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[Dominus]

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Modifié par DominusVita, 05 septembre 2012 - 03:55 .

[Dominus]

Thank you for the bump commendations, It took longer than I'll admit to, and I hope people at least get something out of it.

[LPPrince]

Well done.

[Bachi1230]

Great review and love the pictures 5 star post!

[Dominus]

Thanks. By the time I had beaten my first playthrough, I'd taken about 500 pictures through fraps. Reviewed them all, selected the ones that really captured what I wanted in the review, and added them in. It was actually much easier than the live action parts, trying to get the angles and lighting right by myself without someone to take the pictures was...complicated. I'm probably the only one crazy enough to do it, so there you go. Sadly, I had to cut about half of them because they didn't fit well enough with the final review. /tear tbh

[Fiery Knight]

This guy. . . is brilliant! I couldn't stop laughing when I read this. Trully amazing work!

[Dominus]

Thanks, I still wanted to keep a little bit of my spoofiness of the olden days in the review. It's a tough line to dance between being keeping it amusing and informative simultaneously. This was definitely a labor of love. :-)

[Dominus]

So, now that the maelstrom has become a bit less chaotic, I'd like to add an update of sorts. Since the extended cut DLC will eventually release, I was curious if anyone was interested in seeing an extended Dom Com in light of the changes being made. If so, let me know.

[RyuGuitarFreak]

A well thought, believable, honest and down to Earth review. Nice review. Congratulations.

[Raizo]

Interesting. It seemed like a very fair review. I also loved the style and format in which it was done.

[Kilshrek]

Hm, well I just stumbled upon this. Quite nice, certainly a different way to present a review, and done nicely. Text can get a little cramped but that's the fault of the forum and not yours, I suspect.

I'd be interested in viewing your opnion on the new DLC. Although, 9/10? For all the issues you listed as well? Sir, I feel that score is just a shade high.

[Dominus]

A well thought, believable, honest and down to Earth review.

Thanks. My gut stays about the same with when I first did the review - it falls somewhere between high 8's and low 9's. It has the best combat in the mass effect series, but felt the least innovative outside of the combat itself.

I also loved the style and format in which it was done.

One issue with doing it this way is I can't go into as much detail on the game as I'd have available in plain old text. The upside is it has a more accessible nature to it and feels more easy to swallow than a wall of text. Plus linking videos to the comic strips is a neat trick.

[Dominus]

Although, 9/10? For all the issues you listed as well? Sir, I feel that score is just a shade high.

It can seem that way, I wanted to make sure to hammer the issues home instead of just patting BioWare on the back for everything. There's still a lot of stuff I couldn't quite add in a visually through comic strips that went well with the game. For one thing, the consequences that can play out are mind-boggling. I'd made about 10 playthroughs, and the amount of variety for each one is astonishing. Anywhere from the Lives/Deaths of squadmates to specific choices like the Genophage cure data had major influences on how ME3 played out. On the other hand, the lack of variety in choices hurt a bit. I think they were going for quality over quantity(though I believe weekes' commentary mentioned they didn't feel shepard would be going in 'the middle' over the reaper thread). The Rannoch decision(s) had significant weight to them.

Also, a lot of the issues I'd mentioned aren't as detrimental due to the shortness of them. The whole chobot thing wasn't a great idea to add in(particularly for the awful clothing choice), but she's also completely optional and avoidable. After the first playthrough, I'd had enough of Ms. Bathing Suit and gave her the boot. Human facial detail on normal NPC still lacks, but most of the game either involves homeworlds of other species, or otherwise avoids them altogether(outside of the citadel. Boring faces aplenty.) It depends how often issues like those show up.

Modifié par DominusVita, 15 avril 2012 - 12:06 .

[Arcadian Legend]

Holy hell Dom, you did good.

[The Protheans]

Good style, I like it.


Those dreams were so bad and such a waste of time.

[PseudoticA]

I like your review and your style review! (also when you lost the temper haha)

Congratz!

[Dominus]

(also when you lost the temper haha)

I did that way back in august of 2011, I still wanted to have bits of my spoofy humor added in there. I remember seeing a topic labelled "LISTEN UP BIOWARE", and I knew I had to use that in the review. I had to improvise the humor for the screenshots, but I wanted to at least prepare some ahead of time to keep things enjoyable.

Holy hell Dom, you did good.

:-) Countless hours of work paid off well. Not getting an awful lot of replies, but at least it's here and alive.

I'd be interested in viewing your opnion on the new DLC.

And it'll be interesting to see how it plays out as well. We know there will at least be cinematics involved, but difficult to tell if they have intentions to re-work some of the conversation options already there.

[Ji99saw]

Not bad

[Fredvdp]

Did you know dom com is a fiction genre? It stands for domestic comedy, a sub-genre of the sitcom.

Modifié par Fredvdp, 19 juillet 2012 - 09:40 .

[Kamfrenchie]

As far as the gameplay go, the one button does everything is sometime infuriating on pc.
Well maybe consol folks are more used to that kind of controls.

Th writing has its high and big down. The end of the Thessia mission was honestly pretty bbad, as it forces he player into a defeat agains a pathetic opponent.

Also, I'd say Cerberus is poorly done.
and plotholes ofc

[Dominus]

The end of the Thessia mission was honestly pretty bbad, as it forces he player into a defeat agains a pathetic opponent.

An interesting thought, but the entire main story arc would've gotten too much interference if you'd essentially defeated Kai Leng on Thessia. The entire mission was meant to be a defeat. Rannoch is a different story, and it's by far one of the more malleable decision points.

As far as the gameplay go, the one button does everything is sometime infuriating on pc.

Ah yes, you're referring to the awesome button. Didn't bug me as much, but it's hardly a perfect system.

Did you know dom com is a fiction genre?

I did not. Thanks for the info.

Not bad

Good to hear.

Modifié par DominusVita, 19 juillet 2012 - 08:41 .