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[Mass Effect] Actually a Gears of War Spin-off

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  • SzechuanSzechuan Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Leinna wrote: »
    Orca wrote: »
    Wyborn wrote: »
    I'd warn Anderson to get the Hell off, but he'd be the only one.

    Him and Al-Jhilani.

    So you could punch her again?

    Shadow Broker spoiler:
    We could kick her like the volus did .... :D

    Yes this is from far, far earlier in the thread, but can anyone else who's beaten LotSB corroborate this? In my experience (endgame Shadow Broker spoilers)
    she gets punched by a Krogan. I saw no volus.

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  • Feels Good ManFeels Good Man Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    well I don't play femshep because Jennifer Hale is overrated.



    LOOOK AT ALL THESE OPINIONS

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  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Thane has too much baggage and attachment issues

    three conversations and he's writing tearful love letters

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  • OrcaOrca Also known as Espressosaurus WrexRegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Szechuan wrote: »
    Yes this is from far, far earlier in the thread, but can anyone else who's beaten LotSB corroborate this? In my experience (endgame Shadow Broker spoilers)
    she gets punched by a Krogan. I saw no volus.

    There's a volus. Maybe you haven't seen all three sets of vids yet?

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  • EmporiumEmporium Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Szechuan wrote: »
    Leinna wrote: »
    Orca wrote: »
    Wyborn wrote: »
    I'd warn Anderson to get the Hell off, but he'd be the only one.

    Him and Al-Jhilani.

    So you could punch her again?

    Shadow Broker spoiler:
    We could kick her like the volus did .... :D

    Yes this is from far, far earlier in the thread, but can anyone else who's beaten LotSB corroborate this? In my experience (endgame Shadow Broker spoilers)
    she gets punched by a Krogan. I saw no volus.
    She does get kicked by a volus. There's three different videos for her.

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  • SoundsPlushSoundsPlush yup, back. Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Dragkonias wrote: »
    Who would wear the full Kestrel suit though?

    Some parts are just ugly.

    Yeah but with the damage research and most of kestrel, Shepard's elbow is basically an infinite ammo shotgun.

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  • DashuiDashui Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Orca wrote: »
    Dashui wrote: »
    But even with Shadow Broker, I don't think she had that much depth. Cue angry mob in three, two, one...

    Why would you expect an angry mob for saying that?
    Dashui wrote: »
    Ashley and Thane are probably the party members who I think have the most depth.

    OK NOW YOU'VE GONE TOO FAR

    Just because someone doesn't like a character doesn't mean that character has no depth. But really, am I wrong about those two? I was sitting here thinking about all the details of each character - their past, their goals, their beliefs, etc - and for a good number of them the list is kind of small. For Ashley and Thane, though, there's quite a bit more.

    Oh, I forgot about Mordin. He's probably in the top of the list, too, in regards to how much you can learn about him. And again, you don't have to like them just because they offer a lot to explore. This list isn't a list of favorites. I'm just thinking about the characters you can learn the most about. I never thought Liara was at the top of that list, although probably still a lot higher than Jacob. :P

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  • jefe414jefe414 "My Other Drill Hole is a Teleporter" Mechagodzilla is Best GodzillaRegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Dragkonias wrote: »
    Who would wear the full Kestrel suit though?

    Some parts are just ugly.

    Yeah but with the damage research and most of kestrel, Shepard's elbow is basically an infinite ammo shotgun.

    Kestrel (minus that horrid helmet - go with the stealth Dr. pepper helmet - +5% weapon damage) is mandatory for the vanguard and highly recommended for the soldier.

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  • DragkoniasDragkonias That Guy Who Does Stuff You Know, There. Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Meh. I'm vain, so I rarely if ever sacrifice aesthetics for functionality in video games. Unless something is okay looking. Kestrel chest plate just looks dumb. The other parts are okay though.

