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The MSJ posted:Garrus' game should obviously be like Sniper Elite. Complete the game from one spot with a Javelin and all the penetration mods/ drill ammo you can stack.
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Sep 18, 2016 16:22
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tribbledirigible posted:Complete the game from one spot with a Krysae and all the explosive/burn ammo you can stack.
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Sep 19, 2016 14:57
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Randarkman posted:ME1's gameplay has aged really bad so I just casualled through that as a soldier almost literally just holding down the left-mouse button and massacring all opposition. If you played it properly on a real difficulty you would have had fun.
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Sep 19, 2016 16:23
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SgtSteel91 posted:I hope we'll be able to customize both brother and sister Ryder Perhaps we will never see the unplayed sibling taking of their helmet?
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Sep 20, 2016 11:09
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sassassin posted:If you played it properly on a real difficulty you would have had fun. Dude the gameplay feels like a tech demo at this point It is old and busted
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Sep 20, 2016 13:18
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Prequel to Andromeda looking good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BWWWQzTpNU
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Torrannor posted:Perhaps we will never see the unplayed sibling taking of their helmet? In Fallout 4 they let you customize the main character and his wife, so I'm sure Mass Effect will let you do both siblings.
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Sep 21, 2016 15:00
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2house2fly posted:I'm sure Mass Effect will let you do both siblings. are we not doing phrasing anymore
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Sep 21, 2016 16:44
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Psion posted:are we not doing phrasing anymore Just spell out the alphabet.
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Replaying Mass Effect 2 because it's been a while, and hey, it's still a great game, but Jack's recruitment mission felt really off now that I'm playing through with fresher eyes. Did anyone else find it weird that nobody calls Shepard out on starting a prison riot that presumably ended up killing all 4,500 prisoners and god knows how many guards in order to get Jack out? The whole mission was almost surreal, what with fighting your way through waves of mercs with the prison PA system providing a running commentary of how many cell blocks were losing life support, all because you decided it was worth it to press the button that (for some reason) opened every cell on the ship, just so you could retrieve this one (apparently dangerously unstable) stranger. Basically, the whole thing felt very sloppily written, like they started with the idea of a jailbreak level during a prison riot in an ultra-secure Space Prison without really thinking through the ramifications of what you're made to do. Either that or you're not meant to care about what happens because everyone who dies is either a merc or a criminal, which is a pretty horrifying in its own right.
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Sep 24, 2016 00:06
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Gato posted:you're not meant to care about what happens because everyone who dies is either a merc or a criminal It's this one. I know because it is extremely common in this, and every other video game.
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Gato posted:Replaying Mass Effect 2 because it's been a while, and hey, it's still a great game, but Jack's recruitment mission felt really off now that I'm playing through with fresher eyes. Did anyone else find it weird that nobody calls Shepard out on starting a prison riot that presumably ended up killing all 4,500 prisoners and god knows how many guards in order to get Jack out? The whole mission was almost surreal, what with fighting your way through waves of mercs with the prison PA system providing a running commentary of how many cell blocks were losing life support, all because you decided it was worth it to press the button that (for some reason) opened every cell on the ship, just so you could retrieve this one (apparently dangerously unstable) stranger. Did you forget that the guards/warden are torturing the inmates and oh yeah, they also try to blackmail and kill Shepard and the team?
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The whole thing is an extortion racket. If planets don't pay the fee, then they release the prisoners (or at least the ones from that world) at an undisclosed place and time. It was not the optimal situation, but after the warden tried to turn on Shepard, there weren't very many better choices that presented themselves. Plus, Shepard needed to build his team.
