of my PS1 games around. The cost of having younger siblings I guess.

I'm afraid Atari's before my time, actually, but I have friends who would probably be nodding along merrily if they were here.

It's just strange when I realize how I pretty much dated myself.   
However, it is nice to see the leaps and bounds that have taken place in such a short time.  There's still games on the PC I play where the characters were represented with a letter, but the story was compelling enough to continue playing.

Mm, yeah, true that. The rare games with genuinely gripping stories are timeless things, I think.

Also, responding to another post of yours, a more recent post: I hear ya on Sega. I was a kid, but I had a Genesis and I was stoked. But looking back, man, Sega really went crazy with those peripherals and multiple system launches and... eesh, connecting the dots on how they backed out of the console business isn't so tough.

Anyway, I'm signin' off for the night. Fun chatting with you all.

[AllThatJazz]

BobSmith101 wrote...

Nevara wrote...

Speaking of old school, does anyone remember those old games for the Atari that had the little switches that you'd flip up and down in different patterns to get a different game and there were like 20-30 games on the cartridge. That is nostalgia at its finest.

I still find myself playing games from the SNES and NES days via modulator. I only wish I had some of my PS1 games around. The cost of having younger siblings I guess.

Closest I got was the Sega/Namco collection on PSP.

A particular shareware version of tetris on the Amiga was my favourite. The music alone wouldn't get out of my head, and I had some crazy tetris-inspired dreams. I had a collection of Amiga games with a converter until a while ago, but I couldn't get it working on Win7

OT: I kind of like the idea of lengthy reviews in progress. I don't trust IGN on its own any more than other reviewer, but there often ends up being a sort of critical mass of opinion which is more accurate than single reviews. (Not always - I remember thinking reviews of Alpha Protocol were unnecessarily harsh). Didn't think there was going to be anything mind-blowingly good or awful about the 'new' planet scanning - and to be honest I'm one of the very few people in the world who didn't hate planet scanning anyway - so I'm quite content. A lot like the old system with the addition of a few reapers to pootle away from.  

Modifié par AllThatJazz, 25 février 2012 - 11:23 .

[Farbautisonn]

BobSmith101 wrote...

New Syndicate.... I'm not really that bothered about things being different as long as they are good. Syndicate was not.

New Xcom is out same day as ME3.

The new syndicate will be a pew-pew ****efest with focus on killing stuff on the backdrop of the flimsiest possible plot background. At least the original Syndicate had an interesting storyline.

[MissOuJ]

On PS3 Issues
It's also worth noting that a few technical issues arise on the PS3 version as soon as you start playing, too. Fairly serious framerate issues plague the opening cinematic on Earth, and while this particular problem clears up as you play further through the game via future cutscenes, these hitches certainly concerned me early on. Likewise, lip-syncing is almost always off and characters sometimes appear stiff and can even flicker in and out of cutscenes when camera angles change. 

The good news is that these problems don't injure a title that relies almost entirely on its otherwise top-notch presentation. If you can get past these sorts of aesthetical hiccups, you'll find a title drowning in a deep, well-fleshed out story surrounded by intriguing characters, both familiar and unfamiliar.

Oh well, I think I can look past that... until patch.

[AlphaJarmel]

Ok I think I know how Bioware changed the scanning mechanism.

The individual planetary scan thing is if you didn't want to use the larger galaxy scan and decrease your chances of running into a Reaper.  So there is a use for the planetary scan, just not much of one.  Also interesting to note about the new galaxy scan is that it doesn't always increase the Reaper readiness meter.

Modifié par AlphaJarmel, 25 février 2012 - 11:19 .

[DarthKaldriss]

Nathan Redgrave wrote...

slimgrin wrote...

 It's truly fascinating how deep the game's fiction is, and I can tell you right now that a more compelling cross-game narrative doesn't exist. 





This guy is on crack.

Or, you know, he really does honestly like it.

