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Ytlaya posted:One thing that is kind of goofy playing the games back-to-back is how your original crew is all "Shepard, my best friend and comrade-in-arms" when, for many of these characters, their involvement in ME1 basically consists of "recruited them and then talked to them 2-3 times on the Normandy." Because I also did Liara late and didn't include her in my party, her participation in the story was basically just doing the mind-meld thing with me a couple times and chatting some... Yeah, every companion has a kind of quantum state where they all assume they were with you for every big decision. Everyone remembers what you did with the rachni queen, fought on virmire with you and the sacrifice, fought Benezia, etc.
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Aphrodite posted:There are saves on Nexus right before the ceremony to save you time. Thanks, console though. I ended up burning through the early game in about 30 minutes and made a hard save right before. Worth it, even the level VII Spectre stuff is better than anything else I've found.
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DourCricket posted:Yeah, every companion has a kind of quantum state where they all assume they were with you for every big decision. Everyone remembers what you did with the rachni queen, fought on virmire with you and the sacrifice, fought Benezia, etc. I think we are supposed to assume more of the squad actually goes on missions than does in games. Otherwise it is kind of weird for Shepard to go on dangerous missions and leave half the tea, in the ship.
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May 27, 2021 18:38
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My biggest problem with ME1 is that the Turians are just way cooler and more interesting than humanity.
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May 27, 2021 18:38
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Aphrodite posted:That's what a remaster usually is. You're thinking of a remake. I guess I'm just spoiled by the use of the term remaster for things like Sypro Trilogy, Halo Anniversary Editions, Tony Hawk, Crash Bandicoot trilogy, Rise of The Triad and so forth that have all had very significant graphical updates often to new engines. Whorelord posted:My biggest problem with ME1 is that the Turians are just way cooler and more interesting than humanity. I feel this way about most races in sci-fi and fantasy
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May 27, 2021 18:44
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Whorelord posted:My biggest problem with ME is that the FTFY
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May 27, 2021 18:44
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Kai Leng has no redeeming features, on top of that he has the GALL to defeat you in a cutscene, unacceptable! Kylo Ren is just kind of boring but I still think he had good moments in bad movies, none of which I can recall off the top of my head because Star Wars is still dead to me right now.
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May 27, 2021 18:46
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Doctor Nutt posted:This time around I didn't even bother asking about Kai Leng so I didn't have to get that especially embarrassing convo with Anderson where he says "wow reapers are bad but this loving cyberdork is really scary!" Deformed Church posted:This is my first time playing the Omega DLC and I think it's bullshit that I don't get the enormous biotic explosion power for the other parts of the game.
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May 27, 2021 18:47
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Lol I recruited Liara and since then have only been puttering around on uncharted planets doing sidequests. After one single conversation with Liara, Ashley started acting mega-jealous and my next convo with Liara was all "I feel this powerful connection between us." Like drat, this is literally the second time we've spoken, chill out.
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so does Garrus' loyalty mission just not drop any ammo from a bit before you open the shutter and see harken and garrus' is like "did you see that" all the way to the end of the mission? I used the "use all weapons mod" to give my infiltrator shep only a sniper rifle and only a SMG and I ran out before the double YMIR part twice.ShakeZula posted:Lol I recruited Liara and since then have only been puttering around on uncharted planets doing sidequests. After one single conversation with Liara, Ashley started acting mega-jealous and my next convo with Liara was all "I feel this powerful connection between us." Like drat, this is literally the second time we've spoken, chill out. Liara wants it bad in 1, I explicitly told her I was banging kaiden this time around and she was like "drat that sucks, but that doesn't mean we can't bang too right?"
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ShakeZula posted:Lol I recruited Liara and since then have only been puttering around on uncharted planets doing sidequests. After one single conversation with Liara, Ashley started acting mega-jealous and my next convo with Liara was all "I feel this powerful connection between us." Like drat, this is literally the second time we've spoken, chill out. Liara's's really in deep love with the research paper she can write about the Prothean beacon. That's next level objectification. 4000 Dollar Suit posted:Liara wants it bad in 1, I explicitly told her I was banging kaiden this time around and she was like "drat that sucks, but that doesn't mean we can't bang too right?" Well she *is* a 106 year old virgin.
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May 27, 2021 19:22
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Every few pages someone is like "this sucks, they barely changed 2 and 3 at all!" and I'm like "yeah, it's awesome!" 
