It's the spirit in which they're included, you know when your game or film has a black person versus when it's nigger worship. Nobody looked at Street Fighter 2 and lost their minds because it had multiple niggers, but SF6 is clearly pandering.
Yep.
The most shit people gave Jacob was that he was just kind of bland, compared to the rest of the ME2 cast.
Yeah, but is still consistent. Kaidan/Ashley in ME1 are a bit bland if you compare to the rest of the cast and James Vega follows up the blandness in ME3.
That's true, yeah. Though I like Ashley way more than Kaiden.
I put together a PC last week for $508 (total cost after tax and shipping) that plays everything I've tried so far on Ultra settings at 60 FPS. If you buy smart, it's not nearly as expensive as the autists make it out to be and an infinitely better value proposition than a console that can only play video games until the end of this generation.
Which was first used in Jet Set Radio and would later be used in other games such as Wind Waker
Jolee Bindo was a really fun guy in ME1. We also had Sgt. Johnson from Halo and David Anderson from Mass Effect. Sure, they're supporting characters, but they had charisma and good storytelling behind them.
Yeah. It was one of those techniques that when you look at the basics of it you go "oh... well obviously..." - the effect itself could have been done on PC years before JSR but I guess no one thought about it. It's probably used in some demos from that time though but I can't remember any off the top of my head.
I think Ashley is one of the most underrated characters in the trilogy. She has a realistic and sensible outlook on the galaxy and humanity's place in it, and it's interesting to also have an explicitly religious character in a game like Mass Effect. The conversations with her are some of the best in the first game. Unfortunately she has no real role in 2 because of dumb writing, but it's satisfying to reconnect with her in 3.
I was going to agree until you mentioned 3. In 3, she has such a massive redesign I have a hard time believing she's the same character. The Tomboy character isn't going to look like a model by her own volition. Which leads me to think that Udina got her the promotion with under the table favors.
Black outlines aren't cel-shading, otherwise Borderlands would qualify as a cel-shaded game.
Ashley even shits on you for joining Cerberus in ME2, calling them extremist. She also hated Terra Firma, the official human nationalist party in Mass Effect that you can endorse near the end of the game. (LOL I DID)
Graphics fidelity is one thing, but I've had either a 2K or 4K monitor for 10 years now and there is no way you can go back to 1080p once you've seen higher resolutions, certainly not when sitting 2-5 feet from a monitor of any size over say 24". To a lesser degree, this is true of refresh rate as well. 120hz is smooth, man.
Pretty much yeah, no wrong way to play a game if you're having fun. That however doesn't mean the differences don't exist. I play on 1440p 27" and a shudder at the idea of looking at 1080p again...
I feel like I still have reasonably good eyesight despite being an oldfag, but I can't discern any difference between 1080p and 4k unless I'm specifically A-B testing them. In practical usage, it's completely negligible to my eyes, especially in video games where the limiting factor is still the fidelity of the graphics rather than pixel density.
They are both important imo. In Rust, on my old monoprice 2K (like one of the first 2K monitors made, got the thing in 2014) I'd be with my team and I literally couldn't see a fucking thing at night and they'd all have no issue. The backlighting and everything was just awful, resolution was nice tho.
