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Mass Effect 1 & 2 - Shepard.

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  • NuzakNuzak Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    being pissed off really pisses her off, you know

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  • valhalla130valhalla130 13 Dark Shield Perceives the GodsRegistered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Did they ever have an explanation for why the earth looks backward from Luna?

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  • SomestickguySomestickguy Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    subject zero has clothes, confirmed?

    yyyyyeeeeeeeeeeeeesssssssssssssssssssssssssss

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  • NuzakNuzak Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Did they ever have an explanation for why the earth looks backward from Luna?

    magic

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  • -Loki--Loki- Don't pee in my mouth and tell me it's raining. Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Did they ever have an explanation for why the earth looks backward from Luna?

    Swamp gas and a weather balloon got caught in a thermal pocket and refracted the light from Venus.

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  • MundaneSoulMundaneSoul fight fighter Daehan MingukRegistered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Does hitting 60 give you some sort of bonus in ME2? Because if so...fuck, brb

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  • l337CrappyJackl337CrappyJack Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Yes and no.

    There is a reward, but the devs have said that it's really not that big compared to the rewards you get for having a playthrough where you've made all the decisions you're happy with.

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  • JoolanderJoolander Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Did they ever have an explanation for why the earth looks backward from Luna?

    global warming

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  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Does hitting 60 give you some sort of bonus in ME2? Because if so...fuck, brb

    As far as we know, yes

    I've also recall hearing something about bonuses for having maxed Paragon and/or Renegade, or maybe it was max Intimidate or Persuasion, I dunno, that could be total fabrication.

    Details are still pretty fuzzy

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  • Fatty McBeardoFatty McBeardo Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Joolander wrote: »
    Did they ever have an explanation for why the earth looks backward from Luna?

    global warming

    Methane gas from swamps and weather balloons.

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  • Forever ZefiroForever Zefiro cloaked in the midnight glory of an event horizonRegistered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Maddoc wrote: »
    Clothes piss her off

    Being cold pisses her off

    Catch 22's piss her off

    The list goes on and on

    So she's like Bonecrusher.

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  • Forever ZefiroForever Zefiro cloaked in the midnight glory of an event horizonRegistered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Joolander wrote: »
    Did they ever have an explanation for why the earth looks backward from Luna?

    global warming

    Methane gas from swamps and weather balloons.

    The mice rebuilt it, backwards

    Dun dun duuuunnnnnnnn

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  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Joolander wrote: »
    Did they ever have an explanation for why the earth looks backward from Luna?

    global warming

    Methane gas from swamps and weather balloons.

    The mice rebuilt it, backwards

    Dun dun duuuunnnnnnnn

    This is much better than the space wizard explanation I was going to give, so we'll go with this one.

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  • JucJuc EdmontonRegistered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Did they ever have an explanation for why the earth looks backward from Luna?

    If I recall, it was because someone made the planet backwards, and then we thought it was cool so we kept it like that.


    (or space magic)

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  • Iron WeaselIron Weasel Dillon! You son of a bitch!Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Maddoc wrote: »
    Clothes piss her off

    Being cold pisses her off

    Catch 22's piss her off

    The list goes on and on

    So she's like Bonecrusher.
    Reminds me of Francis from L4D.

    "I hate [everything]!"

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  • Fatty McBeardoFatty McBeardo Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    A pack of ravenous Nether Kittens set upon the planet in 2068, reshaping the landscape.

    Those were dark times for humanity.

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  • BlackDoveBlackDove Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Juc wrote: »
    BlackDove wrote: »
    One is just grateful for the ability to cover or remove those stupid fucking beltstraps made for the religiously offended.

    I would have preferred her naked if we're going that far, but we can't have that. Then I want her fully clothed and professional at least, if I can't have her 100% renegade and psycho.

    I'd have preferred her in her clothed-only-in-tattoos incarnation, but sadly we didn't go forward with that.
    While I think the style fits her quite well, she'd probably get pretty cold like that so it's not the most practical of wardrobes.

