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Lt. Danger posted:The question "Can you describe the Reaper cycle as 'to clear a crowded sky'?" is a [2] mark Understanding & Comprehension question and does not require 1600 semi-relevant words to answer. You making this post is something extremely precious  exquisite tea posted:The only effortposts about ME3 worth reading end with a trip to Chipotle and a sacred promise to protect the legacy of Commander Shepard. lmao
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Milky Moor posted:
I got to the end of ME3 without spoilers and I emptied my gun into the catalyst's skull when presented with those choices, I think that was a common reaction.
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Nov 29, 2016 18:27
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You know, thinking about it, here's what I would probably have accepted: We see Reapers corrupt synthetics to their will. So let's say their creators set them up to act as galactic peacekeepers. Their code is a little off however and whenever they witness a synthetic race get created they notice that race go to war with their masters and have to intervene. All this without realising that they're the ones corrupting the synthetic races to go to war to begin with. Having witnessed this cycle for eons and seen it go to utter poo poo they conclude that synthetic life is always trouble and go about putting it down. However, they then realise that it's impossible to stop organics from constantly making synethics and so decide to put the kaibosh on all organics as well. If ME3's secondary plot was centered around the revelation that the cycle was not some grand design, but due to a flaw in the way the reapers worked you could create a good ending where playing through lots of sidequests in the game helped you build enough evidence to display to the reaper core AI that it was the thing causing its own prophecy and convince the reapers to destroy themselves. But that's just bad fanfiction so screw it. Edit: And the final scene would play out like Phoenix Wright. Genius.
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Nov 29, 2016 18:43
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I salute my fellow posters in their constant battle against Lt. Danger's stupidity. It was also fun to read basically everything I went over in my retarded argument with him condensed into a single, nice effort post. Which he promptly ignored. Good times.
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Psion posted:you of all people do not get to criticize long posts on ME3, my friend Milky Moor's thesis is that the Reaper cycle cannot be about galactic-scale husbandry (?) because Mass Effect is a third-person shooter with characters and people in it (??) and that's not a good way of conveying hubris (???). I like Milky Moor, but I am gonna rib him for rambling here. Also this is the Mass Effect Andromeda thread, so we should be saving our words for talking about the upcoming third-best Mass Effect title.
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Nov 29, 2016 18:53
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if ME:A is cool and good then I will be happy
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Nov 29, 2016 19:04
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Lt. Danger posted:Milky Moor's thesis is that the Reaper cycle cannot be about galactic-scale husbandry (?) because Mass Effect is a third-person shooter with characters and people in it (??) and that's not a good way of conveying hubris (???). I like Milky Moor, but I am gonna rib him for rambling here. ME3 can be whatever its idiot writer and producer want it to be. Whether the end result is effective or not is another matter
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Nov 29, 2016 19:07
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Spikeguy posted:I have started my annual Christmas Trilogy run and I wanted to tell you guys know about a mod I got for ME3 that adds a lot of cool features. It's called Expanded Galaxy Mod. Since the last thread was up for nearly 5 years, I won't pretend like it wasn't mentioned but I just thought I'd share it in case no one has heard of it. It's also very easy to install. This sounds like a really good mod but it also sounds ridiculously ambitious for a game that wasn't really meant to be modded. I mean there's barely any nude and sex mods for ME3 and that's kind of the barometer for how easy something is to mod. Does it actually do half the things the descriptions says?
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Nov 29, 2016 19:09
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Kibayasu posted:This sounds like a really good mod but it also sounds ridiculously ambitious for a game that wasn't really meant to be modded. I mean there's barely any nude and sex mods for ME3 and that's kind of the barometer for how easy something is to mod. Does it actually do half the things the descriptions says? Probably not but then again neither did the base game lmao
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Lt. Danger posted:Milky Moor's thesis is that the Reaper cycle cannot be about galactic-scale husbandry (?) because Mass Effect is a third-person shooter with characters and people in it (??) and that's not a good way of conveying hubris (???). I like Milky Moor, but I am gonna rib him for rambling here. I'm new to Mass Effect threads and was curious why everyone was ragging on you. Now I get it. You're like the local Zaphod.
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Nov 29, 2016 19:23
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Lt. Danger's posts.... are good.
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Nov 29, 2016 19:24
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Alain Post posted:Lt. Danger's posts.... are good. i enjoy reading them but I think they fundamentally misunderstood Milky's thesis and it's a little rough for someone who so frequently argues not to take the time to try and understand, ask for clarification, and engage someone else's argument. but then I remember this is the ME thread, and ...jetpack turians, man. jetpack turians. Lt. Danger posted:Also this is the Mass Effect Andromeda thread, so we should be saving our words for talking about the upcoming third-best Mass Effect title. Every ME thread is the ME3 ending thread. Forever. This is pretty evasive. Psion fucked around with this message at 19:46 on Nov 29, 2016 |
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Nov 29, 2016 19:42
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Psion posted:i enjoy reading them but I think they fundamentally misunderstood Milky's thesis Calling it anything but "willful misrepresentation" is being extremely generous.
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Nov 29, 2016 19:44
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Chomp8645 posted:I'm new to Mass Effect threads and was curious why everyone was ragging on you. Now I get it. lol
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Nov 29, 2016 19:49
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You can't talk about a game that completely reboots the universe of Bioware's formerly gold-star in-house IP without discussing the horrific game and ending that forced them to go this route.
