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It didn't appeal to me either but I had a blast with it.

So Trip mentioned Mass Effect enough times within a short enough time frame that I started a new game. Gonna try and juggle this with South Park.

I downloaded Mass Effect, but haven't had a chance to start it yet. Hopefully this weekend.

Krubixcube wrote:*sigh* I wish DOTA appealed to me guys, but...it just doesn't.

You just haven't heard the gold sound enough.

Does anyone actually recommend playing Mass Effect 1 before playing 2? I lost my Mass Effect 2 save data when my old PS3 died and was thinking about starting it back up; however... I also have Mass Effect 1, too. Should I just start playing that before continuing/re-playing 2?

lenny.b wrote:Does anyone actually recommend playing Mass Effect 1 before playing 2? I lost my Mass Effect 2 save data when my old PS3 died and was thinking about starting it back up; however... I also have Mass Effect 1, too. Should I just start playing that before continuing/re-playing 2?

Yup, play 1. I'd be surprised if anyone didn't recommend playing 1 before 2.

Absolutely play 1. Mass Effect 2 is so much better if you have 1 transferred over.

Play 1, despite its hiccups, it's worth experiencing the whole thing.

ALSO, about the DOTA thing, I have watched it being played by friends. It's one of those genres of games I enjoy watching and can get into, but not playing.

I wonder what's in store for Sony now that Tretton is out. It would suck if someone came in and fucked with PS+. I spend money monthly on the perks of plus on games I either already own or wouldn't try otherwise. And the freebies are so awesome it has made me a fanboy.

I can see some jackass coming in and screwing it up with the attitude of "quarterly profits in the next two years will rise by 2% under my new plan of knowing jack shit about anything ever".

Most of you guys are more knowledgeable about video games news so please enlighten me on the goings on or post some article links.

Lenny how far are you in Vanquish? You tried it on God Hard yet?

Thanks for the recommendations for ME. The only thing is that I have ME1 and 2 on my PC, but I have 2 and 3 for my PS3, so despite this I'll probably play 1 and 2 on my PC then play 3 on the PS3.

@Rainjar - I still haven't beat the game. I think I'm near the end, but I suddenly lost interest in it. I'm assuming you've played God Hard? I doubt I'll play it in that mode. Hahaha.

I wouldn't recommend switching systems between games. Part of the charm of the series is that you get to see how your choices affect the universe and if you play 3 without a save file it literally gives you one of the worst save files you can imagine. All the choices you would never want to make, it sets as the default.

@volvocrusher I already know that I'm not going to go out and buy ME1 for the PS3, nor am I gonna buy ME3 for the PC because of Origin, so nothing's really going to change my mode of gameplay at the moment.

Well, if that's the way you see it, I'd say play ME1 on PC if you want to experience it, then 2 and 3 on PS3 or just skip it and play them both on PS3. You don't under any circumstance want to play 3 without an imported save file.

@volvo - I appreciate the recommendation, but being someone that isn't highly vested into the ME world, I'd like to see for myself how 'terrible' ME3 will turn out to be should I play it without any imported saves.

Wait, so ME3 doesn't have one of those interactive comic things if you don't have a save file? That's dumb

lenny.b wrote:

@Rainjar - I still haven't beat the game. I think I'm near the end, but I suddenly lost interest in it. I'm assuming you've played God Hard? I doubt I'll play it in that mode. Hahaha.

Duuuuude, you should play it on harder difficulties afterwards. It's one of those games that can get really fucking boring really quickly if you're on lower difficulties but when you whack the difficulty up by one notch the game throws it up by a million so "Oh sweet, I can move fast! Haha pewpewpew, take that robots!" turns into "HOLY FUCKING SHIT SPEEDKNEES HOLY FUCKING JESUS CHRIST MISSILES EVERYWHERE BANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANG VROOOOOOOOOM INTO THE MOTHERFUCKING SLOW MO RIGHT OVER THAT MISSILE AWWWWW YEAH THIS IS SO FUCKING LEGIT AWESOME!" due to the fact you can't even take more than a few regular bullets.

It has its frustrating moments but when you beat them oh god is it satisfying as hell. You can't take a single break, you'll respawn and have to get right into the speedknees rollan as soon as the game loads up again at some points or you're a dead man. God Hard doubled, if not tripled, the amount of time it took me on normal and I had a death count in the 600-700 range by the time I finally finished it. One of my favourite games from this gen for sure.

Thief is not fun. I found a bracelet and it told me I found a bracelet. There's also no real sense of surroundings. I don't know what to say other than I'm willing to trade it if someone wants to make an offer.

I'll trade it for 50p and some pick 'n' mix.

Rainjar wrote:I'll trade it for 50p and some pick 'n' mix.

However tempting that offer may be, I refuse to do business with you or your fellow countrymen until it has been firmly established that you all must do silly walks to complement your silly accents.

Sincerely,
A Texan

I didn't like Thief either. It's only real merit was it tapped into how much I love grabbing shiny things.

I just finished Season 2 Episode 2 of The Walking Dead last night. Decided to take a break from South Park so I could get this done. I obviously won't spoil anything, but it was one of the more tense episodes yet. There were some great scenes. Probably the lightest amount of gameplay. There was a lot of dialogue and cutscenes... but for this game I didn't really care. Either way, more happened in this one episode than the past 2 seasons of The Walking Dead show. Clementine knows how to get shit done.

TheMatt wrote:I just finished Season 2 Episode 2 of The Walking Dead last night.

Jealous. It's not out in Europe yet which is annoying because me and my Mum decided to finally play through 400 Days and start Season 2 last night and with the cliff hanger it ends on in the episode 2 trailer you just want to find out what happens straight away.

It's really funny/awesome seeing my parent getting so excited for a video game though seeing as she doesn't play them herself. I told her I think I know some major thing that happens in episode 2. Now imagine a kid in the run-up to Christmas wanting to know what's in their presents and times that by a factor of at least 10. That's what she was like trying to find out what might happen in episode 2.

Apparently if I don't play episode 2 with her on the weekend I get back from Germany then she's going to hide my plane tickets so I can't go at all. I think I have created a monster. Also if Clem doesn't get a happy ending by the end of all the seasons I am going to be pissed, there's only so much shit you can put one person through goddamn it.

I'll play season 2 at some point, but I'll probably wait until there is a discount when the entire game is out.

Me too, Bret. Gonna try and hold out until at least half the season's out so I can binge all at once.

Has anyone else had DNS problems when frequently switching from Vita to PS3 and PS4? I'm having to reboot my router often. There's no way that I know of to /flushdns on any of the systems. It's nothing major but slightly annoying. If anyone here is having similar problems, please post the issues as detailed as possible so I can screw around and figure it out.

Beat South Park: The Stick of Truth. A few vague puzzles and mechanics that didn't quite work aside, this was game fucking amazing. Everything you would want them to put in a South Park game is in here, even the stuff you'd think in the back of your mind that they would never put in there. And god damn, what a fucking ending.