God I hate that NOA messed up the fiction in Crashmo. Literally the worst thing ever!
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The Giant Bomb Quick Look Thread 2
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God I hate that NOA messed up the fiction in Crashmo. Literally the worst thing ever!
GOTY. It's all over.
SteveWinwood
Member
GOTF more like.
Typographenia
Member
I had seen a screenshot of that game and thought "what is this?"
Now I know.
That looks awesome. First cellphone game I've wanted to play.
Now I know.
That looks awesome. First cellphone game I've wanted to play.
it goddamn better
HamPster PamPster
Member
DAT sexy over the shoulder view!
Between this and the WiiU its only a matter of time before the Vita makes its triumph return to giant bomb dot com
bearythebear
Member
Awww, thankfully Brad wasn't there. He would be pretty grumpy with his not-iphone.
chickdigger802
Banned
spaceteam seems like the ultimate office team building exercise.
Can the Giantbomb crew just get a monopod for their flipcam videos?
It has to be a wizard's staff or a jewel encrusted sceptre.
Typographenia
Member
I don't know if you've ever flown in a spacecraft that is falling apart, but "stability" isn't a term that comes to mind to describe it.
Eh, it doesn't really bother me.
It's like they don't even care about the implications this has for my Pushmo/Pullblox/Crashmo/Fallblox fan fiction!
Crisis on Infinite Blox
Suddenly my investment of three ipods and two ipads pays off!
That is too cool. What an ingenious game.
wow, this is basically like those lil sound gadgets i had when i was a kid. totally grabbing this.
Anatoli Bacharach
Member
It irks me that they keep using the Kodak Zi8 cameras, because they have access to several new iPhones that take way better video and are just as easy to use. Better stabilization, better low-light performance, auto focus instead of the little macro switch, and just better image quality in general.
so how are they supposed to take video using the iPhones while they're playing the game with iPhones?
Not to mention that damn clicking noise it makes when it switches.
Awesome. Now I actually know how to play Planetside 2.
Hard game to QL. Should have been a TNT with the GB team running around.
funkystudent
Member
Not to be all "funkystudent wants more ps3 coverage" or anything but since Mass Effect 1 out on ps3 this week I think it would be cool if they did a QL for it and see how far the Mass Effect franchise has come.
Get brad on it since he is currently playing 3.
It would be interesting.
Get brad on it since he is currently playing 3.
It would be interesting.
randomlyrossy
Member
I would actually be interested to see the state of the PS3 version, I imagine it'll be fairly similar to the 360 one but I hope they've optimised it a bit better at least.
Haunted
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Meatvillain
Banned
Yeah, fuck good gameplay!
FTFY
SteveWinwood
Member
"good"
Story > Gameplay
Aretak
Member
I'd be amazed if anyone, ever has bought a Mass Effect game for the hot shooting action. Even Mass Effect 3 is only a passable third-person shooter from a gameplay perspective.
funkystudent
Member
Mass Effect 1 had a lot of good things about it but the part where you play it wasn't one of them. The gameplay was passable at best IMO.
Shooting and combat was lame like most shooter / RPG combos can be when you have stats for things like aiming and the Mako was the Mako. The weapon and armer system was sort of a mess as well.
Still it would interesting seeing them go back and looking at it. They could also do that Killzone HD quick look while the ps3 is hooked up since Jeff has been saying "yeah we will do that this week" for about a month now.
Felix Lighter
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I've actually grown to really enjoy the game play in the original Mass Effect but that's after playing through it many times and now I have a solid grasp on what it does well and what it does poorly, and I know how to manage the clunky inventory (this is on PC, so it's slightly better than the consoles but still not good). I also liked the Mako but I didn't like the crazy vertical terrain you had to navigate on the uncharted planets. Story Mako missions played fine for me at least on PC (I played the Xbox version once when it released but my memory of how it played there is fuzzy).
The second game improved gunplay but at the same time made biotics boring. Global cool down slowed everything down and the cool downs themselves were too long. The biotics I found most interesting, throw, lift, and other force based powers where useless against enemies with a Barrier, Shield or Armor and once an enemy was stripped of those, there was no point to using lifting or throwing them. They were already virtually dead. Also, I hated that they added the heat sinks and their ridiculous explanation for them. They could have kept the cool down mechanic and used the stupid heat sinks as a quick but not mandatory way to force the weapon to cool down without making stupid nonsensical lore changes to make players, used to reloading, more comfortable. Fuck the inventory system, like a lot of things that could have been improved, they decided to just cut it out. I'll take the Mako over the Hammerhead, which was just kind of boring to use.
Third game was a legitimate 3rd person shooter and they improved the biotics some over the second game, with opportunities to shorten cool downs drastically and more explosive power combinations but I still prefer the original and it's individual power cooldowns. Gameplay-wise, I think the third game was good enough to support its combat only multiplayer feature. It was much better than I expected.
Story-wise, I don't think I want to type out all my thoughts on the universe and story again.
I'll just use this lazy shorthand:
ME1 >>>>> ME3 minus the ending > ME2 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>ME3 ending
The second game improved gunplay but at the same time made biotics boring. Global cool down slowed everything down and the cool downs themselves were too long. The biotics I found most interesting, throw, lift, and other force based powers where useless against enemies with a Barrier, Shield or Armor and once an enemy was stripped of those, there was no point to using lifting or throwing them. They were already virtually dead. Also, I hated that they added the heat sinks and their ridiculous explanation for them. They could have kept the cool down mechanic and used the stupid heat sinks as a quick but not mandatory way to force the weapon to cool down without making stupid nonsensical lore changes to make players, used to reloading, more comfortable. Fuck the inventory system, like a lot of things that could have been improved, they decided to just cut it out. I'll take the Mako over the Hammerhead, which was just kind of boring to use.
Third game was a legitimate 3rd person shooter and they improved the biotics some over the second game, with opportunities to shorten cool downs drastically and more explosive power combinations but I still prefer the original and it's individual power cooldowns. Gameplay-wise, I think the third game was good enough to support its combat only multiplayer feature. It was much better than I expected.
Story-wise, I don't think I want to type out all my thoughts on the universe and story again.
I'll just use this lazy shorthand:
ME1 >>>>> ME3 minus the ending > ME2 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>ME3 ending
YoYo Switch
Banned
while watching the sonic quick look, it hit me how often they say 'fuck'
i dont know. it was weird to me for a second
i dont know. it was weird to me for a second
Haunted
Member
Felix got us covered. Mass Effect is a promise. A promise of greatness. A promise they could not deliver on.
SteveWinwood
Member
Ryan's vocab is so fucked.
funkystudent
Member
Miles Prower = Miles per hour?
Fuck.
Fuck.
It's a really fun game. I've only played it for a couple days, but I've already been on either end of some huge scale offensives. It's unbelievable that the game is free.
slightconfuse
Banned
THey say that in every Sonic quick looks its almost expected at this point.
I could've swore Brad mentioned wanting to do this also on one of the I love mondays.
How long until the deep retrospective on sonic and the sega culture in whole.
I blows my mind that this still blows people's minds.
I worked that shit out when I was a kid reading through the Sonic 2 instruction manual