The Librarian
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Mass Effect |OT| Alien love in an elevator
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funkmasterb
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Bioshock was amazing! Also, indiana jones and the fate of atlantis still holds its own as strongest story, and best pacing.
Futurevoid
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Boy do I disagree. The story in Bioshock (the genetic war) isn't exactly original but the narrative is strong and the use of the audio diaries conceptually continues what Irrational started in System Shock 2. It presents the story in a fashion that asks the gamer to participate instead of watching cutscene after cutscene. A cutscene only being used in the most important scene of the game and symbolically showing theAnihawk said:
lack of control the main character has over his actions
Futurevoid said:
Half-Life 2 did it first and better, with exception for the audio books, which were what the scanning in Metroid Prime should've been (I liked the audio books).
Bioshock is what happens when you focus too much on presentation and not enough on actual game design. I thought the art was fantastic, and the setting was, for this genre, really damn original. Good music and sound and all that. I just got tired of respawning enemies, zero challenge, and repetitious level design. To be fair to the story, it would've had to've been really compelling to push me past all that.
Futurevoid
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Alrighty then. Half Life 2 did what first and better? Present an interactive cutscene? That's fantastic but how does it speak to the quality of Bioshocks narrative? Half Life 2 may have done it first but better is entirely debateable. Yes - opinion. It is indeed a bitch.
Bioshock and Half Life 2 outside of both being shooters have such different design goals I'm not even sure how the comparison is remotely apt in this conversation.(and the insertion of Metroid is out of left field as well while we're at it). I love Half Life 2 - it's a remarkable game. I also happen to love Bioshock - it's also a remarkable game for very different reasons.
I'll just have to agree to disagree on that remark as we could end up in a circular argument that won't change anyones mind. In the end I'll just say that Bioshock is what happens when quality game design is married with a superb setting and quality storytelling to boot.
I'm perfectly ok with saying that Bioshock has its issues. Most of which occurs in the latter third of the game. I'm also ok with saying Half Life 2 has its issue as well (brace yourselves fanboys). Most any level involving a vehicle for me personally. Also you remove the follow-up episodes during its initial release and its ending left a great deal to be desired.
Regardless, no way would I consider either game to be "average" or lacking in game design. They are both two fantastic examples of quality gaming an extremely saturated genre IMHO.
I'll leave the conversation at that since the thread is about Mass Effect and I don't wish to derail it any further.
Kill Your Masters
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Damn it why did I have to watch this damn video...now I want to go back to ME again and cancel the NGII order...DAMN!dejan said:
Apologies if this is old..
http://www.pcgameshardware.de/aid,645004/Test/Benchmark/PCGH_Performance_Review_Mass_Effect/
Mass Effect PC seems to run best on the ATI 3870..
Go figure
http://www.pcgameshardware.de/aid,645004/Test/Benchmark/PCGH_Performance_Review_Mass_Effect/
Mass Effect PC seems to run best on the ATI 3870..
Go figure
MrTroubleMaker
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thanks!!Jide said:
looks like my graphics card should handle it
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AniHawk said:
Haha, yeah, I chose for him to
stay behind and die on the final planet
Those are poor benchmarking results for a UE3 game. Still, a steady 30fps for 8800GT and above at near-1080p resolution, max detail, and 16xAF isn't the end of the world for a game like this.
I wonder how it'll run on a 280GTX, though those 9800GX2 numbers are not exactly promising. My copy of the game will arrive today but I'd consider holding off playing until the new cards come out if I could somehow get 1080p/60fps. Meh.
I wonder how it'll run on a 280GTX, though those 9800GX2 numbers are not exactly promising. My copy of the game will arrive today but I'd consider holding off playing until the new cards come out if I could somehow get 1080p/60fps. Meh.
nelsonroyale
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EviLore said:
yeah, very poor performance...bioshock seems to run much nicer...still, Ill have this game in my hands soon to find out
Kill Your Masters
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@the new book: why did I thought that there is a Geth on the cover all the time. I just notice its clearly an Quarian (Tali perhaps?) So can we expect some more insight in the Galactica errr I mean Quarian flotilla.
Revolutionary
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Game is unlocked for D2D download now... connection is shit, though. Probably won't be done until tonight.
Is there any advantage to getting it up from D2D? I am buying it today at Gamestop. I got it for $40. You can still get it at that price as long as you preorder before noon.Revolutionary said:
On second thought... Its $50 on D2D, and you wont even get to play it today, and have to download it again everytime you reformat. I don't see how this could be an advantage.
diffusionx
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Well, its not like it ran that great on the 360 either.
Revolutionary
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I pre-ordered it for $40, same price as in physical stores, looks like they bumped it up to $50 just now.Crovax33 said:
Also, the download speed is finally going fast (1-1.5mbps), should be done in an hour and change.
See, it's not all bad!
gregor7777
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Ventrue said:
I prefer ME, largely because of the setting.
Hellraizer said:
Certainly a piece of the story I want to see more of in ME2. The Quarians (the one we met) had one of the coolest back stories in the game IMO.
MrTroubleMaker
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nice!!!
Im going to be installing this in a little bit
Im going to be installing this in a little bit
Dark Octave
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I was gonna get it day one, but that's actually a great idea.Ghost said:
I found that even though the book helped familliarize me with the ME universe, it really didn't have too big of an impact on the game's plot. And seeing as how the game is pretty open ended, I'm guessing this book will be pretty vague in any specifics of what happened before it. But I'm still going to be all up in it when ME2 is close to release though.
Monsterland
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Can someone playing with maxed out settings, post some screenshots please!
nelsonroyale
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Crovax33 said:
hehe, well I am playing crysis on cuban config level 4 settings, which looks alot better than mass effect, so I am expecting little problems
I won't be able to pick this up until tomorrow man. I can't wait to install. After downloading Soulstorm a few months back, I'm done with the digital distro for a little while. It not being on Steam doesn't help much either, but 9.some GB, no thanks mate.
I should be able to run it pretty well on my laptop, maybe at 1280x800, medium details.
I'll post the results for those interested tomorrow. T7250 + 8600mGT + 3GB RAM= ?????
edit - nice screens :O
I should be able to run it pretty well on my laptop, maybe at 1280x800, medium details.
I'll post the results for those interested tomorrow. T7250 + 8600mGT + 3GB RAM= ?????
edit - nice screens :O
Guy Legend
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Any chance for a PC demo?
Think I'll pick this up down the road when it hits $30.
Think I'll pick this up down the road when it hits $30.
nelsonroyale
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what laptop do you have?K.Jack said:
scarybore
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Looks nice in those pictures, but the grain filter doesn't look to hot in stills.
Sorry if it has already been answered, but how are they dealing with the elevator loading sequences on the PC version? Keeping them as they were in the 360 version or have they been shortened?
I'm still not sure wether I will buy this upon UK release, I still don't like the copy protection in use and would rather wait till a crack is made so I can avoid the issue entirely, but I really love Mass Effect and would love to play it on my new PC and hopefully avoid some of the technical issues that the 360 version had and that may force my hand.
Sorry if it has already been answered, but how are they dealing with the elevator loading sequences on the PC version? Keeping them as they were in the 360 version or have they been shortened?
I'm still not sure wether I will buy this upon UK release, I still don't like the copy protection in use and would rather wait till a crack is made so I can avoid the issue entirely, but I really love Mass Effect and would love to play it on my new PC and hopefully avoid some of the technical issues that the 360 version had and that may force my hand.