Mass Effect Megathread: I should *go*. *I* should go. I *should* go.
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[QUOTE=Estolle93;40332912]Unsure if this is the correct place to ask this, but is Knights of the Old Republic anything like Mass Effect? I played KOTOR 2 a while back, but I don't really remember it.[/QUOTE]
KOTOR is more comparable to Dragon Age than Mass Effect. It's a classic RPG, while ME is a shooter. KOTOR is one of Bioware's best games, so it's definitely worth playing.
I need to find KOTOR. I remember playing it on Xbox, but I only rented it for two days, so I didn't get very far.
It's pretty cheap on steam, 10 dollars I think.
[QUOTE=dogmachines;40340806]It's pretty cheap on steam, 10 dollars I think.[/QUOTE]
I got it a couple years back for £3.99 on steam. I also bought the second for £3 from a gamestop. The restored content is a must but i think they're both excellent. You're also going to get a very Kaideny vibe for the intro mission.
[editline]19th April 2013[/editline]
[QUOTE=Flicky;40338414]So is there any way to get the N7 Hoodie in ME3 other than getting the Collector's Edition? I want my Shepard to look like a college frat boy when he's not on duty.[/QUOTE]
I can't help but notice that i wore the hoodie through Citadel, and Shepard is the only normal looking one there. You'd think at least some humans would have some casual clothing but no, space formal dresses and space jumpsuits.
Yeah right now they are both ten bucks apiece for the KOTOR games I would advise you to wait then, the best sale that came up for these guys was 5bucks for the both of them. Wait until the summer sales, it will most likely come back.
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I can't help but notice that i wore the hoodie through Citadel, and Shepard is the only normal looking one there. You'd think at least some humans would have some casual clothing but no, space formal dresses and space jumpsuits.[/QUOTE]
Not to mention those asshole-looking colonist suits.
Just had a quick thought, for those who played KOTOR 1 & 2 does any one think that Mandalore and Wrex are actually quite similar?
-Both were mercenaries until they teamed up with the main protagonist
-Both considered evil/ish in their first game apperance
-Both lead their respective civilizations to a "greater" future etc...
whoa dude minor kotor 2 spoilers there
Kotor 2 and ME2 had fairly similar structure it seems.
You wake up on a station taken over by malfunctioning robots, finish that and begin the first main mission, after that the galaxy opens up allowing you to choose where to go next, halfway through you get a call for help, after all the missions are done then you go to assault the enemy stronghold, crash, after getting to the core and setting the place to be destroyed, escape in your suddenly fixed ship, fly away from cool explosion.
Thinking of this, most early bioware games had a similar structure.
Intro, one mission, four missions, interruption, attack on the enemy base.
Funny thing is Kotor 2 was made by Obsidian and not Bioware.
Also I think Kotor 2 feels more mature than the first.
Why the fuck does the multiplayer not work if I can get into a game it just says "Waiting for other players" no matter what and I usually get kicked from the lobby, this is on 360 if it helps.
Edit: Exactly After I Posted it works.
Got a Krogan Warlord in the gift pack from Bioware. Absolutely terrible at level 20, its pretty pointless to use any skills with him. Only good thing about him is his increased health and shields, I can sit doing an objective and be attacked by 4 people and still not die. Where as my drell vanguard dies in about 3 hits, but can destroy anything he looks at within seconds.
If your Krogan Warlord is terrible, then your Krogan Warlord is specced wrong. Max out five trees, leave "Krogan Warlord" untouched because it's pretty useless, make sure your tech hammer sets shit on fire and spec your biohammer for max damage. You'll be 3-shotting bosses on Gold if you strike tech, tech, bio, melee.
Looking back on the ending of ME2, I just realized just how many types of Reaper there were in that cutscene.
Shame only two of them made the cut in ME3. Three if Harby is a different kind.
[QUOTE=Marden;40346948]Funny thing is Kotor 2 was made by Obsidian and not Bioware.
Also I think Kotor 2 feels more mature than the first.[/QUOTE]
That's because it [I]is[/I] more mature then the first game, if not star wars games in general. It took the whole 'good vs bad' mentality that Lucas loved and threw it out the window. The whole game is moral grey areas.
Anyway, on topic.
I really think the juggernaut needs a movement buff, as strange as that sounds. I mean, there's slow, and then there's the juggernaut.
[QUOTE=Irespawnoften;40364114]That's because it [I]is[/I] more mature then the first game, if not star wars games in general. It took the whole 'good vs bad' mentality that Lucas loved and threw it out the window. The whole game is moral grey areas.
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What would you expect from a game written by the guy who wrote planescape? Getting obsidian to develop KOTOR 2 was an uncharacteristically good decision on lucasarts' part, especially considering the absolute shit lucasarts was pumping out even then.
[QUOTE=Generic.Monk;40364243]What would you expect from a game written by the guy who wrote planescape? Getting obsidian to develop KOTOR 2 was an uncharacteristically good decision on lucasarts' part, especially considering the absolute shit lucasarts was pumping out even then.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, so uncharacteristically good they had to back peddle like crazy and force Obsidian to release an incomplete game by Christmas and then prevent them from patching in all the stuff they were forced to cut.
