[QUOTE=ThePanther;51890061]I mean for fucks sake, peebee looks like fuckin Tim Heidecker.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/99ud30V.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
I didn't wanna fuck that asari
but now I do :q:
[QUOTE=ThePanther;51890061]peebee[/QUOTE]
That's a name for an actual character? It sounds like half a Star Wars droid.
Don't buy on release. Wait for bug fixes, maybe a minor sale. Get the same game for a better price in a better condition, possibly with extra content. This should be common knowledge with AAA titles nowadays.
'the game is really buggy'
'that might change on release'
'might'
One thing that always gets me about the writing is, even when it's really good, you still have stuff like... why are aliens naming stuff after things in the bible.
The bible is a human only thing.
Why did the Batarians name them the Leviathans. What. WHAT.
[QUOTE=CLungcancer;51890206]Don't buy on release. Wait for bug fixes, maybe a minor sale. Get the same game for a better price in a better condition, possibly with extra content. This should be common knowledge with AAA titles nowadays.[/QUOTE]
sorry but they're not going to fix bad models, animation, story, and voice acting post-release. stay far away from it instead of giving them more money to butcher the series any further than they already have
[QUOTE=Zeos;51890261]One thing that always gets me about the writing is, even when it's really good, you still have stuff like... why are aliens naming stuff after things in the bible.
The bible is a human only thing.
Why did the Batarians name them the Leviathans. What. WHAT.[/QUOTE]
ME2 was awful for that. How many fucking places do we need to go to that are named after mythical afterlife destinations? The first on you go to is even just named "Afterlife". I get it, Shepard died stop beating me over the head with it.
Afterlife I can handle, as it can be passed off as an auto-translate.
Purgatory however...
[QUOTE=Zeos;51890261]One thing that always gets me about the writing is, even when it's really good, you still have stuff like... why are aliens naming stuff after things in the bible.
The bible is a human only thing.
Why did the Batarians name them the Leviathans. What. WHAT.[/QUOTE]
Because coming up with something in the "Batarian Language" would sound even more stupid.
There's no winning with this kind of stuff
It's kinda sad to have no feeling towards a game series that once enthralled me so much 10 years with its exploration and the solid writing of it's world and characters that had such a strong impact on the young 11 year old kid I was.
While Mass Effect 2 was not as open or focused as the first. I still fondly remember playing Mass Effect 1 to competition and then doing the same with 2 several times over.
Mass Effect 3, A game that as soon as I bought it and played all the way though it. Being the last game I ever bought for the Xbox 360, just came off as hollow and along with it's ending. Killed my interest in the series.
Now I come to see that their still using janky animations still lingering from the days of Mass Effect 1 and DA:O when Bioware was a smallish game company making their first big seventh generation AAA entry persisting to even now, while they have the back of one of the largest game corporations around while CD Projekt and many others surpass them.
[QUOTE=Jackald;51890133]I remember when Bioware was a byword for quality. I miss those simpler times...
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeBoTQ4Sjmo[/media]
Mass Effect 3 killed the entire franchise for me. Since beating ME3, I've not felt the urge to play any of the mass effect games ever. Up til that point, I'd replayed ME1 maybe 8 times, ME2 maybe 15 times, but ME3? One play was all I needed. I'll never stop being mad about ME3. It ruined my favorite franchise, and I'll always carry that resentment for Bioware.[/QUOTE]
It physically hurt me hearing the Vigil "ping" noise at the end of the Andromeda teaser...
Bioware for me was always boring, post KotOR.
I did play Dragon Age as a kid and I liked it but playing it again I cannot for the life of me get through it. And Mass Effect, even the first one, bored me so hard I still haven't gotten close to completing it years later.
[QUOTE=The Party Spy;51890422]Because coming up with something in the "Batarian Language" would sound even more stupid.
There's no winning with this kind of stuff[/QUOTE]
Tolkien managed it.
Then again he was a linguistics professor.
