Mass Effect Megathread: He said "I should go." Do I sound like that?
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[QUOTE=Chains!;42684040]It just looked so bad, to me it looked as if it was just made to get money from Betas who have never seen real human interactions.[/QUOTE]
The entire series can be summed up with this, to be honest.
Its easy to give the first game a pass for its time, but it doesn't deserve it. Mass Effect failed at its goals from day one. Even in the first game, your choices affect so little compared to [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqO1ViYFa4s]what was promised[/url]. Every single problem in the series (terrible, cliche plot and writing, romance, clunky, derivative gameplay, dated graphics, etc) was there from the word Go. And its faults came to overwhelm the very few things it had going for it.
Come to think of it, did Mass Effect even do one thing right? I honestly can't think of a single thing that wasn't done better and earlier. Star Control 2, Deus Ex, even Halo. Mass Effect ripped them off, and couldn't even do what they did half as well.
Well yeah ME is a gigantic ripoff of Star Control, that's not really even debatable on any level, (in fact activision told Toys for Bob there was no point in reviving SC after ME 3 was announced)
That said:
ME did good on:
universe (locales and giving them mood and tone)
relatively interesting aliens
music
voice acting
intercharacter dialog
3 got combat right
MP was fun as hell
a great sense of space and feel within the game itself
Keith David (though they did literally kill him ala black sidekick, waah waah waaahaah)
Krogans
Volus
Elcor
Salarians
Geth
Headbutting giant monsters to death
Zaeed Go""amn Massani
Anyone know what format the textures are in for Mass Effect 3?
Nevermind, I converted the file to .dds
Has anyone come up with a better solution than TexMod for getting new textures into the games?
[QUOTE=27X;42692756]Well yeah ME is a gigantic ripoff of Star Control, that's not really even debatable on any level, (in fact activision told Toys for Bob there was no point in reviving SC after ME 3 was announced[/QUOTE]
Not to mention the Collectors are literally just the Amnion from the Gap Cycle. The entrance to Collector territory is even next to an illegal pirate station built into an asteroid. Just like the Gap Cycle.
[QUOTE=Wiggles;42775502]Has anyone come up with a better solution than TexMod for getting new textures into the games?[/QUOTE]
Google ME3 explorer.
[quote]Amnion[/quote]
Or the Shrike.
Happy N7 day everyone!
[QUOTE=cagoBHuK;42786999]Happy N7 day everyone![/QUOTE]
[video=youtube;eOaC7WzlfKc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOaC7WzlfKc[/video]
I think I'm going to puke.
Finished playing Omega DLC today, and honestly, I didn't think it was all that bad. Sure, Aria sounds flat in some places, the ending was anti-climactic and it was almost grossly overpriced, but I thought it was okay. Disliked how they [sp]killed Nyreen. Seriously, she would've been a nice squad member to have on board.[/sp] Story was pretty basic, but at least it didn't give me a major headache like Leviathan.
Speaking of DLCs, I also finished Citadel the other day and I forgot how [sp]sympathetic they made the clone.[/sp] Does anyone else agree? Despite being rather ruthless, I honestly felt bad for them.
[QUOTE=27X;42684023]3's dlc is either deliberately cut content money grab, fancervix, or fancervix moneygrab.
The rather bizarre exception to this is the MP DLC, which is actually what the fuck DLC is supposed to be.[/QUOTE]
I still enjoy the ME3MP, which is really strange considering the game is singleplayer focused.
If they release the multiplayer as like a $15 title for ME4 I'd buy it (not that I'll buy a Bioware title any more) over the full game.
MP is still quite fun.
if ME"4" isn't a spinoff about garrus on omega i'm not interested
Prepare to lose interest.
Started watching Chuck the other day, was very weird to see Miranda without the poorly modeled and plasticky face. Was also weird to see more of her face than of her ass.
[QUOTE=Jojje;42796806]if ME"4" isn't a spinoff about garrus on omega i'm not interested[/QUOTE]
Personally, that, or any prequel would make me automatically not care about the next game.
To me, the main character, the main star of ME, was the galaxy.
I want to see what the future holds, even if BW writes all the endings to end up in one far future outcome.
Talking about main characters, it's funny how I never cared about Shepard at all, unlike every other character.
Maybe it's because I was him, hell, when he died I wasn't sad because he died, I was sad because his crew was sad about his passing.
Anyway, Garrus. I think BW could make a comic or a novel about his Omega days, but what would be the point? We already know what happened.
What's done is done. They should just take an aspect of each of the endings and move the fuck on.
[QUOTE=27X;42855260]What's done is done. They should just take an aspect of each of the endings and move the fuck on.[/QUOTE]
Here's hoping Synthesis has the least impact. Honestly I'd prefer Control as the canon ending; aside from [sp]an armada of massive, planet-cracking robots controlled by (potentially) the intelligence of a cold-blooded omnicidal maniac[/sp], it would keep the most elements of what sets Mass Effect apart from other sci-fi universes. They'd have to decide whether or not Shepard was Space Jesus or not, but I'm reasonably certain it could work out.