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  • 3cl1ps33cl1ps3 I will build a labyrinth to house the cheese Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    So apparently the Geth Shotgun is actually a homing missile launcher?

    So that's cool.

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  • EmporiumEmporium Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    I'm the exact opposite. Stats trumps appearance for me, always.

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  • NeliNeli Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    I just go with whatever looks good on me

    5% in stats here and there changes nothing for me gameplay wise, so why bother

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  • DashuiDashui Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    What's the point of driving your foes before you, and hearing the lamentations of their women, if you don't look good while doing it? I will never understand some people!

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  • DragkoniasDragkonias That Guy Who Does Stuff You Know, There. Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Emporium wrote: »
    I'm the exact opposite. Stats trumps appearance for me, always.

    Can't be that way. Especially when my characters look like idiots.

    I mean it is okay in most game since the best armor is also usually the best looking.

    But sometimes you get situations like Dragon Age and their mage hats.

    Not to mention. I rarely find games difficult enough to have to min/max.

    @Dashui: See, you get it.

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  • SoundsPlushSoundsPlush yup, back. Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    I only mess around with armor on hardcore or insanity, statwise, but I almost always use just the headshot visor so I can see facial expressions. I've been coming off that lately, because soldier with the normal helmet looks right, as does infiltrator with the hood. And recently I've just been trying things I've never used before.

    Playing a pink and blue kestrel + death mask + tech armor makes Shepard look like some kind of bizarre storm trooper.

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  • OrcaOrca Also known as Espressosaurus WrexRegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
    First time through, stats uber alles. As I get comfortable, looks uber alles.

    Yeah, in WoW I looked like this for most of my play time:
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  • DragkoniasDragkonias That Guy Who Does Stuff You Know, There. Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    I really should do a game where I use the Kestrel helmet. I actually think it looks cool, but I hate that it doesn't vanish during cutscenes.

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  • curly haired boycurly haired boy Your Friendly Neighborhood Torgue Dealer Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    i already had the incisor because of my digital deluxe edition, but i didn't get the kestrel pack because most of the pieces are rather fugly

    and i choose armor based on appearance rather than 3-10% bonuses (except when it comes to the heavy weapon extra ammo leg thingies)

    @soldier debate

    i can't even imagine what soldier on normal or casual must feel like. press this button to win, i suppose. if i hadn't switched to revenant after the collector ship, i'd have kept my deaths in the single digits. but i had to try it out and see what the fuss was about. should have stuck with the mattock :P

    i think the reason i like insanity is the feeling that your enemies are trying very hard to be sentient, and their guns/powers have a very very good chance of ending you. soldier basically steamrolls everything, sentinel to a lesser extent. vanguard is all about respecting the capabilities of your opposition. you make a mistake, you WILL die. feels more tactical, and the risk/reward is a lot more satisfying, imo.

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  • TurambarTurambar Independent Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    It's all about looking cool. 8-)

    Usually I go with one of the visors, though my robocop Sentinel is actually using the Kestrel Helm.

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  • MalReynoldsMalReynolds The Hunter S Thompson of incredibly mild medicines Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Orca wrote: »
    Dragkonias wrote: »
    GoW = God of War

    DMC = Devil May Cry

    GoW also equal Gears of War...so it does get confusing.

    This is like people talking about D2. Is it Descent 2? Diablo 2? Argh.

    There is also a survival horror/adventure/first person/tentacle rape game for the Dreamcast called D2. I owned a Dreamcast before I owned a PC powerful enough to play any of the Diablo games, so people kept referencing all kinds of loot and I kept getting more and more confused. In D2, there's a whole subterranean mine section at the end of the first disc - I thought I was totally going to find some kind of sword or gun down there if I kept grinding enemies.

    No.

    The only loot I got was a good face-raping by space-plants or some shit.

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  • DashuiDashui Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    God dammit, curly. You and your Revenant hate.
    Dragkonias wrote:
    But sometimes you get situations like Dragon Age and their mage hats.

