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AngryBooch posted:ME2 and 3.... slow burn? Mass Effect 1 sure. That's a plodding game that turns into a wild loving ride once you hit about 2/3rds and go to Virmire. Virmire to the ending of Mass Effect 1 is loving amazing though. Mass Effect 2 is masterfully paced. Mass Effect 3 couldn't really decide on a pace and is the worse for it. I may be describing what I meant in a bad way: ME1 had you feeling like you were involved in the plot rather early on and could go do whatever (on the Citadel at least) , whereas ME2 you were still trying to figure out what was even going on for a few missions and got your first chance to actually decide on what to do next and where to go a long ways into that. ME3 was... well, it had a bunch of stuff like the initial Earth and Mars acts, the strange dreams with the kid holding you back and so on before you could actually start doing stuff on your own. I'm saying less story pace and more "let me play the game like I want and not be sent through linear levels" pace.
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They're releasing a smartphone app that will let you send out strike team missions and manage your multiplayer characters loadout/inventory(Sure?) but it's on a staggered release.quote:APEX HQ Launch Dates 
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AngryBooch posted:This is also why the Reapers have already failed in their mission to prevent AI from "destroying all organic life forever because that's what always happens!" aren't at that point the geth still like super hyped about making themselves known to the reapers when they show up though
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TastyLemonDrops posted:Laffo, the service rep offered me a discount code to make up for it. Yeah sure, dude, there's so many games on Origin that I'd actually be willing to buy, thanks I've never had issues getting a refund on origin, generally the "date of purchase" doesn't start until the game is released, so you have 24 hours if you launch the game, and 7 days if you don't, to get your money back from the date the game is released. I mean I've gotten refunds well past any of their guidelines as well, their policy is insanely generous. e: To be clear, don't ask for credit or whatever, just straight up ask them for a refund. hopterque fucked around with this message at 18:46 on Mar 15, 2017 |
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I was previously in the 'Eh, if people want to pre-order, let them pre-order' camp, but I definitely realize how dumb that way of thinking is now.
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LITERALLY MY FETISH posted:They're AI, not algorithms.
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Big Bowie Bonanza posted:aren't at that point the geth still like super hyped about making themselves known to the reapers when they show up though Half of the Geth like the Reapers and half the Geth do not due to a rounding difference in their code.
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Nordick posted:Plus the Reapers are programmed to kill everything in the galaxy, if they found the arks outside the galaxy they'd just be like "Welp Jim, they're outside our jurisdiction now, nothin' we can do" *the Tempest, with a giant Confederate flag painted on the brow, charging toward a mass effect relay with six reapers chasing close behind* "Eh, looks like them Ryder siblings are at it again!" *Tempest does a sweet gravity jump around a planet, Reapers fall in and get stuck in mud* "Yeeeeeeee-hah! Once dem boys hit the relay, ain't no way the Reapers gon' get them back."
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Cross-Section posted:Mass Effect Archives: Download some faces, and maybe a soundtrack I guess? I love it when we get a Homeworld Soundtrack "Yes"-like bonus song. Bummer.
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Kurieg posted:They're releasing a smartphone app that will let you send out strike team missions and manage your multiplayer characters loadout/inventory(Sure?) but it's on a staggered release. Hahaha what. "Yes, perfect, my multiplayer dude is masterfully kitted out. Now to hop into a match and.....oh, wait."
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AngryBooch posted:Half of the Geth like the Reapers and half the Geth do not due to a rounding difference in their code. ah ok it's been a few years
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poisonpill posted:*the Tempest, with a giant Confederate flag painted on the brow, charging toward a mass effect relay with six reapers chasing close behind* The tempest does a donut and sprays ionizing fumes at the collected reapers. "I CALL THIS ONE PAINTIN THE FENCE" "WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" *Reapers hilariously flail around and fall over in space somehow*
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Kurieg posted:They're releasing a smartphone app that will let you send out strike team missions and manage your multiplayer characters loadout/inventory(Sure?) but it's on a staggered release. Is this the exact same mechanic as the latest WoW expansion? Not sure how I feel about this. The real time stuff in DA:I was super weird too.
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*Tempest blasts "I wish I was in Dixie" as it warps out* You motherfuckers are making this game sound way more fun than it's likely to be. It's just cruel, it is.
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So is early access this evening in the US and not on the 16th?
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Kurieg posted:They're releasing a smartphone app that will let you send out strike team missions and manage your multiplayer characters loadout/inventory(Sure?) but it's on a staggered release. So kind of like what they had for ME3 where you could send out ships to attack the Reapers and bump your readiness score? I liked dumb stuff like that. Has it been confirmed how multiplayer ties into the single player? Like...what are the rewards? Its not galactic readiness. Crafting supplies? Alan Is More Upset posted:Is this the exact same mechanic as the latest WoW expansion? Not sure how I feel about this. The real time stuff in DA:I was super weird too. The DA:I stuff was weird because it was all contained in-game. Assassins Creed 4 had a similar thing where you'd build a fleet of pirate ships and send them on missions for extra resources but you could do it via an app. I liked it. 