   Hush you, don't you know if you actually, God forbid like the game, your a brain dead biodrone with no taste whatsoever ?  Only the haters truely know what a good game is. Tis truely a pity that none of them have the talent to make there vision of a good game become a reality and show us all just how *right* they are. 

[Clearly Balkan]

Cody211282 wrote...

Clearly Balkan wrote...

blebyu25 wrote...

Did you hear that hint of attitude Ash had with Shep on Mars? It will be interesting to see how that dynamic plays out.

She might also be perturbed to know I've been smashing out on Miranda as well. But hey, when your literally saving the galaxy, playas gon' play....amirite??

Looking forward to conslusion. Threesome ?!! 

She shot that down in the frist game, and what makes you think Maranda know how to share?

But, but, but ... I would like to share Miranda. :innocent:

[AkiKishi]

DarthKaldriss wrote...

Nathan Redgrave wrote...

slimgrin wrote...

 It's truly fascinating how deep the game's fiction is, and I can tell you right now that a more compelling cross-game narrative doesn't exist. 





This guy is on crack.

Or, you know, he really does honestly like it.

   Hush you, don't you know if you actually, God forbid like the game, your a brain dead biodrone with no taste whatsoever ?  Only the haters truely know what a good game is. Tis truely a pity that none of them have the talent to make there vision of a good game become a reality and show us all just how *right* they are. 

All in all I prefer haters. They list their reasons, you go through the list and tick off what bothers you. Rants tend to more detailed and specific than universal praise.

The game will probably end up a victim of it's own hype.

[Clearly Balkan]

FluffyScarf wrote...

Not spelling Lagrim properly unless Bethesduh releases a proper Elder Scrolls game.

Stop mentioning SKYRIM on this forum. Nobody cares what you think about this game because you bit*h 24/7 about Skyrim on BioWare forum.



YOU ARE BORING EVERYBODY. GET A LIFE. TROLL

[Clearly Balkan]

Warden130 wrote...

adamross wrote...

AHWWWWWWWWWWWW 9 days are toooooooo FAR away.

Even longer for people outside the US. Just be glad that your lucky enough you're getting it on the 6th, not the 9th.

Yep, in UK we get it on 9th !!

To qoute one Vol-Clan ... /RAGE MODE ON/ ... B-a-H !

[DenizYe]

Germany gets it on 8th Yess But I want it noww

[DaJe]

The galaxy map looks ok, comfartable and easy to use.
Although flying arround with the toy normandy and the toy reapers chasing is kinda out of place and appears unintentionally funny. I also wonder what happens wen they catch you. Does the ship vanish in a little *puff* and 8bit music plays as the screen shows GAME OVER?

Other than that I find the functionality is a decent evolution of the galaxy map.

[Bleachrude]

AlphaJarmel wrote...

JeffZero wrote...


Well, have you played the demo? Bypass is pretty straightforward now to say the least, but BioWare kept talking about how they wanted to streamline loading times and worked on that with the ME2 DLCs, because fans weren't happy with the loading screens from ME2. It seems like, at least if the demo holds weight for the final product, bypassing is... a loading screen. A several-second, 'interactive' loading screen.

Which sounds lame as hell, but if it masks loading times routinely as well as it did on Sur'kesh, I don't know that I mind.

Yea I played the demo and was wondering if they completely scrapped those minigames as was thinking it might have been left out for space restriction purposes.  Now I'm thinking that it's actually how it is in the game itself. There doesn't seem to be any sort of time sink minigame now which is both a good and bad thing.  Good in the sense that it doesn't get annoying after the 10th time, bad in the sense that there is nothing to break up the pacing of a mission.

It also fits into one of the more common complaints about ME2 in that if Bioware doesn't know what to do with it, they just rip it out instead of trying to improve it.

Well, from the video, they did actually try to improve the "scanning for minerals for upgrades" minigame. Will have to see for myself if it is an actual improvement or more along the lines of the the Hammerhead.aka "the improved Mako"