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ChibiSoma
Apr 13, 2008

by FactsAreUseless

Cheap Vodka posted:

Tali is literally a girl from a stock photo. No, I'm not making this poo poo up. :staredog:

Don't click this if you don't want the reveal kinda-spoiled.

Hahahaha, I didn't even notice the eyes at first, either. I thought they literally took this image and just shifted her pupils really far to the left. It's like Tali's trying to see something really hard just to the side of her, but can't turn her head.

E: vvv Wait, what?! Holy poo poo. Mass Effect 3: The 'we stopped trying' sequel!

ChibiSoma fucked around with this message at 03:23 on Mar 7, 2012

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Cowcaster
Aug 7, 2002



Cheap Vodka posted:

Tali is literally a girl from a stock photo. No, I'm not making this poo poo up. :staredog:

Don't click this if you don't want the reveal kinda-spoiled.

This is insane. Between this and the ending background from deviantart. Did BioWare outsource some of the art assets to a South Korean company that just did google image searches or what?

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Dec 28, 2007

Kiss this and hang

CapnAndy posted:

If you're importing an ME1 character whose face you didn't change in ME2, the importer bugs out and resets to default. BioWare's working on it.

So..should I not start a game and wait for them to fix? Argh :(

Teenage Fansub
Jan 28, 2006

On the animated window here http://www.gametrailers.com/ for 'The Games of March', that isn't Tali's face is it? I've been avoiding that, but that looks like it could be.

ryan8723
May 18, 2004

Trust me, I read it on TexAgs.

Cheap Vodka posted:

Tali is literally a girl from a stock photo. No, I'm not making this poo poo up. :staredog:

Don't click this if you don't want the reveal kinda-spoiled.

YES! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA :laffo:

That is loving fantastic.

1stGear
Jan 16, 2010

Here's to the new us.
Just had a really nice scene with Garrus having a shooting competition in the Presidium. They really went out of their way to wrap all the loose ends and relationships up. It makes it very clear that this is the end of Shepard's story.

Bolow
Feb 27, 2007

I'm Garrus Vakarian and this is my favorite spot on the Citadel.

Eej
Jun 17, 2007

HEAVYARMS
Shotgun talk: Which one do you prefer?

Currently using the Eviscerator, pondering whether to save up for the Spectre version or just level up the Scimitar. The N7 shotgun is alright but I feel like I should be using a heavy pistol over it if I wanted to headshot dudes from cover. The Scimitar feels like it always did (the King of Shotguns). I didn't preorder from Origin so I can't comment on that other Shotgun and I'm not sure which others I'm missing.

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

Cowcaster posted:

This is insane. Between this and the ending background from deviantart. Did BioWare outsource some of the art assets to a South Korean company that just did google image searches or what?

Look son when you're bringing on such internet luminaries as the girl who licked a psp that one time you've got to trim the fat somewhere to come in under budget.

rizuhbull
Mar 30, 2011

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

I'm not sure whether this is terrible or brilliant.

On one hand it's completely :effort:, but on the other they must've known how much it would piss off the freaky Tali obsessives.
It's pathetic and makes playing 3 much harder. Bioware is such a terrible developer with an even worse attitude.

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Suspect Bucket
Jan 15, 2012

SHRIMPDOR WAS A MAN
I mean, HE WAS A SHRIMP MAN
er, maybe also A DRAGON
or possibly
A MINOR LEAGUE BASEBALL TEAM
BUT HE WAS STILL
SHRIMPDOR

Jarmel posted:

Oh and Grissom Academy is a madhouse. The atrium fight is easily the hardest fight in the entire series.

I found the Academy fight to be a really interesting challenge. Old school, really. You had to run it a few times and really place priority on killing the gently caress out of the c.engies, as well as camping those shield generators whenever possible. I was never really frustrated when I died, but ready to approach the problem with a new tactic.

What worked for me? Solder Shep (pure assault/shotty) with Garrus and Liara, Garrus mostly Overloading turrets and engies, Liara sucking up the shield Guardians. Dont get stuck in cover, but for gently caress's sake move when you have to, the A button is there for a reason.

