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Well I just encountered Garrus for the first time in ME1 again and his face texture is not a horrible low-resolution mess. Game ruined, filing a complaint and boycotting Bioware forever.
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May 15, 2021 13:43
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Those steam profile pieces are cool. Starting to regret just buying it on Origin, I figured, since it requires Origin anyways, might as well, but... they did go ham on the Steam stuff. Ah well. I'll regret it for a day or two, but still really enjoying playing ME1, but slightly better, again. I love that they made the elevator rides go exactly as long as the news reports, or squad banter.
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May 15, 2021 13:51
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I don't have a PC, so any reason to get the PS4 or Xbox one version over the other?
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May 15, 2021 14:20
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gninjagnome posted:I don't have a PC, so any reason to get the PS4 or Xbox one version over the other? Probably boils down to which controller you prefer.
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May 15, 2021 14:30
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Yeah, both versions seem roughly equal. If you ever plan to revisit the game on a next-gen console the Series X will hit 120fps while the PS5 tops out at 60fps, but that might not matter to you.
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May 15, 2021 14:32
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Not sure when I'll get a next gen console, so good to know the version doesn't matter. Since my Xbox isn't connected to my TV at the moment laziness will make my decision for me!
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May 15, 2021 14:37
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a cyborg mug posted:They say they improved Mako’s handling but good Christ I still hate this poo poo. Just got stuck in a hole on a random planet I was just not able to get out of without going back to the Normandy The Mako wasn't great but the real problem was the lacklustre design of the uncharted worlds. That's why the Mako is fine on the main quest planets with the except of a few bad points.
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May 15, 2021 14:38
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I'm going to echo the sentiment of "this looks exactly how I remember it looking", but then I tried reinstalling Dragon Age: Origins last month and couldn't get over how loving primitive-looking it was compared to my memory. So far, digging the remaster.
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May 15, 2021 15:17
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Dragon Age: Origins looked pretty dated in its own time. Even when I played it over 11 years ago I thought it looked weird, like the whole game was shot in miniature. ME2 was the first 3D Bioware game that really managed to make a strong impression visually.
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May 15, 2021 15:20
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yeah da:o has always been pretty hideous.
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May 15, 2021 15:23
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Insanity playthrough going just fine - done with some side stuff + Feros and Therum. Other than boss battles and the occasional lucky sniper it's been a good challenge but not overly tough. Also if you're playing a "pistols" class - don't bother with them. Sniper Rifle is your new best friend.
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May 15, 2021 15:25
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I don’t remember Matriarch Benezia’s boob veins being so pronounced in the original game
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May 15, 2021 15:35
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It seems like dancing in flux has been removed. Uninstalled.
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May 15, 2021 15:51
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Origin has no screenshot function, and I can't use GeForce one with HDR enabled. Great fuckin system Also I usually think HDR looks like poo poo but it looks pretty good in ME1 from what I've seen so far (Eden Prime)
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May 15, 2021 16:06
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With the Legendary level scaling on in 1 is there a reason to do the side quests now? I’m having fun but if I’m really excited to get back into ME2.
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May 15, 2021 16:11
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longtimelurker posted:It seems like dancing in flux has been removed. Uninstalled. I think the option only appears on your 2nd or 3rd trip to the Citadel after a story world, or maybe after you've gotten Jenna out of Chora's and done the Salarian cheating quest. Could be remembering it wrong though.
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May 15, 2021 16:34
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got my milli credits after getting liara and still don't see the spectre weaps, weird
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May 15, 2021 16:43
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Alexander Hamilton posted:I don’t remember Matriarch Benezia’s boob veins being so pronounced in the original game Boob veins, like goatees, let you know the character is evil. Sentinel Red posted:I think the option only appears on your 2nd or 3rd trip to the Citadel after a story world, or maybe after you've gotten Jenna out of Chora's and done the Salarian cheating quest. Could be remembering it wrong though. Huh. I must've beaten the game like 10 or more times between console and pc over the years and I never knew you could dance there at any point.
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May 15, 2021 16:57
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Son of Rodney posted:But holy poo poo lmao at ashlry just immediately cranking up the space racism when you prod her slighty. "it's not racism, not really" is not a good way to start a sentence, hoo boy. One of her best friends is a shrimp, and she personally knows one of the good toads, it's cool.
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May 15, 2021 17:05
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Phobeste posted:got my milli credits after getting liara and still don't see the spectre weaps, weird The C-Sec requisitions officer had them right after I became a Spectre.
