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Almost like... colonization is being directed toward a handful of planets. Planets that are part of an extensive network. A highly advanced network that people take for granted without understanding. HhmMmhMbhmmmmm!
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Nah, that'd be dumb. They're just a bunch of dudes from Andromeda who got super advanced and developed space magic.
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Stranger Danger Ranger posted:Nah, that'd be dumb. They're just a bunch of dudes from Andromeda who got super advanced and developed space magic. IM TALKIN BOUT REAPERS 2.0 BOY, YEAHOH! 
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Apr 12, 2017 03:21
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I'm really mad there were no aliens that looked properly alien this time around. I mean even the ones we'd had before, like elcor, were gone. Their big idea for making the angarans sound alien was to have them voiced by black people 
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Apr 12, 2017 03:22
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Pick posted:I'm really mad there were no aliens that looked properly alien this time around. I mean even the ones we'd had before, like elcor, were gone. Their big idea for making the angarans sound alien was to have them voiced by black people Ah, the Javik ploy!
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Apr 12, 2017 03:25
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Why would "I know, we'll make everyone part 'machine,' part organic!" make a difference, anyway? What does that have to do with what really amounts to a struggle with your 'parents'? The whole of 'synthetic vs. organic' was basically a race war over whether we were 'wet' or 'dry' machines? Solved by giving everything veins AND circuits? None of synthesis makes a bit of sense.
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Apr 12, 2017 03:25
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Synthesis was unity vs individualism and free will.
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Apr 12, 2017 03:33
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Drifter posted:The last choice mind rapes everyone and borg's them and forces them to take some type of pill where all thought is no longer private yadda yadda. Where the gently caress are you getting this from? It's pretty obvious that while everything is biorganic they retain their own sentience and memories. Abloo bloo, i didn't ask everyone if they wanted to live longer, be stronger, have emotions, and be able to communicate with anyone else directly instead of using archaic languages. Most importantly, you can go to the bone zone with anyone now. As opposed to removing sentience from the collective minds of thousands of lost civilizations or genociding the only progressive people in the galaxy. Speaking of Me3 though and bringing it back to Andromeda. I played 2 and 3 to completion for the first time last month and imo 2 and A are tied for best Mass Effect. 2 has better companions and much like DA2, benefits from having a narrow focus. Andromeda has fun gameplay, a fun protagonist, and revived the only good part of 1, the Mako. 3 was probably some of the worst writing I've experienced,outside of Reddit/Tumblr posts, from beginning to end.
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Apr 12, 2017 03:36
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Please do not take the lore of the dating aliens video game that seriously
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ashpanash posted:Why would "I know, we'll make everyone part 'machine,' part organic!" make a difference, anyway? What does that have to do with what really amounts to a struggle with your 'parents'? The whole of 'synthetic vs. organic' was basically a race war over whether we were 'wet' or 'dry' machines? Solved by giving everything veins AND circuits? It makes sense in the whole edgy teen "well if we were all one color there wouldnt be racism" line of thought. Also, you spend a good chunk of the game getting people to stop hating eachother. Only the Salarians really remain anti-krogan.
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Pick posted:I'm really mad there were no aliens that looked properly alien this time around. I mean even the ones we'd had before, like elcor, were gone. Their big idea for making the angarans sound alien was to have them voiced by black people Wait, what the gently caress?
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Chill Nazi Frog posted:IM TALKIN BOUT REAPERS 2.0 BOY, YEAHOH! noo
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Lima posted:Ah, the Javik ploy! Javik, it was kind of cool, since his bit was being from a more "advanced" civilization, with a condescending attitude towards the upstarts. Ike Amandi voicing him was a nice twist away from the expected vaguely-British cliche for the position. Meant that it was easier to engage Javik as a specific character rather than his archetype. The angarans using it would be playing into the archetypes rather than against, which, even at best, is a very different effect.
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chiasaur11 posted:Javik, it was kind of cool, since his bit was being from a more "advanced" civilization, with a condescending attitude towards the upstarts. Ike Amandi voicing him was a nice twist away from the expected vaguely-British cliche for the position. Meant that it was easier to engage Javik as a specific character rather than his archetype. Eh, I don't know. I found him extremely dull and flat as a character. I finished ME3 for the first time yesterday and I had to look up what Mr. "In my cycle" was called.
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Nasgate posted:Where the gently caress are you getting this from? It's pretty obvious that while everything is biorganic they retain their own sentience and memories. Abloo bloo, i didn't ask everyone if they wanted to live longer, be stronger, have emotions, and be able to communicate with anyone else directly instead of using archaic languages. Because the way to peace is to whitewash over everyone's individual culture and languages.
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I love how he just straight up bullshits people to see how much he can get away with because he knows that people will reflexively believe anything he has to say about the protheans.
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Nasgate posted:Where the gently caress are you getting this from? It's pretty obvious that while everything is biorganic they retain their own sentience and memories. Abloo bloo, i didn't ask everyone if they wanted to live longer, be stronger, have emotions, and be able to communicate with anyone else directly instead of using archaic languages. Anything claiming to "stop all conflict" or " make the Krogans be not warlike" or "have humans work together with everyone peaceably" in the span of a day, and not like, three generations, means there's tremendous amounts of brainwashing going on. That's where the gently caress I'm getting it from. You make a good point about being able to visit the bone zone with everything, though. Your argument has some merit as a result, however wrong your initial extrapolation is. And if I could ve I'd've killed the half of all quarians who were gunning for war with Geth. Eff those A-holes. 
