How many characters do you all think will be entirely new? I'm betting on two or three, including James.
I'm hoping only around two or so. Its a little late in the game to be making new BFFs, so I'm happy if I get my buds like Wrex, Garrus and Mordin with one or two noobs in there.
I wouldn't be shocked, not shocked at all, if Bioware gives an evil laugh and provides a Batarian squadmate, if only temporarily.
If James is in fact the ninja looking Alliance guy, I'm sure I can find a place for him on the crew. I'm not so prejudiced that I HAVE to stick with my old crew. I even gave Jack a chance... just not for long.
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It'll come out in the trial. It's one of the few scenarios in life where someone can realistically ask you to recap previous events in detail.
Mr Shepard, you were seen entering the Omega Relay at nine fifteen on the night of March the tenth. Can you please describe what happened next....
Ooooo man I just hope that Turian Councilmember shows up to cement his wankery. I can just imagine a priceless renegade scene involving the councilmember, a wooden Gavel, and one angry Shepard.
Everyone is always whining at Garrus about his Calibrations. "Garrus we never talk anymore, all you do is calibrate." "Garrus, we never go anyplace nice because you're too busy with calibrations." "Garrus, last night you said 'calibrations' instead of my name." Well this, ladies and gentlemen, is the kind of shit that happens what happens when Garrus doesn't calibrate. LET THE MAN CALIBRATE.
"Garrus, last night you said 'calibrations' instead of my name."
Nah, they'll totally reverse course on him, he'll grab a rifle and sacrifice himself early in the game to shot a husk or something while everyone else runs.
Nah, they'll totally reverse course on him, he'll grab a rifle and sacrifice himself early in the game to shot a husk or something while everyone else runs.
Then people won't be able to hate em.
If it looks like a Batarian, talks like a Batarian, and smells like a Batarian... but has a sense of honor and decency? Then it's not a Batarian.
Nah, they'll totally reverse course on him, he'll grab a rifle and sacrifice himself early in the game to shot a husk or something while everyone else runs.
Then people won't be able to hate em.
I'd have to backtrack and put a few thermal clips worth of shots into his head and body, you know to make sure he isn't suffering...
also cause he was a filthy Batarian
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Xbox live players with the 'beat the game' achievement:
and average time played:
The average time played seems out of whack to me, or not defined in the way I might expect. Maybe there were a large number of people that picked up ME2 for 20 minutes and then dropped it, but they're not really people anyway. That said, 67% beat the game and average playtime was only 12 hours? Was the ME2 campaign THAT short? I've been away from it for a long time, and maybe looking at the saves on my ME1 #s threw me off, but yeesh.
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DragkoniasThat Guy Who Does StuffYou Know, There. Registered Userregular
edited April 2011
You have to take into account that there are many people who will only play the main/vital content of a game without bothering to explore much else.
If you were just to go straight through ME2 without doing anything but the bare minimum you could more or less beat it in that time. Especially on normal(which I'm sure it the difficulty most play on).
It's also the reason that most of the "awesome" stuff(like...explosions and "fuck yeah" moments) tend to happen during the main parts of the game.
That graph is hugely misleading, and the source of the data very suspect.
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Yeah. I actually took the time to read the article and it seems to be moreso for a "They're making video games shorter and why don't we have 50 hour RPGs where you spend 25 of those hours killing rats" argument.
Yahg make krogan look like playground bullies. We would not survive against a yahg reaper. It's sheer luck they decided to murder the council's delegation, because they would be ruling the galaxy by the time we appeared.
The yahg still know about galactic civilization and the relays so will be harvested, therefore they must join us.
*Ahem* You are all seriously discounting the Elcor military. They are terrifying.
"Because their slow, conservative psyche is not suitable for making the spur-of-the-moment decisions necessary in combat situations, the elcor rely on sophisticated VI combat systems. These war machines can choose between thousands of gambits developed and polished over centuries by elcor strategists.
The slow speed and immense size of the elcor makes them easy targets. Fortunately, their durable hide allows them to shrug off most incoming fire. Elcor warriors don't carry small arms; their broad shoulders serve as a stable platform for the same size of weapons typically mounted on Alliance fighting vehicles."
