You're thinking of Resident Evil, Curly...which is way before Mass Effect.
...wait...wait a minute...
...What if the Umbrella corporation founded Cerberus! It all makes sense.
no no i mean in the little news snippets didn't they have something about how the president of the alliance was brain-dead and VI-assisted or some cyborg thing?
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I guess she thinned her eyebrows? Did something to make her lower eyelids droop. Got her chin done. Had the lower lip plumped out with some larger venom sacs.
part of the reason ME3-ashley looks super creepy in that photo is the hard lighting, which makes her skin look pale and plastic-y; it's the same reason photos taken with cheap digitals or webcams tend to make people look weird. ME3ashley also has an angry/upset expression there, as opposed to the benign smile from ME2ashley, and the ME3 shot is face-up while the ME2 shot is a little more of a profile.
Those cheesy ads for weight loss programs use all the same tricks to make their models' 'after' shots more appealing than their 'before' shots.
The only thing that's really strange in the ME3 shot is ashley's eyebrows; in the ME2 shot they look fairly normal, in the ME3 shot they extend practically to the bridge of her nose and are bent at an angle normally reserved for comically-infuriated cartoon characters
her ME3 haircut is also kind of unfortunate, but nobody accused her of having great fashion sense
it was the smallest on the list but
Pluto was a planet and I'll never forget
it's like that shot was taken from a private beta where the models and lighting were obviously unfinished
True, for example, she looks a lot more like herself in this official screenshot were she is dressed in her armor.
I still hate the hair down in her face, and whatever the hell they've done to her eyebrows, but it's better than that other picture.
If the reapers can capture a platform or hack into the geth's network they can find out where they are going, the heretics will be a useful asset here. Even if they can't find them by the end of this harvest, they're eventually going to wake up and start working on the Dyson Sphere again. The reaper vanguard will be instructed to look for them, maybe they'll even leave a couple behind for that express purpose.
Yes but then it's a question of how many Geth are left, how well could they fight the reapers, etc. You have to admit those odds are probably much better than the straight up fight.
Let's remember that the reapers have a pretty huge motivation for eliminating the geth. The geth could at any time come to the next set of aliens and tell them all about the reapers and give them some cool new weapons to fight them, because they don't want to deal with this crap every 50k years. The reapers are going to give everything they have to avoid that situation. The third option for the geth here is to just join the heretics because the reapers are too powerful to fight or hide from, I think at least half of the good geth are going to choose that.
I mean it's not like we need every geth on our side anyway. Just enough to study the base and make some guns for us. Some will be traitors, some will be pussies, and some will be heroes.
The rate at which the Geth could reproduce and build ships is probably a pretty big threat.
If the geth clustered themselves up into a hundred different colony ships, warped off in different directions (not using mass relays) deleting any mention of where they were going, so no group knows where any other group is going, grabbed the first resource rich rock they found and build an armada with instructions to return in 200 years?
The reapers would still be floating about harvesting worlds, and in for one hell of a problem. I'd think the Reapers would make the Geth priority #2 after defeating the alliance and council navies
They're all vague enough that they don't outright spoil any specific plot points. Nice to see that some can be earned through either multiplayer or single player. I like the second to last one, confirms that after you level up your multiplayer characters you import them back to single player to increase your Galactic Readiness score. I think that's a really innovative and cool feature.
it was the smallest on the list but
Pluto was a planet and I'll never forget
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DragkoniasThat Guy Who Does StuffYou Know, There. Registered Userregular
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Oohh...so tech combos are called Tech bursts.
Oh man...so awesome.
It'd be cool if there was something like AI Hacking + Overload = ME's version of Walking Bomb.
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Also for people who didn't want to play multiplayer, but still wanted all the cheevos, it looks like there are achievements that can be achieved through MP or SP.
So, there you go.
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Everybody wins. I love it.
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So, haven't been following ME3 in any way shape or form, and the OP doesn't seem to have overmuch information.
Is EA doing anything terrible like making the PC version Origin-exclusive?
It was that somehow, from within the derelict-horror, they had learned a way to see inside an ugly, broken thing... And take away its pain.
Warframe/Steam: NFyt
speaking of terrible things i went and bought 1600 mass points, i bought shadow broker leaving me 800.... any recommendations on arrival, overlord, kasumi as most bang for the buck, or should i go with skins and weapon packs?
yes im late to the party but i thought for sure there would be some goty edition or some such and i loathe point systems
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I like Kasumi the most out of those, because it's a fun mission and she's a great companion to have. Plus Locust.
