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Post by Mister Buch on May 16, 2012 13:13:08 GMT 1
Ooh, I like that.
I like that, Johnny!
I'm gonna USE THAT!
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Post by Warhammer Gorvar on May 16, 2012 17:47:26 GMT 1
I had it with these motherfucking Batarians on my motherfucking colony!
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Post by Mister Buch on May 16, 2012 21:55:51 GMT 1
That's it! I have HAD it with these motherfucking Reapers in my motherfucking galaxy!
*Blows up Citadel*
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Post by Warhammer Gorvar on May 17, 2012 0:36:32 GMT 1
I can half imagine my Shepard saying during the jump to the Collector Base "Hold on to your butts...."
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Post by jklinders on May 19, 2012 2:48:15 GMT 1
Mass effect 1 holds up quite well for a 5 year old game. Angus Shepard is chugging along quite well in his quest to stop Saren. I think the long break from it did me some good. This was the old Bioware before EA and their best writers were still on board.
I think story wise it will be a bit jarring going into ME 2, but I will be using flash bangs and think "Feast your eyes" when I do.
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Post by Lily Ariel Linders on May 20, 2012 0:01:13 GMT 1
FEAST YER EYES!! *thick Scottish accent* ;D
Oh, I do so love that line... ;D
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Post by Tillian Panthesis on May 20, 2012 5:12:09 GMT 1
Mass effect 1 holds up quite well for a 5 year old game. Angus Shepard is chugging along quite well in his quest to stop Saren. I think the long break from it did me some good. This was the old Bioware before EA and their best writers were still on board. I think story wise it will be a bit jarring going into ME 2, but I will be using flash bangs and think "Feast your eyes" when I do. Considering how the trilogy manage ended itself up, I've kinda wished the games themselves are stand alone games now, like the Condor Heroes trilogy books. While the books themselves are still related to one and another; you can still any of the books as a singular piece, hence you don't get cut off much if you started with the 2nd or 3rd book instead. Hence that's why I've wished the Shpeard trilogy is more of a semi stand alone. With the bloated resource management in the games development at this time, which affects the save import choice scheme(not in a good way), I don't really see the point in having them deeply connected via the save import. The only reason Baldur's Gate worked because the resources in the development weren't as demanding as today's games, hence they have more room to add and correct the import content in the series. It also helped that BioWare weren't being breathe down on their necks by EA back then, so they almost have all the time in the world.
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Post by jklinders on May 20, 2012 13:13:22 GMT 1
Didn't know there was a save import for Baldur's Gate. I think the save import for ME could have worked better if they had planned better and been willing to make a few ballsier choices. Being oh so afraid to lock players out of content for choices made, made for the choices having a lot less meaning. If you killed the Rachni Queen in ME 1, that should have been it for them. Full stop with a period at the end. Blowing up the Collector base should have changed the Cerberus story arc and gave no Reaper heart war asset.
The best way right now to free up resource in game development would be to stop feeding the PC hardware industry's need for more better and faster graphics and get back to the basics for a few years. We don't need better graphics. We need better games. They are not one and the same.
Bah! too much typing before coffee.
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Post by Hodster on May 29, 2012 19:25:43 GMT 1
Didn't know there was a save import for Baldur's Gate. I think the save import for ME could have worked better if they had planned better and been willing to make a few ballsier choices. Being oh so afraid to lock players out of content for choices made, made for the choices having a lot less meaning. If you killed the Rachni Queen in ME 1, that should have been it for them. Full stop with a period at the end. Blowing up the Collector base should have changed the Cerberus story arc and gave no Reaper heart war asset. The best way right now to free up resource in game development would be to stop feeding the PC hardware industry's need for more better and faster graphics and get back to the basics for a few years. We don't need better graphics. We need better games. They are not one and the same. Bah! too much typing before coffee. I agree!
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Post by Lily Ariel Linders on Jun 15, 2012 19:15:11 GMT 1
Okay. I just finished Mass Effect 1. Wow... I still have a few tears in my eyes here; one thing I have noticed (and JKLinders has been telling me) about BioWare and the makers of the Mass Effect Trilogy is their incredible story-writing abilities. Now, I did read Mock Effect (both 1 and 2) before really getting into playing the game, so I knew how the first one ended but that did not stop me from nearly bursting into tears when Captain Anderson found Tali and Garrus huddled under some wreckage looking all heartbroken and asked where Shepard was, and Tali and Garrus just looked sad... and (I think) the other guy with Anderson was gently helping Tali stand up... my eyes were blurry from tears and I could not see perfectly clearly so it might have been Anderson helping Tali, I can't recall... and it looked almost like Shepard didn't make it, and then she comes out from the wreckage and stands there looking all triumphant and I will admit my eyes just kept tearing up...
