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Pops Mgee posted:Nothing in singleplayer has come close being as cool as a 4 man Krogan squad in bright pink suits all screaming and headbutting eachother between rounds. I remember having a bunch of fun with Geth prime, krogan warlord (elemental hammer maniac) and Geth soldiers. Played so much drat multiplayer that the good ending was 100% just based on my special forces points
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Galewolf posted:You can't prove that Jesus wasn't a Salarian Salarians only live like 10 years it doesn't fit the timeline.
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Pops Mgee posted:Nothing in singleplayer has come close being as cool as a 4 man Krogan squad in bright pink suits all screaming and headbutting eachother between rounds. I love how there was never a meme or any sort of discussion about that kind of thing, people just instinctively knew if you came in as a Krogan you must immediately and at every possible occasion headbutt the other players. I'm glad even random strangers on the Internet knew what had to be done. For other things uplifting about humanity, I am also pleased that somebody looked at ME2 and came up with this Nicolas Cage mashup.
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Feb 8, 2020 19:01
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ME 1 is the best game in the series. But Xenosafa does Space Opera rpg with giant codex better.
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Feb 8, 2020 21:05
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I have the Paragon symbol tattooed on my left shoulder, and I'm.. not exactly proud, but not ashamed. Fortunately Andromeda got rid of the Paragon/Renegade mechanic so I don't have to associate it with that game.
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Feb 9, 2020 17:55
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^Pff not renegade??? Just kidding, thats cool. Black or blue ink?
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SolarFire2 posted:I have the Paragon symbol tattooed on my left shoulder, and I'm.. not exactly proud, but not ashamed. Fortunately Andromeda got rid of the Paragon/Renegade mechanic so I don't have to associate it with that game. Every now and then I see people with N7 Hoodies and those are pretty cool. Your tattoo sounds p. cool as well 
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Feb 9, 2020 18:22
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I didn't know what N7 meant until like the end of the third game when a character says "oh my god... I've been asked to join the N7!" I guess it was in a codex somewhere
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Feb 9, 2020 18:36
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Wild Horses posted:^Pff not renegade??? Blue. The artist was a gamer himself and mixed a few different hues that I could pick from.
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Galewolf posted:Every now and then I see people with N7 Hoodies and those are pretty cool. As much as I wouldn't wear gameclothes, they're pretty sharp looking hoodies.
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Feb 9, 2020 19:08
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ItBreathes posted:As much as I wouldn't wear gameclothes, they're pretty sharp looking hoodies. i want an n7 hoodie but instead of n7 it's the alliance rank code for "extremely poo poo idiot"
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Feb 9, 2020 19:11
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Jazerus posted:i want an n7 hoodie but instead of n7 it's the alliance rank code for "extremely poo poo idiot" I'm currently wearing my Andromeda hoodie. Does that count?
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Feb 10, 2020 01:12
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CaptainSkinny posted:I'm currently wearing my Andromeda hoodie. Does that count? It does.
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Jazerus posted:i want an n7 hoodie but instead of n7 it's the alliance rank code for "extremely poo poo idiot" N-2
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Feb 10, 2020 14:07
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Sleeveless posted:Also for comparison the entire Mass Effect trilogy came out in less time than it took to make a single new mainline Final Fantasy, Persona, or Elder Scrolls game during the same period of time so for all its faults it stuck its production and moved along at a smooth pace when most of its peers were falling victim to bloat and inefficiency and delays. yeah as much as there's poo poo to groan about in ME, at least it's a series where i managed to complete and enjoy all three games (to varying degrees). i haven't even completed a FF since 10 and definitely didn't enjoy 12 or 13 (although i am recently into 14 and enjoying it a lot) and persona has always been a series for me that felt more interesting to read plot synopsis of than to actually play. i'd put elder scrolls on the same level of varying quality as ME but ME definitely put a lot better effort into making me care about the world and my npc friends and making everything engaging. OTOH knowing what we know now about the game dev cycle, making that entire trilogy in that kind of timeframe must have been absolute hell for the devs. it's no wonder they had so much talent burn out over the course of the trilogy, moving at the pace that they were.
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Feb 10, 2020 17:35
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The behind the scenes labor drama is pretty fascinating, just complete talent churn with terrible retention outside of the top levels that continuously got worse. The wheels really came off during Anthem.
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Feb 10, 2020 17:58
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By all accounts EA just ground Bioware into the ground to the point where nobody who worked on KOTOR and the earlier ME games even works there anymore.
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Feb 11, 2020 03:48
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I watched The Ends again on a whim and lmao I can't believe I chose synthesis because it was the highest scoring ending it's objectively the wrong answer
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Feb 11, 2020 05:11
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Lol same. Destroy is the only right answer
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Feb 11, 2020 15:32
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Destroy is the best one and what I did with my first character but picking control as a renegade was cool because your character uses the Reapers as her own personal army to ruthlessly enforce order in the galaxy
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Feb 11, 2020 16:07
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Control is the best ending post extended cut. Destroy was fatally neutered to be happier than it should be, and synthesis is just weird and dumb. Though it does have the nice bit at the end where EDI is like "I am not alone". It would probably have been better as a terminator 2 style ambiguous but optimistic ending, since the whole point of it is that it's something the current paradigm can't really imagine
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Feb 11, 2020 16:44
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I like to think that in Control Shepard parks a reaper outside of the council chambers and has it honk every time one of the councilors stars talking
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Feb 11, 2020 17:03
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Never saw the Control ending. What color was the light beam?
