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So uh... I'm just gonna play the ME3 MP because why not. Anything I need to do beforehand?
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# ? May 23, 2017 02:02 |
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widespread posted:So uh... I'm just gonna play the ME3 MP because why not. Anything I need to do beforehand? Download the DLC.
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# ? May 23, 2017 02:08 |
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big time bisexual posted:it's funny looking back and seeing how the default male shepard was a real uggo in the early builds So the story I heard was that originally Meer was just recording Shepard's lines as a placeholder, and later the decision was made to make him the actual VA for the role. If true, I wonder how much of the recording got redone, and how much of his voicework in that game was from when the lines were recorded early in the process.
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# ? May 23, 2017 02:29 |
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Mark Meer is awesome, and I loved having the option to play the game 4 times essentially (by varying renegade/paragon and sex of player) with two good VAs. I'm surprised Hale gets all the praise around here since Meer did a bang up job.
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# ? May 23, 2017 03:13 |
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beep by grandpa posted:Unpopular opinion here but I think Shepard renegading and killing Mordin at the climax of Tachaunka is one of the most compelling scenes i've ever seen in a video game* Wrex hunting down and trying to kill Shepard when he learns the truth is a pretty great scene too, which reminds me of something that really bugged me about Quarian/Geth finale, Tali doesn't do poo poo when you doom her race, like Legion desperately tries to save the Geth and ends up in a fight against Tali and Shepard, while Tali just stands there going "whelp this sucks" and jumps off a cliff
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# ? May 23, 2017 03:50 |
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Internet Kraken posted:What the hell kind of name is Peebee anyways It's her initials. Pelessaria B'Sayle. Most Asari characters in past games have been pretty stiff so they were trying to make one that was more whimsical, I would guess.
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# ? May 23, 2017 15:39 |
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FronzelNeekburm posted:Download the DLC. It's all still free, too. Just a pain to get off of Origin. quote:It's her initials. Pelessaria B'Sayle. Most Asari characters in past games have been pretty stiff so they were trying to make one that was more whimsical, I would guess. I really expected to hate Peebee the most but I've been rolling with her and Drack most of the game and rotating Vetra in.
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# ? May 23, 2017 15:48 |
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Dexo posted:Mostly games need to stop preaching CHOICES MATTER. Unless you are just making a standalone self contained game. I wish we could get Alpha Protocol 2 sometime in the future.
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# ? May 23, 2017 15:51 |
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I would have liked Alpha Protocol a lot more if it'd been about anything, anything on earth except a spy game.
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# ? May 23, 2017 15:52 |
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I disagree. I love the spy aspect of it. I don't need another fantasy or sci-fi game.
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# ? May 23, 2017 15:54 |
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Alpha Protocol except it's in Twin Peaks.
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# ? May 23, 2017 15:56 |
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the real problem is that the actual game parts are very bad. the gunplay and stealth gameplay feels like afterthoughts
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# ? May 23, 2017 15:57 |
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Zikan posted:the real problem is that the actual game parts are very bad. the gunplay and stealth gameplay feels like afterthoughts They should just do away with the combat completely if they ever make a new one, which is unlikely as like 10 people bought AP and they all post on Something Awful.
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# ? May 23, 2017 15:59 |
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exquisite tea posted:They should just do away with the combat completely if they ever make a new one, which is unlikely as like 10 people bought AP and they all post on Something Awful. I just rented it.
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# ? May 23, 2017 16:01 |
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Its just a different game. The problem with Alpha Protocol is that they had the game completely finished like a year or so before Sega released it. Which meant rather than being compared to ME 1 it was being compared to ME 2's shooting That game is 100 an RPG. The stealth cloak allows you to walk up to someone take them down while the person next to them doesnt notice poo poo
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# ? May 23, 2017 16:02 |
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exquisite tea posted:Alpha Protocol except it's in Twin Peaks. Deadly Premonition with pretenses to western roleplaying essentially.
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# ? May 23, 2017 16:21 |
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Alpha Protocol is impressive in terms of its branching but the characters, combat, story, I just really struggle to care about. Like, the characters are affected profoundly by your actions, but they're almost all super thin 1D action movie stereotypes so it doesn't feel particularly impactful for me. It's pretty good though. I don't think it's the spy genre that hurts it so much as the treatment of the actual story it's telling being quite limited.
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# ? May 23, 2017 16:48 |
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Arcsquad12 posted:Deadly Premonition with pretenses to western roleplaying essentially. Deadly Premonition has a lot of problems. It's a very flawed game that I couldn't in good conscience recommend to anybody. But I think ambitious yet flawed projects are so much more interesting than games that aspire for nothing and still manage to fall flat on their face (see: Mass Effect Andromeda).
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# ? May 23, 2017 16:51 |
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exquisite tea posted:But I think ambitious yet flawed projects are so much more interesting than games that aspire for nothing and still manage to fall flat on their face (see: Mass Effect Andromeda). NieR :]
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# ? May 23, 2017 17:30 |
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I like Alpha Protocol.
