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Ekster posted:lmao at people not doing the loyalty missions and wondering why their party members are dropping like flies during the suicide mission even though the game heavily hints that Yes, You Should Really Fix My Issues I was going to do all of them, but I decided to step into the thing that got my crew kidnapped, and I figured just having two or three people not 'loyal' would be fine and that if I didn't hurry that kidnapped crew would be killed. 
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i did all of them and then i got the green guy killed because he was a cool assassin who had a sickness so i thought he would do best sneaking thru a vent i had zaeed lead a party and he got himself killed because i didn't pay attention during his mission because i was shooting peopel
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i sent mordin on the vents cause 'uses tech powers' means 'can hack stuff' right?
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you have a literal sentient robot and the space gypsy whiz kid on your team why wouldn't you send one of them in the vents 
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Ekster posted:you have a literal sentient robot and the space gypsy whiz kid on your team why wouldn't you send one of them in the vents If there is one thing I have learned in my years here in games, it is that most goons are complete idiots at video games and are frankly the reason ridiculously drawn out and overexplaining tutorials are a thing.
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Hog Inspector posted:still better than the n64 bit late but I think you mean dream cast which was made of a batterang
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codenameFANGIO posted:Replace the OG Playstation directional buttons with a real dpad and I am down with this. I like the owl eyes, I believe they can work. 
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Ekster posted:you have a literal sentient robot and the space gypsy whiz kid on your team why wouldn't you send one of them in the vents i didnt want the robot to die and i dont know who the other guy is
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THE PENETRATOR posted:i didnt want the robot to die and i dont know who the other guy is I'll give you a hint, you can find a dissertation on their saliva's taste, if you look hard enough.
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KittyEmpress posted:'Vague hints' like them saying 'hey we need a tech specialist to hack a computer! Who should we send, the tech specialist, the robot who is a computer, the soldier guy, or the space ninja?' or maybe vague hints like 'we need someone to lead a squad as distractions, should we send the old guy who has proven he's a bad leader, the person with military training as a squad leader, the person built up as being a genius tactician, or space batman?' It does rather hinge on the fact that I paid any attention to any of the idiots I have to lug around for the entire game. I had no idea what anybody was supposed to be because they're all idiots as far as I was concerned, and I didn't use any of them. I think I rolled the entire game with the krogan and an engineer to open boxes. Also the game kinds tells you to get the mission done ASAP so I didn't bother with the loyalty missions, because god drat it you worthless plebs should be able to do something right without me holding your goddamn hand. But nope, all useless, mostly dead. I fought off like a million bug dudes by myself and killed bosses and you dumbasses can't even open a door without getting your rear end shot because of your stupid baby problems. Ugh. Party members should be more like that brotherhood of steel lady from fallout new vegas who punches everything with her shotgun fist and carries a workbench in her backpack. i.e useful. Also cool. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 09:10 on Dec 20, 2014 |
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Hog Inspector posted:tactics ogre is pretty fun. it's not very deep so far though, i'm just starting chapter 2 and strategy seems to boil down to "use archers and buff with magic." hopefully it opens up some more options soon My main strategy for most of the game was to use big bulky units to block the enemy's big bulky units, use archers to kill their mages and other squishy units, and use your own mages to cripple their front liners so your front liners can kill them. Alternatively you could just use archers to kill everyone OwlFancier posted:Also the game kinds tells you to get the mission done ASAP A lot of games tell you to do this though
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Ddraig posted:The analog sticks are weirdly placed. Using the analog sticks feels really weird and not natural. It's a matter of preference really but I prefer the xbox controller. ah yes, symmetrical sticks, the configuration of dual sticks which has existed the longest, are weirdly placed. as is the concept of having things symmetrical. why didnt the snes have its dpad offset from the buttons, as is its weirdly placed
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OwlFancier posted:It does rather hinge on the fact that I paid any attention to any of the idiots I have to lug around for the entire game. I had no idea what anybody was supposed to be because they're all idiots as far as I was concerned, and I didn't use any of them. I think I rolled the entire game with the krogan and an engineer to open boxes. ah yes, how silly to have assumed that you paid attention to this story heavy game and its story, or anything going on around you. sounds like the only worthless member of the team was the one who didnt pay attention and got everyone killed: you.
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Not trying to be mean but Mass Effect 2 is a pretty easy game and if your party members are dying constantly then well, perhaps Commander Shepard should have been left to die on Akuze...
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All of the Mass Effect 2 characters are pretty cool for that 70/80 shlocky Sci Fi vibe they're going for. It's pretty much a really good episode of Star Trek and you're Shatner in spirit. I've got to reinstall ME2. It's such a cool game. Also the suicide mission was pretty drat easy if you paid attention. Who do I send into this vent, a receptacle designed for hot gases despite the propaganda Die Hard has perpetuated: A robotic hacker or a fragile fleshbag?
