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MadDogMike posted:You always could, it's just that in the first game I'm pretty sure there was no dedicated melee button, you only punched if you were in point blank range and tried to fire your weapon. Which made it kind of nerve wracking to use if you wound up being *not* quite close enough for it to count it, especially if you had a shotgun out for all the creepers. That mission definitely worked much better in this version with no oopsies possible. Also the sounds and how they ragdoll now in the new version make it even funnier, I tend to suspect the real reason they stay down after being punched is they all decided "nope, obeying and getting pounded like this will definitely hurt more than playing unconscious and defying the Thorian". Thank you so much for that explanation! And I like your reasoning on why they stay down LOL. I tried the save file workaround, but unfortunately it did not work for me. Its ok though, I've received some really great weapons through loot. Just seems very weird that a Spectre can't buy Spectre equipment. I had hoped when I saw the update it would be fixed, but nope! Also... I mentioned a game minimizing issue yesterday that I couldn't figure out. I kept note of when it happens and then realized it happens exactly at 16 minutes after the hour (1:16pm, 2:16pm, 3:16pm)... so I just need to figure out what my computer is doing then that is causing this hiccup! And of course I have no idea how lol
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Legendary was a good purchase. I've put over 30 hours into a game from 2007 and it has been awesome. I didn't expect the improvements to 1 to be as fun as they were. Excited to start 2 tonight. I really wish there was a full on save editor included for starting in 2 or 3. (playing on a console) The digital comic leaves out what too many options.
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May 18, 2021 02:04
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What class has everybody been playing in ME1? Is it your favorite? If not, what is?
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May 18, 2021 02:15
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The main planet missions in 1 are usually really well done, but I love how Virmire is set up.
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May 18, 2021 02:16
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Zeron posted:Yeah the autosave on 1/2 at least really sucks. Especially if you are on controller and have no access to quick save. That Krogan was probably scared you'd die and he'd be lumped with the funeral expenses
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May 18, 2021 02:37
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GreatGreen posted:What class has everybody been playing in ME1? Adept. Will def try another class whenever I do another run.
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May 18, 2021 02:43
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GreatGreen posted:What class has everybody been playing in ME1? Started a playthrough as a sentinel but switched to an infiltrator playthrough after not having much fun there. Might switch back to sentinel in 2 and 3
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May 18, 2021 03:09
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It was nice to have a sniper rifle that worked as an adept, so for the citadel section I could lift people then shoot them into orbit.
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May 18, 2021 03:16
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Well I finished every quest besides virmire and bring down the sky on my engineer insanity playthrough. The only problem I've really had was seeing a red laser from snipers for half a second before I instantly die. Now that I've looted Collosus VIII light armor it takes 2 sniper hits to kill me. Depending on how much playtime I get tomorrow I might be able to get to the fun engineer game play in me2 by wed/thu.
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May 18, 2021 03:22
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Me2 has the same kind of close authorship as witcher 3. It’s kind of crazy, random missions like the wreckage perched on a cliff on a random planet obviously were closely designed. ME1 is still the better story and planets, but 2 is slick as hell.
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May 18, 2021 03:38
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The mako rules because every time I drive it I imagine everyone inside without seatbelts, just absolutely slamming around the cabin at all times. Just played and finished ME1 for the first time in 13 years, and my memory of the experience was still rosy so I had a grand ol' time, but yeah, wow - the quality and tone shift from 1 to 2 is pretty evident. I think I finished ME2 back in the day, but never even touched ME3 so this is all very exciting. It's nice to have fun sci-fi. Squiggle fucked around with this message at 04:00 on May 18, 2021 |
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May 18, 2021 03:51
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It is insane to me that you go and get Wrex's family armour and you don't even get any armour for beating the mission. Just baffling.
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May 18, 2021 03:58
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GreatGreen posted:What class has everybody been playing in ME1? I'm going adept in ME1 and then make out that Shepard loses his powers/implants after being revived so Soldier or Infiltrator in ME2, and then in 3 Shepard is gonna segue into an Engineer to get his powers back. Someone in this thread mentioned doing the same and it sounded like a cool way to try our different play styles through the different games.
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May 18, 2021 04:01
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Caesar Saladin posted:It is insane to me that you go and get Wrex's family armour and you don't even get any armour for beating the mission. Just baffling. He says it’s an old piece of crap he wouldn’t use when he mentions it.
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May 18, 2021 04:10
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I'm just saying that if I'm doing a quest to get some armour, I wanna put it on.
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May 18, 2021 04:12
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Absolutely loving playing ME1 again on PS4. I missed this game more than I thought. Game is still so solid for being 14 years old. Someone said the Eden Prime/Citadel opening was phenomenal and I completely agree. Forgot how much fun this was. Now remake/remaster the original Deus Ex please.
