Topic: Effects of Mass (Read 66956 times)

Bongo Bill · « **Reply #480 on:** October 21, 2010, 07:11:28 PM »

Making 170,000 credits through that (70,000 for the last two upgrades, 100,000 to be rich) is going to be hellish, but here goes nothing.

TA · « **Reply #481 on:** October 21, 2010, 07:51:05 PM »

It'd be faster to start a new game and re-do everything except this time fiddle with the .ini to start with lots of money. Also less insane.

Bongo Bill · « **Reply #482 on:** October 21, 2010, 07:52:00 PM »

Maybe I'll just cheat.

Disposable Ninja · « **Reply #483 on:** October 22, 2010, 09:22:27 AM »

On my most recent playthrough I had absolutely no trouble unlocking all the upgrades. Admittedly, this was before Overlord and Shadow Broker, so what the fuck do I know.

Ziiro · « **Reply #484 on:** October 22, 2010, 02:45:32 PM »

I've started playing through ME2 on the PC, and I'm going for a complete experience.

-Hacked Legion in from the start, to hear all the missing dialogue.
-I have all the mission-based DLC.
-I modded my game so my Shepard has Red Illusive man eyes. There's a lot more modding options for appearance, but that's all I wanted to change.
-I cheated the hell out of it for resources and credits.
-I have my Paragon and Renegade maxed from the start, to make the choices I want.

This isn't my ME3 Prep playthrough. That will have to wait until later - I need to do a PC ME1 playthrough, then import that to ME2. I'm debating between that, or just tweaking my ME2 save using the save editor to make all relevant choices through the raw data. I don't know if I want to take that kind of time again. (I did exactly that for Xbox. And it was so time consuming.)

Mothra · « **Reply #485 on:** November 22, 2010, 01:49:56 PM »

I've yet to give Mass Effect 2 a shot, but the more I hear about the Geth, the more they strike me as one of the most damned interesting alien races I've seen for a while. It's clear that what they want isn't what organic species want, because they don't feel pain or pleasure, neither have they empathy or any concept of it, really.

Yet their end goal as a species is something genuinely glorious and apparently attainable.

The only thing I can think of that sort of sounds similar are the Tines from A Fire Upon the Deep, which I'd wished that book had spent more time on.

Smiler · « **Reply #486 on:** November 22, 2010, 02:14:52 PM »

Yet they can't be what Shepard has become: Robocop.

Mothra · « **Reply #487 on:** November 22, 2010, 05:07:08 PM »

And truly such is their tragedy!

Dooly · « **Reply #488 on:** November 22, 2010, 06:41:29 PM »

You don't get the Geth perspective on things [spoiler]by which I mean Legion[/spoiler] until kinda close to the end of the game, though.

Disposable Ninja · « **Reply #489 on:** November 22, 2010, 06:46:01 PM »

That's why it's usually a good idea to keep a few missions on the back-burner, so that once you've beaten the game you can keep talking to them.

Mothra · « **Reply #490 on:** November 22, 2010, 07:29:59 PM »

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. Does a Geth actually care about anything or are they just... you know... actual machines?

I mean the way they work, it doesn't seem like they have free will so much as just this imperative to do what they need to do to get to their end goal, this culmination of a purely efficient peak.

Bongo Bill · « **Reply #491 on:** November 22, 2010, 07:38:01 PM »

If Legion is manipulating Shepard in that way, that means that a modest assembly of Geth can already think circles around any fleshbag. This would, of course, be inconsistent with what we observe of Geth intelligence during Legion's loyalty mission. Occam's razor suggests that it's either sincerity or just garden-variety lying.

Disposable Ninja · « **Reply #492 on:** November 22, 2010, 08:16:03 PM »

Quote from: Mothra on November 22, 2010, 07:29:59 PM

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.

I've been interpreting him as thousands of interconnected AI's slowly developing, if not straight-up evolving into an individual entity.

Ziiro · « **Reply #493 on:** December 11, 2010, 07:53:44 PM »

VGA 10: Exclusive Debut Trailer HD - Mass Effect 3

"Our numbers will ~~darken~~ cloud the sky of ~~every~~ one world."

Disposable Ninja · « **Reply #494 on:** December 11, 2010, 09:15:56 PM »

Looks like there's still another year to go. I wonder if there'll be a big DLC pack prepping for the upcoming Reaper invasion?

Bongo Bill · « **Reply #495 on:** December 11, 2010, 09:17:11 PM »

Although I am dismayed, I nevertheless understand why their promo does not contain any of the game's most interesting elements except for guns.

Beat Bandit · « **Reply #496 on:** December 11, 2010, 11:16:15 PM »

Okay good, I have a year to buy my 360 back from a friend.

Bongo Bill · « **Reply #497 on:** December 11, 2010, 11:18:13 PM »

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?

Smiler · « **Reply #498 on:** December 11, 2010, 11:42:45 PM »

Thermal clips make it so you can eject something out of your gun to look badass IN THE FUTURE.

Bongo Bill · « **Reply #499 on:** December 11, 2010, 11:52:46 PM »

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.

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