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

[Akka]

The amount of soldiers Cerberus has is kind of explained in the game, though it still is pretty absurd considering the supposed scale of the conflict.
My advice is : don't think too hard. ME3 has extremely detailed lore, but sadly tend to compensate with Hollywood plots full of holes going the opposite way, and ME3 made a lot of efforts to ruin every subtlety in its own potential. But if you turn off the brain, it's better for enjoying the ride.

 

[GoodSarmatian]

Also, I ran into another oddity: If the squid-face species on Ilos were Inusannon, why did they also appear in the Prothean beacon?

That one has a very simple and logical explanation:
The squidfaces were Protheans, but Bioware changed the design between games and retconned it.

 

[dusters]

May I suggest for you Cat Quest? I very much enjoy it, until I read the walk-through and screw the adventure for myself. For any Cat Lover in this forum I really recommend Cat Quest for all of you, a mobile RPG with a Cat as a main character, what can be better than that?

This game looks great! Thanks for mentioning it! Do you know any other cat themed games?

 

[Commodore]

That one has a very simple and logical explanation:
The squidfaces were Protheans, but Bioware changed the design between games and retconned it.

Close. I think it was in the Art of Mass Effect book where the devs explained that in ME1, they still didn't really have an idea as to what they wanted the Protheans to look like, so they just came up with that nebulous form on the fly and nailed down a more definitive appearance for them later.

 

[H4run]

This game looks great! Thanks for mentioning it! Do you know any other cat themed games?

I know not so many however this one I already play it for at least 10 hour, it is an awesome game. At the beginning the game seems common and shallow but the more you play the game, you will found the game offer a lot more than what you hope from a mobile rpg. Try it please.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I have thoughts, but this ain't really the place to have an ME3 ending argument.

Why not? I'd enjoy reading your take on it all.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Because I'm an Infiltrator, I get Sabotage. It's funny to sabotage a turret right after a Cerberus combat engineer sets it up.

 

[Birdjaguar]

So the comms officer wanted to play some chess. She was excited about the shower so Shepard suggested she take a shower. Then sat there staring as she took a shower. Then the option came up to join her. That was awkward.

Voyeurism in a video game, how shocking!! I would think that the obvious choice would be to join her and hope she doesn't kill you. (BTW, I have never played that game.)

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

From what I read she'll decline a male Shepard, but will gladly let a female one join her.

 

[Arakhor]

Samantha Traynor, the British-accented gay engineer with a line in expensive toothbrushes.

 

[Takhisis]

They made Assassin's Creed: Unity free for a week because of the Notre Dame fire. (I am completely serious)

I have to ask.

Whyyy?

What do you mean?

I mean that you are better at many things than you think you are.

 

[Ajidica]

I have to ask.

Whyyy?

Because they offered copies of their scans and models of Notre Dame (featured prominently in AC: Unity) to the Notre Dame reconstruction and this gets them some free publicity. Nobody is going to get through an AC game in a long weekend so Ubisoft is bound to get a few people buying a copy of an older game that probably didn't sell as well as hoped on release due to a rocky launch. Because the game is a digital download, offering it free in the hopes people might buy it has effectively no downside. I mean, I bought Borderlands 2 and Skyrim after a free weekend on Steam. The free weekend allowed me to download the games to check to see if they ran on my laptop (they did, barely) which resulted in purchases that would not have occurred in the absence of a free weekend.

One of my favorite indie devs (Spiderweb Software) has talked about how digital downloads has really changed selling older games. In the past when you had to physically sell CDs, there was a set cost per sale for the seller. Now, with digital download, once you meet your development costs, every additional sale is pure profit. If, several years after a game is released you strip mine it by selling for a dollar or two, that is a dollar or two of pure profit you would likely not have gotten.

 

[Takhisis]

I should rephrase. I can get the commercial reasons, but what's the official spin they've put on it?

 

[Ajidica]

I should rephrase. I can get the commercial reasons, but what's the official spin they've put on it?

Something something Notre Dame. There has been a fair amount of news articles about AC Unity due to Ubisoft offering their models of Notre Dame to aid in the reconstruction.

 

[caketastydelish]

Because they offered copies of their scans and models of Notre Dame (featured prominently in AC: Unity) to the Notre Dame reconstruction and this gets them some free publicity. Nobody is going to get through an AC game in a long weekend so Ubisoft is bound to get a few people buying a copy of an older game that probably didn't sell as well as hoped on release due to a rocky launch. Because the game is a digital download, offering it free in the hopes people might buy it has effectively no downside. I mean, I bought Borderlands 2 and Skyrim after a free weekend on Steam. The free weekend allowed me to download the games to check to see if they ran on my laptop (they did, barely) which resulted in purchases that would not have occurred in the absence of a free weekend.

One of my favorite indie devs (Spiderweb Software) has talked about how digital downloads has really changed selling older games. In the past when you had to physically sell CDs, there was a set cost per sale for the seller. Now, with digital download, once you meet your development costs, every additional sale is pure profit. If, several years after a game is released you strip mine it by selling for a dollar or two, that is a dollar or two of pure profit you would likely not have gotten.

You misunderstood. It's free forever. Not free for a weekend. You get to keep the copy forever without paying for it.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I find it amusing in Mass Effect 3 how many smashed up fuel depots I find with the scanning. What do reapers have against fuel depots?

 

[Akka]

I find it amusing in Mass Effect 3 how many smashed up fuel depots I find with the scanning. What do reapers have against fuel depots?

Well, they are fighting a war and destroying depots deprives the other side of refueling.
That's one of the few actual sensical points in the game !

 

[EgonSpengler]

Spent a few hours cutting a swath of destruction across Southern California and Arizona in American Truck Simulator. I think I probably killed at least 1 person. I don't know what happens to a typical car when it's hit by a 50,000-lb/23,000kg Peterbilt at ~35mph/55kph, but it can't be good. The Kenworth has that little window in the passenger door, down by the footwell, which I think is cool. otoh, the Volvo has a cruise-control indicator light (I can never remember whether or not I turned it on) and the sleeper cab has a little table and benches in the back. I haven't bought my own truck yet, but I'm leaning towards the Volvo. (ATS doesn't have any Macks, the iconic American rig. Must be a licensing issue.)

 

[cardgame]

I bet there's a mod that adds them.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

Spent a few hours cutting a swath of destruction across Southern California and Arizona in American Truck Simulator. I think I probably killed at least 1 person. I don't know what happens to a typical car when it's hit by a 50,000-lb/23,000kg Peterbilt at ~35mph/55kph, but it can't be good. The Kenworth has that little window in the passenger door, down by the footwell, which I think is cool. otoh, the Volvo has a cruise-control indicator light (I can never remember whether or not I turned it on) and the sleeper cab has a little table and benches in the back. I haven't bought my own truck yet, but I'm leaning towards the Volvo. (ATS doesn't have any Macks, the iconic American rig. Must be a licensing issue.)

The Volvo is a recent addition to the game, it was only added a couple of months ago.