http://blog.bioware.com/2017/05/09/mass-effect-andromeda-patch-1-06-notes/
There you go people.
@MEGAF1UX wrote:
@mcsupersport reddit? what do they think we are all 12? why wouldnt they be looking >HERE<? more of their asinine b/s! what next, "oh we check the feedback on fatchix.com so leave it there if you have any"? their entire approach is just STUPID, and ill be damned if im going to stop calling a spade a spade at this point.
for all those people crying about them not doing anything for single player.. YOU arent their long term sustainability, YOU arent the ones getting your friends to buy the game to play WITH you, and you arent the ones who will walk away and not look back. theyll fix the single player mode 20 times before they release all the paid DLC for this game (remember all MP dlc is supposed to be free) and they know from past experience that each time theyll pull you back in to atleast try again. single player people are easily regained, take a look at marvel heroes on pc or even darkspore.. once a multiplayer game has its population drop past a certain point its pretty much impossible to get it back (props to EA for keeping darkspore up as long as it did.. keeping the servers up for over a year with like 23 people a day playing the game is NOT something SOE would have done). so focusing on FIXING (see: NOT adding to) the multiplayer was the only real move they could make.
I disagree.
I have talked the Mass Effect games up to a number of people over the years and convinced them to try it because I loved the story so much. On tumblr because I write fanfiction for several of the bioware games I have convinced many who just played DA or SWTOR to also try the others and so on. SP folks can easily talk friends into playing - just so they have someone else to bounce ideas and theories with oe to gush over favorite characters. Do not underestimate the importance of ME SP. Without it there would be no ME games.
@Nykara360 wrote:
I disagree.
I have talked the Mass Effect games up to a number of people over the years and convinced them to try it because I loved the story so much. On tumblr because I write fanfiction for several of the bioware games I have convinced many who just played DA or SWTOR to also try the others and so on. SP folks can easily talk friends into playing - just so they have someone else to bounce ideas and theories with oe to gush over favorite characters. Do not underestimate the importance of ME SP. Without it there would be no ME games.
Indeed. If the game revolved mostly around MP, they wouldn't bother making a SP campaign that takes 50-100 hours to play through on average and come out with 5 MP maps.
Nobody in their right mind would say, hey, we will get 80% revenue out of MP and 20% out of SP, so let's spend 95% of our resources on SP...
Eh, devil's advocate time, but... going forward how much of their revenue is going to be DLC vs. MP?
@arthurh3535 heh.. almost ALL of it. me and several people i play with would have paid 40 JUST for a multiplayer mass effect game, the single player can rot on the shelf as far as im concerned.. ill play it when ALL the content is released, but im not going to be a sheep and keep running back to the game every time they release a new dlc for single player. only a few ignorant souls will waste $ on the multiplayer, you would HAVE to be ignorant because once you understand how the drops work it becomes obvious that you arent going to buy your way to the top without an absurd amount of money.. and then what? assuming you spent 5000$ on the game you would have bought your way out of having ANY motivation to actually play the game because there would be no drops left to get.
@Nykara360 people who sit around reading fan fiction arent gamers. they are just bored people who will do anything (including play games) to waste time while waiting to die. im also going to have to assume they arent even sci-fi fans if they have to be "talked into" playing one of the most iconic sci-fi games ever made. know what works though? seeing 12 people on your friend list all playing mass effect andromeda multiplayer, because even if they dont ask they receive the message. its subliminal. the mind says "i wish to be part of that group" without the person actually thinking it. doesnt apply to single player things though, because those are all "personal".
@MEGAF1UX wrote:
@Nykara360 people who sit around reading fan fiction arent gamers. they are just bored people who will do anything (including play games) to waste time while waiting to die. im also going to have to assume they arent even sci-fi fans if they have to be "talked into" playing one of the most iconic sci-fi games ever made. know what works though? seeing 12 people on your friend list all playing mass effect andromeda multiplayer, because even if they dont ask they receive the message. its subliminal. the mind says "i wish to be part of that group" without the person actually thinking it. doesnt apply to single player things though, because those are all "personal".
