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Mass Effect 3: Omega- $14.99, November 27th. Operation Valkyrie: Oct 26th-28th.

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  • WybornWyborn GET EQUIPPED Registered User regular
    Tube wrote: »
    I chose green. I guess I played leviathan though so maybe thats why it made more sense to me. Probably not though. It's just a good ending. I mean, I figured the rage would be overblown, but wow.

    I thought it was foreshadowed pretty well through the whole game. THe bit on Rannoch, the conversation at the end of Thessia, all of it. They did pretty good.

    It's still much nicer Extended

    Did you like Leviathan?

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  • AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    Tube wrote: »
    I chose green. I guess I played leviathan though so maybe thats why it made more sense to me. Probably not though.
    Trust me, it's this. Even people who loathe the ending feel that if Leviathan had been in the game in the first place, it wouldn't have been so vexing. The extended cut wouldn't have needed to exist.

  • TubeTube Registered User admin
    I thought it was motly fine and had a few great moments. I liked the origin of the reapers. Mostly it was just another mission.

  • WybornWyborn GET EQUIPPED Registered User regular
    edited September 2012
    I cannot tell you how refreshing it is to hear from someone whose reaction on beating the game is just "Well all right, that was pretty decent"

    Wyborn on
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  • TubeTube Registered User admin
    I don't have much interest in the extended cut because I was perfectly happy with the ending as it was

  • AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    Tube wrote: »
    I don't have much interest in the extended cut because I was perfectly happy with the ending as it was
    Yep, there ya go. Without the plot elements introduced in Leviathan, it was pretty unsatisfying, especially for people who wanted to feel like their choice mattered
    original ME3 ending spoilers
    the ending cutscenes were functionally identical, the biggest differences being who walked out of the Normandy when it crashed and the color of the explosions changing.

  • WybornWyborn GET EQUIPPED Registered User regular
    That's fair. You can just Youtube it. It's nice. The Green ending is particularly cool.

    The Extended Cut is basically a few extra scenes, and some Fallout-style slides showing the consequences of some of your major decisions, narrated by one of the major characters depending on your choice.
    Synthesis gets EDI. She really sells it.

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  • DichotomyDichotomy Registered User regular
    well, that was an odd bug
    gold reapers
    firebase vancouver

    banshee pulls the usual dodge-and-weave around a corner bullshit where she appears out of nowhere and grabs you just as soon as she materializes

    I sigh and prepare to sit out the round
    but
    when the hand stab comes, the full animation plays out
    I haven't seen that in ages
    and when she drops me to the ground

    I get back up

    my shields are gone, and so is my health, but the last bar is flashing, and hollow
    I am dead, yet I live
    further, from this point I cannot die
    I'll lose my shields and whatever health I have, but always the unflinching hollow health bar remains
    I got grabbed four more times in that game and survived each time


    my teammates must have been somewhat perplexed

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    Antimatter
  • TubeTube Registered User admin
    Your choices mattered for the whole game. The entire game was "and here's how this guy turned out because of what you did in number two". The leviathan thing was nice colour (would have liked to see him in the last battle) but to be honest I just think the criticisms of the ending are largely horseshit.

  • AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    Tube, you playing multi at all? If so, do you have a favorite class/race?

    I'm a huge fan of Geth Engineer, m'self.

  • TubeTube Registered User admin
    I am not. I don't really play multiplayer games. I played the iPad app thing to get more military readiness instead.

    Also I heard you see tali's face. I did not. Disappoint!

  • WybornWyborn GET EQUIPPED Registered User regular
    edited September 2012
    A lot of people's problems with the ending stems from the idea that any character's spoken dialogue (especially that one guy in the ending, you know the one) must be fully supported by the developers as absolute truth

    Some people - nobody in this topic, of course, but it's really prevalent in the larger discourse about the ending - don't really get the idea that when different characters disagree, they can all be wrong, even the guy who wins the argument

    Wyborn on
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  • AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    Tube wrote: »
    I am not. I don't really play multiplayer games. I played the iPad app thing to get more military readiness instead.

    Also I heard you see tali's face. I did not. Disappoint!
    ooh, gotcha. yeah, the ios app is handy for that. plus, it's a mobile codex, which is really nice!

    do you want me to post a picture of Tali's face behind spoiler tags? it's very easy to miss in game.

  • TubeTube Registered User admin
    I went and looked it up. Not really what I imagined but still neat. I don't know what I did imagine, something rubbery probably.

