|
Simone Magus posted:Yeah he is absolutely doing an Irish accent, especially in the first game. (I'm Irish) Thats funny, I've always though he gets most irish in 3. but I'm only a bit irish and mostly welsh so what the gently caress do I know.
|
#
?
May 27, 2021 07:49
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 3, 2024 18:48 |
|
|
Seemlar posted:I mean, he says the same if you brain a space monkey in ME1 Guess the little beast deserved it.
|
|
#
?
May 27, 2021 07:49
|
|
|
Ytlaya posted:^^^ Wrex is sort of like "good Garrus." He has the same "guy who is happy to do fighting and violence with you" aspect without being a weird vigilante. I wish punching Zaeed wasn't exclusive to the Paragon intimidate path. Because the galaxy is a much safer place if Vido doesn't make it off Zoria, but Zaeed also deserves a broken cheekbone at the very least for popping off like a lunatic and lighting the whole drat refinery on fire. without me ordering him to
|
|
#
?
May 27, 2021 07:58
|
|
Blue Suns leader guy probably would have killed a bunch of people anyways if we had let him live.
|
Re: Udina's accent it's definitely Irish in ME3, but it changes in every game. In ME1, he's doing a poor impression of an Arab accent, which very much fits with the original post's impression that it was a "do a vaguely otherised voice for the brown guy" thing. In ME2, he's just doing an American accent but with archvillain nobody-actually-talks-this-way incredibly hammy delivery. I'm guessing the voice direction changed in every game, maybe from ME1 to ME2 as they realised it was crummy to have their scheming political villain be a white guy doing a cartoon Arab voice, and in ME3 they finally realised Donnel was an Irish name.
|
|
#
?
May 27, 2021 08:05
|
|
|
I've played through Mass Effect 2 at least 4 times if not more, and I somehow missed all the little anomaly scanning missions every time. I had no idea these were here. Weird.
|
|
#
?
May 27, 2021 08:07
|
|
|
Seemlar posted:I mean, he says the same if you brain a space monkey in ME1 That monkey was probably a Blue Suns mule, bro.
|
|
#
?
May 27, 2021 08:07
|
|
|
For some reason I always thought that ME3 Udina's villainous turn came sort of out-of-left-field and that he was at least somewhat sympathetic before. I'm at ME2 now and completely at a loss as to why I even thought that in the first place.
|
|
#
?
May 27, 2021 08:21
|
|
|
I was just talking to two goon friends who BOTH turn off the music in Mass Effect 1. I just don’t understand that
|
|
#
?
May 27, 2021 08:22
|
|
|
omg chael crash posted:I was just talking to two goon friends who BOTH turn off the music in Mass Effect 1. I just don’t understand that They don't sound like friends.
|
|
#
?
May 27, 2021 08:35
|
|
|
omg chael crash posted:I was just talking to two goon friends who BOTH turn off the music in Mass Effect 1. I just don’t understand that Some people just want to watch their own lives burn.
|
|
#
?
May 27, 2021 08:58
|
|
|
I didnt even know you could turn it off.
|
|
#
?
May 27, 2021 09:01
|
|
|
Hell yeah, I mainlined these games for two weeks and then shot that little fucker in the head.
|
|
#
?
May 27, 2021 09:52
|
|
|
Vichan posted:For some reason I always thought that ME3 Udina's villainous turn came sort of out-of-left-field and that he was at least somewhat sympathetic before. At the start of ME3, he's the only one working to get poo poo done to help you and is clearly broken up by everything the Reapers are doing, and has swallowed his prided and buried the hatchet with Shepard in the face of extinction, so he is at his most sympathetic at that point in terms of presentation. The heel turn kind of does come out of nowhere just in terms of how stupid it is, but I rationalize it as Undina just being loving done with how useless the Council is and has been sitting back for like two years now watching Cerberus kick rear end and take names and is like "gently caress it, if the Illusive Man is getting results, let's roll". TIM also hinged his support on "gently caress Shepard, specially" and Udina being the pragmatist he is agreed to it. Udina was probably a dead man walking no matter what way the coup panned out because TIM was that far gone down the indoctrination rabbit hole that he probably felt no Council was infinitely better than a Human Concillor with 100% control of Citadel Space.
|
|
#
?
May 27, 2021 10:29
|
|
|
Mass Effect 2 is seeming a little edgy and grim compared to the almost optimistic vibe of the first game.
|
|
#
?
