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Knuc U Kinte posted:Are you slow? Poe's law. It always read like irony, I was just curious. You never know, y'know.
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Cythereal posted:Garrus would completely agree if he had a reaction to that line. Garrus never says "Let's go get that human bastard!" about the Illusive Man or whoever though. It just seems like Ash is looking forward to shooting a Turian a little too much.
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Oct 25, 2014 11:48
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Most turians are assholes, Garrus is just one of the good ones.
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Oct 25, 2014 12:17
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As much as by-the-book cops are assholes. And truly, keeping you waiting because you forgot to fill out form 751-b is epitome of rear end in a top hat. Almost as bad as Vogons.
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Oct 25, 2014 12:25
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Garrus's romance is the best because Mordin tells you to not swallow with a completely straight face.
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Oct 25, 2014 12:59
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Krowley posted:Most turians are assholes, Garrus is just one of the good ones. She's not racist, she has a Turian friend you see.
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Oct 25, 2014 14:29
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Mymla posted:Garrus's romance is the best because Mordin tells you to not swallow with a completely straight face. Dammit now you're making me wish I went with FemShep!
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Oct 25, 2014 17:37
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AnimeJune posted:Dammit now you're making me wish I went with FemShep! I for one love his friendship with FemShep, but the romance just makes it very awkward in my opinion. I really like Garrus as Shepard's rock-solid second in command, probably her best friend in the galaxy, and very firmly uninterested in the contents of her pants.
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Oct 25, 2014 17:40
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Bioware's streaming the game here for Extra Life if anyone's interested. http://www.twitch.tv/raptr
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Oct 25, 2014 18:15
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I don't remember Dragon Age 2, but I really hate how in Dragon Age Origins as soon as you select a dialog option it'll skip whatever the other dude is currently saying. I've accidentally skipped through so many conversations that way. I'd like to select things WHILE the person is speaking so there's no dead time in between dialog. I can read and listen at the same time you bastiches. I hope DA3 isn't like that.
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Oct 25, 2014 19:43
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Drifter posted:I don't remember Dragon Age 2, but I really hate how in Dragon Age Origins as soon as you select a dialog option it'll skip whatever the other dude is currently saying. I've accidentally skipped through so many conversations that way. That's something they pretty much fixed in two, I thought?
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Oct 25, 2014 20:19
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FuriousGeorge posted:Bioware's streaming the game here for Extra Life if anyone's interested. Pretty area, the one there're in there.
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Oct 25, 2014 20:26
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Mymla posted:Garrus's romance is the best because Mordin tells you to not swallow with a completely straight face. God damnit, now I gotta go back and play ME2 now as femShep.
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Oct 25, 2014 20:29
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Robzilla posted:God damnit, now I gotta go back and play ME2 now as femShep. Eh, just watch it on youtube That said, Mass Effect is really a great series.  I may try to go through it again (with the requisite mining cheats or whatever) before Dragon Age. I got a month. I've only ever done Adept (mage supremacy) so perhaps I'll give Vanguard a shot.
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Oct 25, 2014 20:42
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Drifter posted:Eh, just watch it on youtube That Salarian sounds an awful lot like Bill Hader. Which makes that scene even funnier.
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Oct 25, 2014 21:05
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Everyone should at least run through ME1 as a soldier once, just to see how hilarious it gets even at the highest difficulty. You melt everything under 2 seconds and you become literally invulnerable, it's such a huge powertrip.
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Oct 25, 2014 21:23
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Drifter posted:I may try to go through it again (with the requisite mining cheats or whatever) before Dragon Age. I got a month. I've only ever done Adept (mage supremacy) so perhaps I'll give Vanguard a shot.
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Oct 25, 2014 21:28
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Stroop There It Is posted:Vanguard works fine but is kind of boring in ME1. It's miles better in 2, and the greatest in 3. Aside from the, naturally best, playstyle of Adept in ME1, what's the next best class for ME1?
