Mass Effect Megathread: He said "I should go." Do I sound like that? - Games

I want to do a full playthough again, but doing the shit on Citadel(Irenicus' dungeon 2.0) and then scanning erry planet again is too much of a bother.

[QUOTE=Goblin_5;49184265]I want to do a full playthough again, but doing the shit on Citadel(Irenicus' dungeon 2.0) and then scanning erry planet again is too much of a bother.[/QUOTE] You can use a save file editor to give you any amount of resources and skip the main beef of the planetary scanning

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[QUOTE=Wiggles;49110181]Not sure how long this has been the case, but Bioware are selling [URL="http://www.biowarestore.com/womens-fall-collection/tali-pattern-leggings.html"]Mass Effect[/URL] [URL="http://www.biowarestore.com/womens-fall-collection/tali-leggings.html"]themed[/URL] [URL="http://www.biowarestore.com/womens-fall-collection/commander-shepard-leggings.html"]leggings[/URL] for $60 each. [t]http://www.biowarestore.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/thumbnail/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/l/a/ladies-leggins-tali-side.jpg[/t] I thought $60 for their hoodies was a bit of a rip-off, but this is ridiculous.[/QUOTE] I need to get my girlfriend into Mass Effect

[QUOTE=Wiggles;49110181]Not sure how long this has been the case, but Bioware are selling [URL="http://www.biowarestore.com/womens-fall-collection/tali-pattern-leggings.html"]Mass Effect[/URL] [URL="http://www.biowarestore.com/womens-fall-collection/tali-leggings.html"]themed[/URL] [URL="http://www.biowarestore.com/womens-fall-collection/commander-shepard-leggings.html"]leggings[/URL] for $60 each. [t]http://www.biowarestore.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/thumbnail/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/l/a/ladies-leggins-tali-side.jpg[/t] I thought $60 for their hoodies was a bit of a rip-off, but this is ridiculous.[/QUOTE] is it me or does that look like a man modeling it?

GREAT, THE FUCKING FISH IS DEAD AGAIN!

Should've fed them [editline]26th November 2015[/editline] Thank god for the AI in ME3

[QUOTE=misterv;49078362]I mean, can you even name another Mark Meer character? I know I can't[/QUOTE] I know this is late but I just wanted to reply anyway. The guy giving voiceover in baldurs gate 2 ending or something. All the vorcha and hanar, the biotic god. I remember hearing his voice in jade empire as well but I can't remember who. The dalish guy who lost his wife in DA:Origins, the prostitute elf in DA2 - my personal favorite he ever voiced. Yeah and the talking darspawn in DA:Awakening

I forget, what's the opinions on the books and comic books of the series? There's a sale on the comic books and I was wondering if they were any good.

I've read them all. If you're a fan of the series, knock yourself out. The novels are rather good and offer a lot of insight into the general Mass Effect universe. The comic books are more focused on setting backgrounds for major characters and some game-related events. Their quality is quite varied; some are quite bad but others are a decent read.

[QUOTE=goluffy;49193875]I forget, what's the opinions on the books and comic books of the series? There's a sale on the comic books and I was wondering if they were any good.[/QUOTE] Fucking awful

[QUOTE=27X;49233346]Fucking awful[/QUOTE] Why? I thought they were pretty good. Expanded the ME universe within realistic means to me, even if the art direction was all over the place in some ways.

The first book was pretty cool. It laid down the foundation for the most part. The rest were pretty awful imho. lots of shoehorned last minute stuff that were summarized into single sentences.

[QUOTE=Laferio;49233525]The first book was pretty cool. It laid down the foundation for the most part. The rest were pretty awful imho. lots of shoehorned last minute stuff that were summarized into single sentences.[/QUOTE] There was also that one where Kai Leng was characterized as an adrenaline junkie, and the author chose to demonstrate this by showing him eating a bowl of cereal.

After several hours in Mass Effect 2 as an adept, I decided to use a save file editor to change my class to a sentinel. It's that bad Also ... [t]http://i.imgur.com/M3Z7Mzx.jpg[/t] Years after the release I'm still sore about not being able to bed this woman

Adept is bad? lol. One of the only classes able to do scaling explosions that do bonus damage to everything but shields and on multiple opponents is bad. k. Adept has the second strongest sustained DPS behind the soldier and also second highest spike damage behind Infiltrator and doesn't need a pal to access warp ammo bonuses. Mayhaps you should revise your opinion to "I have no idea how to play this class and thus don't like it" because it's the second best class in the game behind Soldier.

