Topic: Effects of Mass (Read 66859 times)

Ziiro · « **Reply #640 on:** February 27, 2012, 09:28:44 AM »

Oh right, I had an actual reason for posting here.

Played a lot more of the multiplayer with a group of friends. I could see me dumping quite a few hours into this because of the depth poured into it honestly. There's a ton of enemy types and options of teams to roll with, as well as weapons. However one MAJOR complaint I have is that melee is as terrible as it is in single player, yet the emphasis is there for the Krogan Soldier/Sentinel (as well as a few other classes). He's got an entire skill tree for Berserk that great numerically, but lag/"aim" of melee attacks is godawful.

And hopefully some day I'll get my Geth character as DLC.

Thad · « **Reply #641 on:** February 27, 2012, 09:41:33 AM »

Quote from: Thad on February 26, 2012, 01:36:13 PM

(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.)

This thought seems a bit half-baked as presented; the point of this, in case it's not obvious, is that there's an OSX version of WINE (which even has presets available for specific programs), and I'm thinking it's possible that my card would be less likely to panic OSX than Windows. (Though I can't say for certain.)

Anyhow, found a page called How To Fix Mass Effect 2 Crashes, Import Savegames, Avoid Freezes & More and I am going to leave that link here for later. I've tried most of the things on there, but not getting rid of the intro movies, and I wasn't aware of 3DP Chip. Dunno how well it'll work on a Mac, but it couldn't hurt to try.

A² · « **Reply #642 on:** February 27, 2012, 09:24:31 PM »

7-11 laughs in the face of street dates again, details are slowly leaking out. All of this is "heard on the internet", all of this is related directly to endings, and all of this may be dust in the wind but HEY.

Each line is a seperate spoiler

[spoiler]Multiple possible endings, more than just one "total paragon", "Total Renegade", "Lesser versions of each"[/spoiler]

[spoiler]The more Galactic Readyness you have, the more options for endings you have.[/spoiler]

Possible direct spoilers for endings:

[spoiler]One renegade ending has you control the reapers[/spoiler]

[spoiler]One renegade ending has you become part reaper[/spoiler]

[spoiler]One ending has you become ruler of all mankind. Presumably Renegade[/spoiler]

Ziiro · « **Reply #643 on:** February 28, 2012, 06:50:25 PM »

So playing through Mass Effect 2: Why does no one like Jacob? I guess he doesn't stand out in some way like everyone else, but he doesn't seem as bad as people make him out to be? Pretty standard soldier who just wants to get shit done rather than deal with politics.

Malikial · « **Reply #644 on:** February 28, 2012, 07:04:53 PM »

I loved Jacob!

DestyNova · « **Reply #645 on:** February 28, 2012, 07:08:02 PM »

That is the reason I guess.

Miranda has her butt
Tali is cute geek waifu
Garrus is the calibrationbro
Thane is the illguy
Samara is the MILF
Jack is baldtatsyandere
Mordin is the model of a modern major Salarian

Jacob is..well..er...A good soldier?

Smiler · « **Reply #646 on:** February 28, 2012, 07:11:54 PM »

He's black? Does push ups? His dad made a sex paradise until everyone ate too much of the crazy planet plants?

He is Kaiden without the whining.

Misha · « **Reply #647 on:** February 28, 2012, 07:17:40 PM »

I don't hate him, he's just extremely boring.

Classic · « **Reply #648 on:** February 28, 2012, 07:32:25 PM »

My exposure to this was through Shamus Young's petulant bitching. I guess he didn't like how FemShep flirted with him constantly? I don't see how that's relevant to a big slice of the player base though.

Dooly · « **Reply #649 on:** February 28, 2012, 07:39:36 PM »

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.

Malikial · « **Reply #650 on:** February 28, 2012, 07:40:36 PM »

I honestly hated Tali, Jack and Samara. My team was usually Shep, Jacob, Mordin. Sometimes I'd use Miranda or Thane but not much.

Smiler · « **Reply #651 on:** February 28, 2012, 07:57:40 PM »

In a game where you can have Garrus and Mordin as teammates, who needs any other character?

TA · « **Reply #652 on:** February 28, 2012, 08:05:13 PM »

Quote from: Dooly on February 28, 2012, 07:39:36 PM

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.

No, Kaiden got that reception because Carth was a useless whiny bitch the first time around and we didn't care to sit through another game of it.

Jacob's a cool dude, but I never got the love for Snakeman Spiff. Got an interesting gimmick but overall is just kinda eh.

Bongo Bill · « **Reply #653 on:** February 28, 2012, 09:08:27 PM »

I rather liked Jacob. But I have to admit he is kind of bland (which is different from boring). His unique character properties take some digging to get at, and once found, they don't increase the dramatic potential of anything he's involved with other than his own loyalty mission. One never felt like he'd have anything to say or do about any location or point point. He's the only party member who doesn't have a past.

He's different from Kaiden in that Kaiden has a past, just a tedious one.

Ziiro · « **Reply #654 on:** February 29, 2012, 03:45:43 PM »

(Both videos contain ME2 Spoilers.)

Here's a bunch of alternate dialogue regarding the last boss of ME2. Nothing really earth-shattering but it's interesting..

.. this, on the other hand.. Kind of is.

In looking at mass effect videos, how did I not catch this?:
one and two

Mothra · « **Reply #655 on:** February 29, 2012, 04:37:13 PM »

Whoa!

Awesome.

DestyNova · « **Reply #656 on:** March 02, 2012, 05:58:05 PM »

Mass Effect 3: Official Launch Trailer

Launch trailer

Ziiro · « **Reply #657 on:** March 05, 2012, 02:44:25 PM »

There's no way I can beat the game in a few hours tonight. I guess I'm going to hold off playing ME3 for a couple days while I get a perfect ME2 playthrough.

Frustrating but oh well.

Additionally: You can use bioware points to buy Packs of random stuff.. 80 Points = $1. I'm sure people will say RABBLE RABBLE SO BAD but I'm actually hugely in favor of this. It isn't strictly "PAY 2 WIN", because they're random boosters. The advantage for me is that I can buy a bunch of these and unlock a class I'm more interested in, rather than jumping around a bunch.

Plus I can keep up with all my unemployed friends who get n hours more to play the game than I do.

Ziiro · « **Reply #658 on:** March 05, 2012, 08:56:56 PM »

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.

TA · « **Reply #659 on:** March 05, 2012, 09:06:33 PM »

Quote from: Ziiro on March 05, 2012, 08:56:56 PM

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.

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