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Mass Effect 3: It's Out! SPOILER ALL ME3 DISCUSSION
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Do you have to do Arrival before the Suicide Mission to get the game to produce an end-save that can be imported into ME3?
Or can you just do Arrival, and save back on the Normandy afterward. Will it import any save made after the suicide mission, regardless of position or locale?
Like, it was always there before, Shepard just hooked up with Ash and was all "Oh hey, finally someone to put in my frame."
the latter, I'm pretty sure
Given that the game doesn't stop you from playing after the suicide mission, I don't see why it wouldn't count decisions you made afterwards.
Well one could say he put it in hers, so fair's fair.
So if you're west coast and have it pre-loaded you get to play at 9:01 PM on monday
I don't get this. I've never noticed that Amazon orders arrive particularly late compared to other items. Pretty much all the shipping companies do domestic deliveries in the afternoon where I live.
try as I might I just can not get the forums to stop drowning me in notifications about this thread every time I load a new page
I've got my preferences set to never give me notifications for anything and it's still happening
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I have purchased a stockpile of snacks
I am ready. Three days.
I ordered ME2 from Amazon, got impatient and pissed, went to BB and bought it, then sent the Amazon copy back.
I am what is wrong with America.
I wonder which of those terrifyingly vast voids is Reaplandia...
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Something bad is going to happen. You're PC is going to crash. You're internet is going to go down. A truck will skid off a road, taking down a power line, leaving you without electricity for two days. You'll drop a knife while dicing some vegetables and cut off three fingers. You'll wake up tomorrow morning completely blind. You'll slip when getting out of the shower on Monday and break both arms. When shopping for groceries, a man will break into your house and steal your TV. You'll be called away on business and be out of the house for five days, during which time your girlfriend decides she's had enough and leaves you, pouring cold tea onto your computer as she walks out the door, frying the components. A meteor will impact your house in the night, destroying it but leaving you miraculously unharmed. America will be invaded, martial law imposed. All video games will be banned and the Electronic Arts authentication servers will be taken out in a nuclear blast. You'll sneeze as you're about to settle in and play the game. It's SARS. You die.
Man, did I just kill thousands of colonist minds in their digital infancy?
Or did everyone think of that except me
I don't know if spoilering ME2 stuff is necessary but better safe
You think they have a home in dark space?
I've imagined that they're originally from here and between cycles they're out there expanding into new galaxies so they won't have to wait 50,000 years to feed/breed
Which is really slow work since they don't have inter-galactic relays, so they have to drive manually all the way
Of course, I meant later today or tomorrow. Gotta celebrate my 29th first
I have to work release day and every day during that week, so I'll only get to play like 6 hours a day instead of 18
We all suffer, sometimes
But there's also the beacon and such from ME1 that kind of implies Reapers are definitely a mix or organic and machine, which makes sense considering how they're apparently created.
At the end of the day I don't think we're necessarily supposed to understand them completely. They're really built up as some kind of divine being.
Watching the logs from the derelict Reaper mission always kind of weirds me out.
I havn't the faintest idea what goes on out there, and that's the creepiest thing...one thought is that the Reapers might not be the biggest fish in the ocean. If the galaxy filaments represent the shallow, temperate ocean reef type ecosystem of the universe, maybe the Reapers only inhabit the periphery of dark space. What else lives in the real depths?
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That's the real mystery.
No more mysterious than the ancient aliens of other franchises who go with the humanoid look
I mean what's with those "hand" things? Look at them! They're really weird!
The first answer is way less lame.
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Plus Cuttlefish: Terrifying in general.
I usually really like playing as an infiltrator in the sp game, but I feel like I am seriously not as much of a fighting force than all these crazy biotic people?
Like, part of the problem is that I don't have a good sense of where the bad guys are at first, so the other people are already there and cleaning up by the time I get there. Another problem is just getting better at sniping without the time slowdown.
I get the personal stuff I need to get better at. Also I only have the Mantis 2, which I'm sure is a problem.
Still, it feels like I am not as effective as the people charging all around all crazy. Is there something else I should be focusing on besides trying to hang back and snipe people
Although since I've got my upgraded Phalanx I actually find it easier to get up close and shoot them through their eye slot
But I wish we knew more about them and their origins, and also that they had a bit more nuance and depth to them
Right now they just seem to wake up and eat everything (presumably they leave some stuff), then go away again
Hopefully ME3 will deliver on this