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Goddammit, of all the quests to gently caress up, it had to be the Conrad Verner one. I missed out on some of the best dialogue and only got to see the ending portion of the quest.
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gently caress it. Second run. Did a Vanguard my first time, suggestions for character?
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precision posted:I'm playing a Shep that cheated on Ash with Tali, because I really want to see how ridiculous the BioWare Rabbit Hole gets. Haven't met Tali yet, but I told Ash it was a meaningless fling and so far Ash is acting like we're "back on". If I hosed the relationship irrevocably just to finally get to chew her out for Horizon... ugh.
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Two quick questions: 1. Side quests: I've read that you want to do as many side quests as you can before doing priority quests because some side quests can fail if you don't. I'm at the part when you go back to the citadel and the game really opens up, and I have like 15 side quests. I pop back into the Normandy, but I can't find any of the systems to do them in, aside from a few. My question: Do the side quests that you CAN DO pop up when you highlight systems? There are a few I can do right now, like recovering the artifacts for the Blue Suns mission, but a lot of them like Benning: Evidence don't show up anywhere. I finally got annoyed with wandering the galaxy map and looked online, and about half my missions aren't available. So: When side missions become available, do they automatically show up on the galaxy map as a blinking system? 2. Second: I'm doing an insanity run as a soldier, and I'm not going to lie, it's been rough so far. Just finished From Ashes, and with most of the tough battles so far I've had to be really tactical and find good cover or other ways to beat it. It's been fun so far, because in the old ME's I played 'em on normal and basically just blasted everything and didn't care about being careful...Now I have to be insanely careful and really think about how to approach every battle. That being said, some things like Atlases and Turrets are giving me hell. As a soldier, is the game going to get way harder, or is it about like this the whole way?
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PunkBoy posted:James is awesome. Freddie did a great job voicing him. Kurtofan posted:Personally I loved to hate Kai Leng, especially after he stabbed Thane to death, I didn't care about the reapers or the galaxy anymore, Thane (and Miranda too) had to be avenged!  he can kill her?MadHat posted:You have to be consistant in all your colored responses to him throughout the game, always Red or Always Blue. To make things worse one of the choices in hidden in a side conversation [Left side convo wheel] so many people never see it. Count Choculitis posted:Just a reminder that I've written up in the OP some how-tos for quests/mechanics that aren't explained well. If you have any to add or suggestions, feel free to let me know!
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Mar 16, 2012 03:18
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We;lp, that was certainly an ending. What the gently caress was the point of getting a really high War Asset score? The goddamn fleet doesn't do anything e: chose singularity for my ending. It's what Legion would've wanted. And maybe the galaxy can rebuild since they've got harmonious parts of organics and synthetics. Control is a lovely option since TIM is clearly the loving bad guy. Destroy just dooms the galaxy to another cycle, even if it takes longer than 50,000 years. Honestly, I guess given how Unstoppably Fuckoff Powerful the Reapers were, it was the best of all lovely solutions. If Javik hadn't been in the game, and if it hadn't been pointed out that each cycle attempts to help the next, I might've wanted a 4th option of "let the cycle take its course." As is, though, it would've felt like a massive betrayal, not only of the races in this cycle, but of the ones in previous cycles who clearly wanted the cycles to stop. I guess...it wasn't really that bad in concept, but they completely hosed the execution. Babylon 5 did it much better if we're going to talk about breaking cycles and needing to rebuild without previous technology. FairGame fucked around with this message at 03:42 on Mar 16, 2012 |
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FairGame posted:We;lp, that was certainly an ending. If your EMS is higher than 4000, and you choose "Destroy", you will get a five second clip that implies Shepard is still alive. The entire War Asset system is poorly implemented. There is really no incentive to maximize your score. The Operative fucked around with this message at 03:40 on Mar 16, 2012 |
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The Operative posted:If your EMS is higher than 4000, and you choose "Destroy", you will get a five second clip that implies Shepard is still alive. gently caress that; given the people you show up with at the endgame location, Your away team is loving dead. A galaxy without Garrus and Tali is a stupid galaxy. e: It's just so frustrating since all the cameo appearances and sappy speeches right before you launch the final assault are (for what the game is) really well done. Then just a massive failure at the end. Everything leading up to the ending was what I wanted, and then...whatever the gently caress that was happened. FairGame fucked around with this message at 03:44 on Mar 16, 2012 |
