Giant Bomb Thread The Third: #TeamBrad

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In that spirit, going back to the roguelike discussion, I think they should be called 'dieovers.' Because you start over when you die, and it has a nice association with the phrase do over.
 
FTL has potential and it still is a good game, got a good 10+ hours out of it and I'm still not bored of it. There's just too much of the same happening
 
100+ hours

I was determined to beat it on normal, and I was in the beta so every time I would get about 20 hours in the version would update and there would be all new wonderful goodies
 
terrdactycalsrock said:
I never played ME3 because my save profile wouldnt transfer. Can someone please spoil the ending for me and tell me what the hatred for the ending is?
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Look no further:

EmCeeGramr said:
A magical glowing child comes out of nowhere to tell you that it created the bad guys for the purpose of killing everything in the galaxy to save everything in the galaxy, and gives you three incredibly contrived and vague ending options that border on space magic, to solve a philosophical problem you may have already solved in your playthrough.

Cue three "different" endings that are mostly the same outside of the color of a laser beam and minor visual changes; several things that don't make any logical sense happen; nothing about the fate of any of the people and races you met and influenced is revealed; you could interpret the ending as the destruction of the Mass Effect setting but it was unclear if that was intentional or not; Buzz Aldrin badly voice acting an old man who reveals that all this time the series was him telling his grandson an old story about a legendary figure known as "the Shepard"; and the series ends on a message telling you "thanks for playing, buy DLC."
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EmCeeGramr said:
It gets better when you realize that the guys who wrote the ending clearly were thinking more about some vague "meaningful" message than the universe they spent so long building up.

Why did the Normandy crash land on a Garden of Eden jungle planet? Why is it so triumphantly framed when they have no idea what the fuck is going on? How did your squadmates who disappeared on the ground suddenly get up on the ship? Wait, won't Tali and Garrus starve since they can't eat the same food? Wait, what about the multi-species fleets around Earth? Aren't they stuck there for decades or centuries now, orbiting a nearly ruined planet? How can the choices about entire species' fates even matter if they can't even travel across the galaxy any more to make those choices meaningful? Why does the Catalyst have more options if your fleet if bigger? Why does Destroy kill all the Reapers, but also the geth, but not EDI who is made out of Reaper software? How come Destroy can't distinguish between different types of synthetics, but Control does, just affecting Reapers? How does Shepard jumping into a laser beam send his/her "essence" across the galaxy to make everyone into cyborgs? Wait, why does the Catalyst call Shepard partly synthetic, when "synthetic" in Mass Effect specifically means artificial intelligence, not mechanical bodies, and only a few hours before EDI told Shepard that his/her mind is totally organic? When the Reapers consider synthetic life as a threat, do they just mean robot people? What about clones or genetically engineered races? Because they just talk about robots. How does turning everyone into cyborgs stop the threat of robots taking over and killing everyone? Can cyborgs not make robots now? Because otherwise the same philosophy of creations overthrowing creators stands. What, did all the metal in the galaxy turn into meat or something, like how all the life in the galaxy has wires on it now? Why does Joker's hat have circuits on it? Why does EDI have circuits on her skin, she was already a robot, did she become a double robot? If the mass relays all blew up and Arrival says that's like a supernova, did you just kill everyone in the galaxy near a relay? If not, why not? Was it a special controlled explosion triggered by the color-coded laser beams? Why? Why does Shepard never question anything the Catalyst says? Why does the Catalyst still act as though synthetic and organic life are incompatible if you guided EDI and Joker to fall in love, and brought the quarians and geth peace? Why did Sovereign and Harbinger not seem to know anything about this "preserving organic life" motivation in Mass Effect 1 and Mass Effect 2? They seemed to think it was all about destruction or Reaper reproduction. If the Reaper AI lives in the Citadel, why does Sovereign have to open up the Citadel's relay in ME1 to let the other Reapers in? Why didn't the Reapers just modify the Citadel to stop the Crucible from attaching? What, they didn't know about it? They're a race that specializes in taking over people's minds, they never found out about it in over a billion years? Why were there two power terminals connected to the Reapers on board the Citadel all this time? Did nobody know what they were? Or study them? Why is this old space grandpa in the future telling this graphic tale of sex and violence to his grandson? Is Shepard space Jesus now? Was the whole trilogy a very inappropriate bedtime story? Why did they decide to have the farewell message be a pop-up asking you to buy DLC?


whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy /plinkett


And then the Extended Cut tried to answer these questions with a mixture of
the Catalyst outright saying, "Oh, that's not important and there's no time to explain," implying that the Catalyst is insane so that's why its motivations make no sense, outright retconning the relays blowing the fuck up and instead showing them sort of falling apart with little explosions so they could be repaired like a month later so galactic society goes right back to normal.
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I'll be that guy; I really wanted to give FTL a go, but was waiting for what I thought was the inevitable iOS port...

... I'm still waiting, even though it has been cheap on Steam for awhile now.

