Slow day today, I guess. So open thread. Although I think that my readers are more solicitous about not threadjacking my posts than I actually care about them threadjacking them. But, hey, tell me stuff.
But down tell me about that preorder Ogre playmap. The map’s fine, but thirteen bucks for shipping? I can wait until it’s actually being sold, thanks.
Nothing too exciting. I finished my retrospective of the Mass Effect trilogy. The second was still the quantum leap ahead for the series. The third is still great to me, only suffering mildly for the end-which I have never been bothered that much by, except for the fact that your actions did not really have much effect on the outcome. It is kind of an odd choice considering that the rest of the series is kind of based around the idea that if you do everything right and put in the work, everyone goes home at the end.
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Plus, they kind of whiffed on the Rachni storyline, eh? A big buildup, made over three games and in the end, just some war resources. Like I said, 3 has some problems.
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Andromeda is still the great story idea spoiled by implementation and story choices. Why hide the best story beats behind completionist quest lines that not everyone is going to see? Making the idea that you are trying to find out if Cerberus secretly funded the Initiative central to the storyline would be an awesome way to tie the games together. Cerberus funding the project as both a back door solution to the Reaper problem and that they may have had Gene Garson(sp?) assassinated in order to gain control of the outcome in Andromeda is pretty good stuff.
Oh, and characters. Andromeda characters are not bad, per se (although I still think Peebee is more annoying than interesting. I liked her much better in Dragon Age as Sera.) It is just that they are singularly uninteresting.
Picked up Witcher 3 GOTY in the Steam Sale ($20 for the whole shebang). It’s sprawling. I’m still mopping up quests in Velen (only level 11 so there are a few contract and hunt quests I can’t realistically do yet)
Just finished Shadowrun Hong Kong. It’s a great game if you’re a fan of turn-based tactical games. My only gripe was that it wasn’t long enough. (Of course, it could have been twice as long and I would still be disappointed. There’s no pleasing some people.)