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[Sylvius the Mad]

We have to set the price of games what they really cost and ban used game sales, or keep the status quo.

Game prices have been falling for decades.  That's a big part of the problem.

[UKStory135]

It wasn't good, but that's hardly enough to stop it from being a good RPG.

It wasn't a good RPG, but that was down to the dialogue system, which only got worse in ME2.
I definitely disagree with that. Driving the Mako around was probably the only part of that game I found genuinely fun.
I liked ME1 enough that I finished it thrice, and I did buy ME2, which I disliked enough that I didn't buy ME3.
I still think ME1 has the best RPG combat I've ever seen within a shooter interface.

ME2's was made worse by the addition of thermal clips, the contrived level design (with convenient cover everywhere - I could predict when combat was about to happen based on the sudden appearance of waist-high barriers), and the loss of stat-driven aiming.
With a squad-based game, class balance shouldn't really be necessary, except that ME2 made Shepard vastly more powerful than the squadmates (and worse, didn't document that).
I don't understand why you're talking about the menu (which was bad - but not vastly worse than KotOR's or DA2's).

I finished ME2 three times before I bought Me1. The controls of the Mako must have been two orders of magnitude better than console, because I as a player who loves driving games found them terrible. I also don't mind RPG turn based combat like in Final Fantasy. So I'd be fine with that. However, those type of games implement the loot system a heck of a lot better. My role playing self never did a biotite Shepherd, but I can see why he'd dominate ME1. I have 4 play throughs of ME1, 17 of ME2, and 3 of ME3 do I understand your criticism, though I still hate Mako's and Menus

[BioWareAre****s]

 

 

My native language isn't English, and in fact I didn't even start learning it until I was 8 years old. 
 

 

Really?! It will never cease to amaze me how non-native English speakers do it better than the English ever will.

 

Whatever you do, don't go into your bathroom and say "Multiplayer" three times. A racist, 12 year old high scool football team captain will appear and give you a wedgie, then take your lunch money and call you a nerd while threatening to bang your mom.
 

 

          Don't tell Jugger, but I think I actually love you 

[DaemionMoadrin]

Really?! It will never cease to amaze me how non-native English speakers do it better than the English ever will.

 

 

          Don't tell Jugger, but I think I actually love you 

 

 

Well, English is easy to learn. Most of us grew up learning abonimable languages like German where each grammar rule has more exceptions than the entire english language put together. (I might be exaggerating a tiny bit.) English is everywhere, you pick it up as you go.

 

Yeah... QMR is pretty awesome. I expressed the same sentiment a few days ago. ^^

[Sartoz]

 

Really?! It will never cease to amaze me how non-native English speakers do it better than the English ever will.

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LOL.

As a non-native, I believe it's a cultural attitude regarding education, for one. Something Americans had during their pioneering days but got lost today for one reason or another.

[Catastrophy]

Well, English is easy to learn. Most of us grew up learning abonimable languages like German where each grammar rule has more exceptions than the entire english language put together. (I might be exaggerating a tiny bit.) English is everywhere, you pick it up as you go.

 

Yeah... QMR is pretty awesome. I expressed the same sentiment a few days ago. ^^

Abominable? Have a look at Russian - it's Latin alive. The horror of the average learner.

[PatrickBateman]

Biovar, pliz buff the mental capacity of the SP only proponents in this thread.

[Heathen Oxman]

Biovar, pliz buff the mental capacity of the SP only proponents in this thread.

 

"Biovar?"

[JohnBorrows]

Time to take few drinks anddddd....yes people in my FL are playing ME3MP, I better go there to have fun..its boring here

[DaemionMoadrin]

Abominable? Have a look at Russian - it's Latin alive. The horror of the average learner.

 

At first I had a long list of languages, Russian among them, but I realized that there is always something worse. Russian? Hah, try Mandarin. Or Japanese. And then someone from Finland would come in and say, "Eh, those are all easy compared to mine." ;D

[Quarian Master Race]

 

Really?! It will never cease to amaze me how non-native English speakers do it better than the English ever will.

 

 

          Don't tell Jugger, but I think I actually love you 

 

Quite thank you. In fairness, I'm a bit of a perfectionist when it comes to certain things, and my typed or written English is better than my spoken.

Why would he disaprove of two grills at the same time? I'm willing to bet it has something to do with that Pyro mom of his disapproving of a quarian. Racist  .

 

At first I had a long list of languages, Russian among them, but I realized that there is always something worse. Russian? Hah, try Mandarin. Or Japanese. And then someone from Finland would come in and say, "Eh, those are all easy compared to mine." ;D

Russian is my 2nd language (after native Khelish, of course) and I'm hoping for Finnish to be my 4th eventually, but I'm not very good at it currently. I love the way it sounds, though, and the stress always being on the first syllable is interesting.

[AlanC9]

Well, English is easy to learn. Most of us grew up learning abonimable languages like German where each grammar rule has more exceptions than the entire english language put together. (I might be exaggerating a tiny bit.) English is everywhere, you pick it up as you go.

