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A Buff Gay Dude posted:1-800-A-Buff-Gay-Dude's "Lock of the Week": This is pretty much what I'm banking on. I'll still pay the 60 bones for the multiplayer alone, and probably play the story once just because. euphronius posted:God can't hate us that Much to give us a bad new mass effect. Not after 2016. How precious 
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exquisite tea posted:When people say the game looks like fun, you do realize that we haven't seen anything about Andromeda outside of some prefab cutscenes and "this is the new poo poo" clips of space marines in jet packs. It'll probably be a Mass Effect game for a lot of people a Mass Effect game scratches a certain itch so long as the quality isn't "completely terrible"
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Pattonesque posted:It'll probably be a Mass Effect game I don't even need "Mass Effect" scratched specifically, just "Bioware Game." I really enjoy building a team, getting to know them, fighting some things, and making some behavioral/ethical decisions with some story impact. Multiplayer inevitably involves my least favorite video game element ("others") so really I just want those things. It's me, I am their target demographic.
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Don't forget stilted, awkward dialogue! Probably my favorite feature of Bioware games.
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the good fax machine posted:Don't forget stilted, awkward dialogue! Probably my favorite feature of Bioware games. I should go.
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the good fax machine posted:Don't forget stilted, awkward dialogue! Probably my favorite feature of Bioware games. I am also on board with repetitive exploration for minimal game advantage, for the rare time you find something neat!
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I hope the new Mass Effect is good
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Let's get a little news up in here: I don't remember how to embed tweets on the forums, so to sum up: Q: "for those that may not like to gather materials and craft, is there still ways to obtain relevant gear?" Mac Walters posted:You will have options. We want you to play Andromeda how you want. Freedom is a big part of the experience. Q: "Im really looking forward to ME:A ☺. The Andromeda Initiative training, will the next part be available soon?" Mac Walters posted:Working on it as we speak! Q: "Will helmets be retractible? What are helmet on/off in conversation options this time? (hopefully they can be on in convos)" Mac Walters posted:No details, other than you will have some control over helmets on/off. edit: Oh, and... Mac Walters posted:You can pursue multiple intimate relationships. Some might not like that. As you'd expect. Others may say they don't care. But, don't they? marshmallow creep fucked around with this message at 20:44 on Nov 14, 2016 |
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exquisite tea posted:When people say the game looks like fun, you do realize that we haven't seen anything about Andromeda outside of some prefab cutscenes and "this is the new poo poo" clips of space marines in jet packs. It's also a mass effect game. We can guess a whole lot about what it'll be about, kinda like how if they announce a new street fighter you pretty much already know what the meat of the game is gonna be and what most of the characters will be like. The idea that the game must be trash is about as valid as the idea that it'll be good and neat. Also if you thought ME3 sucked because of the ending and it negated however many hours it took you to get there, you kinda missed the entire point of the game's story.
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lol at the idea of having a robust crafting system and then making stuff that's just as good obtainable without using said system. Either you make it the way to get the best gear or you render it useless in the context of just playing the game.
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A Buff Gay Dude posted:lol at the idea of having a robust crafting system and then making stuff that's just as good obtainable without using said system. Tell that to every MMO ever.  Cautiously hopeful for this new game, but I definitely won't be pre-ordering unless there's cool cosmetic poo poo in it for me.
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Maybe it's like, "You can throw all your endgame money and time at our crafting system to eke out .1 more DPS over your last gun and custom build the perfect end-game tier rear end blaster, or you can go to the shop and buy a BlastoTM brand Enkindler Cannon with end game stats off the shelf and then call it good enough. Sure it doesn't quite fit your hand like it would a Hanar's tendrils and it's hot pink while your armor is sort of beige, but it does the job, right?" Some people get really into making something that is exactly how they like it. For everyone else, you just buy off the rack. marshmallow creep fucked around with this message at 21:10 on Nov 14, 2016 |
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LITERALLY MY FETISH posted:It's also a mass effect game. We can guess a whole lot about what it'll be about, kinda like how if they announce a new street fighter you pretty much already know what the meat of the game is gonna be and what most of the characters will be like. Well that's kind of a bad analogy because the last Street Fighter ended up being an unfinished mess at launch. I guess the biggest difference was that we actually saw gameplay footage from SFV three months before release, though.
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Despite all its flaws the Mass Effect series is one of my favourite gaming series out there and ME4 is a guaranteed purchase for me They'd have to just colossally gently caress this up to make me lose interest
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exquisite tea posted:Well that's kind of a bad analogy because the last Street Fighter ended up being an unfinished mess at launch. I guess the biggest difference was that we actually saw gameplay footage from SFV three months before release, though. no that's actually a perfect analogy because the last Mass Effect ended up being an unfinished mess at launch
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Maybe the game is SO GOOD that Bioware doesn't want to spoil the surprise of showing us any videos, kind of like how No Man's Sky previews took us through the same 2-3 worlds to not get us too familiar with the limitless procedural generation of content.
