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e narrator for commercials for the us navy it may not be well known outside the us but the us military is an all volunteer force since they don t rely upon a draft to staff the military each branch invests heavily in commercials and outreach and that includes television commercials so when i hear captain anderson in mass effect i have this weird juxtaposition of mass effect and the us navy this makes me wonder if people who are used to jennifer hale s voice in mass effect and other video games have flashbacks when they hear her voice as the swtor female trooper posted by redbeard at 8 57 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels bioware mass effect saturday october 29 2016 mass effect vs swtor a short comparison okay this is very short because i m only about a couple of hours into mass effect itself yes yes i bought the mass effect trilogy i bought it to help fill out an amazon order to get it into the free shipping price area and besides it was much cheaper than buying it from origin there were some adventures getting the original mass effect to work properly mainly involving shutting down origin when me loads but when it loaded mass effect is the natural progression of bioware cinematic storytelling from baldur s gate i and ii through neverwinter nights knights of the old republic i and ii and jade empire that cinematic storytelling process is actually quite revealing to me who played bg 1 and 2 in the late 90s early 00s and then skipped ahead to swtor long before going back to jade empire and now mass effect in a way bioware s original mass effect story mirrors the intro stories of swtor to a significant degree part 1 starting zone it goes without saying that mmos have a starting zone where the player first learns the basics before setting off into the big bad world even useful learning experiences like don t stand in the bad will make an appearance in the starting zone and it s adjacent low level zones but as for the story in a starting zone that s been fleshed out over time the evolution of the mmo starting zone from generic knockabout place to one with a specific storyline can be most easily seen in wow the vanilla races particularly in the pre cataclysm questlines were very much a hodge podge of do this fetch that kill ten rats the bc races had a bit of a questline but still harkened back to that earlier vanilla era it was only in the post cataclysm races that you found an actual story using phasing that dominated the starting zone experience age of conan with its tortage starting zone probably is the best of the classic old style mmos for a story driven starting area it s a shame really that the story driven promise of tortage wasn t followed up in the regular zones to the same degree lotro of course does have its own story driven zones that propel the player into the next regular low level areas but the story line can get lost in the kill ten rats quests that dominate the game it s only when you hit the old max level quests does the lotro shadows of angmar story really shine but swtor is a different animal entirely designed to be strictly a story driven mmo from the start each of the eight class stories deals with the same general process player is given an initial couple of quests player deals with a sudden shakeup of the current order and has to spend the bulk of the starting zone making sense of the shakeup player is handed a sudden story twist that turns the entire conflict on its head and propels the story to the faction s capital planet this by itself isn t too remarkable since lotro s aoc s and wow s cataclysm races have similar trajectories however the other three s lack of fully acted cutscenes lack the same emotional punch that swtor s has which leads me neatly into mass effect which has cutscenes that heighten the dramatic impact when the unexpected twist happens you could also argue that there were two unexpected twists for the intro zone for mass effect the mumblety mumble one and the one at the very end of the mission and i d not disagree with you hell lo bad boy from multiple places on the web part 2 capital city and intrigue it kind of goes without saying that in mmos a standard exit from the starting zone is the pilgrimage to the faction race s capital city planet you leave shadowglen and end up at teldrassil your cimmerian leaves tortage and ends up at conarch village your sith leaves korriban and ends up at dromund kaas and so it goes with mass effect that you end up at the citadel for a space based sf game mass effect and swtor are eerily alike you arrive without a means of interstellar travel as a passenger on a ship and you have to navigate the consequences of the story twist on the starter world you re introduced to galactic politics various races and no small amount of intrigue along the way an older game such as mass effect compresses the experience a bit compared to the more fully realized mmo environment but it still provides an eerily similar experience to the swtor capital cities mass effect s angle is a bit different than most of the swtor class stories as the politics is more direct and at the highest levels of what passes for government but all revolve around the same basic theme of dealing with the fallout from the starting world part 3 a ship and the means to go where we will i thought joachim s line from the wrath of khan highly appropriate for this last part the swtor player has conquered the immediate threat on the capital world and as a result more issues appear on other worlds time to give that player a starship or in the case of the smuggler i have got my damn ship back and i now want to go and what s this treasure you say from swtor wikia com and mass effect follows the same pattern sorry kids no spoilers here from masseffect wikia com the normandy has some really nice lines and a great look but my fondness still goes with the smuggler s starship the normandy and a swtor starship are outwardly dissimilar but inside you can talk to your crew and advance crew questlines since mass effect is rated m that presumably means a romance that enters into r rated territory unlike swtor s romances however since the crew in swtor is somewhat limited in scope at least initially the normandy not only looks bigger it feels bigger part 4 no more hurry up and wait on the flip side the missions for mass effect are akin to taking an entire swtor planet story and compressing it a bit that has the effect of heightening the tension while at the same time making you feel like you just might be missing something somewhere mmo zone planet stories have enough time spread out between them that you have a bit more leisure time to take care of any side quests without rushing things too much i suppose you could say that mass effect and other bioware console pc games have had an impact on swtor in knights of the fallen empire by eliminating a lot of the side quests and enabling the player to focus strictly on the main questline with few interruptions conclusions what you were expecting spoilers i ve obviously not gotten very far in mass effect 1 among other things i m playing me1 at the same time as lotro and keeping myself afloat in swtor and some other mmos and i m resisting the impulse to play until 4 am but the more i play me1 the more i think that the experience with the mass