Mass Effect for PC
Mass Effect for PC
ARC, NO! IT'S A TRAP!
He died as he lived.
Assaulted by a trap.
it's in me room, waiting to be hooked up.
Throw & Lift
Source?
I guess because the entire post is about how Bioware wants Mass Effect 2 to begin depending on how Mass Effect 1 ended for you.
I'd kill for a fast-run option while on foot, similar to how everyone who ever played KoTOR spammed the +speed skill as soon as they got it..
some of these fights are just fucking harsh, y'know?
Guns out all the time? Pretty sure you can re-secure those things on your back when it's not shooty time.
:HUGE: WREX IS THE BEST CHARACTER AND ON THIS ONE ISSUE THERE CAN BE NO COMPROMISE
To encourage correct management?
You don't know what breasts lie under that biosuit.
You don't know what horrors lie under that biosuit.
"that vehicle is stupid"
Is it, you know, any actual fun a significant portion of the time, or is it nuggets of true greatness in between bouts of interminable tedium and annoyance?
Mass Effect is a good game but I personally hate it. If you don't mind the fact that Bioware tried to imitate Tolkien in the sheer amount of useless crap there is, you'll be fine. I have a person problem that renders me unable to play it because of that.
or, y'know. killin' on some geths.
funny story, later in the game I was getting tired of hearing dialogue, so I was hitting X to skip through the asari scientist who was all "oh noes i work for saren but i didn't know he's mean, please spare me" and on my good-person playthrough I accidentally picked the option for "WE'RE NUKING THE PLACE FROM ORBIT, BETTER START RUNNIN' HUR HUR"
delightfully out of character. i almost peed my pants.
I assume that is the good guy option, since the renegade option is to shoot her in the fucking face.
Basic strategy remains the same: go into your item menu every 10-15 minutes and melt down almost all of your equipment into Omni-Gels. It's a hassle, yeah, but it beats having to spend 15 minutes every hour turning over a hundred items into Omni-Gels.
There's a 150 item limit and nothing stacks. And you get four weapon mods every time you look left.
Basic strategy remains the same: go into your item menu every 10-15 minutes and melt down almost all of your equipment into Omni-Gels. It's a hassle, yeah, but it beats having to spend 15 minutes every hour turning over a hundred items into Omni-Gels.
There's a 150 item limit and nothing stacks. And you get four weapon mods every time you look left.
pretty sure the item limit was removed for pc brotenkhamen
i don't care if i ever leave the citadel
Tane
Sorry. His name is Thane. He is "The Deadliest Assassin ever to have lived".
Didn't mean to get your hopes up.
UGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH BARF IS THERE ANY CHARACTER IN MASS EFFECT 2 THAT WASN'T WRITTEN BY A FUCKING 13 YEAR OLD
T Bleck
[spoiler]You can't romance Tali because her species can't handle GEEEEEEEERMS which is why her suit is full-body[/spoiler]
UGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH BARF IS THERE ANY CHARACTER IN MASS EFFECT 2 THAT WASN'T WRITTEN BY A FUCKING 13 YEAR OLD
Wynne:wrong:
I thought that NWN2 was done by another company and that a proper Neeshka romance was removed due to time constraints?
Wynne:wrong:
We have a completely new system to handle transitions between areas that speeds the load times and turns the loads themselves into part of the game experience. It's one of many points of feedback we've heard and directly responded to in enhancing the gameplay in Mass Effect 2.then on Friday they said this
The elevators were made in ME1 so we didn't have to show boring loading screens. However there were a lot of complaints, so we've gone back to loading screens and movies. We still have elevators in ME2, but you don't wait inside them. We'll cut to a loading screen instead.
We'll cut to a loading screen instead.
We'll cut to a loading screen instead.
We'll cut to a loading screen instead.
We'll cut to a loading screen instead.
However, I liked hearing the news reports about Shepard's exploits and the various conversations between your allies,
The second disk is all DLC. :ohshi~:
Anyway. Were the elevators worse in the Xbox version? Because yeah they weren't terrible in the PC version. It did get irritating hearing the same news story more than once, but there's a pretty simple solution to that.
Anyway. Were the elevators worse in the Xbox version? Because yeah they weren't terrible in the PC version. It did get irritating hearing the same news story more than once, but there's a pretty simple solution to that.
The one on the Normandy takes about 40 seconds, so.
Anyway. Were the elevators worse in the Xbox version? Because yeah they weren't terrible in the PC version. It did get irritating hearing the same news story more than once, but there's a pretty simple solution to that.
The one on the Normandy takes about 40 seconds, so.
Yeah, but honestly that's about the worst of it. There are teleport stations complete with load screens all over the Citadel, and you only use the elevators planetside once or twice each.
Anyway, I hope Legion the renegade Geth Trooper is a crew member. Then I'd use it and Tali for the whooooole game.
Mined? Zuh?
Mass Effect didn't think I had it in me to explore every star system as soon as I got out of the Citadel, but who has 800,000 credits now, huh.
Ugh, I got Krogan Ally but I didn't get Turian Ally because I had the "gall" to use Liara for [spoiler]her Momma's planet[/spoiler]. Bogus.
I think what makes me feel weird about Mass Effect is that unlike most Bioware games(and a significant number of Western RPGs in general), the optional stuff is vastly inferior to the actual Main Quest. I found myself struggling to find the willpower to planet-fall and drooling during actual plot planets.
It's really terrible how silent your team mates are, except on story missions. If they spoke up more on sidequests the game would be so baller.
Of course, Dragon Age saves voice-acting budget over ME by not recording every single line of PC dialogue. Twice.
This is something I really appreciated about ME. It took a lot of care to write out Shepard's dialogue, then have it recorded without having the player hate himself. I went Paragon and was dreading sounding like some hippie pussy because of it, but I didn't. There's something satisfyingly immersive about your character having a real voice when you choose the dialogue. That's something I liked about Deus Ex, too.
Haven't played Dragon Age yet. I hear that certain party members will constantly bitch at you for your choices, and I'm not looking forward to that.
Jennifer Hale does fantastic work and totally overshadows her male counterpart.Truer words. Strongly encourage male Shepards to reroll for ME2.