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Being a Bioware game there's probably going to be some sort of ancient evil that you'll have to face down with and save the galaxy from, but instead of the Reapers its the Harvesters.
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No no The opposite of reapers ... Sowers??
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Judge Tesla posted:Being a Bioware game there's probably going to be some sort of ancient evil that you'll have to face down with and save the galaxy from, but instead of the Reapers its the Harvesters. You always were a kidder Judge Tesla.
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Bioware should release the script early so we can give it a once over and let them know if they are doing well. Also we should send the audio of goons talking so they know what real dialog sounds like
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Moola posted:I hope the new Mass Effect is good
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I'm glad we made a new thread to talk about Mass Effect.
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euphronius posted:No no Endless Space already did them. Sentient robots who worship their creators and try to remake the galaxy in their image through terraforming, regardless of whether the planets are inhabited or not.
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exquisite tea posted:Well that's kind of a bad analogy because the last Street Fighter ended up being an unfinished mess at launch. I guess the biggest difference was that we actually saw gameplay footage from SFV three months before release, though. Yeah but it also was a fighting game with the same familiar characters in it as always. It's mass effect, it'll have guns and space magic in two flavors (orange and blue), party members with loyalty missions, an overarching "Save humanity/the galaxy/something" story, smaller subplots about ethical dilemmas, like the genophage and cerberus poo poo, and it'll have dialogue options in a wheel of some fashion. It might have something akin to paragon/renegade actions, but who knows what they'll be called. Whether it's an unfinished mess or not was beside the point I was making. Also, we'll get a first look at the gameplay at the games award show or w/e the gently caress it's called in early december, so that kinda lines up with seeing it three months before release. LITERALLY MY FETISH fucked around with this message at 21:38 on Nov 14, 2016 |
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Lt. Danger posted:I'm glad we made a new thread to talk about Mass Effect. I'm glad you could join us in talking about Mass Effect.
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euphronius posted:No no big huge robot ships that appear from nowhere and just... like fix stuff and help people?
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Turns out we misheard Benezia entirely: "And one step closer to the return of the Repair...ers."
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I miss ME1’s energy management system for guns. Being able to completely change a weapon's purpose was fun (Taking a five shot sniper rifle and making it into a single-shot monster.) The whole shift to ammunition was stupid, they should of stuck to a hybrid system where you could either wait for the magazine to cool off, or eject it and load in a cold one instead.
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Thor-Stryker posted:I miss ME1’s energy management system for guns. Being able to completely change a weapon's purpose was fun (Taking a five shot sniper rifle and making it into a single-shot monster.) I want to say there was some mechanical reason for the change. But it was probably due to them wanting to appeal to the Call of Duty crowd. Besides if you modded certain weapons right in ME1 you never had to worry about overheating and the combat became even more boring than before.
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No, Kett weapon technology coincidentally moved to thermal clips so we have to stick with it.
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I think they shifted to an ammunition system because it isn't tedious and unfun.
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Lt. Danger posted:I think they shifted to an ammunition system because it isn't tedious and unfun. They had to cater to those Call of Dudebro idiots who couldn't handle the mental fortitude and careful planning of taking two shotgun blasts before your gun overheated for 30 seconds.
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If venting my gun took only as long as a reloading animation and took only a button press, who would care?
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exquisite tea posted:They had to cater to those Call of Dudebro idiots who couldn't handle the mental fortitude and careful planning of taking two shotgun blasts before your gun overheated for 30 seconds. I can't believe Bioware would just completely copy Call of Duty's patented "ammunition and reloads" mechanics. Original much, Casey Hudson??
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I wonder how long it will take until it's revealed that the human supremacist group Cerberus infiltrated humanity's ark ship.
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exquisite tea posted:They had to cater to those Call of Dudebro idiots who couldn't handle the mental fortitude and careful planning of taking two shotgun blasts before your gun overheated for 30 seconds. Having just played ME1 again recently, it wasn't particularly complex as a system but the interface was pretty balls. That and sorting through a million mods you inevitably picked up. That was one improvement ME3 made to the formula; once you have a mod, you have the mod.
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Lt. Danger posted:I think they shifted to an ammunition system because it isn't tedious and unfun. I still can't actually sit down and play ME1 anymore, no matter how much I may want to. The heat system was dumb and unfun. It encouraged you to sit there with a sniper rifle and JO while slowly killing everyone instead of moving up to claim ammo and actually having to engage with things in a fight.
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Dr. Abysmal posted:I wonder how long it will take until it's revealed that the human supremacist group Cerberus infiltrated humanity's ark ship. I believe it's been said by official sources that they are involved in the game in some capacity. 
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It's fine, because it's old 'humanity at any costs' Cerberus. Not the weird Kai Leng Cerberus.
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Trast posted:I believe it's been said by official sources that they are involved in the game in some capacity. Honestly, rather than the idiot fuckups that are Cerberus, why couldn't they have used the Terra Nova human supremacists group from the first game? They might be dickheads but they aren't terrorists, and of course they would protest not getting a representative onto the Arks.
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