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FunkMonkey posted:*Tempest blasts "I wish I was in Dixie" as it warps out* ME:A as a dukes of hazzard remake in space would be a loving amazing game
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Pretty sure they said MP was just for yucks this time around.
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Snuffman posted:The DA:I stuff was weird because it was all contained in-game. Assassins Creed 4 had a similar thing where you'd build a fleet of pirate ships and send them on missions for extra resources but you could do it via an app. I liked it. That and Dead Space 3 with the little roombas picking up scrap. What a weird meta game mechanic world we live in now.
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You get SP rewards for MP. I can't recall right off hand, but I do think it's better crafting supplies or weapon drops than if you automatically sent the strike team.
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Alan Is More Upset posted:Is this the exact same mechanic as the latest WoW expansion? Not sure how I feel about this. The real time stuff in DA:I was super weird too. If they're going to do realtime stuff, they basically need to include a smartphone app. It's fine. The "manage your multiplayer loadouts" Thing seems bizarre though. Snuffman posted:So kind of like what they had for ME3 where you could send out ships to attack the Reapers and bump your readiness score? I liked dumb stuff like that. From what I understand, it's gear.
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exquisite tea posted:Mass Effect 2 has some of the best pacing in any game ever made. In the two hours it's been taking people to complete Andromeda's plodding intro mission, Shepard in ME2 was killed, resurrected, escaped a Cerberus facility, met TIM and Miranda, met Tali and uncovered the Collector plot, and touched down on Omega to recruit Mordin. Every game should aspire to have an opening as tight as ME2's. That's very true, but you already cared about Shepard's fate when you played ME2, it's not really comparable to the first game after a soft reboot of the setting.
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Kurieg posted:If they're going to do realtime stuff, they basically need to include a smartphone app. It's fine. The "manage your multiplayer loadouts" Thing seems bizarre though. Managing multiplayer loadouts works pretty well for other games, it gives you something to do when you're loading into a match or pooping on the toilet
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Cowcaster posted:"the ladies need to be sexier" isn't really what the problem is with the bioware faces And editing one image in photoshop is a lot easier than creating a whole 3D model.
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Cowcaster posted:"the ladies need to be sexier" isn't really what the problem is with the bioware faces yup but tbf there are no asari faces like the modified one so I thought "neat" because of the novelty
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I think Peebee's supposed to be kind of homely looking for an asari, the problem is mostly in how all the models move and behave. And those cold lifeless eyes, like a doll's eyes.
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Cross-Section posted:Mass Effect Archives: Download some faces, and maybe a soundtrack I guess? Presumably this'll be the Dragon Age Keep of Mass Effect eventually?
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Rabid Snake posted:So is early access this evening in the US and not on the 16th? ...this is in 3 and a half hours? is it accurate that i can pay 5 bux and play this in 3 and a half hours?
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Big Bowie Bonanza posted:how am i supposed to jerk it to sara ryder if she doesn't look like a model Not sure but... you've come to the right place.
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Well the floodgates have certainly opened on posts in this thread.  Has anyone posted the Skills and Abilities page? It doesn't have numbers, but it does list all the evolutions available. Also, this guy:  Stealth Party could be pretty clutch.
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that angara helmet is triggering me something fierce those lights, lmao
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cams posted:...this is in 3 and a half hours? is it accurate that i can pay 5 bux and play this in 3 and a half hours? Assuming origin actually lets you download it 
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So, who's going to play the gently caress out of the single player during the trial? 10 hours is about the amount of free time I'm going to have from here to friday so it'll be almost like preordering it without actually doing it.
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marshmallow creep posted:Well the floodgates have certainly opened on posts in this thread. Oh hey, flamethrower, incinerate, a wide array of grenades. Super duper, I'm on board. ....yes, I'm always the demo guy in multiplayer things, what of it?
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cams posted:...this is in 3 and a half hours? is it accurate that i can pay 5 bux and play this in 3 and a half hours?  I think, but yeah.Edit: Or wait is Origin Access on 5bux?
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lance has a "shield-powered" option at the top of its tree, successor to phase disruptor confirmed
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Civilized Fishbot posted:The reapers are basically just dialectical materialists. they assume that the entire progress of civilization is determined by the available technology and culminates in the creation of synthetic life, which inevitably brings about an entirely synthetic civilization after an inevitable war. "The cycle cannot be broken ... your civilization is based on the technology of the mass relays, our technology. By using it, your society develops along the paths we desire." Okay but to be clear I was making a claim about the authors (Bioware) not Sovereign as a character. Specifically, writing a story with the "reality" of ME1 being constructed by a superior power to use and abuse for their own ends. And, of course, ultimately the Reapers are cast as villains, just as trapped in Vendetta's cycle as everyone else.
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gmq posted:So, who's going to play the gently caress out of the single player during the trial? 10 hours is about the amount of free time I'm going to have from here to friday so it'll be almost like preordering it without actually doing it. I'm only doing single player, I think. I'm going to do all of the available missions really really really slowly. Also knowing how I play these games I'll probably have to restart at least twice because the face looks weird in the game. 
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