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Burning Mustache posted:From a recent Bioware blog post: glad it's plural, then. Still hoping for another squadmate as good as Javik, that Life Support room is still conspicuously empty.
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Fag Boy Jim posted:glad it's plural, then. Still hoping for another squadmate as good as Javik, that Life Support room is still conspicuously empty. It's probably for Aria. 
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Sep 30, 2012 23:38
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Beefstew posted:It's probably for Aria.
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Sep 30, 2012 23:46
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Beefstew posted:It's probably for Aria. Aria already has a room on the ship. It's called the airlock. 
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Oct 1, 2012 00:51
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Really Pants posted:Is it just me, or did Sentinels get the serious shaft this time around? My Sentinel is still pretty cool. You can spec her to absorb more damage and play like a Soldier, or you can just focus on powers. The latter is better if you want to set up detonations, especially biotic ones. One thing I learn is that grenades are awesome. They don't have cooldown and they are fairly common. Singularity + Lift Grenade is great for crowd control. It's one reason I love the Sentinel. Javik has that power too, but that just means you get more of them.
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Oct 1, 2012 01:32
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Cheap Vodka posted:Aria already has a room on the ship. It's called the airlock. Sorry, I'm pretty sure that counts as loving with Aria.
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Oct 1, 2012 02:13
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404GoonNotFound posted:Sorry, I'm pretty sure that counts as loving with Aria. No, but this does:Sombrerotron posted:Maybe Shepard will finally be able to get that threesome with Liara, then.
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Oct 1, 2012 02:18
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I wonder if they will actually make Aria a temporary squad member, or at least show her fighting. She fights in her comic and book appearances but in the games she's done little more than sit on a couch and be smug.
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Oct 1, 2012 02:31
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Fag Boy Jim posted:glad it's plural, then. Still hoping for another squadmate as good as Javik, that Life Support room is still conspicuously empty. I doubt they'll add a permanent squadmate at this point--there wouldn't be as much banter with that character on missions or on the Normandy, unless they've already recorded dialogue with the other actors or plan to get them back yet again. Speaking of banter: I replayed Leviathan tonight (missed the cabin item the first time), and suddenly Ken and Gabby aren't talking again. How hard is this bug to scrub out?
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Oct 1, 2012 05:25
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It's too bad Tuchanka doesn't stick around, it would be cool to have Aria talk to Wrex.
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Oct 1, 2012 08:49
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epenthesis posted:Speaking of banter: I replayed Leviathan tonight (missed the cabin item the first time), and suddenly Ken and Gabby aren't talking again. How hard is this bug to scrub out? They must have a ton of triggers attached to them.
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Oct 1, 2012 11:54
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I don't have Gabby. Where did she go?  I really need to get some saves downloaded; I just jumped into New Game because nobody keeps a computer long enough to have saves from ME1.
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Oct 1, 2012 14:33
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Man. No wonder you have so many complaints about ME3's connection to the rest of the series, if you aren't playing on an imported save.... On the Citadel, there's a terminal where as Spectre, you can grant a pardon to the Cerberus Normandy crew, and get them a place on your ship. I believe that in the default, non-loaded version, they, and the rest of the crew, did not survive the ending of ME2. (You bastard)
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Oct 1, 2012 15:13
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HOLY poo poo. Ashley is ON THE FLOOR DRUNK 30 minutes before duty and my options are: 1)Aww, look at you and 2)Clean yourself up... What. The. gently caress?! Where's my option to chew her out like a drill sergeant recycling a cadet? Or my option to drag her to Dr. Chakwas for counseling? Those are like, what I would expect at minimum for Renegade and Paragon. Not, "Oh tee hee, you're a Spectre operative who can't even keep her poo poo together well enough to not show up drunk for her watch. That's so cute." Seriously what the gently caress Ashley. What the gently caress Shepard. I think saving the loving galaxy requires a tad bit more discipline than a crawling-on-the-floor drunk.
