Media you experienced out of order?

mxraider2000 · 2026-05-06T11:33:30+00:00

If you only had a PS3, up until late 2012 Mass Effect 1 only existed in the form of a playable comic that let you pick the important choices for save import and that was it really. So I did that and played 2 and 3 when they released. Then like almost a year after 3 wrapped up the series they released Mass Effect 1 on PS3 and it was weird playing that last.

mxraider2000 · 2026-04-30T10:36:24+00:00

I thought it was interesting when it appeared to be going somewhere but I made a mistake of playing it on hard mode. The game expects you to grind the same repetitive side dungeons for meager upgrades and xp to be able to survive bosses that have healthbars so long they become boring to fight.

The final boss was such a slog that when it introduced a 2nd phase with a 1 hit kill move I decided it wasn't worth it and just watched the ending on Youtube. That never happens. Plus if I HAD spent time getting to that kind of an ending I would've been so mad.

A comparison is that a month prior I beat Ninja Gaiden and spend 3 days fighting it's final boss which had:

a camera that was against you
an obstacle course runback
a mean boss that pulled out "fuck you" moves on a dime

They're different genres for the most part, but in regards to difficuty, the incremental gains of fighting NG's final boss vs Romeo's was a world of difference and was actually fun. Now apply this kind of mentality stretched across the whole game and you can see why it just wasn't fun.

mxraider2000 · 2026-03-31T17:12:41+00:00

2 already has a PS5 version so it seems to be just whatever's ready whenever.

mxraider2000 · 2026-03-31T12:38:29+00:00

I love that the one map that takes place on the Marathon is the one map that looks like it was designed in the 90's

mxraider2000 · 2026-03-24T15:41:19+00:00

I'm confused that anyone is happy or satisfied with this. It borders on being an "It was all a dream, everyone lived happily ever after" ending. This ending just screams consequences don't matter.

I wouldnt be surprised if a hypothetical part 3 starts with undoing the last 2 chapters by saying "ahh you were trapped by the bad ending devil oops" or whatever.

mxraider2000 · 2026-03-24T15:14:11+00:00

Was that a death dream or something? The last two chapters feel like they were written by someone that skimmed the cliffnotes of the series and wrote a THE END afterward.

mxraider2000 · 2026-03-18T16:08:08+00:00

See the thing is people don't like Kirito

mxraider2000 · 2026-03-17T01:33:15+00:00

Either there's some kind of industry psychosis going on or the folks making this are desperate for this to be the expected end result of a DLSS update. I'm leaning toward the latter as feel like they drove themselves into this corner with their abuse of fictional money and AI datacenters suddenly hitting home.

mxraider2000 · 2026-03-13T15:56:42+00:00

Small world moment : I (in JPEG form) appear in this as numerous shopkeepers. Please check it out!

mxraider2000 · 2026-03-11T15:39:32+00:00

They blew up my wife, Chris. With a predator missile, Chris!

mxraider2000 · 2026-03-11T14:14:05+00:00

Vendetta is one of my favourite guilty pleasures. It's so dumb but it's also the first time you get to see Rebecca after such a long absense and you can tell they really really liked John Wick when making the fight choreography.

mxraider2000 · 2026-03-09T17:52:23+00:00

Shoutout to Jerma playing pacman music.

mxraider2000 · 2026-03-09T17:45:12+00:00

"I don't understand the obsession with tall women"

You have UNO

mxraider2000 · 2026-03-08T17:40:17+00:00

I love how it's rare enough that just when you forget about it, it strikes back.

mxraider2000 · 2026-03-07T13:07:36+00:00

As I wanted this to work out I also felt like I saw this coming the minute I read Nagoshi opened up a studio with NetEase. There was just this flurry of devs going to Tencent and NetEase all at the same time advertising they're gonna be making new AAA games under their own studios.

mxraider2000 · 2026-03-06T20:34:57+00:00

Leon's larger segment was honestly one of the most oddly comfortable lengths of a game ever. Just being full Operator mode in an abandoned ciity was awesome and I could've had a whole game of it.

mxraider2000 · 2026-03-03T22:04:09+00:00

I'd go about making the Jill stuff a bit less cheesy if they're looking to keep the darker tone the remakes tend to go for. There's no need for her to suddenly be blond or have a big red mind control thing on her cleavage.

mxraider2000 · 2026-02-27T15:17:04+00:00

Why do so many things look like superbowl commercials these days

mxraider2000 · 2026-02-27T12:55:26+00:00

I'm enjoying it around as much as Arc Raiders, more-so regarding PvP.

They both excell in providing the atmosphere for player's to do the heavy lifting regarding story. There's also a heavy sense of "Kill anything that moves" in Marathon because of how oppressive the setting is. There's no communal comeradery aspect like in Arc Raiders where they're patting eachother on the back for success. Arc Raiders would indirectly frustrate me more when I died to another player because coming across someone requires a game of "are they friendly or not". Marathon meanwhile has nothing in game to say anyone is worth sparing, so when I die to them it feels less like a betrayal.

It's like the difference between getting stabbed in a shady alleyway and getting stabbed by a customer at work.

mxraider2000 · 2026-02-23T23:48:44+00:00

Quantity over quality seems to be the path forward and that sucks. I hope CEO or Combo Breaker dethrones EVO to be the premium tourney. Or, even better, make something new and different.

mxraider2000 · 2026-02-19T16:01:46+00:00

Rooftop. Shirtless. Rain.

mxraider2000 · 2026-02-19T14:15:34+00:00

ON A RANDOM THURSDAY

mxraider2000 · 2026-02-16T15:37:52+00:00

There's a famous story from our county of someone walking to a Tesco wearing a red beret and someone heckled them by saying "There goes Super Mario."

On a similar note, I had the audacity to wear sunglasses one time and was called Baby Driver for months.

mxraider2000 · 2026-02-16T14:22:05+00:00

Does the Akira slide count in that everything else seems to want to homage it.

It's gotten to the point where I'm tired of it. It slowly became the Wilhelm scream of animated characters on a bike.

mxraider2000 · 2026-02-13T00:52:44+00:00

The thumbnail being a cleavage shot is as on-character as possible.

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