I wouldn't bother with skin and weapon packs until all the story DLC is in your hot little hands.
kasumi's mission is fun; not as good as shadow broker, but it's good. She's also a pretty entertaining squad member (and her loyalty power is fun to play around with on shepard.)
ed: also yeah the locust is ridiculous
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it was the smallest on the list but
Pluto was a planet and I'll never forget
I guess she thinned her eyebrows? Did something to make her lower eyelids droop. Got her chin done. Had the lower lip plumped out with some larger venom sacs.
its the make up. (its probably the angles and the new lighting but still)
I don't think Arrival is any shorter than Kasumi's mission, although that obviously nets you an awesome squadmate and pistol. 800 points is like, $10, right? I'd grab Kasumi and then the Firepower pack, assuming you're doing more than one run before ME3 comes. Overlord and Arrival have cool moments but I don't replay the former and only do the latter for the opportunity to reduce the batarian population and revel in Shepard's badassery. I think you could watch both on YT without much loss.
Also I'm not sure on what the final word is, but I was under the impression your weapons imported into ME3, so getting the weapons DLC also means starting with those earlier in ME3 -- if weapons import.
Is EA doing anything terrible like making the PC version Origin-exclusive?
Yes. As in, it requires an Origin account to authenticate online once for single player and obviously persistent for multiplayer. You might not need Origin running to play it, but you can't get it on Steam or anything.
While we're still in hilarious people bitching mode, i post on another forum where me3 is pretty much the creepy old guy who raped them when they were younger. The amount of hatred and bile over it all results in some pretty hilarious posts.
Note the only info they have on the game is 1: its running on origin only (surprise surprise its a pc elitist joint)
2: the jersey shore photo of chobot and vega
3: the ashley comparison picture above
4: the info about the 3 gameplay modes
5: ea's facebook marketing campaign for items.
5: their unreasonable dislike of me2 because it wasn't me1.
it results in classic "reviews" such as this that i thought i would share with you classy gents.
What theyre doing to the franchise !?!?
My GOD ! This one do not like.
*Regrettably* this one is very sad to the recent changes in the franchise.
Seriously, ME1 was a trully RPG, it was technically problematic. But its core and fundamentals were great.
Then came ME2, Gears of Effect 2. You didnt need to know about the world´s or political´s problems, JUST GATHER MOARRRR PEOPLE. Also, the weapon system was revolutionized , suddenly all weapons had clips AGAIN. The weapons ammo was dumbed down and simplified (dont make me even remember about omnigel). The history was flawed, the main mission was ok, but the means to do it was very very immature.
and now we have ME3, My Effect 3. With all the latest all coolest ppl in the galaxy (95% humans or human alike). Seriosuly, this is becoming ANOTHER Sim like game.
YEs im mad, my score for the games so far :
- ME1 - 92%
- ME2 - 90% (it could be 100%, but noooooo)
- ME3 - 89% (its just like the matrix)
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I don't know who i love more, these guys or the talimancers.
88.5%. Removing all non-human species from the canon and bringing Shepard back as a retconned professional football player caught up in a terrorist attack is a new low.
One thing I'll never understand is why some people are borderline obsessive about playing as aliens. The Mass Effect series gets heat for "hurr durr, humanz are teh special and unique" storyline - but that's pretty standard for sci-fi opera. I guess it would be neat to play a sci-fi game where humans were literally nothing special, but it's hard to make the human protagonist the savior of the galaxy when humanity is the underclass. Maybe that's where some of the disappointment comes from, as some players seem to be much more interested in playing something low key - like being some C-Sec beat cop rather than the center point of a millennial old galactic conflict. Different strokes I suppose, but ultimately that's not Shepard's story.
The thing is, though, that in order for the player to relate in any way to the characters at all, they have to be anthropomorphized. Something that is truly alien would be unknowable, and hence, unrelatable. So, when your alien races break down to "militaristic race that prioritizes structure," "savage warrior race," or "sexy blue race of females" - what's the difference between making them aliens as opposed to some splinter tribe of humanity? Is it just that they look cool?
Why should I give a shit if I get a drell in my party if he's just a human with a skin condition and is allergic to moisture? It should be about the characters themselves - maybe being part of some alien race is part of their identity, but I'll take a crew of 5 interesting and varied humans over 5 unique looking aliens that all serve as 2 dimensional caricatures of what their races are supposed to represent.
One thing I'll never understand is why some people are borderline obsessive about playing as aliens. The Mass Effect series gets heat for "hurr durr, humanz are teh special and unique" storyline - but that's pretty standard for sci-fi opera. I guess it would be neat to play a sci-fi game where humans were literally nothing special, but it's hard to make the human protagonist the savior of the galaxy when humanity is the underclass. Maybe that's where some of the disappointment comes from, as some players seem to be much more interested in playing something low key - like being some C-Sec beat cop rather than the center point of a millennial old galactic conflict. Different strokes I suppose, but ultimately that's not Shepard's story.
The thing is, though, that in order for the player to relate in any way to the characters at all, they have to be anthropomorphized. Something that is truly alien would be unknowable, and hence, unrelatable. So, when your alien races break down to "militaristic race that prioritizes structure," "savage warrior race," or "sexy blue race of females" - what's the difference between making them aliens as opposed to some splinter tribe of humanity? Is it just that they look cool?
