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Vitamin P posted:Oh god going into a menu to switch your powers around because there's more biotics in the next group or whatever sounds so tedious. If they give you the option, so what? Nobody is making you have to obsessively respec for each encounter.
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Vitamin P posted:Surely in the year of our lord 2017 they wouldn't design the game like that. Did you play DA:I? There were way more useful powers than you could ever fit on the hot bar. Fortunately, the combat was never hard or complicated enough that you needed to swap, but it was annoying. Limited ability sets have their roots in MOBAs, and they've been slowly infecting other genres in the same way RPGs transmitted leveling mechanics all over the place. Sometimes they're awful, but sometimes it can work out okay. Diablo 3, for example, made good use of the system by having lots of power sets that synergized together and created a bunch of different playstyles within each class.
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Codependent Poster posted:If they give you the option, so what? Nobody is making you have to obsessively respec for each encounter. Requiring additional tedium to play a character optimally is bad game design.
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I hope they give you a quick menu of "favorite loadouts" or something that you can switch to on the fly. Kinda like Final Fantasy 13 or something. That would be rad as hell.
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Serf posted:I hope they give you a quick menu of "favorite loadouts" or something that you can switch to on the fly. Kinda like Final Fantasy 13 or something. That would be rad as hell. Agreed. I don't mind the idea of essentially building the equivalent of a multiplayer class for my own personal use, but being able to set default powers and quickly switch to different loadouts could be cool. Or perhaps make it something like a Call of Duty game where you can switch out gear and ability presets at a way-station/camp.
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marshmallow creep posted:Agreed. I don't mind the idea of essentially building the equivalent of a multiplayer class for my own personal use, but being able to set default powers and quickly switch to different loadouts could be cool. Or perhaps make it something like a Call of Duty game where you can switch out gear and ability presets at a way-station/camp. MMOs have this, right? Like you have 1-9 hotbar, and then can cycle through maybe 3 or 4 instances of hotbars, each with whatever skills you put in them. This switch stuff for ME:A sounds more like a streamline thing for controllers/consoles than it does some major new way of playing a game.
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Halloween Jack posted:I started replaying ME3 as a Sentinel, but stupidly I didn't realize that you can't get Tactical Cloak as a biotic. Replaying as an Adept. I can't remember which magic makes the other magic explode, but stuff keeps sploding as long as I cycle between Singularity/Throw/Warp. double pull double throw is your jam here
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Kurieg posted:http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Power_Combos Adept with james+squad explosive ammo and liara is loving hilarious. Shoot with AR to set them on fire, hit with warp, hit with carnage, hit with second warp, then repeat. By the time your bullets set them on fire again, powers are usually recharged. The time to kill on brutes is ridiculous on insanity. I really liked how ME3 just went hogwild with combos and powers. "I am a biotic god" indeed.
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Crustashio posted:Adept with james+squad explosive ammo and liara is loving hilarious. Shoot with AR to set them on fire, hit with warp, hit with carnage, hit with second warp, then repeat. By the time your bullets set them on fire again, powers are usually recharged. The time to kill on brutes is ridiculous on insanity. One of the reasons I didn't enjoy DA:I as much was because of the relatively lack of power interactions and combos as compared to ME3. Especially in MP when you'd be playing characters that might not be able to combo on their own and you had to work with your team. DA:I had much less of that, although it did have the more classic tank/DPS/support roles in its MP.
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Crustashio posted:Adept with james+squad explosive ammo and liara is loving hilarious. Shoot with AR to set them on fire, hit with warp, hit with carnage, hit with second warp, then repeat. By the time your bullets set them on fire again, powers are usually recharged. The time to kill on brutes is ridiculous on insanity.
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Zakmonster posted:One of the reasons I didn't enjoy DA:I as much was because of the relatively lack of power interactions and combos as compared to ME3. They were there if you were looking for them, warrior+Assassin+Rift Mage means you're hurling out combos for days, they're just not as visible as they are in ME3.
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Halloween Jack posted:I may or may not have been shouting "Get some! Get some!" over and over again the first time I went Charge/Nova/Shotgun crazy until everything around me was dead. "Rip and tear! Rip AND TEAR!"
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Zakmonster posted:One of the reasons I didn't enjoy DA:I as much was because of the relatively lack of power interactions and combos as compared to ME3. Some of the most fun I had in ME3 MP was working as a two man biotic team with one primer and one detonator, explosions for days.
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quote:Wow Sux2bu @wowsux2bu That matches what I remember from the Nvidia clip. quote:Ceramic Cat @theceramiccat Pretty sure we already knew this, but confirmation. This is actually something that I was hoping for, personally. What I'm less sure on is if we get to change the name of the sibling we don't use, or if it'll default to Scott/Sara like Fallout 4 defaults your spouse to Nate/Nora.
