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Well, it IS pretty big, and it might be made with really nice materials. Plus it's restricted to 1000, so there's the rarity element. Zedd posted:BTW, I reckon it is time we merge this and the spoiler thread into a general one. 'Okay with ME3' is a stretch, but I do agree they should be merged. Spoilers won't be such an issue after 7 months. Only question is, what should the new title be? BreakAtmo fucked around with this message at 13:25 on Oct 5, 2012 |
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BreakAtmo posted:Only question is, what should the new title be? Mass Effect Megathread: shut up about the ending already
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Oct 5, 2012 14:01
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Just started playing ME3 so I read a bit of the intro and didn't see this answered: I heard the original ending was bad (hurr hurr), should I download the DLC ending before I finish the game or does it not matter?
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Oct 5, 2012 16:25
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Blitz7x posted:Just started playing ME3 so I read a bit of the intro and didn't see this answered: Definitely download it. It's... an improvement. How much it improves varies with different people.
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Oct 5, 2012 16:31
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Yeah most people who didn't finish the game until after the extended cut came out wind up posting something to the effect of "I don't see what the fuss was all about the ending wasn't that bad." In my opinion the extended cut ups the quality from so incompetent I can't begin to understand what the hell they were thinking to "good enough I guess". It's still a weak ending to a great series but it's not so bad that I feel awful. Also it's free so get it.
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Oct 5, 2012 16:47
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Lagomorphic posted:Yeah most people who didn't finish the game until after the extended cut came out wind up posting something to the effect of "I don't see what the fuss was all about the ending wasn't that bad." Still, people have posted in both threads about friends who played the game for the first time with the EC, and their reaction was “poo poo, this used to be WORSE?" Have there been many widespread polls done on thoughts regarding the EC?
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Oct 5, 2012 16:53
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Just getting into ME3 having not played 1 and 2 - it seems fun but not exactly my cup of tea. The story seems to move too much on a rail, it feels like 60-70% graphic novel/movie with brief action sequences interspersed. I was looking for a shooter with bigger more open levels to explore a bit more freely in between cutscenes etc. I understand that the ME series is much more of a scripted, story driven game than what I'm used to though. How much do I really miss out on not playing the first two? Does it matter that much? Do I derive profound insights into my character that I wouldn't have otherwise?
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Oct 5, 2012 16:55
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Zwabu posted:Just getting into ME3 having not played 1 and 2 - it seems fun but not exactly my cup of tea. The story seems to move too much on a rail, it feels like 60-70% graphic novel/movie with brief action sequences interspersed. I was looking for a shooter with bigger more open levels to explore a bit more freely in between cutscenes etc. I understand that the ME series is much more of a scripted, story driven game than what I'm used to though. Frankly, playing ME3 first is an awful idea. The first two games contain a massive amount of plot, world-building and, most importantly, character development. ME3 is a vastly better game when you've played the first two, not to say there won't also be inconsistencies that may annoy you.
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Oct 5, 2012 16:59
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Zwabu posted:Just getting into ME3 having not played 1 and 2 - it seems fun but not exactly my cup of tea. The story seems to move too much on a rail, it feels like 60-70% graphic novel/movie with brief action sequences interspersed. I was looking for a shooter with bigger more open levels to explore a bit more freely in between cutscenes etc. I understand that the ME series is much more of a scripted, story driven game than what I'm used to though. Get Mass Effect 2 and get the interactive graphic novel DLC thing that lets you carry forward a bunch of choices from Mass Effect 1 without going through the slog of actually playing it.
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Oct 5, 2012 17:04
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I do find it interesting if someone plays ME3 first, then goes back to the previous ones to get a better insight of things. Not sure if the endings would prevent that (probably not, but still).
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Oct 5, 2012 17:08
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Epi Lepi posted:Get Mass Effect 2 and get the interactive graphic novel DLC thing that lets you carry forward a bunch of choices from Mass Effect 1 without going through the slog of actually playing it. Worst advice ever.
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Oct 5, 2012 17:09
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BreakAtmo posted:Well, it IS pretty big, and it might be made with really nice materials. Plus it's restricted to 1000, so there's the rarity element. They would make more, but there's barely enough element zero for the 1000.
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Epi Lepi posted:Get Mass Effect 2 and get the interactive graphic novel DLC thing that lets you carry forward a bunch of choices from Mass Effect 1 without going through the slog of actually playing it. No, actually, get ME1 and start with that right away, as it has by far the best plot in the entire series. Also starting this trilogy with anything other than ME1 is like grabbing an 800 page novel and just whipping it open at some random page half way in and starting to read it from there. It's a terrible, terrible idea.
