anyone else slightly perturbed that tela vasir has the exact same face as shiala in ME2? only the colors are different, the markings/bone structure is identical. kind of wish they had done something unique - i mean if nyxeris can get a custom face....
few other things i noted: after the first boss battle, the cutscene walking animations are stiff as HELL. animations in general in SB are a little below par, but those kind of stood out.
i was very very happy to see that the shadow broker was some kind of fucking MONSTER. i like killing monsters.
i too was a little disturbed about the last convo with vasir. i should have been able to refute her charges by bringing up all my ME1 efforts against cerberus
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About a possible Prothean influence on ME3, I don't want to find some kind of superweapon that instantly defeats the Reapers.
What I would like to find is information.
As the last race to actually deal with them, they would have had more than enough chances to record plenty of information on them. If they managed to hide it somewhere, ME3 could involve finding it as a) proof that the fingerquotes-Reapers are real (for you to use to convince the Council to quit trying to arrest you, and get off their ass), and b) to maybe find a weakness that could be exploited (even if you get all the fleets arranged against them, a straight battle isn't going to go well without a weakpoint you can hit for massive damage)
anyone else slightly perturbed that tela vasir has the exact same face as shiala in ME2? only the colors are different, the markings/bone structure is identical. kind of wish they had done something unique - i mean if nyxeris can get a custom face....
few other things i noted: after the first boss battle, the cutscene walking animations are stiff as HELL. animations in general in SB are a little below par, but those kind of stood out.
i was very very happy to see that the shadow broker was some kind of fucking MONSTER. i like killing monsters.
i too was a little disturbed about the last convo with vasir. i should have been able to refute her charges by bringing up all my ME1 efforts against cerberus
On the second spoiler: Maybe that's the point.
AT LEAST I'M NOT TAKING HOSTAGES, LADY! HEY -- HEY! AHHH SHIT DAMN IT. I HOPE SHE HEARD THAT BEFORE SHE DIED. Fuck it. Let's go.
I didn't realise there was more... I ended my play in the sb lair after killing the yahg and exploring the lair. Only today did I realise there was a whole convo and scene with Liara. I dumped Miranda like the cerberus dog she is, faster than she could say "I'm perfect". I'm actually surprised Liara took my cheating Shep back. He's must have something special.
Best DLC ever. Ever and ever. I cannot believe how they managed to integrate the dlc so well into the game events. Simply brilliant.
Her comments from the outside sounded sensible, but I had already jacked the Illusive Man's ride, blown up his prize, and at every turn been gathering black mail material when I could. Hard to feel bad about it. Had there been the option I think I would've just shot her in the face, and still felt pretty good about it.
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Yeah and most importantly it wasn't pointless (Ala Dragon Ages DLC or some of the stuff for ME2). It actually added and expanded the story in ME2 and bridged it to ME3. IMO the best compliment I can think of for DLC is that it feels like a great part of the main game. This DLC works if you play it after the main story as well, which I thought was an excellent touch and made perfect sense. I was also pleased with it because my femshep cared nothing for any of the "romance" options presented in the game so getting Liara back was a good deal for her.
Overall I can't say this enough, I really want more DLC like this. It's worth every penny. It doesn't feel like something just thrown into the game to expand it a bit, it feels like a legitimate and complete part of the full game.
The perpetuity of the Shadow Broker is an illusion maintained by his/her agents: on a long enough time span someone talented enough simply kills the Shadow Broker and all his guards, and takes his place.
It's a pretty ingenius solution to the problem of who he is, and it makes complete sense.
Vanguard vs Vanguard... fuck yes. The cutscene with Liara becoming the new Shadow Broker was just such a Crowning Moment of Awsome. Especially with "The End Run" playing over the top.
The thing I liked most from the dossiers was that the previous Shadow Broker said the exact same lines when he assumed control.
Now that I've read Garrus' backstory with his family... I just want to fucking help him. Drag him to his family, tell them that he the right hand man of the saviour of the galaxy and is a scholar and a gentlemen, give them the billions of credits I have and make Mordin produce a cure for the Alzheimer's: Turian Edition.
