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Does the Destroy ending just destroy robot bodies or does it destroy programs because the geth and even EDI are just programs. If it does destroy programs, does it destroy internet explorer or photoshop or whatever in the process?
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Crappy Jack posted:"Time to get mean." :iamafag: seriously
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Apr 7, 2014 20:08
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theCalamity posted:Does the Destroy ending just destroy robot bodies or does it destroy programs because the geth and even EDI are just programs. If it does destroy programs, does it destroy internet explorer or photoshop or whatever in the process? who fuckin knows man and who cares, they're machines that feel no fear or pain.
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Apr 7, 2014 20:09
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theCalamity posted:Does the Destroy ending just destroy robot bodies or does it destroy programs because the geth and even EDI are just programs. If it does destroy programs, does it destroy internet explorer or photoshop or whatever in the process? Does Synthesis mean husks are sentient now? The extended cut certainly made it seem like that's the case. If so, what about Praetorians, which are like 30 husks fused together, or Cannibals, which are a batarian and a human, or a Brute, which is a krogan and a turian?
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theCalamity posted:Does the Destroy ending just destroy robot bodies or does it destroy programs because the geth and even EDI are just programs. If it does destroy programs, does it destroy internet explorer or photoshop or whatever in the process? Well apparently the blast destroyed the Normandy, so theoretically it fries the life-support. engines, gravity and all that other poo poo from every ship in the galaxy. I'd assume this would go for all land-based vehicles/technology as well. Also how is it that the Normandy and/or the majority of allied ships somehow manages to get away from the technology destroying blast but none of the reaper ships tried running away from the giant explosion? Hack writers that's how
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Apr 7, 2014 20:15
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theCalamity posted:Does the Destroy ending just destroy robot bodies or does it destroy programs because the geth and even EDI are just programs. If it does destroy programs, does it destroy internet explorer or photoshop or whatever in the process? In the hight EMS ending, the Reapers are covered in red static and then shut down and drop on the ground, apparently the husks are vaporized, and the Normandy looks no different than when it crashed on the Collector Base in ME2. So :speculation:
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Apr 7, 2014 20:21
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Burning Mustache posted:Holy poo poo Well, crap. Apparently I missed my calling as a Bioware one-liner writer when I pulled out "You fuckers messed with the Wong planet" during the Twitter Wars of 2012.
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Apr 7, 2014 20:26
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Why did they bring the Citadel to earth? How does that even work? Isn't it bigger than a mass relay? So, Palaven is getting wiped out but you can spare ships to come spare earth because? And those are just big points. I don't think there is a single thing about the writing in the third game that indicates any critical thinking was used.
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Apr 7, 2014 20:28
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Crappy Jack posted:Well, crap. Apparently I missed my calling as a Bioware one-liner writer when I pulled out "You fuckers messed with the Wong planet" during the Twitter Wars of 2012. You're a good poster, man. A good poster.
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Apr 7, 2014 21:47
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Crappy Jack posted:Well, crap. Apparently I missed my calling as a Bioware one-liner writer when I pulled out "You fuckers messed with the Wong planet" during the Twitter Wars of 2012. I was pulling for this to be the thread title.
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Apr 7, 2014 21:58
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Waltzing Along posted:Why did they bring the Citadel to earth? How does that even work? Isn't it bigger than a mass relay? We can (and have) gone on and on about this kind of thing, but I feel like the last sentence of this post is as close to the truth as we're gonna get. They were not at all ready to end the series, but kept going on with the trilogy decision for some unfathomable reason.
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Apr 7, 2014 23:26
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theCalamity posted:Does the Destroy ending just destroy robot bodies or does it destroy programs because the geth and even EDI are just programs. If it does destroy programs, does it destroy internet explorer or photoshop or whatever in the process? I thought it destroyed Reaper tech which is the only reason why it killed EDI and the geth because EDI was based off reaper tech and the geth adapted reaper tech. Also the mass relays
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Apr 7, 2014 23:31
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theCalamity posted:Does the Destroy ending just destroy robot bodies or does it destroy programs because the geth and even EDI are just programs. If it does destroy programs, does it destroy internet explorer or photoshop or whatever in the process? Simply put it destroyed synthetic life. If you were an AI or hybrid, you were destroyed. All it means is that 'Whew, organics survived!' only for them to create synthetics again and cause the cycle to continue of lovely writers writing about space phlebotinum.
