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At least that's a franchise where you don't need to know any of the EU stuff to get the gist of the story?
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You don't need the ME books to really get the gist of it here, either. Knowing who the book characters are (all two that matter? One and a half?) doesn't impact their roles in game. Kai Leng is still a stupid shitlord regardless of whether you know him as Kai Leng, invincible NPC bullshit man, or Kai Leng, cereal killer. That detail is really irrelevant in context of the gameplay. He's stupid either way, the only difference is your knowledge of the depth of how stupidly he's written.
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Oh agreed on that, yeah. I was referring to other franchises where knowing what happens in the EU books between installments is actually necessary.
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Who is Kai Leng? Based on the thread I'm guessing some snowflake "original character (don't steal)" from a ME book and totally not a marty sue self insert? 
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Kai Leng is basically TIM's second run at making Shepard but he doesn't have Miranda to help this time. So while he does put in the mind control chip, he also picks the edgiest edgelord that ever edged and made him into a badass cyborg ninja with built in mirror shades. Kai Leng was a stupid character before they turned him into a 5th grader's Metal Gear Rising OC, they just somehow managed to make him even worse both in game and in the book so bad it's basically been retconed out of existence.
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Kurieg posted:Kai Leng is basically TIM's second run at making Shepard but he doesn't have Miranda to help this time. So while he does put in the mind control chip, he also picks the edgiest edgelord that ever edged and made him into a badass cyborg ninja with built in mirror shades. Didn't Bioware promise a revised edition of that book with all the errors corrected that never happened?
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Last anyone heard about that was them talking to the publisher back in late 2012.
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Regalingualius posted:Oh agreed on that, yeah. I was referring to other franchises where knowing what happens in the EU books between installments is actually necessary. like Halo 4!  Kurieg posted:Last anyone heard about that was them talking to the publisher back in late 2012. I don't know any details but I would stake an awful lot of money on that discussion resulting in "it would be a big loss of money over any possible return, there is no point" ...be it from bioware, the publisher, or both parties really. Psion fucked around with this message at 01:17 on Feb 3, 2017 |
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Kurieg posted:Kai Leng is basically TIM's second run at making Shepard but he doesn't have Miranda to help this time. So while he does put in the mind control chip, he also picks the edgiest edgelord that ever edged and made him into a badass cyborg ninja with built in mirror shades.  That sounds utterly terrible.
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Poil posted:
You cannot even begin to comprehend
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Poil posted:
Not even going into the plot errors (a fifteen year old girl magically ages up to 18 and has back-alley biotic implantation done and is ready to go an hour later) the writing is just abominable. 
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Kai Leng is a character that you hope and pray would receive an extremely stupid off-screen death. Aces High posted:too bad the writers forgot this in ME3 I think it was more so that the writers wanted to increase the *drama* in ME3 and almost all of it falls flat on it's face.
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Kurieg posted:Not even going into the plot errors (a fifteen year old girl magically ages up to 18 and has back-alley biotic implantation done and is ready to go an hour later) the writing is just abominable. oh poo poo, he's powered by oats!
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Regalingualius posted:Oh agreed on that, yeah. I was referring to other franchises where knowing what happens in the EU books between installments is actually necessary. that sounds terrible, at least as far as video games goes. Then again I might just be saying this because the amount of story that was typically found in manuals was to get you up to speed with where the story was at the start of the game you were playing. This could be as little as "you are an on-duty cop and are going to the site of this thing everyone calls a 'slipgate' and your buddy tells you you're the one who has to go and shut down whatever is happening on the other side" (Quake) to the Diablo manual where you get a crash course in everything that is happening on Sanctuary up to and including the fact that oh I think Diablo is possessing a small child. cross promotion is cool when it comes to tv and movies but to me turning video games into books kind of ruins the appeal. I dunno, maybe I just don't like the idea of reading books to "get the full story" because I have a lot more trouble digesting a book than I do sitting down and plunking through a video game for a few hours
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grack posted:Kai Leng is a character that you hope and pray would receive an extremely stupid off-screen death.
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He's also hilarious with piercing lash, as long as he doesn't have his bullshit barrier up you can ragdoll him around the room.
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Never mind the ending, Kai Leng is the worst part of Mass Effect 3. I always liked Shamus Young's writeup on Kai Leng and the reasons he sucks so much. (spoilers for ME3, obv) The whole retrospective is quite enjoyable to read, and not only because I tend to agree with many of Shamus' opinions on the series..
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SubponticatePoster posted:Fortunately you're treated to a pretty satisfying on-screen death, mostly because once his plot armor comes off he's a loving chump. That whole fight is hilarious, especially as a vanguard: "You're too old and slow Shep- AAAAAGGGHH" as you go careening into his face. Too bad you can't piss on his corpse afterwards. RENEGADE INTERRUPT *Shepard teabags Kai Leng's corpse!*
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grack posted:PARAGON INTERRUPT FTFY
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Doc Morbid posted:Never mind the ending, Kai Leng is the worst part of Mass Effect 3. quote:Imagine you’re going to play one of those nerdy tabletop games with your friends. The group has a kind of grounded, low-key approach to worldbuilding. The world is basically “middle-ages Europe”-ish with a very understated dash of magic. Rather than invent new characters for my hypothetical game, let’s just borrow a few. The players around the table have the following characters:  I'm kinda glad I never bothered to play ME3.
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Basically, ME3 has a whole bunch of really awesome individual bits that are tied together by an overarching plot that's not all that great when one writer starts working over another. The Gameplay is still fun but occasionally this cyborg ninja comes in and the you can hear the needle being dragged across the record. Tuchanka is great, Rannoch has some interesting gameplay changes, Citadel II has some great setpieces before and after Kai Leng leaves. Thessia has this real sense of "poo poo's hitting the fan we need to figure out what's going on right loving now" but then Kai Leng shows up to delay the plot another 3 missions.