    Yeah, the belt straps are really helping that cold problem =P

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  • JucJuc EdmontonRegistered User regular
    edited January 2010
    BlackDove wrote: »
    Juc wrote: »
    BlackDove wrote: »
    One is just grateful for the ability to cover or remove those stupid fucking beltstraps made for the religiously offended.

    I would have preferred her naked if we're going that far, but we can't have that. Then I want her fully clothed and professional at least, if I can't have her 100% renegade and psycho.

    I'd have preferred her in her clothed-only-in-tattoos incarnation, but sadly we didn't go forward with that.
    While I think the style fits her quite well, she'd probably get pretty cold like that so it's not the most practical of wardrobes.

    Yeah, the belt straps are really helping that cold problem =P

    They keep people from making jokes about how nippy it is, because she HATES those jokes.

    (one would imagine)

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  • BlackDoveBlackDove Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Yeah, I suppose that's true.

    Still, that tattoo thing would be quite welcome, as it should have been done.

    When do you suppose we'll have that kind of artistic/developing freedom in games?

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  • Forever ZefiroForever Zefiro cloaked in the midnight glory of an event horizonRegistered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Juc, do you think we'll ever get any of the past really fleshed out? Like stuff mentioned in the planet descriptions that were supposed to be from even before the Protheans, like the Leviathan of Dis, and the giant mass accelerator shot that glanced a moon, and the millions of crypts of the zeoph, and other such things?

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  • PancakePancake Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Juc, do you think we'll ever get any of the past really fleshed out? Like stuff mentioned in the planet descriptions that were supposed to be from even before the Protheans, like the Leviathan of Dis, and the giant mass accelerator shot that glanced a moon, and the millions of crypts of the zeoph, and other such things?

    Not until the spin-off Mass Effect: Digging in Grids With Toothbrushes.

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  • BlackDoveBlackDove Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    I think you could easily write books on the smaller aspects of Mass Effect.

    Let's wait till it gets as big as Star Wars for that.

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  • ButtcleftButtcleft Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    BlackDove wrote: »
    I think you could easily write books on the smaller aspects of Mass Effect.

    Let's wait till it gets as big as Star Wars for that.

    Karl Urban for Shepard

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  • Zetetic ElenchZetetic Elench Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Juc, do you think we'll ever get any of the past really fleshed out? Like stuff mentioned in the planet descriptions that were supposed to be from even before the Protheans, like the Leviathan of Dis, and the giant mass accelerator shot that glanced a moon, and the millions of crypts of the zeoph, and other such things?

    I absolutely adored all that shit.

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  • CouscousCouscous Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Personally, I want to learn more about those many perfectly normal planets with descriptions that say pretty much nothing other than why the planet is a certain color.

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  • BlackDoveBlackDove Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Juc, do you think we'll ever get any of the past really fleshed out? Like stuff mentioned in the planet descriptions that were supposed to be from even before the Protheans, like the Leviathan of Dis, and the giant mass accelerator shot that glanced a moon, and the millions of crypts of the zeoph, and other such things?

    I absolutely adored all that shit.

    They would be cool as quests. Relating to the subject matter in some way.

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  • ButtcleftButtcleft Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    what was the name of the planet with the giant mass accelerator scar?

    I can't for hte life of me remember

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  • HavelockHavelock Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Juc, do you think we'll ever get any of the past really fleshed out? Like stuff mentioned in the planet descriptions that were supposed to be from even before the Protheans, like the Leviathan of Dis, and the giant mass accelerator shot that glanced a moon, and the millions of crypts of the zeoph, and other such things?

    I absolutely adored all that shit.

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  • DoronronDoronron Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Juc wrote: »
    Did they ever have an explanation for why the earth looks backward from Luna?

    If I recall, it was because someone made the planet backwards, and then we thought it was cool so we kept it like that.


    (or space magic)

    It'd be a hell of thing waking up one morning to see the sun rising in the west.

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  • BlackDoveBlackDove Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    THE VI SWITCHED IT.

