BG&E for 5 dollars on Steam

it's just another one of those omg everyone must play games wank reviewers like to hype like shadow of the colossus not really alll that good but kinda fun no matter what genre you are into.

 

But, I heard you can hotkey multiple buildings at the same time and that there will be rainbows.

No

 

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Oh I guess you liked the part where people got magic powers for no reason and fixed everything with magic.

How do I hide all posts by a user?

 

What the crap are you even talking about?

 

Yeah I was wondering what he meant, too.

 

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Wait, are you talking about that one part where Jade finds out she's an alien power source or something and uses her power to bring her uncle back from the dead? That... wasn't really "people" just one person, and it didn't really fix "everything" just her uncle, sort of.

 

Is that what happened? I never really got the ending to that game, I thought it was an "explained in sequel" thing.

 

It was Deus Ex Machina of the worst sort.

 

Was this an attempt to trivialize my objection because it fails utterly.

 

What other sorts are there? I think you're nerd raging over something minor.

 

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I wouldn't call it much of a deus ex machina, the only reason they killed the pig off in the first place was to reveal Jade's MAGIC ALIEN POWERS by having her bring him back.

 

Damn you jimbob! Heard of spoiler tags?

 

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They could have just not killed the pig then. It seemed pretty clear to me that they wanted an emotional moment, but someone pussed out and decided to reverse it 5 minutes later.

If you don't think that is deus ex machina, you really need to go look up what it means.

 

It's not really a deux ex machina: the plot isn't stuck and the situation isn't solved by an external element. Also Jade's nature isn't suddenly revealed out of the blue because you had an hint of it at the start of the game even it isn't addressed until the end.

The DXM, outside of its Greek origins where it was litteraly a god or some other powerful figure that solved the stuck plot at the end, is an artificial and/or improbable device that serves to solve the difficulties of a plot, clearly not the situation at the end of BG&E. Besides it is show as having consequences at the very end of the credits.

 

Woops, sorry. It's not really a big plot point, though, don't worry too much - it happens out of nowhere and then gets resolved in the space of about five minutes, and everything's back to normal as if it never happened at all.

I do know what a deus ex machina is. Gragt saved me the trouble of explaining.

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However, I did slightly suspect the same thing about it being an emotional moment they wanted that they then pussied out of - but since the death and the resurrection happened within about five minutes of each other, I find it more likely that they just wanted a situation that was suitably emotional/dramatic to reveal Jade's powers in. Don't get me wrong, I thought it was pretty stupid anyway, but you blew it way out of proportion in your original post.

 

Yeah it still wasn't very clever, I grew attached to the characters and I remember how I felt when what happened happened... and five minutes later it is solved, that felt cheap. Still the very end of the game shows that it could bring bad consequences for later.

 

J1M is easily the worst new poster on the 'Dex.

 

moar liek best, amirite?

 

Hm, my theater teacher told me that a Deus Ex Machina is literally a machine carrying a god. It's a crane that lowers the actor playing a god onto the stage.

 

Yeah, meanings change over time.

 

Aww, butthurt best-friends.

 

That's the first sense of it, the "god out of the machine": I mentioned the Greeks making a god appear to solve the complety blocked situation, this god was a human-sized doll or a real actor that was lowered on the scene with a crane, reinforcing the feeling that the plot was indeed solved by an external element.

 

So you want to Ignore the only black poster on the Codex?
Are you racist or something?
BTW the Ignore feature was removed anyway, you racist fuck.

 

Heldon is black.

Hell, he raps, he's blacker than me.

 

Only after reading his posts.