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Post by Mr. Glow on Mar 14, 2012 2:34:22 GMT 1
By the end of Mass Effect 3, I had Balak from Bring Down the Sky and Guard Captain Vidinos from Pinnacle Station in my armada.
The little touches like that were what made me really like Mass Effect 3, nearly as much as the first game, until that goddamn ending. (Or, well, to be honest, I thought a lot of stuff from the Thessia mission onwards was pretty dull. Brokering peace between the geth and quarians was the high point for me.)
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Post by Clint Johnston on Mar 14, 2012 4:54:12 GMT 1
Yeah, I liked the turn around on Balak.
I don't think I ran into vidinos...
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Post by Knightfall on Mar 14, 2012 19:54:02 GMT 1
Dang, I never played Bring down the Sky or Pinnacle Station. Completely forgot about them. =(
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Post by Mister Buch on Mar 14, 2012 20:14:12 GMT 1
Bring Down the Sky is pretty good.
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Post by Knightfall on Mar 15, 2012 3:15:10 GMT 1
Bring Down the Sky is pretty good. Looks pretty cheap on XBL at the moment, too. Might check it out when I get my copy of ME1 back. xD
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Post by Mr. Glow on Mar 15, 2012 3:56:45 GMT 1
Don't get Pinnacle Station, whatever you do. It's just Capture the Flag and some other bog standard shooter modes in Mass Effect 1.
Bring Down the Sky is about half an hour long, but does have some pretty good moments. (The final choice is quite nerve-wracking.)
I always find replaying them quite weird. Two piece of short, cheap DLC is not what you would expect from a BioWare game these days.
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Post by Mister Buch on Mar 15, 2012 19:50:09 GMT 1
Bring Down the Sky is worth a cheap price. It's short, it has no party member dialogue. But it has a nice view, and it brings the Batarians into the first game, and it gives you a good 'choice' to make.
And I did rather like the Balak scene in Mass Effect 3. I was hoping I'd run into him at some point, and they managed to get him in very nicely. I particularly like that your positions are reversed - this time HE has every reason but one to kill YOU. Nice.
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Post by Warhammer Gorvar on Mar 15, 2012 20:45:57 GMT 1
I Renegaded him into my fleet because he knew i was his only shot at survival hehe. I didnt get Bring Down the Sky though, but I knew who he was nonetheless.
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Post by Mr. Glow on Mar 25, 2012 3:13:33 GMT 1
Games with good autosave features. That was one thing I noticed Mass Effect 3 stepped up on from the previous games.
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Post by Tillian Panthesis on Mar 27, 2012 11:19:07 GMT 1
Well... admittedly, despite the shithouse ending in ME3. I still have a few things I like.
The scene when you broker the peace with the Quarians and the Geth. I wasn't a big fan of the quarians, especially with Tali, but after dealing with it, it made me feel for them.
Freeing the Krogan from the genophage was a good one as well, especially after Wrex called my Korean Shepard his sister.
And it's interesting to see the tables have turn with Garrus letting Shepard to cry on his shoulder's (figure of speech) this time. Like he's the stable minded out of the two this time. I'm talking about the romance sub-plot for him and Shepard.
And then there are little things like seeing Jack showing her friendly hello to Shepard by punching her in the face. Seeing Khalee Sanders for the first time, the bottle shot scene with Garrus, the Citadel assault mission... there's a lot of things I like in ME3. Despite my bitching about the game... I still love it for what it is before the end.
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Post by Warhammer Gorvar on Mar 27, 2012 11:36:34 GMT 1
ME3 is a good game except for the last ten minutes.
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Post by Mister Buch on Mar 27, 2012 12:18:58 GMT 1
I insist that it's an excellent game except for the last five minutes.
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Post by Tillian Panthesis on Mar 27, 2012 13:03:04 GMT 1
Pity I can't ask BioWare for a $10 refund for the ending itself. The rest is good though, but it's not something I would recommend to my friends who haven't played the game, unless I want to see them flipping tables in real life for amusement.
Unfortunately, I have standards and this is where I draw the line.
Going back to the topic. I don't feel alone with the ME3 ending and the DA2 problems today. Not that I feel alone with you guys, just in real life... a lot of angry fans were just crawling out of the woodwork this week in uni. The ME3 is such a controversy that we had a great discussion about it in a academia environment, ways to approach and improve the narrative for the better in the near future, etc. In a "United we Stand" feeling.
While I still hate BioWare for opening a can of worms for the endings in the gaming industry and gaming studies, on the other hand I have learn so much from this week class. So... not is all bad. Maybe someday we might have a game studio that is equivalent to Gihibi Studios...
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Post by Warhammer Gorvar on Mar 27, 2012 13:52:32 GMT 1
I study english lit. in Colelge myself and we end up talking a lot about Narrative and such. To have a cop out ending like ME3 is something to be frowned upon, unless there is a REALLY good reason..which there isnt in this case. Hell, A Winter's Tale had a stupid ass ending....
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Post by Mr. Glow on Apr 16, 2012 7:02:50 GMT 1
That you can only get the uber-patriotic Freedom Edition of Assassin's Creed III in Europe.
I'm not planning on buying anything but the standard edition, but I love the irony of that so much.
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