[QUOTE=Zeos;51890261]One thing that always gets me about the writing is, even when it's really good, you still have stuff like... why are aliens naming stuff after things in the bible.
The bible is a human only thing.
Why did the Batarians name them the Leviathans. What. WHAT.[/QUOTE]
Chalked that one up to the autotranslators using a human word/concept as the closest possible substitute.
Also pretty telling that they didn't pick up in this video, is they spent the time and money making PB's face unmirrored and slightly unsymmetrical, even when it animates and then everything in the rest of the video.
[QUOTE=meppers;51889358]that fucking t-pose[/QUOTE]
*A-pose
[editline]1st March 2017[/editline]
[QUOTE=Jackald;51890133]I remember when Bioware was a byword for quality.[/QUOTE]
i dont
Chalk it up to me being easily entertained I guess but I actually liked the ME trilogy a lot, while fully acknowledging its flaws. Only the last 10 minutes of ME3 I can't say that I enjoyed at all.
Andromeda, however...uuugh, all the signs are just pointing towards disaster. Cue klaxons blaring all over the damn place.
[QUOTE=The Party Spy;51890422]Because coming up with something in the "Batarian Language" would sound even more stupid.
There's no winning with this kind of stuff[/QUOTE]
Why does their language have to sound stupid? They could take some Lovecraft influence and name it "Shul'gothoth" or something, that sounds reasonably menacing because of the association people have with Lovecraftian names like that.
I feel like the guy who made this just saw the Mr. Plinkett Star Wars reviews from RedLetterMedia, cause they're super similar.
If you're the first people from the Milky Way in this galaxy, why do we come across a base populated entirely by species we are familiar with?
[QUOTE=Big Bang;51889104]I don't understand this obsession with putting like, TV and movie actors behind voice acting roles in video games. What's the point? Half of the time they deliver terrible performances since they're not familiar with the medium, and how much weigh is the name of the actor gonna carry if the character looks nothing like them? It's near universally a money sink.[/QUOTE]
To be honest Mass Effect has pulled that off multiple times in the past, very successfully.
Keith David, Martin Sheen and Seth Green all give great performances in their role.
[QUOTE=Loadingue;51891797]To be honest Mass Effect has pulled that off multiple times in the past, very successfully.
Keith David, Martin Sheen and Seth Green all give great performances in their role.[/QUOTE]
Agreed.
Martin Sheen as the Illusive Man was a flawless casting choice in my opinion, and Seth Green definitely made Joker one of my favorite characters throughout the series.
For the most part, I'd say that almost all of the voice-acting in the original Mass Effect trilogy was extremely well-done. Even a lot of the side-characters gave a great performance, from [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfsUgQjrgO0]Conrad Verner[/url] to the [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6L0dCqPcNnQ]"This shop is classist" vendor[/url]
I can only really think of a small handful of voice performances that weren't great.
[QUOTE=Ridge;51891741]If you're the first people from the Milky Way in this galaxy, why do we come across a base populated entirely by species we are familiar with?[/QUOTE]
Other teams arrived before you and set up bases, the idea being that there should be places for people to live ready when they get there. The ships they come in on aren't designed to support a live population, they're designed to hold living popsicles.
Wait am I the only one that genuinely enjoyed Mass Effect 2? The story might have been just one glorified side quest but it was executed pretty well. The combat in ME 1 was janky and the gunplay was super unsatisfying. I always preferred Mass Effect 2 just because of how much is always at stake leading up to the finale and how much more fun combat was. Obviously ME3 had almost nothing going for it until well after they tried remedying what they fucked up.
Sad to say though that Mass Effect as a whole is carried entirely by the characters. If Shepard and his/her crew weren't so damned interesting the game just wouldn't be what makes it great. These characters look not only pretty uninspired but sound like it too. I know people like to harp on the "EA slowly poisons what they buy over time" meme a lot but it couldn't really be much truer than with Bioware.
