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The Iron Rose posted:this is why I always cheated and maxed out my paragon and renegade meters every single time I played  gently caress taking the time to get enough renegon points when I could be out there solving my crew members family issues with the liberal application of shooting the problem.
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Feb 28, 2017 01:00
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precision posted:The Paragon/Renegade system sucks very badly in ME2 because if you don't pick the same one roughly 90% of every time it comes up, you will fail a ton of dialogue checks. 
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Feb 28, 2017 01:00
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Kurieg posted:Me too, headbutt the krogan and be a dick to uvenk because that's basically what they expect and want. If you don't headbutt Uvenk no matter what kind of play through you're doing, I don't even know what the gently caress you're doing with your life
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Feb 28, 2017 01:02
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I'm glad ME3 neutralized the Paragon/Renegade split regarding choices because imagine a world where a Paragon couldn't pick the Renegade resolution of the Rannoch arc
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Feb 28, 2017 01:05
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Lycus posted:While they shouldn't have big gameplay based stuff dependent on dialogue checks, you can also choose not to care so much about them. Morinth is a basically just a secret for a later playthrough, not a choice a reasonable Shepard would make, and getting through the Suicide Mission without Miranda/Jack's or Tali/Legion's loyalty isn't hard. You still get their bonus power. The other dialogue checks are mostly useless, and are often less entertaining than the non-check options ("You're forgetting something, Vasir. I was a Spectre too.")(Punching the Citadel crime boss). While I know that's true from a logical standpoint, it just bugs me so much to see both options greyed out. It makes me feel like the failure I am IRL Just kidding Kinda I mean at least I have a cool wife and a guitar and a bottle of wine
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Feb 28, 2017 01:07
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Lotta posters in this thread didn't have their placeholder personalities replaced before launch
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Feb 28, 2017 01:16
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8-bit Miniboss posted:My favorite line to this day is "That makes you a criminal, I can kill criminals." *looks lovingly at gun* I wonder if they're gonna explain Parasini's noted absence in ME3 by throwing her into Andromeda if she's flagged "alive".
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Feb 28, 2017 01:27
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I hope Andromeda has a better mission journal than ME3 cos holy poo poo that thing was bad. It got progressively worse as the series went on too. ME1 was great and actually updated where you needed to go in multi part missions and I think ME2 sort of did as well. ME3 is just like "Yo theres a thing in the Butt System go get it and bring it back to Bob Alien on the Citadel."
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comatose posted:I hope Andromeda has a better mission journal than ME3 cos holy poo poo that thing was bad. It got progressively worse as the series went on too. ME1 was great and actually updated where you needed to go in multi part missions and I think ME2 sort of did as well. ME3 is just like "Yo theres a thing in the Butt System go get it and bring it back to Bob Alien on the Citadel." It's pretty likely it'll be better. ME3's journal was a literal last minute addition, as in almost at launch someone said "Holy poo poo, we need a journal, don't we?"
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Feb 28, 2017 01:40
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Groetgaffel posted:Correct, there's no morality meter of any kind, thank gently caress. Choosing what I felt was appropriate was literally what I did through all three games. I leaned renegade in the main (headbutt/shoot rear end in a top hat krogans, intimidate chumps, and generally take zero poo poo from anyone) while giving the Rachni a chance, sparing the colonists and council, helping out pals and what have you. The only things I missed out on were the 80% paragon mission to save the Sirta Foundation scientists (couldn't pass up the 'diplomancy' mission to the warlord), and three persaude options (while still having the option to use the intimidate equivalent). Anyone who thinks the only way to play was by sticking religiously to a single mindset 100% of the time is a sucker.
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The beauty of the Rachni decision is that it's really easy to justify it as paragon or renegade depending on what you think paragon/renegade means. Which is kinda the big problem. Paragon and renegade don't mean anything. Is renegade "devoted to humanity?" is it "devoted to galatic stability?" About all that's concrete about being 'renegade' as an ideology is that it's an "at all costs" sorta dealio, and that's kinda meaningless unless you know what it is you're pursuing at all costs in the first place. At the absolute most defined the two systems get is "optimistic" and "cynical." Which might be all they needed to be, I dunno. I do have to say that I really liked how sparing the Rachni bit you in the rear end because Christ was that ever a dumb decision.
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PureRok posted:I got banned from the multiplayer shortly after the Geth was first added. I assume it's because I did this (since I can't think of what else I could have done). I added billions of credits to my account but would occasionally give them 20 bux for credits and no bans.
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Feb 28, 2017 01:46
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Evil Canadian posted:I hope Drack has an edge to him other than being Wrex 2.0. Like, Drack is pro-genophage and knows all Krogan are fuckups. So Drack is cool and good?
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Feb 28, 2017 01:48
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The Iron Rose posted:The beauty of the Rachni decision is that it's really easy to justify it as paragon or renegade depending on what you think paragon/renegade means. This is pretty meta if you realize that video games mean nothing.
