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Mass Effect 3 discussion
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Renegade Shepard looks ugly as fuck
Hey look at me! I do sometimes evil things which still make me the hero though so I have to look like a zombie with scars.
Hey look at me! I do sometimes evil things which still make me the hero though so I have to look like a zombie with scars.
Massassins Creed. Literally. Omni-Blade...I want a CLAYMORE!
Well it's Bioware today, nothing unusual after DA2.
I just don't get one thing, will they implant new chip into Shepard which is going to make him gay or is there a separate story why he changed his sexual orientations?
And will it be possible to do some kind of an orgy?
That would be great, Krogan meets a who
Well it's Bioware today, nothing unusual after DA2.
I just don't get one thing, will they implant new chip into Shepard which is going to make him gay or is there a separate story why he changed his sexual orientations?
And will it be possible to do some kind of an orgy?
That would be great, Krogan meets a who
That whole Mordin singing thing was another cheap, cheap, cheap bit. So easy, so cheap, yet the fans were all over it. If the fans have no standards, why should the writers?
Showing her face would be a huge mistake. The whole obsession with her is that a) she has the body of a 14-year old and b) they can't see her face, so you can imagine your own ideal face. It's super-creepy, but if they want to keep the exploitation up they have to keep the mystery.
Alphadrop said:
Showing her face would be a huge mistake. The whole obsession with her is that a) she has the body of a 14-year old and b) they can't see her face, so you can imagine your own ideal face. It's super-creepy, but if they want to keep the exploitation up they have to keep the mystery.
Ilosar
Vault Fossil
You will have to explain that one to me BN. It may not be the very single best piece of humour writing, but how is it ''cheap''?
But what you said about Tali is true. I somewhat liked her as a character until I found out about all that worshiping business. The romanceable characters in Bioware game's aren't usually the best (case in point, DA2, the only two sane companions can't be romanced, not ''edgy'' enough I suppose) but the fanservice is getting more and more ridiculous.
But what you said about Tali is true. I somewhat liked her as a character until I found out about all that worshiping business. The romanceable characters in Bioware game's aren't usually the best (case in point, DA2, the only two sane companions can't be romanced, not ''edgy'' enough I suppose) but the fanservice is getting more and more ridiculous.
Ilosar said:
It's very, very easy. We have a fast-talking alien race. Let's let him do the Major General's Song even though that doesn't make sense! It's pretty obvious and uncreative. But it's ok. It just didn't warrant the OMFG GENIUS reception it got, especially since the engine kind of smashes it up with odd pauses.
Wintermind
Vault Senior Citizen
It kinda reminds me of the whole 'cake is a lie' and 'still alive' kinda thing. Regardless of how it good it was before, the obsessive OMFG GENIUS reception/never-let-it-die reaction of the fans makes you just sort of hate it before long.
Black Feather
Mildly Dipped
Crni Vuk said:
That already pissed me off in KOTOR...
Wintermind
Vault Senior Citizen
I kinda understood it in KOTOR since the the evil dudes generally look pretty awful and the good dudes look pretty good, but in ME2 it was just excuse to have Shepard turn into the fucking terminator before long.
Infamous did this too and it was even worse; if you're good you do your laundry and bathe, and if you're evil you don't, and you and your clothes get utterly dust covered and gray, which looks okay at first because I thought it was supposed to represent just how awful the living conditions in Not-New-York were supposed to be, but then you'll see pictures of 'good' you and he's just like you in the beginning. It's hilarious. Hilariously bad.
Infamous did this too and it was even worse; if you're good you do your laundry and bathe, and if you're evil you don't, and you and your clothes get utterly dust covered and gray, which looks okay at first because I thought it was supposed to represent just how awful the living conditions in Not-New-York were supposed to be, but then you'll see pictures of 'good' you and he's just like you in the beginning. It's hilarious. Hilariously bad.
It is a game based on comic book superheroes though.
Not to mention that he doesn't so much look grimy as he does start to look like Emperor Palpatine.
Oh and if you stick with the evil until the end, you get these kickass black electrical effects.
Not to mention that he doesn't so much look grimy as he does start to look like Emperor Palpatine.
Oh and if you stick with the evil until the end, you get these kickass black electrical effects.
Wintermind
Vault Senior Citizen
The only way to describe EVIL COLE is gray. If he was any grayer he'd be just a solid lump of gray. That's not nearly as irritating as making the entirety of the powers get powered based on your 'karmic' rank or whatever they called it. Don't want to be totally evil or totally good? Have fun having little to no upgrades for your powers!
Just like the comic books.
Anti-heroes are the ones with no powers who go around being all gravelly for ill-defined reasons.
inFamous 2 handles it a bit better though, with a lot of the useful powers being completely separate from your karma meter.
Anti-heroes are the ones with no powers who go around being all gravelly for ill-defined reasons.
inFamous 2 handles it a bit better though, with a lot of the useful powers being completely separate from your karma meter.
Wintermind
Vault Senior Citizen
I didn't read the comic books. I only played the game cause I got it for free from the Welcome Back thing.
I am amazed that people said it was better than Prototype though. But that's really another thread, isn't it?
I am amazed that people said it was better than Prototype though. But that's really another thread, isn't it?
I dunno how good Prototype may have been, but the PC port seemed horrible, I didn't get anywhere with it. Really poor performance on my slightly older machine (which at the same time ran Crysis 1 on Medium without hiccups), mouse controls felt unresponsive, and it wouldn't recognize my gamepad (first game ever that didn't).