May 27, 2021 10:45
|
|
|
Caesar Saladin posted:Mass Effect 2 is seeming a little edgy and grim compared to the almost optimistic vibe of the first game. It absolutely is. It's a great game, but the tone of the first game is like, a marvellous dream of uncharted worlds and a bold new future amidst the stars, while ME2 is about a crew of renegades and last chancers working outside the law in the underbelly of an extremely corrupt, seedy galaxy. Shepard goes from being the official delegate of galactic civilisation to an outlaw, forced into working with terrorists and recruiting convicts and assassins to get the job done. ME3 synthesises these tones pretty successfully, I think. For the most part.
|
|
#
?
May 27, 2021 11:09
|
|
|
Android Blues posted:It absolutely is. It's a great game, but the tone of the first game is like, a marvellous dream of uncharted worlds and a bold new future amidst the stars, while ME2 is about a crew of renegades and last chancers working outside the law in the underbelly of an extremely corrupt, seedy galaxy. Shepard goes from being the official delegate of galactic civilisation to an outlaw, forced into working with terrorists and recruiting convicts and assassins to get the job done. ME3’s tone is like the speeches in Independence Day or Pacific Rim, where it’s “we’re hosed but we’re not gonna let that stop us from coming together and trying to win”
|
|
#
?
May 27, 2021 11:23
|
|
|
empires are bloody extractive processes and the Citadel Council is no exception. ME2 focuses on the galaxy's sausage-making machine deliberately
|
|
#
?
May 27, 2021 11:29
|
|
|
Han Olar should have been a squad member in ME2
|
|
#
?
May 27, 2021 12:06
|
|
|
Caesar Saladin posted:Mass Effect 2 is seeming a little edgy and grim compared to the almost optimistic vibe of the first game. My theory on the tone shift between games is that they were aiming for a T rating in ME1 and when they got an M (probably because of the tame sex scenes, because America) they decided to say screw it and make ME2 darker and have people say "gently caress"
|
|
#
?
May 27, 2021 12:09
|
|
|
Veotax posted:My theory on the tone shift between games is that they were aiming for a T rating in ME1 and when they got an M (probably because of the tame sex scenes, because America) they decided to say screw it and make ME2 darker and have people say "gently caress" Speaking of tame sex scenes, is it just clearer graphics or have they made the ME1 sex scene a lot nuder? I felt I was seeing a lot more boob, and as I was 18 when I first played it I thought I would have remembered that more than I did.
|
|
#
?
May 27, 2021 12:21
|
|
|
I just realized that the Pinnacle Station DLC wasn't included in this release. Looked into it and it was omitted because the original source code was lost. That sucks, is scary to think about, and is loving hilarious, all at the same time.
|
|
#
?
May 27, 2021 13:10
|
|
|
Ytlaya posted:Just did Zaeed loyalty mission. Screw the refinery workers, I made a promise to Zaeed I love that from memory the best way to handle this mission is to do this:  The female Shepard I'm currently using is my favorite, but I do kinda hope to go back to my hosed up old man rear end in a top hat Shepard again at some point.
|
|
#
?
May 27, 2021 13:16
|
|
|
I quit the 3 ymir mech anomaly and am going to come back with a Cain and some levels or something. It feels not possible to do early in the game on Insanity. Maybe by cheesing cloak, or running deeper into the level for more cover, but where you start is relatively open and its tough getting through a YMIR by the time you end up with another on you
|
|
#
?
May 27, 2021 13:17
|
|
|
Fuzz posted:I just realized that the Pinnacle Station DLC wasn't included in this release. Looked into it and it was omitted because the original source code was lost. We're not getting Icewind Dale 2 Enhanced Edition because of lost source code, there's the real tragedy.
|
|
#
?
May 27, 2021 13:54
|
|
|
Dramicus posted:The building was pressurized, when the charges damaged the door, the atmosphere vented out bringing the door with it. Nah, that's someone else's body. The asteroid was an inside job! Wake up sheeple! Wolfsheim posted:In my rose colored glasses he was chill turian batman, but now he seems more like a thin blue line punisher psychopath Yeah, coming back to the games after all this time makes the fact that you literally spend three whole games where Shepard has to constantly talk him out of extrajudicial murder stand out a lot more.
|
|
#
?
