Hello everyone. Hope you all had a good weekend. I am posting this thread about 90 minutes after I intended to because I was just finishing up Mass Effect 3, finishing my first replay of the trilogy. Anyway, ME3 is a pretty good game and its actually kind of funny they allow you to reach satisfying endings to many of the long running arcs in the series (RIP my good friend Mordin and my beautiful son Legion) but horribly botched the final ending. I hear there’s a new Mass Effect game in development, and since you cant really up the stakes beyond Cthulu robots killing us all I’d wager on it being a soft reboot. Interested to see how they would handle the incompatible endings in that case, and they’d probably have to introduce a new protagonist which is risky because no one liked Andromeda
Hope everybody has a good week and happy gaming
Finished Expedition 33, it’s fine but imo extremely overrated. Stopped engaging with the skill system after I got a full roster with one capstone 10-point skill around 15 hours in and never really felt like I was underperforming (I lost to the second-last boss of Act 2 twice, but that was due to parry fuckups on instakill moves). Also just balanced everyone’s stat points evenly, and ran the exact same luminas on everyone. Up until the end of Act 2 I did basically all the optional content except the stuff that obviously was going to take too long. Finished Act 2, did Frozen Heart, then went to go to two optional areas but was told I couldn’t go there. I suddenly got bored, and ran through the final area to fight the final boss, skipping everything along the way. Imo the ending is actively bad because it ignores something extremely important:
Expedition 33 Ending Spoilers
Verso’s ending would kill everyone and everything in the Canvas. As they are depicted as being fully self-aware (Renoir more-or-less acknowledges this), this means that the actual decision is between “make one (or two, depending on how one views Alicia’s relationship with the canvas) suffer” and “make one person suffer and also commit genocide”, which is so obviously the worse choice that I can’t really care about Maelle dying from addiction or about Painting Verso being sad.
More Warframe, as per usual, nothing of note accomplished in the past week due to bad luck (though I did get the missing part I needed for one vaulted prime pistol, wowee). Am right below cap for void traces and have like 40 aya so all set for the new resurgence later this week.
Got a bunch more progress in Hades 2. Got 2 wins over the down boss and am now trying to get to the up boss. Made it as far as the boss of the third up area and got fucked by a hit for like 100 damage. I’m definitely going to keep playing more. The weapons don’t seem close to balanced. Daggers seem better than everything else, staff is okay, wands suck, axe sucks (unless you spam the omega special by having unlimited mana?), gun is weirdly close-range considering it’s a gun. Haven’t tried out fists, only just unlocked them after my last run.