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  • SilpheedSilpheed Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Havelock wrote: »
    Juc, do you think we'll ever get any of the past really fleshed out? Like stuff mentioned in the planet descriptions that were supposed to be from even before the Protheans, like the Leviathan of Dis, and the giant mass accelerator shot that glanced a moon, and the millions of crypts of the zeoph, and other such things?

    I absolutely adored all that shit.

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  • JucJuc EdmontonRegistered User regular
    edited January 2010
    BlackDove wrote: »
    Yeah, I suppose that's true.

    Still, that tattoo thing would be quite welcome, as it should have been done.

    When do you suppose we'll have that kind of artistic/developing freedom in games?

    It'll probably be a while.

    I think the biggest hurdle is just game ratings and what ratings various retailers limit themselves to.
    For example if we get an AO rating from the ESRB the game might as well be banned in Canada and the US since almost no stores would allow themselves to carry the title.



    Also re: if we'll get more fleshed out stuff from the planet descriptions?
    that's something to ask someone who's not me, because I have no idea at the moment.

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  • ButtcleftButtcleft Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Juc wrote: »
    BlackDove wrote: »
    Yeah, I suppose that's true.

    Still, that tattoo thing would be quite welcome, as it should have been done.

    When do you suppose we'll have that kind of artistic/developing freedom in games?

    It'll probably be a while.

    I think the biggest hurdle is just game ratings and what ratings various retailers limit themselves to.
    For example if we get an AO rating from the ESRB the game might as well be banned in Canada and the US since almost no stores would allow themselves to carry the title.

    Because only children play video games, right Ms.Clinton
    more like Ms.Cunton.

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  • BlackDoveBlackDove Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Juc wrote: »
    BlackDove wrote: »
    Yeah, I suppose that's true.

    Still, that tattoo thing would be quite welcome, as it should have been done.

    When do you suppose we'll have that kind of artistic/developing freedom in games?

    It'll probably be a while.

    I think the biggest hurdle is just game ratings and what ratings various retailers limit themselves to.
    For example if we get an AO rating from the ESRB the game might as well be banned in Canada and the US since almost no stores would allow themselves to carry the title.



    Also re: if we'll get more fleshed out stuff from the planet descriptions?
    that's something to ask someone who's not me, because I have no idea at the moment.

    Oh sure, I get the ratings, but even the film industry enjoys a greater (although equally limited in scope) freedom when it comes to at least depicting nudity. It's not auto-AO for some of it (though it is for much of it).

    Yeah, I reckon a while as well.

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  • Coffee BeanCoffee Bean Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Holy shit. Casey has confirmed Thane as a romance option.

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  • CouscousCouscous Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Oh sure, I get the ratings, but even the film industry enjoys a greater (although equally limited in scope) freedom when it comes to at least depicting nudity. It's not auto-AO for some of it (though it is for much of it).
    It isn't an automatic AO for games. Dante's Inferno features cocks and demon tits.

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  • MikeManMikeMan Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Hey Juc or some other Bioware peeps.

    I know I've asked before but do we have an update on whether you can switch the thumbsticks on the 360 version?

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  • CouscousCouscous Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    I still want a Futurama Mass Effect. Bender is Legion, Leila is Miranda, Zoidberg is Thane, Hermes is one of the council members, and Zap Brannigan is obviously Shepard.

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  • EgosEgos Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Holy shit. Casey has confirmed Thane as a romance option.

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    Wasn't that obvious? :)

    I'm curious if he is the gay option as well. It kinda seems that way. You know thematically I wouldn't mind a pure gay/lesbian character...

    Though I suppose thats more with Gaider's style (who seems to like to have more written in stone characters), since it just seems convenient to have a bunch of bi-people around instead ...of just plain homosexuals or lesbians (this applies more to DA).

    edit: Admittedly I'm not that much into how romances in games are typically portrayed... so I'm talking purely thematically.. As opposed to speaking as an active pursuer of romances.

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  • ButtcleftButtcleft Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Couscous wrote: »
    I still want a Futurama Mass Effect. Bender is Legion, Leila is Miranda, Zoidberg is Thane, Hermes is one of the council members, and Zap Brannigan is obviously Shepard.

    Zap is conrad verner and Shepard is Fry.

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