[QUOTE=Canuhearme?;29626352]I'm wondering why Ashley, a person well known for being the stereotypical spunky space marine, chose to get rid of her ponytail and armor to wear a space bimbo outfit during the [I]middle of a Reaper invasion.
[/I]I feel really uneasy seeing Mac Walters at the reins of Mass Effect 3, especially seeing how he handled Mass Effect 2.[/QUOTE]
Because space bimbo's better appeal to the "larger market" :downs:
[QUOTE=imadaman;29626990]May I enquire, what the fuck is wrong you people?[/QUOTE]
Its the hipster effect.
Put the words "mainstream" anywhere in an article about a game and most of facepunch goes apeshit. Which is funny because most of us seem to hate hipsters.
[QUOTE=Zezibesh;29187401]You mean Dreamworks?[/QUOTE]
:)
[QUOTE=Cree8ive;29629416]I'll think of something, like playing ME2 and LoL for a while whilst focusing on school etc.[/QUOTE]
I'm gonna play through KOTOR 1+2 again. To kill time
[QUOTE=markfu;29629497]Its the hipster effect.
Put the words "mainstream" anywhere in an article about a game and most of facepunch goes apeshit. Which is funny because most of us seem to hate hipsters.[/QUOTE]
Going apeshit over this post.
What's the page limit again? 120-something? At any rate, we're getting close(ish). I vote for Powell Appreciation Thread when the time comes.
1st post at 126.
[QUOTE=sltungle;29629593]What's the page limit again? 120-something? At any rate, we're getting close(ish). I vote for Powell Appreciation Thread when the time comes.[/QUOTE]
it's 5000 posts
[QUOTE=markfu;29629497]Its the hipster effect.
Put the words "mainstream" anywhere in an article about a game and most of facepunch goes apeshit. Which is funny because most of us seem to hate hipsters.[/QUOTE]
People aren't getting annoyed that a wider audience will be playing the game. We don't want it to be some secret exclusive thing "you just wouldn't get" (at least I hope people don't want that, if so then yeah they're being hipsterish). People here just don't want the game dumbed down and changed from what made it great in the first place. I'm not saying it will, but I think it's a legitimate concern
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also woo 100th post
[QUOTE=Novangel;29629598]1st post at 126.[/QUOTE]
5000th post, which is last of 125.
But since the pagelock script goes in cycles, there's a good chance we'll get a few posts to 126.
[QUOTE=tommo400;29629444]Because space bimbo's better appeal to the "larger market" :downs:[/QUOTE]
I give you the Hollywood Akira script: [url]http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-actual-live-action-akira-script-worse-than-you-think/[/url]
[quote]Hollywood Producer: "I love the Kay character! But slut her up, throw some Jovovich in there, and do I even need to say it? Full leather bodysuit."[/quote]
[QUOTE=Ridge;29629866]I give you the Hollywood Akira script: [url]http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-actual-live-action-akira-script-worse-than-you-think/[/url][/QUOTE]
Faith in humanity: Decreasing
Well, The Hollywood executive part anyway
Uh, what happened a couple of pages ago facepunch.
This EA guy says that they want to achieve the best possible shooter/RPG hybrid and by doing so they want to appeal to a greatest audience. How is this a bad thing, or is it the fact that they want to appeal to a greater fan base that is bad?
[QUOTE=Canuhearme?;29626352]I feel really uneasy seeing Mac Walters at the reins of Mass Effect 3, especially seeing how he handled Mass Effect 2.[/QUOTE]
Did ME2 have you:
a. Collect resources (Normandy SR2, squadmates) that will be important in ME3?
b. Did it introduce concepts that will be an important part of ME3? Genophage, Cerberus, Geth-Quarian conflict.
c. Did it maintain and further investigate the overreaching threat?
Yes, it did.
Did it have excellent characters?
Did it introduce the concepts beautifully?
Was the threat not maintained? Did we not discover more about the nature of the Reapers?
Then I guess that it's an excellent [b]Act 2[/b] of the conventional trilogy formula.
[QUOTE=tommo400;29629444]Because space bimbo's better appeal to the "larger market" :downs:[/QUOTE]
Everybody loves bimbos.
and Garrus.
bimbos + Garrus = GOTY
[QUOTE=sltungle;29617297]Last night I was having a good ol' think while in the shower. Was trying to figure out why the Reapers... well... reap. I know we've all considered a lot of reasons, but then, I think a new one hit me:
A few of us considered the idea that maybe Reapers destroy all advanced life forms because mass effect technology damages stars/space itself. But then I got thinking... maybe the Reapers are INTENTIONALLY damaging stars, causing them to age prematurely, then letting them go supernova so that they can return to the galaxy and harvest an entire solar system's worth of element zero (as element zero is formed when matter is exposed to a star going supernova).
After all, any intelligent, space faring species in the ME universe that lives long enough is gonna find that element zero supplies begin to dwindle, and it's not something that under any normal circumstances you can artificially produce. Maybe the Reapers got to this point in the past and went, "fuck it, let's make more element zero!" and forced a star to prematurely age. Then they left and hibernated again until slowly their element zero supplies dwindled (a solar system's worth of element zero is a LOT, but it's not infinite, and given how large the Reapers are, and how numerous they are, I can easily see them burning through all of it in 50000-100000 years or so).