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Oct 1, 2012 15:22
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Arglebargle III posted:HOLY poo poo. Ashley is ON THE FLOOR DRUNK 30 minutes before duty and my options are: 1)Aww, look at you and 2)Clean yourself up... What. The. gently caress?! Where's my option to chew her out like a drill sergeant recycling a cadet? Or my option to drag her to Dr. Chakwas for counseling? Those are like, what I would expect at minimum for Renegade and Paragon. Not, "Oh tee hee, you're a Spectre operative who can't even keep her poo poo together well enough to not show up drunk for her watch. That's so cute." At what point in this series did you come to expect military discipline from these people who depend on you to solve their personal demons on a weekly basis?
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Oct 1, 2012 15:55
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The worst thing is, a few other crew members have lines about it. They seem to think it's funny.
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Oct 1, 2012 16:07
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Arglebargle III posted:The worst thing is, a few other crew members have lines about it. They seem to think it's funny. No, the real worst thing is that getting falling-down drunk once is the only thing that Ashely does after re-joining. She was supposed to have some other unique scenes, including one where she decides to finally ask Shepard about the whole "being dead" thing. Unfortunately that was cut, so she will spend her remaining time on the Normandy leaning in one spot, staring at a wall in an empty room forever. Geostomp fucked around with this message at 16:13 on Oct 1, 2012 |
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Oct 1, 2012 16:11
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Geostomp posted:No, the real worst thing is that getting falling-down drunk once is the only thing that Ashely does after re-joining. "We decided not to feature the Virmire survivor in ME2 because it was really important that they be around in the third game. What, you think that bulkhead was going to hold itself up?"
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Oct 1, 2012 16:15
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Arglebargle III posted:HOLY poo poo. Ashley is ON THE FLOOR DRUNK 30 minutes before duty and my options are: 1)Aww, look at you and 2)Clean yourself up... What. The. gently caress?! Where's my option to chew her out like a drill sergeant recycling a cadet? Or my option to drag her to Dr. Chakwas for counseling? Those are like, what I would expect at minimum for Renegade and Paragon. Not, "Oh tee hee, you're a Spectre operative who can't even keep her poo poo together well enough to not show up drunk for her watch. That's so cute."
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Oct 1, 2012 16:18
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Geostomp posted:No, the real worst thing is that getting falling-down drunk once is the only thing that Ashely does after re-joining. Is Kaiden any better? I always nuked him but Ashley is such a waste of space in 3, I'm wondering if maybe I should have kept Kaiden.
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Oct 1, 2012 16:18
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Epi Lepi posted:Is Kaiden any better? I always nuked him but Ashley is such a waste of space in 3, I'm wondering if maybe I should have kept Kaiden. Kaiden actually leaves the observation deck once or twice, including playing poker with James and Garrus. Also he has an okay comedy moment if you take him to the Ardat Yakshi Monastery.
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Oct 1, 2012 16:19
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Welp I finished Rannoch and got Bad End because of something I didn't do in ME2. That is actually pretty satisfactory? Also gently caress da creators, geth 4 lyfe.
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Oct 1, 2012 16:23
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I liked Kaidan in ME3, including his little friendly not-date with my fem-shep. He's a pretty cool bro.
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Oct 1, 2012 16:36
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New patch coming this week. Looks like they've already noticed the dialogue problem.
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Oct 1, 2012 18:09
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Geostomp posted:No, the real worst thing is that getting falling-down drunk once is the only thing that Ashely does after re-joining.
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Oct 1, 2012 19:04
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Geostomp posted:she will spend her remaining time on the Normandy leaning in one spot, staring at a wall in an empty room forever. Probably has PTSD from seeing the ME3 script for the first time.
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Oct 1, 2012 19:49
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Sombrerotron posted:In all fairness, nobody ever complains when Shepard drinks him-/herself into a coma in ME2, either. At worst you get primly chided by EDI for using the bathroom intended for the opposite sex. I like to think that she got fed up and just locked you out of that bathroom shortly after Joker unshackled her.
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Oct 1, 2012 20:27
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Epi Lepi posted:Is Kaiden any better? I always nuked him but Ashley is such a waste of space in 3, I'm wondering if maybe I should have kept Kaiden. Kaiden actually seems to grow a personality in between games. He's still kinda bland, but at least he goes around the ship to do stuff. Besides that, he's the only Sentinel squadmate in the game for some reason while Ashely is more or less redundant with Vega as a meatsheild and Garrus as a sniper. Of course, he does start hitting on Shepard shortly after rejoining and has one really awkward scene where he tries and fails to be an grim badass, but he's chill outside of that.