If it cheap again during the upcoming summer winter Steam sale, I'll probably just take the plunge
and then never play it :(
 
GOTY podcasts are entertaining but I'm much more interested in individual GOTY lists. From listening to the overall GOTY discussions over the years, there are too many compromises that have to be made and there are too many games that not everyone had an opportunity to play to mean much to me. I like the personal, uninfluenced top lists of games each has actually played.
 
Felix Lighter said:
GOTY podcasts are entertaining but I'm much more interested in individual GOTY lists. From listening to the overall GOTY discussions over the years, there are too many compromises that have to be made and there are too many games that not everyone had an opportunity to play to mean much to me. I like the personal, uninfluenced top lists of games each has actually played.
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I'm more looking forward to seeing how dumb the videos will get this year.
 
Santiako said:
I assume they are going to be made in that wrestling game.
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I bet Jeff will do something like that but live action. Jeff playing multiple characters in the same scene with different clothes/makeup ala Norbit/Meet Dave, that kind of fucking dumb stuff.

MAKE THIS HAPPEN!
 
ViewtifulJC said:
Mass Effect 3 played pretty well with KB/M. The higher framerate helped, too!

>_>

*cough*
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The KB/M controls are nice, but no substitute for a gamepad when you want to play the game on a TV. I find it absolutely baffling that Bioware's PC versions don't support controllers. They actually put effort into giving you fewer options. They removed the icons from the power and weapon wheels in the PC version of Mass Effect 2 so that the radial menu isn't fully functional with modding.
 
I just noticed this question on Jeff's Tumblr:

Who would I contact with regards to my premium account? It seems as if the support page email is largely ignored or inaccessible. I've been told to message you guys on Twitter, but I imagine its very easy to overlook most messages.

The contact info on the support page is still accurate and, more importantly, will go to the right people. Messaging us on Twitter is probably a pretty bad way to go about it because most of the staff doesn’t have any access to the billing/membership tools.
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Is he really unaware of the fact that plenty of support e-mails sent to GiantBomb seem to remain unanswered? We've had quite a few complaints to that effect in this very thread, with the default suggestion to actually get an issue raised (because e-mailing support is a futile effort) being to Twitter message Dave's personal account.

I never got my problem fixed by their support "team" (if there even is one) myself. As a site taking money for services, they really should brush up their problem solving process.
 
Yup, I never got ANY response to my billing emails, and as a result was re-subscribed for another year when I didn't want to be and actually caused me a financial issue. I finally got my CC removed, and will not resub in the future for that very reason regardless of any content that they put up.
 
SailorDaravon said:
Yup, I never got ANY response to my billing emails, and as a result was re-subscribed for another year when I didn't want to be and actually caused me a financial issue. I finally got my CC removed, and will not resub in the future for that very reason regardless of any content that they put up.
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I remember that. I'm disappointed that you did not at least get a response. I would think even if it's outside of his control, Jeff would want to at least contact whoever is responsible for the billing side of things and customer service to find out what is happening because, apparently, paying customers aren't getting very good support and have nowhere else to turn.
 
Felix Lighter said:
I remember that. I'm disappointed that you did not at least get a response. I would think even if it's outside of his control, Jeff would want to at least contact whoever is responsible for the billing side of things and customer service to find out what is happening because, apparently, paying customers aren't getting very good support and have nowhere else to turn.
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It seems odd, I had a similar enquiry(it was about an auto-renewal even though I had bought a code in one of their sales) & I received a reply from Ryan resolving my issue within a week.
 
Ugh, this sucks. I really want to play Mass Effect 3 before this week's podcast and GOTY deliberations begin, but I won't be able to sit down with it until around the 20th. Hopefully someone here can timestamp the ME3 discussion.
 
Cerebral Assassin said:
It seems odd, I had a similar enquiry(it was about an auto-renewal even though I had bought a code in one of their sales) & I received a reply from Ryan resolving my issue within a week.
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Was this recently or still at Whiskey Media (Whiskey support worked quite well and efficiently)? Did you mail their support form (never got any response while at CBSi from that)?

I love that GiantBomb's support site still lists their Whiskey Media address - really shows how serious they are about solving issues: support@whiskeymedia.com
https://auth.giantbomb.com/support/?from_site=giant-bomb
 
netBuff said:
Was this recently or still at Whiskey Media (Whiskey support worked quite well and efficiently)? Did you mail their support form (never got any response while at CBSi from that)?

I love that GiantBomb's support site still lists their Whiskey Media address - really shows how serious they are about solving issues: support@whiskeymedia.com
https://auth.giantbomb.com/support/?from_site=giant-bomb
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Heh, took them almost a year before they created a new skype account to use during the live shows instead of the WhiskeyMedia one.... You know, it takes sooooo long to create a new skype account!
 
GB is slow as shit these days. Can hardly watch any videos. This ILM is pausing every 20 seconds.

so sad being a subcriber and having to watch their videos on youtube.
 
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