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Mass Effect 1&2 - BECAUSE I CAAAAAAAN'T MAKE IT ON MY OOOOOOWN!! Soundtrack 19th Jan.

BlackDoveBlackDove Registered User regular
edited January 2010 in Games and Technology
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Wiki wrote:
Mass Effect is an award-winning, bestselling series of science fiction RPG third person shooters developed by the Canadian company BioWare and released on the Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows. The first game takes place in the year 2183, with the player assuming the role of an elite human soldier named Commander Shepard, set out to explore the Galaxy on a starship, the SSV Normandy. The Xbox 360 edition was released worldwide in November 2007 published by Microsoft Game Studios. The Windows edition was released on May 28, 2008, published by Electronic Arts. The first downloadable content package, Bring Down the Sky, was released on March 10, 2008 (with a PC version released on July 29, 2008) The second downloadable content package, Pinnacle Station, was released on August 25, 2009 for the PC and Xbox 360.


Essentially everything you need to know about the first Mass Effect game is located here.

Alternately, you can trawl through the old OP.

If you've got Steam issues with the first game, a good place to look for information is by clicking on this sentence.



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Release Date:

January 26, 2010 for the Xbox 360 and Turbografx-16 in the US. January 29th for Europe.

Screenshots:

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Videos/Media:

Most can be found here.

Interviews and other videos can be found here.


Additional Info:

If you really NEED to contact Commander Shepard, we have his facebook.

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  • AlegisAlegis Impeckable Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Dr. Avalanche wrote: »
    Alegis wrote: »
    Keep them loyal? What is this, Warhammer 40k?

    I would... I would pay a lot of cash moneys for a game like this set in the 40kverse. Oh my, yes.

    Inquisitor Shepard

    goddddd yes

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  • JoolanderJoolander Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    GETH TO THE OLD THREAD!

    Joolander on
  • -Loki--Loki- Don't pee in my mouth and tell me it's raining. Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    But in a 40k one, you'd never have any other race in your group, considering every race is a pack of homicidal xenophobes.

    -Loki- on
  • AlegisAlegis Impeckable Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    That's because humans are best and xenos are treacherous.

    There, I said it.

    Alegis on
  • Mr FoxMr Fox Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Jesse Houston Bioware wrote:
    As for Romance - We're a bioware title, of course we'll have Romance in our games! Who/What/How Many/When of course I wont ruin the show for you folks - Theres a LOT of great romances though. Some that even surprised me when I read the original scripts

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  • AlegisAlegis Impeckable Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    BioWare - softporn for nerds

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  • Dr.ObliviousDr.Oblivious Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Commissar Gaunt and Command Shepard could be long lost brothers.

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  • LewiePLewieP Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Hey, ME2 is out soon right.

    Neato.

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  • Dr. AvalancheDr. Avalanche Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Alegis wrote: »
    That's because humans are best and xenos are treacherous.

    There, I said it.

    Oh, sure, you be all frontin' with the Rogue Trader races, sayin' how Space Marines be the bomb, but at home, late at night, we all know you reach your hand into your pillowcase and pull out your little Tau stealthsuits. You whisper to them, yes, and your caress them, all for the Greater Good.

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  • RenzoRenzo Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Who the hell is Kelly?

    Renzo on
  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Renzo wrote: »
    Who the hell is Kelly?

    Your Yeoman.

    -Tal on
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  • ButtcleftButtcleft Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    good job with the op

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  • BoredGamerBoredGamer Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    I can't wait for this shit.

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  • BlackDoveBlackDove Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Buttcleft wrote: »
    good job with the op

    Thanks.

    It's a... minimalist approach with visual value (game's fucking pretty, so's the art, it's not hard making it look good).

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  • Mr FoxMr Fox Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Bioware is thinking about a whole new squad for Mass Effect 3

    INB4 TEH EPIC RAYGE!

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  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    CAUSE I CAAAAAAN'T MAKE IT ON MY OOOOOWWWWWNNNNNNNNNNNNNN

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  • DunxcoDunxco Should get a suit Never skips breakfastRegistered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Return of the beloved Facebook pages!

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  • CouscousCouscous Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    -Loki- wrote: »
    But in a 40k one, you'd never have any other race in your group, considering every race is a pack of homicidal xenophobes.

    Why would you need any other race?
    You would have a space marine, a servitor (potential love interest!), sister of battle, imperial guardsman, and an imperial assassin.

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  • JoolanderJoolander Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    so is that faacebook thing a site that i can visit?

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  • NeliNeli Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    and Ogryns

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  • SpoitSpoit *twitch twitch* Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    -Tal wrote: »
    Renzo wrote: »
    Who the hell is Kelly?

    Your Yeoman.

    Which is what? some sort of boat rowing person?

    Spoit on
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  • -Loki--Loki- Don't pee in my mouth and tell me it's raining. Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Couscous wrote: »
    -Loki- wrote: »
    But in a 40k one, you'd never have any other race in your group, considering every race is a pack of homicidal xenophobes.

    Why would you need any other race?
    You would have a space marine, a servitor (potential love interest!), sister of battle, imperial guardsman, and an imperial assassin.

    But then you wouldn't have the option for human/tau softporn.

    -Loki- on
  • BlackDoveBlackDove Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Mr Fox wrote: »
    Bioware is thinking about a whole new squad for Mass Effect 3

    INB4 TEH EPIC RAYGE!

