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Grey Fox V2 posted:I'm usually in the same boat for lyrical music in films or games but that song just worked for me in ME1. Yeah I get that, it was the catalyst VI's solution etc. Would have been nice to know who initiated it all, or who was the originator of it all. ChronoReverse posted:We don't but whoever did it were idiots because they ended up getting wiped out by Synthetics that they created so that organics wouldn't be wiped out by Synthetics. It is possible I suppose some civilisation in the past who didn't have the cycle to purge the galaxy were eventually destroyed by their own AI/synthetics/technology and that tech decided that it either wouldn't allow that to happen again (the geth are still sympathetic to their creators for example) or that they thought about organic life in the way we would think a machine would and seek to purge it of all chaos
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Aristobulus posted:If it helps, apparently you only need to blame the lead writer, Mac Walters. He apparently wrote the beginning, dream sequences, Kai Leng, and the ending. He also apparently completely cut off the rest of the writing team from having any input on the ending and did it all himself. If this is true then just one man managed to write in the absolute worst parts of the game and Bioware did nothing? What the gently caress? I'm so disappointed only because of how moving, emotional and amazing the rest of the game is 
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Finally getting around the finishing up singleplayer, andI know the consensus is to just walk away before the endgame, but my god I want bad things to happen to whoever designed the initial landing on Earth. Maybe it was my fault for playing an infiltrator, but the whole screen shaking and inability to fire during the cannon launches were extremely aggravating. Enemies not challenging enough? Lets make it so you can't aim or fire intermittently.
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I decided to make this and I am not sure why. Sorry about the quality, I don't export to gif very much. 
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Gravy Train Robber posted:Finally getting around the finishing up singleplayer, andI know the consensus is to just walk away before the endgame, but my god I want bad things to happen to whoever designed the initial landing on Earth. Maybe it was my fault for playing an infiltrator, but the whole screen shaking and inability to fire during the cannon launches were extremely aggravating. Enemies not challenging enough? Lets make it so you can't aim or fire intermittently. I got through this by shift-pausing and waiting out the shakes. Worked every time. Still annoying as gently caress though.
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QUEEN CAUCUS posted:I decided to make this and I am not sure why. It's great!
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Gravy Train Robber posted:Finally getting around the finishing up singleplayer, andI know the consensus is to just walk away before the endgame, but my god I want bad things to happen to whoever designed the initial landing on Earth. Maybe it was my fault for playing an infiltrator, but the whole screen shaking and inability to fire during the cannon launches were extremely aggravating. Enemies not challenging enough? Lets make it so you can't aim or fire intermittently. I loved that and I was an infiltrator. The entire last two hours were pretty intense, I liked how they kept changing the situation and throwing stuff at you to deal with. It also added a huge sense of atmosphere and large-scale activity.
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skoolmunkee posted:I loved that and I was an infiltrator. The entire last two hours were pretty intense, I liked how they kept changing the situation and throwing stuff at you to deal with. It also added a huge sense of atmosphere and large-scale activity. Yeah, I liked that too and normally I dislike interface screws. It just hammered in how incredibly boned we were and how so much is out of our control at that point.
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ChronoReverse posted:Yeah, I liked that too and normally I dislike interface screws. It just hammered in how incredibly boned we were and how so much is out of our control at that point. I liked the whole frenetic ending battle, too - Especially since I played as a Soldier and the crazy shaking really jibed with the angry spray coming out of my Revenant. Actually, the "hot landings" were my favorite addition to the combat segments.
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Gravy Train Robber posted:Finally getting around the finishing up singleplayer, andI know the consensus is to just walk away before the endgame, but my god I want bad things to happen to whoever designed the initial landing on Earth. Maybe it was my fault for playing an infiltrator, but the whole screen shaking and inability to fire during the cannon launches were extremely aggravating. Enemies not challenging enough? Lets make it so you can't aim or fire intermittently. This was by far the hardest part of my Insanity Soldier run. Cannibals that have already gotten buffed by Marauders, regenerating health, armor plating, and a storm of grenades. Only a bit harder than Marauder Shields. 
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Does playing/not playing Arrival make any difference in ME3? I'm nearing the end of the ME2 playthrough that I'll import first and I hate everything about that lovely DLC.
