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We have that lady krogan whose chief engineer, but she can't be a party member because she has a real job I guess.
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The Unnamed One posted:How soon do we forget about Morlan and his magnificent spam. Dude can get the Geth Armory license. Morlan knows how to conduct a deal.
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Feb 17, 2017 02:50
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Caidin posted:We have that lady krogan whose chief engineer, but she can't be a party member because she has a real job I guess. They could've made Drax a lady Krogan, which might have allowed for a unique character, but Bioware has this thing where you need to want to gently caress every female in the primary cast.
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Feb 17, 2017 03:06
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chiasaur11 posted:Dude can get the Geth Armory license. I liked the way they had Morlan talk "You want many good supplies, yes?" "... this is not right, human!" Made it feel like he was unused to dealing with humans, which the games probably could have used more of
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Feb 17, 2017 03:06
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Milky Moor posted:They could've made Drax a lady Krogan, which might have allowed for a unique character, but Bioware has this thing where you need to want to gently caress every female in the primary cast. yeah they'd likely make the lady krogan a weird mutant that looked suspiciously human with tits and stuff.
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Feb 17, 2017 03:29
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steakmancer posted:I wish there was a stupid Salarian companion, every Salarian is basically hyper competent and I just want to play with a failson whose only good at shooting things The defining trait of Kumail Nanjiani's character seems to be "nobody respects him", at least.
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Feb 17, 2017 03:39
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Milky Moor posted:They could've made Drax a lady Krogan, which might have allowed for a unique character, but Bioware has this thing where you need to want to gently caress every female in the primary cast. Well then people ITT will start unfavorably comparing her to Eve (lady-Krogan in ME3).
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Feb 17, 2017 03:41
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My only beef with Vega is that he shows up all of a sudden in the third game, and everyone acts like we should already know and love the mystery gorilla-man.Neurophage posted:hosed up opinion time: Benezia is a worse villain than Kai Leng. Well, Kai Leng usually didn't knock your character off the map, so yeah.
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Feb 17, 2017 04:03
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What's so interesting about a lady krogan? She gonna tell you tales about years spent in a hut, not going outside? That time she saw a bird out of the window?
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Feb 17, 2017 04:07
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jfood posted:What's so interesting about a lady krogan? She gonna tell you tales about years spent in a hut, not going outside? That time she saw a bird out of the window? I am not sure how comfortable I would be with a Krogan engineer fullstop.
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Feb 17, 2017 04:11
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Ehn... they probably excel at weirdo shut-in skills. Lady krogans love trains... hmm... naw, gonna leave it.
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Feb 17, 2017 04:17
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Phrosphor posted:I am not sure how comfortable I would be with a Krogan engineer fullstop. Probably a lot like the scientist on Tuchanka in ME2: "Goddamn I hate Wrex. Asking me to come up with new radiation-resistant crop seeds and functioning sewer systems and more efficient medi-gel for krogan biology. I already miss the good old days of 'Make me the biggest bomb ya got' and 'I want to make this gun shoot better.' Suck all the joy out of my life, will ya?"
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Feb 17, 2017 04:17
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jfood posted:What's so interesting about a lady krogan? She gonna tell you tales about years spent in a hut, not going outside? That time she saw a bird out of the window? The codex had mentions of lady Krogan Warlords before the genophage. I think Grunt says some of his genetic memories or base dna comes from one of them.
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Feb 17, 2017 04:57
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They're not gonna be cool warlords though, they're gonna be some asocial weirdie who's life experience consists of posting on space-reddit.
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Feb 17, 2017 05:04
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jfood posted:They're not gonna be cool warlords though, they're gonna be some asocial weirdie who's life experience consists of posting on space-reddit. So they are going to be extremely easy to relate to.
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Feb 17, 2017 06:09
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DancingShade posted:Sounds like you're still in the bargaining part of the five stages. I put it behind me then I decided to replay the series this last month... that was a bad idea I relapsed.
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Feb 17, 2017 06:11
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Robot Style posted:The defining trait of Kumail Nanjiani's character seems to be "nobody respects him", at least. "Wait. Did you just say you were the cool member of your clutch?" "Yeah." "Please explain." "Well, when we were kids, I was the one getting good reports from the secret police, I was the one who was planning for my future. I would bring gifts for my teachers, 'cause they worked so hard. You know, cool stuff. He was always getting in trouble, he got caught smoking red sand in the tool shed, he crashed my uncle's hovercar." "And you think you're the cool one?" "Yeah, it's different on Sur'Kesh." "I've never been, but I know it isn't."
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Feb 17, 2017 06:13
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Neurophage posted:hosed up opinion time: Benezia is a worse villain than Kai Leng. That ME Retrospective is absurdly long and tediously nitpicks every loving thing, which makes it stand out when they nitpick something unjustly. So, for example, "Why did Kai Leng join Cerberus" is a dumb question to ask. He's psychopath with a deep hypercompetitive streak, who did well in the military until his obvious issues got him booted. He's the Illusive Man's pawn and a foil for Shepard because he's like if Shepard was a cheap thug. Nothing wrong with his characterization unless you read novels about piss and cereal. ME2 has some boring characters and some sidequests that don't do much to further illustrate the setting, but ME2 doesn't have ME3's burden of being the conclusion to the series. Everything in ME3 that's a misstep, or even just underwhelming, really sticks out. Like, Vega's alright, but all the work that went into him is time that a lot of people had been spent on Thane or Wrex instead.
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Feb 17, 2017 06:45
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SgtSteel91 posted:Even Wrex can be reduced to "Canderous Ordo, but a T-Rex." I fail to see an issue with this.
