RPG Progress Report

[noiseredux]

I haven't. I technically could now that PSNow is on PC, I guess.

[marurun]

Always good guy. I can't bring myself to do anything different. I literally agonized over one decision in Pillars of Eternity because I wanted a certain stat boost, but couldn't bring myself to do it. Even when I'm playing a fantasy game, I'm apparently trying to be in character from real life.

I have this exact same problem. I can occasionally be snarky or do a bad thing (usually in Bethesda games since the characters rarely have much personality), but I can't play an evil character. Just an occasionally misguided one (also much like real life).

[Ack]

See, noise, this is how you should play games:

[TSTR]

RIP AND TEAR

[Exhuminator]

If a game will let me be evil, I will be evil. Just to do something different, as most games railroad you into being the savior hero ad nauseam.

In the original Fallout, I killed every single kid in the game. Then I killed the bounty hunters that were sent to kill me for killing kids. Then I tracked down the towns that hired the bounty hunters, and killed everybody there too. Eventually it was just me and a land of mutant cows.

[Xeogred]

^ only Obsidian can do it best. I loved how much of a neutrally good asshole I could be in KOTOR2. "I'll help you but you better pay me a lot". I love the Mass Effect series, but KOTOR2 really blows it out of the water when it comes to gray line options.

Sadly I don't know if I'll ever get into these newer isometric games they're doing again though. I think I'd rather read a book than "play" things like Planescape.

[Exhuminator]

Yeah, the original Planescape: Torment was a great book but a boring game.

[noiseredux]

personally, I totally adored Pillars Of Eternity. Sure there were lots of words, but you could pretty much read the ones you wanted - getting as much or as little lore out of the game as you wanted. I think I fell for the battle system first, and the lore second.

On the flip, I had a tough time getting into Tyranny. I suppose part of that was being super busy with Holidays and being in sort of game-overload mode too. Don't know.

ANYWAY:

I did play another hour of Mass Effect last night, and I'm pleased to report that after suffering through a few more elevator rides I finally got to a point of the game where things happen.

1. I recruited several new party members. Um... is it Garish? And then that big alien that kills that guy. And then that girl who gives you the proof you need for the council. Y'know?

2. I was made a Spectre. So I think this is probably where the game starts to get good, right? Cuz they were like "okay we gotta get you a ship, etc etc" so I'm thinking that the world will start to open up more to me now.

As you can maybe infer, I don't care a whole lot about the political plot nor even care enough to remember names of characters. But at least it seems like the game is going to get more fun now.

[ElkinFencer10]

GARRUS!! GARRUS VAKARIAN!! He's most awesome Turian ever, and his bromance with male Shep rivals the Obama/Biden bromance for the greatest bromance of all time.

[noiseredux]

yeah I don't know. My active party right now includes Ashley (it's Ashley, right? The one you start with?) and then that other girl alien that gave you the audio file evidence of treachery or whatever.

^my recollections of what's going on in this game are friggin' riveting huh?