I do love a man with Pull now though. gently caress mailslotting x.x

Mordiceius
Nov 10, 2007
Probation
Can't post for 4 hours!
Fun fact: Aiming is a lot better WITHOUT mouse dampening.

melon farmer
Oct 28, 2009

My boy says he can eat fifty eggs, he can eat fifty eggs!

ChibiSoma posted:

Hahahaha, I didn't even notice the eyes at first, either. I thought they literally took this image and just shifted her pupils really far to the left. It's like Tali's trying to see something really hard just to the side of her, but can't turn her head.

Don't forget the straight up bad photoshop cover-up of the two fingers.

This is like when you have your science project due the next morning at 8 and you look around and all you have are pipe cleaners and some styrofoam...like literally Bioware googled "royalty-free images" hours before the game had to ship

That or it's a masterful trolling of all the Tali fans.

I hope it's that actually, no way they are that incompetent

Young Freud
Nov 26, 2006

1stGear posted:

Hahahahahahahahah

I can't wait till that hits the Talimancers and they find out how incredibly hard their space waifu was phoned in.

Jesus. I saw that picture of one of the endings (I guess spoilers) and I thought that was bad, but at least there was enough changes that they were inspired by it.

This is just eye-rolling awful. You'd think they would care enough for a main character to at least do an original design (or at least make a 3d model and show that).

e: rizuhbull already beat me to it, but at least mine has someone asking for permission to use the image in their "little game".

Young Freud fucked around with this message at 03:33 on Mar 7, 2012

Mice Everywhere
Sep 7, 2007

I love animal porn! So F* you if you don't accept that!
For fucks sake

ChibiSoma
Apr 13, 2008

by FactsAreUseless

Mice Everywhere posted:

For fucks sake



This cannot be real.

Cowcaster
Aug 7, 2002



Mice Everywhere posted:

For fucks sake



Pretty sure that was an intentional parody.

Shirkelton
Apr 6, 2009

I'm not loyal to anything, General... except the dream.

Mice Everywhere posted:

For fucks sake



That was intentional, that second image was used to promote the airing of an exclusive trailer that showed during 'The Walking Dead'.

1stGear
Jan 16, 2010

Here's to the new us.

Young Freud posted:

This is just eye-rolling awful. You'd think they would care enough for a main character to at least do an original design (or at least make a 3d model and show that).

Its a picture you only see if you romance Tali in ME2 and ME3, if I understand correctly. They probably expected most people wouldn't see it so didn't put that much effort into it.

So much content and detail has been crammed into this game that some of the edges ended up getting pretty frayed. But writing the whole thing off because Bioware phoned in two images is juvenile.

Mice Everywhere
Sep 7, 2007

I love animal porn! So F* you if you don't accept that!

Dan Didio posted:

That was intentional, that second image was used to promote the airing of an exclusive trailer that showed during 'The Walking Dead'.

Oh thank god, given the other things popping up I wouldn't have been surprised.

ChibiSoma
Apr 13, 2008

by FactsAreUseless

1stGear posted:

Its a picture you only see if you romance Tali in ME2 and ME3, if I understand correctly. They probably expected most people wouldn't see it so didn't put that much effort into it.

So much content and detail has been crammed into this game that some of the edges ended up getting pretty frayed. But writing the whole thing off because Bioware phoned in two images is juvenile.

Stealing = Phoned in.

But that's okay, at least the endings were satisfy--

Oh.

Shirkelton
Apr 6, 2009

I'm not loyal to anything, General... except the dream.

Mice Everywhere posted:

Oh thank god, given the other things popping up I wouldn't have been surprised.

Yeah, it was definitely intentional, when the trailer was announced those two images were even shown side by side.

It's a bit wierd they gave that specific image to gamestop to advertise their deal, but y'know, maybe they didn't have a hand in it and Gamestop just chose something striking.

