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Kurieg posted:Conrad?
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# ? Jan 18, 2016 23:03 |
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For some reason if he survives, it sets both paragon and renegade flags for how you resolved the conflict. If you fix it manually in something like Gibbed the plot plays out just fine.
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# ? Jan 18, 2016 23:40 |
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Ashley Man, you guys weren't kidding
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# ? Jan 19, 2016 01:43 |
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Ashley raises a number of excellent points 10/10 would not virmire again
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# ? Jan 19, 2016 02:22 |
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Ashley is basically the only character from the first game that I could see ever sympathizing with cerberus
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# ? Jan 19, 2016 02:42 |
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Up Circle posted:Ashley is basically the only character from the first game that I could see ever sympathizing with cerberus
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# ? Jan 19, 2016 03:08 |
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well this is a line between acknowledging the galaxy is run by selfish assholes so being one is just par of the course and believing things like thresher maw acid + human blood = science
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# ? Jan 19, 2016 06:22 |
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hard counter posted:well this is a line between acknowledging the galaxy is run by selfish assholes so being one is just par of the course One of the things I dislike about ME is how much 2 and 3 make this absolutely correct.
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# ? Jan 19, 2016 06:35 |
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hard counter posted:well this is a line between acknowledging the galaxy is run by selfish assholes so being one is just par of the course But if that were true, the Turians would deny the Reapers exist, the Asari would be keeping all this advanced technology secret, and the Salarians would still be doing dumb poo poo like uplifting species even while defending the genophage.
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# ? Jan 19, 2016 08:04 |
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monster on a stick posted:But if that were true, the Turians would deny the Reapers exist, the Asari would be keeping all this advanced technology secret, and the Salarians would still be doing dumb poo poo like uplifting species even while defending the genophage.
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# ? Jan 19, 2016 08:06 |
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Up Circle posted:Ashley is basically the only character from the first game that I could see ever sympathizing with cerberus
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# ? Jan 19, 2016 08:08 |
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SubponticatePoster posted:And when you meet her in 2 she's like "hey I'm a Klansman but I'm no fuckin' Nazi" And then she keeps doing it in 3. For the love of gently caress, woman, I blew up everything they've ever wanted in one fell swoop and you still think I'm working for them after you let Udina play you like a fiddle? And you wonder why I'm sleeping with the Quarian now?
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# ? Jan 19, 2016 08:24 |
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Kurieg posted:And then she keeps doing it in 3. For the love of gently caress, woman, I blew up everything they've ever wanted in one fell swoop and you still think I'm working for them after you let Udina play you like a fiddle? And you wonder why I'm sleeping with the Quarian now?
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# ? Jan 19, 2016 08:25 |
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JT Jag posted:Your mistake for sleeping with Ashley in the first place. I wanted the paramour achievement and my only other option was a 90 year old pre-teen, it felt really creepy in my first playthrough.
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# ? Jan 19, 2016 08:28 |
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Kurieg posted:I wanted the paramour achievement and my only other option was a 90 year old pre-teen, it felt really creepy in my first playthrough. She's only 106 that's at least 18 in Asari years!
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# ? Jan 19, 2016 09:04 |
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Thessia must've had really forgiving predators if someone could spend a whole century being a useless baby
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# ? Jan 19, 2016 09:16 |
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They were basically uplifted by the protheans with enough advanced tech that they probably didn't have to worry about predators.
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# ? Jan 19, 2016 09:18 |
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hard counter posted:Thessia must've had really forgiving predators if someone could spend a whole century being a useless baby That's part of the problems with being a species that has a natural lifespan of 1000 years, you can afford to spend a few hundred years doing nothing important, which has the knock on effect of causing you to stagnate as a species as you spend centuries doing nothing, while shorter lived species like Humans actually do the grunt work and get things done.
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# ? Jan 19, 2016 09:26 |
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I bet there are asari that have spent whole centuries vegetating infront of a screen leveling their
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# ? Jan 19, 2016 09:32 |
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Judge Tesla posted:That's part of the problems with being a species that has a natural lifespan of 1000 years, you can afford to spend a few hundred years doing nothing important, which has the knock on effect of causing you to stagnate as a species as you spend centuries doing nothing, while shorter lived species like Humans actually do the grunt work and get things done.
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# ? Jan 19, 2016 09:34 |
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berenzen posted:They were basically uplifted by the protheans with enough advanced tech that they probably didn't have to worry about predators. Truly a shame
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# ? Jan 19, 2016 09:38 |
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aren't the krogan a long lived species as well? At least that's the impression that bartender gives in ME2
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# ? Jan 19, 2016 10:37 |
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Aces High posted:aren't the krogan a long lived species as well? At least that's the impression that bartender gives in ME2 They are, but unlike the Asari they blew their homeworld back to the stone age and the genophage did the rest.
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# ? Jan 19, 2016 11:26 |
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Not to mention the whole 'they keep killing each other a lot' thing that was going on even before the genophage made that an actual problem for them.
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# ? Jan 19, 2016 12:53 |
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EponymousMrYar posted:Not to mention the whole 'they keep killing each other a lot' thing that was going on even before the genophage made that an actual problem for them.
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# ? Jan 19, 2016 12:57 |
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Kurieg posted:They also made the Batarian punch an equippable item late in multiplayer's lifecycle with predictable results. Ah, memories.
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# ? Jan 19, 2016 14:20 |
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Aces High posted:aren't the krogan a long lived species as well? At least that's the impression that bartender gives in ME2 Also apparently Asari are placental mammals but that doesn't get brought up either.