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Apr 7, 2014 23:53
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PootieTang posted:Also how is it that the Normandy and/or the majority of allied ships somehow manages to get away from the technology destroying blast but none of the reaper ships tried running away from the giant explosion? Because the Reapers were all centrally controlled by a command unit. You know, just like they were specifically stated not to be in Mass Effect 1.
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Waltzing Along posted:Why did they bring the Citadel to earth? This is explained in-game; TIM told them it was the catalyst, and Earth was apparently the safest place to keep it in the entire universe because there were a lot of reapers there. Logically, they would also open a tractor beam that lets human-sized beings enter the citadel from the planet, and then deploy a single reaper to guard it, because Waltzing Along posted:How does that even work? Isn't it bigger than a mass relay? To be fair, I don't think it's explicitly stated that that would make it impossible.
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I think it is more a case of writing backwards after the fact. Like, hey, we should have the finale be around earth but since we decided on that we need the citadel to be there. Or something. Ugh. How lovely.
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Apr 8, 2014 01:34
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Is there a reason the reapers started loving up homeworlds instead of bee-lining for the citadel? Like, it has control of the entire relay network, right? That's how they've been doing their reaper thing for eons? Why not, y'know, start there?
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Generic Octopus posted:Is there a reason the reapers started loving up homeworlds instead of bee-lining for the citadel? Like, it has control of the entire relay network, right? That's how they've been doing their reaper thing for eons? Why not, y'know, start there? Dramatic tension. They needed to open their game with a big Reaper invasion, but they couldn't have it happen at the Citadel because that's Game Over, but they also needed a big explodey opening.
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Apr 8, 2014 01:40
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Crappy Jack posted:Dramatic tension. They needed to open their game with a big Reaper invasion, but they couldn't have it happen at the Citadel because that's Game Over, but they also needed a big explodey opening. It can basically be summed up with the phrase 'we want the Call of Duty audience'
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Apr 8, 2014 01:43
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Crappy Jack posted:Dramatic tension. They needed to open their game with a big Reaper invasion, but they couldn't have it happen at the Citadel because that's Game Over, but they also needed a big explodey opening.
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Kajeesus posted:Logically, they would also open a tractor beam that lets human-sized beings enter the citadel from the planet, and then deploy a single reaper to guard it, because It really just should have been Harbinger. He uses the 'direct control' thing to a far greater degree than any other Reaper, you can elaborate that into liking to get his hands dirty and excuse the lack of other guards. Bam you've got a semi-reasonable climactic showdown with a Reaper, and it's one people actually know and dislike. That still wouldn't excuse that stupid loving magic elevator though.
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I just saw this guy's GTA V one over in the GTA thread but check out this guy's "alternative launch trailer" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BX1fs0_Rbbk hire this guy to do your trailers, hire Crappy Jack to write all interrupt one-liners, ME4 is GOTY.
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Kaizer88 posted:I was born in London, you know.
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Psion posted:I just saw this guy's GTA V one over in the GTA thread but check out this guy's "alternative launch trailer" That owns
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Psion posted:I just saw this guy's GTA V one over in the GTA thread but check out this guy's "alternative launch trailer" I've seen this before and loved it then. Too bad this guy is better than Bioware's current marketing department. Seriously, what were they thinking with those weird "little girl in a field" commercials? They were so generic that they barely said anything about the game or series beyond the generic "Earth gets invaded" plot. It kind of foreshadowed some of the game's myopic focus on contrived child scenes. Geostomp fucked around with this message at 14:48 on Apr 8, 2014 |
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Apr 8, 2014 14:38
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Geostomp posted:I've seen this before and loved it then. Too bad this guy is better than Bioware's current marketing department. Seriously, what were they thinking with those weird "little girl in a field" commercials? They were so generic that they barely said anything about the game or series beyond the generic "Earth gets invaded" plot. It kind of foreshadowed some of the game's myopic focus on contrived child scenes.