Wow again.
I love this game.
One thing that annoyed me though was the re-animated Saren's ability to keep dodging my gunfire - I was actually snapping at the computer screen "Stay still and take my bullets, jerkass!" ;D Funny how things like that can irk me... lol
Anyway, will soon be starting Mass Effect 2.
I repeat - I love this game.
Edit: On Virmire, I lost Kaidan. I was mostly okay with that, as I like Ashley a lot better, but... I still cried a little during that scene with the Normandy flying away from the planet just in time to escape the blast, and knowing Kaidan was still there and had given his life for the mission. Again, kudos to the story-writers for making me care so much about a character in a game, and a character who I had not taken on many missions before (seeing as how I prefer to go with Tali and Garrus, and sometimes Ashley...)
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Post by Clint Johnston on Jun 15, 2012 20:44:43 GMT 1
"Kirrahe was an idiot"
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Post by Mister Buch on Jun 16, 2012 4:15:01 GMT 1
Heh - it looks like you and me finished Mass Effect 1 at pretty much the same time. I also thought the moment when Shepard appears from the wreckage was great. And honestly Virmire is my favourite quest in the series. The thing with Wrex, the 'Hold the line' speech, the death decision, Sovereign's big reveal, and in particular I just *love* the scene with the indoctrinated salarians. That one guy in particular who's trying very hard not to reveal how crazy he's become and begs you to let him out. The 'So damn simple!' guy. Perfect interative storytelling, that bit.
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Post by Lily Ariel Linders on Jun 16, 2012 15:09:28 GMT 1
Heh - it looks like you and me finished Mass Effect 1 at pretty much the same time. I also thought the moment when Shepard appears from the wreckage was great. And honestly Virmire is my favourite quest in the series. The thing with Wrex, the 'Hold the line' speech, the death decision, Sovereign's big reveal, and in particular I just *love* the scene with the indoctrinated salarians. That one guy in particular who's trying very hard not to reveal how crazy he's become and begs you to let him out. The 'So damn simple!' guy. Perfect interative storytelling, that bit. Virmire was one of my favorite quests too, mostly because of two things - the beauty of the region contrasted by the nastiness that was happening there, and the storytelling in that questline. It felt more like an actual story than the other quests where you just pick two squadmates to go Off-Normandy with you and blast some Geth / Zombies (whatever they really are) and find a new clue. On Virmire, I was actually following a mission / story and I rather enjoyed that; I loved hearing the radio chatter from Kirrahe and Ashley's team while me and Tali and Garrus ran the other part of the mission. Plus, it tore my heartstrings when I had to leave Kaidan behind... I didn't want to lose anybody. As for the Indoctrinated Salarian in the cage, begging to be let out, I knew he was playing me... but I let him out just because it would be the Paragon thing to do - and my Maiden Voyage through the Trilogy is to be a Paragon Shepard. I will likely do another Trilogy Run later with a Renegade Shepard.
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Post by Warhammer Gorvar on Jun 18, 2012 14:01:11 GMT 1
I hated that wrex was only a squad member in the first game.
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Post by Hodster on Jun 18, 2012 17:58:47 GMT 1
Heh - it looks like you and me finished Mass Effect 1 at pretty much the same time. I also thought the moment when Shepard appears from the wreckage was great. And honestly Virmire is my favourite quest in the series. The thing with Wrex, the 'Hold the line' speech, the death decision, Sovereign's big reveal, and in particular I just *love* the scene with the indoctrinated salarians. That one guy in particular who's trying very hard not to reveal how crazy he's become and begs you to let him out. The 'So damn simple!' guy. Perfect interative storytelling, that bit. Don't forget the Asari assistant who freaks out when you tell her you're going to nuke the place! And when she runs one of your squad mates says "You enjoyed that didn't you?" Virmire is one of my favorite, if not, thee favorite mission of the series.
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