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Oct 25, 2014 21:35
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Drifter posted:Aside from the, naturally best, playstyle of Adept in ME1, what's the next best class for ME1? I really like Engineer in ME1. What you bring to the table is the ability to completely gently caress people over. Not the best damage output or resilience, but sabotage and overload are wonderful tricks to spam.
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Oct 25, 2014 21:36
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Yeah playing engineer turns pretty much every Geth encounter into a complete joke.
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Oct 25, 2014 21:41
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paragon1 posted:Yeah playing engineer turns pretty much every Geth encounter into a complete joke. Also pirates. Sabotage doesn't help much versus krogan, but overload can. The engineer's only real trouble spots are the few missions with hostile bugs and the plant zombies, which are immune to the engineer's powers. Those are infrequent enemies, fortunately. Engineer Shepard even gets some class-specific lines in ME3's DLC because it's the most seldom-played class in the series.
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The biggest design sins of Mass Effect 2: They changed what was going to be the most interesting ammo system ever into a bog standard ammo system that every other FPS has had since the beginning of time. Originally, the ammo system was going to work like it did in Mass Effect 1, but instead of having just one thermal clip/cooldown meter per gun, you'd have something like 3-5 clips you could rotate between. Overheat a clip? Either wait for it to cooldown or just rotate out for the next clip instantly. Clips on your belt would cool off much slower than clips in the gun, so the resource dilemma for ammo if a clip overheated would have effectively always been making the choice between waiting for your current overheated clip to cool back down in the heat of battle or changing out the overheated clip for more ammo right now at the cost of having to wait longer for that clip to cool down later on. It would have been a really interesting resource to manage I think. Instead, we got a completely boring, normal ammo system the devs just named "thermal clips" while still behaving exactly like normal ammo in every other game. Also, each ability cooldown didn't just apply a cooldown to itself like they should have, they applied a cooldown to every one of your abilities. It was really stupid. Basically a long cooldown ability would stop you from using every single other trick you had up your sleeve until it was time to use the big ability again. It was retarded and cooldowns should have only affected their own abilities. So basically, in some instances they followed the beaten path when they shouldn't have and at other times, they left it when they should've stayed on it. enabling infinite ammo and no cooldown cheats is the only way to play ME2. I never played 3 so I couldn't tell you if things improved in that game or not. GreatGreen fucked around with this message at 22:01 on Oct 25, 2014 |
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Wait, but is engineer something I'd have to play through for each game after ME1, then? Or can I do engineer and then vanguard for ME2 and 3? Also, any particularly memorable specific lines in 3 for the engineer?
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Oct 25, 2014 21:56
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Pretty sure you can change classes at the start of each game even if you import saves from previous games.
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Half the mod staff on the Dragon Age subreddit has just been fired over allegations of slut shaming. When did Bioware go from having the best fanbase in gaming to attracting this kind of subhuman scum? In happier news, today's stream is on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKSxPWkGFMw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQfKw2JYqCo
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Oct 25, 2014 22:01
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GreatGreen posted:Pretty sure you can change classes at the start of each game even if you import saves from previous games. You can, yeah. Even if you import saves you can change class and Shepard's appearance at the start of each. quote:Also, any particularly memorable specific lines in 3 for the engineer? There's one class-specific line in vanilla ME3 when Liara talks about Shep and one of her comments describes Shepard in terms of his/her class, but in the Omega and Citadel DLCs it comes up a couple of times. In Citadel Shep will shush a lady explaining some technobabble by displaying his/her own command of technobabble, while in Omega Engineer Shep can shortcut a "big hard choice with no easy answer" by rerouting the whatsit to the whatchamacallit and reversing polarity on the thingamabob to save the day.
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Oct 25, 2014 22:06
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GreatGreen posted:The biggest design sins of Mass Effect 2: Much like reinventing the wheel, sometimes innovation for innovations sake is just a waste of everyone's time.
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Cythereal posted:You can, yeah. Even if you import saves you can change class and Shepard's appearance at the start of each. That's neat, because one of my big complaints playing through my Shepard the first time was that she was an Engineer, but literally no one acknowledged it. Like even though I'm theoretically one of the top combat engineers in the alliance, capable of hacking AI systems in instants and what not, everyone still had to explain techno-poo poo like my character was a stupid grunt.