Phil the Nuka-Cola Dude
Sonny, I Watched the Vault Bein' Built!
Ausdoerrt said:
You need to disable Vsync, and run a third party FPS limiting app, locking the FPS at no more than 50. For some reason when it goes above 50ish FPS, it starts stuttering HARD and runs horribly.
That will also fix the sluggish feeling controls.
I don't think it ever received even a single patch, so all of those launch problems are still present today.
Wintermind
Vault Senior Citizen
I'm not surprised; the Console (original, of course) version played pretty smoothly, but the game felt lke it could've used another month or two. The most of it was pretty solid and well done, but some bits were tacked on seemingly at the last minute and didn't fit in all that well. On the otherhand you got to pick up cars, run up the side of a building with them and then throw them at helicopters. That is, after you got bored of harpooning them with your arm and drop kicking them out of the fucking sky.
The protagonist feels a bit weak, but the big plot twist explains it all and works fairly well, except that it's a bit poorly executed in the game.
It does do the whole feeling of being in the middle of two forces fighting each other, first to exterminate the 'evil' virus and then for the good (humans) to survive. Both factions are fare more concerned with fighting each other (and/or not dying) to really be concerned with fighting you, and anything 'large' that happens is about the military fighting the infection and eventually, with the virus attack the military. The virus, starting out as a sort of zombie infection that just spreads, later gains it's own sort of intelligence and organisation.
it's definitely got a lot of make your own fun to it, but the fun you make for yourself can be quite satisfying. It's a bit difficult early in the game when you don't have ranged attacks (other than throwing stuff, or picking up guns) but you can buy a sort of extendo-arm grappling hook that lets you grappling hook to buildings and people and helicopters and pull towards them or pull them towards you, which is geneally fun, especially with helicopters.
The absorb people/identity stealing/story revealing mechanic was pretty good; if you impersonated a military person you had access to a radio and the ability to call in some form of CAS, using the codes you'd taken out of the local officer's head. There were also random dudes who had slices of backstory in their head. If they were static, and easier to find it would've been perfect, but they're randomly generated and can disappear as soon as they appear.
Plot twist for those that care:
[spoiler:bb33fb3f77]The ultimate twist is that you aren't Alex Mercer, protagonist, but slightly different strain of the virus attack the city that has become sentient, and is coming to grips to with it's own sentience whilst exploring the memories of Alex Mercer, deceased.[/spoiler:bb33fb3f77]
The protagonist feels a bit weak, but the big plot twist explains it all and works fairly well, except that it's a bit poorly executed in the game.
It does do the whole feeling of being in the middle of two forces fighting each other, first to exterminate the 'evil' virus and then for the good (humans) to survive. Both factions are fare more concerned with fighting each other (and/or not dying) to really be concerned with fighting you, and anything 'large' that happens is about the military fighting the infection and eventually, with the virus attack the military. The virus, starting out as a sort of zombie infection that just spreads, later gains it's own sort of intelligence and organisation.
it's definitely got a lot of make your own fun to it, but the fun you make for yourself can be quite satisfying. It's a bit difficult early in the game when you don't have ranged attacks (other than throwing stuff, or picking up guns) but you can buy a sort of extendo-arm grappling hook that lets you grappling hook to buildings and people and helicopters and pull towards them or pull them towards you, which is geneally fun, especially with helicopters.
The absorb people/identity stealing/story revealing mechanic was pretty good; if you impersonated a military person you had access to a radio and the ability to call in some form of CAS, using the codes you'd taken out of the local officer's head. There were also random dudes who had slices of backstory in their head. If they were static, and easier to find it would've been perfect, but they're randomly generated and can disappear as soon as they appear.
Plot twist for those that care:
[spoiler:bb33fb3f77]The ultimate twist is that you aren't Alex Mercer, protagonist, but slightly different strain of the virus attack the city that has become sentient, and is coming to grips to with it's own sentience whilst exploring the memories of Alex Mercer, deceased.[/spoiler:bb33fb3f77]
Wait, that silly-ass song served to add personality to an NPC? It was just a throw-away gag.
Mordin is a very well-constructed NPC with an interesting past and his own motivations and ethical quandaries. That song did nothing to add to that.
Mordin is a very well-constructed NPC with an interesting past and his own motivations and ethical quandaries. That song did nothing to add to that.
Yeah, it's really more of a gag based on the fact that he talks fast.
And you get it, people who talk fast are smart and fans of Gilbert and Sullivan.
Because that's how smart people are.
And you get it, people who talk fast are smart and fans of Gilbert and Sullivan.
Because that's how smart people are.
Ilosar
Vault Fossil
Ah, so the problem is more with how the fanbase shouted GENIUS! than because of the joke itself. Eh, for me it was just a light-hearted gag that served no purpose other than give me a chuckle, like Legion's dance or Garrus' ''reach and flexibility'' talk.
As for the scars, well, you can remove them. Sure, it costs lots of resources, but if you are playing on PC do yourself a favor and mod the save file to have unlimited amounts of the stuff, no need to play that shitty planet scanning minigame anymore.
As for the scars, well, you can remove them. Sure, it costs lots of resources, but if you are playing on PC do yourself a favor and mod the save file to have unlimited amounts of the stuff, no need to play that shitty planet scanning minigame anymore.