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# ? Jan 19, 2016 17:15 |
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I just love the devastation Ashley discussion brings to any internet board. You'd think we're hundreds of years early for species guilt, but apparently we're not.
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# ? Jan 19, 2016 17:25 |
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One thing the third game sort of did okay at was making any weirdness behind the Asari species compared to the others is that they are literally a science experiment. So fast maturation but long lives are something that was done to them not natural. Still doesn't explain the breasts because as far as I can tell Protheans are insectoid and Asari were probably some sort of amphibian/reptile before the Protheans did science to them. I mean most of the other races kind of work as a natural evolution, and the Asari are wierd because they aren't natural.
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# ? Jan 19, 2016 17:36 |
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That is one of the neater bits with Javik, if you encourage him to use the memory shard he becomes suicidal and morose but if you don't, and encourage him to reconcile with Liara, he does some introspection on what his culture did and eventually decides not to kill himself and writes a book on Prothean Culture with her.
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# ? Jan 19, 2016 17:54 |
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JT Jag posted:Meanwhile you've got the Salarians that live to like 30 and do their best Jason Statham in Crank impression for that entire span The Salarians have pretty much been my favorites from the first game. Always running around like over-caffeinated speed freaks, multi-tasking (I'm guessing) out of some kind of OCD reaction to their mortality. Since we're ok with talking about spoilers, I know just about everyone's favorite is Mordin (naturally enough), but I took an insanity run save into ME3 that had gotten him killed during the suicide run at the end of ME2. And the replacement Mordin is pretty good, and even had one of my biggest laugh out loud moments. While Padok, the replacement salarian crew member, is working on the genophage cure, he starts to imagine what krogan sex must be like: That reverie interrupted by a moment of shock/horror made me put down the controller for a while, I was laughing so hard.
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# ? Jan 19, 2016 19:05 |
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Aces High posted:aren't the krogan a long lived species as well? At least that's the impression that bartender gives in ME2 Theoretically yes but considering Wrex's commentary last video, not in practice. You can think of them like those theoretically extremely long-lived jellyfish that have robust body/DNA repair mechanisms so they barely age, if at all. Scientists like to imagine there's the one out there that's millennias and millennias old even though typical members of the species die before ten since nature has absolutely no chill and is always looking to kill a motherfucker. Tuchanka likewise has no chill and due its radioactivity and extreme predators krogans became tanks. Asari more closely follow the paradigm that longer lived = longer maturation especially since centenarians are still babbies over there.
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# ? Jan 19, 2016 19:45 |
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Pastrymancy posted:Ashley Great, this again. I hate to break it too you She's entirely loving CORRECT based on the next 2 games Again, the main difference between renegade and paragon (my interpretation) is that renegade embraces this most of the time (with a dash of rear end in a top hat mixed in) while paragon acknowledges it but tries to be better than that (and keeps telling everybody what a dumb attitude this is). monster on a stick posted:But if that were true, the Turians would deny the Reapers exist, the Asari would be keeping all this advanced technology secret, and the Salarians would still be doing dumb poo poo like uplifting species even while defending the genophage. Thanks, I feel like I needed a laugh mauman fucked around with this message at 21:18 on Jan 19, 2016 |
# ? Jan 19, 2016 21:14 |
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I know this is open spoilers but I was wondering if you could maybe not talk about it in the videos? Skimming a thread is easy, avoiding spoilers when watching the vids is much harder. I know this game is old but I have managed to stay unspoiled so far.
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# ? Jan 19, 2016 23:33 |
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I'll do what I can but won't make any promises. A lot of the stuff we're doing is specifically to trigger stuff in future games.
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# ? Jan 21, 2016 00:41 |
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Callback Cavalcade Doing some sidequests that carry into the next games. Helena turns up in Afterlife in 2 if you don't shoot her and Nassana meets her end at the hands of Thane whether you do this quest or not. No, we didn't punch Khalisa because this option gets you Hackett explaining she looks like a nut in her segment. Don't fret, there will be some future punching. Also squad AI goes haywire and everyone crawls up Shep's rear end.
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# ? Jan 21, 2016 19:00 |
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How can anyone resist not punching her? It's great. It's even better than headbutting a krogan.SubponticatePoster posted:Also squad AI goes haywire and everyone crawls up Shep's rear end. Poil fucked around with this message at 19:15 on Jan 21, 2016 |
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Poil posted:How can anyone resist not punching her? It's great. It's even better than headbutting a krogan. e: and the Volus kicks her in the shins
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# ? Jan 21, 2016 19:14 |
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SubponticatePoster posted:My favorite thing is the video you can find from LotSB where a Krogan punches her edit Oh god, the combat dialog. I had completely suppressed that. I will destroy you! I will destroy you! Go go go! I will destroy you! Enemies everywhere! I will destroy you! You must die! Go go go! Poil fucked around with this message at 19:30 on Jan 21, 2016 |
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Poil posted:How can anyone resist not punching her? It's great. It's even better than headbutting a krogan. pretty easy actually. Shep delivers some solid as hell verbal beatdowns if you go that route, and it pays off in ME3 better in my opinion. Now, punching random scientist on Eden Prime, headbutting krogan, pushing mercs out of windows, yeah all of that. I just never felt the urge to be like "hey you're asking me questions I don't like nrghfghfhg i'll just punch you" when "hey you're asking lovely loaded questions, I'm gonna turn that around and beat you at your own game" was available. Far more opportunities to feel smug about the latter.
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