We’re heading into a 3 day weekend for most folks in the US celebrating Juneteenth next Monday. So, whatcha playin!?
Newest releases:
- Dordogne (6/13) [PS5, XSX, Switch, PC]
- Crome Boss: Rockay City (6/15) [PS5, XSX]
- Fall of Porcupine (6/15) [PS5, XSX, Switch, PC]
- Layers of Fear (6/15) [PS5, XSX, PC]
- ProtoCorgi (6/15) [Switch, PC]
- F1 23 (6/16) [PS5, XSX, PC]
- Park Beyond (6/16) [PS5, XSX, PC]
Reliving some good times with the Mass Effect: Legendary Edition that I picked up a couple weeks ago. Also playing Tiny Tina’s Wonderland with the wife and it’s been a blast.
Never played 3 but I loved the first two Mass Effects. Never tried Tiny Tina but I’ve played a good amount of Borderlands, could you tell me how the gameplay is different?
BL and TTWL all play very similar. I haven’t reached end game yet in TTWL, but so far the story is fun and amusing. The great writing is there, the core mechanics of all the other games are still there with more of a fantasy vibe thrown in (but it’s still a shooter, with explosions).
A few specifics differences is how the class system works. It seemed a bit more limited at first, but I think it works super well. You pick a class and you only get 1 skill tree, but at a certain part of the game you multi class and you pick any of the other classes to combine with. So you end up with only 2 skill trees, when normally you’d get 3 in the other games, but honestly most of the builds I’d run in the other games only ended up using 2 of the 3 skill trees anyway so it works out pretty well.
Since it’s a tabletop RPG setting, you also have a lot more flexibility in creating your character. The downside is that you are always refered to as “Hero” or “The Player” instead of a name.
Really enjoying it so far. I hope the end game holds up just as well because I really like farming for awesome items and taking on all the challenges, raid bosses, etc.
Legendary Edition sounds good. ME2 is my favourite so not sure whether to start there or invest the 30 hours in playing ME1 first though.
The combat has been improved in ME1 if that helps. The combat HUD is redesigned to be similar to ME3. Getting into cover during combat is easier, although getting into cover on accident when you want to run past something also happens a lot. Lots of cooldowns have been reduced.
Bunch of QoL added as well. Sprinting on the Citadel, mark gear as junk for quick sell, sorting your inventory.
Exalted March on YouTube does an incredible job talking about the 3 games in the LE. The title is certainly click baity, but he explains out the gate that he’s not trashing ME2, he loves ME2, he’s just trying to point out how great ME1 and 3 are and comparing them together again with the LE release. I think he pulls it off very well.
https://youtu.be/uPr2UloNfOQ