I think that I’m going to be driving around a lot. Because I liked the Mako, dagnabbit. I liked climbing up mountains, and watching the Mako tumble down them. It amused me. I am a man of simple tastes.
Continue reading Yet another Mass Effect: Andromeda gameplay preview video.
Mass Effect: Andromeda looks… more like an RPG than ME2 and ME3 did. I really do think that they went back to the first game and took a good, hard look at it to see what worked. Which is fine by me, since I’m as much of a fan of the first game as I was the second and third one.
If you backed the Torments: Tides of Numenera Kickstarter, you should have gotten an email. If you didn’t, you can get it on Amazon here. I’m personally downloading it now and will probably give it a whirl tomorrow or something. I got a bunch of stuff to finish up tonight first.
That’s not how this works, Middle Earth: Shadow of War.
That’s not how any of this works.
I mean, did they read the books? …They didn’t read the books, did they. Also: now we know that people really can’t come back from the grave, because if they could JRR Tolkien would have over this. With CS Lewis. And a Sherman tank.
Doesn’t look like I need to replace my machine quite yet if I want to play Mass Effect: Andromeda. On the other hand, I’m running an AMD Radeon R9 280 3GB. I’m not sure how that’s going to stack up to this. On the gripping hand, I designed said machine around Witcher 3‘s recommended stats, and those stats turned out to be over-generous… Continue reading Mass Effect: Andromeda specs out.
Looks like fun. Looks like fun that may end up being a resource hog on my computer. I need to look up the Mass Effect: Andromeda specs…
Name of Jaal. He kind of looks like a space squid-cat, only all noble-like and such. …And I cannot find a single story about the character that doesn’t eventually lead into the awkward fact that hordes of Bioware fans are already trying to figure out how to have their Mass Effect: Andromeda characters have sex with him. Hell, some aren’t even bothering with ‘eventually lead:’ it’s all about the alien sexing and the players who sex ’em, right from the start. Continue reading So, there’s the new Mass Effect: Andromeda character has been announced.
I chipped in on the Kickstarter for this, mostly because I knew old-school folks who raved about The Bard’s Tale series and I figured it was worth a look-see. And it does look interesting. Combo of hex turn-based combat with a more natural look for the world. I just have to remember that there’s no main character, apparently.
Seriously. If at any point in an essay or argument you find yourself saying how players of video games (or any other amusement) need to be ‘reeducated,’ I am afraid that you have pretty much hosed your position, and you should definitely abandon it on the spot. Don’t throw good money after bad on this one, folks: you won’t be able to salvage whatever you’ve already invested anyway. Instead, you have to show some moral courage and cut your losses.
Why? Because when you’re at the point of discussing the best way to make people change their minds on something, whether they want to or not, then you are at least flirting with the idea that people are things. …That attitude rarely ends well. It certainly won’t end in ‘reeducation.’
Moe Lane
PS: If I was gonna link to the article that spawned this thought, I would have.
Oof. Time to go see what I’ve got clogging up my hard drive right now, methinks. Because I love software bloat, don’t you?