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Mar 16, 2012 03:41
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I'm just getting around to this game. My spring break is next week (teacher) and I was going to get it to finally finish this series off. Only problem: I'm on a 4.5 year old iMac using Windows in BootCamp. I have an ATI Mobility Radeon 2600 XT, which is technically below the minimum requirements. HOWEVER. Can You Run It tells me it's below minimum specs, but gives me this readout: Features: Minimum attributes of your Video Card Required You Have Pixel Shader version 3.0 4.0 Vertex Shader version 3.0 4.0 Dedicated Video RAM 256 MB 256 MB Missing here are the little green checkboxes next to each of those specs. So my graphics card is below minimum specs, but all of its features are satisfactory? What? I was going to download the demo, but it's not available for download right now. Can I play this game or not? Since it's an iMac I can't just swap out the card, so I'm hoping it will work, because other than that, I have the recommended specs or better. Riven fucked around with this message at 03:46 on Mar 16, 2012 |
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So I completed the game for the first time an hour or two ago with my default MaleShep - Paragon as heck gun-toting galactic peacemaker extraordinaire. Did everything right (or at least as right as possible, what with the few unavoidable either/ors the game throws at you) as far as I could tell, had a fuckton of assets and even bothered to raise galactic war readiness to 100%. It was a long, generally satisfying ride, with some of the best highs and lows of the entire series, and I was looking forward so very much to the big payoff at the end. All I can say is that I suspect BioWare have been looking a little too much at what others have been doing in the past few years, and forgot that it's sometimes okay not to go along with the rest - especially if a slightly different approach has always worked out very well indeed for you in the past. BioWare RPGs, in my mind, are not supposed to necessarily end on what is essentially a downer. My biggest complaint isn't that they've basically closed off all possibilities for developing the ME universe further, or that the transhumanist angle came in too late and wasn't developed properly/felt out of place, but that they have made it largely impossible for the player to actually feel good about wrapping up this trilogy. Although I can appreciate the drama and ambiguity of ME3's conclusion, in the sense that it makes for more interesting science-fiction than a clichéd fairytale happy ending and, for better or worse, has evidently resonated very strongly with the playerbase, I can't help but feel somewhat cheated. Worse still, ME3's possible endings actually make me hesitant to play through the game again - and I get the impression that they have the same effect on many others. That BioWare apparently had not anticipated this response boggles my mind. Even so, I do wish to stress that up to the end, it is a great third instalment in the series as far as I'm concerned. While playing I got the impression that there's a lot more non-interactive dialogue compared to the previous titles, which I thought was a pity, and I believe the game takes just a little too long to open up, but other than that I have no real material criticism to offer. I'm very impressed by just how much content and attention to detail there is in ME3, the combat and character-building aspects appear to have been quite sensibly refined since ME2, there's tons of lovely touches in characters' facial animations during dialogue/cutscenes, some very memorable writing, and, as I said, some of the best highs and lows of the entire series. Even if the finale is a letdown, you'll feel like a goddamn champ if you cure the genophage and broker peace between the quarians and geth. Here's hoping that BioWare will be moved to create a more pleasing (set of) ending(s), so that ME3 can eventually be called close to perfect without any reservations. A Nice Boy posted:Two quick questions: Also, a few missions will have pickups for the side-quests, so be sure to look around every area very carefully. quote:2. Second: I'm doing an insanity run as a soldier, and I'm not going to lie, it's been rough so far. Just finished From Ashes, and with most of the tough battles so far I've had to be really tactical and find good cover or other ways to beat it. It's been fun so far, because in the old ME's I played 'em on normal and basically just blasted everything and didn't care about being careful...Now I have to be insanely careful and really think about how to approach every battle. FairGame posted:gently caress that; given the people you show up with at the endgame location, Your away team is loving dead. A galaxy without Garrus and Tali is a stupid galaxy. 