I'm going to be starting a Mass Effect 1 play through here shortly. I want to roll a lady Shep since, by all accounts, the voice acting is the clutchiest, but then pursuing any romance will make me feel uncomfortable with my sexuality. What to do?
Jennifer Hale does fantastic work and totally overshadows her male counterpart.Truer words. Strongly encourage male Shepards to reroll for ME2.
It'd be cool if Legion can become a party member.
It'll be an incredible dick move if they make you choose between these two.
(Although it occurs to me that there is actually untapped webcomic potential here: it would be fairly trivial for BioWare to rig up an online version of the comic that loads a save and very slightly alters dialogue based on it. That would actually be pretty fucking cool IMO!)
Wait. You can't actually import a male Shepard and CHANGE him to female, can you? Because that would be weird.
(Although it occurs to me that there is actually untapped webcomic potential here: it would be fairly trivial for BioWare to rig up an online version of the comic that loads a save and very slightly alters dialogue based on it. That would actually be pretty fucking cool IMO!)
Seriously think this would be a great idea.
Anybody know where I can find a trainer that not only lets you set Shepard's gender but also ending details (ie fate of the Council)?
And does anybody know if there's a common comics software that the iPhone version of Redemption uses?
I am given to understand that there's just a big Q&A section at the beginning of ME2 where you decide how everything in the first game went.
Hello Penny Arcade readers. My name is Chris Priestly and I am BioWare’s Community Coordinator.
This morning Tycho posted a quote I gave him from a discussion we were having about Mass Effect 2. Unfortunately, the information I gave him was not correct. I had told him that when creating a new character, you could go down a list of key decisions and set them manually. Unfortunately I was working from a test build used by our internal testing department. While there are choice made by the player, new games of ME2 will have a certain pre-disposed assumption of what happened to your new character in ME1.
I apologize to Tycho for not fact checking the information I gave him, and I apologize to all of you who read what he, in good faith, posted today and have been misinformed.
Jennifer Hale does fantastic work and totally overshadows her male counterpart.Truer words. Strongly encourage male Shepards to reroll for ME2.
For the record, Tycho was misinformed when he posted that.
Honestly... I miss the elevators. Personally, I never really had a problem with any of them because A) they could entertaining, and B) I would position the camera and examine Tali's butt at great lengths. Sure, they could go on for a little while, but then so do these load screens in ME2. The only elevators that was actually mind-destroying bad was that elevator back on the Normandy.
I really don't understand how a Tali romance is going to work etc.
[15:38] <Ribbon> marvelous things
I'm thinking that I just might have to switch to Casual difficulty. It's just not as much fun.
I'm thinking that I just might have to switch to Casual difficulty. It's just not as much fun.
you have badwrongfun
If my computer ran ME1 fairly well, will it manage to run 2 alright? The site (http://cyri.systemrequirementslab.com/srtest/intro.aspx) I normally use to see if I can run things is telling me differently.
I have encountered a bug several times where I hit the terrain wrong and float up into the air, making it impossible to proceed unless I quickload. Very irritating.
I find it interesting that Shepard will offer Jack better living quarters, but not a shirt. Must be cold at the bottom of the ship there.
I find it interesting that Shepard will offer Jack better living quarters, but not a shirt. Must be cold at the bottom of the ship there.
The personal quest gives you a shirt, but SOME OF US aren't stodgy old fat-cats who can't appreciate the artistry of tattoos, Detonator.
those husks with the big tumors on their backs are fucking BULLSHIT.
currently working on getting everyone loyal (which appears to determine if someone gets ded or not) and upgrading shit before the IFF mission, which seems to be the OH FUCK TIME FOR ENDGAME point.
Okay, so it turns out that Grunt, the Krogan, is actually pretty okay. I thought he was going to be a pale imitation of Wrex, but he's really more like a violent and murderous version of Data, only instead of trying to be more human he's tapping into his kroganity. In the few conversations we've had, he's learned the joy of hatred.
Okay, so [spoiler]hitting on Garrus[/spoiler] is the funniest thing imaginable. Somehow Mordin finds out, and you and he have a very... special talk. [spoiler]He advises against any swallowing[/spoiler].(http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff242/ribbonstrand/ladytron3.png)
Okay, so [spoiler]hitting on Garrus[/spoiler] is the funniest thing imaginable. Somehow Mordin finds out, and you and he have a very... special talk. [spoiler]He advises against any swallowing[/spoiler].
[spoiler]chafing[/spoiler](http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff242/ribbonstrand/ladytron4.png)
infiltrator ALSO has a small bullet time power that kicks in every time you zoom in with the sniper rifle
What do you mean, "ammo"? Don't tell me they fudged their "guns have virtually infinite ammunition due to mass accelerators" technobabble from the first game to shoehorn in limited ammo.
I do not miss THE FUCKING GODDAMN MAKO, NOT ONE IOTA.
I do not miss THE FUCKING GODDAMN MAKO, NOT ONE IOTA.
Since I am apparently in-game explanation man, the ammo is:
Shields and armor have gotten more effective in the multiple years since ME1 and to compensate guns have gotten so powerful that to deal with the heat generated from their mass effect fields that we've adapted some Geth disposable heatsink technology. Every x amount of shots you fire uses up the chemicals in one universal heatsink clip.
I think you mean Charge is useful for demonstrating the might of Human-Man, the best hero ever, to enemies who cower behind cover like weaklings.Pfff, pussy. Shep-800 is an Infiltrator and pistolwhips krogans and alpha geth to death regularly.
The shotgun is even more useless than the Sniper Rifle now. And when the phrase "Useless Shotgun" appears somewhere in your Shooter, you have fucked up beyond all reason. I still get uses out of it, mostly against Veran, Krogans and Husks, but it has so little ammo that I mostly just rely on my Pistol -- and that's WITH the extra ammo armor.Sniper rifle isn't useless D: ... well, if you're Infiltrator at least. High tier cloak with the rifle you can get off the [spoiler]Collector ship[/spoiler] can usually pop a biotic commando in one shot... but the second rifle you get is kind of useless. Always got the impression that shotguns are useful if something beastly is getting too close... look at it this way - try combining it with melee to offset the small ammo capacity. You've just got to beat the hell out of them before you can blow your load.
