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    Mass Effect 3: Multiplayer: Is anyone playing it? I'm just starting.

    Regarding the sync-kills (one-shot), they can't be performed on an incline. So find a staircase and stay lower/higher to neutralize that attack if you're being charged down by a Banshee (for example). Also, the Geth Juggernaut class is immune to sync-kills. Stick with bronze/silver while...
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    Poll: Your Favorite Final Fantasy after 7

    Can't vote, no FF Tactics
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    Please help an old and starving gamer

    Alien: Isolation Banner Saga Call of Juarez Divinity: Original Sin & 2 Dragon Age Metro series Shadowrun Returns & Dragonfall & Hong Kong Spec Ops: The Line XCOM & 2 Your list appears to have some pretty big holes...
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    Do You...Collect?

    I don't so much 'collect' as 'refuse to let go.' Apart from the games I've had stolen, I've still got all the games I ever acquired, and can probably name on one hand the games I've sold. It amounts to a fairly respectable collection going back to the NES generation, but only of the games I...
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    When a Game Concludes Juuuuuuust right

    Came here to write this, almost word for word. So, kudos.
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    A mini-rant on RPGs to start off the week (FF9 and DA: Origins)

    Having played thousands upon thousands of hours of Final Fantasy games -- from FF1 to Mystic Quest to FF Tactics to FFXII -- I'm embarrassed that I can't recall for certain off the top of my head, but I cannot remember a single of the SNES or PSX era FFs (excluding FFT) having enemy stats on...
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    ME: Andromeda: A Postmortem

    This context may be unnecessary, but know that I played through the Mass Effect trilogy a full dozen times and then some, and reached the top 1% in the worldwide leaderboards on ME3 multiplayer (after 600+ hrs); it should go without saying that I love me some Mass Effect. And I did not love...
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    New Gaming PC - Recommend me some AAA current gen games!

    I found the environments kind of neat, and they actually change as the story progresses, but the 2nd/3rd planets were to me lackluster and didn't showcase well. Whoever complained about 'planet scanning' is flat wrong -- this isn't ME2: resources are easily collected as you travel and even with...
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    Games/mechanics that make you feel "badass"

    Just Cause 2. The grapple/parachute mechanics were in no way believable but led to delightful, cartoonish antics that left you feeling like the master of badass, even at level one. Even though it grew old pretty quickly and was overpowered and out-of-place in it's own universe, the super...
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    Games with "Anime-esque" Intros

    Would you say that Ni No Kuni... ....and Valkyria Chronicles... ...count as 'anime intros'??
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    Zero Punctuation: Nier Automata

    Regarding the symbolism of the name "9S", in networking the reliability of a network is often expressed with a series of "nines," [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_availability#.22Nines.22] (eg. "five nines" = 99.999% availability, which translates into fractional seconds of downtime measured...
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    Why aren't there more space opera RPGs?

    For those arguing that the scale is too daunting, may I remind you that Star Wars (arguably the most successful and beloved space-opera movie of all time) was set on a desert planet, a spaceship, a second kind of spaceship, and a jungle planet...whose brief appearance mostly featured a dimly-lit...
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    Why aren't there more space opera RPGs?

    I dunno, if you add 'space-' in front of the name all the key points line up well enough... space-elves (asari/Vulcans), space-dwarves (krogan/Klingon), the other kind of space-elves (turian/Romulan), space-humans (um...the humans). The stage and the actors are mostly superficial trappings...
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    Watching Figthing Games: Who's Your Favorite Character to Watch in Action?

    Snake Eyez playing Zangief in Street Fighter IV. His performance in the 2014 SoCal regional is just one for the ages. (3 parts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMhIT-TqxzI, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hboS_Feiow4, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUyhM1Ci0Ko) I also liked PieSmug's Dudley...