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I've played through a crapton of times, but never really bothered to ask anyone else about this: How come there's only one option for getting something for Kaidan, but there are like five for Ashley?
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Probably because Bioware cares more about Ashley, same reason why she got that stupid new hairstyle and outfit and Kaiden looks mostly the same.
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Jan 29, 2013 03:37
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Doc Dee posted:Plus a free "extended cut" that clarifies the ending a bit more for the people that didn't quite get it?
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Doc Dee posted:$35 for a game that has also had like $50 worth of free DLC in the MP, plus a free "extended cut" that clarifies the ending a bit more for the people that didn't quite get it? That doesn't sound too bad to me, honestly. The MP DLC is free because EA makes a lot from the pure-profit microtransactions, and it would be bad for them if the community was split in terms of available characters/enemies/maps. Not saying I don't appreciate their business model of “make the lazy/impatient/rich people pay for everyone's DLC", but that stuff wasn't made free out of the goodness of EA's hearts.
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Kaidan got an update where he needed it most, his armor. That ME1 poo poo was pretty bad, should have been on Jenkins so we wouldn't have to see it so much. I'd argue that Ash got her update where she needed it most, too. 
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Chilly McFreeze posted:If you created a face in ME1, and imported it to ME2 without changing it, it won't import properly into ME3. This was patched so that it works now without problems, at least on Xbox.
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Doc Dee posted:Kaidan got an update where he needed it most, his armor. That ME1 poo poo was pretty bad, should have been on Jenkins so we wouldn't have to see it so much. I'm not sure what you're referring to here, as Kaidan, Jenkins, and Shepard all start out wearing the same Onyx armor, the only difference being that Shepard has the N7 designation while Kaidan and Jenkins do not. I like Ashley's proper armor (not the bizarre miniskirt casual uniform) in ME3 though, and also liked the fact that one of Liara's alternate outfits was a suit of combat armor too.
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Didn't Kaiden have fabulous pink Phoenix armor in the ME2 intro? They should have brought that back.
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BreakAtmo posted:The MP DLC is free because EA makes a lot from the pure-profit microtransactions, and it would be bad for them if the community was split in terms of available characters/enemies/maps. Not saying I don't appreciate their business model of “make the lazy/impatient/rich people pay for everyone's DLC", but that stuff wasn't made free out of the goodness of EA's hearts. oh, OF COURSE NOT. But you don't HAVE to pay to get it. Dr. Abysmal posted:I'm not sure what you're referring to here, as Kaidan, Jenkins, and Shepard all start out wearing the same Onyx armor, the only difference being that Shepard has the N7 designation while Kaidan and Jenkins do not. I like Ashley's proper armor (not the bizarre miniskirt casual uniform) in ME3 though, and also liked the fact that one of Liara's alternate outfits was a suit of combat armor too.  Wait, that's just LIGHT Onyx armor? No wonder they had to add the red stripe on Shepard's, that poo poo is bland as gently caress.
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Batham posted:It re-writes the endings, it doesn't clarify them. In any case; most of the DLC is free and the only DLC you need to pay for that's really worth it is "Leviathan". From Ashes is included with the PC deluxe edition right? It's the other ME3 dlc worth getting unless this next (and last) dlc they're doing is awesome.
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Veotax posted:Where the hell did this come from? I've never had this problem with ME3 imports. That was a bug at release, maybe it's been patched since?
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http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/121913-Zaeed-Massani-Voice-Actor-Dies Just found this out a moment ago. Robin Sachs has passed on. edit-should've checked the other thread first.
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Not everyone reads the other thread though; thanks for linking this here. Man, what a guddam shame that people didn't even find out that he died for four days 
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VirtualStranger posted:Is there any way at all to get the default Female Shepard face from 1 & 2 to show up properly in 3? Whenever I try to import that face from ME2, it always come out hosed up. It would be nice if there was a face code to recreate it. I used the Lazarus program linked here to get my femshep right. It works by converting the face morph files that the gibbed editor generates. Apparently it doesn't work with male Shepard though.
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Dan Didio posted:That was a bug at release, maybe it's been patched since? It's been patched, but it still doesn't work well/properly. edit: ME1 armour was the best and it sucks that it's not available to wear in ME3, even though random npcs can be seen wearing it. If you're not beating the game wearing Onyx V Heavy you're just not true N7 hth sassassin fucked around with this message at 12:58 on Feb 6, 2013 |
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Y'know, I never understood why the Phoenix armor gets such rap. In fact, I love the space retro feel of the ME1 armors, with their funky foam and padding and tubes going everywhere look that just fits the universe. By ME3 everything just got Gears-Of-War'd all the way and I'm like...I miss the tubes.
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BrianWilly posted:Y'know, I never understood why the Phoenix armor gets such rap. In fact, I love the space retro feel of the ME1 armors, with their funky foam and padding and tubes going everywhere look that just fits the universe. By ME3 everything just got Gears-Of-War'd all the way and I'm like...I miss the tubes. I was in favor of this too. Same with the music of ME1. I mean, ME2 and 3 had good music too, but a certain charm was lost. I don't think its rose goggles though, I can't force myself to play ME1 again no matter how hard I try.