    Oh the hats weren't the worst bit of mage gear. How about the male mage armor that had cleavage and shoulder feathers? Heughag.

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  • DragkoniasDragkonias That Guy Who Does Stuff You Know, There. Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    I still feel cheated that we didn't get eye mods.

    I wanted my TIM eyes.

    I mean we're already part Cyborg. Bioware should have went crazy with it.

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  • NeliNeli Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Like people have suggested eariler, I wish they have some modular helmets in ME3. What I mean by that is that they go through a minor transformation during a cutscene, much like the weapons do when you holster them. That way you can have your fancy helmet on most of the time, but still get to see the face when you talk to people

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  • curly haired boycurly haired boy Your Friendly Neighborhood Torgue Dealer Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Dragkonias wrote: »
    I still feel cheated that we didn't get eye mods.

    I wanted my TIM eyes.

    I mean we're already part Cyborg. Bioware should have went crazy with it.

    that's what the save editor is for

    really

    @dashui: i'm a big believer in the hyperion motto:

    "Hyperion asks, 'What good is a gun that doesn't shoot where you point it?' Get a gun that's as accurate as you are!" - Marcus Kincaid

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  • NeliNeli Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    What is it with people who can't aim the Revenant

    is this a console thing or what, because on the PC I had no issues murdering stuff with it at pretty much any range

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  • DashuiDashui Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Neli wrote: »
    Like people have suggested eariler, I wish they have some modular helmets in ME3. What I mean by that is that they go through a minor transformation during a cutscene, much like the weapons do when you holster them. That way you can have your fancy helmet on most of the time, but still get to see the face when you talk to people

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  • FairchildFairchild Rabbit used short words that were easy to understand, like "Hello Pooh, how about Lunch ?" Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    that's what the save editor is for

    really

    @dashui: i'm a big believer in the hyperion motto:

    "Hyperion asks, 'What good is a gun that doesn't shoot where you point it?' Get a gun that's as accurate as you are!" - Marcus Kincaid
    Never play STALKER. Some of the early guns in that game, the safest place to be is where you are aiming.

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  • EmporiumEmporium Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Except potentially for the helmet, I think Kestrel armor looks great. So really "min-maxing" in this game isn't much of a sacrifice for me.

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  • DashuiDashui Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Neli wrote: »
    What is it with people who can't aim the Revenant

    is this a console thing or what, because on the PC I had no issues murdering stuff with it at pretty much any range

    I was playing it console and had no problem mass-murdering people with the Revenant, no matter the distance to the target. The thing is a beast, and one that never runs out of ammo.

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  • jefe414jefe414 "My Other Drill Hole is a Teleporter" Mechagodzilla is Best GodzillaRegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
    The Lost in Space movie wasn't very good but it had the retracting helmet like you were talking about (also had guns that folded up like ME as well).

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  • HambrabaiHambrabai Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    GrimReaper wrote: »
    Dragkonias wrote: »
    At the end of ME3, Shepard takes his/her final ascension as Space Jesus and gains all the powers.

    I'm hoping for the end of ME3 you can go all Kotor and go for either renegade emperor of the galaxy or goody two shoes president. And maybe an additional third in-between.

    Big Horrible Theory® Time!

    In Mass Effect 3 Shepard will uncover information about some of the mystery planets in game (Ploba, Logan, Klencory, Junthor, and Preying Mouth specifically) and discover that they are the hiding places of vast terrible weaponry sequestered by previous galactic civilizations. These weapons were assembled to fight the Reapers but too much time was wasted and they were unable to be used. So in desperation they were hidden deep in the gravity wells of gas giants with the hope that a future civilization would be able to recover them and use their terrible power to destroy the Reapers and break the cycle forever. Junthor would hold ancient secrets about the Reapers creation and their original purpose and hints as to a final creation hidden on lonely Klencory.

