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GenericOverusedName posted:Shotguns would be a better example of what Dan Didio is talking about, I think! Scimitar Sentinel is great fun in ME2. Never take cover, never stop firing your automatic shotgun, save galaxy.
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I think the key point here is that ME1 combat is dogshit.
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Fag Boy Jim posted:I think the key point here is that ME1 combat is dogshit. Gun combat, I'll get behind that. Sending people into orbit with Singularity is the height of game-breaking awesome.
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Mako vs ground units was generally fun. Oh hey a group of geth, BLAMMO, and the bodies rolled on fire.
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sassassin posted:Geth Plasma Shotgun Adept Also I've platted both ME2 & 3, and suppose I will get around to 1 eventually but it hurts  edit: VVV I'm on PS3 so Pinnacle Station isn't one of the trophies! SubponticatePoster fucked around with this message at 21:13 on Dec 2, 2013 |
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SubponticatePoster posted:I admit to sticking a Black Widow on many classes I shouldn't have. By that I mean "all of them except Vanguard" because a 200%+ cooldown Vanguard is batshit insanity that shouldn't be hosed with. I was once a starry-eyed one as you. Then I got to Pinnacle Station. 
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SubponticatePoster posted:a 200%+ cooldown Vanguard is batshit insanity that shouldn't be hosed with.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:My wife has been criticising me for about the last year for spamming charge / nova chains, until she tried it on bronze the other night and now she won't stop. A properly specced Vanguard's charge is ready to go again before the Nova animation is finished 
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I don't even bother with shockwave. I am a total Dick on drone escorts.
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So, I just finally started playing ME3 now I've got a decent laptop. I saw the thing in the OP about timed missions running out if you do Tuchanka (I'd have hosed that up had the game not crashed while loading), but not any others. Is that the only time when I need to tackle my sidequests in a certain order? I'd rather not do the ME2 thing of getting to the end and realising I left my sidequests too late and had to go back four hours. Digging gets spoilery really fast, and I don't want to accidentally find everyone dead because I didn't realise I had to do a certain missions sooner rather than later or put something off until I was done with everything else.
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As a general rule, just take care of all currently available sidequests and get all open clusters to 100% poo poo retrieved (and turned in, if possible (it won't always be, because sometimes you can get stuff from those clusters before the dudes you need to give them to are on the Citadel)) before doing any missions marked "Priority."
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In short, always do "Priority" missions last, that's the advice I gave my friend.
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Lycus posted:In short, always do "Priority" missions last, that's the advice I gave my friend.
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The only timed side mission I can remember is Grissom Academy. Once you get the prompt for it, you can do up to 3 other missions before it becomes permanently unavailable, and it does come up pretty early.
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SubponticatePoster posted:This. In spite of the name, the plot will not advance until you do them, so you may do them at your leisure. Any side missions on "target" planets (like Tuchanka) should be done before the main missions for best outcomes. Yeah, when I played the game on release, I thought "oh, Priority! I guess that must mean the mission is a Priority!" and no.
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Regalingualius posted:The only timed side mission I can remember is Grissom Academy. Once you get the prompt for it, you can do up to 3 other missions before it becomes permanently unavailable, and it does come up pretty early.
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Yeah, that bomb mission is timed. Wait too long and it'll blow and destroy the turian-krogan alliance. Origin has a sale now, and I just found out there's an upgrade pack for ME3 that gives you all the Deluxe Edition stuff. Shepard's finally gonna get herself that hoodie.
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The MSJ posted:Yeah, that bomb mission is timed. Wait too long and it'll blow and destroy the turian-krogan alliance. If you sabotage the cure and "forget" about the bomb, Wrex will call you out and accuse you of doing it to kill the Krogan. Also you can use Gibbed to give yourself that hoodie.
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And of course, some missions aren't timed, but will expire if you go ahead with the next Priority mission. Like the quarian/geth side missions after you do Priority: Rannoch.
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The MSJ posted:Yeah, that bomb mission is timed. Wait too long and it'll blow and destroy the turian-krogan alliance. Cripes, right after I bought ME3. Good thing I haven't bought any DLC for it yet... Wait..
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The Unnamed One posted:I was once a starry-eyed one as you. Then I got to Pinnacle Station. Adept Shepard, Kaidan, and Liara against Turians for 5 minutes  It's basically a proto version of ME3's multiplayer.
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Guys, I kinda want to play through the series again. Guys, stop me guys. Guys? Guys!
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Cobalt Chloride posted:Guys, I kinda want to play through the series again. Guys, stop me guys. Guys? Guys! Go for it, it's great. Although having just finished ME3, I'd advise just alt-f4ing five minutes from the end. Someone should have stopped me when I said "So, I just started playing..."