Plus I think its range has been gimped since ME1. I was able to take out enemies from a distance pretty reliably with my shotgun. I don't think it does that much damage unless you're right up in the enemies face
-- And of course, since the game has such a boner for its cover system, doing that is basically a good way to die. And have to deal with the loading screen.
So, I sorta liked when I got the message about the scars, and then checked out the "surgery" option and it cost like 8 billion resources. Gee, thanks for that option.
The more I think about it, the more I disagree with their shared cooldowns on powers. I understand the theory behind it, but I just can't see what is practically gained by preventing me from Shockwaving for 3 seconds after I charge other than negative fun. I end up hardly using my powers anymore now that I have significant research pumped into weapons.
Of course, the alternative is Soldier, and having my only abilities be Max "2001" Payne bullet time and ammunition I guess, so, uh, pass.
THE GAME IS A MORE-OR-LESS STRAIGHTFORWARD FPS NOW, WHAT DO YOU EXPECT
I do not miss waiting 45 seconds to shoot again when someone Overloads me.
Even though I'm playing on Easy, I'm finding my Vanguard's Biotics pretty useful. Pull cools down fast enough that it's basically a second gun with bullets that curve toward targets. End result: I got that achievement for making enemies scream as they fall to their deaths before I even knew it was there. Charge is useful for taking out enemies that get too close, and Shockwave slaughters groups. Plus I Trained in Miranda's Slam for extra fun.
The shotgun is even more useless than the Sniper Rifle now. And when the phrase "Useless Shotgun" appears somewhere in your Shooter, you have fucked up beyond all reason.
I still get uses out of it, mostly against Veran, Krogans and Husks,
Your rate for surviving squadmates is: 100%
I'm guessing you didn't get all of the Ship Upgrades.
[spoiler]Don't fuck around once the crew gets kidnapped.[/spoiler]I was actually quite astounded at this, since I typically take the whole 'right before ending' period to clean up subquests and whatnot... getting there and watching [spoiler]my personal secretary get melted alive[/spoiler] was definitely something I wasn't expecting. Got to give the game props for having [spoiler]some kind of Contra boss[/spoiler] as a last enemy. I lost a man though, and it was the same circumstances as Ninja.
No, I got every upgrade.
No, I got every upgrade.
Okay. So then how did you [spoiler]end up losing Joker? He doesn't get collected.[/spoiler]
I will gladly give up ~10 hours of shitty gameplay if it means the rest of the game is goodwhich really makes me hope that some third-party comes out with a save-game maker or something, so that you can kind of customize your actions up a little without having to play through ME1 in all of its mako glory.
I wanna see a hanar teammate in the third game.
-Zaeed is so cool. You don't have a whole lot of conversations with him, but he has a lot of stuff to say during missions anyway. Bring him along with you during the Archangel mission, since he gets some lines with the head of the Blue Suns.excellent fakepost
just finished a playthrough, and I'm pretty pissed off that [spoiler]there appears to be no reasonable way to know who to pick for the missions in order to have no one die. It is seriously bullshit. Why would zaeed randomly die and not someone else I pick? Also the final boss fight was a little meh but overall i enjoyed the game.[/spoiler]
Bad at game"Hey guys it's asking me for a biotic genius I'll send TALI! WTF GAME WHY MY TEAM DIE???"
The game is pretty well-paced and compelling, and the actual gameplay is better than ME1. You may miss a few of the cameos, but most of them are done through the e-mail system anyway.
[spoiler]You didn't think Garrus was a total bad-ass? I've no pity for you, son.[/spoiler][spoiler]A total badass who got his ENTIRE SQUAD KILLED[/spoiler]
[spoiler]You didn't think Garrus was a total bad-ass? I've no pity for you, son.[/spoiler][spoiler]A total badass who got his ENTIRE SQUAD KILLED[/spoiler]
[spoiler]I'd like to think that in ME3, she shows up again with like, a Krogan bodyguard. So you can shoot him and then punch her anyway.[/spoiler][spoiler]Nah, you headbutt him and punch her.[/spoiler]
Absolute best no questions non-funny cameo is [spoiler]Rachni Queen, which was so good I had to seriously consider redoing my ME1 Vanguard[/spoiler]
Also the only really unforgivable problem with the game is that -- endgame spoilers, but you might want it spoiled -- [spoiler] if you pick "we'd better hurry" at the very end, you will probably lose teammates, and if you don't, nobody dies! awesome, thanks a lot for that, CANADA.[/spoiler]
Also the only really unforgivable problem with the game is that -- endgame spoilers, but you might want it spoiled -- [spoiler] if you pick "we'd better hurry" at the very end, you will probably lose teammates, and if you don't, nobody dies! awesome, thanks a lot for that, CANADA.[/spoiler]
I'm pretty sure I've heard the opposite, or maybe that's just because [spoiler]I picked "we'd better hurry" and no one died.[/spoiler]
do you have max negotiation
Do you get to keep multiple special weapons? I picked the Revenant machine gun the first time through. Can I pick the sniper rifle the second time around and have both? Or does it replace my machine gun choice as my special weapon?
more horrible thingswell that's one step closer to a jacob x grunt romance at least
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQz7u0BWD9c
Bringing Down the Sky is incredibly fun
Next-worse is they won't let you import your data if Shepard's dead.
"You can play Mass Effect 3 if you died in Mass Effect 2 of course, but you'll have to create a new Shepard. Harsh? Yes. But we wouldn't be serious about the concept of a suicide mission if you couldn't die and your death didn't have serious consequences."
Next-worse is they won't let you import your data if Shepard's dead.
Lack of interaction between prior party members is a bit disappointing. The above-quoted Tali/Garrus exchange is neat, but they don't actually acknowledge each other when you first encounter her. (Hell, she doesn't have anything to say when [spoiler]Legion joins up,[/spoiler] either, she saves it for later.)
Lack of interaction between prior party members is a bit disappointing. The above-quoted Tali/Garrus exchange is neat, but they don't actually acknowledge each other when you first encounter her. (Hell, she doesn't have anything to say when [spoiler]Legion joins up,[/spoiler] either, she saves it for later.)
Lack of party interaction in general is what's most disappointing. I would have liked hearing Thane and Legion discuss their unique philosophies, Garrus and Tali reminisce about the good times, Zaeed mentor Grunt, Mordin giving the romantic interest advice, and Tali and Legion... well, can you say... Battle Drones?
