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Mass Effect 3: HOLIDAY 2011 MOTHERFUCKERS

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  • curly haired boycurly haired boy Your Friendly Neighborhood Torgue Dealer Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    -Tal wrote: »
    i dunno

    remember the first teaser for ME2 had the whole "shepard: MIA" stuff, and all the hubbub around it? i'm inclined to think that just because random soldier X is in a trailer a year out from release that he's not more than a convenient narrator

    i didn't recognize his voice either

    the first teaser listed Shepard as KIA and then he was KIA in the game, what's the problem here

    it ended up as just an excuse for a skill point reset and wasn't the huge series-changing thing that people expected

    all i'm saying is let's not read too much into this; bioware has a history of making teaser trailers that aren't a good summary of the final product

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  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    I just think he'll be the human male squadmate, that's not any big hubbub

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  • SynthesisSynthesis Honda Today! Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    -Tal wrote: »
    Synthesis wrote: »
    At this rate, they need to implement some system to change squadmates on the fly. Shuttle lands or something.

    next you'll be telling me I can send Garrus to save the factory workers, or Joker can drop me off not 500 miles away from the mercenary base

    Don't be afraid to dream bigger.

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  • ArteenArteen Adept ValeRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    2,000,000 people in 24 hours. That's 23 deaths a second.

    That's pretty fucking impressive you ball living weasel.

    Is that 2 million across all of Earth? If my math is right, that's a death rate of ~2e-9 deaths per second, roughly twice as much as modern-day Swasiland. Come on Reapers, step it up!

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  • Delta AssaultDelta Assault Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    7 million in one week? That's damn slow. We ourselves could kill 6 billion right now by nuking ourselves to hell. Though yea, I guess just landing and stepping on people with giant metal tentacles would only result in 7 million in a week.

    It's just kinda underwhelming. They're this huge force for galactic extinction and they accomplish it by physically landing and squishing people with tentacles, at 7 million a week. That's gonna take fucking forever to wipe out every sentient species.

    Though I will say that this could lead to a great setpiece in the actual game. Fighting around a Reaper onfoot could be like one of those Scarab battles from Halo 3, but on an even larger scale. That would be amazing.

    EDIT: Now see, this is how you wipe out a species quickly and efficiently:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qiWAgQeAVY

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  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    They are not looking for extinction, they are looking to harvest.

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  • jackisrealjackisreal Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Dox the PI wrote: »
    I dont care if it is a macguffin

    just so long as its not a cop-out like HUMAN LOVE WILL SAVE US

    Best romance scene EVER

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  • Delta AssaultDelta Assault Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    -Tal wrote: »
    They are not looking for extinction, they are looking to harvest.

    Oh, I see. The extinction just naturally results from the harvesting.

    Still, kinda slow harvesting.

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  • battledrillbattledrill Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Awesome!!! I am so hyped for this game. This is like my HALO. This is my Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2. This is my hotcakes when they were selling like hotcakes. This is my Kaz RIIIIIIIIIDGE RAAAAAAAAAAACEEEEEEEEEEER! Dude I am so hyped. The last time I felt this way about a game was when Metal Gear came out for the Playsation.

    And I need you to recover......

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  • randombattlerandombattle Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    -Tal wrote: »
    They are not looking for extinction, they are looking to harvest.

    Oh, I see. The extinction just naturally results from the harvesting.

    Still, kinda slow harvesting.

    Well they don't just want to kill everyone they probably want to make everyone suffer so they will go really slow like how they did with the Prothians. Hell they didn't even kill all the Prothians just enough so they would slowly suffer and die.

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  • jackisrealjackisreal Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Turian Councilor is totally going to be a key ally, I'm calling it.

    And are we sure that that's Sean Bean's voice?

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  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    The prothean harvest took hundreds of years, though they were much more equipped to fight back than we are.

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  • chasmchasm Ill-tempered Texan Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    I thought it was Simon Pegg till he went on Twitter and denied it was him:

    simonpegg

    Getting a lot of queries about #masseffect3. It's not me. It's another Brit. We all sound the same. Evil/intelligent/sexy as fuck.

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  • Ad astraAd astra Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    No, we are not. Some people think it is, but to me it just sounds like a random British tough guy.

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  • Delta AssaultDelta Assault Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    I was thinking Jason Statham, just cause the model kinda looks like him.

    All we know is, it's not Hugh Grant.

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  • BurnageBurnage Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Nine wrote: »
    Burnage wrote: »
    ... are you guys sure that's Sean Bean's voice?

    Trailer looks awesome, though.

    If I'm wrong I will eat my shoe.

    If you're wrong I want video evidence of this.

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  • Captain ElevenCaptain Eleven The last card is a kronk Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    So guys.

    I'm pretty pumped.

    Who else is pumped?

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  • BasilBasil Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Burnage wrote: »
    Nine wrote: »
    Burnage wrote: »
    ... are you guys sure that's Sean Bean's voice?

    Trailer looks awesome, though.

    If I'm wrong I will eat my shoe.

    If you're wrong I want video evidence of this.

    At least it's not his dick that's under the fork.

    We've got a number of fellows wandering around sans-wang these days.

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  • AegofAegof Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Ad astra wrote: »
    There has to be, there has, has, has to be a scene in ME3 where Shepard can finally tell the Council. "Now do you believe me assholes?" We should get to unload all our righteous fury against them.

    Only if it was immediately followed by "Dude you were working for Cerberus why would we tell you anything that's true." And then the Citadel fleet takes down like three Reapers at once because the Council actually knows what it's doing.

    ....a guy can dream.

