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grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!
Mass Effect 2: Armour, who needs Armour?

Drinkin' at 11:00AM on a Sunday morning and Cerberus seems to have fixed Shepard's stupid run. Not a bad start.

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grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

Torrannor posted:

Can't wait for you to gently caress things up, vanguard style. And without one of the worst inventory systems in video games!

I do think it's kind of funny that Bioware looked at the complaints about ME1 and thought "Hmm, well, nobody really liked the inventory so let's get rid of it completely. That makes sense!". Hell, they even sort of brought in a driving section, though the Hammerhead is shitloads more fun than the Mako ever was.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

SubponticatePoster posted:

Update will be posted tonight. I hope Wednesdays are ok for drinking :ohdear:

There are days that aren't good for drinking?

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!
Episode 1:

Butts: I'll never work for Cerberus! Never ever ever ever ever!

Episode 2:

Butts: Meh, alright. Not like I have anything else interesting to do.




Brings me to my first real complaint about this game: Why in the gently caress do like half of your squadmates not wear armour? Jacob is supposed to be a career soldier and a combat veteran and he more or less runs around in a space onesie with shoulder pads. Miranda's outfit looks like it was spray painted on.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

Kurieg posted:

Because Mass Effect shields are so much better at ablation than armor. Guys who wear heavy armor are either not good enough with tech or biotics to manage them on their own. Garrus is the only real aberration.

Everyone wore armour in ME1

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

Kurieg posted:

That's medium, and that's roughly equivalent to what Jacob's wearing when you find him, sans helmet.

Not even remotely similar. Jacob's outfit has nothing resembling armour plating except for the weird rear end bits on his shoulders.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!
Ah, drinkin' at noon on a Sunday. Life is good

Also:



Cheerfully stolen from Badspot.us

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

skoolmunkee posted:

There's a lot of non specified crew on the ship though. I always thought the named few you meet are just kind of representative.

I was usually more puzzled about what all those stations on the CIC area are for. How much sitting in chairs poking at screens can a ship need?

Only like, 3 of them are actually for running the ship. The rest are for watching porn.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

J.theYellow posted:

So far the profiles of the new Normandy crew sounds like the kind of army a corporate entity would come up with if all it had was money and all we could get were humans. But I guess there aren't human mercs in the ME universe.

There are a lot of human mercenaries in the ME universe. A LOT of them, something we will find out soon.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

SubponticatePoster posted:

I live in Utah. Grocery stores carry beer and if you're lucky some Mr & Mrs T margarita mix. :saddowns:

I live in Canada. We can only get liquor at regulated government liquor stores and they make us beg for it like Oliver Twist and his bowl of gruel.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

pointlessone posted:

"Please Sir, may I have some hooch?"

Is there any way to not have to play #1 and still have Wrex for your party, or does space racist shoot him in retaliation for not slogging through it?

The default state has Wrex dead. If you're on PC you can download a save from https://www.masseffectsaves.com and import it in to your game, dunno about consoles.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

Aces High posted:

more accurately it sounds like you live in Ontario, us Albertans can buy as much booze as we want at any corner liquor store. None of this LCBO bullshit

BC, actually. We have private liquor stores but they're so heavily regulated they have the same hours and often higher prices than government owned stores.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!
This LP is going to have a serious casualty count based on the drinking games so far.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!
YOU CAN'T TELL ME TO DO




*passes out face down and pantsless on the front lawn again*

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!
Butts: No looting!

Looter: Why?

Butts: BECAUSE IT'S ALL MINE, ASSHOLES

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!
Kasumi the character is awesome and it gives you a bar on the Normandy. The question is why would you NOT get that DLC?

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!
I still like the Tempest, personally. The large clip and firing rate are great for my preferred Infiltrator strategy, which is cloak, run up behind enemies and unload half a clip in to the back of their head.

Locust is great, otherwise.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

SubponticatePoster posted:

Renegade interrupts I always take:

That guy by the window in Thane's recruitment mission
The guy yapping at you in Miranda's loyalty mission
Headbutting Uvenk

Every time I boot that dude out of the window in Thane's recruitment window I just want Shep to lean over and yell "CAN YOU FLY, YOU SUCKER?"

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

Regalingualius posted:

And then there's what you can do at the end of Samara's sidequest in 3. That's probably one of the only times in the series where going full Renegade is such a blatantly evil choice that can't just be rationalized away.

Unlocking Dominate as a bonus power :colbert:



(Yes I know Reave is more useful)

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!
I want a vorcha for a pet! It would be super fun.

*hissss* RIP YOUR FAAAAACE

Oh, aren't you just adorable! Do you want a cookie?

