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Waltzing Along posted:I'm going to do a full Mass Effect Retrospective but I am not going to actually include any of the DLC. Any of it. At all. Because I am a huge human being. If you would like him to write on those topics, you are more than welcome to buy him the $70 worth of DLC.
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It's such a weird decision. You could write a super interesting analysis of the ME series' DLC
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May 15, 2016 01:24
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Here is my Mass Effect retrospective: It owns. All of it.
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May 15, 2016 01:26
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DLC opinion summary time: Shadowbroker was generally overrated. It was pretty good. Overlord was better than shadowbroker the first time, and progessively more annoying each time after. Arrival was fun despite the 'twist' being both really dumb and clumsy. Citadel is the most fun, has a lot of variety and is pretty stuffed, but it feels outside the 'real' story Omega has fun fights but is a drag. Basically what I'm saying is Leviathan is the best DLC in the series.
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May 15, 2016 01:34
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Things that owned in Mass Effect (partial list) Mordin (all) That mission where you talk to a PTSD survivor Calling mom Suicide Mission (mission) Suicide Mission (song) "Joker, get us out of here!" (all variants) Storytime with Wrex Storytime with Zaeed The Hammerhead when you don't have to fight anything and can just tool around in it The pleasant surprise that is James Vega Any time Javik says something mean
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May 15, 2016 01:38
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Pattonesque posted:Things that owned in Mass Effect (partial list) The suicide mission is the only "main story" content you mentioned here. I would add Ilos/climbing the citadel to parts that owned but that completes the entirety of the good main story content. Well, hanging up the council is main story I guess so add that too. The entire problem with ME2 and 3 is that the main story goes from disconnected from the previous game at the start of ME2 to completely incoherent and contradictory by the end of ME3. Hell, based on ME1, the beginning of ME3 should've been the "Critical Mission Failure" screen.
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May 15, 2016 01:48
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It might be part of the dumbness that is ME3's "Let's fight the Reapers with a giant space fleet even though we know that won't work" plan but seeing all the ships (if you saved everything) jump into the final battle was pretty awesome.
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May 15, 2016 02:09
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Tirranek posted:DLC opinion summary time: Shadowbroker suffered from the titular character being built up to be an AI in all previous games (funny, this'd probably help ME3's story) but then became a one-off alien. Pattonesque posted:Things that owned in Mass Effect (partial list) Shepard dancing (everything to do with it) Urdnot Grunt's Day Off "I should go."
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May 15, 2016 02:22
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Tirranek posted:Basically what I'm saying is Leviathan is the best DLC in the series. No, that would be Kasumi.
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May 15, 2016 02:28
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Milky Moor posted:Shepard dancing (everything to do with it) the actual start of the Shadow Broker ship level when you're on its hull in the atmosphere of a gas giant any time you can disconnect the Council Generally talking with your spacebros was A+ any character moments set in Shepard's sweet apartment
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May 15, 2016 02:37
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Waltzing Along posted:No, that would be Kasumi. I know ur 'avin a larf but seriously, Kasumi is basically someone cosplaying a character they wrote as a self-insert in their Mass Effect fan-fiction. Milky Moor posted:Shadowbroker suffered from the titular character being built up to be an AI in all previous games (funny, this'd probably help ME3's story) but then became a one-off alien. Yeah I remember thinking that was pretty crap. Of course no-one can guess who the mysterious character is if we've never seen one before.
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May 15, 2016 04:27
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Tirranek posted:DLC opinion summary time: No love for Bring Down the Sky?
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May 15, 2016 04:34
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Pops Mgee posted:No love for Bring Down the Sky? It is shockingly short
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May 15, 2016 04:54
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ME1's soundtrack is the best part of the series.
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May 15, 2016 04:57
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Pattonesque posted:It is shockingly short True but I paid around 2 dollars for it so that was okay with me.
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May 15, 2016 05:12
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I payed 5 dollars for Pinnacle Station. Bioware should've payed me 5 dollars.
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Lycus posted:I payed 5 dollars for Pinnacle Station. Bioware should've payed me 5 dollars. Pinnacle Station felt like there was a cool rivalry story that they just straight-up forgot to include
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May 15, 2016 05:19
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Lycus posted:I payed 5 dollars for Pinnacle Station. Bioware should've payed me 5 dollars. but you got an apartment in the middle of nowhere that was never mentioned again. surely that was worth it
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drkeiscool posted:but you got an apartment in the middle of nowhere that was never mentioned again. surely that was worth it You could go there and refill your grenades and buy high level equipment. It was handy but pretty pointless.
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May 15, 2016 05:57
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I think the best part of the series is the years of whining, bitching, complaining, headcanon, arguments, and general nerd stupidity that continue to rage on. You know that ME:A is going to be awful, right? It will be awful because DA:I was awful and ME:A is already using a team of awful writers to continue creating even greater levels of awful.