Mordin giving the romantic interest advice
This is one thing I fucking loved about Dragon Age. Hanging out with Alistair and Wynne and like the dog, was awesome
Garrus and Tali reminisce about the good times
Mordin giving the romantic interest advice
He has some information to share if you go for Garrus.
It is HILARIOUS.
QuoteGarrus and Tali reminisce about the good times
Uh. Spoiler?
Someone posted on fanfiction.net that
Shep gets his/her cybernetics disabled and thrown into prison.
Shep gets his/her cybernetics disabled and thrown into prison.
Spectre.
Probably ought to wait a couple of weeks for Kasumi to come out.
Last night I dreamed that Garrus was my BFF.
It fits my "Who Cares About Cerberus Mooks" personality, though.
No, this is my perfect ME3 file, but "I Check Your Mail For You Because That Console Is An Entire 3 Feet Away" Girl is a goner.
Don't forget, her real job is to psychoevaluate each member of the crew
Somehow I ended up with not enough money to buy all the upgrades and still have a rich character for exporting to ME3. I might play it again for extra paragons and renegades, but the money is the important thing. Is there a place, anywhere, to farm for that?
I don't really get if Legion is an actual individual or if he's just thousands of programs formulating the most efficient response to what is asked of him.
Hmm. Rewatching it, it looks like the nameless pointless space marine ejects a thermal clip from his gun. Didn't everybody hate the entire idea of thermal clips?
I guess it's a downer if you just wanted to use one gun for the entire game but there's a reason every class gets Pistol + SMG base.But Doom, it's objectively more fun to use the sniper rifle for everything!
Thermal clips make it so you never have enough ammo for your sniper rifle and every battle ends with running around and grabbing a bunch of orange things.So this is like Lost Planet?
Or that ammo clips regenerate when the camera isn't facing them.
running around and grabbing a bunch of orange things, it just felt like good pacing. The intensity of combat leads right into cooldown, where we regenerate health and pick up ammo, and check the room for interesting objects. That's how I responded to the experience, anyway.
If you did play it, you probably hated the Turian Concuil member and his annoying air quotes. I think he never accepted his pet Turian Spectre did not save the universe like a certain human Shepard.
Sadly, I will not have the pleasure to see his face when the Reapers pop on the know space since I let their ship be destroyed on Mass Effect 1. I did not made it by spite, I just wanted to focus all firepower on the Reaper ship and diverging ships (humans or not) to literally shield it so they could escape seemed wasteful.
Just got this game on Steam for Christmas, likely going to start up a femshep run. Any mods I should add in or things I should probably know before I get going on this thing?
Get a list of which planets have real quests on them, to minimize the amount of wandering in the Mako you have to do. The collection quests are beyond pointless.
The big thing I'd say really is that you don't actually need as many upgrades as it makes available
Oh. Good. ME2's actually fun.
The big thing I'd say really is that you don't actually need as many upgrades as it makes available, so don't feel the need to mine for resources if you don't want to. And unless you're an Infiltrator with their snipe-specific boosts, the two best guns in the game are the Vindicator and the Mattock, both of which are assault rifles, so be aware of that.
Mordin is literally the worst Suicide Mission character. You have to keep him in your party the for the final fights or have him escort the crew.
He is seriously so hard-coded to die in The Last Stand it's ridiculous.
So, is is the period of time before you find the MacGuffin that gets you through the relay free time to get all your loyalty missions and DLC shit done?
Yes, I believe I mentioned that a page ago. And Thad was the first person to reply.
Morrin's mission was as excellent as I'd been led to believe. Talking with Recks has been an unexpected highlight too! Korgan cultural politics are actually kind of fascinating.
Harbinger is [spoiler]a reaper who was controlling the collectors[/spoiler]
So, asshole level raised by EA making the super deluxe version of ME3 Origin ony? The art and soundtracks I can do without, but there seems to be the potential for missions, (exclusive in-game content) plus the N& weapons and costumes.
Ten hours of config files and Bioware / EA website scouring and I'm convinced it would've been a better idea to just buy a new 360 and new copies of ME 1 and 2.I have the PC games to play at a later date, and this is of interest to me. What's the issue? Is it mouse acceleration?
Mouse and keyboard are horrible beyond belief for the game and every thread that used to exist to help you edit .inis to fix the problem has been deleted by Bioware.
On top of that they give you no way to register ME1; something that you're told you have to do to claim your free copy of bringing down the sky.
This is basically the most frustrating thing.
These products contain codes that can be redeemed for a downloadable content pack for Mass Effect 3 multi-player. They are slightly randomized during the registration and could include powerful new weapons and new characters. The pack could also include character boosters, weapon modifications, and weapon upgrades to make your multi-player squad stronger. (Only supported on XBox360 and PC.)
Feeling kinda angry/disgusted/suitable negative emotion that the DLC/Apps for ME3 are getting retarded. Now there will be a phone app that lets you pump your galactic readiness level while drinking your $5 latte.
http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/02/08/mass-effect-3-phone-app-will-send-you-texts-from-game-characters-from-dust-dlc-spotted/ (http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/02/08/mass-effect-3-phone-app-will-send-you-texts-from-game-characters-from-dust-dlc-spotted/)
At this point, why not just youtube the ending? :facepalm:
Well, since you have to grind the multiplayer, facebook tie-in, and/or iOS tie-in to get your Galactic Readiness above 50%, and it degrades over time so you have the keep grinding them consistently through your playthrough, and Galactic Readiness is a major factor in what ending you get ... yeah.
Well, since you have to grind the multiplayer, facebook tie-in, and/or iOS tie-in to get your Galactic Readiness above 50%, and it degrades over time so you have the keep grinding them consistently through your playthrough, and Galactic Readiness is a major factor in what ending you get ... yeah.Is even a word of that confirmed? Because it contradicts everything I have heard them say.
Ths multiplayer, though. Holy shit. “Horde Mode” is an insulting characterization. The characters you create in this mode accrue experience and invest in skills just like a single player character would, except here you’re earning money that you use to buy what are essentially CCG style Booster Packs of varying quality. These packs contain single use items to help you through tough rounds, weapons and weapon upgrades, along with alien races to play as. It has many, many barbed compulsion mechanisms affixed to tentacles which dance and sway.
