Topic: Effects of Mass (Read 66959 times)

Disposable Ninja · « **Reply #401 on:** February 15, 2010, 06:06:41 PM »

I'm replaying Mass Effect 1. Might as well try and get that Paragon ending, right?

Jesus, this game's a mess. I mean, I still love it, but fuck. The autosave is completely useless. I forgot about that. I got killed towards the end of the Liara mission, and now I have to do it all over. That's just... terrible.

Oh, and the MAKO. It turns out that the MAKO is indeed terrible. I mean, specifically, the MAKO itself is terrible, not just the hundreds of generic planets with rocky terrain. There have been people complaining about how they miss the MAKO and that there were good vehicle sections in ME1 and that it wasn't properly implemented and those people are all stupid.

For some reason I'm still in Brutal Legend vehicle mode. The Deuce is everything the MAKO wishes it could be while it cries itself to sleep at night. The MAKO just isn't any fun to drive at all. There is nothing fun about it. Mass Effect is gold, but whenever you get into the MAKO, it turns into shit, and whenever you get out of it, like magic, it turns back into gold.

So I guess I'm just... not going to do any non-central story involving the MAKO. I might do the Moon Mission, and Bringing Down the Sky is incredibly fun despite the MAKO. But I'm not going to bother with the planetside sidequests. Just... just fuck that shit.

I do have hope for the Hammerhead, though. For one thing, it doesn't have any fucking wheels. That it hovers is all I need to know that it's ten billion times better than the fuck-you Bioware MAKO.

Norondor · « **Reply #402 on:** February 15, 2010, 08:00:16 PM »

Quote from: Disposable Ninja on February 15, 2010, 06:06:41 PM

Bringing Down the Sky is incredibly fun

no. you are wrong. there is a minefield of +2 to faggotry. it is not fun.

Thad · « **Reply #403 on:** February 22, 2010, 08:20:22 PM »

...not reading through whole thread, because I found out on the Dragon Age thread that some people literally don't know how to use spoiler tags. So I am probably covering already-tread ground here.

But:

The first cameo or two is cute, but after that they start to get cute. Yeah, I can buy running into [spoiler]the nervous lady with the dead husband[/spoiler] on the Citadel (it only has a population of 13 million, after all), but apparently you can't touch down on a new planet without tripping over half-a-dozen minor characters from the first game.

I live in the city where I was born, and I unexpectedly run into a high school classmate maybe once a year. Apparently Tempe is bigger than the entire fucking galaxy.

(I imagine this is mainly a Paragon problem, as I killed 2/3 of these minor characters when I played as Renegade.)

Also: I've been trying to place why Miranda looks familiar for days and I think I've got it. Anybody else get "brunette Billie Piper"?

Rico · « **Reply #404 on:** February 22, 2010, 08:25:02 PM »

Voiced and modeled on Yvonne Strahovski, so no.

TA · « **Reply #405 on:** February 22, 2010, 08:26:38 PM »

Her face is modeled after her voice actress who is this actress, so if you watch Chuck maybe you recognize from that. Also she's Michael Jackson.

MadMAxJr · « **Reply #406 on:** February 22, 2010, 08:40:48 PM »

Apparently EDI is the devil in the red dress from Battlestar Galactica.

Disposable Ninja · « **Reply #407 on:** February 23, 2010, 04:12:12 AM »

Thad, I take it you played Paragon. I rolled straight Renegade.

I ain't seen anyone from the last game.

DestyNova · « **Reply #408 on:** February 23, 2010, 08:02:36 PM »

Besides the big quests that I won't name, the sole function of the Citadel is to let you bask in the in-jokes and punch reporters in-between snagging a few upgrades. I for one do not miss the elevators and pointless busywork that I must do before I can go kick ass.

Ziiro · « **Reply #409 on:** February 26, 2010, 04:32:58 PM »

Firewalker, that is, the DLC involving the Hammerhead will be coming out next month with a few new missions. Based on the screenshot, I have a feeling we're still going to be fighting Geth Armatures and Thresher Maws from our vehicle. So probably no new enemies on that front.