[QUOTE=Gar;40364870]Yeah, so uncharacteristically good they had to back peddle like crazy and force Obsidian to release an incomplete game by Christmas and then prevent them from patching in all the stuff they were forced to cut.[/QUOTE]
Well lucasarts couldn't let obsidian released a [i]finished[/i] game, that'd be making things too easy.
I think I heard somewhere that lucas hates the game which is all the more reason why it's awesome and you should play it, haha.
Perhaps ME3 ending could have been more plausible if one found a way to temporarily control reapers and use them to fight others. Like, hijacking their controls or something.
Reapers probably aren't very good at fighting reapers.
Or they could have beat Mac Walters with the script until he came to his senses and wrote something that wasn't complete shit.
[editline]21st April 2013[/editline]
All I want is an ending that forces the starkid to acknowledge that he was hugely wrong if you get the Geth to ally with the Quarians, and then shut off the Reapers. That's a more logical destroy ending than "red explosion".
That'd be pretty neat; after aeons of doing what he thought was right, the Catalyst realises its folly and ends up having a nervous breakdown along the lines of "WHAT_HAVE_I_DONE.dll", resulting in the Reapers being driven to catatonic insanity, granting the Galactic forces the opportunity to destroy them en-masse due to the Reaper's barriers having collapsed from the trauma of realising they had it all wrong this entire time.
Also, maybe another reason that Starkid looked like a kid was because maybe the Intelligence that the Leviathans invented was based off of the brain of a child of teenager, one who was indoctrinated in the belief of the whole "synthetics and organics can never be friends" thing, whose beliefs persisted for billions of years in isolation until Shepard confronts him.
But it's too late for that; development is finished for this title, and we merely have to wait and see how BioWare screws up Mass Effect 4. Hope for the worst and you shall not be disappoint; plus if things don't get diddled over a dogbasket it's a pleasant surprise that it's not absolutely shite.
[QUOTE=ironman17;40366202]That'd be pretty neat; after aeons of doing what he thought was right, the Catalyst realises its folly and ends up having a nervous breakdown along the lines of "WHAT_HAVE_I_DONE.dll", resulting in the Reapers being driven to catatonic insanity, granting the Galactic forces the opportunity to destroy them en-masse due to the Reaper's barriers having collapsed from the trauma of realising they had it all wrong this entire time.[/QUOTE]
And if your EMS is low enough the forces of the Galaxy only end up destroying a few of them before they start going full [i]"JESUS CHRIST I'M HAVING A MENTAL BREAKDOWN"[/i] and spamming lasers everywhere, killing a shitload of your forces.
Honestly I think the ending would have been better if you just... lost.
I don't mind failure endings or endings in the grey area between "fuck yeah" and "oh shit", but I like having a really good ending that you can get if you do everything right. Given the endings of the first two game, I had hoped for something similar with 3.
Shit, I think I might have just re-romanced Liara again in ME3 after hopping on the Tali boat in 2.
In the very beginning of the game, I said that I wasn't interested in Liara anymore, but on the Citadel, I don't know if I just confirmed that I want to be good friends again or if I wanted to Romance her again.
After I picked the option, Shepard asked if Liara would settle down, but he at no point mentioned with him. I tested the other option (Let's keep it professional) and he just said "I don't really have time to chat anymore."
I'm worried now because I quicksaved just before that and it's been an hour and a half of gameplay since that quicksave. I don't want to go all the way back and do that again.
[QUOTE=Flicky;40368056]Shit, I think I might have just re-romanced Liara again in ME3 after hopping on the Tali boat in 2.
In the very beginning of the game, I said that I wasn't interested in Liara anymore, but on the Citadel, I don't know if I just confirmed that I want to be good friends again or if I wanted to Romance her again.
After I picked the option, Shepard asked if Liara would settle down, but he at no point mentioned with him. I tested the other option (Let's keep it professional) and he just said "I don't really have time to chat anymore."
I'm worried now because I quicksaved just before that and it's been an hour and a half of gameplay since that quicksave. I don't want to go all the way back and do that again.[/QUOTE]
You're safe. Also, if you already invited Tali up to your cabin to talk, you're locked into that relationship. Freaked me out the first time too.
[QUOTE=Estolle93;40368650]You're safe. Also, if you already invited Tali up to your cabin to talk, you're locked into that relationship. Freaked me out the first time too.[/QUOTE]
I didn't, though. I haven't done any of the Quarian missions yet.
If you DO invite her up, just keep the paragon responses flowing, and if liara brings it up in future conversations (I'm not sure if the love triangle can resolve itself that late in the game or not) just dump her ass.
[QUOTE=Flicky;40369367]I didn't, though. I haven't done any of the Quarian missions yet.[/QUOTE]
If you really wanna know without risking missing anything, get gibbed's save editor and just check under the mass effect 3 > romance tab whether or not she's set to get fucked. Pretty simple.