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poisonpill posted:Never saw the Control ending. blue
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Feb 11, 2020 17:06
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Eh, I prefer red.
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I wonder if anyone at Bioware had Deus Ex in mind when they came up with the ending choices.
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generic me3 thoughts the fact that batarians got offscreened and we never got to make a shaky peace deal with the batarians in order to get their help in the reaper war sucked major balls. just missed potential all around, the opening of mass effect 3 is one of the worst parts of any bioware game i've ever played. The thiny veiled disgust with the earth politicians "what do we DOOOOO shepard??? We cant wipe our asses without a strong military gal to tell us hoooow" the flimsy bullshit drama with the kid, handled about as well as you can expect. We're in a lovely action movie now guys anderson stays behind, this weapons project that NOONE knew about is the ONLY WAY (We dont know what it does but we need to pour a gajillion credits into building this wunderwaffe that will do something) who loving wrote this poo poo, it's eye-wateringly bad. Mass effect 2 opening was spiteful and destructive to logic and narrative that was built up previously (reseting the universe, if you made a human-friendly council you can kiss them goodbye, no1curr about reapers anymore) and loads of other things (cerberus, joker, normandy 2 FOR NO RAISON) but drat if ME3 opening didnt basically break the potential of the game right then and there. Alliance sucks, earth sucks, the entire alliance to take back earth is dumb. the mega weapon we are building doesn't make sense (why would you waste the cash on something that does nothing, and you dont know how to use) the potential that the world could evolve past the reapers due to reverse engineering their tech from me1, added to the fact that the universe was no longer dominated by one culture but rather a multitude of countries and cultures, and as such, now had a CHANCE to fight the reapers on sort of even ground with the head start given, was dropped. Every regular reaper plan was foiled, so they had to use tactics they weren't comfortable with. That could've been a far better direction to take the story. You could even technobabble them being "tired" from the long trip back to the galaxy. Instead, nihlus ended up dead, and the beacon DESTROYED Wild Horses fucked around with this message at 22:30 on Feb 11, 2020 |
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The opening to ME2 was very jarring, and the new characterization of Cerberus was entirely out of left field, but it is a pretty dramatic and exciting opening that could then be effectively reprised at the end of the game to show how far you've came (or how far you haven't come as the case may be). I think the strongest thing about ME2 is how it all centers around building up your team and your ship to do your big mission, and ripping away everything you had in the last game was contrived, but it set the ground for building yourself back up. The running theme of almost all higher-up authorities being worthless and disbelieving everything you say was annoying, but it was there since ME1.
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Best part of the council was calling them over and over just to hang up on them https://youtu.be/YrfHpiFe254 Also dying and coming back to life as a rogue agent was awesome and gathering up a team of misfits and mercs to go on a suicide run was awesome and Zaeed was awesome
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poisonpill posted:Best part of the council was calling them over and over just to hang up on them I hung up on those assholes every chance I had. Zaeed was great if for nothing else it made players who wanted a squeaky clean paragon play through kill a bunch of innocent factory workers in order to gain his loyalty. Bloopsy fucked around with this message at 02:08 on Feb 12, 2020 |
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SlothfulCobra posted:The opening to ME2 was very jarring, and the new characterization of Cerberus was entirely out of left field, but it is a pretty dramatic and exciting opening that could then be effectively reprised at the end of the game to show how far you've came (or how far you haven't come as the case may be). I think the strongest thing about ME2 is how it all centers around building up your team and your ship to do your big mission, and ripping away everything you had in the last game was contrived, but it set the ground for building yourself back up. I remember at the time it felt like they really “tv show”d up the vibe
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Bloopsy posted:I hung up on those assholes every chance I had. No, you can save the factory workers and just yell at him at the end
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2house2fly posted:No, you can save the factory workers and just yell at him at the end Huh, I didn't know. I seem to remember one play through where i saved them and thus failed the loyalty mission.
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ME1 Cerberus was boring and stupid, doing dumb science experiments for no reason. ME2 Cerberus as the privatised Deep State was better - though the original plan was for Legion and the true geth to resurrect Shepard, not Cerberus also the revelation at the heart of ME1 is that the Council and all galactic civilisation are unknowingly complicit in the Reaper plan to genocide everyone. the galactic liberal democracy is fundamentally compromised and must be discarded
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Feb 12, 2020 03:01
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Lt. Danger posted:ME1 Cerberus was boring and stupid, doing dumb science experiments for no reason. ME2 Cerberus as the privatised Deep State was better - though the original plan was for Legion and the true geth to resurrect Shepard, not Cerberus Nah I'm going to hit the nuke reapers button instead
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Let the Reapers destroy the Council, destroy the Reapers, lose your pilot’s weird RealDoll. Win/win.
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Feb 12, 2020 03:09
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The best Mass Effect game is Star Control 2
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The structures of Mass Effect 2 and 3 should have been switched. It makes more sense for 2 to be Shephard's and the rest of the galaxy's lowest point where they get their poo poo wrecked, then make 3 the last ditch effort suicide mission to save the day. Would have been a much better note to end on.
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skasion posted:The best
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If youre a coward and you don’t want to do Leto Shepherd II’s golden path I guess destroy is fine
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