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Though I do really wish they'd allowed full power remapping on console so that Engineers who forego the Drone don't have a button that does literal nothing
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May 27, 2021 19:33
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Let me put Reave on Triangle dang it
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May 27, 2021 19:34
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Simone Magus posted:Every few pages someone is like "this sucks, they barely changed 2 and 3 at all!" and I'm like "yeah, it's awesome!" Same
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4000 Dollar Suit posted:Liara wants it bad in 1, I explicitly told her I was banging kaiden this time around and she was like "drat that sucks, but that doesn't mean we can't bang too right?" Well then I have some good news for her 
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Has anyone tried playing an infiltrator in ME2 in the legendary version? If so did they fix the ammo issues the sniper rifle had? That was something that drove me bonkers about ME2, both from a gameplay and an RP standpoint. Form a gameplay standpoint I had a class built around using sniper rifles but was forced to used pistols a huge amount because they didn't give you enough sniper ammo. From an RP standpoint it drove me nuts because the guns were all supposed to use common ammo and yet didn't share an ammo pool. If they use common ammo then I shouldn't be out of sniper ammo and have full pistol ammo. I eventually got annoyed enough with this that I just used a memory scanner to give myself unlimited ammo. Luckily ME3 actually gave you enough ammo. DourCricket posted:Yeah, every companion has a kind of quantum state where they all assume they were with you for every big decision. Everyone remembers what you did with the rachni queen, fought on virmire with you and the sacrifice, fought Benezia, etc. I kind of figure from an RP perspective they are all doing something for the mission, just from a gameplay perspective controlling a 7 person party doesn't work very well. I can't imagine them just sitting around the ship playing poker while Shepard is off doing things. It also explains why you unlock more dialog options with everyone as you do more missions despite many of the characters not being with you. Simone Magus posted:Every few pages someone is like "this sucks, they barely changed 2 and 3 at all!" and I'm like "yeah, it's awesome!" I think it's good that they left the gameplay, story and so forth intact as that all holds up extremely well. I think it's lame that the graphical updates are minimal because I feel like $40 was a rip off for what seems like a rerelease. I would have preferred if they could have kept the gameplay, mechanics, story, audio and stuff but upgraded the engine to Unreal 4 or some other more modern engine for graphics. Hell, they can have $180 ($60/game) from me if they can release ME 1,2 and 3 but with current gen graphics. TheGreySpectre fucked around with this message at 20:19 on May 27, 2021 |
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For those struggling with 1's gameplay, I've found a hilariously fun way to play: Go Vanguard, max Barrier ASAP. As soon as you can do the Sol mission, do it. Go Shock Trooper. Max it. Get a shotgun. Set AI to use all powers. Get Lift asap after the other poo poo. Get Medium Armor when you can. Grab Adrenaline Burst if you want, fights should never actually last that long. Run around bumrushing everything and blasting/meleeing it in the face while pure chaos erupts around you. It doesn't matter who you bring with you, just make sure between both of them you have Master Decryption and Master Electronics so you can hack All the Things. If you want maximum chaos, bring Kaidan and Liara/Wrex, speccing them for Lift and Push with the best cooldown stuff you can find. Duration doesn't matter, nothing will live long enough for it to matter. Give them fire and toxin ammo to add some variety to death effects. You should use cryo. It's quite fun and bypasses any tedium of ever needing cover, caring about where your allies are/what they're doing, or basically even caring about tactics at all. Just pretend it's Doom 2 and you just picked up the Super Shotgun. 
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Simone Magus posted:Every few pages someone is like "this sucks, they barely changed 2 and 3 at all!" and I'm like "yeah, it's awesome!" Last time I played 2 and 3 was in 720p. This owns for me.
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Most of my playthroughs of 2 and 3 were on a CRT television so this is all amazing to me lol
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I don't fault Zaaed for that whole refinery business because it was evident the place could have been lit up by a cigarette butt.
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Spacebump posted:Last time I played 2 and 3 was in 720p. This owns for me. I was thinking about my graphical complaints and realized that in many ways they show significant PC bias. While I did play ME1 on Xbox360 originally, I bought it on PC as soon as it was released and have played it and it's sequels on PC exclusively since then. This has allowed me to run at high resolutions with higher frame rates and lower loading times. If I'm feeling particularly motivated I can even install hi res texture mods. Now original ME1 at 4k still has low res textures by default, but it looks a hell of a lot better than ME1 at 720p. People who played on console are probably seeing a bigger difference then I am in graphics.
