If anyone wants to play the ME3 demo on PC, my user name is Thrakkesh--though be warned it's annoying as hell trying to play with less then a full group (no 'search for game as group' option, ugh). #observationdeck
The awful thing is that he has 250/250 barrier. a stiff breeze pretty much knocks him over. :( Compare to my Vanguard, whose recharge is one second longer, has double the health and has a shotgun, which tends to synergize wayyyy better with the mayhem Biotic Charge wrecks. #observationdeck
I just got a Drell Vanguard :D!
And... he's terrible. :( #observationdeck
The stronger a franchise is, the more that a certain group of people are going to insist that it's not that great, usually loudly and in any place where it's being discussed. Usually so everyone knows what unique, beautiful snowflakes they are among the sheeple. #observationdeck
Also you're going to despise me, but the very first recruit pack I opened had a Turian Sentinel in it. The second pack I opened had an Asari Adept. #observationdeck
I also noticed that some abilities don't share CDs (As opposed to ME2, where they all did). I could see how rapid-fire charging/Nova-ing could lead could be insanely useful. But yeah, that sounds like a crazy strat that wouldn't work in later waves--as much because you'd only have ammo for one gun and there are going to be mobs that charging out into the fray will be suicidal against.
I don't think Soldiers aren't going to be useless compared to them though. The Vanguard, by contrast, is pretty inflexible (if he has to sit behind cover and pelt he's basically next to useless) and has a few big downsides (SNIPERS OH GAWD). Soldier's going to have guns and grenades for *every* situation. Plus from what I hear, Carnage is pretty sick. In fact, for 'serious' groups, I imagine you'll mostly see Sentinels and Soldiers, with maybe an Adept for CC (but with armor and shields being prevalent... Not 100% on that), or an Infiltrator if he's a Sniper god. Engies and Vanguards seem wild-cards to me.
Yes. They're supposed to explain some of the stuff that happens in between KOTOR and TOR--though keep in mind the reviews to a lot of them are not kind (Revan in particular seems to piss people off, perhaps in part because it has very little of him).
Accessing the MP requires you to make an EA/Origin account. To play pre-Friday you have to have redeemed an online code for Battlefield 3. It opens to everyone on Friday. #observationdeck
Have you ever flown commercial? How the hell did you get through security?
Also how much Doom could a Doombot wrought if a Doombot could wrought Doom? #observationdeck
OH, OH, how about the dodgy vehicle segments that pit you next to an inescapable chasm of death. Hope you remembered how easy it is to die in those segments and saved just before entering it! Especially in Noveira, which is precedented by a LLLLLLLOOONG segment of relative inaction, so you never feel like you might need to save, else you might have to go through all that dialogue and fetch-questing again! But hey, just be better at the game. It's not like an errant strafe in the Mako can send you careening down a slight incline that you can't recover, or use of the jump feature doesn't VAULT you off in an unrecoverable direction because you were slightly tilted when firing.
NOT. BITTER. AT. ALL. #observationdeck
I have to wait till Friday as well. :( There are parts of the MP that I'm a little uncertain about (having to buy 'booster packs' =UGH) but... sounds like part of the problem is you're playing with awful people. Hopefully having some friends will help.
I'll be down to goof around in MP though. #observationdeck
Nope!
His entire story in a nutshell.
"Being raised as a Biotic was HARD. My trainers were MEAN!"
"I have headaches. :(" #observationdeck
The second you get Spectre weapons the game breaks. You're pretty much unstoppable. #observationdeck
I think Square-Enix is seriously trying to figure out how this 'modern gaming' works and just... blowing it. Instead of streamlining artificial complexity, they make games kind of play themselves. Their attempts at DLC are haphazard as all hell and well... their MMO pretty much screams 'we don't understand modern MMOs' work.
Squeenix is like a textbook case of a company that's lost whatever they had. #observationdeck
I think the serious problem with the Hulk is that frankly, no matter how you spin it, Bruce Banner is almost secondary. Hulk is his most fun when it's not a huge, dramatic plot--it's when something absurd happens and Hulk just runs around smashing things. Inc Hulk almost did it, but it wasn't quite there. Maybe I'm just biased though, in that the only stories I've enjoyed of the Hulk--frankly, have been the lightest on story (because the alternative so often ends up being really bad melodrama.)
I agree that Incredible Hulk is the weakest, followed closely by IM2 (which just needed to PICK A DAMN PLOT). #observationdeck
I like how pointing out any staff gets you banned--and the community does it anyway because Diaz and Johnson are notoriously troll-ish. #observationdeck
It's hard to tell, but I think the 'Republic Strike Fighter' is actually one of the many 'enemy' fighters you shoot out of the sky on the Imps side. Not a very good angle though so I can't tell. #observationdeck
Of course you can't GOD MY CHESJKTLAMNJTMNAKLPHGANT #observationdeck
Yyyyeah. I don't 'kit up' or 'pay for the privilege' so, uh, thanks for that. I guess if you're learning it for self defense (I'm pretty much of the school of 'a real fight doesn't have rules', to clarify)' but... sparring?
Hokay... #observationdeck
Yeah. I had some doubts about the new texture mapping (the opening felt like it drained ME of a lot of its literal color--it got better when you hit Sur'kesh though), but there's a lot more subtlety in facial expressions--a little less wooden then it used to be. I will also say that the whole Femshep vote crap aside, they've done a great job improving default Femshep's texturing.
Some smaller notes:
I still think the party size is going to be a lot smaller with recurring characters kind of passing through, and that's sad. I'm gonna miss Mordin and Thane and Legion being permanent fixtures. It can't just be Vega/Ash-dan/Liara though.
WREEEEEEEEX~! GET IN MY PARTY!
...Also I laughed maniacally at 'I can take care of myself.' Dunno if you noticed that, but the shotgun in that scene's flavor text is literally like 'if anyone but a Krogan uses that gun the recoil tears your arm off.' One. handed. it. #observationdeck
