Gunna try out SCP-### thingy sometime tomorrow.

I despised those damn Mako missions, and only mildly disliked the planet-scanning, ESPECIALLY after they patched in a faster mining thingy. ME2′s gameplay is alright, I have fun playing through the missions, but I also way overthink it and try to go all Dragon-Age 1 on it and basically pause-and-play through it, so maybe I’m creating more fun rather than just being annoyed at it being somewhat bland and thus not trying ~shrug~. But then, I have to find the fun in it, because I’m on like my third playthrough, soo… ~shrug~.

EDIT: Hmm, darnit. I really need to start listening to the full podcast before commenting on the shows, as I keep needing to add extra comments, luckily this time i got done before the edit went away…

I’d go for a cybernetic rocketdog attachment on each shoulder…for sheer absurdity factor. And because someone had to say it. It isn’t as if I relish being the one who had to bring it back up, Dan.

Tried out SCP thing. It was dumb. I played with headphones. Perhaps a bit of the immersion was lost due to the fact that the game wouldn’t hide my mouse pointer and nothing happened till the end.

Adam Bash: In a surprise turn-of-events, Jim dislikes something!

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You claimed it was procedural. I saw that, to a degree, but the ‘things’ that happened were neither frightening nor interesting.

I didn’t particularly care for the Mako, but I abhorred the planet-scanning since I played right at launch when it was super-slow. I actually kind of liked the hover tank they released as throw-away DLC – wish it was in the proper game.

Oh yeah, don’t worry, I totally know what that was like. I played it the day it released (Amazon pre-order release-day delivery). I still much more hated the Mako stuff.

And I totally agree on the issue being less in the mechanics of the shooting/running/etc, and all the blame for the boredom coming from the level design and enemy placement.

David Hughes: Did you ever try to hover tank?

Yeah, I did. Didn’t like that one too much either, though MUCH better than the Mako. But then, I thought that entire mission was all kinds of annoying and bland (In spite of the cool visuals and concepts), with the worst end encounter they could have come up with. But if they had been able to include that hovertank into the main game, and been able to think through some levels for more than half a month, I’m sure that it would have been pretty good. The actual mechanics of it were fine, unlike the Mako.

I’ll admit, part of the issue I had with that Overlord DLC was that between the release of ME2 and the time I played that DLC I had taken two level design courses, one on Source and one in the UDK (Unreal Engine), so I saw the shortcuts they had taken a whole lot easier. Playing through the rest of the game again now, it’s less apparent, but still there…just done smarter. (As would be expected)

EDIT: Thinking about it now, I think you may have been referring to the Firewalker DLC stuff rather than Overlord. It was alright, though again bland.