[sp] Problem with Control is the Reapers can fix anything, you can never have a big ass threat unless that threat is larger than the Reapers because they've become the galaxy social justice police [/sp]
[QUOTE=27X;42855976][sp] Problem with Control is the Reapers can fix anything, you can never have a big ass threat unless that threat is larger than the Reapers because they've become the galaxy social justice police [/sp][/QUOTE]
You also have, you know, the potential for even 100% Paragon Shepards to end up like the Catalyst. In all likelihood, people will go back to wiping one another out eventually. Sooner or later AI Shepard will see the logic in stopping organic life from wiping itself out.
Synthesis gets worse the more you think about it. Eventually you realize that medical and organic science changing completely overnight is one of many many terrible things.
[QUOTE=27X;42855976][sp] Problem with Control is the Reapers can fix anything, you can never have a big ass threat unless that threat is larger than the Reapers because they've become the galaxy social justice police [/sp][/QUOTE]
That's why we'd want Renegade Shepard. In that case, they'd hardly be the force for justice.
Perhaps that could be the plot of the new game: there's a new enemy force running roughshod over the galaxy and the hero needs to stop it. Problem is, the force is essentially unstoppable. No matter how many ground troops are killed, ships destroyed or whatever, they just keep coming. So they turn to the council and find out its darkest secret- the Reapers are still out there, hiding in dark space in a Shepard induced exile. But the Reapers are the only force that has a clear shot of wiping out this new enemy, so the hero must journey into dark space, find Shepard, convince it to help, and raise hell in the final act.
Apart from this distilling itself from an ending they would have to make canon, they'd also have to make whether Shepard was male or female canon as well.
They did say keep all your save files. They'd just need to bring back the voice actors and carefully make sure that they don't mention any event flags from the previous games
[QUOTE=The_J_Hat;42859661]Perhaps that could be the plot of the new game: there's a new enemy force running roughshod over the galaxy and the hero needs to stop it. Problem is, the force is essentially unstoppable. No matter how many ground troops are killed, ships destroyed or whatever, they just keep coming. So they turn to the council and find out its darkest secret- the Reapers are still out there, hiding in dark space in a Shepard induced exile. But the Reapers are the only force that has a clear shot of wiping out this new enemy, so the hero must journey into dark space, find Shepard, convince it to help, and raise hell in the final act.
Apart from this distilling itself from an ending they would have to make canon, they'd also have to make whether Shepard was male or female canon as well.[/QUOTE]
If SerkitJay is right about the save files, they wouldn't need to give Shepard a canon gender. If you're right about the whole Shepard-Reaper thing though, then he/she is probably past the point of that mattering in the slightest. Unless we get to talk to a hologram/projection of Shepard and it uses [I]our[/I] Shepard, which would be amazing.
I kind of wish BW would either do their own Star Citizen-esque RPG or let someone else do one. Thinking it'd be pretty wicked to have community events like the Reaper battles.
So I've actually had this thought in my head for a while whilst fiddling around with ME1
they had the inventory system in ME1 with all the various different guns and armor and different companies for each, they could have had more variety with them
for example, Human companies could have made your average Bullet spewing guns and Kevlar.
Turian companies could have made your more angled, shield toting armor and thermal clip weapons.
Asari Companies could have made Biotic based guns like the acolyte and have your more barrier supported armor.
Geth are your typical all energy weapon needs group.
Krogan weapons would have been all Harpoons and rockets.
and the likes of Quarian guns would be focused on Anti synthetics and shields.
the likes of Bloodpack and Pirate groups would have really cobbled together variety of weapons, like a Phaeston with a flamethrower and underslung shotgun strapped on sort of thing.
And Cerberus would sort of have your token unique weapons like Plasma, guass and laser.
Even though you have the whole universal design thing, it would have made for interesting combat and everyone would pretty much have their own unique design and technology, where you'd have to manage ammo and decide which gun works best against which faction, enemy type and race, whilst keeping the RPG elements.
lots of armor and flesh you'd grab a minigun and a lot of bullets
accuracy and antishields you'd grab a geth weapon with the respective enery cell ammo
anti barrier and splash damage, asari weapons, etc
It'd make the Contrast of style between each race look a bit better as well, instead of everyone having the same brand of skin tight pink banana armor
for example
[img] http://filesmelt.com/dl/TechnologyManagement_example.jpg[/img]
Just a thought really, but it'd make sense in my opinion. Every race has their own military and technology, and don't really need to share ALL of it with the galaxy.
You mean like they have in Borderlands?
sort of in a way. More like Mass Effect 1's many guns and armors, just with more unique models and stats.
Like Fallout
I hope the series gets more diverse in terms of gender. I really want to see more female turians.
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