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Apparently the squad member that they cut was a salarian so I hope that the buff multiplayer salarian in the heavy armor is a re-purposing of that character
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How is it badly designed?Serf posted:The entire purple cat species is pretty badly designed.
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Feb 11, 2017 08:40
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Is Vanguard the best class for a Mass Effect 2 insanity run? (if not,what is?)
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Spacebump posted:Is Vanguard the best class for a Mass Effect 2 insanity run? (if not,what is?) Adept 4 lyfe/
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Dexo posted:I'm fine with an ancient race and their power being important. So long as that Race doesn't come back and pose a giant galaxy wide threat. Have all the races fight over ancient tech and try to get the power for themselves. Mass Effect: Borderlands
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Feb 11, 2017 09:43
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Drifter posted:How is it badly designed? Right off the bat it doesn't seem to be able to make up its mind about whether it wants to feel mammalian or amphibious. Is it a cat or a frog? In design and animation terms, exaggeration is better than trying to be shrewd or subtle. If you want it to feel like a cat, then really push the cat aspects; fur, fans, whiskers, claws. If you want it to be a frog then go hard or go home; webbed anatomy, spots and patterns on the skin, glistening bulbous eyes. A catfrog is nothing. It's...it's just not a thing. And so by trying to be a catfrog, this too becomes just nothing. The overall silhouette of the species is just kinda weird and blobby -- the most distinctive part is probably their draped jacket thingies -- and it's hard to say what conceptual niche they're supposed to fit into in this game world. Like, what role do we think Jaal is going to play in the party, based solely on this design? Is he a soldier guy, a tech guy, or a biotic guy? The bulky head and broad torso say "bruiser," but the predator's eyes and legs say "agile." It's really different from the other playable ME species where, like, you can take one look at them and come away with a basic idea of what their designer wants you to think they are. The more I look at it the more the parts kinda contradict each other visually. Jaal's face in general is very angular and sharp, with a clear-cut "V"-shape...but then it's framed with those curved, soft-sinuous ear flaps. Again, compare with alien designs that have a clear idea of what they're trying to do: Turian faces are clearly sharp and bony and edged, Salarians are lithe and soft and uncluttered. Angaran faces are trying to do both, but only doing both halfway. And speaking of which: what are those ear flaps actually for? It's the most distinctively alien part of them but it doesn't seem to serve any actual purpose than to just...hang there.
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BrianWilly posted:Right off the bat it doesn't seem to be able to make up its mind about whether it wants to feel mammalian or amphibious. Is it a cat or a frog? In design and animation terms, exaggeration is better than trying to be shrewd or subtle. If you want it to feel like a cat, then really push the cat aspects; fur, fans, whiskers, claws. If you want it to be a frog then go hard or go home; webbed anatomy, spots and patterns on the skin, glistening bulbous eyes. A catfrog is nothing. It's...it's just not a thing. And so by trying to be a catfrog, this too becomes just nothing. Oh I didn't realise aliens all had to look like anthropomorphic versions of one earth species only
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Feb 11, 2017 10:32
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Spacebump posted:Is Vanguard the best class for a Mass Effect 2 insanity run? (if not,what is?) Depends on what you want. If it's suffering, then yes! I mean, Vanguard is fun, and Insanity Vanguard is fun, but you die so much. Especially if you play Arrival.
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Feb 11, 2017 10:49
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Hedrigall posted:Oh I didn't realise aliens all had to look like anthropomorphic versions of one earth species only It's trying to be both but pulls off neither is the point, dummy.
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Feb 11, 2017 10:52
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poptart_fairy posted:It's trying to be both but pulls off neither is the point, dummy. It can try to pull off any species and it wouldn't matter. What does as far as bioware is concerned is if people want to have sex with it.
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Feb 11, 2017 13:15
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after mass effect 3 what I really wanted was for them to hire the writer who gave us the halo game feat. Space Voldemort and his Death Egg vs Prehistoric Space Princess from Assassin's Creed me and my friends got halo 4 for coop and its the only halo game where I've noticed the story at all and it was because it was so bad did they ever use the digitiser to turn cortana into a real life fuckable blue lady? we stopped playing but that seemed to be telegraphed pretty hard
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Feb 11, 2017 13:37
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SgtSteel91 posted:For the multiplayer part of the OP Mass Effect: Andromeda: Xcom-3:Witcher:4
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Feb 11, 2017 13:55
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MechaSeinfeld posted:this team looks cooler than the actual characters in the campaign. That's an Asari. They have been in the series for all four games.
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Aaryn Flynn did an interview with the Playstation blogcast. I am not a big podcast listener, so I'll just copy-paste someone else's notes about the interview.quote:“It’s actually a story of optimism and hope, it’s not the story of trying to fight for a home and do these things it’s actually a story of potential and of reason to go explore…” Some stuff we knew, but in particular those of you who hate scannning now know who to blame. Inquisition was going to have upgrade-able forts that could be set up for the three specialists of Forces, Secrets or Connections and give you bonuses in the region and to the Inquisition as a whole, but it didn't make it into the full game. A version of it appears to be coming to Andromeda, given that last line.
