Your video game hot take(s) thread

[Bob_McMillan]

People like choice in Role Playing Games, it's kinda the whole point. That said, Morinth was basically the joke option, yeah

I know it's a personal quirk of mine to not really derive any enjoyment out of making choices, hence it being a hot take. I was imagining how much better of a game (or at least story) Mass Effect could be if Bioware really focused their writing abilities on making one good playthrough.

But I stand by my argument that a shit ton of the choices in ME could have easily been streamlined to save time and money that could be better used elsewhere in development.

 

[Casual Shinji]

Another hot take: Liara is fucken annoying and I don't get why she is so many people's space-waifu.

Because she's blue and she has tits. Duh!

 

[Bob_McMillan]

Because she's blue and she has tits. Duh!

Counterpoint: Tali is purple and has tits AND ass. Seriously though, I think I'm more drawn to Tali as a romance option because her face is kept hidden. Not a big fan of Liara's voice and her personality, but man does she have one hell of a Bioware face.

 

[Casual Shinji]

Counterpoint: Tali is purple and has tits AND ass. Seriously though, I think I'm more drawn to Tali as a romance option because her face is kept hidden. Not a big fan of Liara's voice and her personality, but man does she have one hell of a Bioware face.

And I think she's just as popular. She was in fact so popular after the first game that Bioware gave her a "sex" scene in ME2, eventhough it could kill her. And Tali just goes along with it because Shepard i.e. the player is just too awesome not to, I guess.

And yeah, every character with a human face kinda has Bioware face. Samara might be the only decent looking one. I do think Liara's face clears up a bit in ME3 though.

 

[Specter Von Baren]

Another hot take: Liara is fucken annoying and I don't get why she is so many people's space-waifu.

I think it's because she comes from a race of space lesbians. Or because her species reminds people of Twi'leks from Star Wars.

 

[Casual Shinji]

I think it's because she comes from a race of space lesbians. Or because her species reminds people of Twi'leks from Star Wars.

Wrong dude, Liara clearly stated her species is mono-gendered. The fact that they look like hot, alien, space ladies that go both ways (and don't age) is totally by accident, and CERTAINLY not so they can appeal to horny guys.

 

[Bob_McMillan]

And I think she's just as popular. She was in fact so popular after the first game that Bioware gave her a "sex" scene in ME2, eventhough it could kill her. And Tali just goes along with it because Shepard i.e. the player is just too awesome not to, I guess.

And yeah, every character with a human face kinda has Bioware face. Samara might be the only decent looking one. I do think Liara's face clears up a bit in ME3 though.

I know Tali is popular, but I've always seen Liara as the face of Mass Effect. In both official content and content of an adult persuasion. Granted, that could just be people's obsession with Asari in general, not Liara herself.

I think it's because she comes from a race of space lesbians. Or because her species reminds people of Twi'leks from Star Wars.

See that's the funny thing too, I think Asari are all kinda gross. Very uncanny valley. But it wouldn't surprise me at all it people are into them purely because of the idea that they're sexy space lesbians.

 

[BrawlMan]

Any game that markets "Your choices matter!" in to the forefront I never trusted for a reason. That includes Telltale, and even Supermassive Games catalogue. I've barely only played the first Mass Effect, but never finished due to lack of interest. It was my older brother's copy anyway, and he sold at some point. I regret nothing. Funny enough, my big bro can't get enough of Supermassive's titles.

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

Any game that markets "Your choices matter!" in to the forefront I never trusted for a reason.

That's always been a weird marketing line. I mean, the choice of whether or not I use a warp pipe in Super Mario Bros. "matters".

 

[Casual Shinji]

See that's the funny thing too, I think Asari are all kinda gross. Very uncanny valley. But it wouldn't surprise me at all it people are into them purely because of the idea that they're sexy space lesbians.

It's no coincidence that the only alien squad mates you get are of the species that look humanoid enough for players to jump into the sack with. The far more visually interesting aliens, like the hanar, the volus, and the elcor get completely ignored.

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

It's no coincidence that the only alien squad mates you get are of the species that look humanoid enough for players to jump into the sack with. The far more visually interesting aliens, like the hanar, the volus, and the elcor get completely ignored.

WREX WASN'T A ROMANCE OPTION.

 

[Chimpzy]

It's no coincidence that the only alien squad mates you get are of the species that look humanoid enough for players to jump into the sack with. The far more visually interesting aliens, like the hanar, the volus, and the elcor get completely ignored.

Also conveniently means the devs don't need to do a ton of rigging and animation work for non-humanoid squaddies, they can just reuse the human ones.

Maybe not the reason you don't get non-humanoid squaddies, but no doubt a reason.

 

[XsjadoBlayde]

It's no coincidence that the only alien squad mates you get are of the species that look humanoid enough for players to jump into the sack with. The far more visually interesting aliens, like the hanar, the volus, and the elcor get completely ignored.

Is a damn shameful pity really, the volus would be tender and passionate lovers.

 

[Casual Shinji]

Is a damn shameful pity really, the volus would be tender and passionate lovers.

I'm sure there's some Danny DeVito stans out there.