Based on these comments I have to say that you have a very strange way of looking at things.
Your views on what a gamer is or a sci-fi fan, well, it's a bit silly really. Especially the sci-fi fan bit, it's like saying you have to like Slayer to be a Metal fan, as if there aren't thousands and thousand of other bands and subgenres that exist within Metal that you could like instead... but because someone doesn't like that one iconic band they are suddenly not a Metal fan? That's just not a defendable definition. That's a narrow elitist view.
As I mentioned above... Why on earth would game developers spend so many resources on games for people that you don't seem to consider gamers? Because most of the resources in this game are spent on the single player experience. That's pretty much what BW does and the MP is a thing on the side really if you look at it.
You say that that's where the money is for them, but why create such a massive SP experience with millions and millions thrown against it, if that's not what makes them the money? Clearly, that is not something that you can defend with any sort of credibility. Is it a nice money maker at the side? Does it bring in some extra cash from the suckers who spent real money on it? Sure, I'd take that money too. But if that was the main money maker for this game, then clearly they would've made a 10-20 hour SP experience tops and really focus their resources on the MP bit.
If there are people who spend 60 bucks on a game that has 5 maps to do some co-op, I say, thanks for supporting the game and I hope it's worth the money spent on it. But I've played PvP games like Unreal Tournament and MMOs with lots of group content and PvP as well and I would never spent that much money just on a MP with 5 maps. I would wait till there were more maps and the game went on sale if I didn't care at all about the SP game. I'd be stealing from myself if I look at the money spent and what I got back for it.
So let me ask, if you're not interested in the SP side of the game, do you consider yourself a sci-fi fan? I really am curious about that.
I'm sorry but anyone that bought this game for the multiplayer clearly has no idea what the Mass Effect series is about. You bought the wrong game and that's your own mistake. You can get a better multiplayer experience from the many, many F2P games that are out there. Any MP content you get in a Mass Effect game is side content & should be considered a bonus. Its a basic horde game that has already been done better in other games. It is not a priority regardless of how broken it is.
Kind regards
95% of the Mass Effect fan base
@JDMStav wrote:
I'm sorry but anyone that bought this game for the multiplayer clearly has no idea what the Mass Effect series is about. You bought the wrong game and that's your own mistake. You can get a better multiplayer experience from the many, many F2P games that are out there. Any MP content you get in a Mass Effect game is side content & should be considered a bonus. Its a basic horde game that has already been done better in other games. It is not a priority regardless of how broken it is.
Kind regards
95% of the Mass Effect fan base
It shouldn't be a priority but unfortunately from what we've seen, it appears to be their priority. The gambling packs make them money so they're going to focus on that at the expense of the rest of the game. It's easier for them to just throw in a new weapon, a new map, maybe one enemy, instead of providing real DLC. We're just fortunate this multiplayer doesn't affect the single player portion of the game like it did previously.
Any single player notes have been vague and players had to either data mine or dive into the game itself to even find a change.
Any discussions on twitter from them have been mostly about multiplayer despite all the glaring issues with SP.
It's becoming more and more clear where their priority is and it's a common occurrence with game companies these days.
@EgoMania @JDMStav you guys are both misreading the situation.. why do you think they tacked on the multiplayer to begin with exactly? to appeal to a larger audience! thats the only reason most developers do it! dont jump to conclusions, im aware that some games are made PRIMARILY for multiplayer to begin with, nobody is saying otherwise. but ESPECIALLY in this case it was to pull in a larger base. and you know what? i have heard countless people rave about ME3 multiplayer! infact i have a friend list full of people who loved me3 and dragon age multiplayer! the multiplayer sells alot more copies than the single player would by itself, and then they charge for the single player dlc to milk people while the bulk of the team are working on their next project.
