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Son of Rodney posted:God drat are the sodoku puzzles lovely, why would I want to do that instead of literally any other hacking puzzle ever in video games. Don't say it! They might hear you and bring back the Towers of Hanoi.
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wjs5 posted:Oh no they will change one easy puzzle for a different easy puzzle. Yeah, but I haven't played the sudoku puzzle a million loving times yet.
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Mar 25, 2017 00:51
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Doctor Spaceman posted:There's a speech check on Feros that can be hard to pass but it's not as important as the Virmire stuff. I've seen people argue swapping Virmire and Noveria, since if you had the Mu relay you could probably narrow it down a handful of Prothean specific worlds plus you take out Saren's number two. Of course, there's a lot to be said for keeping the big reveal about Sovereign until later and waiting until after Benezia to reveal that Saren was the real number two. Plus it's nice to have your biggest setback right before the final push. So I guess I'd agree with you.
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Mar 25, 2017 01:49
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Lol if refusal is the canon ending
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Mar 25, 2017 02:00
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I usually like Kumail Nanjiani, but that was not very good VO work.
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Mar 25, 2017 04:14
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Dexo posted:Isn't it pretty much stated in the ME universe that Humans are insanely ambitious. Which is the reason why this cycle was the one that broke the reapers.(I mean unless you Refuse…) Eh, humans were the one who finished the job, but if you think about how it finishes, the groundwork for the death of the Reapers has been laid down piece by piece over countless cycles. Most obviously this cycle only gets a fighting chance because the Protheans sabotage Plan A, and while we don't know exactly how many cycles ago the initial Crucible work began, we do know that the Protheans found it in the ruins of an older civilization, and there's dialogue suggesting that this has been happening over many cycles. Thematically we can probably assume that just about every cycle has contributed something in incrementally. So it ends up being that humanity, while ~*Special*~ is mostly just in the right place at the right time when the work of everyone the Reapers have ever exterminated reaches its tipping point. Which, I think is a cooler explanation than Shepard just being that cool.
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Mar 27, 2017 20:56
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Doctor Spaceman posted:How? The Geth are completely destroyed in one ending, are alive in another, and are part organic in a third? The geth vanished overnight with no warning or explanation, just as quarian technology took a giant leap forward. The quarians aren't saying much, but they're telling us that as soon as they reach a consensus they'll let us know. In other news, God-Emperor Shepard has vaporized another batarian colony today, but took care to remind us to let them replenish their numbers so as not to drive them to total extinction. From ReaperNet, I'm Harbinger, assuming direct control.
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Mar 29, 2017 02:24
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Sure, but that should still inform the basic anatomy to some semblance of purpose instead of design-by-committee generic alien traits. Slit-like eyes like those on a Cat! Reverse-knees like the Turians and Quarians, because that's really alien! Uh... what else... cobra head! Ryder and SAM at least makes some sense.
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Mar 29, 2017 03:05
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Ideally you would tie it into Shepard's identity somehow, with Destroy shedding the cybernetic implants and becoming fully organic once again (even though it will likely kill him), Control representing shedding the organic part of himself and becoming fully synthetic, or some not shorty version of Synthesis where Shepard can come to terms with being a complete fusion of man and machine. You'd have to start laying that groundwork back in ME2 though.
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Mar 29, 2017 03:08
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Don't you have a top-of-the-line custom implant already, which is how SAM should able to interface with you? Maybe it's already Biotic-capable.
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Mar 29, 2017 03:36
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Admiral Ray posted:"Pathfinder, your partner was enjoying that action." "Pathfinder, you have found a memory trigger. One of Alec's memories is now available for viewing" "M-mom?"
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Mar 29, 2017 03:59
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DrNutt posted:There should have been a scene where your conversation with Sovereign wraps up and one of your squadmates says, "whoa, Shepard, you got that on your helmet cam, right?" And Shepard just goes "fuuuuuuuuuuck I forgot to hit record!" We need to pass Space Legislation requiring that all Space Cops be equipped with Space Body Cameras that are recording at all times while they fight Space Crimes in Space and In Other Places Too.
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Mar 29, 2017 18:27
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See, that's how you solve the Korean rebellions, you just give them a whole galaxy! Fake e: I see that autocorrect and I am not going to stop it.
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Mar 29, 2017 20:52
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Truecon420 posted:Maybe it will have an effect in ME: Andromeda 2: Electric Bugaloo "We're at war. No one wants to admit it, but the Initiative is under attack. One very specific Pathfinder might be all that stands between the Initiative, and the greatest threat of our brief existence." *Ryder dies immediately, replaced by Ryder twin for rest of game*
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Mar 29, 2017 23:13
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Charles Get-Out posted:I non-consensually shot Mordin in the back He consented by getting in my way
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Mar 30, 2017 02:19
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TBF, I do like his whole little "let's figure out the most offensive things we could say to each other in a safe environment so we don't accidentally say it when the stakes actually matter."
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Mar 30, 2017 21:11
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sneakyfrog posted:i have to say that is the most offensive thing i have ever read on these godforsaken forums. Seriously! With those choices you should be able to convince Mordin to help you keep them genophaged, instead of killing him.
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Mar 30, 2017 22:11
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Fojar38 posted:If you kill Wrex you can persuade Mordin to sabotage the cure because Wrex's brother is a scary rear end in a top hat Eve also has to be dead, I think
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Mar 30, 2017 22:16
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Milky Moor posted:In the year 3017, after the arch-fascist known only as The Shepard has sterilised elements on Earth's population with a stillbirth plague, holding copies of Mass Effect will be seen in the same light as people who possess copies of Mein Kampf. "The legions stand at the ready mein fuhrer. What are your commands?" … … … "I should go."
