Mass Effect Megathread: "I'm sorry, my face is tired from dealing with everything." - Games

[QUOTE=The_J_Hat;52124923]Who's the leader of the Krogan, Wrex or Wreave?[/QUOTE] Wrex

[QUOTE=bdd458;52124995]Wrex[/QUOTE] [sp]Get ready if you sabotaged the cure cause Wrex is gonna get killed too[/sp]

I've literally never once [sp]shot Mordin. I can't bring myself to do it. Even on my rat bastard renegade playthroughs, I can't bring myself to do it. I like him too much.[/sp]

If the game's interface is anything to go by, the true open world planets you can visit are about four or five. Did I get this right? If that's the case, Andromeda has less areas to explore than Dragon Age: Inquisition. ... I'd had never thought I'd had been the one to whine about less open world features. Thanks for nothing, Andromeda

I like most of Andromeda's maps more than most of Inquisitions, honestly. Not that either impressed much.

[QUOTE=bdd458;52124698]In ME3 I just [sp]Shot Mordin[/sp] I feel like such an asshole but my shepard does [sp]hate aliens and thinks the genophage was a good thing. I'm going to have to do a paragon run of the trilogy to make up for my sins [/sp].[/QUOTE] [sp] Mordin's death scene when you shoot him is one of the best in the game though. First time I teared up at a video game was watching that scene. (You're also a monster for doing it though).[/sp]

[QUOTE=KaptonJack;52125293]I like most of Andromeda's maps more than most of Inquisitions, honestly. Not that either impressed much.[/QUOTE] I like Andromeda more in general, Inquisition really felt like a single player MMO, boring fetch quests and everything, I couldn't get through it MEA maps are pretty empty but at least you have a car and the gameplay is kickass on foot

[QUOTE=Pappi_man;52124359]Well, there's my little "mod", [URL="http://social.bioware.com/173070/blog/2541/"]Casual Outfit Beyond Normandy[/URL]. It has that armor, but I'm not sure about the helmet.[/QUOTE] Yeah, I know about the armour, and modified Coalesced myself to enable it for Casual and Combat, but the one thing that eludes me is the helmet. I imagine that since the armour is accessible, the helmet most likely is too, just elusive. Damn shame really, the old breather helmet always looked pretty cool.

[QUOTE=Nemisis116;52125626]I like Andromeda more in general, Inquisition really felt like a single player MMO, boring fetch quests and everything, I couldn't get through it.[/QUOTE] I'm genuinely curious now: how is Andromeda any different than Inquisition in this regard? 'Cause yesterday I took something like three or four side quests on Kadara and they were all about complete strangers asking me to find shit for them. In the meantime, this evening I played Horizon: Zero Dawn and a father asked me to find his missing daughter. Said daugther turned out to be fine and in love with a local bandit: she also esented her father due to his neglect. In the end I found the bandit lover dying by his own gang's hands, not before giving me a trinket to show her as a proof of his love. And after returning the girl to her father she implied she wanted to commit suicide, so I sent the father to her in order to ... ... I think you get where I want to go with this already

[QUOTE=bdd458;52124698]In ME3 I just [sp]Shot Mordin[/sp] I feel like such an asshole but my shepard does [sp]hate aliens and thinks the genophage was a good thing. I'm going to have to do a paragon run of the trilogy to make up for my sins [/sp].[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=bdd458;52124995]Wrex[/QUOTE] You absolute fucking monster. No amount of virtuous deeds will clean this atrocity.

[QUOTE=DFC;52125349][sp] Mordin's death scene when you shoot him is one of the best in the game though. First time I teared up at a video game was watching that scene. (You're also a monster for doing it though).[/sp][/QUOTE] [sp]"Not yet..."*cough*"Not. Yet."[/sp] I'm still mad and confused as to why they replaced Mordin's voice actor, but he did an excellent job that whole sequence.

[QUOTE=JeanLuc761;52126500][sp]"Not yet..."*cough*"Not. Yet."[/sp] I'm still mad and confused as to why they replaced Mordin's voice actor, but he did an excellent job that whole sequence.[/QUOTE] Apparently the old VA couldn't agree on what he should be paid. New one does an amazing job copying him tbh.

I didn't even realize they replaced him. Sure fooled me with the new one. I'm actually ashamed I didn't even realize that.

Anyone farming gold?

[QUOTE=USA_Pilot;52126565]I didn't even realize they replaced him. Sure fooled me with the new one. I'm actually ashamed I didn't even realize that.[/QUOTE] The only line he says that doesn't sound right is his first one. There's just something off with his "excellent timing" but whatever, minor nitpick

[QUOTE=USA_Pilot;52126565]I didn't even realize they replaced him. Sure fooled me with the new one. I'm actually ashamed I didn't even realize that.[/QUOTE] It's his very first sentence that got a few people thinking something was wrong, then the credits confirmed it (yes some people watch those apparently). The fact very few people realised it until it was pointed out to them testifies to how incredibly good the new VA did his job.

Andromeda is super fun to play on the steam controller.

Wow, it takes you roughly five minutes square to clear your main story assignment on Kadara, but as soon as you return to your ship you are literally bombarded with all the side quests you were missing up to that point. ... AND NO PEEBEE DEAR, I'M NOT TRAVELLING BACK TO [I]FUCKING[/I] EOS FOR THE SAKE OF YOUR HIGH SCHOOL SCIENCE PROJECT.