as far as elitism.. i am an elitist. not only for my honesty, but for knowing im better than 90% of the people out there. metal? for stoned pansies maybe! you dont call somebody who jogs once a week a marathon runner or sprinter because they are NOT the same thing! just because somebody engages in an activity does not grant them use of the name. i cook things every day yet i am no chef, and i OWN that. im not going to try to deny it or gain false credibility to prove that i am infact what i am not. i spend more time playing videogames than most people spend working (props to all the workaholics out there keeping the world ticking), when i say i am a gamer im owning it. its never been a fad or something i did to fit in (VERY much the opposite) to me, its been an addiction for 40+ fecking years. so i do infact take it a bit personally when you try to blanket all people who play videogames as "gamers".. if you play hidden object games you are no gamer! if you only play rpg's you are no gamer. if you have time for sitting there reading nonsense you are no gamer. would you go up to a pipe fitter and ask them "does this spot on my back look like cancer?" NO you would go to a DOCTOR for that! who the hell cares what a pipe fitter thinks about a spot?! so why would i or anyone developing a game care about what people who ARENT gamers think? am i sinking in?? if you arent a gamer you arent qualified TO have anything but an "uninformed" opinion about games. not a "considered" opinion, not a "professional" opinion, and certainly not an "expert" opinion.
bioware USED to do single player games, since 2011 every game they have made has either been full on multiplayer or had a multiplayer component. hmm.. i wonder why THAT is. could it be..
MONEY?!
i mean surely they dont care about THAT.. we all know EA doesnt! oh wait thats hippies not game developers/publishers.. infact almost every single game using the frostbite engine has ::ghasp:: multiplayer! and since they have spent alot of money creating and updating the engine we can only LOGICALLY come to the conclusion that its no accident that multiplayer is included in the games. its there by design. 4 of the 5 best selling games EVER have multiplayer modes. i dont think you guys comprehend how many people will look at a game and if theres no multiplayer they move on.. the steam forums are FULL of threads with people asking devs to atleast add a co-op mode. infact its pretty much as old as gaming itself. pong.. multiplayer game.. super mario brothers first thing you do is pick 1 or 2 players. the industry has evolved so it is alot more focused on it NOW than it was 30 years ago with you know.. the internet and all. but by all means keep deluding yourselves by saying "single player matters more" without the mass effect 3 multiplayer this franchise would have been forgotten about long ago though.
I'm not misreading anything. I know what the Mass Effect series is about and its not multiplayer... The fact that you have a list of friends that play ME3 multiplayer & Dragon Age mulitplayer means nothing. I know people that play rubbish games too... it doesn't mean that everyone likes to play rubbish games. I'm not saying the game shouldn't have a multiplayer mode. I'm saying that it has very little to do with the games popularity. It's not why the majority of people buy the game, its not why the franchise is so popular & it should not be a priority over fixing the single player game. When single player has been fixed you can moan all you want about multiplayer but until then I couldn't care less. It's bonus content, just be happy you have it in a story focused single player game to begin with.
The fact that you think it would be dead without mulitplayer shows how little you know about the previous 3 games. The replayablility in this game comes from its multiple options in dialog, multiple endings & multiple styles of play, not a half-arsed muliplayer horde mode we've see done better a thousand times before.
I was actually surprised with the MP. It was better than I expected (to be honest, I wasn't expecting much from it at all.... because its not a multiplayer focused game). When its working and not laggy as *, its a nice break from questing... but thats it. It's nothing new & not even a contender in the MP game market. I'm quite baffled why anyone would expect anything more than just a slightly improved version of ME3 multiplayer from it. Mass Effect isn't and never has been a multiplayer focused game. A "real gamer" as you put it, would be well aware of this fact and would go elsewhere for their multiplayer fix. Like the majority do...
I'm pretty sure the real issue with this game & many others at the moment is the whole pre-order culture anyway... Why finish making a game when you've already hit your targets on pre-orders alone...hmmmmm should we carry on working to finish the game or release it 80% finished and get the same money anyway??... I know what most people would do and these big game companies seem to be doing the same. Put up an embargo so nobody can review the game until the day it comes out & people won't have time to cancel their pre-orders... I understand they are all here for the money but this is getting pretty disgraceful.
