What Video Games Have You Been Playing #11: I should go

[Zack]

I'm sorry you hold such a silly opinion so strongly.

I've never understood why that theory is so popular.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

He absolutely is, and if I ever find myself in possession of the IP I'll make it canon.

Who is "he" and what is he?

 

[GoodSarmatian]

Who is "he" and what is he?

Shepard is indoctrinated.

I've never understood why that theory is so popular.

It's the only way the ending makes sense.

 

[Zack]

Inasmuch as ending a story with it was all a dream “makes sense,” sure.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Shepard is indoctrinated.

But my Shepard is female! Did getting indoctrinated also change her gender?

 

[Broken_Erika]

But my Shepard is female! Did getting indoctrinated also change her gender?

It wouldn't be the weirdest thing that's happened to your Shepard....

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Anyways, it doesn't make much sense.

Spoiler :

The Prothean VI seen in the game shuts down when it detects someone indoctrinated, and it talks to you in the second-to-last level. So if Shep got indoctrinated, it would've been done super-quickly. Which as said both in codex and seen in game (some of the captured Salarians in Virmire) pretty much turns your cognitive abilities to mush.

 

[GoodSarmatian]

Inasmuch as ending a story with it was all a dream “makes sense,” sure.

Not "all" was "a dream", only the last half hour of the game.
And even if everything after the final mission in ME2, everything in ME3 was a dream, it would still be better than the alternative.

But my Shepard is female! Did getting indoctrinated also change her gender?

OK, sorry. Most of my Shepards were male. She's still indoctrinated.

Anyways, it doesn't make much sense.

Spoiler :

The Prothean VI seen in the game shuts down when it detects someone indoctrinated, and it talks to you in the second-to-last level. So if Shep got indoctrinated, it would've been done super-quickly. Which as said both in codex and seen in game (some of the captured Salarians in Virmire) pretty much turns your cognitive abilities to mush.

That thing isn't a Prothean VI, it's (pre?)Reaper tech.
It should shut down, make you catatonic and spawn some turrets if it detects somebody who isn't indoctrinated.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Spoiler :

No, you talk to the Prothean VI in Thessia in the temple. It shuts down when it detects anime dude because he's indoctrinated. Then it gets steal and you find it again in Cerberus HQ. It doesn't turn back on properly until the anime dude is completely dead.

So if you got indoctrinated, it would've had to been sometime during Priority: Earth. Maybe when Shepard got fried by Harbinger because before they were pretty lucid when saying goodbye to everyone. But rapid indoctrination really messes up the victims and makes them not really able to do anything. So I don't really buy it

EDIT:

Spoiler :

Though the idea of the last level being some sort of...horror-puzzle thing where you fight off indoctrination is also a cool idea. Maybe some of your friends come and save you, unlike the current ending where they LEAVE YOU BEHIND once the Crucible fires.

 

[GoodSarmatian]

Have you considered that it shuts down "because somebody is indoctrinated" to convince you that Shepard is not indoctrinated ?

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

That doesn't make any sense, though.

 

[Lexicus]

I started another Grim Dawn run last night. Doing the Shaman this time (obviously haven't picked a second class yet, actually I forget what level that happens). I forget most of the game so it doesn't seem repetitive, but I am now remembering why I sunk ~70 hours into this game the first time around!

 

[EgonSpengler]

Added a few mods to American Truck Simulator; more realistic traffic makes rush hours in cities a headache and shifts more 'civilian' traffic to daytime; more realistic headlights; greener shrubbery, which I think may be unrealistic for the Southwest, I might ditch that one; authentic decals and paint jobs for Highway Patrol vehicles in the Southwest states (city police are still vanilla-game generic); and irl company names and logos for shipping containers, stores, and gas stations.

Then I bought a fire-engine red Kenworth W900 sleeper and crashed it into a few cars. In the game, I mean. I figured out you can cycle the dashboard display to show your current Cruise Control setting, the mileage you're getting, the current time, some other things. It also has a setting to show your engine oil temp and water temp, but I'm not sure what the in-game value of that is. Maybe it's for the super-realistic driving settings, which I'm not using yet. I also found the in-dash fuel gauge and figured out how to move the seat back so I can see the lefthand rearview mirror without changing my POV; this lets me get rid of the artificial mirrors and the artificial display, which cleans up the UI a great deal. Much better.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Spoiler Mass Effect Trilogy spoilers :

The Illusive Man is more of a [censored] than I originally thought.

In ME3, you find out that he selected your team to project a friendly image of Cerberus. And if Kelly survives, you find out that she was leaking reports to the Illusive Man.

Okay, so in ME2, you get your new fancy ship! You check your emails. There's one from Captain Anderson, telling you to come see him on the Citadel. Huh, that's odd, how does he know?

