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SubponticatePoster posted:Or at least make it look like you really don't have any other option. If you want to play it renegade and go "gently caress yeah let's blow up some aliens" then jump right in but if you weren't at least ask the Alliance or the Council. I mean, both of them already have hosed you over multiple times, at least that way you could say you tried. I do love your CSEC buddy pushing through your paperwork while idly ranting about people declaring themselves dead as a tax dodge.
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Kurieg posted:I do love your CSEC buddy pushing through your paperwork while idly ranting about people declaring themselves dead as a tax dodge.
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SubponticatePoster posted:Or at least make it look like you really don't have any other option. If you want to play it renegade and go "gently caress yeah let's blow up some aliens" then jump right in but if you weren't at least ask the Alliance or the Council. I mean, both of them already have hosed you over multiple times, at least that way you could say you tried. Doesn't the game literally let you do that over the whole spectre thing?
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Poil posted:Wouldn't declaring yourself dead invalidate your id, licenses and credit cards? Do you think that really matters to Shepard?
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Regalingualius posted:Or at least have the Council/Alliance act with disbelief that you're alive again. "Who is this, and how the gently caress did you get Commander Shepard's ID tags?" would be an entirely reasonable reaction, at least, and could've been used to set up at least some early tension where you have to go off the grid because almost everyone you run into blows you off at best, and wants to arrest you for "impersonating" yourself at worst. Kurieg posted:I do love your CSEC buddy pushing through your paperwork while idly ranting about people declaring themselves dead as a tax dodge. grack posted:"Ah yes,  FoolyCharged posted:Doesn't the game literally let you do that over the whole spectre thing?
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The best part is my first PC was a veteran of Akuze. Meaning Adrian Shepard had found out that his whole squad was killed by Cerberus experimenting on what happens when you expose Marines to Thresher Maws (it turns out they die). There is no option to be even nonplussed about this, just lots of 'Well they're awful but maybe only an unaccountable psychopathic private organization can do the things government is TOO AFRAID TO GET DONE!' gently caress Cerberus.
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My first playthrough was also as a sole survivor. I was under the impression that Cerberus' goals in 1 had to do with them trying to create a super soldier or a super weapon, which is why they set up the Akuze ambush and why they were experimenting on Toombs, and why they took such an interest in Shepard, and I suspected Miranda of setting up the station attack as a test of whether Shepard was ready or not. Then it turned out I put more thought into it than the developers did.
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That's the funniest part about Cerberus. They're a constant parade of incredible stupidity. I actually thought for awhile that was intentional, that that was the clever twist. That while everyone was going 'Wow look how efficiently this incredibly, cartoonishly evil organization does things' the results were a constant 'Everyone dead, nothing of use discovered' as a kind of refutation of their bullshit. Actually Mac Walters is just a really bad writer, instead. 
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Fuckin' Citadel DLC is the best for that. "...and then I broke loose and started killing all their guys." So good and wonderful to see people not taking poo poo so seriously.
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SubponticatePoster posted:Should be How did I not know about this smiley? Also, it's nice to think that humanity's greatest contribution to galactic culture is sarcastic airquotes.
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And distribution of pornographic material on a massive scale. vvv asari are more hands on 
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Uh, we all know the Asari started doing that centuries ago.
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Poil posted:Wouldn't declaring yourself dead invalidate your id, licenses and credit cards? As SP mentioned, I think it was supposed to be a reference to the book "Restaurant at the end of the Universe" by Douglas Adams. Now I have a hankering to pull out my Hitchhiker's collection.