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Feb 17, 2017 07:01
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Jack2142 posted:I fail to see an issue with this. yeah the only problem i had with canderous was that he was human shaped instead of being a living gun.
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Feb 17, 2017 07:03
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Jack2142 posted:I fail to see an issue with this. There isn't one. It just that some people have, just now with Andromeda, noticed that nearly every single Bioware character ever always conforms to some combination of the same broad character archetypes they have always used.
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Feb 17, 2017 07:39
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Kibayasu posted:There isn't one. It just that some people have, just now with Andromeda, noticed that nearly every single Bioware character ever always conforms to some combination of the same broad character archetypes they have always used. That's what happens when your writers are surrounded by an echo chamber and probably aren't willing/given time to go to workshops to improve their craft.
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Feb 17, 2017 09:01
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SgtSteel91 posted:Even Wrex can be reduced to "Canderous Ordo, but a T-Rex." Right down to having the exact same character arc Canderous had in KOTOR 2! Seriously it cannot be reiterated enough what a rehash of a character Wrex is.
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Feb 17, 2017 09:19
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Captain Oblivious posted:Right down to having the exact same character arc Canderous had in KOTOR 2! Holy poo poo is your username ever apt
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Feb 17, 2017 09:48
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Serf posted:Still not as metal as the Brutes from Halo, who nuked themselves into the stone age twice, and learned nothing from the experience. What about the Thraddash, who nuked themselves into the stone age eighteen times? Milky Moor posted:They could've made Drax a lady Krogan, which might have allowed for a unique character, but Bioware has this thing where you need to want to gently caress every female in the primary cast. ...wait, you don't want to gently caress a Krogan?
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Feb 17, 2017 10:02
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One of the party members should be a grody nerd who just sits at a console all day and types hateful things about women. He sometimes walks around the ship staring at female crewmembers but never speaking to them. When you try to romance him he breaks down and starts wailing about the size of his penis and runs away. Unless you jettison him after a certain point in the story, he will go on a killing spree on your ship and kill all your crew and then himself Original character do not steal
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Feb 17, 2017 10:23
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I don't like Wrex. Or Krogans. Didn't kill him, though. But that's because I'm a purebred Paragon.
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Feb 17, 2017 10:38
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PureRok posted:I don't like Wrex. Or Krogans. Every part of this disgusts me.
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Feb 17, 2017 11:03
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FronzelNeekburm posted:My only beef with Vega is that he shows up all of a sudden in the third game, and everyone acts like we should already know and love the mystery gorilla-man. Vega's introduction was some of the best writing in ME3, especially of the military characters. "You're not supposed to call me that (commander) anymore James," "Not supposed to salute you either," That's actually really good, it straight away tells us that Vega respects Shepard, that he's a military man but he follows the spirit not the letter of the rules, that he's intelligent and that he and Shepard already know each other slightly. All that in 6 words. It's partly why even the mega-nerds like me think 'yeah, the Gears of War looking random soldier boy that abruptly joins in the third act was alright actually", it's the best character introduction in the series besides maybe Mordin. It especially stands out because half the dialogue in ME3, especially from the military characters, is just pointless reductive repetition.
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Feb 17, 2017 11:14
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Release isn't that far away now, super excited. Are there any concerns people have been having? Not been up to date with it recently
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Feb 17, 2017 11:18
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Some people are very concerned that this Bioware game is going to end up being a Bioware game.
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That is a big concern hahaha The new combat system looks interesting though and the 'free roam' but I hope it doesn't turn into a gathering game.
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Feb 17, 2017 11:26
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Some of us are concerned they'll let the human characters, like, have lines and stuff.
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Feb 17, 2017 11:27
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Yeah gently caress the Inquisition gathering style. Of all the games It was Dragon Age 2 that got It right, you just discover a node and its available to you forever, only spending money for the available crafted products
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Feb 17, 2017 11:35
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I dropped Inquisition after a while, got like halfway through and spent 40 hours on it already, just collecting everything and doing all the dumb quests. I need to just do the main storyline since it's pointless collecting the garbage.
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Feb 17, 2017 11:38
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Pruney posted:Release isn't that far away now, super excited. Beyond being concerned that the game won't be very good I'm concerned that I'm not going to have enough time to play three open-world-ish games on three different platforms just a few weeks apart (Zelda, Nier and Mass Effect).
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Feb 17, 2017 11:39
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Forgot about Zelda. I might just leave it anyway, still not played through the original ones yet, just watched my girlfriend instead. Also what's Nier, just looked and seemed like some animoo stuff.
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Feb 17, 2017 11:41
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Sequel to a game that had a great story, characters and localisation but mediocre at best gameplay, but now it's being made by Platinum (but still written by the same guy and localised by the same team) so it has great gameplay now too (judging from the demo anyway).
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Feb 17, 2017 11:50
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Nier looks really great! Pretty hyped for it. On the other hand, I'm managing my expectations for Andromeda. None of the crewmates seem super interesting, and the disarm gif gets me every time. More substantially, combat seems too busy without being interesting. Maybe today's video will change that.
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Veotax posted:Sequel to a game that had a great story, characters and localisation but mediocre at best gameplay, but now it's being made by Platinum (but still written by the same guy and localised by the same team) so it has great gameplay now too (judging from the demo anyway). Mediocre but unique. There were a lot of ideas in Nier that used the medium in ways nobody else was really trying, at least not outside the indie pixel art scene. Combining that with Platinum at its best, we could see something really special.
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