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I was bummed to hear that there will be no ME3 multiplayer. I had a great time teleporting around as a Volus assassin with my buds on xbox live.
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I just finished the trilogy and I have that end of summer feeling of sad nostalgia. They caught lightning in a bottle with 2 and 3 and I'm not sure I need a 4th Shepard game. I hadn't played 1 before and I was turned off by all of the identical mako "side quests" but it was otherwise fun to try once. Leviathan had good tone and gameplay but the story fizzled out into a big letdown. Omega was a fun opportunity to play as a renegade for once. The shore leave DLC is an all timer and has the same "love note" vibes as Blood and Wine. I wish there was enough interest to start up multiplayer. I miss rolling around the map as a biotic volus unlocking weapons and shooting the poo poo with my friends on voice chat.
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Jun 1, 2021 22:29
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3 added a lot of inexplicable dumb stuff Diana Allers uncanny valley IGN reporter The big titty robot model for EDI The evil ninja KAI LANG with no apparent motivation or personality Offing Udina with little explanation or follow up
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Jun 1, 2021 22:54
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bobjr posted:The Udina Cerberus turn does feel forced, like it makes him bad in a new way that’s out of character. Indoctrinated? Selling out humanity to consolidate power? Misguided attempt to help humanity? Jealous of Shepard? All fine explanations that could have been explained with one of those security footage terminals. Hell, put a datapad in his office lol.
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Jun 1, 2021 23:19
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The recruitment and loyalty missions in ME2 are the meat and potatoes of the trilogy. Each one is like it's own Star Trek episode
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Jun 2, 2021 00:57
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bobjr posted:Jacob's ME3 mission is extra funny in a way because all the other ME2 squadmates either hold their own in a fight or show off their skills, Jacob gets shot and has Shepard do all the work fixing things. Jacob's ME2 loyalty quest was straight out of a 70s exploitation film. When you attempt a rescue of a marooned crew in the jungle, you soon find out that the natural food supply gave everyone brain damage turning them into morons. Jacob's dad held out because he hoarded the ship's rations for himself and he only sent out a distress signal when he ran out 10 years later. He waited because in the meantime he's been living out a mass rape fantasy. Shepard has to shoot through a huge number of brain damaged goons who don't know better to get to the Colonel Kurtz-like throne and send the absent black father to jail
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Jun 2, 2021 05:10
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That escaped Yahg on Sur’kesh never showed up again did it
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Jun 2, 2021 19:07
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MorgaineDax posted:Makes the old dude and his shrunken adult-bodied grandkid at the end make a lot more sense if they're now the result of a few dozen Normandy crew members inbreeding for generations. "Tell me a story about This was probably the worst voice acting in the game. I couldn't believe how amateurish and read-for-the-first-time it sounded. Even Marina Sirtis did a better job
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Jun 2, 2021 22:40
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Knuc U Kinte posted:Why does his mask have 1940s WW2 propaganda poster yellow peril eyes? It’s absolutely bonkers they did this. The only consolation is all Cerberus enemies have slanty eyes but it’s usually a full face visor or a robot
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Jun 4, 2021 05:47
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Kai Leng should have had a personality inverse of your paragon score. He could still be annoying in a self-aware way (moralizing “stealing is wrong!” speeches or Saturday morning cartoon villain). That would have been more fun anyway.
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Jun 4, 2021 23:20
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The full Blasto movie in 3 was pretty funny
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Jun 5, 2021 05:24
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Is it lazy writing or an intentional motif that almost every loyalty mission is addressing Daddy Issues of some sort? Mordin and Garrus plus the two DLC squad excepted.
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Jun 6, 2021 16:05
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Good point about Mordin. Samara and Morinth is of course a mother-daughter relationship. Legion and the Geth is about resisting their "creators"exquisite tea posted:Mass Effect broadly deals with themes of generational trauma, which many of the individual loyalty missions echo to varying degrees of success. The tendency of all the Milky Way civilizations to create a new crisis to solve the old crisis while at the same time being utterly dependent upon the mechanism of their own destruction hiding in plain sight is returned to again and again throughout the trilogy. I think the parental issues are mostly intentional and successful in their aim. This is a nice way of putting it.
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Jun 6, 2021 17:35
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I want more adventures with Shepard and his friends, solving problems by clicking the blue or red buttons. Grandpa needs to watch his stories
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Jun 7, 2021 01:02
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Liara is a very monotone character the whole series except for the one side mission in 2 where she can fly off the handle and murder her assistant
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Jun 7, 2021 02:20
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Sydin posted:So far in ME3 though the only remotely interesting new character I've seen is Eve. These goofballs really put an EDI, Eva, and Eve all in the same game.
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Jun 7, 2021 21:53
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Right after you rescue him and talk to him in the war room, Primarch Victus is impressed that the reapers are using Turian tactics - "overwhelming force" - against them. Uhh sorry general they just have better ships that's not "tactics"
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Jun 7, 2021 23:13
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Kaiden has a great voice it’s like a mix of Keanu Reeves and Milhouse
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Jun 8, 2021 00:30
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Best Friends posted:Jacob without using a weird creepy lecherous voice. that entire "but the priiiize" line is so unhinged and bad I love it
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Jun 8, 2021 05:59
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Spacebump posted:So the Genophage was awful, wrong, and shouldn't have happened. At one point during a mission, someone mentioned the past Krogans were trying to launch asteroids at other alien's planets after the Rachni War and before the Genophage. At that point, how should the other races have approached the Krogan? Mordin makes a decent case in 2 and 3 that the genophage was the best idea at the time.
