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It was really weird to have humans as this plucky newcomer species in a place where everyone else is better stablished and more advanced. Suddenly a small faction of humans get more powerful and advanced than the entire combined alliance. Ok. They should just remake star control 2 with this new Mass Effect engine. It would be infinitely better than anything they can come up with.
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[Mac Walters voice] Reaper Tech
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Dec 26, 2016 18:21
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nerdz posted:It was really weird to have humans as this plucky newcomer species in a place where everyone else is better stablished and more advanced. Suddenly a small faction of humans get more powerful and advanced than the entire combined alliance. Ok. It's been a running trope for Humans to be generic, but able excel at everything. Whereas every other species is specialized in something and thus lacking in some other area.
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Dec 26, 2016 19:01
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A Buff Gay Dude posted:[Mac Walters voice] Reaper Tech son
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Dec 26, 2016 19:28
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I'm commander shepard, Alliance Drag Queen!
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Dec 26, 2016 20:31
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EDI, can you give me a printout of nude Thane NUDE THANE
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Dec 26, 2016 20:42
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nerdz posted:EDI, can you give me a printout of nude Thane
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Dec 26, 2016 21:25
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Ein Sexmonster posted:Excuse me Shepard, Captain Anderson's on the phone. It's an emergency. Can I get a printout of Shepard smiling? 
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Dec 26, 2016 21:59
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Lycus posted:They were like "Holy poo poo, there's nothing to fight in ME3 but husks!" so their solution was to give Cerberus a big hulking army out of nowhere. But Cerberus's army was basically all husks. These husks just had guns and sweet stormtrooper outfits.
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Dec 26, 2016 22:45
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Schubalts posted:But Cerberus's army was basically all husks. These husks just had guns and sweet stormtrooper outfits. Their armor was poo poo. I miss the days when we could actually see out of our helmets.
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Dec 26, 2016 22:56
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thrilla in vanilla posted:Can't believe the Vega slander ITT. It was refreshing to have a squaddie who was a normal enlisted dude out of his depth! His whole refusal to bang Shepard thing was cool too until they decided to undo that. More squaddies should actively avoid loving g the protagonist IMHO He refused to bang Shep because he isn't gay.
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Dec 26, 2016 23:01
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nerdz posted:It was really weird to have humans as this plucky newcomer species in a place where everyone else is better stablished and more advanced. Suddenly a small faction of humans get more powerful and advanced than the entire combined alliance. Ok. As ridiculous as Cerberus got, humans weren't more powerful and advanced than anyone. Their reaper-pawn buddies were a pain in everyone's rear end, with far more resources than made any sense, but they were a distraction most of the time, not the main event. A few agents in the wrong place at the wrong time to give the Reapers a force multiplier. And, to Mass Effect 3's credit, humans spent most of the game being stomped by Reapers, while the turians kicked the most rear end. It mostly came up in the codex, but the game still said that the turians were the one species that, at the center of the Reaper fleet, could still put up a fight, while the humans pretty much folded inside a day. (Still a better showing than the asari, of course.)
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Dec 26, 2016 23:07
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chiasaur11 posted:(Still a better showing than the asari, of course.) Maybe putting half the fleet's firepower into the Destiny Ascension wasn't the best idea for distributing the balance of power.
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Dec 26, 2016 23:22
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quote:Could An Asari Mate With A Reaper? The topic was "And you thought EDI was bad... VERY :NSFW: http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3zo9qizz11qahmako1_1280.jpg
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Dec 26, 2016 23:30
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Moola posted:hot Bioware knows where to spend it's money.
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Dec 26, 2016 23:43
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Lovingly rendered ladyparts is Bioware's version of putting a Mickey Mouse into every Disney movie.
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Dec 27, 2016 02:01
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Arcsquad12 posted:Their armor was poo poo. I miss the days when we could actually see out of our helmets. With what Cerberus did to create the Nemesis enemies, the stormtroopers probably have implants connected directly to their helmets' visors.
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Dec 27, 2016 03:22
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chiasaur11 posted:(Still a better showing than the asari, of course.) The Asari truly are the most useless of the Council Races, especially since they cockblocked the Volus from joining the Council.
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Drifter posted:The topic was "And you thought EDI was bad... Eh, that could be used for expelling waste, Asari could still bud & pop out their spawn from their backs.
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Mr.Pibbleton posted:Eh, that could be used for expelling waste, Asari could still bud & pop out their spawn from their backs. They bud off like Good Ash & Evil Ash in Army of Darkness. Only the Asari way involves more screaming and chainsaws.
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I don't know if this has been asked but, do quarians have a cloaca?
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exquisite tea posted:1. Allowed for the passage of time so that you returned to a changed galaxy. 1 happens with just any time skip, shepard doesn't have to be dead for it. 2-3 could happen with something as simple as shepard being arrested or something and cerberus breaks her out to get her to work for them, and it'd actually give a reason for shepard to be working with cerberus beyond the first 20 minutes of the game. You could even have some cool spycraft stuff going on, and you could have the actual choice of renegade shepard choosing to work with cerberus and paragon taking one of some set of opportunities to leave and work with anyone else or even on his own. 4-5 is the same dumb tired human exceptionalism that had been rammed into the game by having everyone just say "wow humans must be special" or some poo poo over and over instead of just showing us good examples of humans being exceptional. It's one of the things that Star Trek does very well and could have been a good example. Killing shepard is the worst way to get any of these things done, and you're right that this is just how they chose to do it, but my original premise is that I don't get why that was their choice other than to fulfill a jesus allegory when they could have done so much else.