I thought it looked more like a Husk Yaaaaaaaaarrrgg. Or however it is spelled.
The mouth is all wrong, and it has four eyes. I don't think Yahg have four eyes.
Reapers wouldn't be interested in Yahg anyway, at least at first. They're a pre-spaceflight culture.
Unless we're talking about different ones, it is definitely not batarian. it is huge, hulking, has the gaping maw of the yarrrrrrrggg. and has five eyes.
Unless we're talking about different ones, it is definitely not batarian. it is huge, hulking, has the gaping maw of the yarrrrrrrggg. and has five eyes.
(of course being jailed for posting tali creepfiction means you'll have to quote adding tags)
yahg have eight eyes and a three-pronged mouth. that thing in the middle doesn't seem to be an eye, but its forehead and nose are clearly batarian. it seems to be a scion variant.
I thought it looked more like a Husk Yaaaaaaaaarrrgg. Or however it is spelled.
The mouth is all wrong, and it has four eyes. I don't think Yahg have four eyes.
Reapers wouldn't be interested in Yahg anyway, at least at first. They're a pre-spaceflight culture.
Unless we're talking about different ones, it is definitely not batarian. it is huge, hulking, has the gaping maw of the yarrrrrrrggg. and has five eyes.
well it's quite a transformation then. i wonder if there will be mini reapers. it's a little infeasible to have a thresher maw pull a 2 mile long ship underground. must be some kind of dropship type thing.
well it's quite a transformation then. i wonder if there will be mini reapers. it's a little infeasible to have a thresher maw pull a 2 mile long ship underground. must be some kind of dropship type thing.
Not if we get maw sign the likes of which God has never seen!
The Codex says that no one has ever seen the entire body of a Thresher Maw, only a small portion comes out of the ground to feed, so they could be miles long for all we know.
In a universe with immortal death god machines coming to harvest the galaxy traveling via their relays capable of sending pretty much anything hundreds or thousands of light years instantaneously, a really fucking big thresher maw is pretty far down the list of infeasible things in Mass Effect games for me.
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But also pretty far down the list of things that are going to help.
I think we'll spend a lot of the game recruiting the different races (maybe some we haven't seen yet- raloi?) in a Gondor Calls For Aid moment, and then Shep will go off after any one of like five Chekhov's Guns BioWare has set up (between those crypts on Armeni, the Leviathan, etc.). Sometime during this, we'll start getting cutscenes of allied fleets engaging Reapers in battle, losing badly. When things look the worst, Shep will show up with whatever super macguffin we've picked up to save the day and win a coalition victory.
Then, Reapers defeated, the council races set about their two very important tasks- rebuilding and finishing off any surviving batarians.
Filthy four-eyed scum.
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Xbox live players with the 'beat the game' achievement:
and average time played:
The average time played seems out of whack to me, or not defined in the way I might expect. Maybe there were a large number of people that picked up ME2 for 20 minutes and then dropped it, but they're not really people anyway. That said, 67% beat the game and average playtime was only 12 hours? Was the ME2 campaign THAT short? I've been away from it for a long time, and maybe looking at the saves on my ME1 #s threw me off, but yeesh.
Surely rentals/borrowing from friends throws this totally out of whack?
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Hey look, more Mass Effect fanart that doesn't make you want to claw your eyes out:
Well earth is boned if all they have is puny red lasers.
and that picture isn't disturbing enough. why can't anyone find, say, jack licking honey off a batarian's "nose".
or poop sac maintenance.
I mean cmon people, the rest of the PA forums avoid this thread for exactly those sort of images!
Hm...I don't know if killing a batarian husk is going to be as satisfying. I mean, it's like someone already killed it for you, and then they just sent it on danse macabre to taunt you.
The Codex says that no one has ever seen the entire body of a Thresher Maw, only a small portion comes out of the ground to feed, so they could be miles long for all we know.
The wiki says the visible part is about 1/3rd the body, but I don't know where that's coming from. Someone pointed this out earlier, though. Guess where the scene with the thresher vs. reaper fight occurs?
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Mr Shepard, you were seen entering the Omega Relay at nine fifteen on the night of March the tenth. Can you please describe what happened next....
EDIT: Nevermind
I wouldn't be shocked, not shocked at all, if Bioware gives an evil laugh and provides a Batarian squadmate, if only temporarily.
