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I've literally not touched ME since I finished the third game. Is the updated ending worth a play-through, and is Leviathan worth a download?
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Rutkowski posted:Same here. I've bought every piece I've found for ME2 and I still haven't gotten Leviathan. They managed to really kill any enthusiasm I had for the series. The feeble stirring of interest I had in it was because I heard it had been released and rewatched that Take Back Earth pre-rendered trailer. 
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Sep 13, 2012 04:13
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Captain Oblivious posted:Can't agree. Thermal clips improved the flow of battle and forced me to make actual decisions about which weapon to use. Thermal clips as a fig leaf for ammo is a stupid explanation and makes no sense in-universe (every backwater in the entire galaxy got rid of them in less than two years!) but it made ME2 and 3 more fun to play. That said, I wish they could figure out some way to make cooldown weapons work. It's such a unique strategy, explanation, and concept in-universe, and meshes so well with the mass effect and futuristic themes.
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Jun 14, 2014 23:45
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I would agree, except that extra XP can potentially keeping you from doing another entire playthrough when you're 59 1/2 level.
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Jul 6, 2014 21:36
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Waltzing Along posted:You don't have to do a full playthrough. I finished one at 59.8 or something. I just played till 60, got the achieve, and was happy with that. 
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Jul 6, 2014 22:54
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PriorMarcus posted:Everything in ME3 was the best of the franchise except the story, which was many orders of magnitude worse than the others. Ok the story was terrible, but I had fun playing it at the time and in the moment didn't much care it was stupid.
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Oct 30, 2014 16:53
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aegof posted:With enough Lift you can Lift a Geth armature. Or whatever those big things you were supposed to fight in the Mako were. It was the best part of ME1, and one of the only things I had fun with. Giant Geth Destroyer? Not anymore! *yoink*
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Oct 31, 2014 20:34
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Lotish posted:So I was trying to start a run where Ashley was still alive, and I'm just to the tail end of Mars. Unfortunately, I've brought the Blood Pack Executioner pistol. When the cyborg woman is charging at you, she survives a single head shot, and then the reload animation is longer than the time it takes for her to kill you. I'm going to have to go back to the last time a bench was available.
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Nov 10, 2014 21:00
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White Phosphorus posted:I played mostly paragon soldier through all 3  Aristobulus posted:I feel like even mechanically, the gameplay improved in some areas and backpedalled in others. I don't really like global cooldowns, for example. And I liked biotics not just being magic missiles but having a variety of effects.
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Nov 20, 2014 16:04
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I know it's been mentioned a ton of times before, but when should I do Citadel? I finally brought myself to give a drat about ME3 again after my first play through, and am just short of attacking the Cerberus base and killing that fucker Kai Leng. If I remember right, that's the point of no return. I wanted to play Citadel after the ending, so will I get a chance after the credits, or should I just reload my save? Also, can Mordin show up as part of it? Does he have to survive Tuchanka, or is just being alive somewhere enough? What about Thane? Any other characters?
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Nov 24, 2014 20:34
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It's clear that the game wasn't programmed with a shield-penetrating Lash (bonus power from omega) in mind, because it really makes Kai Leng look like even more of a chump and an idiot. I had to let him get up and do his scripted animations in both Thessia and the base. I only realized when his shield stopped going down despite several biotic explosions. Also you can sometimes break the starting fight animation with a well-timed jab to the face, then yank him off his feet 
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Nov 25, 2014 04:54
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And a section or two with Benezia. But it was a nice subtle hint with how (do I even need to spoiler this?) Sovereign glows red inside during the tantrum, then the red cools off just as Saren does. Already the indoctrination was taking hold, and it was clear there was some connection between the ship and Saren.
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Dec 1, 2014 01:08
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Waltzing Along posted:E: This actually makes me think it might be interesting to hear other peoples experiences on their first time through. I think there are probably some funny stories. I did pretty well in ME1, no real screwups that I can remember. I was reluctant to turn stuff to omnigel or to use it to unlock stuff, so I had a ton of equipment to sort through, and my choices were probably pretty suboptimal. In ME2, I had Miranda do the biotic shield because she bragged so much, so she got carried off. I think Mordin died, though I did all the Loyalty missions; maybe from Hold the Line? E: no, I had him in the vents!  ME3 I don't remember any major screwups, besides picking Synthesis the first time through. 
