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Post by Warhammer Gorvar on Apr 6, 2012 12:11:09 GMT 1
Oddly enough, that;s how Grant Morrison wrote his shit mostly. that and sleep deprevation.
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Post by Tillian Panthesis on Apr 6, 2012 12:47:48 GMT 1
Yeah, either way, too much booze or coffee is not a good way to kick start your creative muse in the long run.
I'm still betting that BioWare had too much coffee...
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Post by themidwestdrifter on Apr 6, 2012 18:56:43 GMT 1
I'm pleased with the announcement...time will tell if i'm as pleased with the end result. I'm glad they're not totally changing the ending, that would've made my first play through feel totally meaningless. I (like everyone else) have a lot of questions that want to be answered. Part of me thought maybe they left it so open so they could sell more graphic novels/books. A little variation in the ending cinematic couldn't hurt either.
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Post by Warhammer Gorvar on Apr 7, 2012 10:29:04 GMT 1
I FUCKING TOLD YOU GUYS TEA WAS EVIL!
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Post by jklinders on Apr 7, 2012 11:43:44 GMT 1
Then there is that word "entitled." herrwozzack, I suggest buying your friend a big dictionary , hardcover preferably and beat him half to death with it. I think I'm gonna need to beat him half to death with more than just a big dictionary, unfortunately. It's a chronic problem of his that he can't seem to think for himself... (He's also an ardent supporter of the Tea Party without seeming to have any reason to apart from "because so-and-so said they're evil", but let's not open that can of worms.)
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Post by Mr. Glow on Apr 7, 2012 14:06:41 GMT 1
I FUCKING TOLD YOU GUYS TEA WAS EVIL! Surely "Tea Party" is a reference to the people who brutalised that innocent tea in 1773, right? Leave tea alone.
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Post by Tillian Panthesis on Apr 7, 2012 14:32:17 GMT 1
I FUCKING TOLD YOU GUYS TEA WAS EVIL! Surely "Tea Party" is a reference to the people who brutalised that innocent tea in 1773, right? Leave tea alone. This.
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Post by jklinders on Apr 7, 2012 15:48:15 GMT 1
I FUCKING TOLD YOU GUYS TEA WAS EVIL! Surely "Tea Party" is a reference to the people who brutalised that innocent tea in 1773, right? Leave tea alone. I thought it was a reference to a rock band... *shrugs*
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Post by Warhammer Gorvar on Apr 7, 2012 16:48:25 GMT 1
Surely "Tea Party" is a reference to the people who brutalised that innocent tea in 1773, right? Leave tea alone. This. Your all mad i tell you, MAD!
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Post by Knightfall on Apr 8, 2012 10:20:43 GMT 1
Someone at PAX East did an unofficial interview with ME3 writer Patrick Weekes that clears some of the things up regarding the ending of the game and puts a few things in perspective. Why did Joker leave Shep behind?Joker would never abandon Shep without a good reason. Hopefully this will be clear in the Expanded Cut. Did the mass relays pull an Arrival and go supernova?No, they didn't. They overloaded, they didn't rupture. We really didn't mean to imply that the whole galaxy had been destroyed. People interpreted the endings in ways we really didn't expect.[/i] Is it an excuse? Possibly. Is it a good excuse? Also, possibly. I get the feeling they wanted to leave things open (probably for the eventual sequels and/or DLC) but ended up underestimating how much people would scrutinize the ending. I dunno. xD It's so weird to me that they'd acknowledge that, no, Joker would never leave Shepard. But he did, without explanation. They must have been planning on filling in the blanks at some point. social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/355/index/11154234
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Post by Warhammer Gorvar on Apr 8, 2012 11:13:37 GMT 1
Well I assumed as much with the Mass Relays, and I admit seeing the red-green-blue wave go from dot to dot with the music was very well done. But yeh Joker...I dunno, my two cents are they'll go with HAckett telling them Shepard is dead and they have to fall back...despite the fact Joker and the rest of the crew KNOW shepard is like a friggin; cockroach and wont die and Hackett said beforehand this would be a slugfest until the bitter end.
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Post by Mister Buch on Apr 8, 2012 12:18:53 GMT 1
Someone at PAX East did an unofficial interview with ME3 writer Patrick Weekes that clears some of the things up regarding the ending of the game and puts a few things in perspective. Why did Joker leave Shep behind?Joker would never abandon Shep without a good reason. Hopefully this will be clear in the Expanded Cut. Did the mass relays pull an Arrival and go supernova?No, they didn't. They overloaded, they didn't rupture. We really didn't mean to imply that the whole galaxy had been destroyed. People interpreted the endings in ways we really didn't expect. [/i] Is it an excuse? Possibly. Is it a good excuse? Also, possibly. I get the feeling they wanted to leave things open (probably for the eventual sequels and/or DLC) but ended up underestimating how much people would scrutinize the ending. I dunno. xD It's so weird to me that they'd acknowledge that, no, Joker would never leave Shepard. But he did, without explanation. They must have been planning on filling in the blanks at some point. social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/355/index/11154234[/quote]-- Those are both good to hear. I assumed as much in both cases, but it's good to have these things confirmed. And to see them... kind of admitting that the ending lacks clarity.
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Post by Tillian Panthesis on Apr 8, 2012 13:37:08 GMT 1
Hmm... While I'm still giving ending extention the benefit of doubt, I'm kinda bit more hopeful that it might turn out to be ok. However, it's best to put in the mind frame of "Hope for the best, expect for the worse" idea. Just to be safe.
And I don't mind the Relays being destroyed, if they are going to let the ME verse retro-engineer the Reaper core engine, as an alternative way to fast travel from system to system. And I maybe grasping straws but looks like it's possible to have EDI survived the destruction ending from what I have seen in the interview. Hopefully the geth might be alive too.
And for the love of god, I still hope the Mass Shift rumour is false.
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Post by jklinders on Apr 8, 2012 15:08:39 GMT 1
Let's also try not to forget that humans built Jump Zero space station out by Pluto with the idea of using it to test their own FTL theory before the ruins were discovered on Mars.
Innovation beyond or outside of the toys left by the Reapers is possible. I had seen one snippet of a theory that the Reapers Starchild thing was because the AI had won in a war long ago and the Reapers were a way to distill the advancements made by organics over the course of time through the harvesting to get around AI limitations on creativity and he was lying to Shep in the end about the meaning of the three colours.
*Shrug* I'll wait until summer rather than bust my head wide open figuring it out. In the meantime I'm enjoying my second playthrough with a vanguard. Damn but Nova really changes the dynamic there.
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Post by Tillian Panthesis on Apr 8, 2012 15:19:46 GMT 1
Vangaurds have a way of speeding up the tempo. I almost feel tempted to run a insanity playthrough if I'm picking this game up again. Alas, Uni gets in a way of things.
True about the wait and see approach. While it looks promising from the interview, there's still a chance some nasty 'human error' could pop up anytime soon. For now, I'll be working on a lot of stuff, including the comic. while it's still going to be an AU piece, I was wondering if blowing up the Relays and the Citadel might be a good idea? I can work my way around it, plus it gave me a better possibility for major plot arc I was was working on at the moment. If that didn't sounded too far fetch in canon wise.
Speaking of that, I shouldn't forget that one small but very important part of the lore, which is about alternative FTL travel experiments back at Jump Zero. Guess that whole anger at Mac Walter's idea of "No Mass Relays = Galactic Dark Age" notes from the final hours app kinda made me logically blinded at the time. Now I feel silly in the process.
Well, time for me to get back to the drawing board. Never felt excited with my comic for a while.
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