i thought being taken to biotic camp and then kicking your teacher to death is fairly interesting, probably moreso than i live on a ship and hate robots
but that's just me
Also Kaidan rocks in combat because he is a sentinel. Have Kaidan disable everyone, Wrex rip them to shreds, and you...well, you don't even really have to do anything.
yeah but that's his only story
garrus has tales about his time in the NYPD, and how each of those encounters with people like his boss or saleon influenced his opinions of justice
wrex has loads of stories about being a merc, and they are fun as well as revealing more about his views on the slow death of his race, which are even more developed than "it was wrong, here's why" or "it was wrong, and here's what should be done"
there are similar sorts of examples with ashley and tali, but in the end, kaiden's one defining moment in his past before he met you was kicking one guy in the face. jeez, don;t you have any more experience than that? we served on the same crew before any of the eden prime stuff, dude
Kaidan has general bioticing, Wrex has general mercing, and Garrus has general coping with the defining moments being BIOTIC KICK, Dr. Saleon getting away, and confronting Wrex's father. These all develop the characters equally. Kaidan losing control that badly made him fearful of his own power and caused him to become as reserved as he is today. His experience in Brain Camp gave him appreciation for the best and worst sides of both humanity and aliens. Wrex's father finally killed any faith he had in his species, and his mercenary travels made him blunty wise of the way things work. Garrus' experience as a cop opened his eyes to the criminal world and rooted a strong desire to fight it, Dr. Saleon convinced him that he had to do it by any means necessay.
Garrus's greatest moment is Grunt's loyalty mission.
Guessing you mean Mordin's, and yes.
Damn you're right.
Yes Mordin's.
Remind me?
Garrus: "Damn. Hospitals aren't fun to fight through."
Shepard: "Is anywhere fun to fight through?"
Garrus: "Gardens, electronics shops, antique stores - but only if they're classy."
To be fair, Garrus talking abou taking grunt to a strip club on Grunts loyalty was good too
Replaying ME1 after beating ME2, I thought Garrus was himself pretty under-developed in the first game - but then again, most of the characters in ME1 are pretty bare-bones compared to ME2.
Really the only ones as fleshed-out were Wrex and (to a lesser degree) Ashley. Maybe Kaiden is developed a little more if your Shepard if female but I've never done a full playthrough like that.
Of course, they're still better realized than 99% of the characters in other games... just not to the degree we get in ME2.
Unrelated, but here's an interview with Casey Hudson. He talks a bit more about Overlord, but what was most exciting I think was the notion that we'd see DLC that bridges the gap between ME2-ME3 where they assume you've already finished the suicide mission. Anyway, I'll just link it:
Digital Illusions Creative Entertainment/ PO Box 20068/ 104 60 Stockholm/ Sweden
Send them a Pair of Running Shoes. Used or Otherwise. Or a letter, but let's not be formulaic. Send them a picture of trainers, too. Or a painting. Or money. Whatever.
That's in ME1. That game has achievements for all the characters in the game being in your party for most of the game. Of course, those achievements are also buggy and don't seem to work the way they are supposed to.
I ran Garrus and Liara in my party from the moment I got them till the moment I finished the game and I didn't get the achievement for either the Turian specialist or the Asari specialist.
I did some research about it back when it happened, and I guess when they say "most of the game" they actually mean like 99% of the game. You basically have to skip every single quest until you get the person(s) in your party that you want for the achievement and then go back and catch up on everything you missed.
It only wants 75%. But it means 75% of the entire game, which is a pain with Liara in particular because you pick her up after completing probably 20% of the game (and which is why you need to skip everything you can to go pick her up immediately. You have a bit more leeway with Garrus).
If you were only doing the main questline and whatever you happened across, you only completed about 75% of the game; since you picked up both companions after Eden Prime, you needed to do the sidequests.
I tried to complete the Allies achievements, but they defeated me. I only got about halfway there, and due to my selection of first and second playthrough characters, I'd need to do 3 more complete runs if I ran as anything other than an Infiltrator or Engineer. Fuck that shit.