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Zwabu posted:Just getting into ME3 having not played 1 and 2 - it seems fun but not exactly my cup of tea. The story seems to move too much on a rail, it feels like 60-70% graphic novel/movie with brief action sequences interspersed. I was looking for a shooter with bigger more open levels to explore a bit more freely in between cutscenes etc. I understand that the ME series is much more of a scripted, story driven game than what I'm used to though. So on the whole, you'd be better off going through the first two games (or at least ME2) before tackling ME3. You might actually find ME1 to be closer to what you're looking for, too; it allows for much more leisurely exploration of large indoor or outdoor areas, and can be played like a more traditional shooter, except with an overheating mechanic instead of ammo. The downsides are that the environments are much more sparsely decorated than in the following games, the numerous non-plot planets you can land on are all of the "big barren heightmapped area" variety, and the combat is not sophisticated at all. Even so, you may find it to be pleasantly different from its sequels, and everything's punctuated by some of the finest moments in the entire series.
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Zwabu posted:Just getting into ME3 having not played 1 and 2 - it seems fun but not exactly my cup of tea. The story seems to move too much on a rail, it feels like 60-70% graphic novel/movie with brief action sequences interspersed. I was looking for a shooter with bigger more open levels to explore a bit more freely in between cutscenes etc. I understand that the ME series is much more of a scripted, story driven game than what I'm used to though.
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HoveringCheesecake posted:Worst advice ever. The original guy seemed like he wanted a shooter in ME3, and since the gunplay is loving horrendous in ME1 I figured he'd be better off just skipping it. ME1 has a pretty good plot, but it's the least fun game to play. Honestly I like ME2 best out of the series on all counts.
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Every time past my first runthrough in ME1 I did the Mako .ini tweak to get all of the experience and played it on the easiest difficulty.
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Epi Lepi posted:The original guy seemed like he wanted a shooter in ME3, and since the gunplay is loving horrendous in ME1 I figured he'd be better off just skipping it. ME1 has a pretty good plot, but it's the least fun game to play. Honestly I like ME2 best out of the series on all counts. Surely you are joking, right? ME1 has the drat mako which makes it way cooler! I'm sorry but ME2 and ME3 don't come anywhere near the level of exploration that you can achieve in ME1. And the random thresher maws were freakin' awesome. Why they got ride of the mako is beyond my levels of reasoning. I loved the actual exploration and not just launching drat probes every which way. If you're gonna get into the series do it the right way, from the start. Mass Effect is one of those series you really can't miss, it's story the visuals and dialogue and gameplay all just scream epic.
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skoolmunkee posted:Mass Effect Megathread: shut up about the ending already Please god, this. I would have suggested THE ENDS WERE BAD, GET OVER IT: IT'S BEEN SIX MONTHS NOW AND YOU SAD FUCKS ARE STILL PISSING AND MOANING ABOUT IT A DOZEN TIMES A DAY? but I guess that it's a tad too long. Just a tad. I mean hell, it pretty much bummed us all out, sure, but life's too loving short to dwell on it obsessively like those freaks in the spoiler thread seem to.
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Elysiume posted:Every time past my first runthrough in ME1 I did the Mako .ini tweak to get all of the experience and played it on the easiest difficulty. Super easy mode is the only way to get through that game after the first time. I'm on Xbox though so no .ini tweaks for me.
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So after beating the game shortly after its release I uninstalled it and decided against a sexing play through. This was before the EC. Just a few days ago, I reinstalled and downloaded Leviathan but gently caress is it hard to get back into the game knowing the ending. I ended up firing up multiplayer - something I neglected the first time around - and I'm really liking it. Are any goons still playing it? Is there a separate thread (looked through the first few pages of Games and didn't see anything)? I haven't gone higher than silver yet but have had good luck with my Spectre packs and have been blowing poo poo up with my N7 Demolisher. I hope I can get into Leviathan and take it through to the ending...I would like to have a slightly less offensive poo poo taste in my mouth than I had originally.
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rio posted:So after beating the game shortly after its release I uninstalled it and decided against a sexing play through. This was before the EC. Just a few days ago, I reinstalled and downloaded Leviathan but gently caress is it hard to get back into the game knowing the ending. Multiplayer thread is here and yeah, there are quite a few goons still playing it. In fact, we're all hyped as gently caress because of the new DLC coming out on Tuesday. There's a bunch of class builds linked in the OP and if you post your manifest people usually offer suggestions about what to equip your class with. vv 
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rio posted:So after beating the game shortly after its release I uninstalled it and decided against a sexing play through. This was before the EC. Just a few days ago, I reinstalled and downloaded Leviathan but gently caress is it hard to get back into the game knowing the ending. EDIT: curses !! beaten again !!
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Epi Lepi posted:The original guy seemed like he wanted a shooter in ME3, and since the gunplay is loving horrendous in ME1 I figured he'd be better off just skipping it. ME1 has a pretty good plot, but it's the least fun game to play. Honestly I like ME2 best out of the series on all counts. Ah. Yeah I suppose. But you can just make a ridiculous Adept or Vanguard in ME1. It is amazing! I also agree that ME2 is the best overall. Everything about the game is loving solid.