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Does anyone have any suggestions on the last part of attacking the reaper base where all the Geth are? I'm at the last part where you're attacked by like three or four Geth Primes. It's an insanity run and I have James and Tali. The geth primes basically kill them in one hit. Oh and I'm playing as an infiltrator.
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skoolmunkee posted:I loved that and I was an infiltrator. The entire last two hours were pretty intense, I liked how they kept changing the situation and throwing stuff at you to deal with. It also added a huge sense of atmosphere and large-scale activity. Aristobulus posted:If it helps, apparently you only need to blame the lead writer, Mac Walters. He apparently wrote the beginning, dream sequences, Kai Leng, and the ending. He also apparently completely cut off the rest of the writing team from having any input on the ending and did it all himself. I'm completely indifferent to Leng so I suppose that's bad unto itself since the game has nothing but great characters otherwise.
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Gasoline posted:Does playing/not playing Arrival make any difference in ME3? I'm nearing the end of the ME2 playthrough that I'll import first and I hate everything about that lovely DLC. It is referenced a couple of times in the game. However, to my knowledge, it just assumes you have already completed it, since the the game starts with Shepard in a military trial for destroying the Bahak system. The Operative fucked around with this message at 02:23 on Mar 17, 2012 |
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DoYouHasaRabbit posted:Does anyone have any suggestions on the last part of attacking the reaper base where all the Geth are? I'm at the last part where you're attacked by like three or four Geth Primes. It's an insanity run and I have James and Tali. The geth primes basically kill them in one hit. Oh and I'm playing as an infiltrator.
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Grey Fox V2 posted:As an Infiltrator I initially felt that way but ended up loving it because it really helped amplify how hosed everything was. I just paused the combat between shots fired like Hidohebhi and timed my attacks accordingly. Kai Leng is some sort of garbage MGS-Raiden. Honorable mentions go to Adam Jensen of Deus Ex 3 fame and maybe Hiro Protagonist. The whole sword thing is really silly, as are his balletic twirl dodges. Phantoms are also really silly, for the same reason. Also it's very strange to see so many enemies in this game without armor/shields/barriers on Insanity difficulty, since adding extra layers of health was how they did it in ME2, but it makes a lot of sense because adding extra layers of protections only limits your pool of viable skills to basically just overload and maybe warp. messagemode1 fucked around with this message at 02:33 on Mar 17, 2012 |
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DerDestroyer posted:I hope Bioware fires him and he never gets a job in this industry again. He should've been fired yesterday. I really hope this fuckup haunts him for a long time. That starts with people even realizing that he personally hosed it up and it wasn't the same team that wrote the other amazing 99% of the game. Those people don't deserve to have their reputation and work ruined by what he did, himself.
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messagemode1 posted:The whole sword thing is really silly, as are his balletic twirl dodges. Phantoms are also really silly, for the same reason.
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Just got my N7 Elite Hoodie and wow, yall were not lieing when you said it was nice and thick, I am commander Shepard and this is my favorite hoodie in the Citadel.
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Grey Fox V2 posted:As an Infiltrator I initially felt that way but ended up loving it because it really helped amplify how hosed everything was. I just paused the combat between shots fired like Hidohebhi and timed my attacks accordingly. Yeah I did that, and spammed my powers as best I could. It still got pretty hairy, but I really loved how I had to fight for every inch. Up to that point my Shepard had been pretty mobile, hardly ever in cover- suddenly I was struggling just to do anything. Getting up the stairs took a few tries and getting a solid position up there felt like an accomplishment. Most of the other maps you've got places to run to or camp out, but not with those hot-drop ones. Great stuff.
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^^^ Agreed. Aside from the final defense of the Thanix missiles it was the most intense part of the game. messagemode1 posted:Kai Leng is some sort of garbage MGS-Raiden. Honorable mentions go to Adam Jensen of Deus Ex 3 fame and maybe Hiro Protagonist.
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Aristobulus posted:If it helps, apparently you only need to blame the lead writer, Mac Walters. He apparently wrote the beginning, dream sequences, Kai Leng, and the ending. He also apparently completely cut off the rest of the writing team from having any input on the ending and did it all himself. I don't even see how this is possible. Was he just so swamped with coordinating all of the other writers that he didn't have time to give his sections the time and focus they deserved? Those are some of the laziest and most ham-handed bits of writing in the entire series right there. BTW, where are you getting this information?
