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Arcsquad12 posted:I'm learning to avoid taking sharp corners in mass effect 2. They're a quick way to end up stuck in the ceiling haha me too  i've gotten stuck in walls multiple times now 'cos shepard turned just a little too fastFojar38 posted:Writing is actually pretty good with some notably cringe-worthy lines  i'm not sure how wide the gap between the demo and the rest of the game is, in terms of writing, but hoooo boyi played it yesterday and it was like, phenomenally boring
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RBA Starblade posted:Jesus it takes ages to load the game now because of the shaders building. It's pretty ok running off an SSD I thought. ^ You know I'm kind of disappointed they didn't toss in the DA:I facial tattoos as a bonus option. Or put in that same mystical plastic surgery location with a disembodied voice for mid-run makeovers.
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It gets better after the demo. But is really uneven. The highs are still high. I'm still working my way through it but Kadara and the loyalty missions I have done are great. But yeah the writing can be uninspired at times. And the game does a poor job of on boarding the player with the interesting stuff.
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Dexo posted:It gets better after the demo. But is really uneven. they never actually tell you how to switch profiles, which is supposed to be a huge part of the game for what it's worth I never switched because your stuff goes on cooldown and you have the same weapons so it seems pointless
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Comparing Reyes to Aria really highlights how much better the ME:A writers are than the ME2 writers. Number Ten Cocks fucked around with this message at 16:27 on Apr 8, 2017 |
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Dexo posted:And the game does a poor job of on boarding the player with the interesting stuff. A really poor job. Maybe the worst of any Bioware game since at least Jade Empire. I think I was about 10 hours in before I even began to get invested, which is asking way too much time investment out of people. The tutorial and Eos really needed some punching up, and the shoulda unlocked some of the loyalty missions earlier than half way through the game.
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Dexo posted:It gets better after the demo. But is really uneven. I think the issue is the initial chunk of the game has pacing issues and a lot of the companion and side quests get ON HOLD for no apparent reason because they lock off planets arbitrarily. That can be frustrating. The quest structure could have used more tuning but I don't imagine that will change now.
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DancingShade posted:I think the issue is the initial chunk of the game has pacing issues and a lot of the companion and side quests get ON HOLD for no apparent reason because they lock off planets arbitrarily. That can be frustrating. Stopping the demo after the Vault rather than before it would have been a good change. It's still a slow as gently caress beginning though.
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Doctor Spaceman posted:Stopping the demo after the Vault rather than before it would have been a good change. I don't have a suggestion to fix the pacing other than the old "make it more like ME2". In ME1 there were like 2 conversation prompts and zero running around doing bullshit before dumping you on Eden Prime doing shooty bang bang excitement. In ME:A you have a long period of vaguely interactive prep busy work that slows the pace to a crawl.
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Dexo posted:It gets better after the demo. But is really uneven. Yeah, the demo felt weird for exactly this reason. The story/setting has all these juicy set-ups, but then refuses to do anything with them or even explain them to me properly, instead bogging me down with boring bullshit minutiae. i did really like the ad hoc political set up in the wake of garson's unexpected death, and how shaky and ill-defined it is right now. stuff like that, where it feels like thought was put into the setting, would totally keep me playing this game
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doctor iono posted:Yeah, the demo felt weird for exactly this reason. The story/setting has all these juicy set-ups, but then refuses to do anything with them or even explain them to me properly, instead bogging me down with boring bullshit minutiae. It's ok. I'm sure Overlord Morda will sort things out for everyone in the fullness of time.
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doctor iono posted:Yeah, the demo felt weird for exactly this reason. The story/setting has all these juicy set-ups, but then refuses to do anything with them or even explain them to me properly, instead bogging me down with boring bullshit minutiae. Some genuinely great moments in there, and I haven't even got around to finishing it yet.
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If I do a replay, I will probably skip all the side quest and tasks.
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tooterfish posted:Yeah, it gets miles better. The beginning is slow as gently caress. Lurker decloaking. Thanks everyone for posting your thoughts- ended up pulling the trigger after reading this thread. Hope the MP reaches the heights of ME3's.
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I've been exploring a bit postgame and gosh there is just a shitload of stuff to do. Only very occasionally is it interesting though! Also your squadmates have an awful lot to say postgame. Like three or four new conversations, which is something
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Ugly In The Morning posted:It's too bad you can't access the codex from the phone app like the grimoire cards from destiny. It'd be nice to be able to catch up on lore dumps on the shitter. If you look in the shitter that's where the lore actually is.
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GreenBuckanneer posted:If I do a replay, I will probably skip all the side quest and tasks. highmodulus posted:Lurker decloaking. Thanks everyone for posting your thoughts- ended up pulling the trigger after reading this thread. Hope the MP reaches the heights of ME3's. 
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Number Ten Cocks posted:Comparing Reyes to Aria really highlights how much better the ME:A writers are than the ME2 writers. Drax v. Wrex also highlights this. As does Peebee v. Liara.