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Dec 27, 2016 06:38
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Killing Shepard would've been cooler if it led to the Council and the Alliance thinking you were a Cerberus-controlled clone or Geth-controlled android and marked you as shoot-on-sight.
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Dec 27, 2016 06:44
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nerdz posted:I'm actually forcing myself to keep going with ME3 and one thing I noticed is that all the minor alien species barely appear or get any missions. I think I'm halfway through the game and I just saw one of those quadrupeds for the first time, and it was a bystander NPC with no voice lines. Haven't seen a single Jellyfish alien either. God, this game. The Elcor talk to you once to give you a mission. The Hanar show up once if you have Javik's DLC. 
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Dec 27, 2016 07:41
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Lycus posted:Killing Shepard would've been cooler if it led to the Council and the Alliance thinking you were a Cerberus-controlled clone or Geth-controlled android and marked you as shoot-on-sight. Honestly that would have been more interesting than the reactions in ME2 after showing back up... "Huh you survived, cool good luck with the terrorists"!
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Dec 27, 2016 07:42
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FronzelNeekburm posted:The Elcor talk to you once to give you a mission. The Hanar show up once if you have Javik's DLC. Kasumi's mission also has some hot hanar action. It's a great little side quest, but it's obnoxiously easy to miss.
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Dec 27, 2016 07:54
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FronzelNeekburm posted:The Elcor talk to you once to give you a mission. And that's not so much a mission as a "mission". chiasaur11 posted:Kasumi's mission also has some hot hanar action. It's a great little side quest, but it's obnoxiously easy to miss. And buggy.
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chiasaur11 posted:Kasumi's mission also has some hot hanar action. It's a great little side quest, but it's obnoxiously easy to miss. I forgot all about this mission. I did it my first time through but not the next two times. It is easy to miss indeed.
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Man, playing as a Sentinel in ME1 is hard at first, but once you get the ball rolling its great. You still get Throw, which is the best biotic power, as well as Decryption and Electronics, which are great Tech explosions, and they let you unlock everything without needing a specialist in the party. Lets you mix and match whoever you want without losing out on locked containers. And your Sentinel Training gives you a slight bonus with pistols, which are already great.
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I started playing mass effect 3 a while ago and since I play on my couch, my mouse is already a trackball and sucks. I wanted to use a controller. Now I have a steam controller and I figure I can get mass effect 3 working with this and enjoy it. Can someone tell me how to do this, please?
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redreader posted:I started playing mass effect 3 a while ago and since I play on my couch, my mouse is already a trackball and sucks. I wanted to use a controller. Now I have a steam controller and I figure I can get mass effect 3 working with this and enjoy it. Can someone tell me how to do this, please? I haven't tried it with ME3 myself (ME2 version worked great), but someone released a mod that enables full 360 controller support: http://www.nexusmods.com/masseffect3/mods/407/ And, of course, a steam controller can pretend to be a normal xbox controller.
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redreader posted:I started playing mass effect 3 a while ago and since I play on my couch, my mouse is already a trackball and sucks. I wanted to use a controller. Now I have a steam controller and I figure I can get mass effect 3 working with this and enjoy it. Can someone tell me how to do this, please? Adding ME3 as a non-steam game and disabling the Origin in-game overlay should do it, I think.
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Veotax posted:Adding ME3 as a non-steam game and disabling the Origin in-game overlay should do it, I think. Rinkles posted:I haven't tried it with ME3 myself (ME2 version worked great), but someone released a mod that enables full 360 controller support: Thanks for the quick replies. I just added it in steam, the overlay was already off, and it works perfectly. Now, as a person who buys more games than they play and have a massive backlog: please tell me which DLC's for this game are must-have? I apparently have: ME3 N7 digital deluxe version (whatever that is) Reckoning Retaliation Earth Rebellion Extended Cut From Ashes
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Other than From Ashes all of that is free anyway and other than FA & Extended Cut it's all the Multiplayer expansions. Leviathan, Omega and Citadel are the 'real' DLC. Honestly I'd recommend them all but Omega is the least 'vital' DLC and you could drop that one if you don't want to spend too much (since the DLC never goes on sale). Veotax fucked around with this message at 10:45 on Dec 27, 2016 |
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Veotax posted:Other than From Ashes all of that is free anyway and other than FA & Extended Cut it's all the Multiplayer expansions. Thanks! It's less about spending and more about "I have had this game for 3? years and never played it, and I want a short experience so only recommend the really great stuff" I suppose.
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Omega isn't vital, and Leviathan is a fair attempt at polishing the turd which is the ending. It probably works a lot better if you play it during the game than as post-game content (Citadel is the reverse; it's thematically meant to be played last).
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Doctor Spaceman posted:Omega isn't vital, and Leviathan is a fair attempt at polishing the turd which is the ending. It probably works a lot better if you play it during the game than as post-game content (Citadel is the reverse; it's thematically meant to be played last). Thanks! I appreciate it. I'll get Leviathan + citadel then.
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LITERALLY MY FETISH posted:1 happens with just any time skip, shepard doesn't have to be dead for it. What a horrible useless post.
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