I'm really glad they changed that for ME2.
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I've run about three playthroughs now and I've used pretty much all my ME1 characters that I wanted to carry over. I am considering starting a new game and building a character from scratch. Will it matter much in the long run? Do I miss much content?
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Depends on your decisions. Default imports basically you get the worst (middle) endings for everything, eg Wrex dead, your same-sex human companion dead, Rachni killed off, Council dead, never met Garrus (but that only changes like one line), etc. If you want the full list, check it out here: http://www.masseffectsaves.com/desc.php
No, that is where you are wrong. You don't have time to solve everybody's little problems while Saren is busy trying to destroy the universe. You also want to minimize the amount of filthy aliens on your crew, so the renegade cop gets ignored and the unstable krogan gets killed when he dares to question your command. The rachni don't deserve to exist, and the council is nothing more than a well-orchestrated sham. Shiala is an obvious threat and is not to be trusted. If any human must be sacrificed on Virmire, it should be the one you cannot tap. Default Shepard is the hero the galaxy needs.
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Kaidan has general bioticing, Wrex has general mercing, and Garrus has general coping with the defining moments being BIOTIC KICK, Dr. Saleon getting away, and confronting Wrex's father. These all develop the characters equally. Kaidan losing control that badly made him fearful of his own power and caused him to become as reserved as he is today. His experience in Brain Camp gave him appreciation for the best and worst sides of both humanity and aliens. Wrex's father finally killed any faith he had in his species, and his mercenary travels made him blunty wise of the way things work. Garrus' experience as a cop opened his eyes to the criminal world and rooted a strong desire to fight it, Dr. Saleon convinced him that he had to do it by any means necessay.
To be fair, Garrus talking abou taking grunt to a strip club on Grunts loyalty was good too
Really the only ones as fleshed-out were Wrex and (to a lesser degree) Ashley. Maybe Kaiden is developed a little more if your Shepard if female but I've never done a full playthrough like that.
Of course, they're still better realized than 99% of the characters in other games... just not to the degree we get in ME2.
http://www.xbox360achievements.org/news/news-5169-Interview--Casey-Hudson-Talks-Mass-Effect-2-s-Overlord-DLC--The-Future-&-Mining-Minerals.html
Send them a Pair of Running Shoes. Used or Otherwise. Or a letter, but let's not be formulaic. Send them a picture of trainers, too. Or a painting. Or money. Whatever.
In H-L 2? The only places where it sucks are the long stretches of road.
It only wants 75%. But it means 75% of the entire game, which is a pain with Liara in particular because you pick her up after completing probably 20% of the game (and which is why you need to skip everything you can to go pick her up immediately. You have a bit more leeway with Garrus).
If you were only doing the main questline and whatever you happened across, you only completed about 75% of the game; since you picked up both companions after Eden Prime, you needed to do the sidequests.
I tried to complete the Allies achievements, but they defeated me. I only got about halfway there, and due to my selection of first and second playthrough characters, I'd need to do 3 more complete runs if I ran as anything other than an Infiltrator or Engineer. Fuck that shit.
I'm really glad they changed that for ME2.
edit: oh wait, scars
Also killing thresher maws. And Mordin.
But it means you have to play Pinnacle Station.
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but they're sending her to fight geth. geth! we both know they're not the real threat.
don't forget blue roses on ilium
i love bad krogan poetry soooo much
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no, the sound gets annoying if i don't hear enemy screams mixed in
does cloaking work the same way?
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No but I always use Barrier, Fortification or Geth Shields.
krogan/drell/turian/quarian compatible y/n?
Would make the romance so much more..icky
o_O
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Oh yes.
And now that mental image can never be unseen. Thanks Mass Effect thread!
Somewhere there is a Tali fan masturbating furiously to the thought
I can't believe I hadn't seen this before.
edit: what the hell he also made this
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