Traps for the reptile mind can only get you so far, though, and what surprised me the most about it is how well it comports itself as a shooter. It’s not just a weathered sidearm resting on an ornate doily. It’s very “heavy” in my own estimation, methodical, a more nimble version of Resident Evil that retains that series’ omnipresent gravity. It had dodges, and cover, but when you traverse an area the sense that you are committed to it is impressed upon you. I didn’t entirely know what to think when they announced this portion; the rumors I’d heard were that it was intended as a stand-alone product at some point. I tried to imagine what universe such a thing would be desirable in. This universe, actually; it is desirable in this universe, as soon as is humanly possible.
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I see 4chan has ruined us both.
No, I don't doubt it's not bad. It sounds really goddamn interesting! But it's not going to be nearly as good as Battlefield 3, and I sure as hell want that a lot more and even that didn't get me to use wannabe Steam.No, I mean Origin isn't that bad.
No, I don't doubt it's not bad. It sounds really goddamn interesting! But it's not going to be nearly as good as Battlefield 3, and I sure as hell want that a lot more and even that didn't get me to use wannabe Steam.No, I mean Origin isn't that bad.
EDIT: I think a better way of designing [spoiler]E.D.I. as a playable character would to be to give her a generic mech body and have it project a female-like hologram around it.[/spoiler]
New squad mate sounds Jamaican. Wonder if he plays steel drums.
...can't get ME2 to work reliably anymore; bluescreens most times I run it. I blame running a non-Apple graphics card in a Mac Pro (though Witcher 2 didn't do it nearly as often and presumably was working the card harder).
Same problem when I run it under WINE. Except also the music doesn't work.
(EDIT: Music works if I bypass the launcher and just run masseffect2.exe. But it still crashes. I guess on the plus side it seems to mostly wait to crash after I load my save, while Windows often crashes as soon as I Press Any Key at the start screen. So maybe if I go back far enough on my saves I'll find something that doesn't crash.)
Japan's Dengeki Online is serializing the manga, which is titled "Teach me! Professor Mordin!". Drawn by manga artist Michi Michiru, the manga is set in a school and is designed to introduce the characters, their races, and provide background. Here, schoolgirl Liara swoons over the gym teacher, Shepherd, while Mordin claims out of a manhole, offering ignorant schoolgirls "supplementary lessons".
QuoteJapan's Dengeki Online is serializing the manga, which is titled "Teach me! Professor Mordin!". Drawn by manga artist Michi Michiru, the manga is set in a school and is designed to introduce the characters, their races, and provide background. Here, schoolgirl Liara swoons over the gym teacher, Shepherd, while Mordin claims out of a manhole, offering ignorant schoolgirls "supplementary lessons".
(http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17erlwpp1hkhhjpg/original.jpg)
What the fuck.y the fuck is this not being published in America?
...so who wants "Calm down you two, he's not a molester. He's just a violent krogan." as an avatar?
(Also tried again to get my non-Apple graphics card working under OSX. Still haven't had any luck but haven't given up just yet. If I continue to have issues, I may install the Chameleon bootloader -- among hypothetical support for my graphics card, it'll let me use the 64-bit kernel and run Mountain Lion should I decide I actually want to do that.)
The people who dislike Jacob or think he's boring feel that way because he's not a hot chick or an alien. Kaiden got the same reception in the first game.
Forget every other character Bioware allows to be Romancable. Why can't I have the Bartender from Illium? She is awesome.
Also Illium definitely feels so strange in comparison to the pace of the rest of the game. It feels like it might have been at the beginning of the design cycle, then somewhere along they way they realized they couldn't do what goes on here everywhere. It's so jam packed with shit to do.
Forget every other character Bioware allows to be Romancable. Why can't I have the Bartender from Illium? She is awesome.
Also Illium definitely feels so strange in comparison to the pace of the rest of the game. It feels like it might have been at the beginning of the design cycle, then somewhere along they way they realized they couldn't do what goes on here everywhere. It's so jam packed with shit to do.
Because that's Liara's Mom and that would be an amazing threesome
And in three years when they shut down the matchmaking system for ME3 you won't be able to get the good ending at all.
it is possible to get the best ending in single player without playing multiplayer, but it’s twice as hard. All your War Assets only count for 50% of their potential value. The biggest gains in War Assets come from a culmination of your decisions in the previous games and your decisions in this one: if you’ve helped a race before, and you help them here, it’s often possible to get their full support and resolve their conflict to get someone else on your side too.
And in three years when they shut down the matchmaking system for ME3 you won't be able to get the good ending at all.Quoteit is possible to get the best ending in single player without playing multiplayer, but it’s twice as hard. All your War Assets only count for 50% of their potential value. The biggest gains in War Assets come from a culmination of your decisions in the previous games and your decisions in this one: if you’ve helped a race before, and you help them here, it’s often possible to get their full support and resolve their conflict to get someone else on your side too.
Forget every other character Bioware allows to be Romancable. Why can't I have the Bartender from Illium? She is awesome.
Also Illium definitely feels so strange in comparison to the pace of the rest of the game. It feels like it might have been at the beginning of the design cycle, then somewhere along they way they realized they couldn't do what goes on here everywhere. It's so jam packed with shit to do.
Because that's Liara's Mom and that would be gross.
Manguard flowchart: Charge>Biotic ARM!>Shotgun>Repeat
Imported a glowy-eyed, scar-faced Adept from ME2 and the glow-stuff vanished! I thought we would be able to keep the scars.
Man, if you like side missions, I hope you like switching discs like it's 1997.
Wait, I thought the mass effect novels were awful? I thought most BioWare IP books were awful?
If you tell me they're good, I'll take your word for it.
But these chuckle heads felt it was so bad it deserved commentary.
http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2012/02/03 (http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2012/02/03)
EDIT:
O Shit! I'm level 3! Maybe I want to multiclass? Do you guys think I should multiclass?
Who likes endgame spoilers? When they're this fucking terrible, I sure do! (http://i.imgur.com/WxLlH.jpg)
Who likes endgame spoilers? When they're this fucking terrible, I sure do! (http://i.imgur.com/WxLlH.jpg)
[spoiler]Man is THAT what Tali looks like? That's... underwhelming.[/spoiler]
The book isn't exceptional or anything but it's more compelling than reading codex entries for exposition.
