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I don't mind the animation at all actually. I don't die all that often so it tends to happen after long grinds where my hands need a rest anyway. I accept it as a penalty don't really care that it's there. Has anyone timed it? It seems like it's 15 seconds or something like that. While I love my Mass Effect, it's shorter than a ME elevator ride.

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I agree that the death animation is very annoying in Single Player.

I think the death animation actaully makes co-op a bit more interesting. In co-op, if your partner dies you are left on your own to battle any enemies remaining and makes it more exciting trying to survive on your own.

If your partner re-spawned instantly after death you would loose that sense of excitement while surviving the onslaught without someone backing you up.

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You can't please everyone. I had a friend that hated that in the Darkness, the main character talks to you during load screens because he thought that slowed the process down.

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I love the game and that doesn't bother me at all. It does get to the freinds i play with though lol.

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Is the "defence camp" parading about; destroying lawn divisions and mending inter-neighbor relationships?

S/B - defenSe

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So it's not just something that's up there while it starts to get ready to re-load your game?

I had kind of thought it was, at which point it would become like the Mass Effect elevators for me, IE it would be moronic for people to complain about because it's better than staring at a black screen with the word "Loading" written in the middle for the same amount of time.

But, if it's not (which he alludes to), then yeah, it should probably be shortened.

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first time was cool, but then it gets very annoying.

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leveling my berserker up to 50 kinda sucked in certain parts, but if it bothered you enough you would try to prevent it from occurring. had less issues dying when playing w/ my bio-engineer. it does kinda suck to see the same cut-scene over and over, maybe in the sequel they can toss in a few more to keep it somewhat varied

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Hahaha... My name is Dennis Dyack and I'm laughing at you because you die too much in the game that the internet warned you about, but you bought to help support a struggling Canadian town.......

:P

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I personally don't mind it. It's a small price to pay when you die to watch a short cut scene and then get right back into the game where you left off. It could be setup like other games (PSO as an example) and unless you had something or someone that would revive you, you had to quit out to the town and then it would take forever to get back into the action.

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Being in Europe, we're safe for another day.. but It always annoys me (after a time) when you die & it has to re load the entire level just to put a few things back.. it just seems a bit lazy when you want to get back into the game.. the only game I can think of that does it right is Halo, you die couple of seconds and your back playing the game.. apposed to Mass Effect that had the slo mo death for 5 seconds, loaded for 15-30 seconds, then comes the pop up :|

the demo was a bit rubbish but I'm giving it the chance anyway, although it's worring they struggled with the Unreal engine :|

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The death animation is just plain dumb... You can't compare it to a mmo just do to sheer amount of ways to avoid death and the average length people play mmos. MMOs also have autorun and a few of them have ways to skip corpse runs entirely

I play a berserker and my death toll is nearly 200 and I have 30+ hours played.. which is 30 minutes or so of game time just on the animation. Ridiculous.

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I use it as time to stuff my face with cheesy puffs!

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Dyack, your death scene is a complete JOKE and so is your game. I am glad I only rented it from Gamefly. IT goes back this afternoon in todays mail. Good RIDDANCE to bad RUBBISH.

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If I had a way to heal myself in single player (even a crappy way like potions) it would be much more enjoyable. The death scene is only frustrating when it's the 3rd time in a row because of those cheap archer ground pounds.
I don't want the BE healing skills, just some way to give myself a little boost when I need it.
Other than this I LOVE the game...

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