*hisssss* GIVE ME COOOOOKIE!



Also, Mordin's the best squad member in the game purely for the little lines you get when you go to the lab to talk to him and he's too busy to talk.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

MA-Horus posted:

A man-portable WMD is pretty much the ideal weapon for a biotic psycho.

Niftu Cal has no need for weapons.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!
You don't pick up Archangel on Omega first? Interesting.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

SubponticatePoster posted:

I prefer having a heavy hitter for that "go off and close the doors section" to leave with him and I'm rotating out people as we acquire them. Zaeed's already seen double duty.

That makes sense. Grunt is fun to have around, especially when he does his little charge animation and knocks people over.

It does mean, though, that we'll have to wait for another update to see just how bugfuck crazy one of Butts' former squadmates went in two years.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!
Psychopaths with Firearms

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

SubponticatePoster posted:

I'm honestly not a huge fan of the Carnifex. It's fine on squadmates but the really low ammo count is too much of a pain in the rear end.

It helps that squadmates have unlimited ammo, which basically negates the biggest issue with the Carnifex. They also suck with the Phalanx.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!
Kasumi is super cool. I just wish you could actually have conversations with her and Zaeed like you can with the rest of the crew between missions.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

Xiphopagus posted:

Forget Andromeda; I want an ME sequel featuring Zaeed and Kasumi.

A stealth type game based in the ME universe would be pretty damned cool.

Edit: Also, Ken and Gabby get a goddamned room.

grack fucked around with this message at 03:40 on May 22, 2016

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!
Oh, and you should've totally taken Miranda and Jeremy along with you to the Citadel. I always thought it was funny as hell to wander around there with two uniformed members of a known terrorist organization while Bailey talks about how good security is now.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

monster on a stick posted:

Except Legion is on the Derelict Reaper, so unless they made it possible to do that mission first (which would have been a thing, it's one of the hardest missions, not to mention not making much sense story-wise) then he must have been recruitable somewhere else?

Legion's part on the Reaper is really small, though, just cutscenes and some dialogue, no gameplay. He's pretty much an afterthought in that mission.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

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SubponticatePoster posted:

Next Update's Ingredients
Bailey's
Kahlua
Buttershots (butterscotch schnapps)
Creme de Cacao
Raspberry liqueur
Half & Half

Oh my lord a reason to drink some of that half bottle of butterscotch schnapps someone left at my house last summer. THANK YOU

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

SubponticatePoster posted:

Look, if all you have at home is chocolate, raspberries, sugar and Everclear I ain't gonna judge.

You say that now but with that drink I'm gonna wake up facedown and pantsless on my neighbor's lawn again.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!
There should have been a Renegade interrupt option to punch the Volus. Or perhaps pick him up and throw him at the C-Sec officer.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!
I dunno about that, I just want to Fastball Special some Volus at NPCs that annoy me in-game. Like that C-Sec officer. And the reporter. And definitely the Turian council member.

:turianass:Ah yes, Colle-:turianass:

*THWACK*

"Do the air quotes again, dickhead. I dare you."

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!
Boob strap technology is so incredibly advanced in the Mass Effect universe. Truly a golden age.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

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SubponticatePoster posted:

As far as Jack goes, I don't mind her. She's got a bit too much "told u i was hardcore" going on, but her arc is decent. Also it's kind of fun to have someone around that really just doesn't give a gently caress. It's kind of surprising that they didn't make her romanceable for FemShep, since the only other SS option is Kelly, who doesn't really count (at least not for the achievement).

You can also be absolutely, staggeringly evil to Jack if you want to.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!
Mmmm

Sweet booze


Thank god I don't get hangovers

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!
There goes my childlike sense of wonder. I guess the only thing left to do is drown myself in alcohol and pass out on the neighbor's front lawn again.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!
Edit: Need to watch the full video before I post


Shoulda brought Zaeed, he gives the Blue Suns guy poo poo.

grack fucked around with this message at 04:12 on Jun 13, 2016

grack
Jan 10, 2012

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Butts: Garrus, buddy, what've you been up to the last few years?

Garrus: Oh, you know, some knitting, a little skiing, brutally murdering people with a sniper rifle.

Butts: Well that sounds ni.... wait, what?

Garrus: Don't worry Shepard, they were all bad people *nods*

Butts: Uh, okay. Just a silly question... how many of them had my face?

Garrus: Ha ha, Shep. You're funny.

Garrus: 60%, tops.

Shepard: :stonk:

Shepard: You're walking ahead of me from now on. Not negotiable.

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grack
Jan 10, 2012

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How do you forget about the smoking Elcor shopkeeper?

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