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The dreams could have been cool if they were radically different each time, with some cuts and some pacing, instead of just adding one little elaboration, but then I'm just a fan of "psychological" segments in games. They obviously want the kid to be some kind of leitmotif but you can throw him into a few different situations, even just recycling other maps. What about chasing him through a haunted Normandy where the doors connect wrong and husks pop out of nowhere?CapnAndy posted:Eh, the game makes 'em work. Any complaints that they're frigging balletic ninjas with swords who shouldn't exist in Mass Effect sorta get pre-emptively countered when you start going "wait did that fucker just cartwheel around my bullets, oh god he's in close AND HE'S GOT A SWORD gently caress HELP ME". They're obnoxious, but gently caress it, TIM ain't playing fair. Yeah, I think it's a fair concession to the medium to give you a new kind of thing to fight, and they're different enough to be challenging and require shifting your tactics. You gotta up the ante somehow (and I loved the riot shield guys). Speaking of bigger poo poo though, some of the loading screens and the manual talk about being able to shoot out the windshield of an Atlas and kill the pilot and drive it yourself, but has anyone actually been able to do this besides the unoccupied one in Grissom Academy? I did manage to shoot out the glass a couple of times but I couldn't get the guy out of there, and usually everyone is hammering away at it so much it just blows up. Frogisis fucked around with this message at 02:57 on Mar 17, 2012 |
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I was able to do that a couple times at the beginning of the game, but near the end my squad and I do so much damage to it that it almost always got destroyed before I could pop in. And even if I did get in, it usually only had a sliver of shield strength left anyway.
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Aristobulus posted:He should've been fired yesterday. I really hope this fuckup haunts him for a long time. That starts with people even realizing that he personally hosed it up and it wasn't the same team that wrote the other amazing 99% of the game.  I just can't believe the entire project's management staff let Walters hide himself away and poo poo out those endings with no other writers' input.
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Frogisis posted:Speaking of bigger poo poo though, some of the loading screens and the manual talk about being able to shoot out the windshield of an Atlas and kill the pilot and drive it yourself, but has anyone actually been able to do this besides the unoccupied one in Grissom Academy? I did manage to shoot out the glass a couple of times but I couldn't get the guy out of there, and usually everyone is hammering away at it so much it just blows up. 
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CapnAndy posted:I've shattered the glass a few times, but the armor's always so low by the time I do that my shots to kill the pilot blow the mech up I did it pretty easily on citadel. First and only time I tried it. Was using the vindicator if that makes a difference
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Frogisis posted:Speaking of bigger poo poo though, some of the loading screens and the manual talk about being able to shoot out the windshield of an Atlas and kill the pilot and drive it yourself, but has anyone actually been able to do this besides the unoccupied one in Grissom Academy? I did manage to shoot out the glass a couple of times but I couldn't get the guy out of there, and usually everyone is hammering away at it so much it just blows up.
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Aristobulus posted:If it helps, apparently you only need to blame the lead writer, Mac Walters. He apparently wrote the beginning, dream sequences, Kai Leng, and the ending. He also apparently completely cut off the rest of the writing team from having any input on the ending and did it all himself. On the one hand, that explains why most of the spoiled bits all felt so jarringly out of place. On the other, who the loving hell tries to write a story by commitee without said committe being in loving constant contact with each other?
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Kai Leng might've been alright if some of the combat was scripted or quick-time, perhaps giving you a chance to land some sick renegade burns during verbal exchanges. Yes, I can't believe I said QT would improve a boss either. If only because without some kind direct, maybe hand-to-hand confrontation, the battle consists of landing a continous stream of unanswered sniper rifle headshots on him (or maybe charging him over and over, whatevs) while he rags on you for being old and slow  . That kind of squence squarely makes him a member of Team Rocket in the sense that he's extremely confident of victory but fails absolutely at it, without cutscene magic anyway. Testing your [Right Hook] against his wouldn't be quite so bad in the way I'm imagining it anyway.Less would've been more for his tantō welding antics either if he'd just kept that weapon sheathed aside from sudden strikes with it as opposed to, you know, forever jogging down your iron sights to get in knife range. Edit: Frogisis posted:Speaking of bigger poo poo though, some of the loading screens and the manual talk about being able to shoot out the windshield of an Atlas and kill the pilot and drive it yourself, but has anyone actually been able to do this besides the unoccupied one in Grissom Academy? I did manage to shoot out the glass a couple of times but I couldn't get the guy out of there, and usually everyone is hammering away at it so much it just blows up. With armor piercing weapon mods, a heavy sniper rifle and upgraded AP ammo, Garrus once managed to drop the atlas pilot for me before the mech took significant damage. It was neat. HenessyHero fucked around with this message at 03:07 on Mar 17, 2012 |
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It's taking me forever to play this game between work and other poo poo, so I just got to the part after that business with the Council and some poo poo going down. And now Kaiden Is asking if he can come join up like everything's cool and he hasn't been a giant shithead two games straight. gently caress you buddy, Garrus and Liara have had my back since day one, where the gently caress have you been. Run off back to the fleet, Lance Henriksen needs a gopher to grab space coffees for him you traitor.. Really wish I could've shoved him out an airlock or something. Also, the cutscenes in this game seem to assume you picked Soldier for your class, which I guess is understandable but kind of a bummer when you're chasing down Kai Leng and he's getting away and I'm wondering why Shepard doesn't just biotic charge him right in his rear end and then nova him off a cliff like you do every other mook that tries to step up. Other than that, pretty sweet so far.