May 27, 2021 13:54
|
|
|
While you commit all the extrajudicial murder. Garrus is you, and you can't handle it dad! Android Blues posted:Shepard goes from being the official delegate of galactic civilisation to an outlaw, forced into working with terrorists and recruiting convicts and assassins to get the job done. I mean, you can immediately get your badge back and nobody ever talks about it again except your squadmates for a second when you run into them.
|
|
#
?
May 27, 2021 13:58
|
|
|
FoolyCharged posted:Nah, that's someone else's body. The asteroid was an inside job! Wake up sheeple! Oh, you mean Shepard wasn't supposed to spend those 3 games encouraging the extrajudicial murder? woops. Isn't Shepard just Space Judge Dread?
|
|
#
?
May 27, 2021 14:00
|
|
|
I like how the paragon ending to Tali’s loyalty quest is after being told your word isn’t going to work and you need hard evidence, you say screw the evidence and insult the admirals by using your word to defend Tali and saying this is a kangaroo court.
|
|
#
?
May 27, 2021 14:00
|
|
|
I thought the tone switch in ME2 worked very well. You're on the fringes of galactic civilization fighting an unseen foe of unimaginable strength, assembling a team of societal outcasts on a hopeless mission to delay the inevitable. To me it's when Mass Effect became uniquely Mass Effect rather than a three-episode Babylon 5 arc.
|
|
#
?
May 27, 2021 14:02
|
|
|
Are there any instances where the blue/ red option leads to a "dialog failure"?
|
|
#
?
May 27, 2021 14:03
|
|
|
I can't think of any. If there is a red/blue option and you are capable of taking it its almost always an instant resolution in favor of whatever path you took.
|
|
#
?
May 27, 2021 14:08
|
|
|
Some of the Paragon/Renegade alignment choices do have negative repercussions later on (more Renegade than Paragon, but not exclusively) but yeah in that particular conversation it is usually a dialogue "I win" button
|
|
#
?
May 27, 2021 14:11
|
|
|
Rinkles posted:Are there any instances where the blue/ red option leads to a "dialog failure"? Well the ones with the Illusive Man in ME3 never win him over unless you do every single one in the game and then the last one lets you finally convince him.
|
|
#
?
May 27, 2021 14:13
|
|
|
Rinkles posted:Are there any instances where the blue/ red option leads to a "dialog failure"? They're the magical screw the rules buttons so no, except that there are actually some really cool/funny dialogue options that you'll never see if you mash paragon/renegade options/interrupts every time (even if they don't give you better results). And almost all of the games reactivity is in regards to you failing/not doing stuff optimally which you'll pretty much never see if you stick to paragon/renegade.
|
|
#
?
May 27, 2021 14:17
|
|
|
Yeah I've never done a non speech run. Should try that.
|
|
#
?
May 27, 2021 14:21
|
|
|
a pipe smoking dog posted:Speaking of tame sex scenes, is it just clearer graphics or have they made the ME1 sex scene a lot nuder? I felt I was seeing a lot more boob, and as I was 18 when I first played it I thought I would have remembered that more than I did. It's the wider FOV. It definitely makes it obvious that none of the women in ME1 have nipples.
|
|
#
?
May 27, 2021 14:30
|
|
|
bobjr posted:I like how the paragon ending to Tali’s loyalty quest is after being told your word isn’t going to work and you need hard evidence, you say screw the evidence and insult the admirals by using your word to defend Tali and saying this is a kangaroo court. FWIW, this is also the Renegade ending lol
|
|
#
?
May 27, 2021 14:39
|
|
|
Veotax posted:My theory on the tone shift between games is that they were aiming for a T rating in ME1 and when they got an M (probably because of the tame sex scenes, because America) they decided to say screw it and make ME2 darker and have people say "gently caress" That's funny because one of the first lines you can get from Jack (I already forget what it's in response to) is "gently caress, you sound like a pussy." and the VA just deadpans it hard and it makes me chuckle every time.
|
|
#
?
May 27, 2021 14:42
|
|
|
Her character teaser trailer had comically many bleeps, iirc
|
|
#
?
May 27, 2021 14:43
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 3, 2024 18:48 |
|
|
I used to like Jack a lot but as time goes on the 90s Hot Topic energy is becoming more and more dated and hilarious Also for real why can't femshep date her, she's explicitly bi!!!!!
|
|
#
?
May 27, 2021 14:50
|
|