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I was randomly wondering if with the re-release of the trilogy you can romance Kaiden in 1 as ManShep. You could be total   from the get-go.
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skoolmunkee posted:Mass Effect Megathread: shut up about the ending already Mass Effect Megathread: We've been mad about the endings for six months, but we'll still drop four hundo on a Reaper paperweight Will we ever see an ME3 coloring book?
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SubponticatePoster posted:I was randomly wondering if with the re-release of the trilogy you can romance Kaiden in 1 as ManShep. You could be total The trilogy is just the three separate games repackaged in one box. It might include some performance or bugfix patches related to compiling it on PS3, but to the best of my knowledge no content is changed.
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Bongo Bill posted:The trilogy is just the three separate games repackaged in one box. It might include some performance or bugfix patches related to compiling it on PS3, but to the best of my knowledge no content is changed. I'm going to be curious how they get ME1 onto the PS3 at all, it barely works on the Xbox and that's much more lenient with memory usage.
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Really Pants posted:Mass Effect Megathread: We've been mad about the endings for six months, but we'll still drop four hundo on a Reaper paperweight Nah. That would take more love than I got. I might do some kind of project eventually but I don't have anything in mind.
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Juc66 posted:I'm going to be curious how they get ME1 onto the PS3 at all, it barely works on the Xbox and that's much more lenient with memory usage. EDIT: Altogether unrelated, but I just haphazardly stumbled across something rather endearingly abominable that I thought I should share. Sombrerotron fucked around with this message at 00:23 on Oct 6, 2012 |
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FronzelNeekburm posted:The important lesson to learn from this hullabaloo is if you're going to present people with a choice of ending, at least make it feel like there's some difference between the options. Otherwise, you might as well spend your effort on just one good ending. It's not like it's never been done before. The Fallout and The Witcher games have done multiple endings very well. Yes, it's more work to make completely different branches like in those games, but it's not rocket science.
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Sombrerotron posted:Would it be possible, you think, to have it use the ME3 engine without recoding the whole thing? They'd probably have to remake a lot of the levels if they used the new engine, I remember an estimate of how much work that'd take from a long while back that puts that into the realm of unlikely events (cool if it happens though) There's some VERY good programmers who work as part of the Mass Effect team though, so there might have been some magic they pulled off with the engine, at the very least if they use the old one they've a lot of ancient bugs to fix. It'll be neat to know what they ended up doing to get it out the door.
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Sentinel Red posted:Please god, this. I would have suggested THE ENDS WERE BAD, GET OVER IT: IT'S BEEN SIX MONTHS NOW AND YOU SAD FUCKS ARE STILL PISSING AND MOANING ABOUT IT A DOZEN TIMES A DAY? but I guess that it's a tad too long. Just a tad. Hey I've been ignoring this thread for months but I'm still mad about the endings and it's heartwarming to see that other people are still just as angry as I am 
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^^^^^^ Seriously. At this point Dragon Age 3 would have to branch like the motherfucking lovechild of The Last Express and Alpha Protocol to get Bioware back into karmic balance.Sombrerotron posted:Would it be possible, you think, to have it use the ME3 engine without recoding the whole thing?
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Juc66 posted:They'd probably have to remake a lot of the levels if they used the new engine, I remember an estimate of how much work that'd take from a long while back that puts that into the realm of unlikely events (cool if it happens though) NihilCredo posted:All three titles are Unreal Engine 3 games, so... EDIT: Although I will concede that remaking levels is something different than recoding. EDIT 2: I missed this. richardfun posted:It's not like it's never been done before. The Fallout and The Witcher games have done multiple endings very well. Yes, it's more work to make completely different branches like in those games, but it's not rocket science. Sombrerotron fucked around with this message at 14:14 on Oct 6, 2012 |
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Oct 6, 2012 14:03
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Sombrerotron posted:As far as I know, The Witcher only has one ending as such; what's impressive about it is the significantly different paths you can take through the game.
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Does Tali appear in ME3 if you go through ME2 without recruiting her at all? Every stupid wiki and forum post only talks about her showing up if she survives the suicide mission.
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If you don't recruit her, she's dead because you didn't save her from the Geth on Haestrom.
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Excellent, thanks. One less thing I have to worry about (not) screwing up. Why is it harder to do badly in these games than to do well? 
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I can't believe, while playing through ME1 and 2 again, that it's only just now occured to me that Queen Myrrah's voice in Gears of War isn't altered, that's just Carolyn Seymour's natural diction and enunciation. I knew her from British television shows and for being Dr. Chakwas and a couple of bit players through Knights of the Old Republic 1 and 2 and Dragon Age, but I'd never made the Gears of War connection before.
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