turbopenguin
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gg sanjuro. those 17mph winds were absolutely brutal! thank god hillis had some good runs.
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Official Xbox 360 Madden '12 Online Franchise Thread OT2 Mr Peyton Goes To Washington
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Big L was better than both!
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Nah Biggie was.
I can't wait to play you again after our close games. I feel like a round robin tournament between all of us would be fun.
CB, any chance of playing again sometime?
Daaaamn. 12 minutes? What was the final? 10 min. is the longest I've played but yesterday's was my first since back in like 2k8-2k9 days when they had that "hardcore" option. I used to roll with the best Big 3 then (Gilbert, Butler, and Jamison).
Anyway, I'm definitely down for tomorrow.
FrenchMovieTheme
Member
where's my boy matt carroll at these days!?
Yeah I got dumped on that game like I was possessed by FMT. Couldn't do anything right on offense or defense!
turbopenguin
Neo Member
Browns guy, I can play tomorrow night.
sounds good, I'll be on around 7pm est, maybe earlier.
we wont be advancing that early.
FrenchMovieTheme
Member
Mastershake u gon be round tonight?
Yea, I don't think we'll be advanced until 11 EST or so. I'll probably be around at 11:30 or 12, add me on Live, TJ Ram.
mastershake
Member
Yep, after the gym so 430pst... Wanna do two games back to back? I need a fill in for the bills anyways
goldlion054
Member
Congrats dude
As long as the second game starts by 11 est
Thanks, Luke. How did things turn out at home?
Browns guy, I can play tomorrow night.
I can play tomorrow night.
I should be able to if we are advancing at 11 est.
Eatchildren brought up an interesting point a couple days ago, saying that Mass Effect didn't feel like it was developed with a trilogy in mind, at least story-wise. Every game's major plot is self contained and the only aspects that carry over are rather minor in the grand scheme of things.
It was certainly designed as a trilogy, BioWare just has shitty writers.
I agree with both points. It felt like it was made for a trilogy but that it wasn't written with a good, complete, final direction. ME1 wouldn't have mentioned that
Sovereign was a reaper and that they are a race of synthetics, yadda yadda yadda
Anyways, I have to think about it but this may have been my favorite series. Halo and Half Life are awesome but this was just soo good.
The reason it probably feels that way, is because they were probably challenged to make sure that someone could pick up the second one without presupposing that players had the knowledge or experience from the first one.
I imagine there's pressure from the publishing side to make sure "each one has more players than the other" which really only exacerbates the story problem you're describing.
Tough problem for them to solve.
goldlion054
Member
Bingo
Gears of War 2 didn't bother to explain part 1 did it? Pretty much picked up right after part 1. I haven't played Gears 3 so I don't know if it gave a recap of the first two. Poor excuse if you ask me.
Someone at Bioware (or EA?) issued the decree that the game be changed to be more of a shooter like Gears or Halo after the first one sold good, but not gangbusters. I mean, come on, the TV commercial for part 3? I was expecting "FINISH THE FIGHT" to appear. Um, I already saved Urf with Master Chief, why am I doing it with Shepard now?
Wasn't the point of Mass Effect about exploring the galaxy with conversational dialogue with decisions that truly change the storyline? Only one game has done that well--Alpha Protocol. And no one knows about it. Because of people like the guy who decreed that Mass Effect gets turned into a shooter.
I really can't speak to the high level directional changes in Mass Effect, and I shouldn't really speculate as to why the franchise has evolved the way it has. It has certainly become more of a shooter - and it's become a steadily more capable shooter in each iteration - over the years.
What I will say, is that I felt like after attempting to establish a broad and expansive universe in the first two games, it feels extremely myopic to put the story's fulcrum on Saving Earth.
DCX
DCX
That ending was too disappointing for me and I was really looking forward to it since recently replaying ME1. But the problem is that there wasn't any conclusion.
Yeah, I completely understand why they wrote it that way. It just leaves me more frustrated in how they had the potential to create a story with multiple arcs across 3 games. Instead we get the reapers over and over again.
Guess me and Smokey should play. Let me know when smokey, anytime after 5 cst should be fine.
Totally agree. The last moments contradict the plot of the series.
Heads up to Goldy and Sanjo, I'm crunching at work - and will be for the next few weeks - which means I'm working from 8 a.m.-8 p.m. Pacific during the week.
Ideally, I'll be able to play both games in back-to-back days on the weekend, pending the advance schedule or I could play once I'm home during the week. But I know that's late as fuck East Coast time
Ideally, I'll be able to play both games in back-to-back days on the weekend, pending the advance schedule or I could play once I'm home during the week. But I know that's late as fuck East Coast time