[QUOTE=27X;49234274]Adept is bad? lol. One of the only classes able to do scaling explosions that do bonus damage to everything but shields and on multiple opponents is bad. k. Adept has the second strongest sustained DPS behind the soldier and also second highest spike damage behind Infiltrator and doesn't need a pal to access warp ammo bonuses. Mayhaps you should revise your opinion to "I have no idea how to play this class and thus don't like it" because it's the second best class in the game behind Soldier.[/QUOTE] God forbid me to find a class where I mainly have to wait for my squad members to whittle down the enemy's defense layers fucking boring and wanting to change it lol dude XD

Okay so I've never played ME3 and saw it was on sale for stupid cheap on Origin. I've played ME1 5 times before, and ME2 somewhere well above 20 times. Unfortunately, all those saves are on an ancient hard drive buried in my old laptop that I simply cannot be bothered to extract. So to save myself the 15 minutes of doing that, I decided to instead commit about 250 hours to playing the entire series again. Twice. Once as Felicia Shepard, the Renegade Vanguard. The other, as Mal Shepard, the Paragon Sentinel. So far I have completed my Renegade Playthrough of Mass Effect 1. And [I]dear god[/I] Mass Effect 1 is [I]bad.[/I] Everything about the gameplay is [B]bad.[/B] The shooting is squidgey and imprecise, at least until level 35 or so, the powers, except for Throw and Lift, feel impotent and weak, grenades are useless, the camera in combat mode is sickening with the bobbing, the inventory management is unbelievably bad, at one point on the final mission I made the mistake of wanting to change from Sledgehammer rounds to Tungsten, and I had about 200 items waiting for me. I had to mash E for about 4 minutes to omni-gel all of them. Really, [I]really[/I] killed the pacing. The Mako is a particularly buggy buggy. At one point it just started spinning out of control. The side quests are completely wasted, honestly. The lack of voice acting and usage of text boxes for the majority of them makes them feel very tacked on. Also [B][I]total utter lack of autosaves really push my buttons![/I][/B] I kept track, I lost 6.5 hours of my 30 in this playthrough to the lack of autosaves. Noveria, Feros, and side-mission planets are the biggest offenders, with Noveria not having a single Autosave from the moment you first fight Geth before getting in the Mako until possibly sometime after you beat [sp]Matriarch Benezia.[/sp] Honestly, if it weren't for the amazing writing and [I]incredible[/I] soundtrack, I think Mass Effect would have been a flop, or at least, not the juggernaut it became. The worldbuilding is superb, with Codex surfing being truly enjoyable to me. They really built a vibrant world in the lore, I just wish the technology had been able to reproduce it. [del]Finally, I'd like to dedicate special mention to the graphics. [B]They suck.[/B] The texturework in particular is truly dreadful, with widely varying texture densities making for a true mess. The character's non-face textures in particular are unbelievably bad, with texture resolutions more in league with Quake 3 than Unreal 3. The effects are quite nice, and the environmental design is okay, but the poor texturework really permeates the entire game, with Unreal's trademark pop-in on full ugly display, especially during cutscenes.[/del] Turns out my config file had somehow gone read-only so when I set the settings to max they stayed at minimum. The lighting is great, the texturework is perfectly acceptable for the era, which is all I ask. Particle effects are just fine, and the shadows are excellent. There is still some relatively ugly differences in texture-density, for example characters' clothing is noticeably lower resolution than their faces, but it's not a deal breaker by any means. And since I played a Renegade playthrough first and being Renegade makes me actually pretty uncomfortable (I was devastated when I made Conrad cry), I've got to do it ALL again to get my Paragon Shepard done. This game really isn't very fun but it's so damn compelling.

[QUOTE=EliaMoroes;49234345]God forbid me to find a class where I mainly have to wait for my squad members to whittle down the enemy's defense layers fucking boring and wanting to change it lol dude XD[/QUOTE] You're doing it wrong. [QUOTE] Adept has the second strongest sustained DPS[/QUOTE] [quote] graphics [/quote] Me2's and 3's textures are actually half the size of one's, one actually has the best lighting and texture work, and the highest quality UVs.

I always found adept to be the most fun to play. Space magic is your friend.

Oh hey, I remembered I had Shadowplay running when the Mako flipped out. Here. [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yxO7wqknS0[/media]