Well, it's not like English rules aren't a mass of exceptions too. But my impression is that English is a little more fault-tolerant than other languages, probably because it's such a hash of Germanic and Romance influences. It's easy to be wrong in English, but it's hard to make yourself completely incomprehensible. And if you've actually managed to master a language with some serious structure, your English is likely to be better than a native English speaker once you learn how to map your native structures onto the English equivalents.

Edit: some of the problem is how they're teaching English these days. You can get through high school without even knowing what a verb tense i, unless you take a foreign language.

[Sylvius the Mad]

At first I had a long list of languages, Russian among them, but I realized that there is always something worse. Russian? Hah, try Mandarin. Or Japanese. And then someone from Finland would come in and say, "Eh, those are all easy compared to mine." ;D

I think Japanese is one of the easier languages. That it only has two verb tenses (compared to 9 in English) takes some getting used to, but I found it much easier to pick up than French, which always gives me trouble with its overly elaborate sentence structures.

The Germanic languages (from Icelandic to English) all lend themselves to learning each other, I think. If you know one, you've got a head start on the others.

[In Exile]

Well, it's not like English rules aren't a mass of exceptions too. But my impression is that English is a little more fault-tolerant than other languages, probably because it's such a hash of Germanic and Romance influences. It's easy to be wrong in English, but it's hard to make yourself completely incomprehensible. And if you've actually managed to master a language with some serious structure, your English is likely to be better than a native English speaker once you learn how to map your native structures onto the English equivalents.

Edit: some of the problem is how they're teaching English these days. You can get through high school without even knowing what a verb tense i, unless you take a foreign language.

 

English wasn't my native language; I effectively had to pick it up my ear when my family came to NA, because school was useless in teaching it. I was fortunate that I was young enough to learn it and have a knack for foreign languages, so my accent is miminal. Depending on where I am in the English speaking world, people either think I'm from the US north-east or central Canada. 

 

I understand almost no part of English grammar. It's all just intuition. A sentence looks/sounds right, or wrong; that's all I have to go on. 

[AlanC9]

That's pretty much how we all do it.

[Geth Supremacy]

"Biovar?"

 

Da missles girl.  He was abusing the missles and got owned.  Bioware would not listen to his pleas.

[KaiserShep]

Well, it's not like English rules aren't a mass of exceptions too. But my impression is that English is a little more fault-tolerant than other languages, probably because it's such a hash of Germanic and Romance influences. It's easy to be wrong in English, but it's hard to make yourself completely incomprehensible. And if you've actually managed to master a language with some serious structure, your English is likely to be better than a native English speaker once you learn how to map your native structures onto the English equivalents.Edit: some of the problem is how they're teaching English these days. You can get through high school without even knowing what a verb tense i, unless you take a foreign language.

Yeah, you say something wrong in another language and "where's the bathroom" can turn into "your mom is a swamp hooker" or something.

[Sylvius the Mad]

That's pretty much how we all do it.

Is that why people get subjunctives wrong all the time?

While English spellings are a mess, I think people should be able to manage the syntax.

[Ghost of Abraham Lincoln]

If you poke it, the embers will glow and keep you warm. I have learned from this. I am one branch higher on the knowledge tree of life.

 

 

It has been an unusually cold summer.

[Sylvius the Mad]

It has been an unusually cold summer.

How many times do you expect that to work?

[Steelcan]

we're talking about languages?

 

One day I'll be halfway decent at learning another language.  Until then I will continue to make straight C's in my German classes and pretend my six years of Latin didn't happen.

[Sartoz]

Game prices have been falling for decades.  That's a big part of the problem.

 

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I'm sure you meant increasing for decades just to keep, at minimum,  in line with annual inflation.

[DaemionMoadrin]

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I'm sure you meant increasing for decades just to keep, at minimum,  in line with annual inflation.

 

It's even weirder if you consider the local differences. If a new game costs 50 US dollars, then it will cost 50 euros over here. No matter what the exchange rate may be. At times we paid 40% more.

[Sylvius the Mad]

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I'm sure you meant increasing for decades just to keep, at minimum, in line with annual inflation.

No, decreasing.

Inflation makes the currency worth less, not more. It's not the value of the money that's being inflated; it's the supply of that money.

If I buy something for $50 in 1990, and then buy the same thing for $50 in 2010, that means the price of that thing fell dramatically.

[Pasquale1234]

I finished ME2 three times before I bought Me1.

I bought the trilogy as a package. Loved ME1, and played through it 5 times before I started ME2, which I nearly quit after a couple of hours. If I hadn't been really invested in Shepard and wanted to continue the story, I would have bailed and never looked back.
 

The controls of the Mako must have been two orders of magnitude better than console, because I as a player who loves driving games found them terrible.

Maybe that's the reason you hated it - you were expecting it to handle like something built for a driving game. I got along very well with it, and found it a very easy transition, since driving the Mako was very much like driving Shepard.