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Nov 29, 2016 19:53
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The ending was good.
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Nov 29, 2016 19:54
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Lt. Danger posted:talking about the upcoming third-best Mass Effect title. Don't make assumptions, the central plot for Andromeda might be that the native aliens are slowly dying out due to a lack of genetic diversity and it is up to newShephard to gently caress them back to life.
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Nov 29, 2016 19:57
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Nevets posted:Don't make assumptions, the central plot for Andromeda might be that the native aliens are slowly dying out due to a lack of genetic diversity and it is up to newShephard to gently caress them back to life.  F. Ryder is only too happy to help until a nefarious synthetic spoils everything.
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Nov 29, 2016 20:05
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Alain Post posted:The ending was good. Letting the Mass Effect series die was the only moral choice. Now we live in a Legacy of Kain-esque dystopia where the greed and corruption of its creators have caused the cycle to begin anew, begetting even more desperate Tali weaboos and their cursed ilk.
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Nevets posted:Don't make assumptions, the central plot for Andromeda might be that the native aliens are slowly dying out due to a lack of genetic diversity and it is up to newShephard to gently caress them back to life. This would unironically be amazing. Embrace what you've become, bioware, and make this game the largest most diverse dating sim ever.
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Nov 29, 2016 20:06
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Since it has explorable environments and separate cooldowns, Andromeda will be either the best or second best Mass Effect game.
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Nov 29, 2016 20:07
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Ferrinus posted:Since it has explorable environments and separate cooldowns, Andromeda will be either the best or second best Mass Effect game. This does not make sense, as the other game with these features, Mass Effect 1, was the worst Mass Effect game.
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Nov 29, 2016 20:09
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It was the best because it had separate cooldowns and explorable environments. Unfortunately, it never received the copious quality of life improvements MEs 2 and 3 enjoyed... until now.
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Chomp8645 posted:I'm new to Mass Effect threads and was curious why everyone was ragging on you. Now I get it. lol I love that the ghost of zaphod haunts all of SA
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I also thought the separate cooldowns were poorly balanced in ME1 because at some point you could pretty much just keep cycling powers constantly and have basically every enemy be disabled by some biotic/tech power forever.
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Nov 29, 2016 20:19
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I hope bottles of Tali sweat are on the loot tables as a homage to the old Bioware forums.
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Alain Post posted:I also thought the separate cooldowns were poorly balanced in ME1 because at some point you could pretty much just keep cycling powers constantly and have basically every enemy be disabled by some biotic/tech power forever. once you upgraded Liara's singularity enough you could just drop that and do whatever you wanted for the next five minutes
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moist turtleneck posted:lol I love that the ghost of zaphod haunts all of SA Oh, what happened to him?
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Rumor has it if you sit in a darkened room and mention Zaphod three times in a single post, a faint rolleyes emoticon fades into view and stares at you through your monitor.
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Alain Post posted:I also thought the separate cooldowns were poorly balanced in ME1 because at some point you could pretty much just keep cycling powers constantly and have basically every enemy be disabled by some biotic/tech power forever. Yeah, it ruled. And eventually you had enough newtons or whatever on your Lift power that you could even pick up those geth tanks with it.
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we've mastered interstellar faster than light travel and gravity wells and also have invisible fields that make it so we can still show our facial expressions while on a planet with no oxygen...but i need you to collect 35 spaceweeds in order to upgrade your shoes
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Alain Post posted:I also thought the separate cooldowns were poorly balanced in ME1 because at some point you could pretty much just keep cycling powers constantly and have basically every enemy be disabled by some biotic/tech power forever. I'm guessing that most people played soldier and not biotic god. Most people probably didn't armor glitch 24/7 either. Individual cooldowns do let you do some interesting things with powers - remember Unity? 150s cooldown so it's basically one per fight without being limited-use like medigel in ME2. Can't do anything like that with a shared cooldown system. I'm not saying one is better than the other, but taking advantage of whichever you pick is good. Psion fucked around with this message at 20:31 on Nov 29, 2016 |
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drat I had actually forgotten her entirely. ME3 was a mess
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frajaq posted:drat I had actually forgotten her entirely. ME3 was a mess Chobot's inclusion was kinda weird because like who was on the fence about buying ME3 and then was like "oh dang Chobot is in it? sold!" like it didn't gain them anything and took stuff off the table
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Emily Wong, never forget.
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Pattonesque posted:Chobot's inclusion was kinda weird because like who was on the fence about buying ME3 and then was like "oh dang Chobot is in it? sold!" I think the idea was that you get a bunch of free press for stuff like "behind the scenes being a Mass Effect voice actor" or whatever. It was kinda dumb
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frajaq posted:drat I had actually forgotten her entirely. ME3 was a mess She is the IGN reporter insert, right? Why the gently caress they allowed that to happen again?
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The last time I played ME3 I told her to gently caress off at the beginning and it's probably a good decision, especially when you consider in all likelihood that she's turned into Reaper goo later on.
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I literally never understood what people had against that character. Is it just the fact that she's a cameo of a real person? I don't know who that person is, but Diana Allers is 400% unremarkable.
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Wait does she have boobs and a butt like that in real life?!
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