Cowcaster
Aug 7, 2002



1stGear posted:

Its a picture you only see if you romance Tali in ME2 and ME3, if I understand correctly. They probably expected most people wouldn't see it so didn't put that much effort into it.

So much content and detail has been crammed into this game that some of the edges ended up getting pretty frayed. But writing the whole thing off because Bioware phoned in two images is juvenile.

It's more incredulity at the fact that a triple A massive budget mainstream title fleeced some its art, even a teeny fraction of it from simple google searches.

rizuhbull
Mar 30, 2011

1stGear posted:

Its a picture you only see if you romance Tali in ME2 and ME3, if I understand correctly. They probably expected most people wouldn't see it so didn't put that much effort into it.

So much content and detail has been crammed into this game that some of the edges ended up getting pretty frayed. But writing the whole thing off because Bioware phoned in two images is juvenile.
You're gonna downplay showing off Tali's face because "they probably expected most people wouldn't see it"? No, it's a bullshit move fans of the series should be furious about. There's a lot Bioware gets unfairly blamed for, this is not one of them.

1stGear
Jan 16, 2010

Here's to the new us.

ChibiSoma posted:

Stealing = Phoned in.

But that's okay, at least the endings were satisfy--

Oh.

Oh God, you're right. Bioware used two images they had permission to use in two distant parts of the game. Literally everything is ruined. That every ME2 character has at least a quest centered around them with extensive voice-acting? Meaningless. That most of the choices you've made throughout the series actually have some sort of payoff in the game? Pointless. There's a pretty extensive multiplayer mode that actually came out very well? Who cares. They slacked on two images, one of which most people won't see. The entire game is ruined, Bioware is dead, the gaming industry is a smoking crater.

Also, I'm mostly okay with the endings, sorry defeating the omnicidal space squids didn't leave the galaxy perfectly sunshine and kittens.

Lanky_Nibz
Apr 30, 2008

We will never be rid of these stars. But I hope they live forever.
Ok so this is my last crack at this. I posted a few pages back about how my saves weren't recognized, even though I went through all the steps (renaming directory, etc) in order to fix it.

The more pressing problem now is that my game refuses to save. I restarted, uninstalled Origin and ME3, reinstalled them, and then I started a vanilla character just for kicks and the game won't quicksave, or save from the menu.

Could this be a problem with a lack of connection with my Bioware Social account? I'm really stumped with this one, and right pissed that a brand new game is flat out unplayable.

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

The thing is the Tali thing is something people have been waiting for since the first game. Phoning that in is kind of a slap in the face. Would it have taken that long to make a piece of artwork or something?

Jetpack Postman
Jun 30, 2011

rizuhbull posted:

It's pathetic and makes playing 3 much harder. Bioware is such a terrible developer with an even worse attitude.

Spoilers
http://i41.tinypic.com/1in0i9.png

Oh, wow. That's pretty damned incredible. Any chance of some random game journalist growing getting the common sense to spring this on one of the directors next time an interview rolls around? Their response would be hilarious.

kitten emergency
Jan 13, 2008

get meow this wack-ass crystal prison
Anthropocentric bag of dicks is my new favorite insult.

ChibiSoma
Apr 13, 2008

by FactsAreUseless

1stGear posted:

Oh God, you're right. Bioware used two images they had permission to use in two distant parts of the game. Literally everything is ruined. That every ME2 character has at least a quest centered around them with extensive voice-acting? Meaningless. That most of the choices you've made throughout the series actually have some sort of payoff in the game? Pointless. There's a pretty extensive multiplayer mode that actually came out very well? Who cares. They slacked on two images, one of which most people won't see. The entire game is ruined, Bioware is dead, the gaming industry is a smoking crater.

Also, I'm mostly okay with the endings, sorry defeating the omnicidal space squids didn't leave the galaxy perfectly sunshine and kittens.

Sure are defensive there, hoss.