I'm actually hurt Garrus never raised this with me. Fucking bravo Bioware.
On ME3 macuffins: I suspect that the Council actually have a superweapon being prepared to combat the Reapers. They're not stupid enough to dimiss the threat, but they're also not stupid enough to tell the galaxy that the apocolypse is coming and cause massive panic.
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The perpetuity of the Shadow Broker is an illusion maintained by his/her agents: on a long enough time span someone talented enough simply kills the Shadow Broker and all his guards, and takes his place.
It's a pretty ingenius solution to the problem of who he is, and it makes complete sense.
Maybe it is shifting. Going back to that the shadow broker is a necessary evil. Maybe it's a position that is shifting through an outside force that upholds the title who approach those with political power. So, maybe a member of the new human council has now the role of the "Shadow Broker".
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On ME3 macuffins: I suspect that the Council actually have a superweapon being prepared to combat the Reapers. They're not stupid enough to dimiss the threat, but they're also not stupid enough to tell the galaxy that the apocolypse is coming and cause massive panic.
I would really like something like this to be the case - there was something a bit creepy about ME2's hammering home the notion that "hurr hurr, guvments and dem politicians don't do anything" and the only salvation for the galaxy comes from joining the ME universe's answer to the Tea Party.
Honestly, I can't say that I'll be all that surprised if we have a MacGuffin to help us in ME3...did you see the Reaper fleet?
I think my exact phrase at that point was "Well, shit."
I just hope we get a chance to fire the Klendagon super weapon.
Even if it only kills 1 Reaper, it would be awesome.
EDIT: Also apparently if you hit a prox. mine in the taxi you get a line about the Mako and it's relative value. Now I'm disappointed that I dodged them all
I'm doing a play through on insanity and have a couple questions. First, if I get a bonus power, can I also do advanced training? Second, what are good bonus powers for soldier on insanity? I was thinking geth shield and warp ammo or reave.
Hahahahaaa the stasis on the scion is the best thing I've seen in a long time. Well, best since the whole SB dlc. The best thing about the dlc? All the "dossiers" are clearly designed to keep us talking until ME3 comes out. Here's to a hectic few months of many threads disecting all the data.
Yeah and most importantly it wasn't pointless (Ala Dragon Ages DLC or some of the stuff for ME2). It actually added and expanded the story in ME2 and bridged it to ME3. IMO the best compliment I can think of for DLC is that it feels like a great part of the main game. This DLC works if you play it after the main story as well, which I thought was an excellent touch and made perfect sense. I was also pleased with it because my femshep cared nothing for any of the "romance" options presented in the game so getting Liara back was a good deal for her.
Overall I can't say this enough, I really want more DLC like this. It's worth every penny. It doesn't feel like something just thrown into the game to expand it a bit, it feels like a legitimate and complete part of the full game.
That bothers some people though, and I can see their point. It feels like such a complete part of the full game that it really shouldn't have been an optional DLC, ya know?
I'm doing a play through on insanity and have a couple questions. First, if I get a bonus power, can I also do advanced training? Second, what are good bonus powers for soldier on insanity? I was thinking geth shield and warp ammo or reave.
Yea, you can also do advanced training. Geth Shield is worthless, it gets shredded too quickly to do any good. Warp ammo is what I use.
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That bothers some people though, and I can see their point. It feels like such a complete part of the full game that it really shouldn't have been an optional DLC, ya know?
Too bad people say this about every DLC.
If it's good, it should have been in the game already. If it's bad, it's a cash grab.
You just can't win with people.
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I really don't know what to say to people whose response to a piece of DLC like this is to complain that it was too good.
Its optional and has an enormous impact. Liara being the Shadow Broker is a major and fundamental change to the setting and should effect so much, and I'm worried its going to be largely brushed aside because not everyone will have played it.
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Its optional and has an enormous impact. Liara being the Shadow Broker is a major and fundamental change to the setting and should effect so much, and I'm worried its going to be largely brushed aside because not everyone will have played it.