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Sep 24, 2016 00:24
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Gato posted:Replaying Mass Effect 2 because it's been a while, and hey, it's still a great game, but Jack's recruitment mission felt really off now that I'm playing through with fresher eyes. Did anyone else find it weird that nobody calls Shepard out on starting a prison riot that presumably ended up killing all 4,500 prisoners and god knows how many guards in order to get Jack out? The whole mission was almost surreal, what with fighting your way through waves of mercs with the prison PA system providing a running commentary of how many cell blocks were losing life support, all because you decided it was worth it to press the button that (for some reason) opened every cell on the ship, just so you could retrieve this one (apparently dangerously unstable) stranger. So after the warden tries to kill you, what truly paragon options are available? You're killing/dooming an awful lot of people no matter what if you want to survive. Might as well get Jack on the way out, since the best spy in the galaxy thinks she can help save yoomanity
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Pander posted:So after the warden tries to kill you, what truly paragon options are available? You're killing/dooming an awful lot of people no matter what if you want to survive. Might as well get Jack on the way out, since the best spy in the galaxy thinks she can help save yoomanity The game does tell you that the guards are sadistic mercenary slavers and the prisoners are the worst of the worst scum, so the deaths are a net gain for morality. It could probably have been done better, though.
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Sep 24, 2016 03:54
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Except Jack was also in that prison. How many of those prisoners had more complicated stories than just "they're scum"?
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Sep 24, 2016 07:07
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At least the other prisoners put shirts on.
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Pander posted:So after the warden tries to kill you, what truly paragon options are available? You're killing/dooming an awful lot of people no matter what if you want to survive. Might as well get Jack on the way out, since the best spy in the galaxy thinks she can help save yoomanity That's the thing, there is no Paragon option because there is no choice, not even a token non-choice, not even a hint of discussion, and that's my main objection to the mission as written. It would have been the perfect opportunity for a Bioware Moment (TM) - Shepard and crew arrive at the big red 'release everybody' button... quote:Miranda/Garrus/whoever: Shepard, if we press that button every cell on the ship will open. It'll be chaos, and these people have nowhere to go. Thousands will probably die. I guess my main problem isn't whether or not you can justify causing the deaths of everyone on the station so much as the fact that nobody attempts to justify it in the first place. The riot is treated as some sort of natural disaster you happen to be fighting through rather than one you're directly responsible for. At one point you find a guard who's been shanked by a mob of prisoners and Garrus comments that ultimately he was protecting the galaxy from the worst of the worst and that he didn't deserve to die, without addressing the fact that his death was a direct consequence of your actions. (Though you'd probably have shot him on your way out anyway.) Honestly, if he'd just finished that line with 'hope this is worth it, Shepard', I probably wouldn't have minded. Hedrigall posted:Except Jack was also in that prison. How many of those prisoners had more complicated stories than just "they're scum"? If you look at it another way, the only difference between confirmed kidnapper, pirate and mass murderer Jack and your average Purgatory inmate is that TIM thinks Jack will be useful. Which, I should stress, I don't mind, she's a good character, but I would have liked somebody to point it out.
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Lycus posted:At least the other prisoners put shirts on. If they hadn't I might have tried to save them.
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Huh, I thought they were all escaping because of the havoc Jack was causing on her way out. I'll have to go replay it all now.
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Gato posted:Replaying Mass Effect 2 because it's been a while, and hey, it's still a great game, but Jack's recruitment mission felt really off now that I'm playing through with fresher eyes. Did anyone else find it weird that nobody calls Shepard out on starting a prison riot that presumably ended up killing all 4,500 prisoners and god knows how many guards in order to get Jack out? The whole mission was almost surreal, what with fighting your way through waves of mercs with the prison PA system providing a running commentary of how many cell blocks were losing life support, all because you decided it was worth it to press the button that (for some reason) opened every cell on the ship, just so you could retrieve this one (apparently dangerously unstable) stranger. Jack's recruitment mission (and let's be honest everything about her until the third game when she's awesome) is basically all about Bioware's slightly cringey attempt to show that the series was adult and edgy and that this wasn't your grandpa's star trek anymore. You might say it was... some sort of new poo poo
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ME2 isn't as bad as ME3 in terms of the writing, but it's still not close to ME. I wonder if part of the reason Drew Karpyshn left during ME2 is because he didn't want to participate in the poo poo story they were trying to sell.