[spoiler]The Reapers are basically Anti-Spirals from Gurren Lagann[/spoiler]
[spoiler]Some of the endings are sort of like the endings in Deus Ex[/spoiler]
[spoiler]This is what Tali actually looks like[/spoiler]
[spoiler]Tali kills herself[/spoiler]
Quote from: ME3 End Spoilers[spoiler]The Reapers are basically Anti-Spirals from Gurren Lagann[/spoiler]
... Eh, it's not like they could have been much else. I mean, the similarities were pretty much established in the first game, really.
Quote from: ME3 End Spoilers[spoiler]Tali kills herself[/spoiler]
WHAT THE FUCK
Quote from: ME3 End Spoilers[spoiler]The Reapers are basically Anti-Spirals from Gurren Lagann[/spoiler]
... Eh, it's not like they could have been much else. I mean, the similarities were pretty much established in the first game, really.
Actually, [spoiler]as recently as when ME2 was written and developed, that was not their motivation. Their motivation was in fact entirely different. Specifically, and quoting, when ME2 was written, it was with the expectation that the plot twist of ME3 would be "that dark energy is destroying the universe (the "premature aging" of Haestrom in ME2 is because the compressive force of gravity is no longer balancing the explosive force of fusion), and the Reapers are trying to stop it. They absorb some races because - despite millions of years of computer-speed thinking on the outskirts of the galaxy - they still haven't figured out how, so they need fresh perspectives. So the Reapers were secretly good guys trying to end the threat of dark energy by scattering dark energy based artifacts all over the galaxy for young races to find, reverse engineer, and use. In hopes that they find a species who can fix the problem they've spend 37+ million years thinking about." So, yeah, could very much have been quite a bit else.[/spoiler]
Quote from: ME3 End Spoilers[spoiler]Tali kills herself[/spoiler]
WHAT THE FUCK
[spoiler]She joins the Flotilla for a suicide attack on the Reapers and/or Geth. But only if she is your waifu. Otherwise, she hooks up with Garrus and lives happily ever after.[/spoiler]
Yeah but that's kind of stupid, honestly, and doesn't really make a whole lot of sense. And the theme isn't that different: [spoiler]the Reapers are still acting out of interest in the overall well-being of existence.[/spoiler]
Little does everyone know, the entire game hinges on getting that one trinket from Sha'ira the consort in Mass Effect 1. You know, the one that gives you that vision on that planet that nobody ever visits and you have to actually stumble across it while having the trinket. (http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Eletania#The_Vision)
I actually wish I knew if that was in the save of my current Shepard. Fuck.
There's so many variables and carry overs between all three games that it is actually going to drive me nuts to learn about them all. I figure I need to just beat ME3 then read the wiki religiously.
Soooo is there an enable-DLC patch out already, allowing me to append my standard "Pirates, as always, are unaffected" response?Though this incident in particular had cheaters rather than pirates as the scapegoat.
The outcome of the Suicide Mission.
Accepting or rejecting reinstatement as a Spectre during Citadel: The Council.
Saving or destroying the genophage data during Mordin: Old Blood.
Preventing or allowing Tali's exile during Tali: Treason.
Convincing Kasumi to destory or keep the memories during Kasumi: Stolen Memory.
Rewriting or destroying the heretic geth collective during Legion: A House Divided.
Destroying or preserving the Collector Base during the Suicide Mission.
Ending or continuing the Overlord project.
Completing Lair of the Shadow Broker or not.
So, as I enter my ME2 stage of "The Perfect Save Part Six: Save Harderer-erer-ering" what do people here noticing missing from this list of stuff that matters in ME2 for ME3?QuoteThe outcome of the Suicide Mission.
Accepting or rejecting reinstatement as a Spectre during Citadel: The Council.
Saving or destroying the genophage data during Mordin: Old Blood.
Preventing or allowing Tali's exile during Tali: Treason.
Convincing Kasumi to destory or keep the memories during Kasumi: Stolen Memory.
Rewriting or destroying the heretic geth collective during Legion: A House Divided.
Destroying or preserving the Collector Base during the Suicide Mission.
Ending or continuing the Overlord project.
Completing Lair of the Shadow Broker or not.
So, as I enter my ME2 stage of "The Perfect Save Part Six: Save Harderer-erer-ering" what do people here noticing missing from this list of stuff that matters in ME2 for ME3?QuoteThe outcome of the Suicide Mission.
Accepting or rejecting reinstatement as a Spectre during Citadel: The Council.
Saving or destroying the genophage data during Mordin: Old Blood.
Preventing or allowing Tali's exile during Tali: Treason.
Convincing Kasumi to destory or keep the memories during Kasumi: Stolen Memory.
Rewriting or destroying the heretic geth collective during Legion: A House Divided.
Destroying or preserving the Collector Base during the Suicide Mission.
Ending or continuing the Overlord project.
Completing Lair of the Shadow Broker or not.
I want to point out that Chrono Trigger had more variable endings based on player choice and it came out nearly twenty god damn years ago.
Don't let the existence of histrionic anti-fans distract from the point that they have, which is that the ending really was lousy by any objective metric
On the one hand I agree that the entire game up until the ending sort of IS the ending we were all hoping for. The problem is that that stops.The problem with that is the ending invalidates everything you did prior to that point. Shepard waking up on the Normandy 1 and Nihilus saying "Hey, Eden Prime just sent a message, apparently their comms went out!" and it turning out to have all been a dream wouldn't have been any less satisfying.
Except that everything before that was extremely satisfying. I don't choose to have the work I did and the results I achieved totally nullified by an unsatisfying ending that may or may not undo some or all of them.
Personally, having gone with what we will ambiguously call the "Green" ending, I felt pretty good about how things seemed to turn out, I just wanted more in the way of epilogue. Having done so much for so many, I want to know what happened to at least some of them. However the ending itself, the result of choosing Green, was as result I liked in and of itself. I'm even willing to accept the push-button-receive-ending scenario, in the context of a [spoiler]totally ancient and inscrutable AI giving me no other options[/spoiler], I, again, just want more in the way of epilogue with regard to my last choice, and the choices that went before it.
Mass Effect has always kind of been a game of three choices. Hundreds per game. One more more set of three choices at the end is not the problem, the problem is that they don't tell you the results.