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

CapnAndy
Feb 27, 2004

Some teeth long for ripping, gleaming wet from black dog gums. So you keep your eyes closed at the end. You don't want to see such a mouth up close. before the bite, before its oblivion in the goring of your soft parts, the speckled lips will curl back in a whinny of excitement. You just know it.
They put up a poll on Facebook asking if Tali's face should ever be revealed, that suggests they weren't planning on doing it originally.

I haven't seen it myself, I haven't even completed my Tali-romancing ME2 game yet.

1stGear
Jan 16, 2010

Here's to the new us.

ChibiSoma posted:

Sure are defensive there, hoss.

I wouldn't start with the ad hominems, bro. That's pretty much a fight you'll lose.

Oxxidation
Jul 22, 2007

ChibiSoma posted:

Sure are defensive there, hoss.

You of all people should be aware of how people react to excessive bitching.

marshmallow creep
Dec 10, 2008

I've been sitting here for 5 mins trying to think of a joke to make but I just realised the animators of Mass Effect already did it for me

ChibiSoma posted:

Sure are defensive there, hoss.

Really? What is this? You're making hyperbolic complaints, he's making hyperbolic retorts. You get back what you put in.

rizuhbull
Mar 30, 2011

1stGear posted:

Oh God, you're right. Bioware used two images they had permission to use in two distant parts of the game. Literally everything is ruined. That every ME2 character has at least a quest centered around them with extensive voice-acting? Meaningless. That most of the choices you've made throughout the series actually have some sort of payoff in the game? Pointless. There's a pretty extensive multiplayer mode that actually came out very well? Who cares. They slacked on two images, one of which most people won't see. The entire game is ruined, Bioware is dead, the gaming industry is a smoking crater.

Also, I'm mostly okay with the endings, sorry defeating the omnicidal space squids didn't leave the galaxy perfectly sunshine and kittens.
Thank you for proving blatant fanboyism is thriving. As if all the poo poo Bioware has pulled is excuseable because "but waddabout the multiplayer, guys!". Bioware has a fortune, they can hire their own defense force, they don't need you to try and do it for them.

Lotish, no one said it was the end of the game or of Bioware. We're poking fun at the lack of integrity and laziness on display. 1stGear's retort was irrational.

Tooter
Nov 12, 2003

Was I the only one that got control after the opening scene and starting shooting my little blaster at the Reaper? It sure made me feel better.

Oxxidation
Jul 22, 2007

rizuhbull posted:

Thank you for proving blatant fanboyism is thriving. As if all the poo poo Bioware has pulled is excuseable because "but waddabout the multiplayer, guys!". Bioware has a fortune, they can hire their own defense force, they don't need you to try and do it for them.

No, you're getting really loving desperate at this point if you're trying to use a promo image as yet more proof that Bioware is the Great Satan of game development. Maybe wait a bit, hope for more word of mouth to roll in, so your latest salvo won't just wind up with you embarrassing yourself.

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

1stGear posted:

That most of the choices you've made throughout the series actually have some sort of payoff in the game?

Remind me what happens if I killed the rachni because I didn't want to fight again.

Remind me what happens if I killed the council.

Remind me what happens if I made Anderson a Councillor.

Remind me what happens if I saved/destroyed the Reaper Base.

Remind me what happens if I killed (INSERT LITERALLY ANY MASS EFFECT 2 CHARACTER HERE.)

There are defenses that are easy to mount. That one? Not among them.

rizuhbull
Mar 30, 2011

Oxxidation posted:

No, you're getting really loving desperate at this point if you're trying to use a promo image as yet more proof that Bioware is the Great Satan of game development. Maybe wait a bit, hope for more word of mouth to roll in, so your latest salvo won't just wind up with you embarrassing yourself.
When did I reference the promo image?

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1stGear
Jan 16, 2010

Here's to the new us.

Ze Pollack posted:

Remind me what happens if I killed (INSERT LITERALLY ANY MASS EFFECT 2 CHARACTER HERE.)

I'm really curious as to what changes if you do have dead ME2 characters, because pretty much every one I've met has done something significant that resulted in additional voice acting, frequently war assets, and generally badass moments.

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