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# ? May 23, 2017 17:38 |
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reagan posted:I like Alpha Protocol. Alpha Protocol is great. Ignore those terrible opinions and tuuuurn up.... the RAAAAADIOOOO!
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# ? May 23, 2017 17:48 |
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exquisite tea posted:But I think ambitious yet flawed projects are so much more interesting than games that aspire for nothing and still manage to fall flat on their face (see: Mass Effect Andromeda). Xenogears will always be my favorite JRPG.
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# ? May 23, 2017 17:57 |
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Started playing this last night. Seems real 7.5/10. Don't see where the hate comes from yet. I'll let y'all know if I find it.
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# ? May 23, 2017 20:16 |
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numerrik posted:Started playing this last night. Seems real 7.5/10. Don't see where the hate comes from yet. I'll let y'all know if I find it. whenever you meet an alien, compare their face to every other alien of their species that you meet
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# ? May 23, 2017 20:21 |
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numerrik posted:Started playing this last night. Seems real 7.5/10. Don't see where the hate comes from yet. I'll let y'all know if I find it. I liked Prometheus: The Movie.
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# ? May 23, 2017 21:43 |
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Alpha Protocol its loving amazing
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Pattonesque posted:whenever you meet an alien, compare their face to every other alien of their species that you meet wow man racist much
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# ? May 23, 2017 21:45 |
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RBA Starblade posted:I really expected to hate Peebee the most but I've been rolling with her and Drack most of the game and rotating Vetra in. I liked her, but she would be infinitely better if her name was spelled PB instead.
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# ? May 23, 2017 23:44 |
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Strategic Tea posted:I liked her, but she would be infinitely better if her name was spelled PB instead. Reminded me of when I read one of those lovely Star Wars novels as a kid where they'd write R2D2 as Artoodeetoo for who knows what reason and I thought it was stupid even at that age.
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# ? May 24, 2017 02:04 |
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Ive been looking for that colorful chart somebody made evaluating the quality of mass effect over time. Tried google image search to no avail. It's that one with Kai leng at the bottom middle and the citadel DLC at the top.
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# ? May 24, 2017 06:24 |
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Moola posted:sory I added him too
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# ? May 24, 2017 06:48 |
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What did the nyaanrobodog and collector represent?
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# ? May 24, 2017 06:54 |
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Gobblecoque posted:Reminded me of when I read one of those lovely Star Wars novels as a kid where they'd write R2D2 as Artoodeetoo for who knows what reason and I thought it was stupid even at that age. Threepio and Artoo at least work as nicknames. One Star Wars book I read tried to anglicize HK into Aiytch-Kay and it was awful.
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# ? May 24, 2017 07:04 |
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Dexo posted:Its just a different game. I've read a number of interviews with AP dev members and it's abundantly clear issues within Obsidian were at the core of the game's troubles. Problems with scope, vision, egos. Badly managed from the start. Apparently SEGA was actually very accommodating.
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# ? May 24, 2017 07:06 |
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Rinkles posted:I've read a number of interviews with AP dev members and it's abundantly clear issues within Obsidian were at the core of the game's troubles. Problems with scope, vision, egos. Badly managed from the start. Apparently SEGA was actually very accommodating. OTOH it was apparently Sega's decree that it (and Binary Domain) have RPG mechanics tied in to the shooter gameplay, which is probably one of the worst parts of Alpha Protocol.
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# ? May 24, 2017 07:09 |
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Drifter posted:What did the nyaanrobodog and collector represent? i wanna say it represents the fun, light-hearted fan stuff the cropped up around marauder shields, the very last enemy you fight in the game when you're lurching towards the citadel skylaser, and ultimately the noblest creature in the galaxy since he tried his best to keep you from seeing the endings
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# ? May 24, 2017 07:18 |
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Thanks! I love this thing.
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# ? May 24, 2017 07:36 |
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hard counter posted:i wanna say it represents the fun, light-hearted fan stuff the cropped up around marauder shields, the very last enemy you fight in the game when you're lurching towards the citadel skylaser, and ultimately the noblest creature in the galaxy since he tried his best to keep you from seeing the endings You're righgt. How dare I forget his noble sacrifice?
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# ? May 24, 2017 07:43 |
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Drifter posted:You're righgt. How dare I forget his noble sacrifice? I'd forgotten about the stupid idiotic meme that was Marauder Shields. God bless that Reaperfied Turian, trying to save you from the horrors that lurked behind him. He died in vain, but not for lack of trying to save the player from themselves.
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Count Uvula posted:... Binary Domain... Just as an aside I loved the destructible robots in Binary Domain. The voice recognition was poo poo. And gently caress the boss fights. Hard. Content: Neddy Seagoon posted:I'd forgotten about the stupid idiotic meme that was Marauder Shields. I thought koobismo's Marauder Shields webcomic was interesting in a fanfic sort of way, but it died the web comic death of never being finished (and being mostly bad.)
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