QuoteI want to point out that Chrono Trigger had more variable endings based on player choice and it came out nearly twenty god damn years ago.
I agree that ME3 would be greatly improved if there was an ending where you died during the final battle, and it showed the Reapers slowly exterminating all life in the galaxy, then it zoomed out to show the Milky Way with lots of tiny explosions, and then it sort of fades to monochrome greyscale, and then fades in
BUT THE FUTURE REFUSED TO CHANGE
Also after beating ME3 you can start over in ME1 on new game + and immediately take a portal to the illusive man, shoot him, and then the credits fly by while sped up music plays
I just finished Mass Effect 3! After days of hearing how the ending is apparently the worst thing ever, It turns out that it actually isn't. It's not even really a bad ending, it's not on my Top 10 list, because it didn't make me cry like a little girl, but Hell, It was an enjoyable ending to a really enjoyable game. I really can't understand why it seems to be so universally hated!
9/10 would play again. Especially if I can keep my armour and guns for my next playthrough, but I bet it won't let me. >:(
If you aren't bringing her everywhere you're doing it wrong.
People got rightfully pissed off when Human Revolution did the same thing and it was a prequel that had to arrive at a particular world state. It's way worse in the ME series.
I just finished Mass Effect 3! After days of hearing how the ending is apparently the worst thing ever, It turns out that it actually isn't. It's not even really a bad ending, it's not on my Top 10 list, because it didn't make me cry like a little girl, but Hell, It was an enjoyable ending to a really enjoyable game. I really can't understand why it seems to be so universally hated!
9/10 would play again. Especially if I can keep my armour and guns for my next playthrough, but I bet it won't let me. >:(
While it exists in the context of an argument that the entire ending sequence is [spoiler]a hallucination to mask the fact that Shepard is being indoctrinated[/spoiler], which I feel is giving the incompetent writers far too much credit,
here is a very long and comprehensive article about why literally everything about the entire end sequence makes absolutely no sense (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QT4IUepvrU1pfv_B95oQj0H84DlCTUmzQ_uQh1voTUs/preview?pli=1&sle=true).
I got a few pages in before this started reading like a group of people in serious denial. I understand what they want. They want to believe that the way it ended wasn't true. And they're giving Bioware too much credit. I see this as possible, but not plausible.
I just finished Mass Effect 3! After days of hearing how the ending is apparently the worst thing ever, It turns out that it actually isn't. It's not even really a bad ending, it's not on my Top 10 list, because it didn't make me cry like a little girl, but Hell, It was an enjoyable ending to a really enjoyable game. I really can't understand why it seems to be so universally hated!
"The" Decision of ME1 probably should have been the Rachni. What happened to them? They were sort of the cause of a colossal galactic war that led to raising the Krogan to space-faring status which led to the whole Genophage thing.
Basically I am savaging ME1's writing at this time, not ME3's.
"The" Decision of ME1 probably should have been the Rachni. What happened to them? They were sort of the cause of a colossal galactic war that led to raising the Krogan to space-faring status which led to the whole Genophage thing.
Basically I am savaging ME1's writing at this time, not ME3's.
You're right! Fortunately, ME3 fucks that up too. [spoiler]If you saved the Rachni Queen, then you find her being indoctrinated in ME3 and have to choose whether or not to save her again. If you didn't save her, you find ... a different Rachni Queen in the same situation.[/spoiler]
[spoiler]That's a fake queen that Reapers stitched together Frankenstein-style. It begs for the release of death. If you choose to spare it, its children go crazy and it counts as negative war assets.[/spoiler] So it's not that identical."The" Decision of ME1 probably should have been the Rachni. What happened to them? They were sort of the cause of a colossal galactic war that led to raising the Krogan to space-faring status which led to the whole Genophage thing.
Basically I am savaging ME1's writing at this time, not ME3's.
You're right! Fortunately, ME3 fucks that up too. [spoiler]If you saved the Rachni Queen, then you find her being indoctrinated in ME3 and have to choose whether or not to save her again. If you didn't save her, you find ... a different Rachni Queen in the same situation.[/spoiler]
I haven't played ME3 yet, but my favorite one I've heard about is the "The" Decision from ME2: it has a minor effect on your war readiness and a bit of dialog.
I'm sticking with "I believe that's the only way it can work". A lame excuse, but since your complaint is "I don't believe that's the only way it would work", well, fuck you if you try to call me on it.I'm not calling you on it, I'm calling Bioware on it. One of the main reasons deus ex machina are frequently criticized by consumers and critics alike is that they frequently don't pay attention to the context and internal logic of the story. If you're going to use a deus ex (or a double deus ex, as the case may be), it's not my responsibility as a consumer to to scramble to justify it when it's shittily written. Nor does it even require an hour's worth of dialogue to reason it all out (although it has it already!). Hell, it didn't even have to be a deus ex; tack thirty seconds of scientist dialogue at the end of every Hackett check-in after you've sent scientists over or gotten a new race about how we're learning more about what the Crucible's capabilities are and you've fixed it right there.
[spoiler]Virmire[/spoiler][spoiler]Ilos? The easy explain away is that it moved, yeah. Though it's been more than tested at points I don't think they've ever outright broken the "relays need direct line of sight" rule.[/spoiler]
Hell, it didn't even have to be a deus ex; tack thirty seconds of scientist dialogue at the end of every Hackett check-in after you've sent scientists over or gotten a new race about how we're learning more about what the Crucible's capabilities are and you've fixed it right there.pretty bad idea you've got there, bro. [spoiler]No one had any idea what that shit did when they hooked it up. Hell, you found out on the way over to Earth what the power source was, and seemed to plug the thing in the first place it looked like it might fit. I'm not about to say that was the smartest plan for everyone to hinge the universe on, but the scientist thing would just add a dozen new problems.[spoiler]
I'm still waiting for why they're "really good" and why everyone else is not only wrong but "stupid."I'm trying to do my part with the "wrong", but I never promised anything about stupid (which is weird since you bothered to put it in quotes), you can do that if you'd like.
I'm sticking to the theory that their veteran, "BioWare Flavor" talent was busy trying to craft 8 campaigns for TOR.
But BioWare does have some lore-consistency problems.