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I still love mass effect 1 and replay it from time to time, but there's no denying just how bad certain parts are. This is really apparent to me when I've just finished ME1 and head over to ME2. Just when You've basically become numb to ME1's lovely gun-play and inventory, ME2 rudely awakens you by making shooting actually fun from the get-go. Apart from that though, you also become immediately aware of the shift in tone (music, coloring, more fantastical elements) and the loss of some minor gameplay elements (for example; I liked the medigel/medkit system for ME1 a lot more). Now I'm not calling ME1 hard sci-fi or anything, but it still feels like it tried to keep things a bit more serious and plausible than ME2 (e.g. Kasumi doing her anime-jump when fighting the gunship) and ME3. It's like Babylon 5 and Farscape; both are sci-fi shows but are completely different in tone, themes, music, ect... . By the way, I recommend all Mass Effect fans to give those 2 shows a look. You might be surprised just how much Bioware downright copied and simply pallet swapped from them. Batham fucked around with this message at 10:40 on Feb 7, 2013 |
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http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-02-07-bioware-calling-the-next-game-mass-effect-4-is-a-disservice Next game won't be called Mass Effect 4 quote:"To call the next game Mass Effect 4 or ME4 is doing it a disservice and seems to cause a lot of confusion here," BioWare community manager Chris Priestly wrote on the company's forums. Kurtofan fucked around with this message at 12:47 on Feb 7, 2013 |
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Feb 7, 2013 12:45
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Still full of poo poo, still not making any sense. Way to go Priestly.
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Believe it or not I'd like a smaller scale Mass Effect game. Something that took place on just one planet (though a very big/busy planet, to keep things interesting). That way you could be facing a big personal threat but not something that attempts to trump the Reapers.
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Kurtofan posted:http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-02-07-bioware-calling-the-next-game-mass-effect-4-is-a-disservice This seems like a bunch of, "Well we hosed ourselves with the last story, but we still want to mine the IP for money. So.... we're going to take the setting and just kinda... skip forward, or backwards, or sideways. You know. Just get as far away from our big mess of hosed up writing as we can but still keep you buying our stuff."
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Any future Mass Effect game will most likely be released on next-gen consoles and thus will not be able to use save importing from previous games. I really wish they'd just leave the IP alone and not turn it into a franchise zombie, but that's likely not happening now that they've sold their soul to EA.
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The next Mass Effect will be a more linear shooter where you can spend real money in-game to get weapon and power upgrades early. It will feature drop-in drop-out co-operative play with a unique twist: Spend enough time with another player and you'll be able to romance them!
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ImpAtom posted:The next Mass Effect will be a more linear shooter where you can spend real money in-game to get weapon and power upgrades early. It will feature drop-in drop-out co-operative play with a unique twist: Spend enough time with another player and you'll be able to romance them! No, that's Dark Souls 2 you're thinking of.
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With the sad news of Robin Sach's passing, I post this video I found in tribute. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9-dLzzQuVM Kurtofan posted:http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-02-07-bioware-calling-the-next-game-mass-effect-4-is-a-disservice I hope you'll play a non-military character this time, like a pirate or mercenary. I think Bioware did say they saw a lot of interest in playing alien characters.
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quote:No, because the game does not have to come after. Or before. Or off to the side. Or with characters you know. Or yaddayaddayadda.  EVIL Chris Priestly.
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That truly made no sense at all. He essentially said nothing. He used all those words to say absolutely nothing.
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Viridiant posted:That truly made no sense at all. He essentially said nothing. He used all those words to say absolutely nothing. Mad PR skills at work here!
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BrianWilly posted:Y'know, I never understood why the Phoenix armor gets such rap. In fact, I love the space retro feel of the ME1 armors, with their funky foam and padding and tubes going everywhere look that just fits the universe. By ME3 everything just got Gears-Of-War'd all the way and I'm like...I miss the tubes. I loved the fact that the best krogan armour in the game had neon tubes everywhere. You can get the same effect in ME3's multiplayer, but it's just not the same. As for the music, I liked the first game's themes, loved the second's, but the third... other than the music that played when the kid got exploded when leaving Earth, I can't remember any of it at all.
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Well EA knows that Mass Effect is a franchise that can make ti a lot of money now. Everyone knew there was going to be another Mass Effect, but the question is how are they going to do the setting. Of course they'll try to stay away from ME1-3, it's too complicated to try and fit anything in there now (especially an entire games worth of material) I don't think they'd commit to a game without humans at all, so you have to pick from anything between The First Contact War up to the events of ME1. It's entirely possible they can do something after ME3 but set an arbitary amount of time in the future.
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Oh good god made a post in the other thread about looking forward to ME4 and then of course Priestly gotta make that.quote:because the game does not have to come after. Or before. Or off to the side. So the game will take place in the head of a autistic boy as he stares into the snow-globe of the Normandy? Bleh. I just gotta keep telling myself that Priestly is a joke and doesn't actually know anything. edit- Batham posted:What if they go all Abramsverse on Mass Effect? Huh, a reboot. Didn't think of that. That might be something.