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marshmallow creep posted:That matches what I remember from the Nvidia clip. ME3 had an inventory system? Or are they talking about all the guns and armor pieces you collect and switch out at the armory? And I think they said you can't change the non-MC Ryder sibling, so get ready for the adventures of Nebula'Starwolfia Ryder and her brother, Scott.
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SgtSteel91 posted:ME3 had an inventory system? Or are they talking about all the guns and armor pieces you collect and switch out at the armory? Nebula'Starwolfia better have neon pink hair covered in glitter. Tactical glitter obviously.
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Um plagiarism because Nebula'Starwolfia is my true soul name you fuckin thief
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Hedrigall posted:Um plagiarism because Nebula'Starwolfia is my true soul name you fuckin thief you big stupid jellyfish
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JawKnee posted:you big stupid jellyfish That's the one line where I prefer Mark Meers delivery over Jennifer Hales.
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The most important aspect of Maleryder is if he can grow an actual man's beard. Shepard's beard options are a hall of shame. If you chose any beard option in any ME game, Joker is laughing at you. So is everyone else.
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marshmallow creep posted:Pretty sure we already knew this, but confirmation. This is actually something that I was hoping for, personally. What I'm less sure on is if we get to change the name of the sibling we don't use, or if it'll default to Scott/Sara like Fallout 4 defaults your spouse to Nate/Nora. That would make the most sense for voiceovers. Then at least your character can say their sibling's name.
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Halloween Jack posted:The most important aspect of Maleryder is if he can grow an actual man's beard. Shepard's beard options are a hall of shame. If you chose any beard option in any ME game, Joker is laughing at you. So is everyone else. Too realistic for you?
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marshmallow creep posted:That matches what I remember from the Nvidia clip. Why can't I have a gay sibling!
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Yippee, another short and uninformative trailer, have seen any of those for MEA yet. 
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Can't wait for all the slow panning shots of environments intercut with 0.5 second long clips of gameplay. Also I don't know what is going on in that view of the planet but maybe don't settle on the world with what appears to be tendrils of the vast empty void of space growing from it. Kibayasu fucked around with this message at 18:15 on Jan 25, 2017 |
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I just want to see some uncut gameplay segment, like starting on the star map -> landing on some optional planet -> driving the Mako exploring till you find a quest or anything like that
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Number Ten Cocks posted:Too realistic for you?
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frajaq posted:I just want to see some uncut gameplay segment, like starting on the star map -> landing on some optional planet -> driving the Mako exploring till you find a quest or anything like that They've got exactly 10 hours of passable gameplay, coming with your $5 subscription to EA Access.
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Halloween Jack posted:The exact opposite. Shepard can grow a full head of hair, but not a beard that reaches his sideburns. Beards are laughable in the real world. 
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Number Ten Cocks posted:Beards are laughable in the real world. 
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My Ryder is going to be a Sikh and needs the most magnificent beard.
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So the Neogaf poster was right about the trailer coming out before this weekend. Let's see if it will turn around the skeptics like they said the trailer would.
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SgtSteel91 posted:So the Neogaf poster was right about the trailer coming out before this weekend. Its a cinematic trailer so hopefully we see better animations.
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exquisite tea posted:They've got exactly 10 hours of passable gameplay, coming with your $5 subscription to EA Access. Don't knock the EA access thing. A load of people can pay $5 to tell us whether or not this game is actually any good.
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Anyone else a bit disappointed that they went with the m/f protagonist again? I mean, I'd have preferred just one, don't care which sex, and another party member that is voiced and fleshed out. Having duplicate characters with a different voice and one with boobs doesn't really do much.
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Waltzing Along posted:Anyone else a bit disappointed that they went with the m/f protagonist again? I mean, I'd have preferred just one, don't care which sex, and another party member that is voiced and fleshed out. Having duplicate characters with a different voice and one with boobs doesn't really do much. Actually its super cool because most games overwhelmingly have male protagonists so its cool to have a badass lady main character in a big franchise
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Moola posted:Actually its super cool because most games overwhelmingly have male protagonists I'd be down with that. ONLY a woman protag. No male. And then use those other resources to make other parts of the game better. But this are you a dude or a chick poo poo is stale to me. Cut that tie with the original series. Or have a hanar protag. Or an asexual robot.
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Waltzing Along posted:Anyone else a bit disappointed that they went with the m/f protagonist again? I mean, I'd have preferred just one, don't care which sex, and another party member that is voiced and fleshed out. Having duplicate characters with a different voice and one with boobs doesn't really do much. Strongly disagree, the degree to which Bioware lets you define your player character in their games is one of their best features.
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