Topic: Effects of Mass (Read 67136 times)

Disposable Ninja · « **Reply #180 on:** December 13, 2009, 09:54:21 PM »

Quote from: Norondor on December 13, 2009, 09:44:02 PM

Quote from: Thad on December 13, 2009, 09:40:19 PM
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.

Thad · « **Reply #181 on:** December 17, 2009, 06:56:36 PM »

Retail version DRM is disc check only.

Fuck yes.

Shinra · « **Reply #182 on:** December 17, 2009, 07:33:40 PM »

Quote from: Disposable Ninja on December 13, 2009, 09:54:21 PM

Quote from: Norondor on December 13, 2009, 09:44:02 PM
Quote from: Thad on December 13, 2009, 09:40:19 PM
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.

Superior party banter, for real.

Bal · « **Reply #183 on:** December 20, 2009, 09:58:29 PM »

If the party banter in this is anything like as good as that in Dragon Age, I can't wait for the elevators

Disposable Ninja · « **Reply #184 on:** December 20, 2009, 11:37:45 PM »

Dude, weren't you paying attention? They took the elevators out.

Unless you're talking about playing ME1, in which case you should have said so.

Bal · « **Reply #185 on:** December 21, 2009, 05:19:32 AM »

I was paying attention, what I meant to imply is that they should bring them back if I can listen to some Alister/Morrigan quality banter while I'm riding in them.

Norondor · « **Reply #186 on:** December 21, 2009, 05:30:57 AM »

HEY HOW MUCH DO YOU ENJOY BEING ON THE EDGE AND INTENSE

PRETTY MUCH A LOT!! UNPREDICTABLE VIOLENCE IS #1 IF YOU ASK ME

yyler · « **Reply #187 on:** December 21, 2009, 06:14:43 AM »

BUT ONLY IF THERE'S TITTIES TOO!!!!

Doom · « **Reply #188 on:** December 22, 2009, 03:17:40 PM »

Garrus is back.

So.

Shephard/Garrus/Tali.

Feels good, man.

Norondor · « **Reply #189 on:** December 22, 2009, 08:17:45 PM »

... is he? I've only seen confirmation of a cameo.

Doom · « **Reply #190 on:** December 22, 2009, 08:24:56 PM »

Achievements were mined and suggest he's back.

TA · « **Reply #191 on:** December 22, 2009, 11:30:46 PM »

Mined? Zuh?

Dooly · « **Reply #192 on:** December 23, 2009, 03:33:46 AM »

Quote from: TA on December 22, 2009, 11:30:46 PM

Mined? Zuh?

Temp-scum game testers with access to the developer-and-media-only Xbox Live server called Parternet can access the info pages of not-yet-released games and read the games' achievement lists.

yyler · « **Reply #193 on:** December 23, 2009, 05:48:12 AM »

That's all well and good but is there a source for this? When I Googled earlier I got GameFAQs posts talking about this without sources and nothing else relevant

Doom · « **Reply #194 on:** December 23, 2009, 10:29:39 AM »

Shamelessly lifted from the Wiki, then added a real link. Spoilers aplenty, though just from what appears to be a demo.

[spoiler]"Just like old times, Shepard."

In Mass Effect 2 Shepard is advised to recruit a tactical genius and infiltrator known as 'Archangel'. [1] Shepard's search for Archangel leads the team to Omega where they find Archangel under assault from a group of Eclipse mercenaries lead by Jaroth, a salarian. After Shepard's team gets through to Archangel he removes his helmet, revealing himself to be none other than Garrus. After Garrus explains the situation to Shepard, Shepard's team assists Garrus in taking out the mercenaries, who have kept Garrus stuck on one side of a bridge, and escaping [2]. At some point, presumably after this, Garrus is confirmed to join Shepard's squad. [3] [/spoiler]

And apparently a nice big demo is making the rounds, lending credibility to that Wiki excerpt.

Thad · « **Reply #195 on:** January 07, 2010, 07:59:44 PM »

You wouldn't think a game as heavy on player choice as Mass Effect would lend itself very well to a comic...and you'd be right!

First off: Shepard is never referred to by a pronoun. Sound awkward? It is!

While the comic manages to avoid defining a gender for Shepard, it DOES eventually have to narrow itself down on which ending it follows. It's not the one where the entire Council is replaced by humans. Other than that, it's still open.

Anyway, very meh. I think it would have been better if it were a prequel, or something only very tangentially related to Shepard's story. Expand the universe a bit without worrying about having to accomodate player choice. Because there isn't any, because it's a fucking comic book.

(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!)

Kazz · « **Reply #196 on:** January 07, 2010, 08:49:39 PM »

if only you worked for them

Niku · « **Reply #197 on:** January 07, 2010, 08:53:28 PM »

Bleck · « **Reply #198 on:** January 07, 2010, 09:12:02 PM »

Garrus and Tali? My old team, reunited!

Garrus always felt like he was Shepard's apprentice, which was cool, and Tali has a vaguely European accent and the widest hips oh man.

Doom · « **Reply #199 on:** January 11, 2010, 05:32:35 PM »

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.

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