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So Bioware Montreal's Studio Director Yannick Roy decided to chime in after Priestly posted:quote:Hi guys, The ----------- separates his posts.
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Somebody said something essentially meaningless and we still know absolutely nothing about the next Mass Effect game but boy I just gotta MASH THESE loving KEYS AND POST ABOUT IT. Seriously, it's neat that everyone's all smug about how they're 2 cool 4 ME or w/e now, but he didn't really say anything besides reiterating what they've been saying all along. The trilogy was Shepard's story, and the ME universe is a big place where there is room for lots of other stories.
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The problem is that the ending of ME3 basically makes "other stories" impossible to set up properly because there are three outcomes which are pretty exclusive to one another and the setting is such that there's nobody but Shepard who could have done anything meaningful because everything came down to Shepard's single choice. The most likely answers are time travel or dimension hopping or something similarly sci-fi.
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ImpAtom posted:The problem is that the ending of ME3 basically makes "other stories" impossible to set up properly because there are three outcomes which are pretty exclusive to one another and the setting is such that there's nobody but Shepard who could have done anything meaningful because everything came down to Shepard's single choice. Nothing is "impossible" because they own the loving IP and it's sci-fi. I don't see why every single person has become obnoxiously pedantic since the ending of ME3 but I'm sorry you can't imagine that there is enough room in the ME universe for another game.
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Doc Dee posted:$35 for a game that has also had like $50 worth of free DLC in the MP, plus a free "extended cut" that clarifies the ending a bit more for the people that didn't quite get it? That doesn't sound too bad to me, honestly. Yes, the problem with the ending is that people were just too dumb to understand the glory of it. The space Satan tells Shephard to kill himself by jumping into a green laser beam so that his spirit energy can be combined into a giant microphone to turn everyone into organic-machine hybrids (also known as reapers). You do this because all robots are evil and an evil robot created a race of evil robots to fight these evil robots by killing all the organics before they get to kill all organics 'yoink?'. Then the galaxy explodes in a bunch of supernovas as the lifeline of the galactic civilization is destroyed and probably most of the galaxy as well. It is never explained why logical machines turn into a bunch of murderers. But after you apply a cheap shader effect on everything, including hats and plants, the robots are no longer evil murderers. The shader effect represents technology. Although it is also applied to the robot crew member. Synthetic + synthetic = hybrid? After all this you get a quiet little scene with an adult and the same adult model scaled down talking about the legend of Jesus "The Shephard" Christ. The fact that they can't just check the actual facts online hints at the destruction of all technology. The size 1.0 adult is voiced by the legendary Buzz Aldrin... and his acting is loving terrible and creepy. And the last thing you see is a small little text box popping up. It tells you to keep your credit card handy so that you can buy the DLC to add to this great story. These are the thoughts I had when I witnessed the ending first time. I had my hands on both sides of my head in a surprised fashion. I was laughing in disbelief. During the credits I stopped laughing. I thought I had somehow hosed up, but it turns out Bioware just ran out of time. So an autistic project director took a terrible writer with him and they wrote the ending so that the game would ship before EA lost its poo poo. The terrible writer only had one ace in his sleeve. A napkin he had drunkenly scribbled on. On the napkin it said "It's like the loving matrix, dawg!" The End
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DrNutt posted:Nothing is "impossible" because they own the loving IP and it's sci-fi. I don't see why every single person has become obnoxiously pedantic since the ending of ME3 but I'm sorry you can't imagine that there is enough room in the ME universe for another game. I mean, nothing is ever "impossible" because they can quite literally write anything they can think up in their heads, but what most people mean is that it's impossible to do [X] if they want to stick to the rules and confinements they have (so far) established within their IP. And if they decide to significantly and arbitrarily break these rules in order to tell their new story it's bad storytelling. If they want to make a game that chronologically takes place after ME3, they will have to deal with what happened to the Reapers somehow. At this point I do kind of expect them to just declare the Reapers beaten and gone ... one way or another, without settling on a specific ending of ME3. Synthesis? Yeah that kind of happened .. but not really, and everything pretty much works as you've been used to, no hive-mind and no glowy parts in organics. It's not impossible to do a game based on these premises but it's bad storytelling because within the confines set by the previous games, Synthesis, Destroy and Control should be mutually exclusive, or if they somehow aren't all of a sudden, then why bother making them in the first place. Either way, I'm happy that new and fresh personnel is doing the next game, and I think they should just try to stay away from the ME3 ending as much as possible without going into too much detail and without having the galaxy changed to the point where it might as well be a completely new IP based on its implications (i.e. the effects of Synthesis). It's still dumb and silly but the current ending situation is pretty much not salvageable so at this point they should just find a way to leave it behind and move on, even if that means accepting a silly retcon or straight up ignoring major events that happened in Shepard's trilogy and pretend they just never happened.
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