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May 18, 2021 04:13
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Caesar Saladin posted:I'm just saying that if I'm doing a quest to get some armour, I wanna put it on. Best part about Bring Down the Sky - do it late enough (I did it around 25~26 in Legendary Mode) and you get to pick a set of armor, any size, and it is the Colossus armor for your level automatically! Finally no more searching lol
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May 18, 2021 04:19
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One thing that Mass Effect 1 does a bit better than its sequels is indulge in a classic sci-fi sensibility. There's an assignment that takes you to planet Eletania. Eletania is a lush, beautiful garden world, but it cannot be colonized because the indigenous microbes will induce anaphylactic shock in anyone who inhales them, loosely alluding to The War of the Worlds. The mission there is to track down the pyjak that stole a data disk from a crashed probe, so you've got to go around to their dens and frisk them by hand, which takes on a more contemplative tone when you consider it in light of the hidden event on the same planet, where you get a short story in which Shepard experiences the memories of a primitive human who had been tagged with a prothean monitoring device. Meddlesome space aliens with their own mysterious yet mundane motives, seen from both sides. That's legitimately good, I think, even if it's a weird janky fetch quest made out of reused assets and maybe three dozen voice clips. There's ambition there.
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May 18, 2021 04:24
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Bongo Bill posted:One thing that Mass Effect 1 does a bit better than its sequels is indulge in a classic sci-fi sensibility. This sounds vaguely familiar, but I think you're describing that planet where you just waste a bunch of pyjaks.
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Aphrodite posted:He says it’s an old piece of crap he wouldn’t use when he mentions it. Caesar Saladin posted:I'm just saying that if I'm doing a quest to get some armour, I wanna put it on. New headcanon: the ancestral armor is just a pack of cryo ammo glued to an omnitool, or whatever random crap you pull out of the safe. Bongo Bill posted:One thing that Mass Effect 1 does a bit better than its sequels is indulge in a classic sci-fi sensibility. Yeah, a lot of otherwise generic sidequests bust out these surprisingly detailed vignettes.
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May 18, 2021 04:35
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The real reason to do the uncharted worlds was for the awesome skyboxes on some of them. I seem to recall one being an airless world in a binary system with most of the sky taken up by its red giant star, and the smaller blue star in the distance.
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May 18, 2021 04:46
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I had space sex! And man, that first visit to the Citadel is a doozy. I'm getting close to finishing it but man oh man. Already got 3 of 5 squadmate quest trophies down. Might even get the other 2 next time I sit down to play/wrap up a few. Space sex!
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May 18, 2021 04:49
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Bongo Bill posted:One thing that Mass Effect 1 does a bit better than its sequels is indulge in a classic sci-fi sensibility. I feel like a big reason for this is that they hadn't really figured out what Mass Effect was yet as of the first game, so they were trying a bunch of different directions and seeing what stuck. Once the game was out and they saw what resonated the most with people, they drilled down on that in the sequels and cut the rest, which probably makes for a more consistent overall experience but does mean it loses a bit of that flavour from the edges.
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Wingnut Ninja posted:Yeah, a lot of otherwise generic sidequests bust out these surprisingly detailed vignettes. I appreciated that little area on the same planet where you find Wrex's armor that's just like, a dead asari about a hundred feet from a pyramid. No mission, just this weird mysterious scene. ME1 has this sense of scale and wonder about it in a way that ME2 doesn't, despite the sequel being bigger and better overall. Also, random question: Wrex tells a snippet of a story about meeting Saren on a really weird mission where he hired a bunch of mercenaries to seize a ship with a bunch of food and medicine on it, then kills every merc that stuck around to get paid. It's kind of setup like this mystery that will be expounded on later then it just...isn't, I think? Does that come up again?
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Wolfsheim posted:Also, random question: Wrex tells a snippet of a story about meeting Saren on a really weird mission where he hired a bunch of mercenaries to seize a ship with a bunch of food and medicine on it, then kills every merc that stuck around to get paid. It's kind of setup like this mystery that will be expounded on later then it just...isn't, I think? Does that come up again?
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Funky Valentine posted:I think that's just a "Saren was always a scary lunatic even before selling out to Robo Cthulhu" story to reinforce the kind of person he is. Renegade Shepard, nodding along and taking notes: "Wow, yeah, uh... crazy huh. Glad they don't pick people like that for Spectres these days."
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May 18, 2021 05:10
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Funky Valentine posted:I think that's just a "Saren was always a scary lunatic even before selling out to Robo Cthulhu" story to reinforce the kind of person he is. Plus it serves double duty as establishing Wrex as smarter than your average Krogan.