I've learnt my lesson from this game at least. I won't be pre-ordering anything in future... i've had enough of paying full price to beta test games
@MEGAF1UX wrote:
@arthurh3535 heh.. almost ALL of it. me and several people i play with would have paid 40 JUST for a multiplayer mass effect game, the single player can rot on the shelf as far as im concerned.. ill play it when ALL the content is released, but im not going to be a sheep and keep running back to the game every time they release a new dlc for single player. only a few ignorant souls will waste $ on the multiplayer, you would HAVE to be ignorant because once you understand how the drops work it becomes obvious that you arent going to buy your way to the top without an absurd amount of money.. and then what? assuming you spent 5000$ on the game you would have bought your way out of having ANY motivation to actually play the game because there would be no drops left to get.
@Nykara360 people who sit around reading fan fiction arent gamers. they are just bored people who will do anything (including play games) to waste time while waiting to die. im also going to have to assume they arent even sci-fi fans if they have to be "talked into" playing one of the most iconic sci-fi games ever made. know what works though? seeing 12 people on your friend list all playing mass effect andromeda multiplayer, because even if they dont ask they receive the message. its subliminal. the mind says "i wish to be part of that group" without the person actually thinking it. doesnt apply to single player things though, because those are all "personal".
Excuse me but that is an extremely rude assumption. I read fanfiction and I am totally a gamer. Have been for 20 years. Fallout 1 and 2. The original diablo. Everquest and so on. I also wasnt entirely talking about those who read it, most of my friends, like me, write it because we found these games that inspiring. Some wrote and played only dragon age but now play both - with a little encouragment from me and others. Fanfiction writers write some of the best fiction, even better then published works and they put as much if not more time into it. Just because one enjoys a well crafted novel does not mean they don't game. What a crazy thing to even say.
[CM EDIT You're getting into insult territory now, please be respectful of fellow users. I'm going to start trimming inappropriate content. Remember that you can review the rules & guidelines on the about page.
[removed, again I think this went too far]
@MEGAF1UX wrote:
[Removed]
Are we just going to have a never ending "true scotsman" argument or are any of the future posts going to be about 1.06? Be as angry as you want in a thread I DON'T watch for updates about updates if you'd please. I don't care how old anybody is or their gamer cred - if you want a 'mine's bigger' thread make one.
@MEGAF1UX wrote:
[removed]
I listed like a couple of games I jave played in 20+ years. It would be impossible to list every. single. game. I have played. To which there is many.
I started in highschool sneaking floppy discs to the school computers of games like the original prince of persia, golden axe and wolfenstien, nibbles etc so that we could play them at lunch time. I had an original atari with games like asteroids, summer and winter games, double dragon, river raid, the cop vrs robbers one i forgot the name of it was so long ago. Then I had one with 128 built in games. After that an original nintendo and sega, all the mario games, alex kid, wonder boy, sonic the hedgehog and about 20+ various other games.
My first PC I had limited games because i just moved out of home - funds weren't forthcoming. But I managed Master of Orion 2. Fallout 1 and 2. Diablo. Civilization. Sim tower and sim city. Creatures. Black and white. Outpost (original and outpost 2), age of empires, command and conquer .. etc etc.. just some names I remeber.
I also played a ton of LA games and other adventure games, day of the tenticle, Sam and Max, Riven, Myst, the sci fi LA one i forgot the name of etc..
Then an original xbox, fable, kotor, guitar hero (actually we may have got it for the playstation originally and xbox later), I didn't play a heap on there because I was busy on my PC at the time with mmos, everquest, swg etc. I played swg full time for 8+ yrs. Did also play WoW in a raiding guild for a time.
Xbox 360 half life, halo, pinata, more guitar hero games, rock band games, mass effect trilogy, dragon age origins and da2, dead space, the lego star wars games and other lego games, fable 3, bioshock and a whole bunch of others.
In more recent times, The Secret World, Guild Wars (1 and 2), at the moment swtor. I also have 200+ games in my steam list. All of the Saints Row games, planet explorers, civilization games including the newer one, bioshock infinate, portal, 7 days to die, age of empires, spore(+expansion), all the star wars games, landmark, the repopulation, no mans sky, empyrion, creativerse, skyrim, jade empire, banished, state of decay, dark souls, darksiders, boarderlands and again, just a few.