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Feb 28, 2017 01:50
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The Iron Rose posted:The beauty of the Rachni decision is that it's really easy to justify it as paragon or renegade depending on what you think paragon/renegade means. Sparing the Rachni doesn't really bite you at all though. The Reapers just "construct an artificial Queen" even if you didn't. The real Queen remains a trustworthy ally if saved in 3, whereas the artificial Queen goes rogue. If anything, sparing the Rachni is the opposite of biting you in the rear end.
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Feb 28, 2017 01:52
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So I just read that Peter Moore has left EA to be CEO of the Liverpool Football Club. I mean he mostly managed the EA Sports stuff anyway, so he likely had little effect on something like Mass Effect in the main, but still, interesting departure.
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Feb 28, 2017 01:53
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The Iron Rose posted:The beauty of the Rachni decision is that it's really easy to justify it as paragon or renegade depending on what you think paragon/renegade means. Uh, sparing the Rachni didn't bite you in the rear end if you did it consistently in 1 and 3. It only bit you in the rear end if you were dumb enough to go "gee I'd better let this zombified resurrected reaper created monstrosity live" in 3 after killing the Rachni in 1.
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Feb 28, 2017 01:53
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Yo is this game gonna be cool? i saw the one demo with the weird lips and bad gun takeaway but has anything to come out since then made it look good
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Feb 28, 2017 01:55
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Ramadu posted:Yo is this game gonna be cool? i saw the one demo with the weird lips and bad gun takeaway but has anything to come out since then made it look good Combat looks fun, companions and writing are going to be Very Bioware. That's about all we know.
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Feb 28, 2017 01:56
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Ramadu posted:Yo is this game gonna be cool? i saw the one demo with the weird lips and bad gun takeaway but has anything to come out since then made it look good Most of the other stuff has looked pretty good.
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Feb 28, 2017 01:56
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Ramadu posted:Yo is this game gonna be cool? i saw the one demo with the weird lips and bad gun takeaway but has anything to come out since then made it look good https://twitter.com/voidsexts/status/376855626280087552
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Feb 28, 2017 01:58
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Renegade is all about being too cool for school  , but Mass Effect was written by kids on the honor roll who stayed after class to dust erasers.
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Feb 28, 2017 01:58
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marshmallow creep posted:Renegade is all about being too cool for school Counterpoint: Paragon shep was written by fans of Jean-Luc Picard, renegade shep was written by fans of Linkin Park
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Ramadu posted:Yo is this game gonna be cool? i saw the one demo with the weird lips and bad gun takeaway but has anything to come out since then made it look good Try these and see what you think: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrWgLMH8yRU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3q_Nd5arZM
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It's even sadder when you consider that majority of interesting story decisions don't make a difference at all to any outcomes. Save/Kill the Rachni? You get a war asset boost in 3. Cure Genophage? Get some text at the end of 3. Save the Quarians and+or the Geth? Kill them all with the Red ending anyways. Collector Base? Change the name to Heart or Brain and get a war asset for 3. Leviathan Brain Washing team? War assets. Basically, anything cool you do is never reflected in gameplay or in the story, its all an illusion of choice.
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Ramadu posted:Yo is this game gonna be cool? i saw the one demo with the weird lips and bad gun takeaway but has anything to come out since then made it look good If you ignore the writing and some bioware dude tweeting that they made soft core porn the gameplay should be cool and good as long as not being able to select your pronouns doesn't chafe you.
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Feb 28, 2017 02:06
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In ME1 Renegade FemShep has about two dozen responses that are slight variations on the phrase "Why the hell should I care?" and it's fantastic
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Some excerpts from the upcoming art book courtesy of the Nerdist.   edit: And some more phone wallpapers or whatever   Tom Taylorson posted:I love how Sara's ready to roll. marshmallow creep fucked around with this message at 02:50 on Feb 28, 2017 |
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Feb 28, 2017 02:45
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Holy poo poo I hope Vetra keeps some of those long rear end scarves.
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Thor-Stryker posted:It's even sadder when you consider that majority of interesting story decisions don't make a difference at all to any outcomes.
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Feb 28, 2017 02:53
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The Tempest is a ridiculously ugly ship.
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Feb 28, 2017 02:53
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Burkion posted:Holy poo poo I hope Vetra keeps some of those long rear end scarves. Some of those designs she's basically the turian version of Pharah.
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Feb 28, 2017 02:54
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marshmallow creep posted:Some of those designs she's basically the turian version of Pharah. I am A-OK with this.
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Feb 28, 2017 02:57
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Milky Moor posted:The Tempest is a ridiculously ugly ship. Don't get why a bunch of people feel this way.
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Feb 28, 2017 02:58
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The Tempest is just kinda boring because it looks like Normandy again.
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Feb 28, 2017 03:01
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Why must everything be shaped like a dick?
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Feb 28, 2017 03:02
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I think the Tempest will look better in motion, though those bow canards are rather silly. The original recipe Normandy was also a pretty goofy-looking boat.
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Thor-Stryker posted:It's even sadder when you consider that majority of interesting story decisions don't make a difference at all to any outcomes. Only if you only consider the last five minutes of the game in terms of 'outcome'.
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Fangz posted:Only if you only consider the last five minutes of the game in terms of 'outcome'. Yes, the outcome is the final state of something.
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