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Crap, a pop up We head off to Ilos in order to stop Saren from reaching the Conduit. But first we get busy with a certain Asari scientist (sorry, guys, not Rana). Hilariously this means if you want to create a manual save before heading off so you can redo the final mission with different squadmates you'll have to sit through banging whomever each time  Then we're treated to some choice overacting and get the world's longest info dump from a broken Siri equivalent. Seriously, it's like 20 minutes long. Needless to say when I'm not LPing the game I sit and mash square through it and don't bother asking extra questions. Apparently the Reapers have been doing this for millions of years and the only reason we're all not already dead is because the last few Protheans reprogrammed the ugly grasshoppers wandering around the Citadel and so Sovereign is down to plan Z which involves a grumpy Turian and religious robots. Also it seems the Rachni wars were one of Sov's earlier attempts. Just like in real life, the important people hosed off at the end of the last cycle and left an idiot in charge. For once we can be happy with management making poor personnel choices. Saren's already made it through so we'll have to hurry to catch him! Last episode will be up within the week and then I'll take a short break before picking up ME2.
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Finally some biotic butt action, even if it was way more awkward than I remembered.  Liara bringing up that she's not considered an adult kinda kills the mood however. Are we going to get a visit from an Asari Chris Hansen now? Shut the hell up Kaidan, we can get more nukes. Poil fucked around with this message at 11:57 on Apr 4, 2016 |
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Now I'm just hoping the video doesn't get yanked for copyright nonsense reasons. Good soundtrack for bionic butts IN SPAAAAAACCE. Also that whole drop-the-Mako scene afterwards on the bridge only reminds me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZR3vHe7ON4 Junior G-man fucked around with this message at 11:13 on Apr 4, 2016 |
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Junior G-man posted:Now I'm just hoping the video doesn't get yanked for copyright nonsense reasons. Good soundtrack for bionic butts IN SPAAAAAACCE. Not excactly yanked, but I'm getting the usual "might contain music from UMG" GEMA-Message here in germany. No video for me 
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Junior G-man posted:Now I'm just hoping the video doesn't get yanked for copyright nonsense reasons. Good soundtrack for bionic butts IN SPAAAAAACCE. SOLarian posted:Not excactly yanked, but I'm getting the usual "might contain music from UMG" GEMA-Message here in germany.
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SubponticatePoster posted:I'm sorry to all my German friends, this is a constant issue. There are workarounds out there to be able to view them, somebody in here might know. I just used a proxy. Luckily there are a lot free ones around.
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Glad you were able to find something. In other news, there was some leaked...not gameplay really but some MEA stuff: https://vid.me/p41b Next gen Mass Effect graphics 
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Poil posted:Liara bringing up that she's not considered an adult kinda kills the mood however. Are we going to get a visit from an Asari Chris Hansen now? It is kind of creepy. Tali's romance, still creepier. I think the music selection helps, though. Also, I forgot just how loving terrible that scene leading up to the Mako drop was. Here's an idea, though - if you know Saren is there, why don't you spend a few minutes shooting the place to poo poo first? grack fucked around with this message at 01:19 on Apr 5, 2016 |
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Sovereign citizen beatdown After spending valuable time screwing around with a dying computer we finally head off through the Conduit. Saren's already there and things have really gone to poo poo. Fires, death, and malfunctioning elevators. Sovereign tore through the Council's fleet like cheap toilet paper and if we can't stop it, the Reapers are gonna pour in and destroy all life as we know it. This is probably everyone's favorite setpiece in the game, and with good reason. That view when you first step out into empty air and things are all topsy-turvy is excellent. You have what appears to be a horizontal field when in actuality you're running vertically up the outside of the Presidium. Every now and then a piece of debris or an enemy will go hurtling by to remind you of this. Then you've got Sov off in the distance with his big tentacles smashing down and the Citadel's closed arms as a backdrop. It's some first class poo poo and those of us who love this game can forgive crappy inventory interfaces, myriad elevators and sketchy combat because they get us to this point. We talk Saren into blowing his brains out and then fight his reanimated skeleton. That's more than a few implants there, guy. I guess Sov decided to offload all its processing power into the thing because once you kill what's left of Saren it BSODs and gets obliterated by the Alliance ships. We let the Council live because we're We choose Anderson to be king hell poo poo of yoomanity because gently caress Udina for grounding us. Why yes, I hold grudges why do you ask? You can actually undo this decision later due to an oversight which I'll explain in the next thread. And then purposefully march off to get on yet another goddamn elevator. Also the ending shot is delightfully cheesy. And that's the LP folks! Gonna take a bit of a break, maybe a week or two before I pick up again. The next LP will have an added feature which I'm excited to try out and y'all can play along at home.
