{"id":7364,"date":"2017-02-04T02:13:46","date_gmt":"2017-02-04T07:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/?p=7364"},"modified":"2017-02-05T02:57:55","modified_gmt":"2017-02-05T07:57:55","slug":"my-thoughts-on-mass-effect-andromeda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/2017\/02\/04\/my-thoughts-on-mass-effect-andromeda\/","title":{"rendered":"My thoughts on Mass Effect: Andromeda (and Minecraft)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been getting questions about what’s been going on. Two of these I’m going to address here in a mini Q&A.
\nFirst question, is I’m being asked what are my thoughts about the upcoming game to join the Mass Effect<\/em> series. Well, I’m glad you’re asking my opinion instead of doing the same thing that many people on Youtube are doing; analyzing the three cinematic trailers that Bioware have released.<\/p>\n

I feel it’s not enough to really make me feel that hype to want it. There’s what.. a month and a half until the release and there’s been very little videos involving gameplay? It makes me feel that a delay of the release date is likely, and could be possibly pushed back to..say, July maybe?<\/p>\n

The whole “Andromeda Initiative” plot feels so stupid and lazy(and a bad attempt of keeping the series alive). Why bother going to another galaxy to get resources and transport them back to our galaxy? What’s wrong with the Milky Way?
\nPlus, how in the hell do we possibly have the technology (or even the knowledge) to be able to travel between galaxies? This is in the late 21st century. Even in Elite: Dangerous<\/em>(in the 34th century), we don’t have ships capable of doing this. Even the capital ships don’t have the FDL technology to make this possible.
\nYes, both games are set in two different timelines and cannot criss-cross eachother. It was an example.<\/p>\n

This feels like something else is going on behind the scenes of the plot. This feels way more sinister, and I feel it has Cerberus’ name written all over it. They brought Shepard back to life in Mass Effect 2<\/em>, so why not<\/em> fund the technology to travel the local cluster? It makes perfect sense. But..why? What would they get out of this? Good question. I wish I had an answer (or even a thought for a theory) for it.<\/p>\n

Overall, I hope to see more gameplay footage. As to if I’m going to purchase it on Day 1, no. And I doubt they’re going to send me a review copy (as I’m just not known nor popular enough for these companies to treat my reviews with respect).<\/p>\n

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\nMoving onto the second, people have been wondering if I still play Modded Minecraft (mainly the Direwolf20 pack). To those people, I haven’t played since last year. I’ve been meaning to play, but a few things are pushing me away..and with good reason.<\/p>\n

One of the main things is the loss of three days of work for no reason whatsoever. This was during the time I needed to replace my failing D drive. For some reason, the work I did when Minecraft was on my E drive, never got saved. And so I lost all of that work. And that work involved setting up a large wall of StorageDrawers. I even had a .txt file of how I wanted them set up.
\nIt’s gone too.<\/p>\n

The second is the unstable nature of using Chisels and Bits while trying to find the command to do a manual backup.. instead it corrupts the save, losing even MORE work.<\/p>\n

So yeah. Since then, I’ve been “I don’t want to lose my work again. I don’t trust it anymore!” Yes I was using an unstable build, but I’ve NEVER had that happen to me. I was finally working on making a proper roof for my base, and it caused my save to go corrupted after trying to do a manual backup. I’m scared to use Chisels and Bits now.
\nI did decrease the time it takes to do an automatic backup to something like 10 minutes(it was two hours before), but I fear “why bother if I’m going to lose three days of work?” I got no one to help get me back to speed this time (or to assure me it was just a fluke).
\nAnd yes I know I’m lucky I didn’t lose a lot more, but I just wish I had -some- feeling of “this isn’t going to happen again”.<\/p>\n

What happened, makes ZERO sense. How can I fucking LOSE a save, when I know it did save and it was there?? Even checked both saves on the D and E drives, and they were both the same size and date. My guess is the modified one was still on my D drive(and I overwrote it by accident with the version three days ago)..yet I’m 100% sure I was working on it on my E drive, and did fully save it. How can I just lose a save like that?
\nI even checked a program called Undelete to scan for the modified file, hoping it would also check to see if the file was overwritten before… and I found nothing. No traces.<\/p>\n

Clearly I need to get over my fear one of these days and just..do it. Try to see if it does<\/em> happen again. And if it does, then…… I dunno. Maybe I might consider myself “done” until the next modpack from dire. But if it doesn’t, then I’ll have the strength to continue. Though I just need to re-remember what I had wrote down of what I wanted to be placed in the StorageDrawers wall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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