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PODcast: Mass Effect 3 Rage and Gundams!

Pixels or Death's Joseph Rush writes, "We start this episode of After Dark with a big heaping dose of “Mike on Mic,” where Mike Potts dishes on his gripes with the Mass Effect 3 ending. Then, Mike and special guest Dylan dive head first into the dense minutiae of the Gundam universe, all while Joseph tries to sit back and make sense of it all. If there was ever anything you wanted to know about giant robots, this is your podcast."

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Dark Souls: Archthrones Reaffirms Modding Is The Best Thing To Happen To Games

"Dark Souls: Archthrones is like playing a brand new FromSoftware game, and that speaks volumes about just how much good modding can do," says Hanzala from eXputer.

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The prevalence of parrying: Why is it so popular?

Parrying has been creeping into more games, with almost every high-profile title of the last few years featuring it in some way.  Why?

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phoenixwing33d ago (Edited 33d ago )

i understand the authors frustration i'm not the best at parrying in games. not that i can't complete a game that requires it but it is a definite harder thing for me than other kinds of techniques in games. which might be the main reason it's so heavily added in games nowadays. want to make your game challenging without having to do a lot of work? just add a parry boss. (what i mean by parry boss is a boss you have to beat by parrying such that their attacks will kill you otherwise)

Dudeson33d ago (Edited 33d ago )

I always think it's fine as long as such games also have the roll/dodge panic button. But I understand the will to parry, it seems so cinematic in a fight when you pull it off.

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Mass Effect 3's Ending for Javik Misses the Forest for the Trees

Based on one narratively fitting ending in Mass Effect 3, Prothean squadmate Javik is highly unlikely to return in the next Mass Effect game.

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anast50d ago

He was one of my least favorite characters. I wish they would have done the Proths different.