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May 15, 2021 17:06
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I forgot how bad ME1 looks in general, like some of the models look like the game started on the original Xbox
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May 15, 2021 17:28
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Phobeste posted:got my milli credits after getting liara and still don't see the spectre weaps, weird They're bugged. They now show up right away without needing a million, and disappear the next time you go back.
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May 15, 2021 17:37
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kilus aof posted:The Mako wasn't great but the real problem was the lacklustre design of the uncharted worlds. That's why the Mako is fine on the main quest planets with the except of a few bad points. exquisite tea posted:Dragon Age: Origins looked pretty dated in its own time. Even when I played it over 11 years ago I thought it looked weird, like the whole game was shot in miniature. ME2 was the first 3D Bioware game that really managed to make a strong impression visually. That said, that's a good sign of a remaster if it doesn't look much different than you remember, because a good remaster doesn't mess around too much with the artistic design and ends up looking like the game you remember through rose colored glasses. There have been several remasters the last few years where when I'm playing it, I go "this looks like the same game except it's 4k and 60 FPS now" but then I watch a Digital Foundry comparison video or something and go "Holy poo poo, they did a lot of work on this."
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May 15, 2021 17:38
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Empress Brosephine posted:I forgot how bad ME1 looks in general, like some of the models look like the game started on the original Xbox Don't know if sarcasm or not but yeah that's exactly what happened. It also was heavily limited in that it was required to be able to use the inferior Xbox360 version that only used a 512MB memory card for storage as well which necessitated its infamous elevator rides to load in new areas.
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May 15, 2021 17:39
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Wasn't sure, but good to know. Didn't know it started on the original Xbox either though that's cool
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May 15, 2021 17:47
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Empress Brosephine posted:Wasn't sure, but good to know. Didn't know it started on the original Xbox either though that's cool It stared work before the 360 came out but was released around 2 years after the 360 came out so it started on original xbox and upgraded. At least that's what I understand from the release dates and wikipedia saying it was in development for 3 and a half years.
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May 15, 2021 17:52
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Goooooooood I am having such a hard time not taking Tali with me in ME1. She's the most interesting and well-designed companion but I've seen her whole story already. Ashley is a bigot and will be ignored, I've seen all of Wrex before, Kaiden is a bore... I guess it's Garrus again and... the Asura.
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May 15, 2021 17:53
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I'm definitely feeling a slight mental dissonance seeing what is basically ME3 models and textures on top of ME1 gameplay. Like I keep expecting it to play more like ME3 and there's a little part of my brain that gets confused when powers don't work the way they do in 3. But so far it's basically what I was expecting. It's still ME1, with most of the same jankiness, just prettier. They fixed a few of the more universally hated elements, but didn't go overboard changing a bunch of stuff. I'm interested to see what 2 and 3 are like since those were still pretty solid by modern standards.
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May 15, 2021 18:02
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What difficulty are people playing on? It's been forever since I've played the series and I forget if the higher difficulties make things more frustrating than fun.
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May 15, 2021 18:06
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Wingnut Ninja posted:I'm definitely feeling a slight mental dissonance seeing what is basically ME3 models and textures on top of ME1 gameplay. Like I keep expecting it to play more like ME3 and there's a little part of my brain that gets confused when powers don't work the way they do in 3. It really is kind of wild going back to ME1 after not playing it since release, and realizing how.....rudimentary.....the game is at this point. Like I remember it being this thing of grand scope in my mind but it's really very quick (the main quest just blows by) and a lot of the side content is really very simplistic. There's meat in the dialogue but all of the gameplay boils down to "fly to relatively empty planet, clear a couple of rooms". You can really see how the "reactivity" around the game is built around a handful of decision points or flags. Again, great game and it was amazing at the time. But going back it's just totally eclipsed by what ME2 brought to the table and ended up being.
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May 15, 2021 18:09
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Are there any other significant art changes like Tali's picture in Mass Effect 3?
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May 15, 2021 18:14
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So I found a fun new bug with the Mako. It just slammed to a halt, and the wheels would start freaking if I tried to move. For whatever reason it started to hit me with a level 8 hazard if I kept trying to move. It also happened on Noveria, but that time I was able to exit the Mako, which made it teleport several meters in a random direction, but a few rounds of that managed to free it.  On the plus side, they actually fixed this guy having a human model.