I really wouldn't worry about that. Since that development happens regardless of what you do, I think it's safe to assume that it will simply have happened in ME3 whether a particular player was "there" for it or not, and players who didn't play the DLC will simply have missed out on some context.
I wonder how they're going to handle the plot development in this DLC for non-DLC ME3 players, though.
I mean, Liara becoming the Shadow Broker is kind of a big deal. Maybe it will force them to play through the mission on ME3? Like, just have it on the disc and if you didn't do it, trigger the mission?
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few other things i noted: after the first boss battle, the cutscene walking animations are stiff as HELL. animations in general in SB are a little below par, but those kind of stood out.
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What I would like to find is information.
As the last race to actually deal with them, they would have had more than enough chances to record plenty of information on them. If they managed to hide it somewhere, ME3 could involve finding it as a) proof that the fingerquotes-Reapers are real (for you to use to convince the Council to quit trying to arrest you, and get off their ass), and b) to maybe find a weakness that could be exploited (even if you get all the fleets arranged against them, a straight battle isn't going to go well without a weakpoint you can hit for massive damage)
On the second spoiler: Maybe that's the point.
That was a damn satisfying conclusion and continuation of the romance in my opinion. Not sure it needed to be spoiled, but still.
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Best DLC ever. Ever and ever. I cannot believe how they managed to integrate the dlc so well into the game events. Simply brilliant.
Overall I can't say this enough, I really want more DLC like this. It's worth every penny. It doesn't feel like something just thrown into the game to expand it a bit, it feels like a legitimate and complete part of the full game.
- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (2017, colorized)
Humanity first indeed
Somebody leak this to Terra Firma ASAP.
Well, I guess humanity was first.
It's a pretty ingenius solution to the problem of who he is, and it makes complete sense.
The thing I liked most from the dossiers was that the previous Shadow Broker said the exact same lines when he assumed control.
Now that I've read Garrus' backstory with his family... I just want to fucking help him. Drag him to his family, tell them that he the right hand man of the saviour of the galaxy and is a scholar and a gentlemen, give them the billions of credits I have and make Mordin produce a cure for the Alzheimer's: Turian Edition.
I'm actually hurt Garrus never raised this with me. Fucking bravo Bioware.
On ME3 macuffins: I suspect that the Council actually have a superweapon being prepared to combat the Reapers. They're not stupid enough to dimiss the threat, but they're also not stupid enough to tell the galaxy that the apocolypse is coming and cause massive panic.
He wasn't before?
Damn I was not near.
I would really like something like this to be the case - there was something a bit creepy about ME2's hammering home the notion that "hurr hurr, guvments and dem politicians don't do anything" and the only salvation for the galaxy comes from joining the ME universe's answer to the Tea Party.
I only started playing ME2 a few hours ago. :P
They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
Honestly, I can't say that I'll be all that surprised if we have a MacGuffin to help us in ME3...did you see the Reaper fleet?
I think my exact phrase at that point was "Well, shit."
Stasis is all I ever dreamed it would be.
haha, time for another playthrough i think, completely abusing stasis
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Why do you think he had to do it a second time?
"Have you ever satisfied an asari matriarch before?"
Because if you can I think my Sentinel has a new bonus power.
I just hope we get a chance to fire the Klendagon super weapon.
Even if it only kills 1 Reaper, it would be awesome.
EDIT: Also apparently if you hit a prox. mine in the taxi you get a line about the Mako and it's relative value. Now I'm disappointed that I dodged them all
That bothers some people though, and I can see their point. It feels like such a complete part of the full game that it really shouldn't have been an optional DLC, ya know?
Yea, you can also do advanced training. Geth Shield is worthless, it gets shredded too quickly to do any good. Warp ammo is what I use.
Too bad people say this about every DLC.
If it's good, it should have been in the game already. If it's bad, it's a cash grab.
You just can't win with people.
You'd be surprised what people on the internet will complain about.
I really wouldn't worry about that. Since that development happens regardless of what you do, I think it's safe to assume that it will simply have happened in ME3 whether a particular player was "there" for it or not, and players who didn't play the DLC will simply have missed out on some context.
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