Topic: Effects of Mass (Read 67002 times)

Rico · « **Reply #220 on:** January 21, 2010, 10:11:12 PM »

Quote from: Thad on January 21, 2010, 09:37:30 PM

Jennifer Hale does fantastic work and totally overshadows her male counterpart.

Truer words. Strongly encourage male Shepards to reroll for ME2.

Kayma · « **Reply #221 on:** January 21, 2010, 10:43:44 PM »

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?

yyler · « **Reply #222 on:** January 21, 2010, 10:45:45 PM »

Don't pursue romances because all the options are terrible?

Kayma · « **Reply #223 on:** January 21, 2010, 10:50:50 PM »

yyler perhaps you've not heard there is a lady alien

Doom · « **Reply #224 on:** January 21, 2010, 11:57:11 PM »

Oh wow I thought I was the only one who thought Fem-Shep was actually more convincing.

Also his name is TYRONE.

Dragon Age Spoilers:

[spoiler]Shale is Morrigan-lite. That is, Shale's always happy to see you opt to be a bastard, but won't whine nearly as much when you're nice. If you want to see Shale's morals explode, bring Shale along for the Orzammar finale. This is probably an unfair characterization as Shale is pretty cool. I guess what I mean is that if you want to be a prick, Shale/Morrigan will get you approvals all over.

The only morality in DA that pissed me off was Alistair, who will actually disapprove of you recruiting sketchy party members. Fuckin' -10 hits for Shale AND Zev. Man!

also also big spoiler: you mean the sacrifice for the Arl Eamon thing to save his kid, right? You can actually ignore time and sod off to do the Circle of Magi quest in full, saving both Eamon's wife and child. No time limit. I guess it's a good thing it is a video game because what a video game solution![/spoiler]

Doom · « **Reply #225 on:** January 22, 2010, 12:02:24 AM »

Quote from: Kayma on January 21, 2010, 10:43:44 PM

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?

Bang Liara, get over it.

ME1 has pretty terrible romance options, it's true.

[spoiler]Kaiden is boring, Ashley is a racist space-hick Jesus gal, and Liara is boring.[/spoiler]

Disposable Ninja · « **Reply #226 on:** January 22, 2010, 10:08:13 AM »

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.

DestyNova · « **Reply #227 on:** January 22, 2010, 09:26:34 PM »

Damnit, quoting is screwing up.

Re: Shale. At the bottom of the Elf ruins, if you suddenly want to be talky after commiting mass murder, Shale goes off about hitting the brakes after racking up such a bodycount.

Thad · « **Reply #228 on:** January 23, 2010, 11:27:48 AM »

Quote from: Rico on January 21, 2010, 10:11:12 PM

Quote from: Thad on January 21, 2010, 09:37:30 PM
Jennifer Hale does fantastic work and totally overshadows her male counterpart.
Truer words. Strongly encourage male Shepards to reroll for ME2.

Wait. You can't actually import a male Shepard and CHANGE him to female, can you? Because that would be weird.

(Anyway. I finished the first game once each with a female Paragon Soldier and male Renegade Whatever the One Is Called Where It's Part Combat and Part Biotics. If I find the time, I'll play through once with each again.)

Quote from: Disposable Ninja on January 22, 2010, 10:08:13 AM

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.

Argh. Yeah, especially since my Renegade -- the one who might actually be expected to kill a party member -- used Tali through the whole game on my playthrough.

Burrito Al Pastor · « **Reply #229 on:** January 23, 2010, 07:32:41 PM »

Starting to become mildly curious about ME2. I'm sure as hell not buying it until a pricedrop - especially since I seem to have lost my first completed save.

I gotta say, reading about cross-compatability between ME 1, 2, and 3, I'm curious about Bioware's long-term romance mechanics. I hope to see sig-banners with "<So-and-so> is mai waifu".

Thad · « **Reply #230 on:** January 25, 2010, 04:09:02 PM »

Quote from: Thad on January 07, 2010, 07:59:44 PM

(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?

Disposable Ninja · « **Reply #231 on:** January 25, 2010, 05:42:34 PM »

Quote from: Thad on January 23, 2010, 11:27:48 AM

Wait. You can't actually import a male Shepard and CHANGE him to female, can you? Because that would be weird.

Nope. Just appearance. And, presumably, class, because it'd be dumb if you couldn't.

TA · « **Reply #232 on:** January 25, 2010, 06:08:02 PM »

Quote from: Thad on January 25, 2010, 04:09:02 PM

Quote from: Thad on January 07, 2010, 07:59:44 PM
(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.

Rico · « **Reply #233 on:** January 25, 2010, 06:47:53 PM »

Not everything, there are some fixed decisions re: ending as I understand it.

TA · « **Reply #234 on:** January 25, 2010, 06:58:52 PM »

Well I meant when starting a brand new game.

Rico · « **Reply #235 on:** January 25, 2010, 08:36:24 PM »

So did I. Questionnaire does not cover everything.

Thad · « **Reply #236 on:** January 25, 2010, 08:53:34 PM »

Quote from: TA on January 25, 2010, 06:08:02 PM

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.

Yeah, I read today's PA. That's not what I'm really looking for, though. A comic that rewrites itself only after you fill out a questionnaire doesn't really fit what I'm going for here.

Course, if you mean that the opening Q&A would negate the need for such a trainer, then yeah, you have a point. OTOH, if Rico's right, I expect the suckers will start to proliferate over the next couple weeks.

(My thinking is that it would be much simpler to start with a trainer -- ie, a program where somebody has ALREADY reverse-engineered the format of the save file -- than to reverse-engineer it myself.)

yyler · « **Reply #237 on:** January 26, 2010, 02:02:30 AM »

So I've been watching a lot of Inspector Gadget Sells A Fish and it actually looks like Bioware has managed to improve upon a lot of things and also ruin a lot of other gameplay elements! It's like they said, "Hey, the first game was alright, and people didn't like the Mako, yeah. But what if for Inspector Gadget Goes To The Grocer's, we make them.... buy fuel? That balances, right?"

No, it doesn't. Why do you have to buy fuel. Or probes. Then again, Inspector Gadget & Michael Jackson in Killer Bees From Outer Space!! is a much better game in more ways than it is a worse one. I think I could enjoy playing this, if only slightly. The first game was utter hell, and even so, I played it three and a half times.

Defenestration · « **Reply #238 on:** January 26, 2010, 02:07:22 AM »

For the record, Tycho was misinformed when he posted that.

Quote from: Bioware

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.

Detonator · « **Reply #239 on:** January 26, 2010, 11:35:06 PM »

The biggest surprise of this game so far is how much better it runs on PC than ME1.

Also porting your save is a must. There are so many easter eggs based on your past choices besides the obvious ones.

this was my face when [spoiler]I realized Archangel was Garrus[/spoiler]

[spoiler]Mordin is the only good new character... so far[/spoiler]

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