[QUOTE=Tsyolin;51892175]Wait am I the only one that genuinely enjoyed Mass Effect 2? The story might have been just one glorified side quest but it was executed pretty well. The combat in ME 1 was janky and the gunplay was super unsatisfying. I always preferred Mass Effect 2 just because of how much is always at stake leading up to the finale and how much more fun combat was. Obviously ME3 had almost nothing going for it until well after they tried remedying what they fucked up.
Sad to say though that Mass Effect as a whole is carried entirely by the characters. If Shepard and his/her crew weren't so damned interesting the game just wouldn't be what makes it great. These characters look not only pretty uninspired but sound like it too. I know people like to harp on the "EA slowly poisons what they buy over time" meme a lot but it couldn't really be much truer than with Bioware.[/QUOTE]
I don't get all the hate ME2 got recently. It's a great game all around, even if it's not 100% faithful to the spirit of the first game. But it still expands on its universe, and it does it really really well.
[QUOTE=Loadingue;51892199]I don't get all the hate ME2 got recently. It's a great game all around, even if it's not 100% faithful to the spirit of the first game. But it still expands on its universe, and it does it really really well.[/QUOTE]
It does nothing to advance the story, in fact it's worse than that because it wastes time in a situation where time is extremely limited. Mass Effect ended with Shepard saying he'd find a way to stop the Reapers, Mass Effect 2 has Shepard dicking about like the Reapers aren't a threat and worrying about a handful of colonies being abducted. I hate to seem callous here, but the lives of the few thousand who die at the hands of the Collectors aren't worth the same as the lives of literally everyone in the galaxy.
Mass Effect 2 is a great expansion of the Mass Effect universe, but it was completely detrimental to the Mass Effect story.
[QUOTE=Janus Vesta;51892240]It does nothing to advance the story, in fact it's worse than that because it wastes time in a situation where time is extremely limited. Mass Effect ended with Shepard saying he'd find a way to stop the Reapers, Mass Effect 2 has Shepard dicking about like the Reapers aren't a threat and worrying about a handful of colonies being abducted. I hate to seem callous here, but the lives of the few thousand who die at the hands of the Collectors aren't worth the same as the lives of literally everyone in the galaxy.
Mass Effect 2 is a great expansion of the Mass Effect universe, but it was completely detrimental to the Mass Effect story.[/QUOTE]
Right when Citadel DLC came out, people said the exact same thing; that when time should be so precious, Shepard and friends are just dicking about on the Citadel.
It's true in either case, but that doesn't make either worse. Or much worse anyway.
[QUOTE=Loadingue;51892275]Right when Citadel DLC came out, people said the exact same thing; that when time should be so precious, Shepard and friends are just dicking about on the Citadel.
It's true in either case, but that doesn't make either worse. Or much worse anyway.[/QUOTE]
The Citadel DLC is the last thing that came out for Mass Effect 3, the story was already long done. The point of it was to be a victory lap for players because ME3 is a very miserable game (deliberately). The way they ended the game where you can't continue after the end made it so they had to place it before the ending, had they not gone with the ending they did the Citadel DLC would probably have been set after the events of ME3.
[QUOTE=Tsyolin;51892175]Wait am I the only one that genuinely enjoyed Mass Effect 2? The story might have been just one glorified side quest but it was executed pretty well. The combat in ME 1 was janky and the gunplay was super unsatisfying. I always preferred Mass Effect 2 just because of how much is always at stake leading up to the finale and how much more fun combat was. Obviously ME3 had almost nothing going for it until well after they tried remedying what they fucked up.
Sad to say though that Mass Effect as a whole is carried entirely by the characters. If Shepard and his/her crew weren't so damned interesting the game just wouldn't be what makes it great. These characters look not only pretty uninspired but sound like it too. I know people like to harp on the "EA slowly poisons what they buy over time" meme a lot but it couldn't really be much truer than with Bioware.[/QUOTE]
Mass Effect 2 is a fine character study. It is also a heehaw stupid fucking plot device driven mess. BW also shot themselves rather voluntarily in the crotch multiple times.
ME2 felt like a list of chores.
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