I've come this far, I must...I must persevere.
I'm going to see if The Witcher 2 is in GAME's closing down sale later, and play that after ME3 to remind myself life isn't all bad.
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I've come this far, I must...I must persevere.
I'm going to see if The Witcher 2 is in GAME's closing down sale later, and play that after ME3 to remind myself life isn't all bad.
Hot Coldman
Banned
I'm sorta glad I've only played ME1, but I do want more. I just know ME2/3's combat is going to bum me the fuck out, though... :/
The combat is the best part of ME2/3 though...
Sounds like a good time. My wallet is still crying from drinks last weekend, so I think I'll take this weekend off.
I'm in central N.I where it's as wet and miserable as ever. This week started off so nice out, shame it couldn't last.
Hot Coldman
Banned
That's even worse to hear! :lol
Maybe you are making a joke that went right over my head, but I definitely preferred the character interactions and story development over combat in ME2. I haven't played ME1 or 3 though, so I don't really have anything to compare it to, but I thought most people felt the same way :?
I don't want to spoil anything here so I won't go into details, but ME2 dumbed down everything that was good in ME1 (story, characters, quests, progression, dialogue, intergalactic politics) and made the combat better. ME1 was barely an RPG, ME2 is even less of one. It's like the TPS equivalent of Bioshock.
ME1 is dead cheap now though, check it out.
ME1 is dead cheap now though, check it out.
snoopeasystreet
Member
I can't get into the witcher 2 at all. I think it's because I hate swords and fantasy.
industrian
will gently cradle you as time slowly ticks away.
ME1 has better combat than ME2. Much better combat.
I'm still torn on whether to buy ME3 now or during summer when it'll be cheaper. I really just want to finish the story, and see how my 3 Shepards turn out.
Mass Effect 1 is probably my favourite game of the entire generation. After the "holy shit! ME2!!" factor wore off, ME2 pales in comparison. And it looks like the direction they took it with ME3 just makes it even worse.
How so? ME2 had skill rather than stat-based shooting, holster, cover, running and target animations were more responsive, biotic/tech powers had satisfying pay-offs, enemies had much better AI, melee wasn't gimped, headshots were possible. Probably more that I'm forgetting but it was a far more polished experience than the first.
ME1 had weapon cooldown though, which was nice.
J Tourettes
Banned
I almost succumbed to the hype but then remembered that I wasn't that impressed with ME2 compared to ME.
I put the money towards a bean to cup coffee machine instead.
industrian
will gently cradle you as time slowly ticks away.
It had something to do with the fact there's only 5-or-so non-heavy guns in the entire game and they're all shit.
ME1's weapon progression and upgrades were great if rough-around-the-edges. Combined with the overheat system and you had a very tactical game to get the most out of your guns. By the end of my Soldier runthrough I had an infinite assault rifle: never overheated and spewed hot death to everyone who came my way. By the end of the same character's run in ME2 I was just using the bog-standard-shitty-but-high-ammo-capacity assault rifle you got in the Collector Ship that felt marginally more powerful than the crap I had before. Zero sense of progression whatsoever in the name of streamlining the fuck out of the game.
That and it was pointless in ME2 to do anything except fire from cover. The weapons were wildly inaccurate as soon as you started to move. I remember roaming about all over the place in ME1 thanks to the upgrades that stabilised the aiming.
I see your point and I agree, the lack of weapon progression and upgrades is a direct consequence of there being a complete lack of any character development in ME2. The mechanics themselves were far more solid though, and ME3 increases that so it plays exactly like Gears of War (with a diving mechanic and all).
That said, I played through ME1 the first time using no biotics at all so you could say that weapons in ME2 were more 'balanced', requiring you to use biotics and tech alongside them.
That said, I played through ME1 the first time using no biotics at all so you could say that weapons in ME2 were more 'balanced', requiring you to use biotics and tech alongside them.
I'm out on mine too in a bit. It'll be the last time I ride the woods around here, as I'm moving out of this place on Monday.
