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Topic	When a game series dramatically changes its battle system...
ParanoidObsessive 03/18/21 6:48:23 AM #34:	FatalAccident posted... honestly if andromedas story and cast were a bit more engaging, it might be the best game in the franchise cos combat was fantastic Story and cast weren't even the biggest problems with the game. Tons of bugs on release and piss-poor art design is a large part of what hurt it. Fix those two and get a better VO director to slap around some of the lazier dialogue issues and it would have done wonders. It would never have been the best game in the franchise, though. But it could have been an acceptable new direction for the franchise that fans embraced rather than something that gets clowned on so hard that it essentially becomes a poisoned well/dead end. dragon504 posted... Bleh, adding ammo to all of the guns in the form of heat sinks was stupid as hell. Adding it as a mechanic was fine. The narrative implementation of it was the issue. Every race in the entire galaxy switching from self-cooling guns to ammo-based heat sinks in the span of two years, and basing their tech around a universe heat sink template, is quite possibly the most unrealistic thing in the entire franchise (which is saying a lot). Even BioWare was aware of this, which is why they had Conrad basically point out how stupid it was in ME3, and all Shepard could really do is tell Conrad to shut up rather than justify it in any real way. It made sense to shift to it if you're trying to shift gameplay from RPG with TPS elements to cover-based shooter with RPG elements (because you keep resource management as a gameplay factor but don't have combat slowed down by forced cooling pauses or have people like me mod all their guns with heat-dampening mods that render heat management effectively nonexistent), but it was something they couldn't retcon away the same way they did other things (like regenerating health, loss of all prior skill levels, and different ability load-outs) by just pointing out that Shepard's a cyborg now. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family <cite>ParanoidObsessive posted [p:951836704] in When a gam... [t:79347038]...</cite> <quote><cite>FatalAccident posted...</cite> <quote>honestly if andromedas story and cast were a bit more engaging, it might be the best game in the franchise cos combat was fantastic </quote> Story and cast weren't even the biggest problems with the game. Tons of bugs on release and piss-poor art design is a large part of what hurt it. Fix those two and get a better VO director to slap around some of the lazier dialogue issues and it would have done wonders. It would never have been the best game in the franchise, though. But it could have been an acceptable new direction for the franchise that fans embraced rather than something that gets clowned on so hard that it essentially becomes a poisoned well/dead end. <cite>dragon504 posted...</cite> <quote>Bleh, adding ammo to all of the guns in the form of heat sinks was stupid as hell.</quote> Adding it as a mechanic was fine. The narrative implementation of it was the issue. Every race in the entire galaxy switching from self-cooling guns to ammo-based heat sinks in the span of two years, and basing their tech around a universe heat sink template, is quite possibly the most unrealistic thing in the entire franchise (which is saying a lot). Even BioWare was aware of this, which is why they had Conrad basically point out how stupid it was in ME3, and all Shepard could really do is tell Conrad to shut up rather than justify it in any real way. It made sense to shift to it if you're trying to shift gameplay from RPG with TPS elements to cover-based shooter with RPG elements (because you keep resource management as a gameplay factor but don't have combat slowed down by forced cooling pauses or have people like me mod all their guns with heat-dampening mods that render heat management effectively nonexistent), but it was something they couldn't retcon away the same way they did other things (like regenerating health, loss of all prior skill levels, and different ability load-outs) by just pointing out that Shepard's a cyborg now. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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