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Cobalt Chloride posted:Guys, I kinda want to play through the series again. Guys, stop me guys. Guys? Guys! Me too, I think the only thing stopping me is which class to choose this time.
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Cobalt Chloride posted:Guys, I kinda want to play through the series again. Guys, stop me guys. Guys? Guys! Enjoy it, it's a great series of games even if the ending wasn't the best.
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Even Me3 is mostly pretty good aside from the dreadful ending. I even enjoyed Kai Leng's dumbass. I'd kill for an overhaul mod which gives Me3's gameplay for Me1 and 2 though. 3's gameplay is by far the best.
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Jerusalem posted:Enjoy it, it's a great series of games even if the ending wasn't the best.
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SubponticatePoster posted:Yeah, I figure 100 hours of fun is worth 10 lovely minutes. Then go play Citadel and it makes it all better! I was thinking of grabbing the DLC since finishing the game left me kind of wanting a whole lot more. Is all of it except From Ashes still bioware store only? As much as I loved it, between the prices and having to deal with that piece of poo poo, I'm not really sure I wouldn't rather go and play some of my steam sale haul or something instead.
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MooCowlian posted:I was thinking of grabbing the DLC since finishing the game left me kind of wanting a whole lot more. Is all of it except From Ashes still bioware store only? As much as I loved it, between the prices and having to deal with that piece of poo poo, I'm not really sure I wouldn't rather go and play some of my steam sale haul or something instead. AFAIK you can buy all ME3 DLC from within the Origin client but you still need to buy the lovely Bioware points and I think you can also do that in the Origin client now. So while you don't have to go through the horrors that is the Bioware Social site system, you'll still be scammed with the Bioware Funbux and double so because they're never, ever on sale you'll have to shell out much more for all the DLC than the base game costs.
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Burning Mustache posted:AFAIK you can buy all ME3 DLC from within the Origin client but you still need to buy the lovely Bioware points and I think you can also do that in the Origin client now. Yeah, each bit is basically as much as I paid for the game as a whole. I already bought AC4 this month though, so it's hard to justify buying that stuff on my student budget, no matter how much I want it. And of course it's not like you can get the points in convenient amounts either. Deformed Church fucked around with this message at 23:44 on Dec 5, 2013 |
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Burning Mustache posted:AFAIK you can buy all ME3 DLC from within the Origin client but you still need to buy the lovely Bioware points and I think you can also do that in the Origin client now. MooCowlian posted:And of course it's not like you can get the points in convenient amounts either. Lycus fucked around with this message at 23:51 on Dec 5, 2013 |
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MooCowlian posted:Yeah, each bit is basically as much as I paid for the game as a whole. I already bought AC4 this month though, so it's hard to justify buying that stuff on my student budget, no matter how much I want it. Just buy Citadel. It really is the only thing you need. Leviathan is only worth it for expanding on an already strange ending, and Omega is just fighting with Aria in... Omega. Citadel, on the other hand, is everything it needed to be after the original ending.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:I don't even bother with shockwave. I am a total Dick on drone escorts. That's when you stand in the circle to make it go faster and just sort of fire your gun into the air yelling AAAAAAA. You're contributing just by being there.
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Though I didn't fly into a rage about the endings, I didn't like them ether. But, they did bring with them my favourite bit of music in the series - an end, once and for all - which has ended up at the very top of my short list of 'awesome video game songs to listen to on the bus to work'. Seeing so many posts again has got me clamouring for one more run. Anyone suggest any good gimmicks? I've done a male and female run of every class in 2 and 3, and weaponless insanity for both now (drat you magimix for suggesting it!). Need a fun change of gameplay.
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Fag Boy Jim posted:Omega has some of the flat-out coolest-looking levels in the game, but it's kind of expensive at $15. It's nowhere near as awful as people say it is. If you're broke and can only get 1 then get Citadel. edit: Macdeo Lurjtux posted:I don't suppose the discussion that contains ME 1-3 for the ps3 had all the dlc for those games too? SubponticatePoster fucked around with this message at 00:22 on Dec 6, 2013 |
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So is any of it actually bad? I'm gonna be on holiday for about a month so I'm considering just leaving it until the new year and then playing it all, but I can probably afford one bit if it's really worth playing sooner.lenoon posted:Though I didn't fly into a rage about the endings, I didn't like them ether. But, they did bring with them my favourite bit of music in the series - an end, once and for all - which has ended up at the very top of my short list of 'awesome video game songs to listen to on the bus to work'. Is there a copy on youtube? I'm a sucker for soundtracks, but I literally alt-f4ed and decided that the ending in my head where everyone survives and is happy and then everyone bought Shepard the drinks they promised was the correct one, so I don't know what it is.
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