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Days 3-5
Kung fu RPG! Ancient China but not really! Great plot! Real time fighting! Nathan Fillion! John Cleese! Cam Clarke! Interesting party members! Gay romances! Incredibly dumb morality system! Bioware finally starting to step out of its shell and experiment! Really awesome game! No one fucking played it!
Seriously, if you can find a game for this anywhere, go ahead and pick it up. It's a departure from Bioware's usual formula (turn based fighting, quest for four MacGuffins and then SHOCKING PLOT TWIST!!!, lack of threesomes, etc.), which might be why it didn't do so well when compared to their other games, but it's still worth the time and money to check it out.
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I am so ashamed of myself.
The controls suck, the story sucks, the villain sucks, the main character sucks, the flying sucks, the final level sucks, all the levels suck, the scoring system sucks, I suck for having played it, but dear lord are the dragons awesome.
It's basically ROGUE SQUADRON IN SPAAAAAAAACE ON DRAGONS, which is fitting because Factor 5 were the people who made like all the Rogue Squadron games. I think it was one of the first to make heavy use of the Sixaxis controller's motion sensing capabilities. You would move the controller like you were holding your mount's reins, tilting it left to turn left, right to turn right, and so on and so forth. The trouble with this is that the Sixaxis motion controls were obvious thrown together to cash in on the popularity the Wii's motion controls was getting, and so they sucked ass. The game's control scheme was a good idea in theory, but it tanked hard in practice. They were either too sensitize or not sensitive enough, and actions that could have been assigned a button (such as 180 degree turning) were instead assigned weird motions you had to perform (like jerking your controller upward). "Control" and "motion" no longer look like real words.
The story is nothing really to write home about, either. You're a guy who rides on dragons and you're at war with this other nation and you think they're the worst thing ever until you realize no, your side is the worst thing ever, so you defect and wage against your home and then at the end you blow up some volcanoes to stop the lava from killing everyone or something I don't even fucking know it was so stupid. Then again, flight sim games aren't ever renowned for their stories, so eh.
It's just. There's so much they could have done with this game. They put so much love into the dragon designs, the look and feel of the two warring nations, the weapons and armor the dragon riders use, just everything -- and you don't even get to see most of it in the actual game because you're too busy killing everything that moves. Cutscenes are gorgeous and the scene where Rohn runs away from his home nation was actually pretty emotional, but other than that there's no real reason to care about what's going on. In the first stage your best friend (...I think? Even now I'm not too sure) gets killed by a general on the other side, and Rohn is all like IHATEALLTHEMOKAI for the first half of the game, but I had no idea who this guy was until he died and the main character flipped his shit. I felt nothing for his death or the grief and rage Rohn was feeling. IF YOU'RE GOING TO KILL SQUADMATES, MAKE SURE WE GET TO KNOW THEM FIRST. Even Jenkins in the first Mass Effect was given an opportunity for you to get sort of connect with him before he got gunned down by the geth on Eden Prime.
This game makes me so sad because it's like a fucking recipe for success and they tanked so hard all over the place GODDAMMIT.
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You know that really quiet girl who sits in the corner at all the parties and never talks and when you finally try to be nice and initiate conversation she stutters and can't finish her sentences and would rather be reading a book on some ancient culture and never be in a social situation ever? You know that one person who sort of hangs out with you but you're not really her friend because only she's only there for that one awesome person that everyone else is there for? You know that one girl who looks like you can snap her like a Twix bar? You know that one girl who's just really awkward to be around?
Yeah, hi, that's me.
You guys don't see it online as much because I feel more comfortable here and I kinda know you people, but if someone I don't know meets me in person, it's like the most awkward social train wreck in existence. Even Thanksgiving with the relatives is an exercise in trying not to crash and burn in a giant fiery explosion.
Of course, once you get to know me I don't shut my trap like fucking ever and do stupid shit all the goddamn time, so yeah.
Day 1 - Very first video game.
Day 2 - Your favorite character.
Day 3 - A game that is underrated.
Day 4 - Your guilty pleasure game.
Day 5 - Game character you feel you are most like (or wish you were).
Day 6 - Most annoying character.
Day 7 - Favorite game couple.
Day 8 - Best soundtrack.
Day 9 - Saddest game scene.
Day 10 - Best gameplay.
Day 11 - Gaming system of choice.
Day 12 - A game everyone should play.
Day 13 - A game you’ve played more than five times.
Day 14 - Current (or most recent) gaming wallpaper.
Day 15 - Post a screenshot from the game you're playing right now.
Day 16 - Game with the best cut scenes.
Day 17 - Favorite antagonist.
Day 18 - Favorite protagonist.
Day 19 - Picture of a game setting you wish you lived in.
Day 20 - Favorite genre.
Day 21 - Game with the best story.
Day 22 - A game sequel which disappointed you.
Day 23 - Game you think had the best graphics or art style.
Day 24 - Favorite classic game.
Day 25 - A game you plan on playing.
Day 26 - Best voice acting.
Day 27 - Most epic scene ever.
Day 28 - Favorite game developer.
Day 29 - A game you thought you wouldn't like, but ended up loving.
Day 30 - Your favorite game of all time.