We also have 2 xbox ones - one of which is pretty well solely used by me. Fallout 4, inquisition, andromeda, the disney infinity games (play them with my kid), minecraft, the newest diablo, destiny and sooo on. I give up trying to list them its only a very small percent anyways. Not sure what counts as a gamer to most but pretty sure playing games every. day. Qualifies.
P.S. oh and im also a girl but i guess we don't play games either anymore than fanfiction writers and readers do 😂😂😂😂. I also never said my work was better - ive been writing a short time compaired to many. I said theres a lot of fanfiction writers whose work is better. Truth. Im a reader and ill never look back from the amazing fanfic authors ive found now.
So um... Still no news on 1.06...
This is really starting to drag...
@nickc2496 wrote:
So um... Still no news on 1.06...
This is really starting to drag...
Yeah definitely.
After asking them here, on twitter and by email and getting 0 answer i've just.. give up.. i don't care much anymore.
I will put my second playtrough on hold until the game is properly fixed and maybe a dlc will came out.
i've been gaming for 26 years, or there abouts. if i only keep my fanfics in my head... what does that say about me?
also giving you props for bringing up myst and riven, nobody seems to remember those titles anymore.
@nickc2496 wrote:
So um... Still no news on 1.06...
This is really starting to drag...
*Supposed* to be something this week I believe. Anything, SP or MP, will be welcome... progress is progress.
@CasperTheLich wrote:
i've been gaming for 26 years, or there abouts. if i only keep my fanfics in my head... what does that say about me?
also giving you props for bringing up myst and riven, nobody seems to remember those titles anymore.
It says you like to daydream withoutthe hastle of trying to turn it into a story on paper?
I loved Riven and Myst both and tbh so many others I have forgotten names for by now. I forget far more games then I can remember for sure. Riven and Myst stick because my best friend was also playing it at the same time, we bounced solutions off each other 😆😆. Same reason diablo (original and diablo 2) sticks because we used to LAN it with the guys next door (one of whom ive been in a defacto with for years and we have a daughter together, unsurprisingly he is also a game programmer 😉).
@CasperTheLich wrote:
i've been gaming for 26 years, or there abouts. if i only keep my fanfics in my head... what does that say about me?
also giving you props for bringing up myst and riven, nobody seems to remember those titles anymore.
Oh man! I'm so waiting for a great VR rendetion/version of that style of puzzle game! They were so immersive back when they were released! Can't wait to do them in a competent Vurtial Reality sim.
@Nykara360 wrote:
It says you like to daydream withoutthe hastle of trying to turn it into a story on paper?I loved Riven and Myst both and tbh so many others I have forgotten names for by now. I forget far more games then I can remember for sure. Riven and Myst stick because my best friend was also playing it at the same time, we bounced solutions off each other 😆😆. Same reason diablo (original and diablo 2) sticks because we used to LAN it with the guys next door (one of whom ive been in a defacto with for years and we have a daughter together, unsurprisingly he is also a game programmer 😉).
so, you're taken... ratz. but, i should have figured. lol
Bah, the patch that comes is going to be multiplayer nothing more, nothing less. They aren't even really doing it right, I payed attention tot he stream they did on the 5th. Their whole system for how they "got their information" is botched.
Still waiting until june 5th. Nothing by then is when we start to force their hand.
Dang, Sam and Max is taking me back. :-) I recently grabbed the games and the sequel over at GOG.com (that place is addictive) including The Dig, Advent Rising, and the Wing Commander series which I loved as a kid. I'm tempted to dig out my old Nintendo and play some old school stuff on it but it's MIA in boxes along with my PS1. Arggh.
I haven't really been into much recent games until ME:A came along and it actually got me back into gaming. It also made me realize how few SF RPGs there are out there. Kind of sad. I would love to see more sci-fi games where you can explore space and land on planets to continue adventures including on the ship. Seems like a gap only EA/BW is filling unless the rumored Starfield is true.