    Antimatter
  • WybornWyborn GET EQUIPPED Registered User regular
    What did you end up doing on Rannoch?
    And what would you have done if making peace wasn't an option

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  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    Dichotomy wrote: »
    well, that was an odd bug
    gold reapers
    firebase vancouver

    banshee pulls the usual dodge-and-weave around a corner bullshit where she appears out of nowhere and grabs you just as soon as she materializes

    I sigh and prepare to sit out the round
    but
    when the hand stab comes, the full animation plays out
    I haven't seen that in ages
    and when she drops me to the ground

    I get back up

    my shields are gone, and so is my health, but the last bar is flashing, and hollow
    I am dead, yet I live
    further, from this point I cannot die
    I'll lose my shields and whatever health I have, but always the unflinching hollow health bar remains
    I got grabbed four more times in that game and survived each time


    my teammates must have been somewhat perplexed

    Just this lone soldier fighting on
    Years after the war ends he travels the galaxy, becoming the most renowned and highly-paid mercenary in space because no matter what, no matter how hard you hit him, he'll always get up and finish the job

    But then he starts to hate it
    Starts to long for death

    Now he wanders the empty tracts of space, facing down men and monsters and horrors of all kinds, trying to find the one thing in the universe that can kill him

  • AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    Theory re: the Battlefield 3 multiplayer Soldier

    exposure to Prothean artifacts altered a battalion of Alliance soldiers' armor

    gave them the ability to shoot fire out of their guns

  • chiasaur11chiasaur11 Never doubt a raccoon. Do you think it's trademarked?Registered User regular
    Grey Ghost wrote: »
    Dichotomy wrote: »
    well, that was an odd bug
    gold reapers
    firebase vancouver

    banshee pulls the usual dodge-and-weave around a corner bullshit where she appears out of nowhere and grabs you just as soon as she materializes

    I sigh and prepare to sit out the round
    but
    when the hand stab comes, the full animation plays out
    I haven't seen that in ages
    and when she drops me to the ground

    I get back up

    my shields are gone, and so is my health, but the last bar is flashing, and hollow
    I am dead, yet I live
    further, from this point I cannot die
    I'll lose my shields and whatever health I have, but always the unflinching hollow health bar remains
    I got grabbed four more times in that game and survived each time


    my teammates must have been somewhat perplexed

    Just this lone soldier fighting on
    Years after the war ends he travels the galaxy, becoming the most renowned and highly-paid mercenary in space because no matter what, no matter how hard you hit him, he'll always get up and finish the job

    But then he starts to hate it
    Starts to long for death

    Now he wanders the empty tracts of space, facing down men and monsters and horrors of all kinds, trying to find the one thing in the universe that can kill him

    One year later, in a shady bar on Omega. (like there's any other kind)

    "This takes me back. So, some bastard or other had hired me for another job, and said I'd be getting a guddam partner. I said that hadn't work out for a long time, but he wouldn't listen. Said this guy was a guddam immortal or something.

    Well, if he was, he had a funny way of showing it. I'm still cleaning 'immortal' brains off my guddam armor."

  • Kuribo's ShoeKuribo's Shoe Kuribo's Stocking North PoleRegistered User regular
    I I forget, what's the goal in Mass Effect Ultimate Team this week

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  • AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    I I forget, what's the goal in Mass Effect Ultimate Team this week
    escort thousands of drones
    squad goal: complete wave 10 without using consumables

    you read right

    squad goal

  • Kuribo's ShoeKuribo's Shoe Kuribo's Stocking North PoleRegistered User regular
    Tube wrote: »
    I don't have much interest in the extended cut because I was perfectly happy with the ending as it was

    I went green and felt the same way

    The only real problem I had is that the endings are all very similar, which just kind of feels like a cheat at the end of such a huge series

    And the extended cut helped with that so I have no complaints

    Still need to play leviathan though

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  • Kuribo's ShoeKuribo's Shoe Kuribo's Stocking North PoleRegistered User regular
    Antimatter wrote: »
    I I forget, what's the goal in Mass Effect Ultimate Team this week
    escort thousands of drones
    squad goal: complete wave 10 without using consumables

    you read right

    squad goal

    eh, not so hard on bronze, as long as everyone in the group is not a moron

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  • WybornWyborn GET EQUIPPED Registered User regular
    In terms of fleshing out the narrative and supplementing the base game, Leviathan might be better than Lair of the Shadow Broker

