Mass Effect has been on my list for a bit after a friend bought me the Legendary Edition, so I wouldn’t be surprised at all if it shows up soon.

I know a little bit about it, but have mostly not dug very deep into it due to wanting to jump in blind (at my friend’s request)

It’s entirely possible. I was just basing the guess it was designed with CRTs in mind because growing up, everyone my age still had a CRT until around 2008/2009, which we then replaced it with Plasma TVs. So it’s entirely possible my assumption is biased or skewed

I might look into that. It would be nice to use this on my CE playthrough with my friend. Experiencing it in a different way has been fun

I played The Last of us Part 2 and the OG Alan Wake while sick. Both are pretty linear narrative games with little to no puzzles.

The Halo 2 soundtrack has been my go to for driving for like the last month. It’s unreasonably good

Tic Tac Toe is still a pretty good time though. Legit that was how i killed time growing up, and even now, the number of spontaneous tic tac toe games i’ve started in games while playing with friends is pretty high

I think so unfortunately. I don’t think i could handle higher but i’d love to give it a try just once

Definitely, the item balancing is funny until you’re on the receiving end.

I play with my PS3 (sometimes PS5) controller hooked up through Steam. No way i could use wiimote for this

Wii is like the only game where i cant pull off the timing for it, otherwise my finger will just get sore waiting for it

Damn, i’ll have to try that next time. I’ve been collecting everything i can and hoarding it so it’d be fun to collect all the chests or something. Do they persist between instances of the camp?

The waiting does get painful lol. On the upside it makes for some fun moments when playing with friends. One of my friends was talking to Astarion, and i got bored and was curious if i could do anything to him while in a cutscene, so i just hurled a Chest at him and accidentally killed him. We ended up rolling back the save just in case but we all thought it was funny to see him cut off the conversation and attack me for that.

It was a complete accident too. Poor rat, it got confused for a chest and hurled at a campfire

The forge based maps have some really solid ones. There’s one called Asylum (I think?) that I like to play Slayer on. it’s got like this little tower in the center with bridges connecting it too two other platforms.

The high charity level was unbelievable. It just tossed you in front of some needler grunts and Brutes and called it a day. To this day the line “Watch out for the Captain, it’s got a Brute Shot” is still burned into my mind because of how many times I had to hear it

zealot feels perfect for Infection. I’m not sure if it’s the right corridors or what but it feels like the Infection map

Damn. Me and a friend took months to finish Halo 2 on legendary. I think I’d do a yearly replay if it wasn’t for that. I have lots of respect for you doing the replays

That’s what. I’ve been trying to get into game dev myself multiple times the last few years and it’s difficult. I can’t imagine getting one game out, let alone a second one. Getting that far I imagine has to drain a person

Some people find it to be repetitive and low effort, which, as much as I love doing these, I can understand their perspective. The last few days have been mostly Halo and Zomboid (and Shadow of Mordor one time) while I finish the move over to CachyOS. So I kind of understand where they’re coming from.

I still enjoy it though, and as long as other people are enjoying it, I’ll probably keep going (or until life requires too much time of me).

I didn’t discover this game until a few years ago, it blew my mind to find out it used to be 2D. I kind of want to go check out the oldest builds just to see what it’s like