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Ambiguatron posted:You would think they would tailor better endings to imported characters to encourage people jumping on board to go out and buy the other games. I only played Mass Effect 1 after I played 2 and saw in these threads how much I was missing out on. The game, overall, felt really rushed. Maybe I'm giving them too much credit (I probably am) but they probably would have put in a far better ending that was the sum of all your choices had they more development time. If I'm remembering correctly, the LOTS OF SPECULATION FROM EVERYONE  was written in December of 2011. Had they two or two and a half years of development time, the game would have been more polished and the ending better.When the dark, middle game of the trilogy has the best, upbeat ending and the conclusion of the trilogy has the crap, nihilistic ending you done gone and mucked up.
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^^^ ME2 felt pretty rushed and it showed I nuke Kaidan every time because its what I so wanted to do to whiny-as-gently caress Carth Onasi.
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Kaiden is like the only character who got over his poo poo on his own and I appreciate him for that. He gets new poo poo in ME2 but that is because you're working for Space Hitler and the Space Nazis. It isn't really fair since you can't tell Space Hitler to gently caress off but he's basically the only person who has a plausible reaction instead of "Well, I guess working with Cerberus isn't that bad... What's that, they rebuilt Shepard as a part robot? And they swore very hard they didn't do anything bad to you? Well, if you say so..." Admittedly it looks a lot less bad after ME3 where Cerberus proves themselves to be cartoonishly evil and every single not-terrible person was carefully chosen to present the image of not being supervillains, thereby justifying Kaiden (and I presume Ashley) telling you that you're a crazy person for working with Cerberus.
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rear end Effect: A Massive rear end Biopic of Buttholes “I would love to see a fan-chart describing all the alien species’ exact capacity for butt romance.” I typed into the group chat, having never played mass effect and absolutely not wanting any of those things except out of some morbid curiosity. With the help of some friends I made that night-dream-mare a frightening horror-reality: quote:Krogans have scaly buttholes, work well with metal/glass toys but avoid intercourse. (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
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Pocket Abortions posted:rear end Effect: A Massive rear end Biopic of Buttholes what 
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The only character on the Normandy I never liked was Jacob. Kaiden was dull but he was okay. Jacob is just kind of there, though. Terrible VA, as well. They should have made Kasumi or Zaeed a proper character in ME2 instead of Jacob
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Jimbot posted:I look forward to getting conquered by half-cyborg trees because they're sick of us cyborg humans cutting them down for material. I heard they're allied with the cyborg grass and cyborg leaves too. With Joker's cyborg baseball cap manipulating them from the shadows.
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Yo thanks for that man, real big ups.
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Another Forbes article contrasting corporate control of commercial art to fan requests: http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkai...commercial-art/
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Zzulu posted:The concept of imported profiles making a big impact in the sequels is a noble concept but most people I know of don't do that. They don't save the gamefiles so they can import them next year in the sequel. I wonder how many mainstream gamers actually bother with it ME2 data was that 50% of players imported saves, so... that's more than enough for developers to want to take them into account. Interestingly enough, only about 50% finished ME2. The same 50%?
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EDIT: ^^^ Curse you!  :IZzulu posted:The concept of imported profiles making a big impact in the sequels is a noble concept but most people I know of don't do that. They don't save the gamefiles so they can import them next year in the sequel. I wonder how many mainstream gamers actually bother with it  Granted that's for ME2 and that was only a couple of months after ME2's release I think, but 50% seems pretty high, especially if you consider that only 50% of all players even finish the game. I wouldn't be surprised if more than 50% of the people who even reached the ending of ME3 did so with an imported savegame.
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I heard Thane call me Siha in the forest. I was a male Shepard. Sorry, buddy, I didn't know you liked me like that!
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Zzulu posted:The only character on the Normandy I never liked was Jacob. Kaiden was dull but he was okay. Kaiden is just boring. Jacob is mostly boring with occasional forays into "dumber than a bag of hammers" and daddy issues. This Legion & Friends has a better portrayal of Jacob than the real Jacob.
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Zzulu posted:The only character on the Normandy I never liked was Jacob. Kaiden was dull but he was okay. This. Kaiden at least has a strange backstory about being sent to a "school" for Biotic youths and abused until he developed more of his powers. It's a little boring but still ok. Jacob has a surprise sex-planet his father ran. That's not really enough to overcome all the blandness. I was going to say Vega belongs on this list until I realized he's literally the son Shepard and Wrex could never have. And he's a bit funny. Also, here's a question: If you hate Kaiden, would you rather 1) blow him up with nuclear fire or 2) let him wallow in Ashley's nuclear fire death, wait through all of ME2 to make him think you're with Cerberus, and then plant a bullet in his head in ME3?
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Mr. Pumroy posted:
I didn't think of it that way, and I guess that would make sense. You weren't there to do everything in ME2 so this is how everything is instead. To me I just feel bad that people are missing out on a lot of badass moment, but I guess the assumption is you didn't play it before so it's not really as awesome of a moment to you. I think I feel more sorry for my friend because he did play from ME1 and then he hears me go on about "gently caress yeah Thane kicked rear end didn't he?" and he's all disappointed because he missed out on that. But the alternate universe where the suicide mission didn't really go according to plan and so many people are dead makes sense, and then would make the endings a bit more congruent... but not enough to justify them being a steaming pile of poo poo.
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sizuka2 posted:ME2 data was that 50% of players imported saves, so... that's more than enough for developers to want to take them into account. That statistic just seems wonky to me. HALF the people who buy a game (a sequel to boot) never finished it? What?