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Miranda: We need a TECH EXPERT, somebody who is good at HACKING and ELECTRONICS to go through the vents Aha, they said vents! Thane, you're in. Miranda: Okay next up we need somebody with LEADERSHIP experience. Someone who has a long history of LEADING other people for the fire squad Something about fire...well I guess there was a lot of fire in Zaeed's mission. Man these choices are easy. Miranda: And lastly we need someone who is a BIOTIC expert. Maybe the most powerful human biotic of all time on your ship or um that Asari who's been around for 1000 years would... Aren't you a biotic? Miranda: Well in theory I-- DONE. Flawless suicide mission here we come!
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That would probably be my reasoning to be fair also it's a suicide mission so they should be dying anyway.
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I also think people should have died no matter what, if only because most of the effort that went into all the different savefile permutations of Mass Effect 2/3 rely on choices that 90% of players never make.
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You motherfuckers are making me want to do me1 thru 3 again
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KittyEmpress posted:I was going to do all of them, but I decided to step into the thing that got my crew kidnapped, and I figured just having two or three people not 'loyal' would be fine and that if I didn't hurry that kidnapped crew would be killed. i mean you're right I think there's a certain number of missions you can spend dicking around after your crew gets kidnapped before they actually start dying off and I think it wasn't a particularly large number. pretty sure you can get away with having two or three people not loyal but it depends on who
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I can't remember , will the origin me3 find your steam me 2 saves?
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http://store.steampowered.com/app/339000/
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in the interest of posting threads i have posted a thread please help it be successful so we can continue this thread posting trend. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3689195
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exquisite tea posted:Miranda: We need a TECH EXPERT, somebody who is good at HACKING and ELECTRONICS to go through the vents I love Ventmaster Thane
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i deliberately chose some party members for bad roles trying to get them killed and was only partially successful. jacob died in the vents but miranda managed to instead get grunt killed when i chose her for the shield
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exquisite tea posted:Miranda: We need a TECH EXPERT, somebody who is good at HACKING and ELECTRONICS to go through the vents
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I just used the vent faq from the me2 op.
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euphronius posted:You motherfuckers are making me want to do me1 thru 3 again Do it, but stop after you beat Marauder Shields, the true final boss of ME3. EDIT: Well that was an unfortunate fuckup Shrecknet fucked around with this message at 17:55 on Dec 20, 2014 |
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Everblight posted:Do it, but stop after you beat [url=
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Marauder Shields[/url], the true final boss of ME3.
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Stux posted:gonna try x rebirth after all those patches and dlc see what its like wish me luck Post your thoughts, I've been considering checking it out but not unless the patches actually fixed it.
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euphronius posted:I can't remember , will the origin me3 find your steam me 2 saves? ya
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Stux posted:ah yes, how silly to have assumed that you paid attention to this story heavy game and its story, or anything going on around you. Nope because I completed the mission just fine  those losers got killed because they're dorks.Who's the cool dude who killed the giant terminator? Me motherfuckers. Should have been more like me and not tried to get all fancy by going through vents and stuff, just go through the one path and shoot everything in your way, works out 100% of the time for me. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 22:12 on Dec 20, 2014 |
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StashAugustine posted:i sent mordin on the vents cause 'uses tech powers' means 'can hack stuff' right? also he's a lizard so the heat should have been easier for him to handle still think it's bullshit he isn't a valid choice for that one 
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tbqh I rarely choose Tali for the vents because her panicked voice is too real sounding. Kasumi or Legion all the way. I powered through the last bit of ME1 and have just started ME2. Everything about the gameplay is so much better, it starts out at a great tempo and just maintains that same pace throughout. No dry spells like in ME1 where you get to the Citadel for the first time and languish there for 3+ hours solving everybody's problems. The graphics and performance are a huge step up too, in ME2/3 they really squeezed as much as they could out of that Unreal 3 engine, low-res textures notwithstanding.
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i'll probably buy Mass Effect Remastered as long as they give us a version of Dragon Age Keep so that I don't actually HAVE to play ME1 to make every single little choice I want to make
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precision posted:i'll probably buy Mass Effect Remastered as long as they give us a version of Dragon Age Keep so that I don't actually HAVE to play ME1 to make every single little choice I want to make I console cheated my way to uber guns/armor and my hyper-gaylord completionist run of ME1 clocked in at around 21 hours. That's with surveying every mineral, completing every sidequest, and exhausting everybody's dialogue tree even when I had no reason to and stood to gain nothing from it. So if you reeeeally wanna replay ME1 and have at least a somewhat good idea of which encounters play a role in the later games, you could probably blaze through the whole thing in under 12.
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I wish it was easier to skip to the good bits at the end in ME1. I rag on the game a lot, but Noveria and Ilos are really cool.
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Noveria is really strange in that there are many alternate paths that most players will probably never see. For example, selling Parasini out to Anoleis, or activating the neutron purge right away, thus skipping directly to Benezia.
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