José Mourinho
cocknose
Yesterday in Belfast we had all the seasons within about 3 hours. Really nice sunshine, rain, sunshine, snow. It was wild.
If there's anyone in London that needs work have a look at this month contract for website data entry. Just spotted it.
http://jobs.guardian.co.uk/job/4424318/content-administrator-content-uploader-4-week-contract-d/
It's only a 4-week contract but £2,400 for a month's work isn't bad. Easy monies.
http://jobs.guardian.co.uk/job/4424318/content-administrator-content-uploader-4-week-contract-d/
It's only a 4-week contract but £2,400 for a month's work isn't bad. Easy monies.
Oh man, same here in Magherafelt. Hailstones, snow, then switching between sunshine and rain for the rest of the day. N.I weather, huh?
Jedeye Sniv
Banned
This may be weird, but Irn Bru and Amaretto got quite well together too. But I just love amaretto. Stick some cranberry in there and you have the finest drink know to man (or woman, as is more appropriate...)
snoopeasystreet
Member
Growing a beard sucks. My face is way too itchy and I look like white trash.
snoopeasystreet
Member
Lucky, I guess. My hair grows way quicker in some parts than others so I have a pretty good foundation for a moustache and chinstrap/goatee combo but the part that joins it all up grows super slowly.
I was at the cinema yesterday and I saw a guy dressed in all black (metal band t-shirt, natch) with a leather trenchcoat and he had grown a full neckbeard, which he had shaped into two fountain shapes.
I was not happy.
Also, Chinner, what's with this "p" business? Like, "I was p happy". I don't understand.
I was not happy.
Also, Chinner, what's with this "p" business? Like, "I was p happy". I don't understand.
J Tourettes
Banned
Did he steal your look?
snoopeasystreet
Member
I don't get those people or really anyone who indentifies so much with a sub culture that they dress a certain way. What's the purpose behind it? They're just making me hate them on first sight.
Jedeye Sniv
Banned
Mass Effect 3, haircut, 12 mile bike ride, band practice and maaaaaaaybe a wee drinkie poo over the couple of days. Perfect.
How about you?
Musha_Soturi
Member
Now that sounds like a nice weekend. And not too dissimilar from mine.... also hopefully having a haircut (by my bloke's mum, I'm cheap), also going out on the bike on Sunday, no band practise though, that was last weekend. And next weekend.
Apart from that just going to Qasiel's anti-house warming. No drinkie poo for me though, I'm driving
What do you play Sniv? (Style and Instrument)
industrian
will gently cradle you as time slowly ticks away.
I've not shaved (except my moustache area, I rock the Abe Lincoln look) since January. Whereas I get a decent goatee area the sides look puffed as fuck.
There's only three reasons for me to shave. 1) Impress a lady. 2) Get a job. 3) To fit within societal norms. And considering I've got a girlfriend and I'll be leaving my work to start my own business soon that pretty much narrows it down. And society can go fuck itself with a clawhammer.
I wear a leather trenchcoat and metal t-shirts, son. Come at me.
There's only three reasons for me to shave. 1) Impress a lady. 2) Get a job. 3) To fit within societal norms. And considering I've got a girlfriend and I'll be leaving my work to start my own business soon that pretty much narrows it down. And society can go fuck itself with a clawhammer.
I wear a leather trenchcoat and metal t-shirts, son. Come at me.
Jedeye Sniv
Banned
I know! Metal people are just so silly. There's a guy gets on my bus sometimes and he looks a right tit. He has really curly hair that he's grown down long into hassidic-esque ringlets, a ginger neckbeard and he walks with a cane with a demon's head on it. It's just so dumb and conformist. Find your own style godammit, don't copy a 30 year old style.
Jedeye Sniv
Banned
Now that sounds like a nice weekend. And not too dissimilar from mine.... also hopefully having a haircut (by my bloke's mum, I'm cheap), also going out on the bike on Sunday, no band practise though, that was last weekend. And next weekend.