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Dec 8, 2014 01:19
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Harrow posted:I think I did, but maybe I didn't. I really don't want to have to buy the ME2 DLC again, but it's looking that way. I think the text help ended up being better in my case, but that was years ago.
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Dec 9, 2014 06:14
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Captain Geech posted:I, uh, was just testing you all. Yes, that's what I was doing. 
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Dec 9, 2014 16:01
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Police Automaton posted:The real question is: Why are the sex aliens always blue?
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Dec 16, 2014 00:27
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I just finished DA2, and having wondered how people who got into ME3 late in the game weren't disappointed I think I understand. I went into DA2 with expectations fully tempered, and I was able to enjoy it pretty well. I got annoyed by the reused assets but was prepared for it, and knowing I would never leave Kirkwall let me focus on making it the best city I could. I felt I got my money's worth, but since I only spent $10 that's not saying much. I can only imagine paying $60 right after playing Origins. So given the furor over DA2 and ME3 and the success of Inquisition, does anyone think EA/Bioware have learned their lesson? Namely, that you can't crap out an RPG worth its salt every two years? And that it's better to spend a lot more time up front with (relatively) cheap writers and have time to develop lots more assets?
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Dec 21, 2014 16:23
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Geostomp posted:If DA2 had somehow failed to convince you that Kirkwall needed to be burned to the ground and that Hawke was a miserable failure as a hero before, Act III certainly will. JawKnee posted:no kidding, although I think the true nadir is a toss up between (plot stuff) moms hilarious death or "The Tranquil Solution" Haha those were messed up, but what really made me  was First Enchanter Orsino going "Welp, they want blood magic let's give them BLOOD MAGIC!" and turns himself into a giant mutant corpse-thing. I mean really, why?!
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Dec 21, 2014 23:14
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Trapezium Dave posted:Aveline was okay for the most part and is the only romance option worth going for. Varric, Aveline, and Isabela were the only ones I could tolerate. It had the added bonus of some pretty hilarious party dialogue. Varric is just awesome, don't think anyone disputes this. Aveline, while a bit of a stick in the mud, has your back if you help her out (and is hilariously stupid with relationships) Isabela is just easygoing and fun, she knows who she is and what she likes and doesn't give a gently caress about anything. I can see how that would annoy some people, though. I was ticked at her connection with the Qunari, but since I had her in the party so much she redeemed herself in my game. Merril is the worst combination of naive and dangerous, and is annoying to boot. Anders is like the above, and is literally Hitler. Carver I tried like hell to befriend, but he was dead set on being whiny and competing with Hawke over dumb poo poo. Whatever, man. Fenris seemed cool and like he could be a bro, just never had room for him in the party/missed his loyalty quest. Bethany died in Lothering, and I somehow missed Sebastian.
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Dec 22, 2014 03:56
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Waltzing Along posted:Well, that was a thing.  I thought the statues were cool. Broke the battle's tempo up, and it was D&D as hell  The rest of it... yeah, I thought a lot of the same things.
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Dec 24, 2014 15:33
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exquisite tea posted:By "completed save," do you mean just reloading from the save before the Cerberus Base? I didn't think it was possible to load back into the game from an actual completed savefile.
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Dec 25, 2014 18:25
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fennesz posted:I think I'll finally reconnect my 360 to the internet and throw down for that then. Thanks for the tip.
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Dec 28, 2014 23:01
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I think it was driven by another dumb scene, where your favorite characters (your love interest and most-used ally, respectively), presumably the ones you're most likely to bring when you're doing the final push, are magically not dead when harbinger zaps you and teleport to the Normandy in time for it to make its escape. Basically the endings are still bad, and composed of crap layered upon crap.
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Dec 30, 2014 18:28
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They've already stated that the new game won't be a prequel, but we've seen how well they stick to their official statements.
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Dec 31, 2014 17:16
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Lycus posted:I don't think super-warp and super-pull are worth 15 bucks alone, nah. It also makes Kai-Leng fights a joke, to the point I broke the game so hard I had to let him get up and get some free shots in before the battle would progress 
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Jan 4, 2015 17:28
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Are these the books where he goes into Anderson's apartment and serves himself a bowl of cereal?