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Pocket Abortions posted:rear end Effect: A Massive rear end Biopic of Buttholes I see we have our own version of TaliSweat.jpg
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sizuka2 posted:The kid is... a kid. And should get a break for being twelve years old, and writing to the makers of a game he loved. I'm pretty confident he was hoping they'd make something awesome. Oh, don't get me wrong, I'm not accusing or blaming him of anything. You are right, he's just a kid. If Mac Walters was touched by his letter he should have poured that emotion into the ending of the game. Instead of whatever the hell he did.
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Zzulu posted:The only character on the Normandy I never liked was Jacob. Kaiden was dull but he was okay. Then this is for you. 
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Two people played Mass Effect 28 times Which one of you was this? 
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Zzulu posted:That statistic just seems wonky to me. HALF the people who buy a game (a sequel to boot) never finished it? What? I've heard that's not really uncommon. Plus, that probably includes rentals of the game.
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r1ngwthszzors posted:I know it's PC Gamer and stuff, but this is great: So many people are so wrong about the best companion/male shepard romance in the game. Must be terrible to be you all. Nuke ashley err'day
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Burning Mustache posted:EDIT: ^^^ Curse you! Your chart says that only 50% of all players finished the game within a couple of months. Not in total.
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Zzulu posted:That statistic just seems wonky to me. HALF the people who buy a game (a sequel to boot) never finished it? What? Most game buyers don't finish most games. From that perspective, you can see why they wouldn't focus on the ending since most won't reach it! From any reasonable perspective, though... write a drat ending.
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Zzulu posted:That statistic just seems wonky to me. HALF the people who buy a game (a sequel to boot) never finished it? What? I am an awful person and rarely beat most of the games I buy. That statistic doesn't sound too surprising, plus since it was released a few months into the game I'd bet that that percentage has moved up
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Zzulu posted:That statistic just seems wonky to me. HALF the people who buy a game (a sequel to boot) never finished it? What? That's pretty common for video games in general as far as I know. Keep in mind how many 'casual' gamers are out there that just buy a game and fire it up for an hour or so every couple of weeks because they just don't play video games more often than that, or parents / grandparents buying their kids a game they don't even care about and just toss them in a corner after firing them up once, etc.
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Mr. Pumroy posted:After I played through that I loaded up my paragon Shepard who saved goddamn everyone and that dumb dream forest with its voices of the dead is mighty empty. There's like, one instance of Mordin speaking after his death, and the rest of the time it's just generic voices whispering "Shepard" while I run after that drat kid just before he self immolates in protest at being in this game. I did the opposite of you, played my saved everyone Shep first and goddamn were the dream sequences boring. I don't think I even heard Mordin after he died. Later on, playing through with the Shep who let everybody die, it was actually interesting trying to identify the different voices of the dead squad and crew.
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Zzulu posted:That statistic just seems wonky to me. HALF the people who buy a game (a sequel to boot) never finished it? What? 50% is high for a game. The vast majority of people who purchase a game will never finish the single player campaign, and that number decreases the longer the game is. One thing achievements have done is make it very easy for developers to get a rough estimate of what people do in a game, how much of a game they finish, what features they do/don't skip, ect.
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sassassin posted:Your chart says that only 50% of all players finished the game within a couple of months. Not in total. Chart's from September of 2010, ME2 released in January 2010 - wouldn't be many who were still halfway through by then who were still going to finish. I think we can say that's a fair approximation of the average completion rate.
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Zzulu posted:That statistic just seems wonky to me. HALF the people who buy a game (a sequel to boot) never finished it? What? poo poo, theres a thread dedicated to games people started yet never finished and Mass Effect(along with quite a few other popular games) comes up regularly.
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sassassin posted:Your chart says that only 50% of all players finished the game within a couple of months. Not in total. Yes but the 50% mark is generally a pretty good rule of thumb, not only for a couple of months, but for a game's entire lifetime, or so I've been told by people who know a lot more about this than me (i.e. game developers).
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Zzulu posted:That statistic just seems wonky to me. HALF the people who buy a game never finishes it? What? http://steamcommunity.com/stats/Portal2/achievements Lunacy - 58% http://steamcommunity.com/stats/Ser...FE/achievements Serious Sam - 9.3% http://steamcommunity.com/stats/AlanWake/achievements Hardboiled Writer - 23.8% http://steamcommunity.com/stats/DXHR/achievements Trooper - 43.1% It alternates a bit, but its usually between 25-40% of people actually finish games they buy, at least according to Steam achievements.
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sizuka2 posted:Then this is for you. An N7 toilet  What the hell, does Shep just go through the ship slapping "N7" stickers on poo poo and going "This here is mine!" ... Which I guess further explains Jack's N7 tattoo if you romance her 
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Weirdos who buy sequels and never finish them Mass Effect 2 was totally worth finishing In fact, the finish was the best part
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mania posted:I did the opposite of you, played my saved everyone Shep first and goddamn were the dream sequences boring. I don't think I even heard Mordin after he died. Later on, playing through with the Shep who let everybody die, it was actually interesting trying to identify the different voices of the dead squad and crew. This was my experience, too. I literally did not realize there was more than one voice, until I read it here.
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Cthulu Carl posted:An N7 toilet It's an occupation code. Alliance procurement certifies equipment for the unique demands of special forces operations. I.e.:  It may seem odd, but there are all kinds of issues with the procurement process as it stands. 
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Every ME3-thread is surprisingly lacking in (weird) fan-art     Also, here's Garrus 
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Mainly because it starts to de-evolve the thread into really creepy poo poo territory and bad fanart that was posted ironically starts to be posted seriously.
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Please don't post poo poo or weird fan-art, thank you.
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Funkz posted:Also, here's Garrus If ever there was a Mass Effect equivalent of  ...
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