Mothra · « **Reply #410 on:** February 27, 2010, 06:02:46 PM »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPWs5xdAIRQ

TA · « **Reply #411 on:** March 23, 2010, 04:24:25 PM »

$2 to give Snakeman Spiff some sunglasses? Bleh.

Disposable Ninja · « **Reply #412 on:** March 23, 2010, 09:28:57 PM »

$2 to give that poor woman a shirt.

TA · « **Reply #413 on:** March 23, 2010, 09:52:04 PM »

She gets a shirt later anyway!

Thad · « **Reply #414 on:** March 25, 2010, 06:34:03 PM »

...so has anybody else been having trouble with crashes since installing the latest patch? Or is it just the nodisc crack I'm using?

Because the game just fucking crashed on me while I was fighting the last boss. Pretty not amused here.

Defenestration · « **Reply #415 on:** March 26, 2010, 05:42:06 PM »

I'm reminded of this, Thad.
http://gaygamer.net/2009/09/batman_fights_piracy_like_a_tr.html

Thad · « **Reply #416 on:** March 26, 2010, 05:43:41 PM »

Could be, which is why I asked.

But it's been crashing like a motherfucker for awhile now.

...it bears repeating that I BOUGHT THE FUCKING GAME.

Disposable Ninja · « **Reply #417 on:** March 26, 2010, 06:09:43 PM »

And you're using a crack.

Thad · « **Reply #418 on:** March 26, 2010, 06:43:54 PM »

Yeah. So I don't have to put a disc in the drive to play something that's on my hard drive.

Do you put your Office disc in every time you want to use Word?

Moving on.

I beat it. Took the Paragon route, Garrus for romance. My end party was Garrus and whassername the Justicar. Who I didn't care much for but I love Throw.

Zaeed died, which I'm not too upset about, and I think Mordin did too, which I kind of am. (Not sure how it happened. Just looked like he was dead in the ending cutscene.)

Observations:

Yeah, the gameplay is much better in this one than its predecessor; kudos all around.

I didn't think the story was as good. The Cerberus affiliation felt forced.

Which moves into the "why": the biggest ambition put forward in this game was that the decisions in the first game would have some kind of huge and lasting impact. They didn't. The Council appears in the game for about a minute. Maybe their presence is felt more strongly if you go the all-human route (which would make narrative sense); I'll have to play my Renegade character to see.

My guess is that writing the whole game around multiple possible outcomes from the first was just too prohibitive, so the Council's role was given over to the Illusive Man. I find that a bit disappointing and forced, but it's a minor quibble about an excellent game, and there's still one more game to really make the impact of your decisions in the first one felt.

On the new cast: some were boring, some were interesting. Mordin is my favorite -- not just in this cast, but he's one of the most nuanced characters I've ever seen in a game. From his Shatner-does-Goldblum-doing-Rorschach delivery to his Oppenheimer core, he is the very model of a scientist Salarian.

I liked Legion but the whole thing just seemed horribly out of place. Really? Nobody reacts? There's a sidequest on the Citadel where an Asari is detained on the absurd suspicion of being a Geth, [spoiler]yet you can walk right in there WITH a fucking Geth and nobody bats an eye[/spoiler]. I know Spectres are supposed to be able to do whatever they want, but seriously, it's just silly. And it would be so TRIVIAL to get around it. [spoiler]Slap a helmet on and he's a Turian or a Quarian. Or give some babble about holograms and let the player make a new face for him using the character editor.[/spoiler]

Gripes aside, it's a fun-as-hell game to play that improves on the original in most ways. I think the story lacks the "HOLY SHIT!" originality of the original, but the cutscenes work in a "HOLY SHIT!" cinematic approach that makes up for it. The opening sequence is fucking beautiful, and the ending's pretty damn great too.

I want to play again. Is the new DLC worth the price of admission?

Disposable Ninja · « **Reply #419 on:** March 26, 2010, 06:59:39 PM »

Probably ought to wait a couple of weeks for Kasumi to come out.

I agree with you about Mordin (who, by the way, you should [spoiler]send back with the crew[/spoiler]). He wasn't necessarily my favorite character, but he was easily the best written.

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