Also conveniently means the devs don't need to do a ton of rigging and animation work for non-humanoid squaddies, they can just reuse the human ones.

Maybe not the reason you don't get non-humanoid squaddies, but no doubt a reason.

That might actually be the reason, but we don't even get any non-humanoid aliens just chillin' on the Normandy or anything.

 

[Dalisclock]

Counterpoint: Tali is purple and has tits AND ass. Seriously though, I think I'm more drawn to Tali as a romance option because her face is kept hidden. Not a big fan of Liara's voice and her personality, but man does she have one hell of a Bioware face.

Tali, sadly, doesn't have a femshep romance option. Which I guess is fine if Tali isn't into ladies, but that means Femshep is left with Liara if she wants to do scissor action.

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

was

We're very likely never going to see Bloodborne 2. Notably because aside from the Dark Souls Trilogy, Modern FromSoft seems not particularly interested in doing direct follow ups. Dark Souls was a Spiritual Successor to Demons Souls, Bloodborne was a spiritual successor to Dark Souls. Sekiro took some souls aspects but then something very different with it in its combat system. Elden Ring is basically a big spiritual successor to all the games they've made in the last 15 years without being a direct follow up.Dark Soul 2 was trying to be something notably different from Dark Souls but the troubled dev cycle and console limitations ended up causing it to be something quite different then it's original intent. Dark Souls 3....feels almost like a apology for Dark Souls 2's reception, considering how was mostly a refinement of Dark Souls and Bloodborne and mostly ignored 2 entirely.

Also the fact that both Dark Souls 3 and Elden Ring show obvious influences from Bloodborne, both in Some of the level design(the Eternal Cities in feel like something directly out of Bloodborne) and the emphasis of horrifying things filtering down from the stars in Elden RIng. Dark Souls 3, aside from the faster combat system, has a big theme of humans reverting to beasts.They're already cribbing elements for their other games, so it feel less likely they'd just do a flat out sequel when they can just crib themes and iconography as needed.

But honestly the big thing is the fact that Bloodborne 2 would have surpass the expectations of the original game and I have no fucking clue how they would do that at this point. Bloodborne feels like lightning in a fucking bottle and while it's not perfect, it's so tight and finely tuned that it made a great impression, but trying to just do BB again would be underwhelming at this point.

Yeah, as much as I’d like to see it, I’d think a sequel would be detrimental to the IP in all respects aside from the financial incentives. Who knows, maybe Miyazaki could pull off a miracle and beat the odds, but it would still ultimately fee derivative like all sequels. The best thing we could hope for is a 60hz-120hz remaster that fixes what little flaws the original had.

 

[Gordon_4]

Tali, sadly, doesn't have a femshep romance option. Which I guess is fine if Tali isn't into ladies, but that means Femshep is left with Liara if she wants to do scissor action.

Not so, in Mass Effect 3 there is Specialist Traynor; the galaxy's thirstiest chess nerd.

I kid of course because I love Traynor because I think she's hilarious.

WREX WASN'T A ROMANCE OPTION.

And the game, indeed the universe, was poorer for it.

 

[Dalisclock]

And the game, indeed the universe, was poorer for it.

I would ask how WREX would even work as a romance option but then I realized I don't have an advanced degree in physics and I also don't want that image stuck in my brain.

 

[BrawlMan]

I would ask how WREX would even work as a romance option but then I realized I don't have an advanced degree in physics and I also don't want that image stuck in my brain.

Think, @Dalisclock! Think of all the unseen potential from such a pairing! If BioWare wanted to be truly inclusive, they would have made such pairing as this and many others, more possible and available! Giving nearly everyone everything they ever wanted, even if they didn't know they wanted it! And with that potential, they would have had even more fans on board for the Mass Effect series. If not for EA's blind greed, the series would have been unstoppable! Hahaha!

 

[Asita]

It's no coincidence that the only alien squad mates you get are of the species that look humanoid enough for players to jump into the sack with. The far more visually interesting aliens, like the hanar, the volus, and the elcor get completely ignored.

I maintain that ME3 should have had a Rachni companion. If they're going to lock a companion behind DLC, they can sure as hell follow through on their 'choices matter' pitch and have a companion locked behind a choice from the first game. Just imagine that, a young queen shows up because it's the best chance to build bridges with a galactic community that still thinks of the Rachni as the monster under the bed. They can't stay hidden forever, and generating some goodwill would simply be prudent.

She and Shepard (likely by way of EDI) hash out a communication system, and guess what? Through your camaraderie, you've got a direct role in shaping the future culture and attitudes of the Rachni. Cue Utukku, wherein you find the reaper-rachni, and suddenly that has so much more weight. Assuming that they still kept the 'same queen' angle (my frustrations with that in the actual game notwithstanding), then suddenly that's not just the Rachni you spared, that's your comrade's mother...who has been turned into an enslaved monster. Can she be saved, or is that an exercise in futility at this point? Is it mercy to end her after the Reapers modified her so? How well is she actually fighting the reapers' influence? And of course there's the obvious roller coaster that is how your Rachni companion reacts to this. It could have been such a good callback to Liara and Benezia's confrontation in the first game.