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Jun 8, 2021 22:49
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Wolfsheim posted:Final ME1 rundown of the Butcher of Torfan: Not a nice thing to call your Shepard’s barber
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Jun 8, 2021 23:40
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Spacebump posted:How many Krogans does the game introduce us to that never held jobs other than mercenary or related to supporting mercenaries? I do agree that the way they are presented by other races is propaganda. It just doesn't help that most of them seem to pick a profession that is more or less killing for profit. What about the sweetie pie Krogan who is super dejected that there are no fish in the Presidium lake
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Jun 9, 2021 01:03
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How are you gonna evacuate billions of people without any readily available space arks during a blitzkrieg on every major city, then how will you feed them while being relentlessly pursued by death machines
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Jun 9, 2021 03:31
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I’m not going to over-defend the Shepurrection because it is admittedly very forced and lame but it does establish a few important things. 1) Cerberus has a ton of resources and aren’t afraid to break the rules. This is often contrasted with the Council bureaucracy and its directly taken from American perceptions around private vs public industry and B movie tropes about science with no oversight going too far 2) You as a first time player might feel obligated to cooperate and trust Cerberus since they saved you 3) Emphasizes that Shep is the only one who can get the job done (space jesus) Narratively it’s a lazy way to have NPCs explain everything to you, remind you of your past, for the old crew to go their separate ways, for a tutorial, and for Shep to reset their skills and weapons
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Jun 9, 2021 15:50
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Animal Friend posted:I've played these games (1 and 2) so much over the years that I'm playing full pyscho body count Shep. If I have the chance to punch or shoot or go for maximum collateral I'm taking it. Post again when you got those glowing scars and terminator eyes
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Jun 10, 2021 00:07
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I have never played as a renegade because I feel guilty being bad, however ME1 Shepard had some boner lines as Paragon (“stealing is wrong!”) and Renegade had some great moments from what I’ve seen (from 2: “you’re working too hard” BZZZZT)
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Jun 10, 2021 00:42
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Doing a renegade playthrough for the first time, just met the Racnni Queen "I didn't come here to talk to bugs!" This is way better than Paragon. I didn't know what I was missing all these years
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Jun 12, 2021 18:12
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Goddamn Shep gets winded so quickly in 1. At least let him keep running in the Citadel it’s embarrassing! He’s like the kid sneaking candy bars at fat camp
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Jun 13, 2021 04:10
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DreadUnknown posted:I hate Banshees so very much, I died to those assholes in MP many times. Yeah they would teleport at you and if you panicked while trying to break cover in a room full of boxes, it was lights out
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Jun 13, 2021 20:11
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Pattonesque posted:Samara should have remained unromanceable imo, kinda weird that they changed that in Citadel I can’t imagine caring about this since you have to intentionally opt into it. It’s not like you can stumble into it
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Jun 15, 2021 06:59
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I’m hankering to play multiplayer on PC now but I can’t justify paying more than like 5 bucks for a copy of a game I own on 2 platforms already. How low does the price go during big steam sales?
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Jun 16, 2021 07:17
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Donovan Hock's accent is so over the top I love it
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Jun 17, 2021 23:10
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Sydin posted:Always shoot the vase. Hell yeah. Just did this during my first renegade playthrough
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Jun 18, 2021 00:09
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I had reach, she had flexibilty
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Jun 21, 2021 01:19
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Just started ME3 on my first ever renegade run. WHAT HAPPENED TO MY SCARS AND EYES
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Jun 24, 2021 20:32
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Legendary Ptarmigan posted:Your paragon/renegade points get carried over proportionally but get scaled down like from ME1->2. If you keep making renegade choices the scars open up again. Coulda used the glowing eyes in the opening in Vancouver when I'm bad-mouthing the bureaucrats and watching that kid get roasted
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Jun 25, 2021 00:32
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Basic Chunnel posted:Come play ME3MP https://discord.gg/k3Kc3E9b4N This is the last time I'm going to complain about this but I'm aghast ME3 is still at full price $30 during the summer sale when the HD edition of the trilogy is on sale.
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Jun 25, 2021 20:54
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Psycho Landlord posted:Just gonna say Tuchanka is the best part of the series, again, in this thread, because it's true Carlos the thresher maw was a little goofy My favorite part of the series is in 2 arriving at Omega the first time and walking into the club. Perfect sci fi atmosphere
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Jun 26, 2021 20:46
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CapnAndy posted:Yeah, it's not 1:1. For some reason my ME1->ME2 import came out totally the same, except Shepard now had blonde, very fine eyebrows that were almost impossible to see. It bugged me so much I captured the face code and then restarted the whole drat game, just so I could put his eyebrows back. My Vincent Price pencil mustache all but disappeared in 2 but came back with a vengeance in 3   
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For those of you that haven't navigated to your photo mode folder, the "take photo" button will keep the IU unless you hide it. Sadly lost a few perfectly good screenshots to this idiotic developer choice. 
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