Why should I give a shit if I get a drell in my party if he's just a human with a skin condition and is allergic to moisture? It should be about the characters themselves - maybe being part of some alien race is part of their identity, but I'll take a crew of 5 interesting and varied humans over 5 unique looking aliens that all serve as 2 dimensional caricatures of what their races are supposed to represent.
You're overthinking it.
People want to play as aliens because it would be cool.
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wasn't he undead anyway
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You're thinking of Resident Evil, Curly...which is way before Mass Effect.
...wait...wait a minute...
...What if the Umbrella corporation founded Cerberus! It all makes sense.
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Isn't this the plot of Mass Effect: Deception?
@Curly: I thought he was a clone or something...can't remember.
part of the reason ME3-ashley looks super creepy in that photo is the hard lighting, which makes her skin look pale and plastic-y; it's the same reason photos taken with cheap digitals or webcams tend to make people look weird. ME3ashley also has an angry/upset expression there, as opposed to the benign smile from ME2ashley, and the ME3 shot is face-up while the ME2 shot is a little more of a profile.
Those cheesy ads for weight loss programs use all the same tricks to make their models' 'after' shots more appealing than their 'before' shots.
The only thing that's really strange in the ME3 shot is ashley's eyebrows; in the ME2 shot they look fairly normal, in the ME3 shot they extend practically to the bridge of her nose and are bent at an angle normally reserved for comically-infuriated cartoon characters
her ME3 haircut is also kind of unfortunate, but nobody accused her of having great fashion sense
Pluto was a planet and I'll never forget
Excuse me, -Tal. This is the Mass Effect thread. We don't like common sense 'round these parts.
True, for example, she looks a lot more like herself in this official screenshot were she is dressed in her armor.
I still hate the hair down in her face, and whatever the hell they've done to her eyebrows, but it's better than that other picture.
Pluto was a planet and I'll never forget
The rate at which the Geth could reproduce and build ships is probably a pretty big threat.
If the geth clustered themselves up into a hundred different colony ships, warped off in different directions (not using mass relays) deleting any mention of where they were going, so no group knows where any other group is going, grabbed the first resource rich rock they found and build an armada with instructions to return in 200 years?
The reapers would still be floating about harvesting worlds, and in for one hell of a problem. I'd think the Reapers would make the Geth priority #2 after defeating the alliance and council navies
http://www.xbox360achievements.org/game/mass-effect-3/achievements/
Escape a Reaper in the galaxy map.
SPACE MINIGAME SPACE MINIGAME
Pluto was a planet and I'll never forget
Oh man...so awesome.
It'd be cool if there was something like AI Hacking + Overload = ME's version of Walking Bomb.
So, there you go.
Is EA doing anything terrible like making the PC version Origin-exclusive?
Warframe/Steam: NFyt
yes im late to the party but i thought for sure there would be some goty edition or some such and i loathe point systems
I wouldn't bother with skin and weapon packs until all the story DLC is in your hot little hands.
ed: also yeah the locust is ridiculous
Pluto was a planet and I'll never forget
its the make up. (its probably the angles and the new lighting but still)
Also I'm not sure on what the final word is, but I was under the impression your weapons imported into ME3, so getting the weapons DLC also means starting with those earlier in ME3 -- if weapons import.
Yes. As in, it requires an Origin account to authenticate online once for single player and obviously persistent for multiplayer. You might not need Origin running to play it, but you can't get it on Steam or anything.
Note the only info they have on the game is 1: its running on origin only (surprise surprise its a pc elitist joint)
2: the jersey shore photo of chobot and vega
3: the ashley comparison picture above
4: the info about the 3 gameplay modes
5: ea's facebook marketing campaign for items.
5: their unreasonable dislike of me2 because it wasn't me1.
it results in classic "reviews" such as this that i thought i would share with you classy gents.
8->
I don't know who i love more, these guys or the talimancers.
The 3% scale is hilarious though.
They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
how? what? when? time-machine?
does he have a score for me4 yet?
88.5%. Removing all non-human species from the canon and bringing Shepard back as a retconned professional football player caught up in a terrorist attack is a new low.
You heard it here first, people.
-From SoundsPlush. Who is worse than Hitler. Possibly a double Hitler. This one is undecided.
Hanoi.
Heck, he could be a professional game reviewer one day.
At the very least a 94% on the 85-95 Hitler scale.
The thing is, though, that in order for the player to relate in any way to the characters at all, they have to be anthropomorphized. Something that is truly alien would be unknowable, and hence, unrelatable. So, when your alien races break down to "militaristic race that prioritizes structure," "savage warrior race," or "sexy blue race of females" - what's the difference between making them aliens as opposed to some splinter tribe of humanity? Is it just that they look cool?
Why should I give a shit if I get a drell in my party if he's just a human with a skin condition and is allergic to moisture? It should be about the characters themselves - maybe being part of some alien race is part of their identity, but I'll take a crew of 5 interesting and varied humans over 5 unique looking aliens that all serve as 2 dimensional caricatures of what their races are supposed to represent.
They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
You're overthinking it.
People want to play as aliens because it would be cool.