Rhymenoserous posted:

Sadly the worst parts of this game are in the first 5 hours or so when most games are trying to set the hook. Once things open up with companion missions etc it starts to get pretty good. But holy poo poo that first five hours or so sucked.

TheCenturion posted:

There's no justification for 'Meet X in Kadara port. Return to Tempest. Read email. Go right back to Kadara port to do the next bit.'

Iron Crowned posted:

IT's a minor annoyance, but why does the Tempest need to take off every time you go back on it? Sometimes I just want to change my shirt

Iron Crowned posted:

IT's a minor annoyance, but why does the Tempest need to take off every time you go back on it? Sometimes I just want to change my shirt

Rinkles posted:

The Ebon Hawk worked that way.

Iron Crowned posted:

IT's a minor annoyance, but why does the Tempest need to take off every time you go back on it? Sometimes I just want to change my shirt

Moola posted:

If you hand me a bowl of poo poo, which looks like poo poo, and smells like poo poo, and has flies buzzing around it, I don't need to eat it to know it's poo poo

Haledjian posted:

Yeah, it would have been really cool to see Podromos out the window or whatever. I'm guessing it's probably a memory issue--the Tempest interior is pretty heavy, so they can't show it AND a planet surface at the same time.

I think I remember in ME1 you could go inside the Normandy without leaving the planet, but you couldn't see outside, right?

precision posted:

I didn't say anyone should stop saying the game is bad, I just don't think anything is to be accomplished from trying to convince people who haven't played the game that it's good. Or, for that matter, from trying to convince people who are enjoying the game (that you haven't played) that they shouldn't be.

Tei posted:

Wild speculations about the race that made the relics:

So this race, the Jadaar, they live in these high tech structures that probably grow themselves from algorithms. The messages in the panels in the structures make it look like a society like the human one, with individuals, different agendas and opinions.

The Jardeen where ethically challenged, perhaps. They had absolutely no problem playing god. Create a new race? thats a good idea. We have to run away? leave behind these new guys.

They short of worship "the machine of life". Is that a thing or a philosophy? Is that "all life" or just the programming code of life?

Their enemy is against life. The oposition. So the enemy is... machines?, maybe the enemy is just a race or entity that don't want the universe filled with wars, civilization collapses and that sort of thing. The opposition don't need to be bad. But they probably are. I bet they are just machines.

So the Jadaar created programmable matter, and had it building structures in space and in planets, to terramorph these planets. Then they created in these planet life and even self-aware creatures (the angara).

These self-aware creatures started using the programable buildings has houses. They developed a space faring civilization.

THEN the opposition showed, and the Jadaar where scared of their poo poo. The had to flee and abandon everything. Then something happend and the killing fog thing was spread around the area, one of the effects is that it crashed the Angara civilization.

Then the kett showed, a commander was assigned the area to capture the population into their culture. The angaran society was already in disarray, but this new foe made things worse.
Not only that, but the jardeen programable building started to malfunction, the terraformation of the planets stopped or was reverted in some cases. Their ecosystems turning toxic or dying. The killing fog was in some cases colliding with planets destroying them.

TheCenturion posted:

Open World needs to just stop being a thing. Or at least, stop being used the way it is nowadays.

Reclaimer posted:

The Angarans are thought by the Kett to have data from the Jadaar stored in their genetic code, like living hard drives, which is why they're so interested in them. They don't know how to get to the data or what it is though.

precision posted:

Controversial opinion: people should stop arguing with the people in this thread who keep saying a game they haven't played is bad.

Hamburger Test posted:

Are you the fly?

fruit on the bottom posted:

That would be kinda neat if you could just dial up people on the holocall to turn in quests. Maybe not all, but like the really simple ones.

Soridar posted:

So if you are like me and play both consoles and PC, I would seriously think about getting this on console, as I have heard even the glitching on PS4 was patched and fixed in the first few hours it was out.

Soridar posted:

Just beat the game, finished everything but the comb the maps to find X for no real reason but its something to do quests. Then I talked to some friends and finally understood the irritations people are having. I played it on XBOX one and there are no serious animation glitches, only the occasional twitch or oddity but that happens in all games somewhere down the line. After listening to the guys who had it on PC, drat, it seems obvious that this was coded for consoles and ported over to PC.

So if you are like me and play both consoles and PC, I would seriously think about getting this on console, as I have heard even the glitching on PS4 was patched and fixed in the first few hours it was out.

Also, be aware that the end fight is based on what you do in the game, so if you just speed through it, missing the more important planetary/relationship quests you also miss out on parts of the final battle.

While the game is not perfect, show me one that is. it is a rather enjoyable game that breathes life back into a series that was all but dead. So rather than try to tear the game apart because you are to privileged to realize that the game isn't catering to you personally, but rather building on a game series that is fun for all the right reasons and isn't shoe boxed into being just an RPG or a shooter but both in a rather well balanced way.

Arglebargle III posted:

My wishlist:

Plotting from ME

Combat from ME:A

Camera work and conversations from ME2

Exploration from some new, better ME title

Ambaire posted:

Two pages ago, but why the hell couldn't the default Ryder have looked like that? And how do I get that look for my Ryder when I start my new playthrough.. someday.

Unless I'm missing something, that is the default Ryder, and they just chose the four screenshots in existence that actually make her look good...

the good fax machine posted:

Why do all the female krogan talk like fags

What the gently caress

Soridar posted:

While the game is not perfect, show me one that is. it is a rather enjoyable game that breathes life back into a series that was all but dead. So rather than try to tear the game apart because you are to privileged to realize that the game isn't catering to you personally, but rather building on a game series that is fun for all the right reasons and isn't shoe boxed into being just an RPG or a shooter but both in a rather well balanced way.

Moola posted:

Moola posted:

I liked Dad Ryder but yeah ugh the rest

Rhymenoserous posted:

I think the problem was they kept introducing systems you couldn't really use. Ryder this is the research terminal, but you can only research a pair of level 1 gloves, and you'll outlevel level 1 gear by the time you have enough research points for the level 1 pants. Congrats Ryder, you researched those level 1 gloves, but you don't have enough resources to build them, or enough money to buy the resources till your level 15 and well beyond the point where those gloves would be useful.

They should have made element zero cores or some other macguffin that was the "Rare" thing that went into crafting and just made the rest of it dirt cheap, like at most five of each material. Make the element zero cores cost like 1000 credits. This would give you the ability to experiment while still leaving in a early game limitation to just crafting loving everything. Oh and unlock all milky way tech by default and make the new races tech better in most regards. So y'know I feel like I'm actually "Working up" to things and have a reason to scan like crazy during missions.

Bobulus posted:

You're really going to have to elaborate on that one, because I honestly have no idea what you're talking about.

Bobulus posted:

To try to change the subject from ME:A/Nier/Horizon, that circuit board game Rory played on UPF seemed neat. Might grab that and kill it in one session, just for kicks.

Charles Get-Out posted:

They should have just given you a copy of the item for spending research points on it. There's no need for all of the materials and for 2 interwoven crafting steps.

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Sir this is the ME:A thread.

RBA Starblade posted:

I've got 104 loot boxes for singleplayer now.

How many guns is that going to make

Bobulus posted:

Well, the big advantage of researching items, rather than just buying them in the stores for credits, is that you can put modifiers into them during the crafting process. And you can later deconstruct it and get those modifiers back and made a new item of the same level with different ones. So for those systems to work, research and development have to be separate.

Iron Crowned posted:

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