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SubponticatePoster posted:I didn't mind that particular trailer, but I think it was meant for people who weren't into the series already. I was at a friend's house when that came on TV and she said "holy poo poo!" Most of the time invading aliens are little green guys, not gigantic fuckoff crawdads. I'm not the biggest indulger of alien invasion media but when I try to recall alien movies it always seems the aliens are either massively overpowering the humans with technology (Independence Day, War of the Worlds, Day the Earth Stood Still) or are unassuming things that are generally doing some kind of body horror. Mass Effect 3 kind of does both of course. In fact the only alien invasion movie I can think of where the aliens are really just soldiers from space is Battle: Los Angelas. They get the surprise attack in that movie but otherwise they don't just shrug off getting hit by a bullet or missile or something.
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Fetucine posted:Holy poo poo that ending was so bad. This was what I did. The star kid pissed me off, it was like that "ignore me" episode of Venture brothers where the alien shows up looking like Jonas Venture, then doesn't actually have any closure for Rusty, he just chose a face Rusty would connect with. Play with my emotions and put me into a situation where I have to look at a child I watched one of your creations literally cut in half? Stand there using his face and voice and tell me -after I've turned both EDI and the I've got Synthetics and Organics fighting side by side to kick your smug alien asses, I single handedly saved and united the galaxy before I set foot on your ship, and you're going to tell me now that I have only three options because your civilization hosed it up eons ago? gently caress you, Star Kid!
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SubponticatePoster posted:I didn't mind that particular trailer, but I think it was meant for people who weren't into the series already. I was at a friend's house when that came on TV and she said "holy poo poo!" Most of the time invading aliens are little green guys, not gigantic fuckoff crawdads. Mass Effect 2's launch trailer was the best. I work in sports, and it straight-up silenced a war room ful of ex-jocks when it came on during the playoffs back in 2010.
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CPFortest posted:It should've taken place in the Middle East. One of the things I like about Halo is that all the relevant stuff that happens on Earth happens in East Africa instead of the usual New York-London-Tokyo triumvirate. Also because it's the cradle of humanity.
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If East Africa is the cradle of humanity, and the Middle East the cradle of civilization, then we can agree that Greece is the cradle of democracy, right?
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Torrannor posted:If East Africa is the cradle of humanity, and the Middle East the cradle of civilization, then we can agree that Greece is the cradle of democracy, right? It'd be the first target for an invasion by space communists.
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Pattonesque posted:Mass Effect 2's launch trailer was the best. I work in sports, and it straight-up silenced a war room ful of ex-jocks when it came on during the playoffs back in 2010. Mass Effect 2's launch trailer is still one of the best trailers for anything created. It's ludicrously good.
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Not to discount the editing or the animators etc of the cutscenes they use in that trailer (and at least its the actual game engine) but I always felt it was the music that gave the ME2 trailer the final push to that room-silenting level. And I know the song was crafted specifically for trailers of all kinds but its still a pretty good piece of music.
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Kibayasu posted:Not to discount the editing or the animators etc of the cutscenes they use in that trailer (and at least its the actual game engine) but I always felt it was the music that gave the ME2 trailer the final push to that room-silenting level. And I know the song was crafted specifically for trailers of all kinds but its still a pretty good piece of music. Heart of Courage is one of Two Steps from Hell's better pieces and it worked really well with how the trailer was put together.
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I don't remember ME2 launch trailer, I'll have to look it up.
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SubponticatePoster posted:I don't remember ME2 launch trailer, I'll have to look it up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjOEmHEd2XM It's perfect.
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Pattonesque posted:Mass Effect 2's launch trailer was the best. I work in sports, and it straight-up silenced a war room ful of ex-jocks when it came on during the playoffs back in 2010. The ME2 launch trailer might very well be the best thing to ever come out of the ME universe, period.
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