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Capt Happhypants posted:So I just read a good article about why the ending is bad in so many ways. I tend to be very forgiving of movies, games, and all sorts of media and try to enjoy myself no matter what. I was willing to appreciate whatever ending ME3 gave me, but after reading this (massive spoilers in it so don't read if you don't want to know them) I truly do hope that Bioware will do something to fix it at some point, even if I have to buy a freaking DLC to get a better resolution: I think the ending was a complete technical fuckup and I hate that article. It's nerdbaiting, demagogic bullshit that doesn't actually cover the technical, narrative, or actual thematic problems with the endings. And it uses loving stupid image macros instead of making a point. If it were for any other game, Goons would tear it apart. It's dogshit. Utter dogshit.
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Grey Fox V2 posted:I was sceptical of him at first but he's easily the best new character added to the game. The reporter who hops on board your ship was really forgettable though. That was what I had heard was the problem, maybe just have gotten all the Blue/Red options and which you choose is inconsequencial?
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MadHat posted:That was what I had heard was the problem, maybe just have gotten all the Blue/Red options and which you choose is inconsequencial? It's probably just making every Blue/Red check possible with TIM and having a big enough bar at the end. I had my bar maxed at the end.
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It think we will most likely see a post-ending/alternate choice DLC.The usual problem with DLCs that alter main gameplay is that players start to rant about it being cut from the game,that it's essential and everyone should have it for free with their copy of the game,etc.Now lots of players have already asked Bioware to make an ending DLC and said that they are willing to pay for it,so I don't see a reason not to use this opportunity.
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Mar 16, 2012 04:24
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I just realized there were more endings to Bioshock 2 than ME3 and each one is different in how they reflect the choices you have made throughout the game. I just want to hold that up as a comparison here.
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Mar 16, 2012 04:59
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I need advice, going to do my Insanity run, Vanguard again or something else?
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Two Finger posted:I need advice, going to do my Insanity run, Vanguard again or something else? Vanguard has been a cakewalk so far. If you're looking to breeze through, vanguard is bestguard.
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Mar 16, 2012 05:15
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Infiltrator is really fun and Sabotage is really fun.
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How fast does galactic readiness decay? I heard someone mention if you unplug your machine from the internet it will lock it in place, is that true?
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Mar 16, 2012 05:30
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Digital Osmosis posted:How fast does galactic readiness decay? I heard someone mention if you unplug your machine from the internet it will lock it in place, is that true? In my experience, it decays by 1% a day. I believe that happens regardless of internet connection to encourage you to play multiplayer.
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Mar 16, 2012 05:33
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FairGame posted:gently caress that; given the people you show up with at the endgame location, Your away team is loving dead. A galaxy without Garrus and Tali is a stupid galaxy. Actually this might not be quite true. I did an end run backwards and they never moved. It's not explained, but I think they weren't supposed to go with you. Also Anderson isn't with you and he says he came up after you. I'm thinking you were supposed to go in waves. They should have just added an extra line. Also their bodies aren't there on the ground.
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KitFez posted:In my experience, it decays by 1% a day. I believe that happens regardless of internet connection to encourage you to play multiplayer. I went from 100 to 94% in a day. I play a lot of multiplayer.
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Mar 16, 2012 05:44
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TheSpiritFox posted:
I like to pretend Shepard dies, and his squadmates make it through. They kill TIM without listening to any of his bullshit, rescue Anderson, and when confronted with the Catalyst they reason through every choice they've seen Shepard make and decide what he would do: hack the Catalyst, aim the Crucible at the Reapers, then switch it off before it hits the relays. Memorial statue to Shepard and Anderson in Vancouver. Galactic civilization attempts to rebuild, humbled. The end!
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Ending rant and more. Sorry for the size in advance
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I just want to verify, I should do all of the side missions as soon as I can, right? None of the Priority: XXXXX missions (the story line stuff) expire or cause me to lose if I take too long getting to them, correct?