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Oct 1, 2012 20:53
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We're a warship with a cocktail bar. No one gets a poo poo.
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Oct 1, 2012 21:06
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Fangz posted:We're a warship with a cocktail bar. No one gets a poo poo. There was a real wasted opportunity to show the crow getting together for stuff in there, a la Ten Forward. Then again, I suppose people would have found it at odds with the holy poo poo gotta save Earth focus. To me it's more evidence they should have saved the actual Reaper invasion to the last third of the game or something like that.
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Oct 1, 2012 22:31
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Geostomp posted:Of course, he does start hitting on Shepard shortly after rejoining Before, actually. There's a perfectly innocuous dialogue option at Huerta which leads to "Are you flirting with me, Commander?" Which my BroShep loved, but no doubt was less well received by others.
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Arglebargle III posted:The worst thing is, a few other crew members have lines about it. They seem to think it's funny. It's the end of the fuckin' galaxy, man. If you can't get wasted then, when can you?
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Arglebargle III posted:Welp I finished Rannoch and got Bad End because of something I didn't do in ME2. That is actually pretty satisfactory? Also gently caress da creators, geth 4 lyfe. My first playthrough, I got all the Quarians killed by accident. Trusted Legion to do the right thing, didn't realize that Tali being dead would screw me. But then I was just as okay with the Geth surviving as you.
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Is Kai Leng designed to infuriate the player? More to the point, is he designed to make the player hate the writing staff? At this point I wouldn't be surprised if he was the product of an ME3 fanfiction contest. "Ok guys, here's my idea. He's Asian, he has a ponytail, he fights with a sword, how cool is that right guys? Oh and he's totally better than Shepard, and whenever anyone shoots at him he holds out his hand like 'No' like Neo in the Matrix. He's so cool oh my God, no one has ever had a better idea for a character. And get this, whenever Shepard fights, Kai Leng totally beats him. It's like not even close guys. And then he walks away all cool like 'Cerberus thanks you for your cooperation' like totally burning him. And we have to take away player control during this sequence because he can't lose. Players love that anyway." It's not a good sign when I'm angry at the writers instead of angry at the villain. The villain beat Shepard, okay, but its the writers' fault for thinking I might respect this villain.. (He has a sword for gently caress's sake. He didn't hit me once the whole fight while I poured hypersonic future bullets into him. He won entirely by writer fiat.) What's the deal with Liara in the Thessia mission anyway? Her inability to deal with her emotions was out of character. This is the woman who rationally talked down her hallucinations on Therum. No one could have foreseen this? She was the literally, literally the first person to foresee this. Did she forget that she's a total badass? I feel like this isn't the first female character I've asked that about. Also, I feel like it's not a great sign that I've started to think of the token gay character as "cryface" because I can't remember his name and he cries all the time. Way to break with stereotypes bioware.
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Arglebargle III posted:Is Kai Leng designed to infuriate the player? Yes. Arglebargle III posted:More to the point, is he designed to make the player hate the writing staff? Probably not intentionally, but yes.
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I actually liked EDI's suggestion of a rousing rendition of La Marseillaise and was disappointed when Shepard said no. Aux armes citoyens! 
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Oct 2, 2012 15:46
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Sooner or later you're gonna get a renegade cutscene option when it comes to Kai Leng, take it. It's almost the best moment in the whole game.
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Oct 2, 2012 15:57
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Eau de MacGowan posted:It's almost the best moment in the whole game. At the very least there certainly are no more good moments in the game after that 
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Arglebargle III posted:Also, I feel like it's not a great sign that I've started to think of the token gay character as "cryface" because I can't remember his name and he cries all the time. Way to break with stereotypes bioware. Eau de MacGowan posted:Sooner or later you're gonna get a renegade cutscene option when it comes to Kai Leng, take it. It's almost the best moment in the whole game. Burning Mustache posted:At the very least there certainly are no more good moments in the game after that
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I liked that your grand galaxy-saving plan devolved into a suicidal charge into a beam of light, and loving up the pacing of that part was probably the most significant negative change in the EC, along with the removal of the awesome dissonant music in the "outrunning the relay explosion" bit.
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