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  • manwiththemachinegunmanwiththemachinegun METAL GEAR?! Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    So guys.

    I'm pretty pumped.

    Who else is pumped?

    With ya brother.

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  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    there's still no evidence that these aren't geth ships, since they match the profile of the previous confirmed geth ship

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  • HeatwaveHeatwave Come, now, and walk the path of explosions with me!Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Holiday 2011? WHICH holiday? There's a whole bunch of them. Wait...maybe Bioware's going to announce a new holiday we celebrate our hatred of Batarians. Maybe it'll even be in....September.....

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  • Ad astraAd astra Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    You know, they said that ME2 was the "Dark middle chapter." But it seems to me that Reapers eating the Earth is pretty dark.

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Ad astra wrote: »
    You know, they said that ME2 was the "Dark middle chapter." But it seems to me that Reapers eating the Earth is pretty dark.

    Yeah but the Reapers can't finish because they're so full from all the Batarians they ate on the way there.

    Silver lining. :mrgreen:

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  • poshnialloposhniallo Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Sean Bean's from Sheffield and that's a London-ish accent.

    If it's him then he's putting on an accent and I've never known him to be very good at that, or particularly willing.

    Basically, it's not him, and I doubt any Brit thinks it is.

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  • HeatwaveHeatwave Come, now, and walk the path of explosions with me!Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Maybe all the humans on earth became part of Cerberus and this is just karma biting them in the ass. Think about it: why would Shepard simply watch all this destruction from a far and walk away instead of diving head first to help? It's because those jerks are Cerberus, and fuck Cerberus!

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  • Feels Good ManFeels Good Man Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    alternatively, because he's pissed and about to collect himself to deliver a renegade speech to his crew

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  • Ad astraAd astra Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    There are also explosions happening outside that window, as we all know, cool guys don't look at explosions, and Shepard is a very cool guy.

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  • HeatwaveHeatwave Come, now, and walk the path of explosions with me!Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Renegade speech? Isn't the point of being a renegade that you bypass all the bullshit and start shooting?

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  • jackisrealjackisreal Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    7+2=9 million dead in the first week

    right?

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  • AegofAegof Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Heatwave wrote: »
    Maybe all the humans on earth became part of Cerberus and this is just karma biting them in the ass. Think about it: why would Shepard simply watch all this destruction from a far and walk away instead of diving head first to help? It's because those jerks are Cerberus, and fuck Cerberus!

    Playin' a ME2 game now where every Cerberus crew member dies. It will be the only game that I don't immediately dive through the Omega 4 relay. It'll serve 'em right for singing up with Cerberus.

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  • ButtcleftButtcleft Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    jackisreal wrote: »
    7+2=9 million dead in the first week

    right?

    in London, at least.

    I get the feeling the way he was talking, he was talking about his city alone.

    I'm late to the party due to computer issues, I just want to say
    FUCKING REAPERS LANDING ON EARTH HOLY FUCKING YES

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  • SoundsPlushSoundsPlush yup, back. Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    EAAARRRTTHHHH! :cry: Can't...wait...year...must raid Canada! I had to watch Dane Cook tell two sets of jokes that fell flat, but it was worth it to see that.
    Nothing was worth that. D:
    Arteen wrote: »
    Is that 2 million across all of Earth? If my math is right, that's a death rate of ~2e-9 deaths per second, roughly twice as much as modern-day Swasiland. Come on Reapers, step it up!

    Your math is way, way, way, way off. 60s*60m*24hr = 86,400. 2mil/that = 23.1 deaths/second
    jackisreal wrote: »
    7+2=9 million dead in the first week

    right?

    Yeah, "another 7 million" by the end of the week.
    7 million in one week? That's damn slow. We ourselves could kill 6 billion right now by nuking ourselves to hell.

    Like people said, the 9 million is London. He says there are similar attacks in cities all over Earth. The 2010 population of London is 7.5 million, for comparison.

    Presumably they're still fetishistic about human absorption which is why they're bothering to deploy husks (?) to run down unarmed civilians on the surface. Also does it seem a little weird to anyone else that the reapers have spotlights? (I love the distinctive reaper sound effect right after!)

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  • RoyceSraphimRoyceSraphim Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    OH YEAH! PUNTAS WENT AFTER THE HOMEWORLD AFTER THE ASS KICKING WE GAVE THEM IN TEH FIRST TWO GAMES, BRINGING THE HURT HOME THE HOME SYSTEM!

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  • Delta AssaultDelta Assault Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Why don't they just use indoctrination on everybody? Why deploy husks to run down civilians when you can just mind control everyone?

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  • jackisrealjackisreal Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Man, that hint of the Mass Effect theme at the end got me so excited.

    Honestly might be my fave score of any game.

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  • BasilBasil Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcrDWAuyqtc

    This one remains my favorite.

    (Man check out Miranda there on the right.)

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  • DashuiDashui Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Why don't they just use indoctrination on everybody? Why deploy husks to run down civilians when you can just mind control everyone?

    Because it's slow?

    Also, why the Hell did you guys think that soldier was voiced by Sean Bean? It sounded nothing like Sean Bean. NOTHING!

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  • LuxLux Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Indoctrination takes time, doesn't it? And don't you have to be inside of a reaper or something? I don't know if they have Indoctrination Beams. It seems more useful as a means to grow an army that will be able to mow down everyone else.

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  • ButtcleftButtcleft Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Why don't they just use indoctrination on everybody? Why deploy husks to run down civilians when you can just mind control everyone?

    Was that a husk the sniper shot?

    Looked more like a Scion to me, but moved faster.

    New enemy type?

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