    Well of course, say you kill everyone in Mass Effect 2... all you've got left is... what?

    Liara, Ashley OR Kaiden, with the possibility ONLY of Wrex and that's it. Everyone else is dead.

    I presume, if YOU can die in ME2, and get an ending, so can everyone else.

    You're gonna need a new crew for ME3 for sure. With the 2(3) originals or without.
    -Tal wrote: »
    CAUSE I CAAAAAAN'T MAKE IT ON MY OOOOOWWWWWNNNNNNNNNNNNNN

    Yesssssssssssssssssssss.

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  • FiarynFiaryn Omnicidal Madman Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Couscous wrote: »
    -Loki- wrote: »
    But in a 40k one, you'd never have any other race in your group, considering every race is a pack of homicidal xenophobes.

    Why would you need any other race?
    You would have a space marine, a servitor (potential love interest!), sister of battle, imperial guardsman, and an imperial assassin.

    A Servitor, Sister of Battle, and an Imperial Guardsman would be completely trivialized by the presence of a Space Marine.

    An Assassin might be able to hold their own though.

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  • DunxcoDunxco Should get a suit Never skips breakfastRegistered User regular
    edited January 2010
    -Tal wrote: »
    Renzo wrote: »
    Who the hell is Kelly?

    Your Yeoman.

    She has space-land? Sweet, Shepard's banging his way into family money.

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  • FiarynFiaryn Omnicidal Madman Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Dunxco wrote: »
    -Tal wrote: »
    Renzo wrote: »
    Who the hell is Kelly?

    Your Yeoman.

    She has space-land? Sweet, Shepard's banging his way into family money.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeoman_%28US_Navy%29

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  • -Loki--Loki- Don't pee in my mouth and tell me it's raining. Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Dunxco wrote: »
    -Tal wrote: »
    Renzo wrote: »
    Who the hell is Kelly?

    Your Yeoman.

    She has space-land? Sweet, Shepard's banging his way into family money.

    Shepard is becoming Kirk. Banging anything and everything.

    -Loki- on
  • DunxcoDunxco Should get a suit Never skips breakfastRegistered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Fiaryn wrote: »
    Dunxco wrote: »
    -Tal wrote: »
    Renzo wrote: »
    Who the hell is Kelly?

    Your Yeoman.

    She has space-land? Sweet, Shepard's banging his way into family money.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeoman_%28US_Navy%29

    And I prefer this definition:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeoman

    Kelly: Hey Commander, corn's coming in mighty fine this year.

    Shepard: Excellent, let's return to my quarters and sew some wild oats.

    Kelly: I'll bring the rake and the compost.

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  • Mr FoxMr Fox Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    So In Mass Effect 3 we have
    Liara
    Ashley (if not virmired)
    Kaiden (if not virmired)
    Wrex (possibly (If not virmired))
    Garrus (If survived ME2)
    Tali (If survived ME2)
    Grunt (If survived ME2)
    Mordin (If survived ME2)
    SuZe (If survived ME2)
    Miranda (If survived ME2)
    Jacob (If survived ME2)
    Samara (If survived ME2)
    Thane (If survived ME2)

    So at the start we can have between 1 and 11 returning charters in ME3
    Seems like a Nightmare for Dev's D:

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  • AlegisAlegis Impeckable Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    who says you're playing shepard in ME3

    Shepard is
    DEAD

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  • ButtcleftButtcleft Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Alegis wrote: »
    who says you're playing shepard in ME3

    Shepard is
    DEAD

    In ME3 you play Legion, who has adapted Shepards neuro-pathways to his own systems, becoming Shepion.

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  • EgosEgos Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Spoit wrote: »
    -Tal wrote: »
    Renzo wrote: »
    Who the hell is Kelly?

    Your Yeoman.

    Which is what? some sort of boat rowing person?

    Someone described her as your secretary. Exciting huh?

    Egos on
  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    In ME3 you play as Raiden

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  • -Loki--Loki- Don't pee in my mouth and tell me it's raining. Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Egos wrote: »
    Spoit wrote: »
    -Tal wrote: »
    Renzo wrote: »
    Who the hell is Kelly?

    Your Yeoman.

    Which is what? some sort of boat rowing person?

    Someone described her as your secretary. Exciting huh?

    So, you're James Bond now?

    -Loki- on
  • DozingDragonDozingDragon Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Wait, I thought we were playing as the Reapers in Mass Effect 3? All of them.

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  • EgosEgos Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    DozingDragon wrote: »
    Wait, I thought we were playing as the Reapers in Mass Effect 3? All of them.

    Almost, you play as a reaper that has taken over Shepard's Body through bizarre enhancements. Instead of being Sovereign, you are now the Vizier or something...

    Egos on
  • FiarynFiaryn Omnicidal Madman Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Egos wrote: »
    DozingDragon wrote: »
    Wait, I thought we were playing as the Reapers in Mass Effect 3? All of them.

    Almost, you play as a reaper that has taken over Shepard's Body through bizarre enhancements. Instead of being Sovereign, you are now the Vizier or something...

    Enchantment?

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  • EgosEgos Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Enchantment!

    Egos on
  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    I

    have wondered about you

    where will you be

    when this is through

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  • nonplussednonplussed Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    In ME3 you will play as
    Shepard's cloned brain-washed doppleganger after events in ME2, requiring the sacrifice of the resurrected Shepard, cause him to reform and carry on his original's legacy. oooOOooOo

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