Posted November 22, 2010
Cell phones.
Why in Mass Effect do I have to run back and forth to talk to people? Mass Effect takes place in like 2200 or something, are you telling me that spaceships are commonplace but no one knows how to fucking textt? Why can't I just add someone to my contacts list and just call them when the quest is over?
And it's not just Mass Effect, so many games would be a lot less tedious if they included cell phones or even a functional postal system, "Dear Mr. X, I found that piece of shit you were looking for. I'm mailing it to you because I get enough goddamn cardio running around and shooting things. Love, the protagonist."
You could even have a whole sub-game where you get new hacking softs for your iPhone or whatever and use them to hack into cameras or turrets or email accounts. You could hack the turrets in another part of the level and distract enemies as you mucked about elsewhere. Or use EMP/scrambler weapons to make enemy groups unable to communicate with each other.
Also, COLOR. If I see another game that exists in a world where the only colors are steel-gray and dogshit-brown I'm going postal.
Why in Mass Effect do I have to run back and forth to talk to people? Mass Effect takes place in like 2200 or something, are you telling me that spaceships are commonplace but no one knows how to fucking textt? Why can't I just add someone to my contacts list and just call them when the quest is over?
And it's not just Mass Effect, so many games would be a lot less tedious if they included cell phones or even a functional postal system, "Dear Mr. X, I found that piece of shit you were looking for. I'm mailing it to you because I get enough goddamn cardio running around and shooting things. Love, the protagonist."
You could even have a whole sub-game where you get new hacking softs for your iPhone or whatever and use them to hack into cameras or turrets or email accounts. You could hack the turrets in another part of the level and distract enemies as you mucked about elsewhere. Or use EMP/scrambler weapons to make enemy groups unable to communicate with each other.
Also, COLOR. If I see another game that exists in a world where the only colors are steel-gray and dogshit-brown I'm going postal.
