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What video game do you most want to see made into a TV series? My vote goes for Mass Effect.

One of my biggest pet peeves while gaming is when I move into an area and with no warning, there is a cutscene, and then access to the previous area is sealed off. Anyone else hate this?

I’ve discovered that if I put in a game I haven’t played in years, the familiar sounds and music I spent dozens or hundreds of hours listening to in the past instantly give me a feeling of deep comfort and nostalgia. Do you feel that way?

Are there any video games that have helped you get through hard times? Dragon Age and Mass Effect probably have helped me the most in this regard.

What video game posed the greatest challenge for you to play, where you really had to push outside your comfort zone?

New Vegas was never remastered, was it?

How many games have you ended up buying more than once, whether to replace lost games, upgrade to new versions, etc.?

Do you find it easy to dive right in and learning the complexities of a crafting system right away in a new game, or does it take you a while?

This is very subjective, but what games do you feel have the most and least mature fans on average?

What games have impressed you with their depiction of politics? I’ve been most impressed with Dragon Age in this regard, as I feel the series captures a lot of nuance and gray areas.

I consistently have a hard time driving vehicles, horses, etc. in games, but I don’t know what makes them so hard for me to maneuver. For others who also have a hard time with this, what do you think would make them easier to drive?

For some reason, it seems universally true that riding a horse is easier in third person than in first in games. But I don’t understand on a practical level why this is true. Does anyone know how to explain it?

What is the single most catastrophic loss of time/effort you have suffered because of a glitch or an update? My brother lost months of work on his No Man’s Sky bases the other day because of a game update. It completely messed up all his structures and landscapes.

Has anyone had major issues with the latest No Man’s Sky update (i.e. messing up your bases and making the game crash)?

I caved and got the Skyrim one, lol. It arrived yesterday.

Well, I have a PS5, so what do you suggest? 🙂

Parallels, leaving out spoilers: 1-The Quarian fleet and the Colonial fleet. The Geth and the Cylons. 2-Tricia Helfer's Six in BSG and EDI in Mass Effect clearly have some parallels. This was not a coincidence, given the casting. 3-Both stories focus on conflict between organics and synthetics (albeit organic synthetics in BSG). 4-Both stories focus on overcoming prejudice. 5-Picking the "green" ending in ME3 has somewhat parallel results to some aspects of BSG's ending. -"All of this has happened before/all of this will happen again." Both BSG and ME focus on cycles of violence between organics and their creations, and putting an end to those cycles. Thank you, @Shagger.

I feel Mass Effect was in some respects a spiritual successor to the 2004 remake of Battlestar Galactica (which seems quite deliberate, what with even casting multiple actors from the show for the games). I feel having watched the show really enhanced my experience of the games and made the ending I chose more satisfying. So, I highly recommend the show to any Mass Effect fans who haven’t seen it.

What could provide a better sense of closure than ending slides? A lot of people complain that after a long RPG, ending slides feel kind of half-ass, and do not really offer much closure. I think a better alternative would just be a series of “X years later …” cut-scenes or even small playable sequences for different characters/factions. What ideas do you have for offering more closure when finishing this type of game?

Whenever I put in an older game, I’m momentarily startled by the lower graphic quality compared to more modern games I am playing. But after a few days, I don’t even notice it a lot of the time. It’s almost like my brain “fills in the details” or something. Do others experience this?

Are there any games you find embarrassing to play? What are they, and why? And is it the full game, or just parts or aspects of the game?

Do you keep the cases your physical games came in?

Are there any video games that prominently feature disabled characters—particularly any where you have to play around their disability?

Having just started playing PS4/PS5 games, I feel a deep loathing for the whole “tap vs. hold” control scheme. It just doubles the executive function challenges I deal with. Do you love or loathe these types of controls?

What are some games you were really stoked to play that never actually completed development?