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Awesome LP again, just sad I didn't find the thread sooner. I've spent the last week or so going through most of the videos.SubponticatePoster posted:And that's the LP folks! Gonna take a bit of a break, maybe a week or two before I pick up again. The next LP will have an added feature which I'm excited to try out and y'all can play along at home. Ooh, do we get to choose who Shepard
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JT Jag posted:That's not a new feature, we did that this time. Nah, screw that. We should totally romance Garrus and make things awkward. Also, does anyone ever fight Saren in the final battle? I think everyone goes for the option that causes him to off himself.
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grack posted:Awesome LP again, just sad I didn't find the thread sooner. I've spent the last week or so going through most of the videos. JT Jag posted:And besides, we should stay loyal to Liara. And fighting Saren for the second time is boring, it's way more fun to get him to 
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Huh, so that's what the original Kiss Me Deadly sounds like The credit music for Mass Effect 1 is amazing, I still listen to it every now and then.
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Covok posted:Nah, screw that. We should totally romance Garrus and make things awkward. You get to see Saren riding his dumb hoverboard again though, that is worth the fight.
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I like to imagine Shepard listening to the music during the fight up the citadel and singing along. The citadel space battle is really cool with Sovereign just  through the defense fleet not giving a gently caress and Admiral Hackett being all "Negative! This is our only chance!". Shooting Geth, Saren and Saren/Sovereign interspersed with cutscenes of the fleet action really helps to make it feel epic and to give it a sense of urgency.If my memory is correct Wrex puts two bullets through Saren's head when making sure he's dead, everyone else just shoots once.
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This has been an excellent LP, as usual, SubponticatePoster. These last two videos showed off the best part of the game. I love gigantic infodumps, so I really liked the Vigil sequence. The revelations about the Citadel and the Conduit really surprised my in my first playthrough. That the small Mass Relay statue in the Citadel is an actual Mass Relay is good storytelling, it's amazing when you travel through the Conduit and emerge at it, it's a very nice moment. The whole battle of the Citadel, both the fleet action around Sovereign, and Shepards battles with the Geth and Saren are pretty amazing as well. All in all, despite being a pretty unpolished game, the ending makes up for it. It's a "nice" contrast to ME 3.
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hard counter posted:I imagine this one, when all was said and done, was easier to edit together than Dragon Age Inquisition Last time I looked at the timestamp on a save it was at 20 hours. Whole thing clocked in at under 25. The filler content isn't bad for a first playthrough, but by now everyone's seen it and it doesn't lend itself well to LPing because it's just 30 hours of the same thing. Poil posted:I like to imagine Shepard listening to the music during the fight up the citadel and singing along. We at least know in 2 that Garrus listens to tunes while he blasts off fools' faces. Also psychological warfare by making enemies listen to terrible music. "Batarian slavers, you say? Turn on the Air Supply, 160 decibels!"Torrannor posted:This has been an excellent LP, as usual, SubponticatePoster. These last two videos showed off the best part of the game. I love gigantic infodumps, so I really liked the Vigil sequence. The revelations about the Citadel and the Conduit really surprised my in my first playthrough. That the small Mass Relay statue in the Citadel is an actual Mass Relay is good storytelling, it's amazing when you travel through the Conduit and emerge at it, it's a very nice moment. 
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Thank you for this LP Subponticate Poster! I have enjoyed it immensely. Another thing though, I really don't get everyone being so uncomfortable with Liara's age. She says that she is barely an adult by her species standards. I interpret that as her age corresponding to 18/19 human years. Shepard is 30 at the most by my estimate, probably somewhat younger. Is that really such a huge age difference?
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MA-Horus posted:Plus, we get to roll with Grunt and Legion soon as biotic Miley Cyrus. That's a plus. Vanguard gameplay will also be in for a big boost
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