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Mass Effect 2's gameplay and combat design are really strong and complaining that it has, for instance, shared cooldowns betrays a total lack of understanding of how the combat in that game works. It's not particularly intuitive that using any ability starts a cooldown on all your abilities, but it's important to ME2's combat flow, which wants to emphasise moments of tension where you have to survive without resources as punctuation to unloading a clip, using medi-gel or casting a spell. The cooldown on any given ability is rarely long - in a game that has no secondary resource gating the use of abilities, the shared cooldown system prevents players from alpha striking with their spells or putting them into constant rotation. The alternatives are introducing a mana bar or unilaterally increasing the cooldown on all abilities dramatically (Mass Effect 1 took this approach, and had the worse combat for it).
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KittyEmpress posted:That's neat, because one of my big complaints playing through my Shepard the first time was that she was an Engineer, but literally no one acknowledged it. Like even though I'm theoretically one of the top combat engineers in the alliance, capable of hacking AI systems in instants and what not, everyone still had to explain techno-poo poo like my character was a stupid grunt. Yeah, in Citadel an NPC notes that she forgot Shepard was an engineer because all the propaganda just shows Shepard shooting people.  Bioware said they put in those nods to Engineer Shep in Omega and Citadel specifically because it had been the least-played class by a good margin in all three games. It's my personal favorite class in 3. Never been able to beat the game on insanity as any other class, or the mirror match arena in Citadel on veteran or harder.
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Cythereal posted:It's my personal favorite class in 3. Never been able to beat the game on insanity as any other class, or the mirror match arena in Citadel on veteran or harder. I thought it was pretty easy as an adept. Just spec for maximum biotic explosion synergy between skills and tear things up. You basically never have to fire a gun.
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Adept supremacy. How different from Adept class is the Engineer class? Does engineer just give you like a robot pet or something?
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Drifter posted:How different from Adept class is the Engineer class? Does engineer just give you like a robot pet or something? Kind of. You get summonable combat drones and a gun turret, as well as various debuffing powers.
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CottonWolf posted:Kind of. You get summonable combat drones and a gun turret, as well as various debuffing powers. Later in the trilogy, though. No drones in 1. In 1, Adept powers mainly focus on physics fun while Engineer powers destroy shields and jam weapons and whatnot. Engineer Shepard in 3 can get hilarious depending on what powers you pick. You can easily bring along three pets (two drones and a turret), potentially alongside a squadmate who gets two drones of her own.
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A. Beaverhausen posted:Poe's law. It always read like irony, I was just curious. You never know, y'know. My love is real, it is certainly not a joke. ----------------
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Leelee posted:What system specs do I need to run this game? vivisecting fucked around with this message at 23:11 on Oct 25, 2014 |
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SNAKES N CAKES posted:Half the mod staff on the Dragon Age subreddit has just been fired over allegations of slut shaming. When did Bioware go from having the best fanbase in gaming to attracting this kind of subhuman scum? Why the hell does the hair look so ugly compared to the nice faces.
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SNAKES N CAKES posted:Half the mod staff on the Dragon Age subreddit has just been fired over allegations of slut shaming. When did Bioware go from having the best fanbase in gaming to attracting this kind of subhuman scum? Haha I remember David Gaider raging about "slutshaming" on the BSN forums when people mocked Isabella's lack of pants.
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Cythereal posted:Later in the trilogy, though. No drones in 1. There was a very funny instance for me in 1 as an Engineer, on Feros, where two Geth Snipers were waiting on this platform over a door. They start aiming for you when you enter pretty much first thing. I cast AI hacking on one, and they both immediately target each other. Because of where they are they can't move, so they both turn at the waist and big red lasers appear and they instantly kill each other. Really wish I had a .gif of it.
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Knuc U Kinte posted:Why the hell does the hair look so ugly compared to the nice faces. I wish I knew man. I mean, look at this:  Roll Qunari so people will be looking at your horns instead of your awful, awful hair.
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