    Though LotSB is probably more fun just because Leviathan doesn't have any cool bosses

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  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    I actually didn't care a whole lot for the "revelations" of Leviathan, because so much of it was already strongly implied

    but mmm that gameplay

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  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    I am of course continually baffled as to how green is seen as anything other than incredibly monstrous

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  • WybornWyborn GET EQUIPPED Registered User regular
    You know what

    It's fine

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  • DichotomyDichotomy Registered User regular
    leviathan was a powerful argument for the "you know what, just don't show or tell some things" school of writing

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  • WybornWyborn GET EQUIPPED Registered User regular
    edited September 2012
    We need a DLC where
    You kill a Sovereign-class Reaper

    Pulling the trigger on the Klendagon gun would be good, but running through a Reaper, fighting its defenses, and shooting it in the brain with the Cain would be very good, too

    Hell give us both

    Wyborn on
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  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    chiasaur11 wrote: »
    Grey Ghost wrote: »
    Dichotomy wrote: »
    well, that was an odd bug
    gold reapers
    firebase vancouver

    banshee pulls the usual dodge-and-weave around a corner bullshit where she appears out of nowhere and grabs you just as soon as she materializes

    I sigh and prepare to sit out the round
    but
    when the hand stab comes, the full animation plays out
    I haven't seen that in ages
    and when she drops me to the ground

    I get back up

    my shields are gone, and so is my health, but the last bar is flashing, and hollow
    I am dead, yet I live
    further, from this point I cannot die
    I'll lose my shields and whatever health I have, but always the unflinching hollow health bar remains
    I got grabbed four more times in that game and survived each time


    my teammates must have been somewhat perplexed

    Just this lone soldier fighting on
    Years after the war ends he travels the galaxy, becoming the most renowned and highly-paid mercenary in space because no matter what, no matter how hard you hit him, he'll always get up and finish the job

    But then he starts to hate it
    Starts to long for death

    Now he wanders the empty tracts of space, facing down men and monsters and horrors of all kinds, trying to find the one thing in the universe that can kill him

    One year later, in a shady bar on Omega. (like there's any other kind)

    "This takes me back. So, some bastard or other had hired me for another job, and said I'd be getting a guddam partner. I said that hadn't work out for a long time, but he wouldn't listen. Said this guy was a guddam immortal or something.

    Well, if he was, he had a funny way of showing it. I'm still cleaning 'immortal' brains off my guddam armor."

    I hate Zaeed and I hate this

  • AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    Zaeed rules and he gives a flamethrower/inferno grenades

    interrobang
  • DichotomyDichotomy Registered User regular
    the best thing zaeed ever does is die

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  • DichotomyDichotomy Registered User regular
    I want the next operation to be called Operation Kill All Geth Hunters and the goal is to kill a few hundred thousand geth hunters and if successful they will replace geth hunters with a less annoying enemy

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  • ElendilElendil Registered User regular
    if you fail, all other geth enemies are replaced by hunters

  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    you know what I'm going to buy Zaeed's mission on my Renegade run just so I can kill him at the end of it

  • Romanian My EscutcheonRomanian My Escutcheon Two of Forks Registered User regular
    @Tube Who'd you romance, if anyone?

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  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    GG you are the worst renegade

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    Antimatter
  • WybornWyborn GET EQUIPPED Registered User regular
    Grey Ghost wrote: »
    you know what I'm going to buy Zaeed's mission on my Renegade run just so I can kill him at the end of it

    Don't forget
    You have to do it after the Collector Base to have that option

    It's an incredibly cool scene, I admit

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  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    Wyborn wrote: »
    Grey Ghost wrote: »
    you know what I'm going to buy Zaeed's mission on my Renegade run just so I can kill him at the end of it

    Don't forget
    You have to do it after the Collector Base to have that option

    It's an incredibly cool scene, I admit

    wait, really?

  • WybornWyborn GET EQUIPPED Registered User regular
    Grey Ghost wrote: »
    Wyborn wrote: »
    Grey Ghost wrote: »
    you know what I'm going to buy Zaeed's mission on my Renegade run just so I can kill him at the end of it

    Don't forget
    You have to do it after the Collector Base to have that option

    It's an incredibly cool scene, I admit

    wait, really?

    Yeah. You need him, otherwise, so Shepard never even thinks to off him.

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