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I finished the game last night and have been thinking a lot about what they could've done instead. The catalyst created the reapers, he should turn them off or at the very least tell them to gently caress off for another cycle and see how things go. Both of these options are better than any of the ones you're presented with. I still don't know why they destroy the relays. It makes no sense. Killing all synthetic life doesn't really either. The only one that makes any sense logically is the control one but even that is poo poo because you have to die. It's like someone decided, well we want you to die so here are three options were you will die (or get a 10s cut scene if you play our multiplayer and farm all the war stuff). Anyway I would have much preferred if they just turned off the reapers/told them to gently caress off for a cycle and then had a little montage of scenes based on your choices through-out all three games. It's not like it's a stretch they kinda did one just before the start of the end anyway. You wouldn't even need to pay voice talent if you're a cheap poo poo. They should totally cut out that part with Joker too because that makes gently caress all logical sense either. Also that bit right at the end with the old man and kid is just lovely and pointless.
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Oh no. The Priority missions are the ones that make the clock tick. They lock and unlock sidequests as you go along, depending on the quest in question. Generally speaking you want to do as many as you can, but sometimes you'll get confusing ones, like Dekuuna, which you get when you first hear about the problems in the Far Rim, but you can't actually get to until you solve said problems two or three priorities later.
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Parachute Underwear posted:Infiltrator is really fun and Sabotage is really fun. Sidenote: I know that the fetch quests, or more accurately their givers, may disappear as you go through Priority missions, but will that ever happen to systems and the war assets therein? Or, once a system is unlocked, will I be able to explore it at any time right up until the point-of-no-return?
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Mar 16, 2012 07:16
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Bongo Bill posted:Lair of the Shadow Broker has the biggest effect, followed by Overlord. Mind spoiling what Shadow Broker effects? My save from 2 hard drives ago was apparently pre-shadow broker so I missed out on some goodies apparently 
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Mar 16, 2012 07:27
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Goddamn, every single mission on Rannoch was loving incredible. Best planet so far. And I found Jarvik telling Vega a joke. Jarvik and Vega: they own.
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Mar 16, 2012 07:28
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RBA Starblade posted:I went from 100 to 94% in a day. I play a lot of multiplayer. I think the higher your rateing the faster it falls.
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If you have an iPad, the new Datapad app is good for some cheap and easy Readiness. You can get 2% every 6 hours right from square 1. And the bonus emails are adorable, and it idles in a nightstand mode that shows you the time and a panning shot of Thessia, it's actually very nice.
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Mar 16, 2012 07:32
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CapnAndy posted:Goddamn, every single mission on Rannoch was loving incredible. Best planet so far. I'm surprised with how much I ended up liking James despite the fact he looks like a loving jersey shore character. They really did a good job with him apart from the random out of place spanishisms.
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THE PWNER posted:I'm surprised with how much I ended up liking James despite the fact he looks like a loving jersey shore character. They really did a good job with him apart from the random out of place spanishisms. I think James' situation is similar to Miranda. Miranda was originally Scandinavian, but when Yvonne was cast as her voice they made her Australian. James probably became Hispanic after Freddie Prinze Jr. was cast.
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I was really worried but James turned out okay. There's just a lot of really great characters that overshadow him.
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CapnAndy posted:If you have an iPad, the new Datapad app is good for some cheap and easy Readiness. You can get 2% every 6 hours right from square 1. And the bonus emails are adorable, and it idles in a nightstand mode that shows you the time and a panning shot of Thessia, it's actually very nice. If i had stand for mine I would leave it on all night long. Now some one needs to make a mass effect skin for it so its always like that.
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GruntyThrst posted:I was really worried but James turned out okay. There's just a lot of really great characters that overshadow him. I'm totally okay with this, since the insertion of a new character who becomes the most dominant presence would've just been awkward.
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isk posted:I'm totally okay with this, since the insertion of a new character who becomes the most dominant presence would've just been awkward. Yes he is a good character without trying way too hard to overshadow established characters, which Mister Space Ninja feels like on the villian side.
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MadHat posted:Yes he is a good character without trying way too hard to overshadow established characters, which Mister Space Ninja feels like on the villian side. Bingo. There are many flaws with Kai Leng, and this is only one of them. Vega, on the other hand, is a total bro. A vato.
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