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Funny you should say that considering everything karpyshin has written since mass effect one has been hot garbage. Turns out writing video games doesn't mean you can suddenly write novels.
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Arcsquad12 posted:Funny you should say that considering everything karpyshin has written since mass effect one has been hot garbage. Turns out writing video games doesn't mean you can suddenly write novels. Hot garbage would be an improvement over ME2 and ME3, though.
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On the other hand "oh I am sorry if I did something awkward (again) I am not well versed in hu-man interaction you see I actually spend most of my time working on archaeological field teams" 
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Waltzing Along posted:Hot garbage would be an improvement over ME2 and ME3, though. ME1 wasn't that good though?
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I think its a cliche to say Mass Effect 2 would be better without the collector subplot, so I won't. To me, the most dissapointing part of Mass Effect 3 is that it won't about exploring a new and interesting setting, it was being shuttled rapidly from "epic" encounter to "epic" encounter. Thematically, Andromeda seems more suited to capture the spirit of exploration and the more languid pace of the first game. I sincerely hope there won't be some galaxy ending threat like the Reapers or darkspawn, and that the story will focus on the tentative establishment of a new colony in a strange new part of space.
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Basically, the plot and overall story of the Mass Effect games have been mediocre to poo poo. The reason people like the games is for the characters and the setting.
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It's the space sex.
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Waltzing Along posted:It's the space sex. Space Sweat.
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Arcsquad12 posted:Basically, the plot and overall story of the Mass Effect games have been mediocre to poo poo. The reason people like the games is for the characters and the setting. Personally I cut it a lot of slack because the aliens don't begin with capital letters and aren't named after the planet they're from.
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2house2fly posted:Personally I cut it a lot of slack because the aliens don't begin with capital letters and aren't named after the planet they're from. True enough. I think another reason is because there just isn't another game series out there that is trying to create a science fiction game world similar to Mass Effect. Free roaming space opera RPG 3rd Person shooters are nonexistent outside of Mass Effect, so the series fills a niche that happens to be quite big. I would love to see some more games approach RPGs with the oldschool science fiction trappings Mass Effect 1 promoted, but they just don't exist.
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Personally I'd love to have some salarian space noir like what Mordin teased in ME3. Dial down from galactic existential threats to a cosmic whodunnit story.
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prometheusbound2 posted:I think its a cliche to say Mass Effect 2 would be better without the collector subplot, so I won't. How is it a subplot?
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Mass Effects universe has potential for all sorts of great stuff. If only they used it.
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sassassin posted:How is it a subplot? What percentage of gameplay time is spent on collector stuff? Never mind that compared to the stories in 1 and 3 the plot of 2 is practically irrelevant.
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hobbesmaster posted:What percentage of gameplay time is spent on collector stuff? Isn't 1 irrelevant because of 3 as well? I mean what was even the point of that plot to bring the Reapers in with the Citadel relay or make a human reaper or whatever if the Reapers could just all activate and reach the galaxy in like a year or two anyway?
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It lets them shut down the relays and shoot everyone like fish in a barrel. But I agree it was dumb having a backup relay, and worse because they didn't need that in th end either. Or is the idea that the arrival relay was pulling them closer and was nearly done when we blew it up. Strategic Tea fucked around with this message at 10:06 on Sep 25, 2016 |
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Randarkman posted:Isn't 1 irrelevant because of 3 as well? I mean what was even the point of that plot to bring the Reapers in with the Citadel relay or make a human reaper or whatever if the Reapers could just all activate and reach the galaxy in like a year or two anyway? I feel like this could've been fixed by simply making Arrival about a successful plan to jury-rig a relay instead of a failed plan to shorten the trip by a few months.
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