Anyway, my third playthrough is currently on hold until it gets less buggy for me. I did a repair recently which kind of helped on my second PT but still, there were some issues. It's kind fo disappointing about the lack of communication and attention to SP but not too surprising these days I guess. I'll keep an ear on the ground but won't get my hopes up.
@RaeLarkham wrote:Dang, Sam and Max is taking me back. :-) I recently grabbed the games and the sequel over at GOG.com (that place is addictive) including The Dig, Advent Rising, and the Wing Commander series which I loved as a kid. I'm tempted to dig out my old Nintendo and play some old school stuff on it but it's MIA in boxes along with my PS1. Arggh.
I haven't really been into much recent games until ME:A came along and it actually got me back into gaming. It also made me realize how few SF RPGs there are out there. Kind of sad. I would love to see more sci-fi games where you can explore space and land on planets to continue adventures including on the ship. Seems like a gap only EA/BW is filling unless the rumored Starfield is true.
Anyway, my third playthrough is currently on hold until it gets less buggy for me. I did a repair recently which kind of helped on my second PT but still, there were some issues. It's kind fo disappointing about the lack of communication and attention to SP but not too surprising these days I guess. I'll keep an ear on the ground but won't get my hopes up.
If you are looking for another sci fi give planet explorers a crack - i haven't been back in a while but its had some massive patches and even before then the sp story wasn't half bad 🙂. The VA work isnt mass effect amazing but it wasn't terrible.
The Dig! Thanks thats the name I was trying to remember and couldnt lol
We totally need more sci fi 🙂. Although I don't mind fantasy, sci fi is far more my favorite. I even played the star trek voyager game and had some fun in the mp for it lol. Star Trek Online showed promise but I dunno. I didn’t end up enjoying it as much as I hoped. Same with the repopulation.
Also if you havent, try swtor - the story is all soloable and some of them are fantastic (especially the imperial agent story). Totally a must play at least once for all star wars / kotor fans just for the story. Its ftp too! You can easy do the stories without a sub.
@Nykara360 wrote:
@RaeLarkham wrote:Dang, Sam and Max is taking me back. :-) I recently grabbed the games and the sequel over at GOG.com (that place is addictive) including The Dig, Advent Rising, and the Wing Commander series which I loved as a kid. I'm tempted to dig out my old Nintendo and play some old school stuff on it but it's MIA in boxes along with my PS1. Arggh.
I haven't really been into much recent games until ME:A came along and it actually got me back into gaming. It also made me realize how few SF RPGs there are out there. Kind of sad. I would love to see more sci-fi games where you can explore space and land on planets to continue adventures including on the ship. Seems like a gap only EA/BW is filling unless the rumored Starfield is true.
Anyway, my third playthrough is currently on hold until it gets less buggy for me. I did a repair recently which kind of helped on my second PT but still, there were some issues. It's kind fo disappointing about the lack of communication and attention to SP but not too surprising these days I guess. I'll keep an ear on the ground but won't get my hopes up.
If you are looking for another sci fi give planet explorers a crack - i haven't been back in a while but its had some massive patches and even before then the sp story wasn't half bad 🙂. The VA work isnt mass effect amazing but it wasn't terrible.
The Dig! Thanks thats the name I was trying to remember and couldnt lol
We totally need more sci fi 🙂. Although I don't mind fantasy, sci fi is far more my favorite. I even played the star trek voyager game and had some fun in the mp for it lol. Star Trek Online showed promise but I dunno. I didn’t end up enjoying it as much as I hoped. Same with the repopulation.
Also if you havent, try swtor - the story is all soloable and some of them are fantastic (especially the imperial agent story). Totally a must play at least once for all star wars / kotor fans just for the story. Its ftp too! You can easy do the stories without a sub.
Planet Explorers? I'll definitely check that out. Thanks!