effect series in particular has influenced bioware s design for swtor there s been more than once when i ve exclaimed hey that feels like swtor while playing the game which isn t a bad thing in my book or buying a used xbox 360 and the games that way there s actually a setting box for this in the game s settings menu in origin not the settings menu in game but the one in origin itself if you deselect the option for keeping origin running while me plays you re able to play the game properly took me about 45 minutes of tweaking and googling to figure that one out often literally so like oh the cutscene for the trooper s or the knight s sudden twist yes i know cimmerians don t have a capital city because they are nomadic tribes but as an in game necessity the cimmerians use the home village of conan s tribe as the capital although this election season has made me want to lose myself in a game or drink a lot for obvious reasons posted by redbeard at 8 54 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels mass effect swtor wednesday october 26 2016 some wednesday humor while there s already a classic college humor skit out there for how female armor sucks this dropped over the summer from viva la dirt league on their youtube channel yep it s kind of like that posted by redbeard at 4 47 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels humor saturday october 22 2016 silenced for those in the know and those not impacted by the ddos attack on dns servers yesterday friday was the beginning of a strike by the screen actors guild american federation of television and radio artists against eleven prominent video game companies here s the list of companies courtesy of the sag aftra pdf activision publishing inc blindlight llc corps of discovery films disney character voices inc electronic arts productions inc formosa interactive llc insomniac games inc interactive associates inc take 2 interactive software voiceworks productions inc and wb games inc if you notice several major mmo properties are hit by this such as wow activision swtor ea and lotro wb games i do have to wonder what sort of impact this strike will have on future games in the pipeline i don t think that games that are already in the can but haven t been released are going to be affected such as the latest swtor expac or mass effect andromeda but anything still being developed is likely to be impacted the interview with jennifer hale yes the mass effect and swtor trooper jennifer hale on npr linked to above is very interesting posted by redbeard at 12 58 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels news video games thursday october 20 2016 switching things around nintendo became the first of the big three console makers to drop a trailer for their next gen console the nintendo switch unlike sony and microsoft with their upcoming releases the switch is actually a replacement console for the wii u and it goes in the direction that sony attempted to move with their vita 2 but amped up to 11 here s the trailer that nintendo dropped this morning yes you saw that right they were playing skyrim with the game with the presence of splatoon on the switch it seems that the wii u will still likely connect to the nintendo network platform additionally given nintendo s typical modus operandi of supporting the previous console s games on the current console wii u games will likely be playable on the switch nintendo also claims to have 50 developer houses on board for game creation for the switch but the real question is whether they will hang in there or bug out after a year or so like developers did with the wii u one other item of note is that the system runs on a custom nvidia tegra processor the same processor family found in nvidia shield tablet perhaps that is why the switch looks like it can do so much given its mobile emphasis still it looks like nintendo is blurring the lines between mobile and traditional console gaming in a way that wasn t possible before eta added the links to some of the items posted by redbeard at 5 52 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels console games news nintendo tuesday october 18 2016 you know you ve become immune to video game bugs when you almost fail a quest because you think that the slurred words are merely bugged poorly translated ones that happened on lotro for me with the lothlorien quest just north of the vinyards to admonish the elven revelers who have imbibed way too much i read the exclamations above the revelers and at first thought that those who actually said something were the ones who need to be admonished one try disabused me of that idea then the next try i noticed the slurred or mispronounced words surely i thought they could have gotten a better qa person to fix this then oh those are the people i need to admonish excuse me while i go and imbibe a little myself seriously with three weeks to go before the 2016 us presidential election i think i ll be doing the imbibing along with the npcs posted by redbeard at 7 48 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels humor lotro tuesday october 11 2016 not everyday an mmo trailer blows up well i should clarify that and say an mmo trailer not from blizzard blows up the internet bioware must be doing something right as the 6 minute trailer from bioware for the upcoming expac for swtor started trending on fb today the funny thing is people are pointing at the trailer as being better than several of the star wars movies seriously go google it and you ll see oh and here s the trailer if you haven t seen it yet posted by redbeard at 2 35 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels news swtor friday september 30 2016 yeah right courtesy of facebook pretty sure people know my opinion on this one posted by redbeard at 3 42 pm 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels fail humor musings thursday september 29 2016 a few short musings if i ran as much as my lotro toon does i d be back to a normal weight i m at that point in the mines of moria storyline where i m sent from the crossroads down to the waterworks then back to the 21st hall then down to the flaming deeps and then back to the 21st hall then down to the waterworks you get the idea outside of the fact that the storyline wouldn t simply wait for me to go back and forth like that if this were closer to a real time event i d have worked off all those years of helping to eliminate excess halloween candy in our household even though i love the slurring that wow has their toons perform when talking i think i prefer the lotro version of the drunk toon sure both mmos have the screens get progressively blurrier but lotro takes it a step further by making everything monochromatic sepia toned like you re swimming in an oil tainted pool the toneless muttering also makes it sound like i ve collapsed in a corner arguing with myself over whether stalin would have arisen in russia if lenin hadn t passed away when he did it felt weird logging into swtor after having spent so much time in lotro recently i d jumped on a toon that was deep in justicar territory on coruscant and it felt airy i never thought i d say that about the lower levels of coruscant but after a month s worth of slogging through the mines of moria it sure feels open and welcoming i once read it 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