Of course some may argue what's the point in hibernating for 50000 years only to be awake for a few hundred years (during their reaping), but... that's what life does. Lots of animals hibernate for exorbitant periods of time, then only wake to collect food, mate, and return to hibernation. Life would rather exist and yet only spend 1/1000 of its time awake than perish completely.
The only part that wouldn't make sense to me is: why bother extinguish all life in the galaxy each time you perform this process. Perhaps because a star going supernova would probably be relatively obvious and would draw the attention of anyone on its side of the galaxy, and the Reapers obviously wouldn't want their precious bounty to be stolen.
Just an idea that I was considering.[/QUOTE]
Kinda explains what on earth the Geth were doing on Haestrom...
Or was this already figured out?
[QUOTE=Saren;29629541]:)[/QUOTE]
That post was over 50 pages ago, what the fuck
[img]http://gyazo.com/23f837389e33a2b5cd77cfa2903ffd5f.png[/img]
damn it
[QUOTE=phaedon;29630301]
Did ME2 have you:
b. Did it introduce concepts that will be an important part of ME3? Genophage, Cerberus, Geth-Quarian conflict.
Yes, it did.
[/QUOTE]
Uh, they may have been expanded upon in ME2, but those things were introduced in ME1.
[QUOTE=phaedon;29630301]
Yes, it did.
Did it have excellent characters?
Did it introduce the concepts beautifully?
[B]Was the threat not maintained? Did we not discover more about the nature of the Reapers?[/B]
[/QUOTE]
The Reapers felt like a detached threat and Harbinger, which was supposed to be established as the "main Reaper antagonist" felt more like a plot device then an actual character, something just to establish the Collectors work for the Reapers.
Then there's the problem that Harbinger never has a conversation on the level of Sovereign with Shepard, instead being a bunch of one liners and an end-speech (then in Arrival it's a 1 dialogue choice conversation where it amounts to, "prepare yourself we're coming.") Then there's the eyes, I know it's just so we can tell one Reaper apart from another but c'mon.
The introduction of why the Collectors were capturing humans just felt blunt to me, they gave no real foreshadowing that they were using the genetic material for making a Human-Reaper, which iffed me because they at least gave hints in ME1 that the Citadel might not have been built by the Protheans before you even become a Spectre.
Mass Effect 2 was a classic middle installment of a trilogy; it had excellent character development while making sure they don't advance the main plot too far, but I still feel it could've been executed better.
I get a bad feeling from Crawlers now
If you guys are bitching about it, look at the [url=http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-05-04-mass-effect-3-tweaked-for-larger-market] actual news about this[/url]. Third comment: [quote]So in other words, they are dumbing it down even more.
Didn't know that was possible after ME2. [/quote]
Gotta love the internet.
Like I always say, Facepunch loves its own elitism and own its own elitism. It also loves the 90s.
[QUOTE=DiscoInferno;29632500]Like I always say, Facepunch loves its own elitism and own its own elitism. It also loves the 90s.[/QUOTE]
It's not elitism to like a certain thing that may not be popular with everyone. Personally I don't think the Mass Effect franchise is that non-mainstream or hard to get into, especially ME2, but if people don't care for it then so be it.
I mean we don't know to what ends they're going to be making changes, so people are jumping to conclusions. But for people who like the game as is, it doesn't sound too promising is all.
[img]http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/resources/2007/12/elongated_mass_effect.jpg[/img]
This just happened to me. fucking benezia, warping my skeleton and whatnot.
[QUOTE=jackattack;29632900][img_thumb]http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/resources/2007/12/elongated_mass_effect.jpg[/img_thumb]
This just happened to me. fucking benezia, warping my skeleton and whatnot.[/QUOTE]
Nope.
[QUOTE=jackattack;29632900][img_thumb]http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/resources/2007/12/elongated_mass_effect.jpg[/img_thumb]
This just happened to me. fucking benezia, warping my skeleton and whatnot.[/QUOTE]
Powerful biotics on that one. Broke every bone in Shepards body
I feel obliged to post anything Mass Effect related stuff that I find:
[img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/21171698/1293659419661.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=guicool-BR-;29632044]If you guys are bitching about it, look at the [url=http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-05-04-mass-effect-3-tweaked-for-larger-market] actual news about this[/url]. Third comment:
Gotta love the internet.[/QUOTE]
Ha, this is probably an idiot from the MEC forums. He posted the exact same thing. Didn't even bother reading the article I guess.
Already sent him a warning, we don't need bad reputation when Bioware can sent as a C&D.
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[QUOTE=Canuhearme?;29631035]TMass Effect 2 was a classic middle installment of a trilogy; it had excellent character development while making sure they don't advance the main plot too far, but I still feel it could've been executed better.[/QUOTE]
Certainly, but for a second act, I think that it holds up very well together. Definitely deserved the awards.
ME1 had excellent writing, but some pretty obvious plot devices as well.
[QUOTE=Cree8ive;29633174]I feel obliged to post anything Mass Effect related stuff that I find:
[img_thumb]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/21171698/1293659419661.jpg[/img_thumb][/QUOTE]
Someone must create Ainsley Shepard in-game
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[QUOTE=phaedon;29633779]Ha, this is probably an idiot from the MEC forums. He posted the exact same thing. Didn't even bother reading the article I guess.
Already sent him a warning, we don't need bad reputation when Bioware can sent as a C&D.[/quote]
Good to know.
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