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Number Ten Cocks posted:Drax v. Wrex also highlights this. As does Peebee v. Liara. you're trying to kill some of the thread regulars with these posts aren't you
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SubponticatePoster posted:MP is pretty fun, it's most of ME3's MP with a few tweaks. However the latest patch seems to have hosed something up. Lot of people reporting crashes. Was playing last night and almost every match somebody would CTD, and this was on PS4. I crashed out with 10 seconds to go during the extraction wave of a silver game IDK man everything in the multi seems underpowered. I put all four shots from a Disciple into a kett mook at short range and he didn't die, on silver. It wasn't super fun!
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Pattonesque posted:IDK man everything in the multi seems underpowered. I put all four shots from a Disciple into a kett mook at short range and he didn't die, on silver. It wasn't super fun! Yeah a lot of guns and some combos were a bit underpowered before the patch, I don't know if that's been fixed.
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Pattonesque posted:IDK man everything in the multi seems underpowered. I put all four shots from a Disciple into a kett mook at short range and he didn't die, on silver. It wasn't super fun! Pretty much all of the multiplayer classes are burning garbage too. Only ones I like are human saboteur (the only one you get for free), krogan engineer and human kineticist. Don't have that last one but I like the powers. When you only get 3 powers instead of a larger selection you get to actually customise and choose from... yeah. They're either good or poo poo, no middle ground.
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AriadneThread posted:you're trying to kill some of the thread regulars with these posts aren't you Everyone in Andromeda certain feels less pretentious and overwrought so far than the original trilogy tended to go. I don't like Peebee, but I didn't like Liara, either.
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gmq posted:The "scan 10 different animals" task gives you 200 credits even though it can't be finished before mid-game. the real reward is scanning
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by the by does anyone know how you complete the "Aid APEX" mission? They don't actually tell you what you need to give APEX or where to find it actually that is my problem with a lot of the tasks -- they don't mark anything so you have to wander around randomly to maybe find something related to it, and wandering around randomly in this game sucks and is bad EDIT: OK apparently you have to scan 20 different types of enemies but gently caress if I know what the last 3 I'd need to scan are
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I hope there is a follow up if only to see if retrieving Angaran GlaDOS, and taking the Primus' deal turn out to be inspired decisions and not incredibly bone-headed ones that reduce Heleus to ash. Well meaning screw-up Sara is the Best Sara. Please let the Quarians have gone full Event Horizon out there, let's have not-Tali wandering about gouging out more eyes for her collection.
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Pattonesque posted:by the by does anyone know how you complete the "Aid APEX" mission? They don't actually tell you what you need to give APEX or where to find it I like it when they have like 2-7 different markers on the map for the same quest but absolutely no distance indicators on the compass bearing so you can't tell if you're going to a close one or the furthest one away without opening the main map anyway 
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Pattonesque posted:IDK man everything in the multi seems underpowered. I put all four shots from a Disciple into a kett mook at short range and he didn't die, on silver. It wasn't super fun! DancingShade posted:Pretty much all of the multiplayer classes are burning garbage too. Mostly the RNG has been a total poo poo to me, I just got a Widow last night and everything else has been complete crap. I carry the Charger on almost everything since it has a large mag and does decent damage. I got the Valkyrie which does decent damage but the RoF is just too goddamn slow for the faster paced combat.
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DancingShade posted:I like it when they have like 2-7 different markers on the map for the same quest but absolutely no distance indicators on the compass bearing so you can't tell if you're going to a close one or the furthest one away without opening the main map anyway Press Q and the markers will get a distance indicator.
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AriadneThread posted:you're trying to kill some of the thread regulars with these posts aren't you Drax and Wrex I might call a wash, but whatever my problems with her Peebee is better written than early Liara, whose character circa ME 1 largely amounts to "sexy blue exposition waifu."
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Right, I think it is a good idea to recognize the huge amounts of evidence that MEA has better writing than all previous ME titles.
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Skippy McPants posted:Drax and Wrex I might call a wash, but whatever my problems with her Peebee is better written than early Liara, whose character circa ME 1 largely amounts to "sexy blue exposition waifu." PeeBee is better than Liara because she isn't stereotypical slightly submissive female love interest with no other strong personality traits.
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The writing is easily the weakest part of the game, its very very bad 
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Moola posted:The writing is easily the weakest part of the game, its very very bad True, but it's also the best writing of the series.
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DancingShade posted:PeeBee is better than Liara because she isn't stereotypical slightly submissive female love interest with no other strong personality traits. I was worried Peebee would be the worst bits of Liara and Sara combined but she's actually pretty good (unlike both of those characters).
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 it's more likely than you think edit: also, back half of this game feels like it was written/made by a different team almost. I was having a lot of fun with the game anyways, but everything after after you get past Voeld and Havarl is pretty good. Nancy fucked around with this message at 17:24 on Apr 8, 2017 |
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Why is it always the asari that desperately want to gently caress you. Liara and Peebee both have to be directly turned down even with zero flirting from your character. I think they should have made Jaal be the one begging to stick his alien dick/cloaca/whatever in you no matter what.
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