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I just got the Schimitar from the Turian Moon and now my Katana is gone. Is this supposed to happen?
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Being a Sniper is very useful for stealing an Atlas. Just wait for your guys to shoot the shields out, load up on slow motion + invisibility and fire all you got on the window. Should take it down almost straight away, then next round fire at the guy and he falls out almost every time. Only annoying thing is that you can't board some of the Atlases for some reason, I know the one in the DLC didn't work.
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DoYouHasaRabbit posted:Does anyone have any suggestions on the last part of attacking the reaper base where all the Geth are? I'm at the last part where you're attacked by like three or four Geth Primes. It's an insanity run and I have James and Tali. The geth primes basically kill them in one hit. Oh and I'm playing as an infiltrator. Well I played it with a vanguard. I had 0 medigel and I ran out of ammo killing just one of the primes. After 2 or 3 tries I noticed there was a ladder out, so I said gently caress it, warp charged over there, slid down before the Geth could react and just totally left the fight. My followers teleported down soon after. I'd assume you can run cover to cover until you're close then cloak yourself and get down the ladder while just ignoring the primes.
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Rape Jake. posted:I just got the Schimitar from the Turian Moon and now my Katana is gone. Is this supposed to happen? No. That's very weird.
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I just started this game, so my impression may be incorrect and will change as I progress through it. I ended up being surprised when conversation wheels were popping up, which is not what I'm used to because in ME2, I felt like I had atleast a few options in a conversation whereas in 3 it seems like Shepard is doing all the talking for me. Does this change at all? I am two hours into the game, so as I mentioned, I'm probably incorrect.
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Frogisis posted:Speaking of bigger poo poo though, some of the loading screens and the manual talk about being able to shoot out the windshield of an Atlas and kill the pilot and drive it yourself, but has anyone actually been able to do this besides the unoccupied one in Grissom Academy? I did manage to shoot out the glass a couple of times but I couldn't get the guy out of there, and usually everyone is hammering away at it so much it just blows up. 
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iTrust posted:Take an upgraded Sniper rifle to the glass of one of those things and shoot it a couple times, then get your achievement and immediately leave the stupid thing due to it being awful I'll fight you to the death about that! The Atlas is really awesome to pilot if you focus on only using the shotgun thing they got. The rockets and melee are worthless. Rockets take forever to fire and enemies can dodge roll away from them. Melee, is melee, so yeah. Anyways! The Atlas shotgun thing is awesome, fires pretty quickly and quickly kills enemies. On Normal it'll one-shot everything. On Insanity it'll one-shot health things, 2-shot shielded enemies. I make it a mission itself to take over an Atlas to finish off enemies. You get two freebie Atlas in the game. The biotic kids mission, and the Cerb station mission. The others you gotta work for by taking down shields and sniper shotting the windshield. Though I play infiltrator so it makes it a bit easy to cloak and haul rear end over to jump in. My only regret is that you can't use a Mech against Reaper forces or Geth troopers. That woulda been a little good experience there. And if they do put out DLC I hope they do include Atlas like that to be used against more troopers because it's criminally underused. Same with manning the gun turrets! Buuut I guess I always been a little biased with using vehicles, I like 'em. WoW, Lost Planet 1 and 2, and now ME3.
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