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Mar 30, 2017 22:47
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I hope the Shepard-Reaper still uses that line constantly.
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Number Ten Cocks posted:I like that you hit the reload key (X) on Xbox to actually pick a selected profile load out. If I hit the usual "select" button from the weapons load out interface (A) I instead overwrite my saved profile with the current one I'm trying to switch out of. Great UI. This is why I don't switch profiles anymore
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Mar 31, 2017 21:35
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I am so pissed that I didn't notice you could do it from the wheel.
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Apr 1, 2017 01:07
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DancingShade posted:DA:2 wasn't making fun of itself, just everyone who played it. I am enjoying Andromeda, but I actually do think that DA2 was the better game of the two. Now ask me my opinion of the Armenian Genocide!
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Apr 1, 2017 17:26
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I think the series has always had that problem though, for instance with the salarians and asari talking about their lifespan and temperament in relation to humanity instead of treating us like we're the weird ones.
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Wiseblood posted:Forcing you to work for Cerberus is especially dumb if your Shepard has the sole survivor background. What other faction would have been willing to back Shepard? Remember, you're largely operating in non-alliance territory.
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Apr 2, 2017 01:42
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exquisite tea posted:Our intrepid hero slowly enunciating "I will gently caress your poo poo up" to the evil rock aliens is all I've ever wanted in a Mass Effect game. Watch out Commander Shepard, or you'll cut yourself on this edge. It's a fun line with a spot on delivery. I don't really see the problem.
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Apr 3, 2017 01:27
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I'm a pretty decent chunk of the way through the game at this point and I feel ready to give my verdict. I think ME2 was the better game.
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DancingShade posted:My order would be ME2, ME:A, ME1 followed by ME3 a long way off in the distance, down the bottom of the tar pits being loaded down with rocks so that particular corpse is lost for all time. The honest ranking for me is: ME2 Rough tie between ME1 and ME3 with 3 at a slight lead ME:A Legitimately enjoying it all the same.
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If we're going to take that into account though, it's also fair to say that ME3 only exists as it does because of ME2, both in gameplay and, in a much more negative way, plot. Someone else mentioned that first but still true.
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Apr 3, 2017 06:49
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Decius posted:They pull it again when you have to play as your sibling to restart your Ryder again Does my team give me poo poo for it? I already had to promise Lexi I'd find a new party trick and Liam threatened to report me to HR if it happened again 
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Apr 3, 2017 16:57
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Kurieg posted:They don't give you poo poo for it since this time it wasn't voluntary, but they do reference it. She really has the worst job in the galaxy. I've already caught Suvi numbing her mouth from licking strange Space rocks and planning to eat random plants to see if they're poisonous (Kallo gets Lexi on com to make her stop) and on the poison water planet, Drack says he could probably drink it and be fine, and she has to ask him not to. Every day is a miracle is what I'm saying.
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Apr 3, 2017 17:53
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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.
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doingitwrong posted:SAM warns you before you listen to the logs that they are 'troubling'. But yeah I can't recall seeing much in the way of opportunities to talk about it with people afterwards. Though I haven't talked to my sibling since visiting Mom's cryo tube. One thing I really liked in ME3 were all the moments where a character would worry about how Shepard was holding up or how things were going, and you could either be honest and vulnerable or put up a really brave front. It would have been nice to see a little more of this with Squadmates, esp. with the new wheel options.
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exquisite tea posted:Emotional responses and pathos are so last-gen my friend, our intrepid pathfinder Ryder is too extreme for your poo poo. If some noob were to ask this badass how he was holding up, your dialogue responses would be.. I think I remember this exact convo in ME1
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Kimsemus posted:This. Yeah, but at least she's wearing a shirt and no one is walking around with a giant hole in their armor, Garrus.
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I never really got the Ashley hate. Yeah, she's a bit xenophobic but her whole dog metaphor was pretty spot on.
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Apr 4, 2017 04:18
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Dan Didio posted:Nah, it's really, incredibly good. Best in the series by far. Taken as itself sure, but I think it sets up ME3 to fail
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Dan Didio posted:That's ME3's failing. Well sure, I think that ME3 would have been fine with a better ending, but I don't think that means it wasn't playing at a disadvantage. In terms of the overarching plot, what does ME2 actually accomplish? The Reapers are no closer to defeat, and most of the major developments (Shepard's death, the Collectors, Alpha relay) are brought up and dealt with in the same game. We get a better picture of the galaxy and the genophage and all the character moments are great, but very little of the "main story" seems consequential.
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Lt. Danger posted:Mass Effect 2 sets up the means by which the Reapers are defeated, yeah? Resolving the genophage and the geth-quarian war is what gives the galaxy a fighting chance to deploy the Crucible, and both of these problems are developed (and their eventual solutions introduced) in ME2. For Shepard personally, ME2 is also where they transition from a follower of ineffectual authority to a leader and champion in their own right - something that could only really happen after dying, being recruited to Cerberus and completing the Suicide Mission. I don't think this is a particularly strong argument. The means to defeat the Reapers isn't introduced until the opening of ME3. Theres nothing inherent about krogan or quarian support of value other than the troop support and if you play your cards wrong you can lose the krogans before the final push with no ill effect, furthermore it's really just bad timing that you have to fix these issues before they'll commit support. And that's a flaw of ME3 certainly. But their support is largely secondary to the giant super weapon that is the Crucible, and I think we can partially put that on ME2 for working toward a Reaper solution that gave ME3 better options to start with.
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Dr. Abysmal posted:Reyes is pretty cool and he would have made a much better human male companion than Liam, who I think sucks. That's because everything cool and good about him was concentrated in his quest.
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