People here would lose their shit.
Ooooo man I just hope that Turian Councilmember shows up to cement his wankery. I can just imagine a priceless renegade scene involving the councilmember, a wooden Gavel, and one angry Shepard.
Wud yoo laek to lern aboot meatz? Look here!
Then people won't be able to hate em.
If it looks like a Batarian, talks like a Batarian, and smells like a Batarian... but has a sense of honor and decency? Then it's not a Batarian.
I'd have to backtrack and put a few thermal clips worth of shots into his head and body, you know to make sure he isn't suffering...
also cause he was a filthy Batarian
2 graphics with stats caught my eye:
Xbox live players with the 'beat the game' achievement:
and average time played:
The average time played seems out of whack to me, or not defined in the way I might expect. Maybe there were a large number of people that picked up ME2 for 20 minutes and then dropped it, but they're not really people anyway. That said, 67% beat the game and average playtime was only 12 hours? Was the ME2 campaign THAT short? I've been away from it for a long time, and maybe looking at the saves on my ME1 #s threw me off, but yeesh.
If you were just to go straight through ME2 without doing anything but the bare minimum you could more or less beat it in that time. Especially on normal(which I'm sure it the difficulty most play on).
It's also the reason that most of the "awesome" stuff(like...explosions and "fuck yeah" moments) tend to happen during the main parts of the game.
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The mouth is all wrong, and it has four eyes. I don't think Yahg have four eyes.
Reapers wouldn't be interested in Yahg anyway, at least at first. They're a pre-spaceflight culture.
The yahg still know about galactic civilization and the relays so will be harvested, therefore they must join us.
"Because their slow, conservative psyche is not suitable for making the spur-of-the-moment decisions necessary in combat situations, the elcor rely on sophisticated VI combat systems. These war machines can choose between thousands of gambits developed and polished over centuries by elcor strategists.
The slow speed and immense size of the elcor makes them easy targets. Fortunately, their durable hide allows them to shrug off most incoming fire. Elcor warriors don't carry small arms; their broad shoulders serve as a stable platform for the same size of weapons typically mounted on Alliance fighting vehicles."
geth/yahg/elcor/hanar/drell/raloi/YOOMANITY forever
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So I've done that.
They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
Unless we're talking about different ones, it is definitely not batarian. it is huge, hulking, has the gaping maw of the yarrrrrrrggg. and has five eyes.
http://i53.tinypic.com/287df7b.png
(of course being jailed for posting tali creepfiction means you'll have to quote adding tags)
Failshep has a very surreal ending
first Joker lifts a huge metal bar and possibly breaks every one of his bones in the process
then TIM sends some ships towards the base that don't appear otherwise
then Cerberus not only prepared coffins for every single squad member, but a special N7 one
yahg have eight eyes and a three-pronged mouth. that thing in the middle doesn't seem to be an eye, but its forehead and nose are clearly batarian. it seems to be a scion variant.
compare the noses
Not if we get maw sign the likes of which God has never seen!
They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
I think we'll spend a lot of the game recruiting the different races (maybe some we haven't seen yet- raloi?) in a Gondor Calls For Aid moment, and then Shep will go off after any one of like five Chekhov's Guns BioWare has set up (between those crypts on Armeni, the Leviathan, etc.). Sometime during this, we'll start getting cutscenes of allied fleets engaging Reapers in battle, losing badly. When things look the worst, Shep will show up with whatever super macguffin we've picked up to save the day and win a coalition victory.
Then, Reapers defeated, the council races set about their two very important tasks- rebuilding and finishing off any surviving batarians.
Filthy four-eyed scum.
GT: FootlongKaPow
Surely rentals/borrowing from friends throws this totally out of whack?
Well earth is boned if all they have is puny red lasers.
and that picture isn't disturbing enough. why can't anyone find, say, jack licking honey off a batarian's "nose".
or poop sac maintenance.
I mean cmon people, the rest of the PA forums avoid this thread for exactly those sort of images!
The wiki says the visible part is about 1/3rd the body, but I don't know where that's coming from. Someone pointed this out earlier, though. Guess where the scene with the thresher vs. reaper fight occurs?