[QUOTE=Trekintosh;49234352]Okay so I've never played ME3 and saw it was on sale for stupid cheap on Origin. I've played ME1 5 times before, and ME2 somewhere well above 20 times. Unfortunately, all those saves are on an ancient hard drive buried in my old laptop that I simply cannot be bothered to extract. So to save myself the 15 minutes of doing that, I decided to instead commit about 250 hours to playing the entire series again. Twice. Once as Felicia Shepard, the Renegade Vanguard. The other, as Mal Shepard, the Paragon Sentinel. So far I have completed my Renegade Playthrough of Mass Effect 1. And [I]dear god[/I] Mass Effect 1 is [I]bad.[/I] Everything about the gameplay is [B]bad.[/B] The shooting is squidgey and imprecise, at least until level 35 or so, the powers, except for Throw and Lift, feel impotent and weak, grenades are useless, the camera in combat mode is sickening with the bobbing, the inventory management is unbelievably bad, at one point on the final mission I made the mistake of wanting to change from Sledgehammer rounds to Tungsten, and I had about 200 items waiting for me. I had to mash E for about 4 minutes to omni-gel all of them. Really, [I]really[/I] killed the pacing. The Mako is a particularly buggy buggy. At one point it just started spinning out of control. The side quests are completely wasted, honestly. The lack of voice acting and usage of text boxes for the majority of them makes them feel very tacked on. Also [B][I]total utter lack of autosaves really push my buttons![/I][/B] I kept track, I lost 6.5 hours of my 30 in this playthrough to the lack of autosaves. Noveria, Feros, and side-mission planets are the biggest offenders, with Noveria not having a single Autosave from the moment you first fight Geth before getting in the Mako until possibly sometime after you beat [sp]Matriarch Benezia.[/sp] Honestly, if it weren't for the amazing writing and [I]incredible[/I] soundtrack, I think Mass Effect would have been a flop, or at least, not the juggernaut it became. The worldbuilding is superb, with Codex surfing being truly enjoyable to me. They really built a vibrant world in the lore, I just wish the technology had been able to reproduce it. Finally, I'd like to dedicate special mention to the graphics. [B]They suck.[/B] The texturework in particular is truly dreadful, with widely varying texture densities making for a true mess. The character's non-face textures in particular are unbelievably bad, with texture resolutions more in league with Quake 3 than Unreal 3. The effects are quite nice, and the environmental design is okay, but the poor texturework really permeates the entire game, with Unreal's trademark pop-in on full ugly display, especially during cutscenes. And since I played a Renegade playthrough first and being Renegade makes me actually pretty uncomfortable (I was devastated when I made Conrad cry), I've got to do it ALL again to get my Paragon Shepard done. This game really isn't very fun but it's so damn compelling.[/QUOTE] Next time, do yourself a favor and do the same I did: once you're a Spectre, open the console, make yourself Level 60, pick up some decent guns, armors and mods for you and your squad and play without having to micromanage everyone's inventory and skill trees for the whole game. Ignore all loot chests and play without unnecessary interruption. Also, if your PC can handle it, install Texmod and [URL="http://www.moddb.com/mods/mass-effect-1-new-texture-updatesimprovements-mod"]MEUITM[/URL]. And Reshade, for good measure. [editline]3rd December 2015[/editline] Also 27X, you'd better watch out, Imma come back to you soon about what's canon and what's not.

Since we are talking about it, here is a screenshot from my last Mass Effect playthrough [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/NTCkf7i.png[/IMG]

I avoided adept for a long time because I thought it would be weak. Then it turned out to be my favourite class. Fuck the haters, adept4lifee

Adept + assault rifle bonus in ME1 owns bones.

Combat is so boring in ME1 I just go soldier so I don't suffer from the consequences of dying in a game with no auto save feature. ME2 onwards though and the world's your oyster. Classes are varied enough.

Playing through ME2 again recently and it feels like a totally different game with the ENB/SweetFX and high-res character texture mods. Holds up well against modern game graphics in many cases. Also activated the mod that adds weapon overheating/cooldown, so you can either wait for ammo to recharge or pop a new heat sink in when it's empty if you're in a hurry. Changes up combat quite a bit, things got faster paced. I love ME1 but I just can't endure the beginning Citadel sequence anymore. That whole first act of the game at the Citadel is a bore-fest, especially for people like me who feel the need to complete all the side quests and whatnot. It's a chore constantly running here and there back and forth talking to people without much action. I like how in ME2 and 3, you can run around and talk to people for hours if you want, but you're never far from some combat if you want to get into it. ME1 has you learn the combat controls in the opening mission, then goes, "lol now you wont use that shit for like 3 hours."

Replaying Mass Effect 2 is a bit entertaining catching the many plot bits about the dark matter, which was supposed to be the main story premise behind everything in Mass Effect 3 I'm glad it was changed though. Very glad.

[QUOTE=Vassikin;49235331]Adept + assault rifle bonus in ME1 owns bones.[/QUOTE] Adept is by far the strongest class in me1, it just takes a while to get there. [quote] canon [/quote] I talk to Dombo and Sylv on a semiregualr basis but you go ahead and learned me up real goods about what's kosher and what isn't.:quotes:

I take back everything I said about the graphics in Mass Effect 1. Turns out my config file had somehow gone read-only so when I set the settings to max they stayed at minimum. The lighting is great, the texturework is perfectly acceptable for the era, which is all I ask. Particle effects are just fine, and the shadows are excellent. There is still some relatively ugly differences in texture-density, for example characters' clothing is noticeably lower resolution than their faces, but it's not a deal breaker by any means.