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quote:Aaryn is a fan of scanning in ME games. It was taken away in ME3 and now they’ve brought it back again. gently caress you aaryn
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marshmallow creep posted:Aaryn Flynn did an interview with the Playstation blogcast. I am not a big podcast listener, so I'll just copy-paste someone else's notes about the interview. ??? Also, who the gently caress is Aaryn and why is he/she such a goddamned loving rear end in a top hat? Scanning - gently caress you.
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Drifter posted:??? Refugee story means hamfisted political allegory and the question of "What happened back home" needing to be answered, which makes people remember ME 3 and EA doesn't like that. As for point 2, development is almost all Inquisition's team now, so they're basically making Inquisition in space. When did they get assigned to Andromeda, by the way?
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??? Also, who the gently caress is Aaryn and why is he/she such a goddamned loving rear end in a top hat? Scanning - gently caress you. [/quote] Bioware general manager. Don't you read OPs?
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quote:Bioware general manager. Don't you read OPs?  I don't like reading codexes; I prefer to get my information in-thread.
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poptart_fairy posted:It's trying to be both but pulls off neither is the point, dummy. yeah it reminds me of that thing they were going for with the Yahg where it's like "they're like Krogan but EXTREMER also they're really smart as well as really strong" good for a one-off unique opponent I guess but they usually put in more effort than that.
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Feb 11, 2017 20:33
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why do people keep calling the purple thing a cat when it's a lizard
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also possibly martin short portraying his famous character jiminy glick
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Have we even heard it speak?
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Cowcaster posted:why do people keep calling the purple thing a cat when it's a lizard it's a cat-lizard, like turians are cat-bird-dinosaurs and krogan are frog- pachycephalosaurusi
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I'm honestly not sure why I thought it was a catman at first. I looked at that first picture of him again as well as other promo shots of him and realized that he's straight up amphibian aside from the cat-like slit eyes.
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Pattonesque posted:it's a cat-lizard, like turians are cat-bird-dinosaurs and krogan are frog- pachycephalosaurusi turians are space crickets
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marshmallow creep posted:There are more physics based powers: you can pick up people and throw them at other people. If Vanguard can now become a high speed pro wrestling class, this will be goty. Krogan Vanguard Charging a dude, then picking him up and chucking him at his friends. 
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Cowcaster posted:turians are space crickets those are geth
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What are the Collectors, then?
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Schubalts posted:What are the Collectors, then? shark-roaches
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Are there people that actually wanted scanning back besides this Aaryn fellow? I thought it was pretty universally hated, to the point where everyone just cheated themselves max resources to skip it after their first play through. I know that planet scanning isn't coming back in the form it existed in for ME2 so hopefully they've taken notes to make it less boring, but still, I didn't think any actual players missed it. I guess if the game's going to have a heavy crafting component then scanning makes more sense but daggummit I'm aginnit
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Feb 11, 2017 21:07
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I liked scanning. It was pretty chill tooling around on the galaxy map, scanning and reading planet descriptions.
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I didn't like that you had a limited amount of probes and expended fuel and had to restocking and refuel at stations, which costed money that was also limited.
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SgtSteel91 posted:I didn't like that you had a limited amount of probes and expended fuel and had to restocking and refuel at stations, which costed money that was also limited. I didn't like that it was busy work that didn't really serve any purpose. Even in ME3 they always had enough poo poo that you found to restock and it was like...why even have that poo poo at all? Some systems ONLY had a fuel refill ... that's the laziest loving poo poo out there. Money was never an issue for me. There was always a shitton of it.
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From the gameplay footage I think scanning this time refers to walking around the environment and scanning things to unlock codex entries (like Metroid Prime) or getting clues for investigations and I'm on board for that
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Feb 11, 2017 21:26
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Hedrigall posted:From the gameplay footage I think scanning this time refers to walking around the environment and scanning things to unlock codex entries (like Metroid Prime) or getting clues for investigations and I'm on board for that If that's what it is that should be good. Also, one of the best mods in Dragon Age Inq was the one that skipped the pick-up animations when you grabbed stuff. I hope hope hope they learned from that poo poo...especially when they metnioned how long it took to animate you getting into your Mako and dropping it as a result.
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Hedrigall posted:From the gameplay footage I think scanning this time refers to walking around the environment and scanning things to unlock codex entries (like Metroid Prime) or getting clues for investigations and I'm on board for that Yeah it's definitely a completely different experience, so I'm not super worried. It's just an oddly worded message, like "remember that thing we removed from the game because nobody liked it? Good news, it's back!" If I hate it I'm sure I can just cheat again
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I liked scanning. It could have been better, but I liked it.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJb9mCnJWgs That song is the only good thing to come out of scanning as gameplay.
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Pattonesque posted:those are geth Geth do not stridulate
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