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Mephansteras

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Re: SALES Thread - SUMMER SALE, PRAISE BE TO GABEN
« Reply #8790 on: June 25, 2014, 12:21:32 pm »

RE: current Steam community choice categories

I don't think I would consider Mass Effect or Dragon Age: Origins to have "female protagonist" as one of their biggest selling points. Custom protagonist, sure, but it's mostly cosmetic. If anything, female protagonists are given less decisions in DA:O than male.

Can't speak for Dragon Age, but all of my female friends love Mass Effect because of Femshep and good of a female protagonist she makes. So I think it counts.
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« Reply #8791 on: June 25, 2014, 12:25:11 pm »

They're based on community tags, so the community thinks it counts.
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Re: SALES Thread - SUMMER SALE, PRAISE BE TO GABEN
« Reply #8792 on: June 25, 2014, 12:40:14 pm »

RE: current Steam community choice categories

I don't think I would consider Mass Effect or Dragon Age: Origins to have "female protagonist" as one of their biggest selling points. Custom protagonist, sure, but it's mostly cosmetic. If anything, female protagonists are given less decisions in DA:O than male.

Can't speak for Dragon Age, but all of my female friends love Mass Effect because of Femshep and good of a female protagonist she makes. So I think it counts.
FemShep and MaleShep had about the same amount of content between them. Mass Effect did really well with the relationships, Dragon Age however was pretty garbage with gift spam.

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« Reply #8793 on: June 25, 2014, 12:46:05 pm »

Anybody played The Banner Saga?
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Re: SALES Thread - SUMMER SALE, PRAISE BE TO GABEN
« Reply #8794 on: June 25, 2014, 12:47:07 pm »

Anybody played The Banner Saga?
Its a very story game. The fighting is pretty similar to Factions.
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« Reply #8795 on: June 25, 2014, 12:50:00 pm »

Anybody played The Banner Saga?

Good game. I really enjoyed it, although I don't think it has all that much replay value.
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« Reply #8796 on: June 25, 2014, 12:50:48 pm »

I never heard of Factions, but it looks interesting from the reviews.

Edit: Nevermind, I'll just buy the game for now.
« Last Edit: June 25, 2014, 01:01:12 pm by Mindmaker »
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« Reply #8797 on: June 25, 2014, 01:23:28 pm »

endless space, worth the gold pack?
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« Reply #8798 on: June 25, 2014, 02:11:49 pm »

I don't think I would consider Mass Effect or Dragon Age: Origins to have "female protagonist" as one of their biggest selling points. Custom protagonist, sure, but it's mostly cosmetic. If anything, female protagonists are given less decisions in DA:O than male.
the 'story rich' part is far sillier than the female protagonist part
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« Reply #8799 on: June 25, 2014, 02:17:14 pm »

I don't think I would consider Mass Effect or Dragon Age: Origins to have "female protagonist" as one of their biggest selling points. Custom protagonist, sure, but it's mostly cosmetic. If anything, female protagonists are given less decisions in DA:O than male.
the 'story rich' part is far sillier than the female protagonist part

Heh, but there is a lot of story! It's just near identical to the other Bioware stories...

Honestly it didn't bother me much because I've only played one "Bioware RPG" but people do have a point about the plots being cranked out on an assembly line.
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« Reply #8800 on: June 25, 2014, 02:27:57 pm »

endless space, worth the gold pack?
Not in my opinion. It's a 4X that had a lot of good ideas, but failed on the execution.


KSP doesn't look like it's going to go below -40%, which makes me sad.
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« Reply #8801 on: June 25, 2014, 02:50:48 pm »

endless space, worth the gold pack?
Not in my opinion. It's a 4X that had a lot of good ideas, but failed on the execution.
This. Endless Space is a trash-tier 4X that I regret buying on hopes and promises.
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« Reply #8802 on: June 25, 2014, 02:57:14 pm »

endless space, worth the gold pack?
Not in my opinion. It's a 4X that had a lot of good ideas, but failed on the execution.
This. Endless Space is a trash-tier 4X that I regret buying on hopes and promises.

Let's all rock paper scissors for combat. This will be fun, right?
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« Reply #8803 on: June 25, 2014, 03:03:13 pm »

endless space, worth the gold pack?
Not in my opinion. It's a 4X that had a lot of good ideas, but failed on the execution.
This. Endless Space is a trash-tier 4X that I regret buying on hopes and promises.

Let's all rock paper scissors for combat. This will be fun, right?
ok, passing
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« Reply #8804 on: June 25, 2014, 03:16:26 pm »

Everyone vote for the indie games. Those games are so cheap. VVVVVV for 75 cents is a steal.
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