    On Klencory Shepard would find and awaken the 'Beings of Light' and find the fate of the Reapers creators, in a desperate gamble to escape their own creations the progenitor race abandoned their final weapon and ascended into a non-corporeal being, sacrificing their individual identities to exsist as a gestalt intelligence. Over the eons this entity lost it's sense of scale and perceived the cycle of extinction as little more than flash of activity, but part of it's vast mind still remembered the Reapers and the fate they imposed on their own race so it tries to help how it can, by bombarding the minds of those who near it's space with warnings and visions of both the Reapers and their own final weapon. Most are driven insane by the overwhelming power of these broadcasts but a few retain enough sanity to attempt to recover the lost weapon (or some take it the wrong way and seclude their own final weapons like the progenitors did.) With some of the weapons recovered Shepard would gather all the available forces he can and attack the Reapers, I'd have to assume with how they're writing Liara, Wrex, and possibly Legion those three would use their influence and power to try and wrangle the galactic community together (even if it involved Liara starting a massive war between the council races and aiming them towards where Shepard is going to confront the Reapers).

    Then at the end of everything Shepard would have one gigantic decision. Destroy the weapons forever to keep their terrible power out of reach, or use the weapons to brutally enforce galactic peace and place humanity at a pinnacle of power (I'd assume an appropriate display of power like destroying the Batarian homeworld would be needed to ram the point home).

    Needless to say I have a job that gifts me with lots of free time to think and nothing else to do.

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  • WybornWyborn GET EQUIPPED Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    I wear full kestrel except the helmet. Archon visor baby.

    It's been confirmed through testing that the Archon Visor doesn't actually work

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  • Feels Good ManFeels Good Man Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Wyborn wrote: »
    I wear full kestrel except the helmet. Archon visor baby.

    It's been confirmed through testing that the Archon Visor doesn't actually work

    I like the way it looks

    I alternate it and the headshot visor thingie


    good to know, though

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  • WybornWyborn GET EQUIPPED Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Okay I'm playing Soldier

    This is too easy as is

    I'm taking off the damn Kestrel armor, all of it

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  • DragkoniasDragkonias That Guy Who Does Stuff You Know, There. Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Wyborn wrote: »
    Okay I'm playing Soldier

    This is too easy as is

    I'm taking off the damn Kestrel armor, all of it

    That isn't going to do much. Believe me.

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  • WybornWyborn GET EQUIPPED Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Yeah, well I.... I won't use DLC weapons, either! Not even my Phalanx, which is like a brother to me

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  • EmporiumEmporium Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Wyborn wrote: »
    Yeah, well I.... I won't use DLC weapons, either! Not even my Phalanx, which is like a brother to me

    You could do something really stupid like use the geth pulse rifle instead of the revenant!

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  • 3cl1ps33cl1ps3 I will build a labyrinth to house the cheese Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Emporium wrote: »
    Wyborn wrote: »
    Yeah, well I.... I won't use DLC weapons, either! Not even my Phalanx, which is like a brother to me

    You could do something really stupid like use the geth pulse rifle instead of the revenant!

    Use only the Avenger, Mantis, Katana, and Carnifex the whole game.

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  • WybornWyborn GET EQUIPPED Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Man I like the Mantis and the Widow. I know conventional Wisdom is all up in the Viper's butt, but I love the feeling of one devastating shot, the crack of thunder, followed by the reload.

    I realize I have begun to pick my guns according to feeling rather than effectiveness

    Maybe this is ME2 nirvana

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  • OrcaOrca Also known as Espressosaurus WrexRegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Wyborn wrote: »
    Man I like the Mantis and the Widow. I know conventional Wisdom is all up in the Viper's butt, but I love the feeling of one devastating shot, the crack of thunder, followed by the reload.

    I realize I have begun to pick my guns according to feeling rather than effectiveness

    Maybe this is ME2 nirvana

    Yes. Yes it is. (The Mantis is still superior for Bestfiltrators).

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