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fruit on the bottom posted:I love how he just straight up bullshits people to see how much he can get away with because he knows that people will reflexively believe anything he has to say about the protheans. Yeah this was his best aspect, other than his severe PTSD arc.
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chiasaur11 posted:Javik, it was kind of cool, since his bit was being from a more "advanced" civilization, with a condescending attitude towards the upstarts. Ike Amandi voicing him was a nice twist away from the expected vaguely-British cliche for the position. Meant that it was easier to engage Javik as a specific character rather than his archetype. Yeah it would have been hilarious if the angarans, being the "noble savage" aliens, actually talked in super posh British accents. Blimey! Tally ho! I say!
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Lima posted:Ah, the Javik ploy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDAxIVQE0To#t=01m04s
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Neddy Seagoon posted:The rest of us don't. Mac Walters reputedly locked himself in a room to write it without input from that pesky writing team and it just doesn't work. Synths and organics don't get along... except we've known since ME2 the Geth don't want a war with the Quarian Flotilla and would really just like them to stop shooting on-sight for five minutes please. I'm not going to defend the ME3 ending but this is a bit of a misinterpretation of the Catalyst's logic. But this is just all the more argument that Walters is going to Walters it all up. And I, for one, am glad of it.
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Pick posted:I'm really mad there were no aliens that looked properly alien this time around. I mean even the ones we'd had before, like elcor, were gone. Their big idea for making the angarans sound alien was to have them voiced by black people I thought the Angarans sounded like what Americans think Australians sound like but actually don't.
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Nasgate posted:Andromeda has fun gameplay, a fun protagonist, and revived the only good part of 1, the Mako.. 
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DancingShade posted:I thought the Angarans sounded like what Americans think Australians sound like but actually don't. Yeah, they all sounded like they either had various Australian or Afrikaans accents. Basically, they all sounded like white people.
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I loved this kind of thing from the other Mass Effect. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppQWYU2B7x8 It was terrifying and really got me into the story. I don't feel anything from this new game.
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spacetoaster posted:I loved this kind of thing from the other Mass Effect. The words of a being who wants to end inevitable organic/synthetic conflict.
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In my last playthrough of ME3 I'd pretty much come to terms with the pick a colour ending and was just going to do control. Then that dumb kid reminded me that synthesis was a choice and I ended up picking the deny ending and felt much happier about everything. Just finished the krogan planet in MEA and it was pretty fun. Drack's loyalty mission was like an action/comedy movie which is basically all I want from this game. Generally I don't think the game is 'bad' just some things feel a bit half baked and poorly thought out. The profiles system is totally retarded and I hope they realise that putting your powers on cooldown when you swap is completely useless as none of the fights seem to take longer one singularity duration. The best thing about the singleplayer is that it hasn't crashed once for me.
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spacetoaster posted:I loved this kind of thing from the other Mass Effect. Sovereign makes a few good points in there.
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Lima posted:Eh, I don't know. I found him extremely dull and flat as a character. I finished ME3 for the first time yesterday and I had to look up what Mr. "In my cycle" was called. You're a crazy person. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwqYh8qEvYE
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My problems with the Angarans is that they're almost a good design. But then you get the weird and crooked hosed up bodies of the females for example and you just go "what on earth were they thinking". The game models look like a mistake
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Like the boss son was working as an intern at the time and made the bodies for the angarans and everyone just went "THATS GREAT BUDDY  "
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The labia necks are what really bother me about the angarans.
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Pick posted:I chose Sloane and honestly I'm still not that sorry (sorry Trop). you chose so wrong!!!
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I first saw the scene with Jaal shirtless yesterday, and it was definitely more upsetting than anything I'd seen the kett do. If anything, exaltation is an aesthetic improvement for the Angarans.
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Nasgate posted:The labia necks are what really bother me about the angarans. The labia necks are actually kind of interesting, they really change up the silhouette and they're not "pretty", they remind me of orangutans in that respect, or cobras. The designs remind people of a lot of different animals, which is good (their syndactyly is also koala-style). Their weird chests are a great move in the right direction, that's properly alien. And the men look all right, though they need more variation. The women, however, look like off-brand Monster High dolls and it's jarring and frankly pretty gross looking.
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reyes is the best part of this dumb game we're ride or die baby, ride or die  I fully expect him to betray ryder in the next installment
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the women angara are so gross I hate them. their lips are all super poofy porn star and it looks so horribly out of place compared to the male designs
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Taear posted:What's everyone's vote for the worst "Task" in the game? Finding dead colonists who've sunk through the floor into the void.
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Pick posted:I'm really mad there were no aliens that looked properly alien this time around. I mean even the ones we'd had before, like elcor, were gone. Their big idea for making the angarans sound alien was to have them voiced by black people hmm, weird that you wanted more than Good Alien and Bad Alien
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