[QUOTE=EliaMoroes;52129376] ... AND NO PEEBEE DEAR, I'M NOT TRAVELLING BACK TO [I]FUCKING[/I] EOS FOR THE SAKE OF YOUR HIGH SCHOOL SCIENCE PROJECT.[/QUOTE] The planet hoping does get rather tedious once you unlock Kadara. I groaned every time someone wanted me to go back to a previous planet I've already 100%. Pacing in this game was all over the place with the side quests making you go back and forth constantly.

I'm sorry to insist on the same topic, but I've come to the point in the game where side quests start to get, shall we say, [I]invasive[/I]. Now, I get it: they thought they'd had played it safe and just ape Dragon Age: Inquisitor for their next big Mass Effect game. I really get it. But at the very least they could had taken Inquisition's [I]good stuff[/I], and not only the bad one. Like, Inquisition had invasive side quests, but at the very least: 1) They were given to you roughly in the same area you had to complete them 2) You could access the world map (nearly) all the time and wrap to the different maps quickly In Andromeda, instead, not only side quests ask you to go all over the place, but the transiction between planets are constantly interrupted by unskippable loading screens. An example would be the human engineer on the Nexus wanting to gift Nakmor Kesh some booze: - Oh hey, Pathfinder. Just go to Kadara's main hub and buy some. Oh way, no, you'll have to scout the local baldlands for it!-. [I]Fuck[/I] [B]YOU[/B].

My problem is that you have to enter a cutscene to get side quests from the tempest, just to then go back to the same fucking planet you just took off from, like, let me get on the Tempest and NOT FUCKING TAKE OFF TO READ MY EMAIL.

Must drive the pilots up a fucking wall. "Alright where we going Pathfinder?" "Oh no I just had to check my emails, why don't you guys land again"

I had a big rant ready to go about how Tasks are worse in Andromeda than they ever were in DA2 or ME3 thanks to the open world, bad quest tracking, a failed attempt at making them seem more important by giving you more time to talk to the questgivers and more dialogue for each step but no equivalent narrative payoff at the end, and finally that exasperating process where you destroy / scan / kill something and inevitably hear from SAM that you have to keep doing it, but I realised it would be easier to just say what a shitty thing SAM is. So far SAM feels like a crutch for the storytelling and quest design of the game as well as the exploration, always there to help the designers when a quest doesn't quite flow properly, or the player when they don't know exactly what to do or where to go. Or just to blurt out the obvious when neither of those conditions are met.

Here's a fun game. List a lot of fucking songs that'd fit the trailer more than Human. Here's what I'd have cut it to. [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rbm6GXllBiw]Paradise City.[/url] [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7jSp2xmmEE]Right Here, Right Now.[/url] [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDNzQ3CXspU]Search & Destroy.[/url] [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxuThNgl3YA]Born To Run.[/url] [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-r679Hhs9Zs]Break On Through (To The Other Side).[/url] [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=129kuDCQtHs]Dancing In The Dark.[/url] [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7r2wfzJ4ZU]Fuckin' In The Bushes.[/url] [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDeThz30JtQ]Gone Guru.[/url] [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJ7NVjZ-Eyg]I Ran (So Far Away).[/url] [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qORYO0atB6g]Intergalactic.[/url] [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pU-DfRSFWbA]Knock Knock.[/url] [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTseSi0Qgow]Major Tom (Coming Home).[/url] [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVL0r4BFN88]Neon Artery.[/url] [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ds26yl8siD0]Panther Dash.[/url]

[QUOTE=Mericet;52136036] So far SAM feels like a crutch for the storytelling and quest design of the game as well as the exploration, always there to help the designers when a quest doesn't quite flow properly, or the player when they don't know exactly what to do or where to go. Or just to blurt out the obvious when neither of those conditions are met.[/QUOTE] Honestly Sam seems to be the main character. Ryder is just kind of along for the ride. The name fits.

SAM sounds like a fucking Tomodachi Life Mii. Still, now I know how it feels to be my mates; constantly thinking "Sam shut the fuck up."

Are there any bonuses for owning the trilogy etc. in ME:A? [sp]Asking because I added ME:A to my old account by mistake, which only had Crysis 2.[/sp] Can't find anything about it, but I swear I saw something about an ingame bonus for owning the trilogy and DA:I :huh:

There's no bonus for owning any previous games. There's a helmet you can get by watching the six videos on the Andromeda Initiative website, and a space suit you can buy which came free as a pre-order bonus.

I fucking hate SAM: it has zero personality and no characteristic whatsoever to make it unique or compelling to the player, is basically a very intrusive plot cupon with roots in a subplot [sp]which isn't resolved by the end of the game[/sp] and, more importantly, can't seem to shut [I]THE FUCK[/I] [B]UP[/B] every time something slightly out of the ordinary happens to my character (whoever played on Voeld will immediately know what I'm talking about). Before anyone points out that in-universe an A.I can't have much personality to begin with, allow me to remind you of [IMG]https://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/masseffect/images/c/cc/EDI_Character_Box.png/revision/latest?cb=20100802022514[/IMG]

[QUOTE=GameAdict;52136293]Are there any bonuses for owning the trilogy etc. in ME:A? [sp]Asking because I added ME:A to my old account by mistake, which only had Crysis 2.[/sp] Can't find anything about it, but I swear I saw something about an ingame bonus for owning the trilogy and DA:I :huh:[/QUOTE] You get a bonus crate in MP for owning the original trilogy and DAI on the same account.