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TheGreySpectre posted:Has anyone tried playing an infiltrator in ME2 in the legendary version? If so did they fix the ammo issues the sniper rifle had? Yup, been playing through as an Infiltrator on Insanity. There have been a few times where I've had to Cloak and run around looking looking ammo in ME2 and ME3, but I've never really had an issue with running out completely for a prolonged period of time - one or two cases where I might have had to mop up after a fight using a pistol, but yeah, nothing that's been frustrating or difficult. Also for the person who mentioned Flare in the Omega DLC - you unlock it for Shep afterwards. It's fantastic. Lash is also really good, though - it works through shields and barriers. And detonates.
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Zaeed's loyalty mission is a transparent callback to the story Anderson tells about the mission that dropped his Spectre consideration. Shep has the opportunity to be a better Saren than Saren was.
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Zaaed's mission is also Bring Down the Sky again, this time without the prefab rooms and the loving mines.
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Aphrodite posted:There are saves on Nexus right before the ceremony to save you time. So does the save not even have to be your own? It just has to be *a* save?
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SettingSun posted:Zaeed's loyalty mission is a transparent callback to the story Anderson tells about the mission that dropped his Spectre consideration. Shep has the opportunity to be a better Saren than Saren was. Huh. Well, not *that* transparent surely, cause this fucker didn't figure it out. So obviously it's buried deep in the meta paratext.
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Vichan posted:The rage comic version of Mass Effect Deception is loving hilarious, and I hate rage comics. I 100% read all of Anderson's words in Keith David's voice. Keith David from SR4, albeit. I also gave up around chapter three.
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What's the one where Kai Leng assassinates Anderson's cereal.
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Inspector Gesicht posted:What is The worst mission? Probably the ME1 freighter full of biotics. Because it's not enough that they ragdoll-lock your rear end, oh no. They also have to only deal chip damage to you. That's what make it fun.
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Inspector Gesicht posted:What is The worst mission? Out of all the missions in all the games? I hate the side mission in ME1 where you have to land on like 5 different planets and take out geth outposts.
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The Pyjack mission in ME1 if you don't look up where to go. You can legit drive to 6 different spots on that planet, manually checking every monkey. At least the Geth mission has the bases labeled..
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Kobal2 posted:Probably the ME1 freighter full of biotics. Because it's not enough that they ragdoll-lock your rear end, oh no. They also have to only deal chip damage to you. That's what make it fun. It's this, if you care about civilian casualties. I had to reload multiple times because one civilian would get vaporized in the last seconds of the fight over and over again.
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Inspector Gesicht posted:What is The worst mission? several missions in Andromeda require you to go down to a planet to find a Thing The Thing potentially spawns in one of five different places The Thing does not always spawn when you go to the planet so if it isn't in any of the five places, you have to take off and land again Incredibly hostile game design
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Pattonesque posted:several missions in Andromeda require you to go down to a planet to find a Thing I meant the worst mission, not the worst game. I'm content for Mass Effec to be a one-and-done trilogy, because all the creatve leads who built the universe have since left Bioware.
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Pattonesque posted:Incredibly hostile game design talk to guy to start quest go back to ship [load screen + long take off cutscene plays] check email from guy [load screen + long landing cutscene plays] go back to guy to tell him you checked your email
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Inspector Gesicht posted:I meant the worst mission, not the worst game. good news! https://segmentnext.com/2020/12/16/trilogy-devs-mass-effect-4/
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Polaron posted:It's this, if you care about civilian casualties. I had to reload multiple times because one civilian would get vaporized in the last seconds of the fight over and over again. All you have to do is walk in, aggro everyone and then walk out to the entrance room. The cups won't chase you with the bad guys and you can gun the lit down without fearing collateral damage. Fuzz posted:For those struggling with 1's gameplay, I've found a hilariously fun way to play: I tried an adept because I've never played one before this and boy howdy are you right that barrier is broken in all the right ways. It was a huge shock to me when I started 2 and died repeatedly because I was just wandering around out of cover out of habit.
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FoolyCharged posted:All you have to do is walk in, aggro everyone and then walk out to the entrance room. The cups won't chase you with the bad guys and you can gun the lit down without fearing collateral damage. I would do that, but one of the cultists on the left would fire off a Warp immediately upon aggro and there was a doctor in the path who would never, ever move no matter how long I waited. Once I figured out how to avoid that, the head biotic guy would never come down the corridor and I'd have to go in after him.
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