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Jan 4, 2015 22:14
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That one is specifically on EDI's mission/point of no return in ME3. There's even a little pointless video clip gif with it.
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Jan 7, 2015 01:41
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SubponticatePoster posted:What scene? Conrad Verner is a sidequest you can complete in ME1 where he's basically a giant fanboy, and his dialogue suggests his wife just tolerates his hobby of buying Shepard-based stuff to keep him out of the house. You can give him your signature and take a photo with him and a few other weird interactions, and if you don't crush his dreams he'll show up in later games (though the import was bugged in ME2 and always thought you did the harsh final response.) In ME2 he shows up in cosplay N7 armor acting like a hardass trying to be an investigator on Illium (he annoys Aethyta trying to do a drug bust for legal red sand) and talks about how he spends time rooting through crates for credits. I think this is where it's implied his wife divorced him. Jenna is a girl working "undercover" in Chora's den for an unscrupulous C-Sec officer putting her in danger for his investigation. Her sister asks you to save her, and I think you can either get the information the officer needs or try to convince Jenna to quit on her own. In ME3 someone tries to assassinate you in the refugee ward. Conrad throws himself in front of you to save you, while Jenna will disable the assassin's gun with Sabotage. If you did both quests, Conrad looks like a goof ("Did I help, Shepard? Strange, it doesn't hurt.") and Jenna is impressed with his bravery and they'll head off for a date or something.
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JFC posted:Still doing my ME3 first playthrough. http://www.wallpapervortex.com/wallpaper-19059_mass_effect_normandy_sr1_vs_sr2.html Although I think those two stubby tail pieces look dumber than the t-tail on the SR1
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Jan 16, 2015 23:13
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Sombrerotron posted:Shepard was Harbinger/the AI/Conrad Verner all along. 
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Mar 21, 2015 17:51
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COOKIEMONSTER posted:I liked Miranda but I feel she had a lot of wasted potential as a character. I was so hoping that it was really Miranda who orchestrated the events at the start of me2 as a way to clean up the operation. Get rid of the scientists and keep Shepard a secret, while blaming it on the scientist guy. I was also supremely annoyed with what they did to Ashley. I loved the fact in the first game your first introduction to a woman is (an idealized but still) realistic female soldier, overwhelmed but still a capable warrior. She had realistic proportions, a no-nonsense haircut that made sense for frequent helmet wear, and no makeup. Sure she was in a form-fitting white and pink spacesuit, but the guys' were just as clingy so it could be the way they worked. Then in 3 they give her heels, a boob job, a cleavage-window suit, a tousled long hairdo, and a bunch of mascara eyeliner and eyeshadow. There were other problems, like the portrayal of her fondness for poetry and the racism, but it was all so unnecessary.
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May 14, 2015 00:47
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Adolph Shepard
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May 31, 2015 23:50
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Calling it now, jetpacks are going to be the Mako thrusters of ME4 i.e. embarrasingly weak, enough to only get you a short little hop, and only fun when you mod them to be ridiculously overpowered.
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Jun 16, 2015 00:58
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Prediction: the N7 character will be the starting tutorial level and in a shocking twist will either be the villain or will die before the game proper starts.
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Jun 17, 2015 23:23
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Fifty Three posted:The leader dude (Griffin?)'s voice really sounds familiar to me. Like a cartoon character played by David Cross or something. This is gonna bug me.
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Jul 29, 2015 01:39
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However, it doesn't take long for other collectors to mow you down if you're knocked out of cover, especially if your shields or health haven't fully recovered
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Oh hey, there's a lot of activity in the thread, I wonder if some new information about Andromeda dropped! So has anybody heard anything new?
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Feb 15, 2016 03:46
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Waltzing Along posted:Bioware looked at this thread and cancelled MEA out of shame.
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Feb 15, 2016 03:56
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Halloween Jack posted:How is Adept in ME3? I'm thinking about going back to zapping people with biotic zaps, looking forward to doing that in an improved overall combat experience. The only trouble I had was with wraiths because you can't stunlock them or take them out quickly like most enemies, and you can have defense and mobility issues if other things are shooting at you.
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It's post-ironic 
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