Apart from that just going to Qasiel's anti-house warming. No drinkie poo for me though, I'm driving
What do you play Sniv? (Style and Instrument)
I play bass in a post-rock style band, which basically means we don't know how to end songs properly and so just build them up for ten minutes haha. Just got off from playing a covers gig last weekend, so now it's back to the grind of writing and recording to get gigs for the summer. I love it! How about you? There really should be a thread for band-gaf to trade experiences in, I know there are a bunch of us around here.
Anti-housewarming sounds weird though, what do you do, turn up and trash the place? Or open all the windows to let all the heat out?
heliconsoul
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You'd have to pay me to drive that. Yeesh.
This.
it's making me feel physically sick.
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snoopeasystreet
Member
It looks like a hulked out Micra.
J Tourettes
Banned
We're hating metallers now? I thought UK Gafs ire was reserved for hipsters? It's hard to keep up.
It has the running gear from a GTR. Nuff said.
Here it is eating a Lambo, Porsche and Ferrari alive on the track.
The engineering gives me a rock-hard boner.
It's a hulked-out Juke, but yeah pretty much.
heliconsoul
Member
Oh I'd have no doubt it moves, and drives wonderfully. But you know, it's a Duke.
I was followed most the way home last night by a Ferrari 458, in Smethwick. I almost crashed twice. So pretty.
I was followed most the way home last night by a Ferrari 458, in Smethwick. I almost crashed twice. So pretty.
I wasn't criticising the clothes, but the neckbeard. It was more well of course he's wearing those clothes if he has the neckbeard. I have plenty of band t-shirts myself and a couple of (wool) trenchcoats. I'm sure I've rocked the combo once or twice.
But neckbeards? Never.
Anyone part of any subculture who dresses in a way that screams "I'm part of this subculture!!!!!" and looks like a right tit gets ire, not just people belonging to specific subcultures.
It's something you do in your teenage years, as you're not mature and confident enough to form your own identity, so you flock towards one that is pre-made for you. As you get older, you're meant to grow into your own skin and forge an identity that is unique to you, whether you belong to a certain subculture or not.
I'd say I belong to the internet 'core' gaming subculture and its ancillaries like anime, comic books and other general geekiness, but I wouldn't let any of those things define who I was outwardly. I am not the people who I share interests with, I am me.
edit - before anyone leaps to the conclusion, the above does not mean I think anyone dressing with band t-shirts is an unconfident manchild.
Musha_Soturi
Member
I play bass in a post-rock style band, which basically means we don't know how to end songs properly and so just build them up for ten minutes haha. Just got off from playing a covers gig last weekend, so now it's back to the grind of writing and recording to get gigs for the summer. I love it! How about you? There really should be a thread for band-gaf to trade experiences in, I know there are a bunch of us around here.
Anti-housewarming sounds weird though, what do you do, turn up and trash the place? Or open all the windows to let all the heat out?
I sing in a rock/metal band. Just putting ourselves back together after losing some members, so working on some covers at the mo but gonna start writing again soon. Actually all we need now is a bassist......
Well I think most of their stuff will be packed up so there'll be nothing to trash, they have a load of alcohol that needs drinking but as I'm driving I'll be the sensible one.
I have a Nissan. I love it. It's not that weird looking thing though.
Jedeye Sniv
Banned
Eh. At least hipsters have decent taste in music and their women are hot. Hardcore metallers are stuck in 1998 both sartorially and musically. I see kids at college still wearing Slipknot hoodies and it makes me laugh. Get your own music you pussies!
And there is a world of difference between people who listen to and enjoy metal (such as myself on occasion) and people who are subsumed by the style. It's just weird, giving yourself over so entirely to a style. It's like, broaden your horizons, dress with some colour, expand your record collection. Being super into metal is like enforcing virginity upon yourself.
But then again I am not one to judge since I own exactly one pair of (non-work) trousers and about 6 rapidly decaying t-shits. Clothing is not my strong suit. But at least I wear colour!
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