[spoiler]Virmire[/spoiler][spoiler]Ilos? The easy explain away is that it moved, yeah. Though it's been more than tested at points I don't think they've ever outright broken the "relays need direct line of sight" rule.[/spoiler]Hell, it didn't even have to be a deus ex; tack thirty seconds of scientist dialogue at the end of every Hackett check-in after you've sent scientists over or gotten a new race about how we're learning more about what the Crucible's capabilities are and you've fixed it right there.pretty bad idea you've got there, bro. [spoiler]No one had any idea what that shit did when they hooked it up. Hell, you found out on the way over to Earth what the power source was, and seemed to plug the thing in the first place it looked like it might fit. I'm not about to say that was the smartest plan for everyone to hinge the universe on, but the scientist thing would just add a dozen new problems.[spoiler]I'm still waiting for why they're "really good" and why everyone else is not only wrong but "stupid."I'm trying to do my part with the "wrong", but I never promised anything about stupid (which is weird since you bothered to put it in quotes), you can do that if you'd like.
That's my fault, yes, too many Mass Effect discussions at once.I'm still waiting for why they're "really good" and why everyone else is not only wrong but "stupid."I'm trying to do my part with the "wrong", but I never promised anything about stupid (which is weird since you bothered to put it in quotes), you can do that if you'd like.
pretty bad idea you've got there, bro. [spoiler]No one had any idea what that shit did when they hooked it up. Hell, you found out on the way over to Earth what the power source was, and seemed to plug the thing in the first place it looked like it might fit. I'm not about to say that was the smartest plan for everyone to hinge the universe on, but the scientist thing would just add a dozen new problems.[/spoiler]Yes, the point is that—as the game currently stands—no one had any idea. This is one of the major things that not only shoehorns the game into requiring the deus ex ending but limits its options and time to explain it. In lieu of dumping another hour into the ending spreading it out over the course of the game makes sense in a number of ways. It only makes sense that, even though it's advanced technology, over the course of the best scientists in the galaxy assembling the Crucible they would discover at least anything about what it might do or how. Or they could just add more dialogue as a voiceover during the hour Shepard limps very slowly towards freedom and the ending would stay the same time length!
The goal of the DLC is not to provide a new ending to the game, rather to offer fans additional context and answers to the end of Commander Shepard’s story.
QuoteThe goal of the DLC is not to provide a new ending to the game, rather to offer fans additional context and answers to the end of Commander Shepard’s story.
Yeah. Not really interested. There's too many fucking holes for that to be an acceptable end. This isn't really what people wanted, you assholes.
I think I've linked this before, but this would explain a lot. (http://www.gamesthirst.com/2012/03/22/mass-effect-3-writer-distance-himself-from-game-ending-blames-casey-hudson/)
Apparently he's going to be on the Bioware panel at Pax, so.
Fate worse than unemployment.
I should add that there are also genuine narrative problems with the ending as presented
Mass Effect 3 Ending: Tasteful, Understated Nerdrage (SPOILERS) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MlatxLP-xs#)
Preaching to the choir, at this point, but this is the video I've found myself agreeing with the most so far.
Hey stupid question.
Is the rest of the game fun up to the ending? All this talk and hype has me vaguely interested in seeing the ending and wrapping up my FemShep adventure.
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It's unclear.
Reinforcement Pack ExpansionsIs it really, though?
Apparently the resurgence pack is free dlc. Which probably means that you just have to keep buying those booster packs until you get one of the new characters.
* OFFER EXPIRES APRIL 12, 20142) holy shit read a single post in this thread
Apparently the resurgence pack is free dlc. Which probably means that you just have to keep buying those booster packs until you get one of the new characters.
What I love is that the DLC is only free until April 24th... so if - in say six months - I decided "Oh hey, let's play this Mass Effect game all the kids liked" and buy it during a Steam bundle sale (or whatever), I'll then have to pay for the DLC frosting that covers up the shit-cake ending?
Wait am I correct in understanding that the multiplayer game actually requires you to buy RANDOMIZED BOOSTER PACKS of DLC??!?!
:hurr:
Also keep in mind that they're giving away a free product just to appease the fan base.That's an interesting way to rephrase "The company is desperately trying to recover from its own shitty product so that it doesn't suffer any more damage to its reputation or future sales."
It's like that time fans complained about the ending to Evangelion.
Entitlement
And I don't buy the artistic integrity/vision argument from Bioware, given that it's game 3 of a trilogy and at that point you owe something to the fans who kept the series alive long enough to make it that far. This is true of any trilogy.
I think 1 might have some other sort of drm attached to it, but Steam's store doesn't list any.
Steam will not be getting 3 ever. The reason EA and Steam have parted ways on a lot of games is because EA refused to have their in game DLC for sale on the steam system. That's why Dragon age 2 is gone, and crysis 2 is only on there in "maximum edition" (read: all dlc included)
Due to the nature of ME3's multiplayer box bullshit, there won't be a way that it will get to steam without the multiplayer being entirely defunct first.
I don't usually pay attention to company-owned Steam alternatives. From context, I'd mistakenly assumed that uplay was Origin's distribution thingy.
Wait, so why do you need to activate ME3 on uplay if they have nothing to do with this?
You can only get 3 activated on uplay.
Found on the DLC installers only, SecuROM removable post-installation. 3 machine limit.And ME2:
Single-player only.Whatever the fuck that means.
Was looking at the list of available DLC.
Jesus Christ, how much DLC is available for this game?!
[...] for the Bring Down The Sky DLC, while that's still done outside of Steam, it looks like it's now a simple code-free download (https://help.ea.com/article/mass-effect-bring-down-the-sky-dlc-redemption).
Bioware is terrible and makes you buy all of the DLC directly from them, and you do so with points and they never go on sale.
Someone just send Mongrel a 360 or PS3 copy of the ME Trilogy
Christ, when did games get this complicated.
If you play and enjoy ME1, then Shadow Broker is incredible for ME2, and highly recommended. Arrival for ME2 is important in terms of bridging things for the third game. Overlord for ME2 is pretty dumb. For ME3, From Ashes should basically be goddamn required. The character it adds brings more to the game than just about anything else could in terms of interesting dialogue. I never got around to playing Citadel, but apparently it's the "all the characters get one final Star Trek episode romp chance to shine" setup that everyone actually wanted for the end of ME3.