So you go to the Citadel. And when asking about the Virmire Survivor, he's like "we can't tell you where they went! you're with Cerberus!"

(But I'm not working for Cerberus! They forced me to come along! I came to see you as soon as they let me!)

I originally thought that Tali emailed everyone going "hey! Shepard's alive!" but now I'm thinking that it was the Illusive Man who tipped everyone off.

Then you pick up your squadmates. One of them's your old buddy, Garrus. And convenient, the rest of his team got killed off by mercenaries, leaving him needing a rescue and more willing to come with you. In his loyalty quest, you find out that Sidonis betrayed him. But Sidonis was threatened by someone else to betray him...and we never find out who.

So, Kelly's ever-aware. Once he joins up, she notices that Shepard's a bit more relaxed than before. So she reports back to the Illusive Man about that.

Suddenly it's off to Horizon, where the Virmire Survivor is. The Illusive Man lured the Collectors there. Things between Shepard and the Virmire Survivor don't go so well, and Shepard's likely feeling bad again.

But hey! One of the new dossiers that comes up is for Tali! And convenient, the rest of her team got killed off by Geth, leaving her needing a rescue and more willing to come with you... (though I'm not sure how the Illusive Man would manage to tip off the Geth, so maybe my theory falls apart here)

And two more of the dossiers lead you to Illium, where Liara's hanging out being an information broker.

Annnd...I forgot where I was going with this.

 

[civvver]

wow this thread moves fast.

I bought some mega man collections on sale last weekend and started playing my all time favorite platformer, mega man X. The only thing is it's way shorter than I remember. Still super challenging until you get all the upgrades and sub tanks, then not so much. Most of the bosses are tough with regular xbuster and one health bar but with 2-3 and the super charged xbuster they're pretty easy. Still a fantastic game and I'm excited to play x2 as I never played anything past x.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

wow this thread moves fast.

Video games are fun.

 

[yung.carl.jung]

The Mikiri counter never goes out of fashion, so good job learning that one. Spear users are absolute bullies if given room and time to do their attacks.

Chained Ogre is a bit of a high hurdle to jump for new players and I'm not sure I like the guy. Hes about the only boss in the game in which I had trouble reading the Sweep/Thrust/Grab attacks due to that sweep that looks like a grab.

You also might be in for many forehead slapping moments if your girlfriend excels at secret finding!

I absoutely love how everyone seems to have widly different opinions on every boss in the game. Personally I thought Ogre was really easy (for a FromSoft boss anyway, I needed 15- 20 tries at least and raged pretty hard every time I got thrown off the cliff), once you get used to the pattern of dodge - dodge - charge - slash 1x/2x - repeat there is absolutely nothing that will happen to you and only human error can kill you. what ended up killing me most of the time was using the firecrackers, ironically, because it has such a long animation and often doesn't work or doesn't break the opponents animation cycle.

where are you @ right now? I have one more mini boss to complete til my first prayer necklace! I can't wait for butterfly / owl / genichiro / isshin and I'm sure I'll be stuck on those bosses for days, not mere hours. I was never that great at reaction time nor hand eye coordination.

 

[EgonSpengler]

I started a game of Empire: Total War, as Portugal, with DarthMod, but found the bugs and dumpster-fire AI too frustrating to continue. I haven't played vanilla, with its 120-man 'regiments' and paintball-gun sounds and short firing ranges, in years. So maybe I'm just finally finished with Empire after 10 years. It certainly had a good run; I'm not sure I'm still playing any other games from 10 years ago (I tried playing a heavily-modded Fallout 3 earlier this year and it crashed so often that it was unplayable). What I really want, I suppose, is Empire II. You could say that Napoleon is Empire II, but I didn't get into that one as much. I think I find the 18th Century a little more freewheeling, without the focus on one conflict, as large as it was.

 

[Lexicus]

I started a game of Empire: Total War, as Portugal, with DarthMod, but found the bugs and dumpster-fire AI too frustrating to continue. I haven't played vanilla, with its 120-man 'regiments' and paintball-gun sounds and short firing ranges, in years. So maybe I'm just finally finished with Empire after 10 years. It certainly had a good run; I'm not sure I'm still playing any other games from 10 years ago (I tried playing a heavily-modded Fallout 3 earlier this year and it crashed so often that it was unplayable). What I really want, I suppose, is Empire II. You could say that Napoleon is Empire II, but I didn't get into that one as much. I think I find the 18th Century a little more freewheeling, without the focus on one conflict, as large as it was.

You could try EUIV? Totally different game but I'd appreciate a sacrificial lamb to get the game and tell me if I should get it

 

[dusters]

Played a lot that cat game called Cat Quest someone from CFC suggested me. Had 20+ hours of pure childish gaming fun. Game is too simple for an adult, but it can cheer up on a rainy day.