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Doc Morbid posted:Never mind the ending, Kai Leng is the worst part of Mass Effect 3. thanks for posting, i like reading other takes on me3 even when i don't completely agree w/them Poil posted:
the actual gameplay is real good tho, it's just wrapped up in really bad dressing
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Next Update's Ingredients: Pineapple Juice Light Rum Bacardi 151 Grenadine
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SubponticatePoster posted:Next Update's Ingredients: 
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Malah posted:I'm getting flashbacks to a beach bar where I ran up a huge tab and threw up in someone's purse, Jesus take the wheel.
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SubponticatePoster posted:Now I gotta know, did the person who owned the purse see this happen in real time or did they discover it later? She did already empty it out in the back seat looking for something, but I made my point clear by retching over the handbag instead of finding an unoccupied plot of sand.
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 Cerberus Camp for Wayward Children The Drink PergNim 2 oz light rum Pineapple juice Grenadine Bacardi 151 Add light rum and pineapple juice to a chilled glass full of ice. Add grenadine, don't stir. Float 151 on top and light. This is similar to our opening drink, so don't burn your goddamn face off when you go to drink it. The Drinking Game Drink whenever Jack talks about her lovely past. The Episode Jack's loyalty mission. We travel to a jungle planet to blow up an already abandoned facility. Seems a waste of gas and a good bomb but we'd like Jack to get dressed eventually. For funsies I take along Miranda, though it doesn't have any bearing on the post-mission. Cerberus is at their most mustache-twirling pointless evil, doing hosed up things to kidnapped kids. God forbid they try encouragement and focused training, nope we'll just do terrible things and see if that works! Turns out the facility isn't totally abandoned, one of Jack's fellow campers also got out and is trying to restart it because in his mind it has to have been for a good reason. Sorry dude, it wasn't. Having Jack kill him is another real rear end in a top hat renegade move that doesn't seem to serve any purpose other than being a fucker. I don't think it would help her state of mind either. If you let him live then you'll see him mentioned again in ME3, albeit in an email. Then the mission bugged out and we missed Jack talking about things in her room. Nothing super interesting anyway. Also TIM doesn't give a poo poo about tortured children, he's mostly concerned the cleanup crew didn't delete all the evidence. Priorities! We had enough P/R points for both options. If you fail this check then you have to side with one of them, making the other disloyal. That can be remedied later in the game if you have upped your P/R score by talking with the angry person and letting them know either they're the smarter/more important one or that the other party member is an rear end in a top hat and you're just jerking them around.
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This entire mission is just Jack alternating between shooting stuff and crying. I imagine that's what sleeping with her would be like as well. Also how the hell are there Varren here? Do people get them as pets and just dump them off at the nearest planet when they get too big?
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I'm assuming the varren came with the blood pack, they're the Krogan equivalent of dogs.
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grack posted:Also how the hell are there Varren here? Do people get them as pets and just dump them off at the nearest planet when they get too big? I mean, yeah that probably does happen but they're also the ME version of war dogs, so whenever there are krogan or batarians around there will probably be varren with them
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Aces High posted:I mean, yeah that probably does happen but they're also the ME version of war dogs, so whenever there are krogan or batarians around there will probably be varren with them They were first called Batarian War Beasts before somehow they retconned them into coming from Tuchanka.
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grack posted:This entire mission is just Jack alternating between shooting stuff and crying. I imagine that's what sleeping with her would be like as well. They get there the same way Thresher Maws and Pyjaks get places.
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Pyjaks are basically rats that sneak onto ships, some of the Krogan on Tuchanka talk about it. Thresher maws just erupt out of the crust of the planet and stretch across the vastness of space until they get where they want to be. Also: Butts needs to start remembering to use her ammo powers, otherwise how is she going to face-charge into explosions in ME3?
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Kurieg posted:Pyjaks are basically rats that sneak onto ships, some of the Krogan on Tuchanka talk about it. Thresher maws just erupt out of the crust of the planet and stretch across the vastness of space until they get where they want to be. 
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I do love the way Slam interacts with power combos in 3, mainly that it doesn't interact in any useful way instead just raising people up off the ground so everyone can see the giant fireball that used to be a cannibal. e: I just give all my squadmates that can do ammo powers the squad evolution, and spend my time after landing smearing their ammo across everyone's weapons. Fire ammo's probably the most universally useful unless you're going up against Geth or have Jack around. Kurieg fucked around with this message at 17:46 on Feb 15, 2017 |
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My brother had a chance to talk to an old mathematician who survived "stick teens in a freezer" experiments in WW2. The amount of incompetence and pointlessness involved in the whole affair was apparently surprisingly comparable to that shown by Cerberus here.
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Kurieg posted:I'm assuming the varren came with the blood pack, they're the Krogan equivalent of dogs. Well no, because you never fight varren and Blood Pack mercs at the same time. In fact, Jack mentions that one of the dead varren you find is a fresh kill, so they clearly didn't come with the mercs.
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I have an update ready to go, but for this one I want to try something different. For those of you here who are drinkers, nominate a cocktail. If I like your suggestion I'll use it as the episode's drink.
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Aviation 6cl Gin 1.5cl Maraschino liqueur 1cl Crème de violette 2.5cl Lemon juice Add all to shaker with ice, shake, strain into a martini glass, dunk a cherry in that fucker.
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Well, I don't drink and I like seeing pain so... The Mac & Cheese ‘Shot’ Mac & Cheese. Cheese Rum Milk Macaroni Velveeta (From)
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