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[Ruin Explorer]

Did you speak to anyone? They all talk like they have been living there decades.

They mostly don't though, they refer to specific time frames which aren't decades.

Is the game generally clumsily written? Yes. That's a big problem. The whole thing reads like a completely unpolished first draft.

Certainly quite long enough for all kinds of social problems to develop (which only you can solve).

I can only, off-hand, think of one place where that's true, Kadara, which used to be an Angara port. That place does fit what you're saying and whilst it has pre-human-arrival history it's unclear how long the humans have been there and the vibes are more like 10+ years than 1 year. The rest it's typical Shepardian making decisions for other people!

That's when you were there yesterday and it was an uninhabited rock.

I can't really think of any where you visited them and then they changed dramatically. Which ones are you thinking of?

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Also LOL that meta critic means jack or squat.

I mean, it has a pretty precise meaning, which is that virtually all reviews gave the game 9/10 at a minimum, but okay lol.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I can't really think of any where you visited them and then they changed dramatically. Which ones are you thinking of

All of them. If you do the mission to found the colony, leave, then go straight back again it will have instantly sprung up into a small town.

And at least one has become a wretched hive of scum and villainy in that time.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

And at least one has become a wretched hive of scum and villainy in that time.

Which one? Because if you're thinking of Kadara, and I am pretty sure you are, then you're confused - the "colony" you found is not the main city/port, it's a small installation with a few people in it some distance away.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Which one? Because if you're thinking of Kadara, and I am pretty sure you are, then you're confused - the "colony" you found is not the main city/port, it's a small installation with a few people in it some distance away.

I don’t remember, but I remember thinking it made no sense. It would take even longer for a newly founded colony to establish satellite settlements, and then for those settlements to degenerate into crime-towns.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

I don’t remember, but I remember thinking it made no sense. It would take even longer for a newly founded colony to establish satellite settlements, and then for those settlements to degenerate into crime-towns.

You're describing Kadara. There's only one. It doesn't really make sense because it's full of "exiles" from the various colonies, which would take at least a few years to happen, but it's not a case of "establish colony, suddenly crimetown". The colony you establish there is on a planet where crimetown already exists for very questionable reasons.

 

[Pale Violet Light]

Mass Effect only had 1 game much like there was only 1 Highlander movie (obviously).

Oh yeah? I say there were NO Mass Effect games. Take that!

 

[Joshua Randall]

Oh yeah? I say there were NO Mass Effect games. Take that!

It’s true. There were also no Final Fantasy games, because obviously, if there were, it would have to have been the last one in a series of games, not like number 16 or whatever, ergo, there can’t have been any Final Fantasy games.

Where was I?

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Looks like the Oblivion Remaster/Remake is real and going to be fairly pretty at the very least:

The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remaster is real

Our first look at the long-awaited remake of The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion comes from a leak of screenshots and details…

www.eurogamer.net

 

[Reynard]

Looks like the Oblivion Remaster/Remake is real and going to be fairly pretty at the very least:

The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remaster is real

Our first look at the long-awaited remake of The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion comes from a leak of screenshots and details…

www.eurogamer.net

I am excited. but now I don't know what to play: this, or BG3 Patch 8.