The newest Beer + Videogames writer muses about ME2 on the heels of the multi-platform announcement. Also: Miranda's bum.
One of the best things about the Mas Effect series is the companions you meet along the way. So here is a tier list of all the companions from Mass Effect!
To think that Bioware at some point was capable of doing games like this, you see those characters and remember them like good old friends, and now check ME Andromeda, Anthem, Veilguard etc and wonder what the hell happened.
some in andromeda are decent, I agree with peebee and Vetra being good companions. Except Liam he's trash tier
it's like bitch but your shirt back on, your not blue or spikey get away from me
RPGs are often huge, sprawling endeavours. With limited playtime, we have to choose wisely, so here's the best western RPGs available today.
"I started playing games yesterday" the List... Meh!
How about a few RPGs that deserve some love instead?
1 - Alpha Protocol - Now on GOG
2 - else Heart.Break()
3 - Shadowrun Trilogy
4 - Wasteland 2
5 - UnderRail
6 - Tyranny
7 - Torment: Tides of Numenera
And for a bonus game that flew under the radar:
8 - Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden
Not only glorious jank, but the idea that the story can completely change depending on what you do, or say, or side with, makes it one of the most forward thinking games ever. The amount of story permutation is the equivalent of a Hitman level but in Story Form. And it wasn't just that the story changed, no, it was that you met completely new characters, or missed them, depending on your choices. Made Mass Effect feel static in comparison.
Alpha Protocol was absolutely glorious, indeed. And it was, and still is, more Next Gen than most anything out there these days. In this regard at least.
Pity.
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I just hope ME3 isn't altered to fit the lack of the first game on the triple.
i really liked the game but the actual story was kinda bogus, it stole from matrix and magnificent 7 (yea strange pair) and was basically a recruitment campaign with little story else wise. I loved the character development and specific character quests as well as the voice acting, but the actual story was actually 4 or 5 missions with the remainder being gathering your team. And don't get me started on the last boss...I mean seriously? (trying not to spoil too much)
Oooh... I really can't go with this viewpoint, personally.
First, people who say this really need to expand their experience with games to some of the classics (Planescape: Torment, Baldur's Gate, SWToR, etc.).
Second, as far as an overall narrative experience, ME2 was too disjointed and focused too much on inconsequential elements to the overall storyline. Not to say that it wasn't fun, but I definitely felt the first ME was a better written and narrative piece of work than the second. At no time in the first game, while doing quests, did I feel that everything wasn't central to the main storyline. But, in ME2 there was just so much that really didn't advance anything but the likability meter of a party member. It was actually half of the game.
U2 is way better.