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Anderson isn't exaggerating when he talks about Saren on the Citadel. The first ME book is Andersons story of trying out for the Spectres, with Saren. On the mission, Saren basically kills a ton of people while trying to finish the mission, then blames it on Anderson. Also, IIRC, at the end of the book, Saren "steals" Sovereign. I forget who, but some race had found it and were researching it and somehow Saren found out and stole it. Been a while since I read it. But yeah, Saren was already a POS before the Reaper showed up.
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May 18, 2021 05:18
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Waltzing Along posted:Anderson isn't exaggerating when he talks about Saren on the Citadel. The first ME book is Andersons story of trying out for the Spectres, with Saren. On the mission, Saren basically kills a ton of people while trying to finish the mission, then blames it on Anderson. Also, IIRC, at the end of the book, Saren "steals" Sovereign. I forget who, but some race had found it and were researching it and somehow Saren found out and stole it. Yeah, when Liara’s all “I actually feel bad for Saren now” I always pick the “I don’t, gently caress him.” option because of stuff like that. Guy was a monster, indoctrinated or not. At least Benezia was a good person before Sovereign hosed with her head.
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May 18, 2021 05:28
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Knuc U Kinte posted:I'm going adept in ME1 and then make out that Shepard loses his powers/implants after being revived so Soldier or Infiltrator in ME2, and then in 3 Shepard is gonna segue into an Engineer to get his powers back. Someone in this thread mentioned doing the same and it sounded like a cool way to try our different play styles through the different games. I was gonna go Vanguard in 1, but then I remembered Vanguard is way more fun in the other games, so I'm starting with a Tech, who will then get revived into an Adept, but then hone in her powers to focus on marrying weapons with psionics and be a Vanguard in 3. Should be fun.
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May 18, 2021 05:42
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Bloody Pom posted:The real reason to do the uncharted worlds was for the awesome skyboxes on some of them. I seem to recall one being an airless world in a binary system with most of the sky taken up by its red giant star, and the smaller blue star in the distance. On my current play through of ME1 there was one skybox that has a star I was SURE that the Illusive Man's space station is orbiting. I can't remember the name, but the color and animation of it was dead on.
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May 18, 2021 06:02
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Amaranthine, the planet you meet Helena Blake on at the end of her side quest and the big giant Dragon Age reference in ME1 has a hauntingly beautiful skybox that's seen nowhere else in the game. It makes the whole place seem so desolate.
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May 18, 2021 06:21
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The one planet that might be off from its description is Terra Nova, since it’s described as a hot desert world with habitable areas near the poles, but it just kind of looks like earth.
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One thing that kinda sticks out is how you get that shot of the Destiny Ascension and it's like, Holy balls that's a big ship, and you would think at some point in 2 or 3 you'd visit it or another ship like it and... you just never do 
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Did that update gently caress with the dialog mix? I feel like I suddenly can barely hear anyone talkingComrade Blyatlov posted:I want cutscene Jack. I don't care how broken it is, I want her YMIR-killing mega biotic punch. I like bringing grunt on that mission because he's so "gently caress YEAH" at that part
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Still no Spectre weapons after the patch, and I discovered another one: no Quarian armor anywhere in the game at any vendor. How does this even happen 
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Simone Magus posted:One thing that kinda sticks out is how you get that shot of the Destiny Ascension and it's like, Holy balls that's a big ship, and you would think at some point in 2 or 3 you'd visit it or another ship like it and... you just never do The Destiny Ascension coming through the Charon Relay in 3 is a heck yeah moment I mean sure, probably less so to people who let it be destroyed and got generic Asari dreadnought instead but thems the breaks
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Seemlar posted:The Destiny Ascension coming through the Charon Relay in 3 is a heck yeah moment It sucks that it disappears immediately after that because BioWare didn't want to animate any further conditional cutsenes with it beyond that one moment, but yeah there's a great build up from the Normandy coming out of the jump, then a bajillion Alliance and Turian ships, and then the music swells and BLAM! there's the Destiny Ascension!
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SubponticatePoster posted:Still no Spectre weapons after the patch, and I discovered another one: no Quarian armor anywhere in the game at any vendor. How does this even happen Quarian armor is definitely there. It was pretty rare even in the original version. I have Tali in Colossus armor and I haven’t even finished Noveria. Make sure you buy every license you see and save before you talk to the vendor on the Normandy. You can keep reloading that save and checking his inventory until the item you want shows up. If his inventory seems locked, travel between the Citadel, Feros, and Noveria. That helps change his stock. Always make sure to save before you talk to him after traveling.
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