I guess I should have added also where you can choose your own character also since that is also a rarity. I was kind of bummed I couldn't play as a chick in Advent Rising but still...that didn't stop me from enjoying the Uncharted series. :-)
I agreel RPGs seem to be synonymous with fantasy since Gauntlet and BG sort of kicked off things many moons ago, but I would love to see more sci-fi since it's always been my fave genre. It's kinda funny, I think we feel opposites with TOR and STO. I really enjoyed STO and recently got back to it since we started a TNG marathon. It had been so long my husband and I restarted it from the beginning and I'm looking forward to playing the episodes again.
Whereas TOR I couldn't really get into it for some reason and I love SW like I love ST. Not sure why, but for some reason it didn't keep my interest. Maybe one day I'll try it again though. I loved KOTOR but never finished it. Need to zip back and finish that one day also but I think I got stuck at one part lol.
@RaeLarkham wrote:
@Nykara360 wrote:
@RaeLarkham wrote:Dang, Sam and Max is taking me back. :-) I recently grabbed the games and the sequel over at GOG.com (that place is addictive) including The Dig, Advent Rising, and the Wing Commander series which I loved as a kid. I'm tempted to dig out my old Nintendo and play some old school stuff on it but it's MIA in boxes along with my PS1. Arggh.
I haven't really been into much recent games until ME:A came along and it actually got me back into gaming. It also made me realize how few SF RPGs there are out there. Kind of sad. I would love to see more sci-fi games where you can explore space and land on planets to continue adventures including on the ship. Seems like a gap only EA/BW is filling unless the rumored Starfield is true.
Anyway, my third playthrough is currently on hold until it gets less buggy for me. I did a repair recently which kind of helped on my second PT but still, there were some issues. It's kind fo disappointing about the lack of communication and attention to SP but not too surprising these days I guess. I'll keep an ear on the ground but won't get my hopes up.
If you are looking for another sci fi give planet explorers a crack - i haven't been back in a while but its had some massive patches and even before then the sp story wasn't half bad 🙂. The VA work isnt mass effect amazing but it wasn't terrible.
The Dig! Thanks thats the name I was trying to remember and couldnt lol
We totally need more sci fi 🙂. Although I don't mind fantasy, sci fi is far more my favorite. I even played the star trek voyager game and had some fun in the mp for it lol. Star Trek Online showed promise but I dunno. I didn’t end up enjoying it as much as I hoped. Same with the repopulation.
Also if you havent, try swtor - the story is all soloable and some of them are fantastic (especially the imperial agent story). Totally a must play at least once for all star wars / kotor fans just for the story. Its ftp too! You can easy do the stories without a sub.
Planet Explorers? I'll definitely check that out. Thanks!
I guess I should have added also where you can choose your own character also since that is also a rarity. I was kind of bummed I couldn't play as a chick in Advent Rising but still...that didn't stop me from enjoying the Uncharted series. :-)
I agreel RPGs seem to be synonymous with fantasy since Gauntlet and BG sort of kicked off things many moons ago, but I would love to see more sci-fi since it's always been my fave genre. It's kinda funny, I think we feel opposites with TOR and STO. I really enjoyed STO and recently got back to it since we started a TNG marathon. It had been so long my husband and I restarted it from the beginning and I'm looking forward to playing the episodes again.
Whereas TOR I couldn't really get into it for some reason and I love SW like I love ST. Not sure why, but for some reason it didn't keep my interest. Maybe one day I'll try it again though. I loved KOTOR but never finished it. Need to zip back and finish that one day also but I think I got stuck at one part lol.
Not sure if they added more character custom yet but you can choose between male or female in planet explorers - it also has some story choice elements (your char isnt voiced tho iirc, just all the others are). You can pick your responses.
SWTOR in the early days wasn't much fun tbh, the combat was too difficult to make it fun. I went back about a year ago and played allll the stories. Its much more playable now 🙂 and fun. They also boosted exp so you only have to do the main planet and class stories and none of the side quests. When they run dbl xp you can power right through the class story without having to redo the planet ones too.
STO had too much ship combat for my tastes I think. I much prefer to have my feet on the ground to flying a ship.