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longtimelurker posted:It seems like dancing in flux has been removed. Uninstalled. Think you have to talk to Doran (where he mentions he likes to dance) and finish the Flux quest with the cheater, then Doran moves over to the dance floor and you can dance with him, might need to get Jenna out of Chora’s Den too? I know doing those things has let me dance at Flux in this version anyway. Though Sheppard has much Going through pretty slowly and exploring everything, only done Liara’s recruitment and a bunch of side missions at this point. Every single little side quest counts towards those “do five quests with a squad mate” achievements so I’ve actually got them all now. It counts on turn in, so if you have a NPC you don’t want to use you can cheat and just bring them with when turning the quest in at the Citadel and it will work. Difficulty feels slightly higher, though not unfairly so, might have played on lower difficulty way back when maybe. Money feels like a pain to gather; I know rewards used to be pegged to your level, wonder if it got nerfed by the legendary level set up. I do appreciate the dedicated melee button in ME1 now, will make Paragon on Feros a lot safer to pull off. Can’t seem to give squad movement and attach orders in pause, just special abilities now? The Mako I am definitely of two minds about now. Movement in general terms is MUCH better, since they have the graphics to not make all the terrains jagged blocks there’s a lot less ramping random areas by mistake and going wildly flying away, and the jet booster makes the near vertical driving stuff work even better since you can turbo boost over those sections where the Mako stalls out. But for some reason the PC controls at least seem to work in relation to the screen facing instead of the Mako’s facing, which gets irritating when you try to circle strafe and the direction pressing forward or left or whatever takes you keeps changing as you rotate your view around. Thresher maws are also fairly intense. They thankfully made it so just sitting there and jumping over the acid spit isn’t the only good tactic, partly by making the spit three shots that can’t be leapt over but even more by adding the Bugs Bunny digging effect so you can see where the drat bastard is going and making it coming up under the Mako no longer insta-death (getting flipped over by it is kind of a cool “uh oh” to boot). Considering the real reason for the hop and shoot tactics in the original was moving around was a death sentence since the maw would inevitably come up under you and kill you, this is much more fun. I can’t figure out the point of the sensory tentacles that come up during the digging part, but I *think* being too near them must make the thresher maw dig straight towards you instead of at random, he seems to every so often just beeline straight for me so I’m running frantically with a bunch of last second boosts to get away screaming “WHY COULDN’T YOU TAKE A LEFT AT ALBUQUERQUE YOU BASTARD?!!”. Victory in the new system definitely feels earned now.
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BisbyWorl posted:
Huh. I always figured he was intended to be Batarian for some reason.
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May 15, 2021 18:35
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Sorry if this has been answered, but does anyone know if the LE fixes the Conrad Verner bug in ME2 that makes him always act as if you Renegaded him in ME1?
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May 15, 2021 18:41
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MadDogMike posted:But for some reason the PC controls at least seem to work in relation to the screen facing instead of the Mako’s facing, which gets irritating when you try to circle strafe and the direction pressing forward or left or whatever takes you keeps changing as you rotate your view around. You can change this in the settings, thankfully.
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May 15, 2021 18:44
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Sentinel Red posted:Huh. I always figured he was intended to be Batarian for some reason. I think they first showed up in the Bringing Down the Sky DLC. But ME2 showed that the Terminus Systems were just populated with the same species + Batarians and Vorchas anyway.
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May 15, 2021 18:46
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MadDogMike posted:But for some reason the PC controls at least seem to work in relation to the screen facing instead of the Mako’s facing, which gets irritating when you try to circle strafe and the direction pressing forward or left or whatever takes you keeps changing as you rotate your view around. Thresher maws are also fairly intense. You can change it back in the options menu. I don't think I've ever started hunting for an option so quickly, the camera-based controls feel terrible. The thresher maw fight was definitely a lot cooler, it's nice that they changed a lot of the more bullshit elements like the instant death popup. I think the tentacles are just to give you something else to shoot during the fight rather than just slugging away at the main target; it seemed like I had to kill all of them to get it to pop back up again.
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MadDogMike posted:Going through pretty slowly and exploring everything, only done Liara’s recruitment and a bunch of side missions at this point. Every single little side quest counts towards those “do five quests with a squad mate” achievements so I’ve actually got them all now. It counts on turn in, so if you have a NPC you don’t want to use you can cheat and just bring them with when turning the quest in at the Citadel and it will work. Similarly, it seems like you can just use abilities on nothing to reach the 25 uses for each. No need to hit an enemy with them, nor does it have to be Shepard who uses them. Seems like an incredibly easy platinum, which is nice because I platted all three on PS3 and now I feel like I have to plat them all again
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