I actually didn't mean because of spoilers because I normally don't mind them and can avoid them easily enough if I want to.  It's more the insane outrage over the ending that I find irritating.  GET OVER IT NERDS.  There was some internet contest somewhere for the worst company in America (or just in general?) that EA "won" over Bank of America, and yeah I understand that it is just some nonsense internet contest with no effect on the business practices of the companies that win, but it just strikes me as INTERNET CRUSADE that was perpetuated by people who got up in arms over the ending of ME3.  (Also I understand that EA has a number of other shitty business practices but I'm still convinced it was the ME3 ending that convinced the mouth breathers that they were worse than fucking BANK OF AMERICA).  dumb ending, who cares.

Oh I know you weren't talking about spoilers. I just hate spoilers is all.

I have not seen the ending yet. but I had a "friend" (old roommate) text me a... well I pretty sure he sent be a massive spoiler to troll me. I have since severed all contact with this person. Even downloaded a phone blocker on my android just to block him. :P and every time someone talks about ME3 ending I'm reminded.

I'm sure the 'complete' ending is probably fine and the people bitching about it are just, well, the type of person that wants everything to end the same way.

Oh and letting an audience choose the ending is a terrible, awful, terrible, GODAWFUL idea. One which I've heard EA/Bioware are putting into practice.

Imagine if every TV show, movie, Video Game, and book were all ended by a vote of all the fans/readers/viewer/gamers? Every ending would end up being the same, none of the story's parts before reaching the end would be interesting, because all you have to do is figure out what the most popular ending is. Enjoying such entertainment would be impossible. Unless you like flashbacks. And if you like flashbacks, what the fuck is wrong with you? *shakes head*

Is it odd that I, only a few years ago, tried playing all the FF games and failed to play any of them substantially? because I thought all the stories were dull and uninteresting... I mean, I played BELOVED 6 and 7. Neither seems compelling, story wise, and the translation made it hard to follow/care about/take seriously.

I also played 1 and 4. 1 I actually played a decent amount, but I still got bored. 4 I ran into a save game problem (I was playing it on a emulator) and lost like 2 hours of progress so I dropped it. It seemed ok. but just ok. *shrugs*

And I played about an hour of 10. Ugh, I couldn't enjoy it either. Main character was very dumb.

The only FF game I've played and enjoyed was tactics and that was because of its GAMEPLAY (I like tactics games). Not its gripping story (which I don't remember in the slightest).

grimrock is so fucking good

u playin it bro? groan whops i mean you like it/is it HOW good, elaborate. it seemed like repeat of old-hc dungeon masters (which don't get me wrong: owns, bonzi proceeds to all-female party + editing the pixel portraits of females to nude) but are there something new/interesting in it/there? some interesting/experimental content? also ahhaah it seems it's made by finnish huh

i've never played the other FPS crawlers that it's referencing, but I like it almost as much as isometric stuff like avernum and exile, and it reminds me of those games insofar as every single resource you get feels incredibly valuable, combat is basically a race against death, and it feels like stuff you do actually matters in the scope of the game.  for example, when you get to one of the healing crystals at the end of a level it elicits a pretty huge feeling of relief, since that means less food you have to waste resting.  when you solve a tricky puzzle it's rewarding, because the puzzles are actually sort of difficult.  when you find a secret it makes you feel clever to have read the clues that the developers leave for you.


there's a lot of very simple game verbs that you can do and the designers make full use of all of them.


really it's the antidote to story-heavy grindfests.  not to say there isn't a story, it's just told through what you do in the game instead of a bunch of cutscenes.  character building is satisfying, but it always feels like you're getting just the right amount of stat points instead of mindlessly engaging in combat until your X is at Y to satisfy condition Z to beat the boss.


also it has great atmosphere.  a gritty crumbling prison mountain, essentially.

u playin it bro? groan whops i mean you like it/is it HOW good, elaborate. it seemed like repeat of old-hc dungeon masters (which don't get me wrong: owns, bonzi proceeds to all-female party + editing the pixel portraits of females to nude) but are there something new/interesting in it/there? some interesting/experimental content? also ahhaah it seems it's made by finnish huh

Yeah it basically is that, just a nice callback to those old school dungeon crawler games. The combat takes place in real time, though, which is interesting strategically. You can come up against multiple enemies while locked in a small room, and you have to maneuver around (backwards).

To learn spells to find scrolls which show a sequence of "runes" and when you cast a spell, you input the series of runes and hit a cast button. It's kind of neat. There's nothing super groundbreaking or anything like that, but it's definitely well made.

i've hated every mass effect game and feel sort of left out of hating this one

it's something i truly don't understand at all.  i can't even say i don't get them - it's just the idea of playing them is so foreign to me that it's totally beyond hate or like