Kung fu RPG! Ancient China but not really! Great plot! Real time fighting! Nathan Fillion! John Cleese! Cam Clarke! Interesting party members! Gay romances! Incredibly dumb morality system! Bioware finally starting to step out of its shell and experiment! Really awesome game! No one fucking played it!
Seriously, if you can find a game for this anywhere, go ahead and pick it up. It's a departure from Bioware's usual formula (turn based fighting, quest for four MacGuffins and then SHOCKING PLOT TWIST!!!, lack of threesomes, etc.), which might be why it didn't do so well when compared to their other games, but it's still worth the time and money to check it out.
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I am so ashamed of myself.
The controls suck, the story sucks, the villain sucks, the main character sucks, the flying sucks, the final level sucks, all the levels suck, the scoring system sucks, I suck for having played it, but dear lord are the dragons awesome.
It's basically ROGUE SQUADRON IN SPAAAAAAAACE ON DRAGONS, which is fitting because Factor 5 were the people who made like all the Rogue Squadron games. I think it was one of the first to make heavy use of the Sixaxis controller's motion sensing capabilities. You would move the controller like you were holding your mount's reins, tilting it left to turn left, right to turn right, and so on and so forth. The trouble with this is that the Sixaxis motion controls were obvious thrown together to cash in on the popularity the Wii's motion controls was getting, and so they sucked ass. The game's control scheme was a good idea in theory, but it tanked hard in practice. They were either too sensitize or not sensitive enough, and actions that could have been assigned a button (such as 180 degree turning) were instead assigned weird motions you had to perform (like jerking your controller upward). "Control" and "motion" no longer look like real words.
The story is nothing really to write home about, either. You're a guy who rides on dragons and you're at war with this other nation and you think they're the worst thing ever until you realize no, your side is the worst thing ever, so you defect and wage against your home and then at the end you blow up some volcanoes to stop the lava from killing everyone or something I don't even fucking know it was so stupid. Then again, flight sim games aren't ever renowned for their stories, so eh.
It's just. There's so much they could have done with this game. They put so much love into the dragon designs, the look and feel of the two warring nations, the weapons and armor the dragon riders use, just everything -- and you don't even get to see most of it in the actual game because you're too busy killing everything that moves. Cutscenes are gorgeous and the scene where Rohn runs away from his home nation was actually pretty emotional, but other than that there's no real reason to care about what's going on. In the first stage your best friend (...I think? Even now I'm not too sure) gets killed by a general on the other side, and Rohn is all like IHATEALLTHEMOKAI for the first half of the game, but I had no idea who this guy was until he died and the main character flipped his shit. I felt nothing for his death or the grief and rage Rohn was feeling. IF YOU'RE GOING TO KILL SQUADMATES, MAKE SURE WE GET TO KNOW THEM FIRST. Even Jenkins in the first Mass Effect was given an opportunity for you to get sort of connect with him before he got gunned down by the geth on Eden Prime.
This game makes me so sad because it's like a fucking recipe for success and they tanked so hard all over the place GODDAMMIT.
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You know that really quiet girl who sits in the corner at all the parties and never talks and when you finally try to be nice and initiate conversation she stutters and can't finish her sentences and would rather be reading a book on some ancient culture and never be in a social situation ever? You know that one person who sort of hangs out with you but you're not really her friend because only she's only there for that one awesome person that everyone else is there for? You know that one girl who looks like you can snap her like a Twix bar? You know that one girl who's just really awkward to be around?
Yeah, hi, that's me.
You guys don't see it online as much because I feel more comfortable here and I kinda know you people, but if someone I don't know meets me in person, it's like the most awkward social train wreck in existence. Even Thanksgiving with the relatives is an exercise in trying not to crash and burn in a giant fiery explosion.
Of course, once you get to know me I don't shut my trap like fucking ever and do stupid shit all the goddamn time, so yeah.
Day 1 - Very first video game.
Day 2 - Your favorite character.
Day 3 - A game that is underrated.
Day 4 - Your guilty pleasure game.
Day 5 - Game character you feel you are most like (or wish you were).
Day 6 - Most annoying character.
Day 7 - Favorite game couple.
Day 8 - Best soundtrack.
Day 9 - Saddest game scene.
Day 10 - Best gameplay.
Day 11 - Gaming system of choice.
Day 12 - A game everyone should play.
Day 13 - A game you’ve played more than five times.
Day 14 - Current (or most recent) gaming wallpaper.
Day 15 - Post a screenshot from the game you're playing right now.
Day 16 - Game with the best cut scenes.
Day 17 - Favorite antagonist.
Day 18 - Favorite protagonist.
Day 19 - Picture of a game setting you wish you lived in.
Day 20 - Favorite genre.
Day 21 - Game with the best story.
Day 22 - A game sequel which disappointed you.
Day 23 - Game you think had the best graphics or art style.
Day 24 - Favorite classic game.
Day 25 - A game you plan on playing.
Day 26 - Best voice acting.
Day 27 - Most epic scene ever.
Day 28 - Favorite game developer.
Day 29 - A game you thought you wouldn't like, but ended up loving.
Day 30 - Your favorite game of all time.