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May 15, 2016 05:59
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Waltzing Along posted:I think the best part of the series is the years of whining, bitching, complaining, headcanon, arguments, and general nerd stupidity that continue to rage on. DA:I was drat good. Hell, even ME3 was if you ignore the ending. I'm skeptical of how Andromeda will turn out, but honestly, if I just go by Bioware's track record, I'm sure it'll be better than most mainstream games.
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May 15, 2016 06:05
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If ME:A's combat and multiplayer is as good as or better than 3's then I may commit the gravest of sins, and buy it just for multiplayer and never touch the singleplayer. ... it IS going to have multiplayer, right?
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May 15, 2016 06:08
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Nichael posted:DA:I was drat good. Hell, even ME3 was if you ignore the ending. I was kidding about DA:I, though it is a shadow of DAO. Really, I just am concerned that ME:A is going to be huge open "worlds" where you run around collecting stupid poo poo and doing even dumber sidequests. But ME3 is trash from beginning to end with only a few good bits. The shooty bits are the best in the series. Everything else is the worst.
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May 15, 2016 06:22
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Hopefully Bioware have done the right thing, and made all dialogue essentially an excuse to go a place and do shooty bits. "You have to do shooty bits at the spider monsters to save the colonists" "you have to do shooty bits at the robots to get materials so we can upgrade your shootybang" "aliens have invaded the ship! Do shooty bits!" Their high-concept themes will come across a lot better when they're not tainted by Bioware writing and plotting.
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May 15, 2016 06:38
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Axe-man posted:You could go there and refill your grenades and buy high level equipment. It was handy but pretty pointless. Unlimited refills of the least useful ability in the game (except on Feros).
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May 15, 2016 07:27
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I don't think anyone here knows what 'high concept' actually means.
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Dan Didio posted:I don't think anyone here knows what 'high concept' actually means. high-concept adjective adjective: high-concept (especially of a film or television plot) having a striking and easily communicable idea. "Cohen's high-concept script is a nail-biter"
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May 15, 2016 08:42
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Nichael posted:DA:I was drat good. Hell, even ME3 was if you ignore the ending. I'm skeptical of how Andromeda will turn out, but honestly, if I just go by Bioware's track record, I'm sure it'll be better than most mainstream games. I love to lol, so thank you for this.
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I really liked Shamus' retrospective. At the very least, it's better than a lovely LP by someone with a fetish for chanting "heroes journey".
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May 15, 2016 09:52
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sassassin posted:I love to lol, so thank you for this. The only untrue part of that statement is that Andromeda is most likely gonna suck really bad.
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May 15, 2016 09:52
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Mass Effect is high-concept. The concept is "Mass Effect is good," and it is.
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May 15, 2016 10:31
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The Mass Effect games have good things in them, and they also have bad things in them.
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May 15, 2016 10:34
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Milky Moor posted:The Mass Effect games have good things in them, and they also have bad things in them. Controversial statement! exquisite tea posted:The only untrue part of that statement is that Andromeda is most likely gonna suck really bad. I think the biggest reason why I think Andromeda is in trouble is simply because we know so little about it. But then again, the fact that we know so little could mean it'll end up being good too. Of what we do know, I really dislike the setting being such a cop out on dealing with the other three games. Nichael fucked around with this message at 10:58 on May 15, 2016 |
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May 15, 2016 10:42
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Milky Moor posted:high-concept Correct. Milky Moor posted:The Mass Effect games have good things in them, and they also have bad things in them. Mais non.
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Nichael posted:I really dislike the setting being such a cop out on dealing with the other three games. That's what I like about it, so far.
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May 15, 2016 11:11
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Milky Moor posted:Shadowbroker suffered from the titular character being built up to be an AI in all previous games (funny, this'd probably help ME3's story) but then became a one-off alien. Actually that was really cool. An AI would have been boring and having a non-Reaper AI effectively managing intergalactic politics would have been Dumb. The shadowbroker being a huge creepy vaguely satanic thing that rose up against his master adds to the whole demonic theme of that DLC too, what with the 'deal with the devil', literally killing him with bursts of white light from above and Liara martyring herself at the end.
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May 15, 2016 12:27
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Still think it should've been a sentient Keeper.
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It's a spider.
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May 15, 2016 12:33
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Milky Moor posted:All in all, you probably kill less than two-hundred members of Cerberus in Mass Effect 3. I just did Grissom Academy and killed 99 Cerberus mooks in that one mission. You are vastly underestimating how many the game throws at you in combat sections.
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It seems like it's been a long time since ME3 went on sale for PC. I was hoping to grab it cheap a while ago, I've been feeling the Mass Effect itch but my Xbox 360 is out of commission and I only have 1 and 2 on my PC. E: Doctor Reynolds posted:ME1's soundtrack is the best part of the series. agreed. I'd also add plot and villian and setpieces kalel fucked around with this message at 15:52 on May 15, 2016 |
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